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Manage Extensive Project Expansion and Precision

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How Contractors screw sub contractors pt1

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very complicated by one little suggestion so let me just paint you the picture of what happened if you can see this retaining loss not a massive retaining wall and this retaining wall was supposed to start right about over there somewhere an end right about where we're at and that was it this was just going to be a nice little quick slam dunk get in get out down the road we built it and then the project supervisor that was overseeing the entire construction of the facility said hey we want to add on to the wall and I'm like hey I want more money let's agree to do this and so what you're gonna see is he added on to this wall all the way around the wall went from being 50 feet long to being over 400 feet long where it became a problem was the then asked me to tie them back together so we start at Point a and we bring the wall 400 feet out in a giant circle and loop it back in itself means that every single one of these blocks as we're basing it has to be laser graded we can't be off because what'll happen a lot of times when you're constructing a normal retaining wall and it's not unusual for it to climb or to dip a little bit and it's almost imperceptible except when it's got to touch back in and be very precise so we went ahead and did the work we wrapped it all the way around tied it into itself everything worked out great I rolled up the invoice it went from being like I don't know it's like it virtually ten thousand dollar wall to about a 40,000 dollar wall and the contractor office said what's with this $40,000 invoice this is well Pat your

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