inspection reports

Mike Baker has one on his site:>

thanks. any other solutions out there for reports? xls? any one try

It just occured to me... a fire guy named 'baker'? I think he's a candidate for my APT NAMES LIST

here it is so far if anybody cares to add to it

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What do your inspection reports look like?? Ours appear to be a great deal more detailed. We're using a version of the ones available at

had mine down to 3 pages before the tradjitty. taken straight from nfpa book on inspections sample. those look interesting, u using the fire alarm systems. 5 pages! :( . that's what I need for US code.

Actually the "base" report we use is seven pages and a lot more detailed than the ASTTBC forms. A "local guy" modified them and emailed samples to a bunch of jurisdictions (he's a bit of a "Microsoft Word Guru" and improved the tables/format). He's posted here on occasion as "FIRETEK". We've adopted them because of their level of detail. While inspection service isn't exactly the "cornerstone" of our business, I've found the quality of the inspections we do provide has increased and our customers are very impressed.

A fillable PDF would be much better than Word .dot templates for this application. A PDF will stay fixed in size when you fill it in and not lose formatting like a Word doc would.

I made all my Alarm Permit Applications into fillable PDF's works great.

I don't do commercial fire anymore so I don't have an example of pdf fire inspection.

Frank Ols> >

Good idea, what do I need to make fillable pdf?

Acrobat (the real one, not just the reader) $$$

Or you can try PrimoPDF - a freebie - I "think" it can produce a fillable form..not sure. I use it sometimes but I have Acrobat so I use that.

If you have a short form you want me to convert for you - as an experiment to see if you want to go this route - feel free to email it to me. It's easy if you have a scan of it..doesn't have to be a Word doc. send to: robosama at gmail dot com

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I bit the bullet and redid them, still word though. the template is 4 pages. When going thru them 1 at a time and deleting stuff not applicable to the particular installation you can get them down to 2 pages for a small local system. fun weekend. I like the idea of fillable pdf.s in theory. $300 to upgrade to acrobat. I dunno. Thanks Allan for the template used some and other from Sean link to Mike's Baker fire site. Been using Cute pdf, works good, looks kinda like primo. Won't make fillable pdf tho.

You can make pdf files without Acrobat, try openoffice.

It's easy to turn standard PDFs into fillable forms. If you have Adobe's not-so-free PDF writer software you can also save the data in an XML-like format though not many other apps are able to read / write to it yet.