This seems pretty straightforward to me. You need to have whatever utility confirm or deny a pipeline is actually there and then have them mark the l...

@holy-cow They call them homestead entry surveys in Idaho and donation land claims in Oregon and Washington I believe.

All the world? That's a lot of interested parties.

Sounds pretty ocd to me. Unless you're dealing with some government blockhead then maybe it's acceptable. But you realize how silly of an exercise ...

Never heard of such a thing. I assume they mean railroad tie, so maybe it was simply a fence post that pre-dated the road.

Right, my point was there's nothing inherently bad about staking from a cad file. Like simply admitting I used the cad file isn't going to instantly ...

Yeah, it's not even possible to build the thing in the paper plans with just those plans. I have a project right now where the civil plans have eleva...

It seems the only way anyone would even know a surveyor used the cad file is if the surveyor told them. And what's the "proper" way to do it anyway?...

You've been burned in a lawsuit this way? I'd be curious where these paper plans came from if the cad file is not reliable. Are there still enginee...

I received an invite to bid on a small county project which is basically a sheet metal building with a small parking lot, so I clicked the link to dow...

@murphy I tend to agree, but linear feet of curb doesn't really tell me how many PCs and PTs are out there.

Probably right about that.

Expert in survey things, sure, not building things. I don't know why the GC is even there if they can't provide a scope. They should be responsible ...

@john-putnam Nice. I'm 2 for 2 this year on staking projects. I don't count the T&M ones since my estimating effort matched their scoping effort...

I've been going through the plans and picking out stuff that I think they will probably ask to have staked and then itemize that with a lump sum price...

That was my first inclination. I tried that with 1 or 2 projects and one estimator emailed back with "All I see here is a T&M price, can I get yo...

Sounds kind of like an aliquot part... it's whatever you say it is.

I don't think it really matters what we think. At some point you gotta make it worth your time and that's all there is to say about it. Like you sa...

Yeah, this guy probably should have just built it on the down low. This is what happens when you try to do things the right way. 😏