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Residential shop drawings or shopping list

Residential shop drawings or shopping list

Residential shop drawings or shopping list

(OP)
I'm being asked for a "complete schedule of the hangers, brackets and fasteners" for a job we recently completed. This is the third time in as many months that I've been asked for something I have always believed to be the contractor's responsibility. This is one of the things that shop drawings are prepared to create.

Have I missed something? Is this becoming the new normal? Are contractors simply trying to pass the buck/cut back on their workload?

Most importantly: How would you guys and gals handle these requests? I have the feeling that to do it once is going to set a precedent... I'm happy to charge for the service, but it is not the Owner asking. The previous two occasions I turned the request over to the Owner, but I don't want to cause alienation with a client... *sigh*

RE: Residential shop drawings or shopping list

Thats a contractor responsibility, unless he pays for it. Are you going to be responsible if your count is wrong?

Whats next, how many 2x4's do I need, and schedule of length.

Push back, get more money to do it.

RE: Residential shop drawings or shopping list

that is ridiculous.

RE: Residential shop drawings or shopping list

(OP)
Ridiculous or not, third time sent me to Eng-Tips to see if anyone else was getting these requests... Haven't honoured one yet, and don't intend to without being paid commensurately.

RE: Residential shop drawings or shopping list

We were asked to do something similar, but on a large multi-unit building. The contractor asked, and the owner didn't want to pay for us to do it, so we said no. The contractor later bitched because he was off by about 30%. The owner then granted his change order request for reasons I can't fathom since it was all on the drawings, he just counted wrong.

RE: Residential shop drawings or shopping list

I have never got that request nor would I even consider that request.
Nail counts next?

RE: Residential shop drawings or shopping list

(OP)
Frankly the request could already be interpreted as asking for the nail count... "and fasteners" was included in the language. *sigh*

RE: Residential shop drawings or shopping list

You Canadian's are too polite. You know you are going to do it in the end.

RE: Residential shop drawings or shopping list

(OP)
Polite doesn't enter into it... This is business. Someone pays me an appropriate amount, sure, otherwise No.

RE: Residential shop drawings or shopping list

We've never had to do a bill of materials for a project with the exception of bridges.
In the US, the state DOT's typically require a complete list of materials on their bridge plans.
With building-type work however, we've never done anything like that.

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