Problems with other trades

[littlespark]

Same job. different problem.
The heating system was being changed from a system boiler and tank to a combi. I have asked since day 1 what was needed at the boiler, which cables needed to stay and what could be removed.
Never got an answer, so I left everything.
The heating engineers turned up - (big national with the initials BG) - in 3 separate vans, 2 weeks later than they first said, and got to work.
After the plastering had been done.
I wasn't on site that day, got back to all cables pulled out, and surface trunking running a feed to the boiler.

They left the homeowners tank and bags of scrap copper on his lawn. It stayed there for 3 days. I texted the homeowner and mentioned it. He asks;- "Could you take it to the scrappies, and we'll go halfers?"
The guy is very proud of his lawn and thought the tank sitting would kill off the grass. I was only too happy to oblige

 

[Midwest]

They left the homeowners tank and bags of scrap copper on his lawn. It stayed there for 3 days. I texted the homeowner and mentioned it. He asks;- "Could you take it to the scrappies, and we'll go halfers?"
The guy is very proud of his lawn and thought the tank sitting would kill off the grass. I was only too happy to oblige

Hope you have a suitable waste carriers licence?

 

[Pete999]

I could be totaly wrong in my asumption, but here goes, I personally think that projects these days are far to disjointed, building/construction trades a brought into a project to do certain job, example, say to put down a timber floor be it floor boards or sheeting, that's all they are hired to do, so they get on with it, bish bash, good job done regardless of who or what other trade may have wanted to install under that particular floor, thats what they were paid to do, they haven't been involved in the project planning, probably don't even know what the project is, all they are interested in is laying that floor and off to the next job. I believe most of the "other trades" are genuine in what they do, of course there will always be the complete arrogant dipsticks, in all trades.
The main problem, I think is down to presure, get the job done or we will incur penalties, this proble lies, I think with "Project Mnagers" who just don't understand how projects are supposed to work, projects are supposed to run smoothly, and we all know they never do because of poor Project Management, no matter how large or small, I have worket with some complete idiot PMs, and on some occasions, when the PM has had to meet with someone considered to be important, and has gone AWOL, I have had to act as a psudeo PM just to ensure I could get my part of the work done. Sorry for the long winded rant,

 

[Intoelectrics]

As Pete says,
Especially on construction sites each trade is under pressure and screwed down on price to get their part of the job done a quick and cheap as possible. A consequence of this is that they end up with the attitude "its not my problem".
Its a common theme, electricians drilling holes where pipes need to go, plumbers running pipes where cables need to go, plasterers boarding over everything...

I went into one job once where the joiner had boxed in some pipes and cables leaving no access to an isolator switch and isolating ball valve. The boxing in was extremely uneven so the tiler was moaning about getting his tiling straight, the tiler tiled over a waste drain outlet, so the plumber was moaning about that...

All this because no one could be bothered to communicate or couldn't afford the time to wait.