Indoor air quality is so vital and the home inspector law in Kentucky prevents us from reporting on any of those things.
There could be a 6’ pile of elephant dung on the living room floor and if I put it in my report i can lose my license.
I think you are slightly mistaken. You can’t include it in a home inspection report. You are free to offer ancillary environmental services though.
831 KAR 2:030 is so restrictive. I do offer mold and radon testing as ancillary services and would like to add particulate testing but I have to be careful not to run afoul of the law.
It’s been my experience that indoor air quality is typically requested by homeowners that have lived in the house for some time. New home buyers typically call out visible mold found during the initial walk through. A person’s reaction to mold, like poison ivy, varies. Some people are very sensitive others are not.
At first, I was trying to think of some funny response, but more seriously, I think 831 KAR 2:030 would nail you if you didn’t report it in some fashion because that undoubtedly fits some defect definition, not to mention what trouble you’d have with your out-of-town client who had no idea about this. Maybe, just put an unlabeled photo in the report. Fun to get that 10:30pm call, “Hey Russ, we are wondering what that stuff in the living room is?”
It should fit some defect definition but it doesn’t as far as i can tell. It does fit the definition of an environmental hazard which Kentucky inspectors are prohibited from reporting on. I have had clients ask me on site “what is that all over that pipe and floor?” Poop, its poop. They always get the idea.
What’s More Important, a Home Inspection or an Indoor Air Quality Inspection?
Being that I’m a home inspector, I’m going with a home inspection is more important. 
I would definitely report a large pile of poop on the floor, and I would not lose my license or be accused of going out of my lane, because a 6’ pile of poop is not just an environmental hazard. Be creative and think about some of the many many possible ways to “fit some defect definition” to this issue without hiding under the umbrella called “not my job” because this sounds like a real problem. Put on your thinking cap, write hard and protect and inform your client who is paying you to inspect the property.
A 6 ft high pile of dung in a living room can be written up wothout using the words “environmental hazard, biological waste, or sewage”.
Hold my beer. These are condition, safety, and performance defects:
Trip and fall hazard - a large irregular mass on the walking surface of a habitable room
obstructed means of egress -it blocks a normal path to a door, hallway, or emergency escape opening. that’s a life-safety item, not an environmental one.
Floor not readily accessible. Limitation: I could not view that portion of the floor so the condition of the floor covering is unknown and needs further evaluation.
Excessive concentrated load - wet dung is heavy. A pile that size can overload a wood-framed floor, cause deflection, damage joints, subfloor, finishes. Further evaluation by a structural engineer.
Moisture damage - liquid from the pile can stain, cup, swell or rot the floor covering, subfloor, structure. you can use your moisture meter on the pile or floor or say it appears to be wet.
Damaged or soiled floor covering - whether its on carpet or hardwood or engineered or whatever, that’s likely to be something that warrants replacement of the floor covering. that’s a cosmetic and functional defect .
Odor affecting habitability - a strong persistent odor in a living area is a habitability and condition item. “recommend the source of the odor be removed and the area be evaluated further.” Do not identify the odor as a biohazard.
Limitation : the pile prevented inspection of the floor and possibly adjacent walls, outlets, structure below and those areas are excluded until the material is removed and the inspector is called back.
Unknown substance requiring identification - Describe what is visible, do not diagnose it, and recommend further evaluation by an appropriate specialist before expiration of the inspection contingency period or closing or whatever. You can refer an industrial hygienist, restoration contractor, the health department or Merry Maids, whoever, without you naming the hazard.
Or you can be like any normal human person inspector and say there was a 6’ pile of what appeared to be poop on the floor of the room and recommend removal and any necessary repairs by a qualified contractor.
of course i would report somehow on a condition as obvious as that. I said that to illustrate just how restrictive the Kentucky law is. They really did try to hamstring inspectors when they wrote and pushed that law through. The law was pushed by the builders / Realtors and anything environmental is strictly prohibited from our reports. We are even required to put a statement in our report that this report does not cover anything environment related. Feces of any kind is biological contamination which is prohibited to be reported on in the law. How insane is that?
I think what he said is full of sh!t.
Let’s stop ignoring the elephant in the room. This is a lot crap.