Specify Access, Method and Report Outputs

Provide symptoms, records, cleanouts and known outlet information. Identify the system segments and decisions the investigation must support. Begin the property dossier with a date and its recorded location, access route and drain segment; attach the available evidence before making the investigation, access or replacement decision. The next checkpoint is “Label access points and inaccessible areas.” Keep cleaning and condition assessment distinct. Keep that action beside its observation. The existing-system reviewer can then distinguish the intake property dossier from property closeout dossier material added during later pricing or investigation.

Keep cleaning and condition assessment distinct.

The comparison should address inspection objectives, labelled access points, footage coverage, cleaning limits and location-based reporting; otherwise two prices may describe materially different work. A camera report should identify every access point and unviewed branch before a clear segment is generalized to the entire perimeter. State protection and restoration assumptions; then keep cleaning and condition assessment distinct. Label each property-record photograph, drawing and prior record by recorded location, access route and drain segment and date. When a buried route or connection question remains, record it in the property dossier; identify the existing-system reviewer review or property closeout dossier document that could resolve it. An older address or one visible component does not establish the material, layout or outlet of the complete system.

State protection and restoration assumptions

Keep cleaning and condition assessment distinct

Ask how locating, flushing or camera work will proceed and how poor visibility, obstructions or uncertain branches will be reported. Describe each record, constraint and drainage segment separately, citing its supporting property-record photograph, measurement or dated document. Preserve original and annotated media. A finding at one recorded location, access route and drain segment may alter the proposed investigation, access or replacement decision; unobserved parts of the existing perimeter-drain system stay outside the available evidence.

Preserve original and annotated media.

“Do not treat clear footage as proof of every segment” belongs on its own line in the property dossier. For the recorded location, access route and drain segment, pair the property-record photograph evidence with any concealed or untested existing perimeter-drain system limits. Record water handling and site protection. Preserve original and annotated media. Cross-reference the below-grade investigation or replacement response answer to its property-record photograph; include the property dossier drawing, a product document for the below-grade investigation or replacement response, or a dated reply from the existing-system reviewer. Schedule locating, tree, utility or wall review before excavation closes the access option or concealed work is backfilled.

Record water handling and site protection

Preserve original and annotated media

Request a route sketch, labelled observations, limitations, unresolved questions and next evidence required. Before proceeding, use the report to define later scope. Give task ownership to the existing-system reviewer; place its checkpoint before the investigation, access or replacement decision, then name the expected property closeout dossier. This separates current property dossier evidence from the proposed below-grade investigation or replacement response. Put manufacturer information and existing-system reviewer input in the property closeout dossier; file authority questions under the relevant existing perimeter-drain system decision.

Use the report to define later scope.

Resolve “Tie findings to locations” before ranking proposals. State the baseline recorded location, access route and drain segment, proposed below-grade investigation or replacement response, exclusions, quantities and written change process. Separate observation from interpretation. Use the report to define later scope. Review each property-record photograph while it can still change the investigation, access or replacement decision. Record a dated investigation, access or replacement decision choice or assign the remaining buried route or connection question. Track that uncertainty in the property closeout dossier, outside the lump-sum total.

Separate observation from interpretation

Use the report to define later scope

Finish this inspection brief as a property dossier: include its starting evidence, location map, proposed below-grade investigation or replacement response and unresolved limits. For “Specify Access, Method and Report Outputs,” justify each below-grade investigation or replacement response inclusion and assign the next buried route or connection question. In the property dossier, list the approvals, product records and property closeout dossier expected. Continue with “Identify the Existing System Before Defining Replacement”, “Verify Connections, Permits and Bid Assumptions”, and “Map Utilities, Trees, Hardscape and Neighbour Impacts” for related existing perimeter-drain system decisions. Use the property dossier guide links for any wider below-grade investigation or replacement response comparison. Catalogue every dated Victoria or provincial reference under the connection, site-servicing or permit question it supports.

Name the next investigation, access or replacement decision, responsible existing-system reviewer and property dossier evidence still required

Retain dated official existing perimeter-drain system sources and guide links within the property closeout dossier