In the Field · Part 4

Job-site craft: sequencing with the other trades, protecting the home, and the punch list that ends the job

Half of a plumbing business's reputation is made after the pipe is right: whether the plumber showed up the morning the framer finished, whether the hardwood was covered, whether the customer's last impression was a clean garage and a walk-through or a missing escutcheon and a text three days later. This lesson is the craft that the code does not grade and the customer does: the sequence on a remodel and how a plumber fits into it, the protection of the home that is both courtesy and, in a pre-1978 house, law, the inspection sequence as a schedule, and the punch list that turns the final walk-through into the final payment and the review.