I don’t use Facebook but I’ve seen so many posts on this forum about the same.
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I’m sorry, this discussion is like getting on Freeway, seeing “Speed Limit 55 mph” sign and thinking it means I can’t drive on this road. 
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I can’t drive 55.
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It’s more like seeing the minimum speed sign of 45 mph and thinking everyone else is crazy for exceeding that. 
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When it comes to NACHI SOP, we have to remember two things.
- It is intended to give us a way out if conditions are not safe or where damage may occur, whether it is the panel, the roof, the attic, or whatever.
- It is intended to keep the industry open (meaning paying dues to NACHI) to those who have no business opening electrical enclosures, walking roofs, walking in attics, etc.
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Interestingly Bob, I am the man the very reason that KRS198B.700 was enacted into law.
How many panel fires have you caused by removing the panel cover in Indiana?
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None that I am aware of but that does not mean there is no potential to do so. Potential only exists where there is measurement.
And people wonder why home inspectors aren’t taken seriously.
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It is intended to give us inspectors a way to mitigate risk and perform the inspection at an affordable fee. Truly, what we do is worth many thousands of dollars per house, far more than any real estate commission. Fortunately, Realtors are going the way of the dinosaurs with A.I.
Only those low brow hairy knuckle draggers who scratch their heads at wave-particle duality. 
My customers take me very seriously. Serious as a heart beat.
Absolutely explains why Minnesota natives have no friggin’ clue how to merge onto the freeways!!!
Was that Steve Keeney by chance?
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Yes it was. I was sorry to hear that he has passed away.
Please elaborate on why you are the reason for this legislation?
Then I’m sure you heard him talk about this.
After law school, Steve returned to Louisville to begin his legal career. He is best known for a case that led him to solve a murder in California. A member of his church asked him for help looking into an insurance company’s refusal to pay the claim after her 25-year-old daughter, Deanna, died. Deanna had gone to Big Sur with an older couple and had supposedly fallen off a cliff. Steve collected enough evidence of foul play to convince a prosecutor to charge the couple with first-degree murder. He discovered others connected to the couple also had mysteriously died.
The story got national attention. The New York Times called Steve “the best pro-bono lawyer in the country.” The case was the subject of the book and movie Death Benefit.
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Not true. Potential exists whether there is measurement or not.
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That story would fill a large volume and would take me a couple of years to write the manuscript. The very short answer Lon is that while serving as the chief building code official for a large metropolitan agency here in the tri-state back in the early 2000s, I had the audacity to issue a stop work order on a large place of assembly being built without a permit.
It just so happens that it was being built by the billionaire owner of the largest home builder in the country. I told him that i was going to put him in jail if he didn’t stop and get a permit. He didn’t like that.
Seeing the writing on the wall, i founded my first home inspection company and started busting chops on garbage houses that were being sold in the tri-state. He and his Realtor accomplices didn’t like that. The home builders and Realtors ran to the legislators and with their licensing tried to put a gag on anyone telling the truth about crappy houses. The KY home inspector law is an affront to the 1st amendment both federal and state. They put us inspectors under the Realtor board. Its the fox guarding the hen house.