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Clients' demands to access schemes before completion must be avoided. Alan Sargent explains why and how.When builders construct a bathroom wall and render and plaster the surface, they must wait for at least 28 days for the wall to dry beforepainting or papering. Similarly, a builder cannot remove the shuttering from a precast concrete retaining wall for at least four weeks after pouring. Nobody challenges the builder, demanding that the timescale be accelerated, because it is clearly understood that the contractor is in total control of the site. There is a very logical reason for the curing times involved in the construction process.