Contractor calls last week to schedule a form check for Thursday - tomorrow. (verify that a garage foundation forms are in the correct location before concrete)
I'm in the field this AM and my office manager (wife) calls me at 9:30am and tells me that the contractor wants to know if we can push the form check to today? As they are ahead of schedule.
I tell her that I have not yet received the construction plans.
Contractor tells her they are at the site.
I say OK, I'll stop by as soon as I can.
I arrive at 3:45pm to find that only one side of the foundation is partly in.
I ask to speak to the contractor.
Every person there "No Hablo"
I call contractor - Call goes to VM
I get back to office & get call from contractor, he wants a thumbs up on form location.
I tell him no can do.
I don't have plans & the forms were not in place @ 4:00
He goes nuts after I tell him that I'm going to charge him a trip charge for today.
He needs me onsite tomorrow am
Concrete trucks scheduled to be onsite @6:30
Sunrise tomorrow is 6:25
I can guarantee you the one place I most definitely would not be at 6:30 a.m. tomorrow. And he can kiss my gluteus maximus. Jerks like that stay jerks so long as they can find someone to bend over and take it.
I ended up paying a $8000 claim because I did a rush job like that. Set a car wash canopy 5 feet off. Wasn't discovered until they had it built. Nope, if they don't give you the proper time, don't do them any favors. Nobody else on the project even checked with a tape.
On many pours they leave an end open in the forms for the truck to enter and close it in with a precut form at the last minute.
Had the form inspection been so important, the site manager or person in charge would have never left the job site.
I would have fired him as soon as he went ballistic.
Fun! Doing inspection I;ve found the 'rush' jobs often end up being rushed because things aren't quite right, and by having you and the concrete trucks there together maybe you'll overlook some things....
HAHA NOPE! FIX IT!
Don't you just love it!!!!!!
What's that old saying?
Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Something like that.
I tell folks when they put me in a bind like that, 'Look, I'm a surveyor, not a magician. Maybe you need to hire David Copperfield'.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
Tom
Also see the "Law of the seven P's"
Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Projects!
B-)
Loyal
Dang....what a surveyor. David Copperfield always say "hey I'm only a magician, not a surveyor...."
I'm hoping someone will tell that old "Helen Waite" joke...
I believe it was Helen Hunt
That is one of the reasons why we never ever work for a contractor. We stake our own engineering designs under contract with the owner. It works out much better that way.
Survey Specific
Piss Poor Planning Prevents Perfect Partychief Performance