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after halloween, i took three days off. thanksgiving, christmas, and new years days.....
any questions?
I think what we are asking is how they let you hold up the job while you did this nice work.
Done, Done, Finished!!!!
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I think what we are asking is how they let you hold up the job while you did this nice work.
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It must be a regional thing, we do lots of highly speced jobs and not once have I seen that wrap other than on the forums.
Fulthrotl
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nothing magic about that number... it just sets an intention,
and tends to set in motion trains of circumstances that lead
to a situation. you still have to do the work.
And now that it is over, I bet you just can't wait to go
through the whole routine again on the next job!
Plan to take Fourth of July off, please.
i'll schedule it... thanks for the reminder.:happyyes:
this was more work than i'd planned for,
the original bid was $53k, it's doubled that,
and there is quite a bit more coming down the
pipe, spanning the next 5 years.
originally i had 650 hours on the bid sheet, spread over 4 months.
there were problems with plan check, and the job was held up
three months... then it started with a bang... the first week was
doing the slab, i had 103 hours in seven days. the nonstop 4 months
was trying to keep up with other work, so your other ongoing
customers stay customers.
i and the GC were talking, and it took me a LOT longer than
i figured to drill and flex the walls. as bad as it was to drill and flex,
framing it was worse. the thing honestly had 3X the timber in it
of anything i've ever seen.
don't be snarky. i didn't hold up anything. all that cat 6 was sorted on a
weekend, mostly. the critical path impediment on this job has been
held by the sprinkler fitter since day one. i had my rough wall inspection
BEFORE the city finally issued an approved set of sprinkler drawings,
and a permit for the sprinkie. and the AHJ wouldn't allow insulation or
one siding anything, until the sprinkie had his pressure test. and you
can't get a pressure test, without a permit.
as for the woodwork, that wasn't in the scope of the project, and i
didn't get it as an extra... i tossed it in as a freebie. the customer
has been excellent to do business with. the general provided the
material, and i built it sunday... honestly, i just wanted it to look
nice, and i'd put enough into the bid to afford to do it.
It must be a regional thing, we do lots of highly speced jobs and not once have I seen that wrap other than on the forums.
lots of socal has very acid soil. every city around here requires taping.
huntington beach requires stainless steel ground rods.
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There was NOTHING 'snarky' about my comment.
Around here, and I bet on most jobs there is no way in heck the job would wait for a one or two man crew to do all that under slab work. They would give us one or two days tops.
That is why I asked and I bet why others brought it up as well.
Fulthrotl
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i stand corrected... please strike snarky from my reply.
there was 6,000 ft. of 3/4" pvc in a 3,000 sq. ft. slab.
it was bad enough that i just edged the slab in 7/8"
strut 3" down in the pour, so all the stubs stayed
exactly where they needed to be, standing it off
the form with a 1/2" coupling, and 4" long bolts.
there was so much wood in the walls, and seismic
bolts, that the GC laid out every single piece of
timber, so we could miss them with the stubs and
his embedments.
he spent two days swearing at the prints, just laying
out wood in the perimeter walls. and he's smart.
i have never seen anything built like this, in 35 years.
in the real world, not this job, everything would have
gone overhead, in mc cable, and exposed cat 6 on hog
rings.
i'd a had a 3" feed to the panel, a 2" feed to the subpanel,
a 3" stub for the phone, a ufer and rebar ground, 9 homeruns
for the lighting and power, and that would have been it in the slab.
one days work.
the specs were a bit much on this one. ALL metal raceways
SHALL have ground bushings on both ends.
ever take a 4SD box, with a single gang ring, and try to
put FOUR ground bushings on the 1/2" conduits entering
the box?
that is why the whole thing was done in smurf tube.
you don't need a ground bushing on plastic pipe.
Cow
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I can see where Iwire is coming from. It seems like most of the time when I show up to do underground, before I even have the pipe unloaded they're asking when I can get an inspection. I think you did a damn nice job. I'm sure that's why your customers keep using you.
The only thing we do different for underslab work is to scratch our conduits into the ground so they aren't in the slab. Did they add gravel after you finished?
The only thing we do different for underslab work is to scratch our conduits into the ground so they aren't in the slab. Did they add gravel after you finished?
Fulthrotl
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they excavated 6' of overburden, put in a seismic mesh, then 2' of class 2 road base compacted,
then another mesh, then 2' of class 2 compacted, then 2' of class 2 compacted, then my conduits,
then visqueen, then 2" of sand, then visqueen, then 6" of 3,000 lb concrete.
all to support a single story frame structure, with 9' walls.
"did you use enough dynamite, butch?"
original specifications were a 1 1/4" conduit for each data & tele cable.
they relaxed that to 3/4", which allowed some concrete to actually
fit in the forms.
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