Last Tuesday taught me a hard lesson about checking dimension callouts

I was working on a set of plans for a commercial building and skipped double checking the door schedule. Turned out the architect had a typo and listed 3070 doors instead of 3068. I had already cut three frames and ordered hardware before the foreman caught it. That mistake cost us about $200 in wasted material and half a day of rework. Now I make sure to compare the door schedule against the floor plan every time. Has anyone else had a similar issue with hidden errors in the specs?

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baker.christopher9d ago

A buck fifty and half a day? Man, I get that it stings but that's barely a speed bump on most commercial jobs. I've seen guys scrap a whole pallet of roof trusses because the engineer's loading calcs were off by half a foot. Now that's a real oops. I'd say you got off easy with just having to rehang a couple frames and swap some hinges.

carr.abby9d ago

Baker.christopher ever hung a door upside down? Took me three tries to own up to it.

davis.olivia9d ago

$150 is still $150 out of pocket though.