The washer that cost nothing and did everything
A few cents of steel between a bolt and the timber.
Guides 
All guides
Twenty five millimetres over the edge
A measured figure, not an impression.
Triple grips, and the load they carry
Every truss, tied individually.
A handover list with nothing structural on it
Twenty six painting records and not one envelope item.
A weep hole asked for at practical completion
The right finding at the wrong stage.
The driveway, the grading and where the water goes
Two items that decide what happens to a slab over twenty years.
When the frame and the drawing disagree
Not a matter of opinion.
A steel column that was never installed
And a frame summary that said so plainly.
A cladding gap, examined on its own
One question, answered against the requirement.
Eleven sales in a quarter
What a small market does and does not change.
Mortar, and the cavity it should not be in
The wall is designed to leak. Bridge it and it does not.
The part of the house nobody looks at twice
Insulation, ventilation and what is missing from both.
Water at the wall is the invitation
Downpipes, grading and open penetrations.
An external door that was never hung
The envelope has to actually close.
Booking the building and the pest report together
One attendance, two standards, two documents.