Teardown: the $6,800 supplement that was sitting in the day-one photos

A two-story home, overnight windstorm, 180 field photos. The first report was tidy: roof, a cracked window seal, a separated downspout. The file closed. Twenty-six days later it reopened with stained drywall in an upstairs bedroom — logged internally as a second event. It wasn't.

What the first pass captured

• Wind-creased shingle tabs on the front slope
• Displaced ridge caps at the peak
• A starred upper window seal and a downspout off its elbow

Defensible exterior scope. Nothing wrong with it — except it stopped at the roofline.

What InstaBud traced

• Step-flashing gap at the chimney — flagged as a live water path, not a cosmetic note, on photo #112.
• Soffit staining 20 feet away — linked to the same flashing leak instead of logged as an unrelated blemish.
• Drywall moisture risk called out proactively in the interior scope, because the water had somewhere to go.

The delta

Pricing the interior work into the original scope would have added about $6,800 — the exact figure that came back as a supplement, minus the re-inspection truck roll and the customer's month of frustration. The damage wasn't new. The attention was. InstaBud reads photo #112 with the same rigor as photo #1, and it connects findings instead of listing them.

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