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Serious question, has anyone else had a plumber tell you your brickwork saved their job?
A plumber on a Reno job last Tuesday said the only reason his new pipe run was level was because my foundation course was dead straight, which made me wonder how often we set the stage for other trades without even knowing it.
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troy_king726mo ago
That's the hidden game of construction right there. We all build on the work of the guy before us, for better or worse. Makes you wonder how many other trades are silently thanking, or cursing, the work they walked onto. Guess a good foundation makes everyone look like a hero.
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johnson.spencer6mo ago
Honestly, it's not always the first guy on site though. Sometimes the plans themselves are the real problem, and everyone's just trying to make bad drawings work.
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cora8135mo ago
You ever see a set of plans where the architect clearly never visited the site? I'm talking about a beam drawn right through a staircase, or a pipe chase that disappears into a solid concrete wall. The field guys spend half their time just figuring out what the designer actually meant.
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skyler_patel6mo ago
Yeah, I read a whole article about that once (in one of those trade magazines at the dentist, of all places). It was all about how the first guy on site, usually the surveyor or the concrete crew, sets the tone for the whole project. If their work is off by even a little bit, that mistake gets passed down and made bigger by every single trade that comes after them. It's like a game of telephone, but with buildings. Makes you really respect the guys who get those first steps right, because they're quietly making everyone else's job possible.
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