Your detail location
Describe where your homework detail sits on its sheet, without saying the sheet number first.
Before you describe your detail, predict:
1. On a phone call, what makes a direction actually usable, compared to pointing in person?
In-document signposting
What "over here" becomes on the phone
"That’s on L3, bottom right."
"Look at the middle of L5 — there’s a detail bubble, follow it to L6."
"It’s the callout in the top corner, next to the north arrow."
None of these point. All of them locate something precisely enough that a person holding a different copy of the same set can find it in seconds.
Check what these three examples have in common.
1. What do all three examples do, even though none of them point?
Locating without pointing
Position language
Listen and repeat.
Match each position phrase to the situation it fits.
Choose the clear direction
Choose the instruction a contractor could actually follow, without seeing your screen.
1. The contractor asks where the wall detail is.
2. The contractor cannot find a callout referenced from another sheet.
The phone call
Live, no visual, a contractor who genuinely cannot find something.
Task card
Danny, a contractor on site, calling about your set — invented for this exercise
Talk him to the detail he needs, using only words, checking he has found it before moving on.
- Name the sheet and the position, every time.
- Ask him to confirm what he sees before assuming he found it.
- If he is on the wrong sheet, redirect him calmly — do not start over from nothing.
Put these three moves in the order you will use them on the call.
Did you check?
Did you confirm Danny was looking at the right sheet before continuing, or did you assume it? That confirmation is the one habit this lesson is really about.
Each direction below is too vague to be usable on a call. Fix it.
1. It's up there somewhere.
2. It's on one of the drainage sheets.
Before the next lesson
Homework. Note down any dimension or question you got wrong in the call. Next lesson works on exactly those.
One check before you go.
1. What should you note down for homework?