When Construction Projects Go Wrong
When Construction Projects Go Wrong
Since that article I’ve had lots of interesting discussions about who is liable when construction projects go wrong. Have you ever had a situation where something goes terribly wrong, one that is caused by ……hmmmm……a phantom?
How about the story, I think in France, at some famous museum? I heard on the news a while ago. A contractor, assuming experienced, was hired to hang a famous piece of art on the wall. Those old buildings have thick walls, plaster, wire mesh. The only way to hang a picture was to drill in the wall. Through the wall the drill went, right through a Picasso (If i recall) on the other side.
How about when my buddy Dan finished a beautiful, hip, decorative concrete floor. At the end of the day Dan placed caution tape everywhere and DO NOT WALK signs in bright large letters where every one can see. Almost forgot the barriers that are about 4 feet high. Well, the next day there were these construction boot footprints right through the floor. Everyone knew who the jackass was but no one could prove it. So, when constructions projects go wrong, who is liable?
For those of you who visit Metrocrete we just had our own nasty experience, you may have noticed. We’re on a shared server and someone was doing something with their site to cause problems for everyone else. Metrocrete included. Our blog posts were not getting indexed, Metrocrete was live, then dead, then live. Google didn’t know what to think. Those Google robots aren’t trained to assess the situation, they don’t judge, they just leave. Freaking out and not understanding I tried to fix the problem but made it worse. Sorry everyone, now I know.
For my customers I owe you an extra optimized article.
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When construction projects go wrong it costs an innocent someone. Leave a comment and tell us what you think. Or, if you have a story to share let us know.
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Construction projects going wrong means wastage of time and money. Being a contractor, I prefer to follow the steps taken for completing big construction projects. The best resource from where I get details of major construction projects held in the past is Construction Wire (http://www.constructionwire.com/). If you want to get project reports of different construction assignments, consider this company. It’s highly recommended.
No bugs; but here’s one of my horror stories from years ago…
Commercial building going through major remodel; tranforming it from past use to new production facility. There were a couple of large/open opennings(approximately 3′x5′) leading to outdoors where fixtures/equipment were to be placed by other tradesmen upon completion of floor. 100% solids epoxy was applied over about 4,000 sq.ft. (completed toward end of day). Following morning came back and there were field mice everywhere whose feet were stuck in the epoxy (obviously they had come in during the night through these two large opennings. They were all alive, but feet were permanently adhered to the epoxy on the floor. All could think of to do was to conk dozens of them on the head to kill, pull their bodies with legs off the floor to be disposed of, which left their tiny feet imbedded in epoxy on floor. Sanded the floor to remove feet, then had to recoat the entire floor in order to obtain uniform/smooth appearance. Epoxies can stay tacky for 6-12 hours depending on air and substrate temperatures; leaving them more susceptible to bugs, mice, animals, and stupid people leaving their marks on them (ruining the finish); as well as dust, dirt, and other foreign matter getting entrapped in/or stuck to it … which is why over the past several years I prefer/promote and make every attempt possible to get Polyaspartic Aliphatic Polyureas PAP specified for use on all commercial/industrial facilites (as well as residential properties). Rapid cure out of PAP’s (typically a couple of hours), having abilty to cure out in temperatures as -30F have the ability to eliminate a lot of nightmares (of course unsurpassed wear/abrasion resistance and other physical properties of PAP’s also outlast, outperform, and outshine alternative types of sealers; being another major plus factor associated with them.