Cheap insurance

[lndbtchr]

The following popped into my mind the other day, you may or may not find it profound.

Years ago a constuction copany client called me to stake a dwy cut in existing curb between two buildings, the dwy was centered on the PL.
It seemed simple enough and was only 2 or 3 miles from the office. I got a tract map, the prop lines were marked on the curb and we checked both directions to the next PL for varification and marked the dwy cuts.
I asked the estimator at the const co why he bothered having us mark the dwy, esp since he knew the PL's were marked on the curb. His reply was a wake up call "Having you stake the dwy is cheap insurance."
From then on I did not look at jobs as time, I now consider libility when proposing any prospective job. Especially lot sureys when the homeowner says "my neighbor and I can't agree on the location of the PL".
And I am sure every surveyor has heard the sub contractor say "we built it per the surveyors stakes" which he conviently destroyed.
Bottom line we are cheap insurance.

[GregCVS]

That's a good reminder to save those job folders for a few years after the stakes are set. I like to keep a printout of the ASCI file, the associated cut sheet, and the grading plan.

Which reminds me...

How many times have you been handed a set of plans that have stamped on them "Conceptual" or "For Preliminary Design" and then the biggie..."NOT FOR CONSTRUCTION"?

What good is it to have those anywhere near the jobsite?