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Originally Posted by Azure
It makes a HUGE difference. I would go even further and get involved outside of the home build. DEMAND to sit down with your cabinet manufacturer, electrician, flooring guy, etc, etc. Get THEIR perspective on the work they are doing for you.
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This is just hilarious. DEMAND to talk to the cabinet guy? The electrician? The tile guy? Hahahahaha. So all of these companies are supposed to send their installers to a meet n'greet with every home owner? And when are we scheduling this for, Mr. Jones? Oh, on Saturday? Ok, we'll work all week installing tile, and then spend our weekends having nice little meetings where we tell them what ratio the grout mixture is going to be, and what type of silicone gun is gonna be used to seal the kitchen splash.
Are you even listening to yourself? You're a cabinet guy and you actually want to meet every home owner? That's hundreds of houses per year! When will you have time for this?
Isn't your job to get dimensions from the builder, then manufacture and install? And if something is wrong, you look at what the builder sent you, then look at what is installed, and whose ever fault it is, pays for it. Pretty easy. No need to scare the homeowner into thinking that their house is going to catch fire because the cabinets are wrong. Seriously. WTF are you talking about?
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Originally Posted by Azure
Like I said, the biggest issues are the builders, i.e. the project manager, and whoever is in charge of the design. Neither of these people are actually doing the work, and therefore have pretty much no clue what is going on. I can guarantee you if you go directly the the cabinet manufacturer while he is in the process of building your cabinets, and work with him on a week to week basis regarding what your wants are, everything will go so much better. Hell, ask to talk to whoever is installing the cabinets. Ask him how it will work best for them. Our installers hate to work in a house that is being painted in the other rooms for obvious reasons. The project manager has no bloody clue about this because he's not actually doing the work. Things like that make a difference in the long run.
That is talking from experience.
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The project manager (or site supe) should know exactly what's going on. I know what's going on in every one of my sites every single day. Every site, every day. Each one. All of them. Every trade at every site. Every day.
It's called a schedule. Pretty simple stuff. It seems like you think that cabinets are the pivotal point of home construction, but it's just another 2-5 days in the schedule. And whatever you fellas do wrong, I will probably catch before walkthrough. And if not, then the homeowner will, and you will send your service guy over within a day or two to fix it. At least my cabinet guys do. No problems over here. And not one homeowner had to sacrifice an extra minute of their time to sit down with a tradesman that values his or her time just as much. That's what the selection center is for. The homeowner makes their selections, and we build it. Very.Simple.