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Waterproofing under a bathroom floor, insulation continuity at a balcony junction, first-fix pipework falls, fire stopping in a partition, substrate flatness under large-format tile: none of these can be judged after the finishes are on. Once the tile is laid, the only way to inspect the membrane beneath it is to remove the tile.

That is why supervision is scheduled around concealment points rather than convenience. A visit timed one day before a screed pour is worth ten visits afterwards, and the photographic record taken at that moment is the only evidence that will ever exist of what is inside the floor.

A visit one day before the screed is worth ten visits afterwards.

Disputes about workmanship are visible and loud. Losses on quantities are invisible and constant: square metres claimed but not laid, the same works appearing in a base contract and again as a variation, materials charged at project rates and installed in a lower grade, preliminaries billed for weeks the crew was not on site.

Independent measurement before each payment closes that gap. We measure the work in place, compare it to the contract schedule and the invoice, and issue a payment recommendation. On the projects we supervise, this typically recovers a double-digit percentage of the disputed line items and — more usefully — stops the pattern repeating.

In the Greek market, most residential purchases are made on a viewing, a floor plan and a feeling. A structured inspection converts that into information: whether cracking is cosmetic or structural, whether the roof and terraces have functioning waterproofing, whether damp is condensation or ingress, whether the electrical installation is safe, and whether the heating system has a realistic remaining life.

The commercially important output is the indicative repair budget. A buyer who can say precisely what the property needs, item by item, with photographs, negotiates from a completely different position than one who suspects it needs work — and often recovers the cost of the inspection many times over on the price.

Most project pain is contractual before it is technical. Scope described in a paragraph instead of a schedule, no defined stages, no retention, no defect liability period, no agreed method for valuing extras — these turn every disagreement into a negotiation without rules.

We review the contract before works begin and, where it is weak, propose the minimum additions that protect the owner: payment tied to measured stages, a named specification, a snagging and closure procedure, retention until defects are cleared, and written variation approval. None of it is exotic; all of it is routinely missing.

Payment tied to measured stages changes behaviour faster than any argument.

A project is finished when you can operate and maintain it, not when the crew leaves. That means the snag list is closed and verified rather than promised, and that you hold the certificates, warranties, as-built information and maintenance requirements for every system installed.

We assemble that file as part of handover, because it is what protects you afterwards. Two years later, when a pump fails or a membrane is questioned, the difference between a warranty claim and an expense is whether the paperwork was collected while the contractor still wanted the final payment.