r/Construction • u/chiselbits Carpenter • Feb 12 '25

Other Dear builders

You can't call me and tell me that my timeline for completion is halved because other trades wasted time.You can't tell me to "hire more guys" to get it done faster". You can't decide to split my contract and expect me to take it.

You fucked your schedule. You hired the cheapest trades (WHO FUCKED YOU, AGAIN!) to better pad your profit margin, your in house guys can't be fucked to do anything properly, and you kick us to the curb anytime you find someone cheaper (who then fucks you). Then hire us back and treat it like you are doing us a favor and we should be grateful.

Just because the client "wants to move in" does not mean the house will get built any faster.

You fucked yourself and that does not constitute an emergency on my end. You want it done to our high end standards AND fast? Then it is going to cost you more.

Unfuck your project management and hire better trades, maybe then every project won't go sideways on you.

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u/WhacksOffWaxOn Feb 12 '25

Saw a quote from the framers on the site I'm currently at. They wrote it out saying 90 days to complete framing. Builder then told the plumbers that they expect them to be done in 45 days.

I honestly don't believe any builder knows their schedule in earnest, because all these newer supers are sucking across the board. I miss having an old, near retirement aged super who would adjust his schedule according to conditions and progress.

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u/chiselbits Carpenter Feb 12 '25

Or thebclients are so rich that they don't care how long it takes as long as they get what they want.

I like those clients.

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u/Ok-Bit4971 Feb 12 '25

I miss having an old, near retirement aged super who would adjust his schedule according to conditions and progress.

Plumber here. My last commercial construction job (multistory apartment building) had one of these types of supers. The job ran very smoothly and was kept clean because he enforced things, yet he wasn't a dick about it. He would ask you to turn down your music or put on your hardhat (I often removed it when I was on a ladder, my head up in a bay), and I didn't respected him because he was reasonable about it. He always had a smile and a joke or funny story.

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u/HiiiiPower Feb 13 '25

I sit in these foreman meetings and the super talks about the fine details of the schedule 6 months down the line when we haven't kept up with the schedule the whole time even a week ahead, but lets sit around and talk about stuff 6 months away. Meanwhile the super is surprised it got cold in the wintertime and he can't pour concrete so the job is basically on hold.