DEMO — fictional range. Local brief only, NOT SENT. No personal data is collected or transmitted.
INSPECTION
A wet joint is the one worth checking.
Garden products are inspected for the joints that hold water, because those are the joints that fail in the first frost.
Illustrative inspection checklist
- Seams and welds
- Sound and watertight, checked by filling rather than by eye
- Seal seating
- Present, correctly seated and not pinched
- Thread engagement
- The rose or the fitting threads on and off by hand
- Handle fixing
- Loaded at full weight, not tested empty
- Moulding flash
- Removed, because flash at a joint becomes a leak
- Ultraviolet grade
- The stabilised compound, confirmed against the specification
- Colour
- Within the approved band, and consistent across the order
- Marking
- Batch identifier legible on the product or its packaging
An illustrative checklist for a fictional range. A real programme defines the tolerance, the sampling method, the inspection window and the remedy if a batch fails.
The four things a programme needs in writing.
The tolerance, the sampling method, the window in which inspection happens, and what happens if the batch fails. Without all four, a failed delivery becomes an argument rather than a process.
Why the handle is loaded rather than pulled.
Because a handle is loaded at full weight in use and tested empty in a factory. A pull test on an empty can proves the fixing is present, not that it holds.