During construction: take lots of photos.
Even if you don’t know what you’re taking photos of.
Time and time again, photos taken during the construction of houses, pools, sheds, footings and skyscrapers have helped forensic engineers see through dirt, concrete, plasterboard and masonry.
They have helped electricians, plumbers and carpenters make more succinct alterations to your home (with much less exploratory cutting).
They have proven and disproven memories of what actually happened countless times.
And they have saved (and when used for evil, fried) my bacon more than once.
Take lots of photos. Take photos of the walls, the slab reinforcement, the cables, the pipes, the gravel backfill, the window frames, the roof frames, the air-conditioning ducts and the holes in the ground.
If nothing else, they prove you were there on the day and time you said you were.
Without them, we’re just taking your word for it. And as much as I love you, I just can’t trust you on something as important as building houses and sheds and skyscrapers well.