Specify the Whole Below-Grade Assembly

List records, footage, located routes, known connections and unresolved sections. State utility and access assumptions. 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 “Mark provisional lengths and depths.” Keep wall condition unknown until exposed. 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 wall condition unknown until exposed.

The comparison should address investigation-based lengths, provisional depths, wall findings, assembly details, review points and restoration; otherwise two prices may describe materially different work. A below-grade assembly cannot be finalized until exposed wall condition and connection details reach their planned review points. Define excavation protection; then keep wall condition unknown until exposed. 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.

Define excavation protection

Keep wall condition unknown until exposed

Require documentation of wall condition, proposed membrane or interface, drainage layer, aggregate, pipe, cleanouts and outlet details. Describe each record, constraint and drainage segment separately, citing its supporting property-record photograph, measurement or dated document. Separate structural questions for qualified review. 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.

Separate structural questions for qualified review.

“Use current material documents” 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. Set review points before concealment. Separate structural questions for qualified review. 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.

Set review points before concealment

Separate structural questions for qualified review

List reviewed tests or inspections, photos, as-built notes, backfill, grading, hardscape and landscape restoration. Before proceeding, retain closeout and maintenance information. 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.

Retain closeout and maintenance information.

Resolve “Record changes and quantities” 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. Confirm authority records where applicable. Retain closeout and maintenance information. 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.

Confirm authority records where applicable

Retain closeout and maintenance information

Finish this assembly scope as a property dossier: include its starting evidence, location map, proposed below-grade investigation or replacement response and unresolved limits. For “Specify the Whole Below-Grade Assembly,” 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 “Map Utilities, Trees, Hardscape and Neighbour Impacts”, “Verify Connections, Permits and Bid Assumptions”, and “Specify Access, Method and Report Outputs” 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