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Appreciation post: The electrician who called me out on my own job site
I was pouring a sidewalk for a new house outside of Nashville about 3 months ago. The electrician showed up to stub out some conduit and saw I had already set my forms without checking his layout. He walked right up and said 'you're pouring over my rough-in marks, Diana.' I stood there for a second feeling real stupid because I always tell my crew to wait for the trades to finish first. But I had this itch to get ahead of schedule and I ignored my own rule. We had to chip out a 2 foot section of wet concrete and re-form it while he waited. Cost me an extra 200 bucks in labor and materials just because I couldn't slow down. Has anyone else had to eat a mistake like that because you were too focused on your own timeline?
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wyatt_mitchell263d agoRising Star
@janah83 totally nailed it with that pride tax comment. What helped me was setting a hard rule to walk the whole site and check with every trade before I even unload my forms, no matter how far behind schedule I feel.
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the_simon3d ago
Yeah that "pride tax" thing hits home. I used to skip walking the site because I figured I could catch issues later. Then I had to redo an entire row of electrical because the framers moved a wall 4 inches on me. Saw it on the prints but didn't check til after I pulled the wire. Cost me a whole Saturday. Walking the whole site first is exactly right.
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