Do it yourself Contracting

It has become a very popular trend

The point I am making is that taking responsibility for this process can be very time consuming, and the thing to remember is that you must make yourself available often times on site during regular daytime hours when the process is underway.

In my section on Construction Schedule I give a pretty detailed run down of the stages that someone must oversee to assure that each process moves forward on schedule.

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You are acting as the general contractor on your project and your electrician or plumber are scheduled to work but can not because another sub contractor is still working in the same location or you did not have the supplies they where expecting you to arrange on site at the time agreed. Any situation where a professional subcontractor shows up to work as the schedule is agreed and they are not able to perform or work at that time due to a delay caused by others, they may choose to Back Charge the general for time lost on the job. So in order to avoid this, the general will spend a fair amount of time checking daily schedules to work with each subcontractor and make sure all time on site is productive time.

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First create a list similar to the one I have defined in construction schedule to suit your project and particularly inspection schedules and keep this list available at all times, use it to create and follow a work in progress schedule to coordinate with all involved running schedule changes.

Second, create a ready list of all sub contractors, inspectors,utility providers, and supplier phone numbers including mobile and secondary numbers if possible and keep this list with the first so you will have instant access to calling ahead of any schedule changes.

These two lists will prove invaluable to help avoid the change of a back charge situation.

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