Re: Why?

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's fun ain't it?!

I just finished working on a 15K sq ft (under roof) house with a buddy of
mine, they tried to pull the same crap on us..Do you know anyone would could
do a house that size with only a 3 day warning and the insulators on our
tail? No freekin way. Ya know they wouldn't pull this crap on any of the
other trades! I hate getting the bums rush on jobs.

Rise up mon! We gotta start walkin on this crap.



"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Russell Brill wrote:
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| > >
| > And they call us hacks.........
|
| I just ran into something similar but I was in a position to give them
| a little pay back.
|
| Months ago, before the renovation began, I told the home owners to tell
| the GC that I'd need at least 3 days and maybe 4, after the last
| contractor and before the insulation was installed, to do the prewire
| for whole house audio, with digital remotes, surround sound and full
| burg and fire. Homeower had been great in keeping me apprised of the
| progress of the contractors. Told me  when the new windows were
| installed, so I was able to do some drilling and other things, so I
| could get a jump ahead on the job. It was getting close for the last
| contractors, (the radiant heat guys), to finish up and then I could
| start the prewire. Three days before they finished, the home owner
| calls and says the GC has the insulators starting two days after the
| heating guys finish .... Is that enough time for you to prewire the
| house?   I said no. Homeowner tells the GC, he says he's got to get it
| insulated for inspection and if he doesn't do it then, they can't
| schedule another inspection for two weeks. I told them I'd do as much
| as I could before they insulated but that I'm not prewiring while the
| house is being insulated and I'll finish after they're done .... but
| I've got to remove the insulation where ever I've got to run my wires.
| GC said OK. I told home owner, I don't think it's going to be OK after
| he sees how much insulation I'm going to remove. They said ..... can't
| be helped.
|
| Well ....... lemme tell ya, you can't imagine how much insulation I had
| to pull out.
| I was pretty much alone while wiring and after the first day it didn't
| look like too much was being removed. By day 2 ........it was ALLLLLL
| over the place. And as you CAN imagine, I didn't use too much
| descretion in what had to be pulled and what didn't. I was very nice
| and stacked it in neat piles, so it wouldn't appear as if I was doing
| it out of spite. After I was finished, a couple of days afterwards, I
| got a call from the home owner with a message from the GC. He was
| wondering when I was going to come back and put back the insulation.
|
| Do I have to tell you how estatic I was  when I said to the home owner
| to tell the GC,  I told him not to insulate and he insisted he couldn't
| wait.  I'm sorry but I don't have the proper tools, staplers or
| experience to install insulation and I have no source to get
| replacement pieces that were torn. And I have no idea where each of the
| different size pieces would fit ..... anyway. Oh .... and by the way,
| have the GC call the insulators back in to foam up all the holes I
| drilled. ( In this area, the insulation companys are responsible for
| firestoping all the holes)
|
| I DO believe somone became a little educated on this job.
|