John - Perhaps you're being too exhaustive? Here in PA we have a home inspection law that says the purpose is to find/document problems that would have a significant impact on the value of the property and/or be a an unreasonable risk to personnel on the property. In other words, it is a given that there are problems that are non-significant and risks that are reasonable.
I feel I spend too much time also, by the time my report is done. But on most jobs, I would spend much more time if I tried to find and document all or even most of the "small stuff". I could spend days in some of these places!