We generally approach projects with humility just to be sure we don't get on the wrong side of the AHJ whom we will most likely be working with in the future, including the general contractors. We have had some of the contract documents state the items that have precedence but that is most often not the situation. Probably 90% or more documents have spec's. that are generic and just pulled off a shelf and stuck into the project and are loaded with lots of things that are not even closely related to the project at hand. We will RFI some things sometimes considering the impact but in this case I did not feel an RFI was needed but after the system was completed is when the architect wanted to go by the spec's. and not the drawings. It's not a big deal to make the alterations so we are going to roll over just to keep good relations but this instance did bring up the question of is it on paper or just understood when there is nothing noted in the spec's. or on the drawings stating the precedence without RFI'ing every item which may not agree with each other which in some cases be quite a lot. Doing that, I have found, can make me come across to the G.C. and engineer as being very picky which gives them the feeling that we are going to be hard to get along with. This I work hard to make sure doesn't happen unless there's a lot of money involved!
Thanks all for the input. Russell Rewis Brown Automatic Sprinklers, Inc. 107C Hemlock Street Valdosta, Georgia 31601 229-244-8130 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
