New Online Video Stucco/EIFS Course Designed Specifically for Home Inspectors!

Historically, home inspectors were not trained to adequately identify stucco systems, their defects, or report this information accurately to their clients. Forced to rely on experience alone, uninformed inspectors routinely create a litany of problems for experts, listing agents, their clients, and themselves. The blame for this failing lies in a corresponding lack of education since, until now, there has never been formal stucco training offered specifically for inspectors. Courses in stucco installation and forensics are available, but these options are far too exhaustive and impractical for most inspectors. Students, mostly prospective stucco experts and installers, are typically required to travel to distant locations and remain there for days to participate in expensive, intensive, hands-on seminars for training that is mostly outside of the scope of home inspections. Fortunately, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors (InterNACHI) is here to shake things up. 

Unlike courses designed for stucco experts, such as those offered by the Exterior Design Institute (EDI), InterNACHI’S Advanced Stucco/EIFS Inspection Training Course for Home and Commercial Property Inspections does not teach destructive testing methods. Coring, probing and drilling are the responsibilities of experts, not property inspectors. This new course caters to the requirements of home inspections and provides inspectors with advanced knowledge on how to inspect stucco-clad homes during a home inspection. Specifically, it aims to correct inspectors’ misunderstandings concerning stucco that can result in unintentionally reporting misleading or inaccurate information to their clients. For example, students will learn how to properly identify wall-cladding types, spot missing or improper kickout flashings, and a lack of proper sealant at penetrations and windows. The course is the first and only of its kind – a distance-learning video course that teaches inspectors everything that they need to know about stucco and EIFS, without the in-depth training required to become a stucco inspector.