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How do you new construction guys deal with multiple trades on a job? Especially in high end work where there are multiple kinds of trim finishes in a home (lacquer and stain along with the regular painted trim.
I prefer to go through a house once the trim is finished and first get all the lacquer work done then bag everything off and started the painted trim work. What do you do when carpenters are still working on trim over here, do not have enough room to set up all the lacquer work at once, stairway builders do not want to smell spray stains (acetone solvent) or lacquer, after you finish completely an upper level the carpenters move up stairs and cut wood in the finished area for a month, etc?
When there is only one finish for trim work, I do not mind having one floor at a time (still prefer all complete though), but when there are a couple different kinds, I really like to have the house complete before I get there. It makes it difficult to keep work areas clean and dust free, and sometime progress can be tough because once you spray an area, there is nothing else to do while you wait for it to dry.
Am I the only one that has a hard time dealing with this? There was an article in this months PWC magazine about a house with a tight timeline and how the builder stacked the trades and micromanaged it to get it done in time and made it sound wonderful like it is how all new construction should be done, but I feel that operating that way may reduce the overall time span of a job, but it increases the total manhours since everyone's job takes longer as they cannot move through using their system.
I prefer to go through a house once the trim is finished and first get all the lacquer work done then bag everything off and started the painted trim work. What do you do when carpenters are still working on trim over here, do not have enough room to set up all the lacquer work at once, stairway builders do not want to smell spray stains (acetone solvent) or lacquer, after you finish completely an upper level the carpenters move up stairs and cut wood in the finished area for a month, etc?
When there is only one finish for trim work, I do not mind having one floor at a time (still prefer all complete though), but when there are a couple different kinds, I really like to have the house complete before I get there. It makes it difficult to keep work areas clean and dust free, and sometime progress can be tough because once you spray an area, there is nothing else to do while you wait for it to dry.
Am I the only one that has a hard time dealing with this? There was an article in this months PWC magazine about a house with a tight timeline and how the builder stacked the trades and micromanaged it to get it done in time and made it sound wonderful like it is how all new construction should be done, but I feel that operating that way may reduce the overall time span of a job, but it increases the total manhours since everyone's job takes longer as they cannot move through using their system.
