Room Description Tool: Introduction

I.  Introduction

The Room Description Tool helps you describe the general structure and room components of the property subject to inspection. It also allows you to indicate its common areas, if any. The tool, available on the Field Section's buttons bar, includes four room description methods:

  • Simple Method (Nº 1)
  • Grid Method (Nº 2)
  • Assisted Method (Nº 3)
  • Lead-WDO Method (Nº 4)

These methods were created by LICIEL Diagnostics in order to help you describe the property to be inspected in the best possible way. You can select the one that better suits the property you are describing, or combine them, if needed.
This article is intended to show you how to describe the general structure, and indicate the equipments and shared areas of the property. Use the General Structure and Common Area Features tabs, within the Room Description Tool, to describe these general building characteristics.

Note: The aforementioned room description methods are explained in detail in independent WikiLICIEL articles. Kindly refer to those articles for more info. 

II.  General Structure Tab

Use this tab to describe the building itself and major areas of the building to be inspected.  

 

  II.A  Creating a New Description Area

1.  On the General Structure tab, click on to open the Edit Component window, Data Entry Aid tab.

2.  Complete all applicable fields:

Designation of Building/Area to be added

Enter the name of the building or building area to be described, or select a description from the drop-down menu.

Year of Construction

Enter the year of construction, or select it from the drop-down menu.

Building Structure

For each of these fields, enter the appropriate description, or choose a description from the drop-down menu.

    • Load-bearing Walls
    • Floor
    • Woodwork
    • Wall Insulation
    • Attic Insulation
    • Roofing
    • Type of Central Heating
    • Type of Ventilation

Comments

Use the Comments field to write any comments about the property.  You can save the Comments as a Template for reuse in other Jobs.

inserts Comment text previously saved as a template.

saves the content of the Comment field as a template that you can retrieve to save time on future Jobs.

Photos

Click on to open the Photos tool, which allows you to select an existing photo from your hard drive, or take a new photo (if your hardware is capable).  

--->---> See the WikiLICIEL "Photos" article for more information.

3.  Click on  to insert the summary of the elements described above, and display the Edit Component window's Final Description tab to preview the data. The Final Description tab is freely editable for you to change or elaborate as needed.

4.  Click on to add the description to the General Structure tab, then redisplay the Data Entry Aid tab to describe another new area,
~or~
click on to close the Edit Component window, then add the description to the General Structure tab.

  II.B  Editing/Updating a Saved Description Area

1.  On the General Structure tab, select the line you want to work with, then click  to open the Edit Component window's Final Description tab.

2.  Edit all applicable fields as needed, as described above.

3.  Click on .

  II.C  Modifying the List of Building Areas

allow you to move the selected line up or down to reorder the list as needed.

allows you to delete the selected line.

III.  Common Area Features Tab

Check the applicable boxes in each section to indicate which features are present in this property's common areas.   The selected items are used to create a description in the Layout Template.