Describe your inspection workflow. Makeform creates a field-ready chimney inspection form with component ratings, photos, access notes, priorities, and a clear summary.
Send inspection records to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose an example, adapt its scope, or send it to the builder. The structure is an example, not a completed inspection.
Audience
Chimney sweeps documenting a service visit
Format
Mobile checklist with photos and customer summary
Prompt size
428 chars
Example form structure
Mobile checklist with photos and customer summary
Property, appliance, and fuel type
Which components were inspected?
Component condition and observations
Photos of visible conditions
Findings and next steps
Suggested routing tags
No visible defect
Monitor or service
Further evaluation
Add a Not inspected option with a required reason, so inaccessible areas are not mistaken for acceptable conditions.
Step 1
Identify
property, appliance, fuel, chimney, and flue
Step 2
Inspect
component condition, access, and method
Step 3
Document
location, notes, measurements, and photos
Step 4
Summarize
priorities, limitations, and next steps
Useful at the chimney
Keep system identity, condition language, evidence, and follow-up together while inspectors move component by component.
Guide checks from appliance and firebox through flue, liner, termination, masonry, crown, cap, and flashing.
Record access, concealed areas, inspection method, and reasons for anything not inspected.
Pair flagged conditions with a location, photo, priority, and next step.
Adapt the scope
Start with the current job, then keep the components, ratings, and follow-up fields that fit your scope.
Combine sweep details, use history, visible deposits, component condition, service performed, and post-visit notes.
Keep each chimney separate and state access, operating conditions, visible findings, supporting images, and follow-up priorities.
Focus the field flow on reported moisture, flashing, crown, cap, masonry, penetrations, elevations, and photo locations.
Use a repeatable record for each stack and flue so appliance connections and findings do not get mixed together.
Build the field workflow
Describe the scope, review the structure, and publish for on-site completion.
Name the components, methods, ratings, evidence, and summary your team uses.
Show roof questions when accessible and require explanations for flagged or uninspected items.
Select conditions, dictate notes, add measurements, and upload images by phone.
Organize submissions and follow-up by property, inspector, and priority.
Form vs notes vs static file
Compare quick field notes, a fixed checklist, and a guided form that keeps findings with their context.
Field guide
Identify the system, follow a logical component path, mark inaccessible areas, and locate every follow-up item.
Visit and system identity
Use enough context to distinguish each property, chimney, and flue.
Scope and access
Capture access and method so unobserved areas are not treated as defect-free.
Interior components
A predictable order reduces skipped fields. Tailor it to the appliance and visit scope.
Flue and exterior
Attach component, elevation, and image references while the inspector is looking at the condition.
Condition and evidence
Use a small rating set and request detail when a component is flagged or unavailable.
Summary and follow-up
List what was observed, what matters first, and who should review it without declaring tentative causes.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for chimney sweeps, inspectors, and service coordinators building a consistent field record.
Include property, inspector, chimney ID, appliance, fuel, scope, access limits, component ratings, locations, photos, measurements, priorities, findings, and next steps. Match terminology to your service scope.
Use Not inspected instead of a blank. Require the reason, keep it beside the affected component, and add appropriate follow-up.
Yes. Repeat a section for each chimney and flue with its ID, location, appliance, fuel, access, findings, photos, and priorities.
Yes. Add uploads at the finding level. Request an overview, close-up, and orientation label when context matters.
Choose your rating language, then require an observation, location, photo, and priority for flagged or unavailable conditions.
Yes. Makeform supports unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and use the form without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
No. It organizes observations, limits, evidence, and recommendations. It does not certify a system, determine compliance, or replace inspector judgment.
Submissions reach the Makeform inbox and can connect to Google Sheets, Slack, or Zapier. Filter them by property, chimney, inspector, or priority.
Leave the property with a complete record.
