Quality control
Countertop inspection record
Before anything is packed, every fabricated piece is laid out flat and measured against the approved shop drawings. This is that record.
What this record is
This is the cut-to-size inspection record for a fabricated Taj Mahal countertop order, published as it was taken. Every piece in the schedule is laid out flat on the floor with a measuring tape across it, photographed from above, and checked dimension by dimension against the approved shop drawing.
The drawings carry both imperial and metric figures, and the tape in the frame is the evidence that the piece in front of it matches them. Nothing is staged — the photographs are taken on the factory floor, in sequence, before the order is packed.
What it covers
- Cut-to-size pieces — kitchen runs, L-shaped and T-shaped returns, measured as individual items
- Sink and hob cutouts — both the position of the opening and the finish of the cut edge
- Splashbacks — full-height pieces checked as separate items to 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
Why we publish it
Quality control is the part of an import order that buyers normally have to take on trust. A container leaves and you find out at the destination whether the pieces were cut to the right dimensions. A record like this moves that answer eighteen days earlier, and it is also useful on site: your fitter can see how each piece was cut and check it against the room before the tops go down.
Countertop inspection record — PDF, 67 pages, 13.2 MB. The shop drawings and every cut-to-size piece cut against them, measured piece by piece.
Selected pages from the record
The drawings are part of the record
Four pages of this document are the shop drawings themselves — the same sheets the pieces were cut against, including the dimension chain in both inches and millimetres, the edge detail, and the approval stamp. They are in there deliberately: a photograph of a measuring tape only proves that something was measured. Open a drawing, then open the piece that was cut from it, and you can check the correspondence yourself instead of taking our word for it.
The packing list and container loading photographs for a specific order are issued to that buyer together with their shipping documents.