WDO Inspection
A WDO inspection is a licensed pest control company's report on termites, other wood-destroying insects and wood rot at a property, usually ordered for a sale or a mortgage. Florida regulates it by statute, and most of the companies below show the FDACS business licence we checked for their branch.
WDO inspection companies in Florida
Companies we could match to the FDACS register show their Florida pest control business licence.
What Florida requires of a WDO report
Florida defines a wood-destroying organism to include "wood-decaying fungi" (Fla. Stat. 482.021(30)), and the inspection "must include inspection for all wood-destroying organisms" (482.226). The report comes from a licensed pest control business on a form FDACS prescribes, must record evidence of previous treatment and the areas not inspected, and must state that neither the inspector nor the business has a financial interest in the property. The inspector posts a notice by the attic or crawl space access that lasts three years, and only an employee holding an FDACS identification card may inspect (482.091(9)).
The full explanation, including VA and FHA loans: what is a WDO inspection.
WDO and WDI are different scopes
WDO (wood-destroying organism) includes wood-decay fungi. WDI (wood-destroying insect) is insects only. The form used on federally backed mortgages, the NPMA-33, is by its own title a Wood Destroying Insect form; to report fungi at all, an inspector attaches a separate optional document. It is an industry form, written and copyrighted by the National Pest Management Association, and NPMA's own guidance says that where a state requires its own form, "the state mandated form must be used."
Florida's report is on a form FDACS prescribes and covers fungi by definition, so ask which form you will get if a lender or buyer has asked for a WDO report. Requirements vary by loan programme. Treat any specific claim about a loan programme as something to confirm with the lender directly.