RECA RESIDENTIAL 2026 MAIN QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Plumbing - ✔✔includes fresh water, hot water, and waste water
- materials used include copper, rigid plastic, and flexible plastic
✔✔Heating - ✔✔The main types of residential heating include;
Forced air
hot water
radiant - uses hot water or electricity
electric systems
High efficiency vents out the buildings exterior wall
✔✔Ceilings - ✔✔Valuted - follow roofline, unequal sides
Cathedral - two equal sides (Aframe)
Drop- covers pipes and wires
Coffered - insets, waffle like
✔✔Main principals of water - ✔✔Reduce, Retrofit, repair
✔✔Remediation - ✔✔return a contaminated area to a level that does not impair or
damage the environment, health or safety
✔✔Legislation - ✔✔Safety Codes Act - Permit regulation
Fair Trading Act - Home inspection business regulation
Energy Efficiency Act and Regulations - minimum energy performance requirements
Alberta Building Code - specifications for new construction and building materials
✔✔Property Inspections - ✔✔an examination of various building systems in order to
provide an opinion
,Should include
- current conditions of all items inspected by the property
- Inspected items listed as unsafe or requires repairs
- preventative measures needed to remedy or extend life of inspected items
- do not look at building permits
Home inspection business regulation
✔✔Environmental Risks - ✔✔- are situations in which a property and/or its occupants
are exposed to danger
- only limited exposure is possibly before irreparable damage
- becomes risk only if a conduit to facilitate the transaction is present
Environmental Hazard
- could cause harm to health or safety with exposure
✔✔RMS - ✔✔Detached house - measure from exterior wall at foundation
Attached/semi attached - measure from interior walls at floor level.
Exclude any floors where portion is below grade.
include anything above grade + any additions if they have permanent
foundation/footings, connected to main electrical, heated by main heating or has its own
5 ft ceiling height may be included as long as 7ft is somewhere
stairs are added to level they lead to
✔✔Correlation between property size and price - ✔✔- not proportional, many other
factors.
- no direct correlation
✔✔Measurement tips - ✔✔interior measurements are used to extrapolate exterior
measurements - when exterior is inaccessible
extrapolated measurements should be included as additional measurements
✔✔Professionals Sanctions - ✔✔Advisory Note - measures property but makes mistake
(math error, data entry error) - not technically a sanction
Letter of Reprimand - measures property but makes error (failing to maintain diagram,
failing to use correct methods, not discussing RMS with client, measuring outside of
knowledge)
Administrative Penalties - fails to measure or disregards process (not measuring
properly, disregarding advice, choosing to not discuss with client)
, ✔✔Property Defects - ✔✔Patent Defects - obvious flaws discovered upon reasonable
inspection. Buyer is responsible to discover and makes steps to satisfy.
Latent Defects - not known to the seller or buyer at time of sale. Physical deficiencies
that are not dangerous. Liability is an issue - common law doctrine of Caveat Emptor
(buyer beware - protect own interests)
Material Latent Defects - not visible upon ordinary inspection. Affects use or value.
Seller must disclose
- sellers may decide whether or not to disclose if has been remedied
✔✔Flooding - ✔✔Floodways - deepest fastest, highest risk (red)
Flood Fringes - shallower, slower (pink)
Found on flood hazard map
Disaster Recovery Program - provides funding for uninsured property damage. registers
on property title, can only qualify every 100 years.
- administered by Alberta Municipal Affairs
✔✔Secondary Suites - ✔✔Not usually permitted in duplexes, semi-detached or
attached.
- must have seperate entrance with direct access to outside
- at least one window in each bedroom
- fire protection between suite and dwelloing
- interconnected smoke alarm, carbon monoxide
- enclosed furnace room
- independent heating, ventilation and electrical
✔✔Property Inspectors - ✔✔exclude alarm system, smoke alarm, sprinkler, telephone,
wood burning, underground items, outbuildings
✔✔Land Use - urban population growth - ✔✔Subdivision - division of larger lot into two
or more smaller lots
Intensification- change in intensity of use within the same land use classification.
involves development of higher occupancy than what currently exists.
Assmblage - involves purchase of continuous lots to create a larger single lot.
Densification - increased concentration of residents, increase in the maximum allowable
occupants. usually involves land use change
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Plumbing - ✔✔includes fresh water, hot water, and waste water
- materials used include copper, rigid plastic, and flexible plastic
✔✔Heating - ✔✔The main types of residential heating include;
Forced air
hot water
radiant - uses hot water or electricity
electric systems
High efficiency vents out the buildings exterior wall
✔✔Ceilings - ✔✔Valuted - follow roofline, unequal sides
Cathedral - two equal sides (Aframe)
Drop- covers pipes and wires
Coffered - insets, waffle like
✔✔Main principals of water - ✔✔Reduce, Retrofit, repair
✔✔Remediation - ✔✔return a contaminated area to a level that does not impair or
damage the environment, health or safety
✔✔Legislation - ✔✔Safety Codes Act - Permit regulation
Fair Trading Act - Home inspection business regulation
Energy Efficiency Act and Regulations - minimum energy performance requirements
Alberta Building Code - specifications for new construction and building materials
✔✔Property Inspections - ✔✔an examination of various building systems in order to
provide an opinion
,Should include
- current conditions of all items inspected by the property
- Inspected items listed as unsafe or requires repairs
- preventative measures needed to remedy or extend life of inspected items
- do not look at building permits
Home inspection business regulation
✔✔Environmental Risks - ✔✔- are situations in which a property and/or its occupants
are exposed to danger
- only limited exposure is possibly before irreparable damage
- becomes risk only if a conduit to facilitate the transaction is present
Environmental Hazard
- could cause harm to health or safety with exposure
✔✔RMS - ✔✔Detached house - measure from exterior wall at foundation
Attached/semi attached - measure from interior walls at floor level.
Exclude any floors where portion is below grade.
include anything above grade + any additions if they have permanent
foundation/footings, connected to main electrical, heated by main heating or has its own
5 ft ceiling height may be included as long as 7ft is somewhere
stairs are added to level they lead to
✔✔Correlation between property size and price - ✔✔- not proportional, many other
factors.
- no direct correlation
✔✔Measurement tips - ✔✔interior measurements are used to extrapolate exterior
measurements - when exterior is inaccessible
extrapolated measurements should be included as additional measurements
✔✔Professionals Sanctions - ✔✔Advisory Note - measures property but makes mistake
(math error, data entry error) - not technically a sanction
Letter of Reprimand - measures property but makes error (failing to maintain diagram,
failing to use correct methods, not discussing RMS with client, measuring outside of
knowledge)
Administrative Penalties - fails to measure or disregards process (not measuring
properly, disregarding advice, choosing to not discuss with client)
, ✔✔Property Defects - ✔✔Patent Defects - obvious flaws discovered upon reasonable
inspection. Buyer is responsible to discover and makes steps to satisfy.
Latent Defects - not known to the seller or buyer at time of sale. Physical deficiencies
that are not dangerous. Liability is an issue - common law doctrine of Caveat Emptor
(buyer beware - protect own interests)
Material Latent Defects - not visible upon ordinary inspection. Affects use or value.
Seller must disclose
- sellers may decide whether or not to disclose if has been remedied
✔✔Flooding - ✔✔Floodways - deepest fastest, highest risk (red)
Flood Fringes - shallower, slower (pink)
Found on flood hazard map
Disaster Recovery Program - provides funding for uninsured property damage. registers
on property title, can only qualify every 100 years.
- administered by Alberta Municipal Affairs
✔✔Secondary Suites - ✔✔Not usually permitted in duplexes, semi-detached or
attached.
- must have seperate entrance with direct access to outside
- at least one window in each bedroom
- fire protection between suite and dwelloing
- interconnected smoke alarm, carbon monoxide
- enclosed furnace room
- independent heating, ventilation and electrical
✔✔Property Inspectors - ✔✔exclude alarm system, smoke alarm, sprinkler, telephone,
wood burning, underground items, outbuildings
✔✔Land Use - urban population growth - ✔✔Subdivision - division of larger lot into two
or more smaller lots
Intensification- change in intensity of use within the same land use classification.
involves development of higher occupancy than what currently exists.
Assmblage - involves purchase of continuous lots to create a larger single lot.
Densification - increased concentration of residents, increase in the maximum allowable
occupants. usually involves land use change
