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The City House Notebook

what building it taught us

Write down everything building the city house taught us — what worked, what we would never repeat, which people and materials proved themselves — so the next build starts wiser than the first did.

A copy carries over only the public parts you see here — the owners' private files never leave their own vaults.

🚧 Draft — not final. This page was auto-generated as day-one scaffolding for the project and still needs a human pass before it reads as finished. The blanks and placeholders below are intentional — someone who runs this project should fill them in and delete this notice.

Lessons — by phase

The knowledge, organised the way a build actually happens. Each phase gets the same three columns: what we learned, what it cost us (time, money, or grief), and what we'd do differently. Write the freshest phase first — memory fades from the foundation up.

Foundation & site

  • Learned: _____
  • Cost us: _____
  • Do differently: _____

Structure (RCC / walls)

  • Learned: · Cost us: · Do differently:

Roofing & waterproofing

  • Learned: · Cost us: · Do differently:
  • (This one feeds Monsoon Ready directly — the leaks you know about are the ones you can prevent.)

Plumbing

  • Learned: · Cost us: · Do differently:

Electrical

  • Learned: · Cost us: · Do differently:

Finishing (flooring, paint, fittings, carpentry)

  • Learned: · Cost us: · Do differently:

The people ledger

Trade Who Verdict Call again? The honest reason
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If we did it again — the reversals

  • (the decisions we'd undo, and why — the single most valuable list here for the next build)