Job Scheduling - Where is the Crew?

A majority of potential clients are concerned about safety and understand the importance of permits. They also want to understand how scheduling is handled with regard to when workers will be in their home.

Back in the old days when many carpenters didn’t care about permits or inspections they could start a job and work on that job every day until it was completed.

Since they didn’t acquire permits, they didn’t seem to need licensed tradespeople. The carpenter would install all the plumbing, electrics, tile, sheetrock and paint. This could save the carpenter a lot of time by not worrying about scheduling trade subcontractors or meeting code standards.

Some of the problems the one man shop caused were quality & safety issues.

The lack of a permit eliminated the need to pause work for the 2 or 3 inspection milestones that would need to happen before continuing. Now when a permit is pulled on a professional job, we are normally not allowed to install insulation while waiting around for the inspector because this would cover some of the work they are looking at.

We need to schedule in lag time which is breathing room for each trade. One potential disaster is a job not being ready for a particular trade on the day we say we are. If we attempt to schedule all the trades back to back with not enough time in between for small surprises, then we will be scheduled to the back of the line, thus causing further delays on the project.

What does all this mean to the client? This means that there will be days that no one is working in your home.
Do not despair!
Usually something is still happening behind the scenes with the tremendous amount of support from our trade partners and the ENVI office.

The value of increased safety and planning are worth the extra time needed to properly complete a quality job.