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Out-of-sight contents

What are out-of-sight contents?

Out-of-sight contents are items not visible during a walkthrough: stock in closed cabinets, tools in drawers, spare parts in storage, inventory in back rooms and equipment in mechanical spaces. They are routinely missed on a first pass and are a common source of under-measured commercial claims, so a thorough inventory opens and records them.

The categories are consistent across loss types: stock in closed cabinets and back rooms, tools in drawers and rolling chests, spare parts and consumables held in quantity, seasonal property in mechanical and attic spaces, and anything stored in a building nobody put on the original list. A restaurant dish pit and a school district supply room are the same problem in different clothes.

Finding them costs site time and nothing else, which is why a walkthrough estimate and an inventory routinely differ by a multiple rather than a margin. See out-of-sight contents and under-measured claims.

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