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The GC's PM told me my daily logs were useless, and he was right
Ran my own small framing crew for 4 years and kept paper daily logs that I thought were solid. Then a PM named Daryl on a $2.1M build in Tacoma pulled me aside and asked point blank who the logs were actually for. I couldn't answer him, because deep down I knew they were for me, not the office. Switched to snapping photos in a phone app that timestamps and pins to a drawing, and my change order disputes went from losing half to winning almost all of them. What's the one piece of paperwork you were doing for yourself and calling it documentation?
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sam_murphy398d ago
Daryl basically called out the same trap I was stuck in for years with my own daily reports. Mine were just a diary of what I did all day, which felt productive but never helped when a client pushed back on a change. Once I started logging with dates and photos tied to specific areas, the fights over extra work basically stopped going against me.
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