Share your build: a checklist
The most useful project pages are documented while you build, not afterwards. Print this page and keep it with your tools.
Before you start
- Photo of the site as it is now, from where you will take the “after” photo
- The plan or sketch you work from, with the main dimensions
- Your materials list with quantities, and the receipts (for the real cost)
- The date you start
During the build
- One photo per main step: base or frame, first boards, roof or top, finishing
- Close-ups of joints, fixings and anything you would explain to a friend
- Anything that went wrong and how you fixed it (a photo helps)
- Hours spent each day, roughly
When it is finished
- The “after” photo from the same spot as the first one
- Final dimensions: width, length, height
- Total cost, and what you already had
- Total time, and how many people helped
- Three things you would do differently next time
Photo tips
- Shoot in daylight, landscape format, with the whole object in the frame.
- Only use photos you took yourself or have permission to use, and avoid recognisable people who have not agreed.