What was different was that this particular home sat 10m from the waterfront, in air carrying salt from the Strait of Singapore, and that changed what the material could reasonably be expected to do. It was the first time I understood that location, not just specification, was part of the brief.
The first time I replaced a stainless steel gate in Sentosa less than six months after it was installed, my client assumed it was a workmanship problem.
It was not. The gate was correctly made, correctly installed and specified in grade 304, a standard I had previously used across dozens of projects without incident.
