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My super at the Riverside job said we should pad the schedule by 3 weeks just in case, and I think he's wrong
We were standing in the trailer after a rough pour day, and he said the owner's rep "respects a schedule that has room to breathe." I get why people do it. Weather happens, subs flake, inspections get pushed. But padding time you don't actually need just teaches everyone to coast. Our framing crew already slows down when they know there's slack. I've watched it on the last two jobs. If you build in fake float, the real problems still show up, you just find out later when there's no room left to fix them. Anyone here actually had a padded schedule save a job, or does it just move the crunch to the end?
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brianm6626d ago
That "room to breathe" line is the tell. Every padded schedule I've seen just moved the pain to the last month, and the subs who coasted early were the same ones scrambling at the end. Put the float where it's real, like weather days in winter, not as a blanket cushion on every task.
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