Insights

Factory visits and site walks: how building components are made and what sites look like. My own photos, people made unrecognisable.

02.07.2026 · As an employee

Visit to a door factory

A walk through production: from the panel store and machining to sample doors and hardware. Anyone who tenders and inspects doors understands them better after seeing how they are made.

Sample doors with different door handles

Corridor with sample doors in different finishes

Sample doors in a row

Discussion in the showroom

Door leaf sections: solid timber, chipboard, insulating core

What is inside a door leaf

Walk through the panel store

Door leaves with oak edges

Panels on the vacuum lifter

On into production

Blanks before machining

Processing line

CNC hall

CNC with extraction

Frame press

Hinge and lock on a sample

09.07.2026 · As an employee

Recording defects before handover

Just before handover every detail counts: water stains in the new parquet, an open floor box, chipped paint on the ceiling. Everything photographed, described and assigned to the right contractor so it is fixed before move-in.

Water stains in the herringbone parquet below the window

Trail of stains in the parquet in front of a covered door

Water stains in the parquet

Open floor box with plastic film in the parquet

Floor box still open

Stains in the parquet in front of the protective cover

Stains under the protective cover

Chipped paint on the ceiling above the window frame

Chipping above the frame

Parquet with stains spread up to the door

Overview: stains up to the door

As an employee

Recording construction damage: scaffold anchors drilled too deep

The holes for the scaffold anchors were drilled too deep and broke through the inside of the external wall, room by room in a grid. Recorded to document the damage.