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PSA: I ran every change order through email threads for 2 years and just figured out why my crew hated me
Three weeks ago a foreman on my 40 unit job in Tucson pulled me aside and asked why he never knew about a framing change until the day he had to build it. Everything was getting buried in a 200 message thread with the architect and I thought I was keeping a paper trail. Now I'm stuck between two camps: the old timers who say a printed CO book in the trailer is the only real record, and the app crowd who swear a shared log ends the whole problem. Which one actually held up for you when a sub tried to back charge you?
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wendyg4319d ago
That line about the foreman not knowing until the day he had to build it hit home for me. I had the same deal on a job in Phoenix, thread with 200 plus messages, and I thought I was covered because everything was in writing somewhere. Then a sub tried to back charge me for extra framing and I went digging through email to prove my side, and it took me half a day to find the one message that mattered. The old timer foreman was right, the printed CO book in the trailer saved me because the dates and signatures were all in one place and the sub could not argue with his own handwriting. The app crowd is not wrong either, but only if every single person actually logs it the same day. What held up for me in the end was printed copies signed at the time plus a simple log, not one or the other. The email thread just proved I sent things, not that anyone on the crew ever saw them.
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