Now you see it / Now you don’t – using panorama images to detect construction mistakes

The carpentry foreman strongly suggested I make a note of where all of my electrical boxes were. I say; “yeah, sure.” I guessed I’d remember where all of my network, speaker, and video boxes were located. But, I took pictures just the same. Good thing too. I was checking progress this morning after the interior sheetrocking was finished in yesterday’s marathon session. Most things looked right. I found some more thrashed, trashed, and “beyond-repair wires that we will need to discuss but otherwise things looked right.

I also checked out “the BIG room”. It looks huge as befitting its volume. One thing seemed odd. Why would I install a network box without an electrical outlet near by. I had consciously done that in two places so perhaps this was just one more. I was almost ready to accept it until this evening when I was uploaded the latest images. I went back 2 weeks and found the photos of my work. And THERE IT WAS ! … an electrical outlet box 16 inches over from my network box. It’s in the framing photos but not the sheetrock photos. I guess I had better check the whole building now …

framed

sheetrocked

In case you can’t find anything in these little panoramas or even the marginally larger ones when you click, just know that the originals are around 60 megapixels.

One Comment

  1. tamara says:

    Excellent tool, Glen. I should take a picture of the house and office on Sunday when it is all neat and RTG. Then, on Wednesday, I could refer to the picture to find things like the couch, or those papers I put on the desk to deal with, or the laptop which is located…somewhere.

    Maybe take a picture every day. Then, at the end of the next day…

    Like the restore function on the computer.