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Why does nobody talk about how often specs change after we break ground?
It feels like every week there's a new drawing from the architect. We're constantly redoing things, and it's burning out the whole team. Last month, we had to tear out a finished wall because someone upstairs changed their mind.
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caseym752mo ago
Come on now, is this your first project? Changes happen all the time, it's just part of building stuff. You get a new drawing for a light switch location or a different pipe size, you deal with it. Sure, tearing out a whole wall sucks, but that's pretty rare. Most of the time you're just tweaking things, not starting over.
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jake3772mo ago
Remember when I thought change orders were just small stuff? I had to repour a concrete slab because the load specs changed after inspection. Another time we cut and rewelded structural steel for a last minute equipment swap. These aren't tweaks, they're major redos that blow the schedule and budget every single time.
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alexthompson1mo ago
So when you say they blow the schedule every time, is that because the change itself is huge, or because the timing of when they tell you is so late? Like, is the real problem that these aren't small changes, or that they're big changes dropped on you after you already built the thing?
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