Methamphetamine residue testing report software
Meth residue testing is ordered by property managers between tenancies, by buyers before settlement and by insurers after a suspected lab. The report is a sampling record: where each wipe was taken, from what surface, over what area, and what the laboratory found, compared against a published guideline. A sample with no location or area is worthless. SurveyThanks ties every sample to a room and a surface before the lab results come back.
Built for property managers running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
Sample Contamination test report
An illustrative excerpt. The site, readings and findings are fictional; the layout is yours to set.
Contamination test report
Screening results — 6 Fictitious Terrace
- Sampling method
- Discrete surface wipes, 100 cm² template
- Sampled
- 14 May 2026
- Laboratory
- NATA-accredited (fictional report no. 0000)
| Sample · location | Surface | Result (µg/100 cm²) |
|---|---|---|
| S1 · Kitchen | Rangehood filter surround | Result (µg/100 cm²): 1.8 — above |
| S2 · Bedroom 2 | Wall above the door frame | Result (µg/100 cm²): 0.9 — above |
| S3 · Lounge | Ceiling near the light fitting | Result (µg/100 cm²): <0.1 — below |
| S4 · Bathroom | Exhaust fan grille | Result (µg/100 cm²): 0.3 — below |
Fields captured on site
Your firm builds the form in-app, so these are a starting point rather than a fixed schema. Every field is captured on the device, with or without signal, and lands in the contamination test report where your template puts it.
Per sample
- Sample ID
- Room
- Surface and material
- Area wiped (cm²)
- Photo of the sampling location
Chain of custody
- Sample bag and seal number
- Date and time collected
- Laboratory dispatched to
Results
- Laboratory result per sample
- Guideline value applied
- Above / below
- Recommendation
Standards the report works to
- Australian Clandestine Drug Laboratory Remediation Guidelines (2011)Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department
- The 0.5 µg/100 cm² residential remediation guideline Australian results are compared against.
- NZS 8510:2017Testing and decontamination of methamphetamine-contaminated properties
- The New Zealand standard for sampling methods and decontamination levels, used for NZ properties.
Load the standards you hold into your reference library and the drafted prose is written against them rather than against a general model.
How the contamination test report gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the meth residue testing form in-app — 25 field types, nesting repeatable groups, compound AND/OR visibility rules, reusable modules and calculated fields. Field capture works with no signal: jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio all queue in an idempotent outbox that only clears once the server confirms receipt.
Link it to your rooms and external areas
Enter rooms and external areas once, as a register. Every one of your defects, photos and timber pest findings then points at a stored row rather than a name somebody typed — and the links survive a disconnected device.
Render your own template
The contamination test report renders into the Word template you already use — your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with conditionals, loops over repeats, composable sub-templates and photo grids.
Reviewed before it leaves
You write the review framework: a checklist of what a contamination test report must contain, plus the prose standards you would mark a junior against. Link it to a report template and it runs every time that template renders. Each finding comes back graded info, minor or major, quoting the sentence at fault, and a person accepts or dismisses every one.
Because the structured submission behind the report is held too, the review is a comparison rather than a proofread: The summary says no major defects were found; the form carries a major structural defect on the rear wall.
Checks a residential property framework usually carries
- The standard’s required wording, limitations and exclusions are all present
- Every area is either reported on or listed as not accessed, with a reason
- Each defect in the summary appears in the body at the same severity
- Timber pest findings carry the risk statement the standard requires
Questions
- Can we enter lab results after we leave the property?
- Yes. The sampling is captured on site, offline if needed, and the results are added to the same job when the laboratory reports, before the report is rendered.
- Can the report compare each result with the guideline automatically?
- Visibility rules and conditionals in your template can mark each result above or below the value you set, so the table and the narrative agree.
- Do sample locations show on a floor plan?
- You can attach your own marked-up floor plan photo to the job. There is no built-in floor plan drawing tool.
What this is not
Worth knowing before you book a demo, so neither of us wastes the half hour.
- Not field-service dispatch. No timesheets, no parts, no inventory. Scheduling exists to get an inspector to a site.
- No signature capture. If your deliverable has to carry a signed sign-off on the artefact itself, this is not the tool yet.
- Field capture is what works offline — jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio. Reports, chat, scheduling and the inbox need a connection.
- No client portal. Reports go out as a file or a password-protected link.
Other residential property work we cover
- Retaining wall assessmentsWall condition report
- Routine rental inspectionsRoutine inspection report
- Senior home safety auditsFalls risk audit
- Short-stay property auditsListing readiness report
- Strata common property inspectionsCommon property report
- Termite inspectionsTimber pest report
- Apartment defect surveysDefect evidence report
- Blind cord safety auditsCord safety report
Other disciplines
Rebuild your contamination test report in SurveyThanks
Bring the Word template you already send clients. If you are coming off another field-forms tool, a filled report can be uploaded, read field by field, and re-rendered into your template.