Re: Circuitously Related

[ABLE1 <somewhere@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/3/2020 9:18 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
> On Saturday, August 1, 2020 at 4:04:28 PM UTC-4, ABLE1 wrote:
>
>>>
>>>
>>> My worst one (the reason I own the 1" spline drive rotary hammer) was a
>>> vertical through a floor in an old post office building.  Almost 3 feet
>>> of structural concrete that was well aged.  (Built around 1920 I think.)
>>> We found a smaller 3/8 or 1/2 (I forget) that was long enough to drill
>>> all the way through, (just barely) with the Makita SDS+ drive, but
>>> nothing big enough for SDS so we went to the 1" spline drive and punched
>>> 1-1/2" holes.  We would use the SDS to punch a pilot all the way
>>> through, then drill from both sides with the spline drive to make the
>>> holes big enough for our wire bundles.  Took 3 days to make 4 holes.
>>>
>>> I remember that job very well.  F-ing electrician stole all my conduit.
>>
>>
>> Shoot the electrician!!!  Not that bad here.  Had a electrician use my
>> holes for his romex runs in a new construction job a number of years
>> back.  Said my piece with the GC.  Electrician pulled and re-ran his
>> wires.  The sad part was that I had a couple of Low Voltage wires
>> already in those holes.  Fortunately there were no wire burns on the
>> sheath.   It really is sad when you think about the extra work that
>> is needed to get the the job done right!!
>
> Jeeeze. You guys are a lot nicer than I am.
>
> Just as a precursor to these stories, I must say that I am always aware of how my work may interfere with other contractors and go out of my way to contact them before proceeding if I don't see a workaround to a conflict of use of space, time or whatever. Occasionally other contractors do not reciprocate.
>
> Through the years I've had various occasions to have inconsiderate or downright nasty contractors invade my space. Most memorable ......
>
> A doctor that had been my customer for many years was moving to a new building and wanted me to install a new alarm system. Since he was moving some of his equipment in while renovations were going on he wanted the alarm system in early and he would come and arm and disarm the system for contractors as they appeared on the job. There was a space downstairs beside the basement stairway where I mounted a piece of plywood for the alarm panel. The alarm system worked well until after they moved in. A few months later they had a problem and called me for a service call to change the entry and exit doors so employees could come and go through the back door instead of having to walk through the waiting room. Had to run new wire so I go down to the basement and where my alarm panel had been mounted now was the telephone system KSU. MY alarm panel had been removed from the board and was hanging by a nail from a ceiling rafter. Still working, of course.
>
> Hmmmmmm!............... Aghhhhhhhh!
>
> So, ........
> I had another piece of plywood in the van and was able to manipulate the cable from the alarm panel so that it looked  pretty ok but not the way I would usually find acceptable. But certainly not the way it was originally. My first impulse was to go up and report what had happened to the doctor but  I realized that the event would have very little significance to him. I ran the new wire for the new entry exit door and got the system working the way he wanted it.
>
> THEN :
> I went out to the van got a piece of scrap metal and my hacksaw. I put a rag on the ground and proceeded to cut a number of cuts in the scrap metal. I gathered up the cuttings and the very last thing I did before I quickly left the building was to go down to the KSU and sprinkle the iron filings liberally over the PCB's.
>
> BOY THESE ELECTRONIC SYSTEM --- YA JUS NEVER KNOW WHAT KIND OF PROBLEMS YER GONNA HAVE WITH THEM ...... RIGHT?
>
> I didn't have to go back for a long time so I don't know what happened.
>
> Another time had to do with a plumber who burned the insulation off of all the wires in a sizable cable run when he was sweating a copper pipe in the basement. Again, I didn't say anything to the GC for what could he have done about it? The result was me drilling a series of 1/16 inch holes drilled randomly in the main PVC waste pipes and in the second floor PVC from the shower and toilet. I drilled in the top sides and bottom so that it didn't appear to be vandalism / intentional. And not a lot of holes but some strategically so they were aimed at the drywall ceilings and walls.
>
> i GUESS IT MUSTA BEEN A DEFECT IN THE PIPE FROM THE MANUFACTURER that caused him to have to open the sheet rock and replace all the PVC because he had no idea which pipe was good or bad. Other than his transgression to my wires he must have been a good plumber because he had the foresight to test the system before the construction was totally completed. Lucky him.  It was really, really sad to see all the extra work he had to do. Tsk, tsk. But it was MUCH MUCH longer than it took me to cut and splice all the burnt wires.
>
> There have been others events but those are the two most memorable.
>
> I'm sure they never knew their misfortune was because of their inconsiderateness or carelessness
>
> But I did.
>
> Don't f&8# with the alarm guy.
>

That is very nasty!!

I have added my time spent to either a change order
or a future service call to offset the extra time
spent if I couldn't get those that screwed up my work
make it right.

I may have consider or dreamed about your method
but would never have gone that far.

I assume that the Statute of Limitations have expired??

Lee