Good Help is Hard to Find

[garry1p]

During house construction a cement truck ran over and destroyed a section of concrete sidewalk, after calling the company to fix the sidewalk they pretty much blew my wife off after the third call, so she called the mayor gave them the concrete company name license number of the truck and date .
Three days later the company came out dug out the bad section and poured new concrete.
They had no intention of fixing the sidewalk and it was damaged bad enough to be a hazard.

 

[Jstpssng]

My father used contractors occasionally at the greenhouse when I was growing up. One he used most often was a guy named Dick Clifford.
When he had an addition built on the camp, I went with him after work to check on it and saw a board laying on the ground with a nail sticking out of it. He pointed to it and said "Dick Clifford never would have allowed that."
50+ years later I still remember that, and cringe when I see boards laying on the ground with nails sticking out.

 

[paulsharvey]

During house construction a cement truck ran over and destroyed a section of concrete sidewalk, after calling the company to fix the sidewalk they pretty much blew my wife off after the third call, so she called the mayor gave them the concrete company name license number of the truck and date .
Three days later the company came out dug out the bad section and poured new concrete.
They had no intention of fixing the sidewalk and it was damaged bad enough to be a hazard.

Without knowing a bit more, I would say it's the contractor, not the concrete company that should have replaced the sidewalk. Now, generally, the concrete trucks are directed, so that's why; However, there are always drivers that try to think for themselves, and that's probably what happened here?

 

[HawkinsHollow]

Slightly different view personally...big commercial builders have helpers (cheap new hires) to clean up...think Toll Bros.

Smaller custom builders have to do the clean-up themselves.

I just finished working with a local builder and his partner to construct our forever (at least while on earth) home.

Figured every minute I invested in cleaning and sweeping was one more minute they had to accomplish "real" work.

I actually ended up working with them side by side through the build.

There wasn't any pay or reduction in cost, but it created a lot of good will.

There's 10,000 minor decisions to be made as a house build progresses, and they were super flexible as we built, plus they went the extra mile to construct the house right.

Pretty sure if I had started out b-itching about them doing their own clean-up, there would have been zero interest in doing anything more than what was on the blueprints.

That is kind of where I am at with the entire situation. These subs have been working late, coming in on Saturdays and helping me out with changes and the 1000's of small decisions I have had to make. So I have not given them grief about not cleaning up after themselves. I feel the same way, if I was harping on them about cleaning up after themselves they could have been less understanding when we had a change. My post was more of a question than a gripe.