Sections and their lines — the checklist

What this screen is for. Every section is a room-sized checklist: the lines you check, ticking green as you cover them, so you can't forget the water heater. Sections go green as you go, and the report prints exactly what you answered. How to get there. On the capture screen, tap a section in the rail. On a phone, choose the Subsections view; on a computer the lines sit in their own column beside your findings. What every button does On the section: N/A (by the section title) — "this home doesn't have it": skips the whole section after a confirm, so a house with no pool doesn't count as a gap. Put back un-skips it any time. Reorder (top of the rail) — drag chapters into the order you actually walk a house, or use the arrows; Make it a subsection of… tucks a chapter under another; Reset to standard order puts HomeRecon's walk back. Your capture screen, your report, and your PDF all follow your order. Add section (bottom of the rail) — pick a section you already use, or name your own (a pool house, a dock). Add subsection at the foot of any section adds a line. Look for (the lightbulb chip) — the section's what-to-look-for reminders. On each line: The tick circle — a line greens when it's answered: by a finding, by the one-tap good answer, or by "couldn't inspect." Inspected — in good condition (on a computer; on a phone, tapping the line opens the quick form) — nothing to write up: one tap files it as inspected and satisfactory and ticks the line. Tap the circle again to undo. A line with a real finding on it stays ticked by that finding. Couldn't inspect — the honest answer when you can't get there. A Why? row offers five plain reasons: Snow or ice covered · Too high or steep · Blocked by stored items · Too low to enter · No access (or Skip the reason). The report then prints the real sentence — "the roof was snow-covered at the time of inspection" — as a limitation, so the line is never read as fine. This home doesn't have it — for lines about things this house simply lacks. The line leaves the checklist (and the count), visibly, under a "Doesn't apply to this home" drawer with a one-tap Put back. The unit chip (psi and friends) — lines that want a number show their unit; you type the reading in the finding, and it prints in the report. + Add a finding here — aims the capture bar at this line ("Capturing into {section} › {line}") — it never opens a form; you just talk. Hide subsection — grays out a stock line you never check (comes back any time); a line you added yourself can be Removed. Next (on a computer) — jumps to the first unticked line, and rolls into the next section when the room is done. Common questions "Do I have to write something for every line?" No. A quick tap files "in good condition" lines; talk only when there's something to say. "I couldn't get into the attic — what do I tap?" Couldn't inspect → pick the reason. It prints in the report as a limitation, which is both the honest answer and the one that protects you. "No central A/C in this house — what happens to that line?" This home doesn't have it. It drops out of the count and waits under "Doesn't apply to this home" in case you're wrong. "Can I skip the whole septic section?" Yes — N/A by the section title, confirm, done. Put back reverses it. "Can I check everything off at once?" No — and that's deliberate. Each line greens only by its own tap, because the taps are your review. (The same reason there's no accept-all on AI findings.) "Where do I record the water pressure?" Tap into the line's finding — the unit chip shows what it wants — and the reading prints in the report. "Can I walk the house in my own order?" Yes — Reorder in the rail. Everything follows your order, including the report. Save it into a template if you want every job that way. Good to know A standard section can be skipped but never deleted — the report prints every standard chapter, so N/A is the honest control; only sections you added yourself can be removed. "Couldn't inspect" files a real entry — it's an answer, not a blank, and it can't silently disappear from the report. The five reasons are fixed plain words on purpose — they print verbatim, and an old report never ends up with a code nobody can read. Era guidance appears where the home's age warrants it (a pre-1980 note about likely materials) — it's guidance for you, never a hidden requirement. Related The capture screen — the shell The capture dock — adding a finding A finding — editing what filed Templates — hide a line on every job