An ASCE Level B elevation survey, a sub-slab plumbing assessment and a plain-language owner summary — assembled from what you measured, in a form an engineer, an adjuster or an attorney can review directly.
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Methodology of record
The part nobody talks about
You finished the inspection at four. You finished the report at nine.
The inspection isn't the hard part. You've walked a thousand slabs — you knew what was happening before you got the level out. The hard part is turning what you saw into documentation that holds up when the homeowner, the adjuster, or the next contractor reads it.
How it works
Photos, elevation readings, notes on your phone. Nothing new to learn, no new gear to buy.
Point by point, with your observations. Calculations run live against residential thresholds as you go.
Findings, severity, and recommendations — formatted and ready to send to the homeowner.
Exhibit A · § 3.6.4
The traced sewer run laid over the settlement field computed from your readings. Segment colour is slope status against the IPC minimum; labels are the computed current slope. This is generated output, not an illustration.
0.25 in. contour bands, bold at 0.50 in., dashed at the zero-movement line.
Compliant, sub-code, critical, or back-pitch — measured against IPC Table 704.1.
Node 1 is the cleanout; the last node is the exit to main. Routing is traced, and the report says it is approximate.
Inside the report
Not a checklist with a photo grid. A structured record — every measurement traceable to a point code, every threshold traceable to a published standard, and a plain-language summary for the homeowner bound into the back.
Pages from a real generated report. Address, owner and inspector details are permanently removed — from the pixels and the text layer both.
What gets computed
Figures shown are from the sample report above.
Why the numbers hold up
A template fills in blanks. This computes, and then it shows its work — because the first thing a reviewing engineer does is try to break your arithmetic.
Deflection ratio is defined in ASCE Texas Section § 5.4 as the maximum deviation of a third point from a straight line between two points, divided by the distance between them. Every pair of plan-located points is searched as a candidate chord and the governing — worst — triple is the one reported. Not the pair that happened to look bad on site.
A house can lean without bending. Tilt is rigid-body rotation; deflection is bending, and only bending cracks brick. Reporting them as one number is the most common error in foundation documentation. Here they are two numbers, with tilt taken from a least-squares best-fit plane through every plan-located point.
Where the tool makes a judgment the standard does not dictate — the chord-acceptance tolerance, the severity banding — the report says so in its own text: "this tool's search convention and not a figure from the guidelines." A reviewer can accept it, adjust it, or reject it. What they cannot do is be misled by it.
A relative survey carries no absolute benchmark, so each visit is reduced to deviations from its own reference point. When two visits are compared, the change of datum is subtracted from every figure — reported as a separate column — so what survives is the change in shape of the structure, not the arbitrary zero you started from.
As-designed slope, the current slope computed from measured settlement at each end, and the IPC minimum, on one axis. Vertical scale is exaggerated for readability and the exaggeration factor is printed on every profile — so nobody mistakes the drawing for the magnitude.
The joint-stress index prioritises which pipe segment to test first. The report states plainly that it is "a comparative screening value… not a statistical probability and does not establish that a leak exists." An index that oversells itself is worse than no index.
Drain slope minimums come from IPC Table 704.1 and IRC Table P3005.3 — ¼ in./ft for 2½ in. and smaller, ⅛ in./ft for 3–6 in. Evaluation method comes from the ASCE Texas Section Guidelines, Version 3, adopted 1 April 2022. Nothing in the report is a number this firm invented.
Where the evidence comes from
Published survey data
Soil data is pulled per parcel through Soil Data Access, the USDA's published survey, and printed with its retrieval date: map unit and dominant component, shrink–swell potential, plasticity index, linear extensibility, drainage class. On the sample property that reads Houston Black clay, map unit HuB, shrink–swell Very High, PI 40–60, LEP 9.5%.
Cited for regional context. The report says outright that this is not a parcel-specific geotechnical determination — that requires a site-specific study by qualified professionals.
Instrument provenance
Every report logs the instrument, its serial number, its calibration date, its stated accuracy (±0.05 in.), the unit and the reference mode. A reading with no instrument history behind it is an anecdote. A reading with a serial and a calibration date is a measurement.
This is the section a reviewing engineer or an opposing expert turns to first. It is filled in every time, because the tool will not let it be skipped.
Nothing is invented. Missing readings, missing license details and missing calibration dates are flagged for you to supply — never filled in by the tool. That single rule is what makes the rest of the document worth anything.
What it does for you
Most contractors already know what they found before they leave the property. What they don't always have is a defensible next step, written down, in the right order.
Hydrostatic pressure test and CCTV inspection by a licensed plumber; comparative re-survey at a defined interval to establish whether movement is active and at what rate; soil moisture sampling at the perimeter if an engineer determines it material. Each tied to the specific open question it answers.
The joint-stress index ranks the sewer run so the plumber's scope goes where the measured differential is worst — instead of scoping the whole line and hoping.
Causation and remedial scope are engineering judgments reserved to a licensed P.E. under Texas Occupations Code Ch. 1001. The report states that in its own scope section — which protects you as much as it protects the homeowner.
Verification testing before remedial work both preserves the evidentiary record and establishes whether an active leak is a contributing factor. Do it in the other order and the question can never be answered.
Platform tier
The agent writes the report. The platform is the working instrument behind it — for crews running monitoring intervals and building an evidentiary record over time.
Runs where the work is
A single file that opens in the browser you already have. Your data stays in local storage on your own device, and the PDF engine is bundled — so a crawlspace with no bars is not a problem, and no client's address is ever sitting on someone else's server.
Built for Texas
Expansive soils swell and shrink with every wet season and drought. That movement shows up as stair-step cracks in brick, doors that stop latching, and floors that read an inch out of level across 20 feet.
None of these proves failure on its own. Together with elevation readings, they build a case — and that case is what the report is for.
Scope, stated plainly
What the report does
What it does not do
Determination of cause is an engineering judgment reserved to a licensed Professional Engineer under Texas Occupations Code Chapter 1001. Drawing that line clearly is what makes the measured record usable by the engineer who reviews it.
What you are actually buying
Not a faster way to type. The difference between "the contractor said the slab is moving" and a measured record, on a published standard, that an engineer can pick up and review.
Without it
With it
One report that does not hold up costs more than a year of this. Not in fees — in the job you do not get called back for, and the homeowner who tells three neighbours. The documentation is the part of the work that outlives the visit.
How to get it
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For crews running monitoring intervals
Single file, v3.5.0 — data stays on your device
No free trial. You do not need to try it — you need to read what it produces. The sample above is a complete report, and the preloaded demonstration is the working tool with data already in it.
There is no trial, because there is nothing to try out — there is something to read. Open the sample above, or the preloaded demonstration, and judge the output on its own terms.