Loading…
7
My PM wanted me to eat the cost of 14 wrong light fixtures on the Franklin Ave job, and I said no
We were roughing in the second floor of a 12,000 sq ft office build over in Bakersfield when I noticed the fixture boxes we'd set were 8 inches off from the stamped ceiling plan. Turned out the PM had marked up an old revision and never sent us the update from the architect. He pulled me aside Friday afternoon and asked if my crew could just cut and patch the drywall around the cans to make it work, said the schedule wouldn't survive a reframe and the owner was already mad about the permit delays. I told him no, because on a commercial job you don't bury a layout mistake behind drywall and hope the inspector doesn't catch it, and I've seen guys get their license dinged for way less. We ended up submitting an RFI Monday morning, the architect owned the revision error, and the change order covered 14 new cans with me doing the patch work. Cost us four days but the electrical inspector walked it Tuesday without a single comment. I mean, I get that PMs are under pressure from owners, but the popular move on a lot of these jobs is just cover it up and keep moving, and I think that's how you end up with a callback six months later. Curious if other folks push back on their PM or just do what they're told and let someone else eat it down the road?
0 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In0 Comments
No comments yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this discussion.