Printable checklists
The lists you use away from the screen
Eight checklists for the moments where reading an article is not the task — the twelve hours before a test starts, the walkthrough on the day a system is commissioned, the questions you ask before signing. Every item carries the reason it is on the list, so you can decide which ones your situation actually needs.
Nothing here is a form. There are no checkboxes that save state, because a checkbox stored in one browser vanishes when you pick up a different device halfway through a project. These print, and the printed copy is the one that stays with the job.
Before you start
- Before testing — Get the conditions right, or the number means nothing. (13 items)
- Before hiring — Verify the credential, then read the scope. In that order. (19 items)
While it is happening
- During testing — Four days of not doing things. That is genuinely the whole job. (13 items)
Once the work is done
- After installation — Confirm it works, then file the paperwork that proves it. (16 items)
Year after year
- Annual inspection — Ten minutes a year, plus a test every two. (14 items)
Buying, selling, negotiating
- Buying — Order early, verify the existing system, get it in the amendment. (16 items)
- Selling — Test before you list. Everything else follows from that. (17 items)
- Negotiating — Arrive with a result and a number. Then write it down properly. (17 items)
Related
- Decision tools — work through a decision before you print the list for it.
- Homeowner guides — the full reasoning behind each step.
- Diagram library — the same sequences drawn rather than listed.
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