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How to prove work was completed: a simple guide for tradespeople

You finished the job weeks ago and now there is a question about it. Here is a straightforward way to keep the kind of record that answers it in a minute.

Start before you touch anything

Walk the area and photograph it as you found it, including any damage that was already there. Marks on a wall, a cracked tile, a scuffed floor: photograph them before you start and nobody can attribute them to you later.

Photograph anything that gets covered up

Pipework, cabling, fixings, membranes, insulation. Once the plasterboard goes on, the photo is the only way anyone will ever see it again.

Say what the photo shows

A photo on its own can be ambiguous. Ten seconds of voice explaining what it is and why you took it turns it into a useful record.

Keep it filed by job

The record is only useful if you can find it. Filing photos and notes under the job as you go saves you scrolling through a camera roll months later.

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