How jaded are you?
How jaded are you?
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What is your first reaction when a contractor calls the project owner to voice his opinion that the third party inspector hired by hte owner is on the job site too much?
When was the last time you drove down the highway without seeing a commercial truck hauling goods?
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RE: How jaded are you?
But the Owner might think am I paying for services I don't really need.
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VOD
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1.) The contractor is unhappy the inspecor is making him do what he ought to do. Althouh unfortunate, thhis is why you have the inspector.
Some valid contractor concerns are:
2.) Deficencies should be reported to the contractor's engineer or superintendent. Find out who the inspector should report to. I have had inspectors direct crews to redo something they did not like that had been directed by the owner with a revision to be issued. On the other hand, I have had inspectors observe deficiencies, write them in their report, submit them to the owner and 2 weeks later I get a nonconfomance report. Now it takes a day or two to fix something that would have taken 15 min. If the inspector had told someone. Proper communication n a job is very important.
3.) Some inspectors do not have a good feel for what is important. We have been directed to adjust rebars for footings to the nearest 1/8 inch and have had work stopped because 2 inches of splice length were not attianable, yet been directed to pour 15 cyds of slab in 14 degree and falling temperature.
4.) Then there are te inspectors that do a good job of inspecting, but just like to talk all day. If he is constantly talking about his last fishing trip with someone on the crew, the contractor may not appreciate it.
I guess my point is that there is always a second side to every issue, and the contractor may have a valid concern.
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Second is the inspector is not knowledgeable, but thinks he/she is, and is causing a lot of problems due to his or her ignorance and haughty attitude. I've had this happen before. The contractor was doing things as directed but the inspector didn't understand and had attitude about it and was creating a lot of extra work (unnecessary) both for my company and the contractor in addition to creating issues with the owner.
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Don Phillips
http://worthingtonengineering.com
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