Daily coating logs compiled from crew field records, with every missing entry listed for your foreman or inspector.

On a bridge, a tank or a public building's steel, each shift leaves its record in pieces: psychrometer readings on a clipboard, replica tape stuck to a page, batch numbers copied off lids, wet film checks from the painters and dry film readings from a gauge. Someone then writes it onto the owner's form, by coat and by location, before the next shift starts.

For the test, AI reads copies of those records and compiles the daily log: surface preparation standard, temperature, humidity and dew point with their times, batch numbers and thinner by product, and film readings by coat and location. Every blank is listed rather than filled. Nothing it writes says a surface is ready or a reading is good, and your reviewer marks each draft against the log your inspector signed.

There is no one form. Michigan's inspectors fill out Form 1941, the Inspector's Daily Report for Bridge Painting, alongside a general Form 1122B. Illinois names its own Quality Control Daily Report and accepts a contractor's paper or electronic form only if it gives equivalent information and was accepted with the QC program. New York's MURK 7 is a two-sided Daily Work Report with the coating on the back, and Minnesota's Daily Quality Assurance Check List marks items Sat, Unsat, NA or NW, with cleanliness, profile, soluble salts and dry film thickness among its hold points. The draft fills the fields of the form you use and leaves the rest alone.

When a reading was taken counts as much as the number. New York's form wants air temperature, steel temperature, dew point, humidity and paint temperature from storage measured just before each operation. Michigan records them at the start of cleaning, the start of coating and the end of coating. Illinois has them monitored every 4 hours in the specific area being worked, more often if weather is changing, and wants the surface at least 5 degrees F above the dew point during final preparation. Its provision says a sling psychrometer prevails over a digital one when the two disagree. The draft keeps each reading with its time and instrument and lists any interval that has none.

Surface preparation has its own entries, and some are attachments. Illinois reads blast profile by replica tape or digital micrometer under SSPC-PA 17 at the start of work and each day of preparation, has the tape attached to the daily report, and lets the tape win a disagreement. Michigan asks for at least one profile reading a day for each abrasive blasting operator, with span and beam line. New York marks condition before preparation on a letter scale from A through G3, and after it as SP10, SP11 or unacceptable. Illinois also tests compressed air each shift and makes soluble salts a hold point, with chloride at no more than 7 micrograms per square centimeter. The draft names the standard the log cites and lists any attachment that is missing.

Batch numbers and film readings tie to a coat and a place. New York's back page has columns for paint name, batch number, manufacture date, thinner used, amount used, resultant VOC level and the specified film and profile from the data sheet. Michigan wants every component logged, because some zinc primers have three, and reads dry film in five spots, each the average of three readings, with span and beam line written down. Illinois has painters take wet film while QC spot-checks it, keeps QC staff off the tools and gives each batch an approval number. FHWA's archived field manual for bridge painting has the inspector witness and document each addition of thinner. Each reading goes under its coat and location, and the draft lists any coat with a product but no reading, or a reading with no location.

A signature doesn't always mean what people assume. Illinois wants the report in before work resumes the next day, and says the Engineer's signature only acknowledges receipt and is no agreement that the information is accurate. New York's form carries the inspector's certification and the resident engineer's review. PCA P2, from the Painting Contractors Association, defines a hold point as where work stops until inspection or testing is done, and has non-compliant conditions reported in writing right away. On a potable water tank, New York's master spec adds holiday testing of interior coatings in front of the owner's representative. Your reviewer will look first at readings copied to the wrong coat or location, blanks filled by assumption, batch numbers that don't match the product, times that don't fit the shift, and anything a draft could be misread as approving.

After your reviewer's yes, new shifts' field records are compiled for about 30 days.

A qualified foreman or inspector reads, corrects and signs every log, and nothing reaches a public owner until they have.

The live job has a fixed price, set before you sign. Any job after it is priced on its own, and monthly support follows once one is running.