Quality In Excavation

denick

What sets the standard for those of us that are in the site work trades? Do you measure your quality in some way? Is it someone else that sets the standard for us?

Nick

jmic

Nick,
I've done foundation work and Framing for years. I set my quality of how I leave job sites by how I use to like getting them when I came after the excavator. Cellar holes nice and level, plenty of room to work in the hole ( over dig ) And I backfill them and grade around the way I use to like to go to a site to frame, when you can walk around the foundation without breaking a leg or your neck.

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rino1494

Just like Joe said. I measure it by the way I would want the job done. I am not leaving until the job is perfect.

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TMatt142

I agree....I'm fairly new to site work but I hate leaving messes. I always make sure every spoil pile is outside the immediate building site, and if it is a fair amount I knock it down, smooth it out (tire packing it at the same time) so that it doesn't end up as a pile of muck after the rains hit. That's the main thing...Make sure water will run away from the building before I leave. It's not fun pulling lifts out after a hard rain.

PipeGuy

I measure quality by the extent to which:
1. workmanship, materials and productivity levels satisfy the contract specifications and
2. actual job costs reconcile with those estimated

I really don't care about much else. If a customer isn't happy with work that satisfies the specs, I don't want him as a customer. And if work satisfies the specs but doesn't meet profitability expectations, I don't consider it 'quality work'.

denick

What do you think the public ( customers ) percieve as quality in our work?


Nick

PipeGuy

My customers want the job finished on time and budget with as little dedication of their project management resources and disruption to the activities of their 'critical' trades as possible-it's that simple.