residential vs ccommercial

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i recently received a promotion to from a commercial projects to residential projects New builds. The offer is to manage projects and crews. i currently do that now in commerical but i still have no experience with residential and work. i will rely on our seasoned journeymen already onsite. from what i do know about residential that it moves a lot faster than commercial. Is there any advise on running crews, managing projects, or anything i would need to know. I am very nervous and anxious but this is more of a career move than financial
 
Residential moves much faster than commercial, or the timing is more chaotic. There's more codes in residential. Is this all new construction or remodels/service work or a combination that also occasionally involves commercial?
 
Residential General Contractors will not generally operate with the same level of professionalism you would be accustomed to with commercial construction. There are thankfully exceptions to this however.
 
MBLES said:
i recently received a promotion to from a commercial projects to residential projects New builds. The offer is to manage projects and crews. i currently do that now in commerical but i still have no experience with residential and work. i will rely on our seasoned journeymen already onsite. from what i do know about residential that it moves a lot faster than commercial. Is there any advise on running crews, managing projects, or anything i would need to know. I am very nervous and anxious but this is more of a career move than financial
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Those seasoned journeyman need some resi experience or they are gonna have fits meeting the requirements in art. 210.
 
iwire said:
My experience has been the opposite.
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Timing more chaotic is more apt. Commercial work is more involved, more steady. Residential work, esp remodels, are wait wait wait GO! Also resi work is more chaotic b/c HOs will frequently add things ("while you are here..."), usually as you are packing up tools. Then there's the "I, oh forgot you were coming", which scales proportionately with the distance driven to said job. HOs acting as the GC are the worse.

Yeah, if you are upgrading a WaWa, they will have an 8hr slot for all trades to get done w/e they have to, but I'm talking new commercial vs new residential.
 
IMO, the major difference between the two is that residential tends to repeat the same types of installation over and over - lots of 120/240 single phase feeding pretty common devices. The term 'commercial' is very broad; as a result, you run into more different situations because of the wide variety of connected equipment. Just look at some of the questions under discussion on the forum right now!
 
JFletcher said:
Residential moves much faster than commercial, or the timing is more chaotic. There's more codes in residential. Is this all new construction or remodels/service work or a combination that also occasionally involves commercial?
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The residential projects are new construction. we apparenly are doing 30 new homes a month. Im not sure what to expect and hope i am ready.
 
Like I said, same things over and over. Once you get the sequence learned, hardest problem will be keeping enough people on the job to work at that pace.
 
Fnewman said:
Like I said, same things over and over. Once you get the sequence learned, hardest problem will be keeping enough people on the job to work at that pace.
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i agree... the people factor will be my biggest challenge. Thanks!
 
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