scoobdog

Is that $900 a week?

Cool.

Were you also juggling chainsaws?

White

"Tubthumping?"

Chekov's gun.

Like from a security camera or something?

A real life murder mystery.

Huh. My mom mentioned that. I guess she was watching Arthur today.

Always wondered how one does that.

It's not a mistake until you "accidentally" look up Princess Peach plant vore.

And the fact that the price of Apple products that are already on the downswing bumping up....

That's Ok. We all know.

Nothing wrong with that. You gotta hold these guys to deadlines or they will find a way to put your project on the back burner while they finish someone else's project. What will help a lot is if you start having on-site meeting on a weekly basis and make them mandatory for the subs that are on-site or setting up to be on-site.

Not much. It's a little more user friendly, but it's still time consuming.

Is there a reason for such a tight timeline?

That's why Project exists. Do you insist on on-site meeting with your subs weekly?

Baby steps. You don't want to end up being stressed about things you can't control.

One other thing is that, in the process of becoming proficient in Project, I had to learn how to create "predecessors." Without getting too technical, the program uses links between line items to determine when a new task starts, and, in creating a schedule, I have to think of sequencing not in terms of dates but in terms of when a task starts in relation to its parent. Even if you're not programming a schedule like I am, thinking of tasks in terms of parent-to-offspring instead of as deadline-to-deadline is far more manageable.

Eh, it's all good. I'm just mentioning it because you were talking about how overwhelming the process was. Even with my Project schedules, which tend to be pretty detailed, subs rarely follow the schedule I send to them. Having the visual forces them to be at least somewhat honest, but, more importantly, the visual allows me to better look ahead to see potential adjustments if one trade goes long or doesn't start on time. Doing that makes the whole thing more manageable.

I figured you had a schedule, but what I'm talking about is an actual written timeline - preferably one on a blank calendar so you can visually see the dates. If you give them just dates, subs will almost always agree to meeting a deadline. The problems come in with how they go about meeting it.

You just gotta put a little more prep work in. Have you created a schedule? I mean, you wouldn't need anything professional like Microsoft Project, but writing down a schedule and making sure all of your subs have it is usually the first step because that's where you start dealing with lead times for material and coordinating utilities with the city.

I'm assuming your doing all this work as owner/builder and not through a general contractor.

He's not even embellishing - he's just flat out wrong. Maybe he needs to teach his 12-year-old chinese sex slave how to read english better.