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Thursday, June 15, 2006

contractortecture

so went for a site a visit the other day to check out conditions that are being built on site because there were some discrepancies brought up when we went to the city. the contractor was saying one thing and our drawings were saying another.

so i got there and what do you know, what was being built did not match what we shown on our drawings. the tunnel corridor was built differently, doors were flipped around, i found a mop sink and a storage room that was built but not drawn on our drawings, and etc. etc. etc.

i believe this calls for a new term....

contractortecture- the art of building what is not shown on drawings. i.e. building crap and making changes that the architect is not aware of, but thinks it's okay, but really it isn't due to codes and other issues, but builds anyways only to find out later that it can't be built because the city rejects it but it's already built so i'll buddy up with the inspector and get him drunk before his inspection so that what is not suppose to be built is okay to build because it's built anyways...uh yeah.

i'm going to do my timecard now.

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