Fred B
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- Upstate, NY
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- Electrician
You guys actually get called in before the shell building complete? Or even the concrete pour done? I haven't.
Dang steel guys!
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I have had jobs where we spent months on the slab before the pour. Commercial kitchens, hospitals, schools, gyms, retail stores, etc..., have a lot of wiring in the floor.
hillbilly1
Senior Member
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- North Georgia mountains
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- Owner/electrical contractor
That’s why I have the concrete guys stub up a piece of rebar, they don’t have to wait on me to come out and tie copper before they pour. On the last couple of buildings, I make sure the owner verifies it before they pour since he is on site at the old building. They were putting up steel when he noticed it was gone. It wasn’t in the way of the steel guys, they were just lazy, and didn’t want to lift the bottom track up and over it.
kwired
Electron manager
- Location
- NE Nebraska
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- EC
Many the concrete guys around here paint the stub out orange. Not that the steel guys would know what that might mean other than they made it "high vis" for some reason.
kwired
Electron manager
- Location
- NE Nebraska
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- EC
Occasionally I get first contact to a job after concrete has been done. Those may or may not have something stubbed out. Inspectors still enforce code and you still need a CEE connection unless you can convince them there is no qualifying CEE present, but that almost never is the case.
Otherwise it is best to inform the general or if not a general the owner that you need to get a connection to the footing and need to know when footing guys are there so you can coordinate with them on it. If you don't get in touch with them, some of them are well aware you need this anyway and will stub a piece out wherever they think the service will be. Sometimes they are wrong and you need to make a much longer run to it than had you at least told them where you want it.
Tulsa Electrician
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- Tulsa
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- Electrician
How is this our issue as electricians
They messed it up they fix it.
Put wire where it goes and wait for hook up.
Sounds like a change order to me.
We need to quite being yes men. GC needs to resolve. No wonder estimates/ p.m. get so mad at the formen.
I get the orange though.
They messed it up they fix it.
Put wire where it goes and wait for hook up.
Sounds like a change order to me.
We need to quite being yes men. GC needs to resolve. No wonder estimates/ p.m. get so mad at the formen.
We use green paint no high leg.
I get the orange though.
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