You dried the house. The file says you might have.

What’s inside

• What the log has to prove

  Every day of equipment and labor tied to a reading that shows the structure still needed it, which is the whole purpose of the log.

• Daily readings that support the invoice

  Atmospheric readings, material moisture and dehumidifier performance, taken the same way at the same points every visit.

• Drying goals and the day you stop

  Setting a dry standard from unaffected material on day one, and documenting the reading that ends the job.

• The missing day

  What a skipped or unrecorded visit costs when the file is reviewed, and the scheduling that stops it happening.

• Photos, times and the log a reviewer trusts

  Pictures of meters in place, consistent reading locations and entries made on site, so the record reads as evidence rather than as reconstruction.

• Reviewing the file before it leaves

  A short internal check of the log against the invoice, done before submission, when fixing a gap still costs minutes rather than a reduction.

The measure it works from

Measure

Collected margin per job

Which means

What was actually paid on a job after every reduction, less the labor, equipment, materials and office time the job consumed, including the hours spent defending the invoice.

Compared against

The invoice total that was submitted.

Every figure in the document is illustrative, produced by one internally consistent model, and the document says so on its own cover.

The Drying Log