How the reading works

It explains why materials need time. For a given stage of building work, it sets out which parts have nobody on site, what those parts are waiting for, and what happens if they are disturbed while they are waiting.

That is the whole scope. It is not a scheduling tool, not a project manager, and not an opinion about your job.

Curing, drying and setting times vary greatly with the material, its thickness, the temperature, the humidity and the ventilation. The same stage can take several times longer in an unheated room in winter than in a warm dry one.

The service therefore always gives ranges, and it makes no prediction or promise about your own timescale. There is no plan and no setting that produces a single figure: the data it holds has two ends to every duration and no field for one number, so there is nothing for a single figure to come from.

What was actually used decides this, and only the person who used it knows. Check the manufacturer's instructions for the product on site.

It does not say whether work is being done correctly, whether there has been a delay, whether anything is normal, or who is responsible for anything. It makes no assessment of workmanship and no assessment of defects.

It accepts no image uploads and stores no imagery of any site. There is no camera access, no file picker and no endpoint that would receive one. This is the same decision stated twice, because accepting a photograph would only be useful if the service then judged the work in it.

Not partially, not with caveats. If your question is about money, a contract, a penalty or an argument, this service has no view, and the acceptable use policy prohibits using anything it produces in one. When a sentence reads that way, it stops and produces nothing.

A model is used for exactly one step: deciding which entry in a fixed list of stages your sentence describes. It receives your sentence and the list. It returns an identifier.

• It is not given any durations, so it has none to report.
• It does not write any of the explanation you read. Every sentence in a reading was written in advance and is held on this site.
• It does not produce the timeline. Your browser cuts that from the local table.
• Its answer is checked against the local list before it is used, so an identifier that does not exist is discarded.
• If it is unavailable, or not configured at all, the matching happens in your browser instead and the reading is identical.

The reason for drawing the line there is that this is a subject where fluent invention is genuinely dangerous. A model asked how long a screed takes will answer confidently, and somebody will lay a floor on it.

• It can match your sentence to the wrong stage. You can pick the right one from the list and get the same reading.
• The table describes how these materials ordinarily behave. It does not describe your wall, your floor or your weather.
• It knows nothing about the specific products in use on your job, which is usually the single most important factor.
• It has no information about anything that is holding up your job for reasons that are not about materials at all.

Used to produce your reading and nothing else. Not used to train, fine-tune or evaluate any model. Not sold. The detail is in the privacy notice, and if you would rather nothing left your browser at all, the local matching route produces the same result.

Write to support@bakermartin.shop. If you think a stage in the table is wrong, tell us — it is a written table and it can be corrected.