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Four daycare classrooms must be ready by Monday 7 a.m. Surfaces include patched walls, two accent colors, and oil-to-waterborne trim conversion. Critical path = activities + durations + dependencies + no-float chain The common shortcut is counting painter-hours only. That ignores patch dry time, primer bonding, trim cure, furniture reset, and customer color approval. List Activities Break the job into clear tasks: protect floors, move furniture, patch walls, dry, sand, prime patches, paint walls, degloss trim, bonding primer, enamel trim, dry, reset rooms, walkthrough. Activities must be specific enough to show what can overlap and what cannot. Add Durations Assign…

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