Read the Room

“I don’t know what the problem is” is a valid starting state — arguably the most honest one. This route asks for nothing but what you can observe today, and refuses to force a diagnosis from a photograph or a feeling.

Want the fuller framework instead? Room Reading walks the same territory in more depth.

Record four things

The room’s actual job — not its name on the floor plan, but what it does most hours of the week. The workaround you repeat without noticing anymore. The busiest use period, because that is when the room tells the truth. And one measurement you have never taken but suspect matters.

Then follow the sequence

Name the symptom without assuming its cause. Gather only the evidence that changes a decision, and preserve every important unknown. Test one ordinary, low-risk variable reversibly and watch a normal use cycle. Then keep it, refine it, reverse it — or stop, if the issue crosses into territory that belongs to a qualified professional.

When the four things are recorded, open Room Pulse in the next tab and let it take the case from there, or let a Field Kit hold it on paper.