Did the same thing happen to your buddy or is this just you? My old foreman had a story like this where the inspector caught him mid breakfast taco in the truck, and the guy ended up just signing off after a two minute walk. Since then he keeps a second copy of the plans in a plastic tube behind the seat, plus one in the site box, because you never know when they roll up early. My take is keep the real set in the job box and a beat up extra in the truck, that way if a page gets rained on or covered in hot sauce it is no big deal. It is cheap insurance and saves you from doing the walk of shame with your lunch in one hand.

Rules exist for a reason, drink it or walk.

Six weeks of wear before it even started looking lived in is the part that should drive your pricing, not the application time. Foils you have to redo every 4 to 5 weeks or the line shows, so a balayage client is really buying herself an extra month or two between visits. When I ran the math on my own book back in Nampa, charging the same rate for both meant I was basically giving away that extra grow out time for free. I started pricing balayage about 25 percent higher and nobody blinked, because the ones who get it already know they won't be back in my chair as often.