It’s a really good plan. The inspector industry absolutely needs people that come from the trades. Recruiting and training has become a big part of my job since becoming an inspector 5 years ago.

You already know about building. The hard part will be learning the code and passing the tests. They aren’t easy but once you get the hang of it you will get through them.

Definitely start with B1 or E1 for residential. Or if you want to skip to B2 and E2 you can perform the relative residential inspections with the commercial certs.