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The site visit you skip is the one that costs you
By Plinth Studio · May 2025 · 2 min read
The site visit that feels like it can be skipped is usually the one that would have caught the problem.
There's a pattern to which site visits get deprioritised: the ones after the interesting decisions are made, before the interesting ones start again. The steel's up, the services aren't in yet, nothing photographs well. It's tempting to wait.
It's also exactly the window where the things that are hardest to fix later are still cheap to fix now — a duct run that clashes with a beam, a window head that's 40mm out, a services zone that got value-engineered away without anyone flagging it.
We've made this mistake, early on, and we've paid for it in change orders that would have been a five-minute conversation on site. Now the unglamorous visits are non-negotiable, not the ones we do when there's something nice to look at.
The build doesn't care which visits were convenient. It only cares which ones happened.
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