Work is ready · Scenario · Both sides
The wall is about to be boarded. What should be photographed?
Situation
Morgan’s extension is ready for plasterboard. Electrical cables, pipework and insulation will disappear from view that afternoon. The customer is at work. The contractor wants to keep the boarding team moving.
Two ways it can go
Bad extreme one: no record
The team takes no photographs because the work can be seen on site now. Six months later, Morgan wants to mount cabinets and asks where the pipes run. Nobody can remember precisely.
Bad extreme two: photograph everything
The team uploads 146 images with no labels. Morgan cannot tell which wall or requirement they show. The contractor spends time capturing files that nobody can navigate.
The agreed capture plan
Before work, the project identified the concealed details that mattered: service routes at named walls, specified insulation product and key junctions. The contractor takes a small set of wide context images followed by close detail, labels each location and links it to the relevant work item. Product labels and the required inspection record are attached separately.
One area differs from the accepted drawing because an obstruction forced a route change. The team does not bury that fact in the gallery. It links the photograph to the recorded amendment.
How each side sees it
Morgan can see which wall is shown and why the image exists. They are not asked to certify the installation. They can later give the record to a fitter or professional who needs it.
The contractor has a concise record of significant concealed work, not an unpaid documentary burden. The same evidence supports the milestone submission and final project history.
Principle
Capture the facts that will become difficult or expensive to recover. Label them so a person who was not on site can understand their purpose.