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Talked to a carpenter who thinks we over-detail everything
I was at a job in Portland last week, and the lead carpenter told me, 'Your prints are beautiful, but we build from the big shapes down, not the small details up.' He said a complex wall section with 30 callouts just gets ignored on site. It hit different because I spent 12 hours on that exact drawing. Maybe we focus too much on perfect CAD and not enough on what the crew actually needs to see. Has anyone else had a builder push back on your level of detail?
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samflores15d ago
Man, that's just how it goes sometimes. You put all that work in and the guy on site basically says it's art, not a plan. But is it really a big deal? If the wall gets built right and passes inspection, maybe those 30 callouts were just for you. I've seen crews build perfect stuff off a sketch on a 2x4. They know the steps. We might be drawing for ourselves, or for the next architect, not for the hammer swinging.
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