Countertop inspection record

Most countertop orders get checked. Very few can show you the check. This page publishes ours: a cut-to-size countertop order inspected piece by piece, photographed as it happened, before anything went into a crate.

Why a record matters more on a project than on a single kitchen

A one-off kitchen is a handful of pieces. A multifamily or hospitality package is hundreds — repeated across unit types, released in phases, and installed by a crew working to a schedule. In that setting an inspection record does three things an assurance over email cannot:

• It catches a systemic error once. If a dimension is wrong on a piece that repeats, the record shows it on the first item — not after the phase has been packed and shipped.
• It gives your fitter a reference. The pieces can be checked against the record as they are unpacked, and against the room before the cutouts are trusted.
• It moves the answer earlier. Normally you learn whether the dimensions were right when the container is opened at destination. This puts that answer before loading.

What the record covers

• Cut-to-size pieces — kitchen runs and L- or T-shaped returns, measured as individual items
• Sink and hob cutouts — the position of the opening, not only its size
• Splashbacks — full-height pieces checked separately from the countertop runs
• Edge and corner work — including the small internal corner radius called up on the drawings
• The shop drawings themselves — the sheets the pieces were cut against, with their dimension chains and approval stamp

Each piece is photographed flat with a measuring tape in frame at the dimension that matters for that item. The shop drawings carry both imperial and metric figures, so the tape is the check against both.

Selected pages from the record

Why the drawings are included

The record also carries the shop drawings the pieces were cut against — dimension chains in both inches and millimetres, the edge detail, and the approval stamp. That combination is the point. A photograph of a measuring tape on its own only proves that something was measured; paired with the drawing it proves the piece matches what was approved, which is the thing the contract actually depends on.

The packing list and container loading photographs for a specific order are issued to that buyer with their shipping documents.

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