This thread made me think of something similar that happened a couple weeks ago.
Got a call about 3 in the afternoon, asking if I would be interested in bidding a project. Sure, I said. He asked for my fax number, saying everything I needed to know will be faxed to me.
About 5:30 that night, the fax finally starts. Talk about killing trees! I had to reload the fax with paper 3 times. FINALLY, at 6:15 it stops. 158 pages in all. Most totally unreadable. Obviously, some are scaled-down copies of the blueprints, but only the lines, circles, squares & rectangles can be recognized. I could not tell if I was looking at something 3x7" or the size of a football field.
Project is a new sewer treatment plant. I gathered rather quickly there were 44 pumps, each with a control panel. No specs on the panels, nor who was to supply them. There were a lot of detail pages concerning the pumps themselves, but the text became nothing but meaningless dots. Being unable to even read a scale, I didn't know if the project was 1 acre or 100.
I decided I would try to contact them the next day to inquire about obtaining a usable set of prints, until I read the cover sheet.
"Please have your estimate faxed to our office no later than 6:00 PM today."
I'm still trying to figure out why they even bothered to call me.
Got a call about 3 in the afternoon, asking if I would be interested in bidding a project. Sure, I said. He asked for my fax number, saying everything I needed to know will be faxed to me.
About 5:30 that night, the fax finally starts. Talk about killing trees! I had to reload the fax with paper 3 times. FINALLY, at 6:15 it stops. 158 pages in all. Most totally unreadable. Obviously, some are scaled-down copies of the blueprints, but only the lines, circles, squares & rectangles can be recognized. I could not tell if I was looking at something 3x7" or the size of a football field.
Project is a new sewer treatment plant. I gathered rather quickly there were 44 pumps, each with a control panel. No specs on the panels, nor who was to supply them. There were a lot of detail pages concerning the pumps themselves, but the text became nothing but meaningless dots. Being unable to even read a scale, I didn't know if the project was 1 acre or 100.
I decided I would try to contact them the next day to inquire about obtaining a usable set of prints, until I read the cover sheet.
"Please have your estimate faxed to our office no later than 6:00 PM today."
I'm still trying to figure out why they even bothered to call me.
