I first noticed this “Marking” practice by bricklayers.
As soon as the house is sheathed the bricklayers show up with the brick ties.
It may be weeks before the bricks arrive…but no time is wasted in placing those ties…… I think it is a sign for the other bricklayers to stay away.
I just recently got a drywall bid and noticed that the sub had already gone thru the house and written full instructions to his crew with a marker on the studs.
We had not even agreed on a price yet!
Is this a sign of confidence or a message?
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Perhaps you aren't aware that new housing starts are at a 27 year low. That means there are a lot of contractors doing things to eliminate competition. The techniques you've described are just a couple of them..
It's gonna get a whole lot worse in the near future..
Yea Frenchy,
I know about "the slowdown"....The subs are so eager they are showing up the day(or days) before scheduled. It is like "Extreme Homemakeover" every day.
Rain or shine....Subs on top of subs.
Jeeeze? Whatever happened to just peeing on the nearby fire hydrant?
I'm gonna move out there and become a brick layer.
I will be able to under bid every body cuz I wont have to buy or install ties!!
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Bach when I did a lot of sideing we called this spiking the house.
Put up tyvek and corners, and left. Of course this was with abuilder who scheduled everything and then ignored. First one there got the job!
A few years ago I had a drywaller who dropped off scaffolding in the front yard when he came to bid the job. He didn't end up getting it, and the scaffold lay there gathering weeds for several months. One night, just days before the house was to go on the market, he called me up and started going on about how it all better still be there, and the other drywaller better not have taken any. Like I was supposed to babysit it for some reason. Turns out his wife had left him and he was just starting an alcohol binge he just this winter putted out of. We nod to each other in the hardware store now.
On commercial jobs it is the T-bar guys. They come in and shoot thei friggin' wires hanging down to about 5'10" for everyone to get poked with.
Maybe not for other ceiling guys, but to let the other trades know they are not far off.
Mike
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