Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Design/Build....what does that really mean?


You can never be completely certain what a Remodeling Contractor means when he/she describes their company as a "design/build" firm. Does the Remodeler or staff do the design work? Possibly. Do they build jobs using their own field crew? Perhaps.
To be sure, there are certain basic characteristics inherent to the term: In some capacity, the design/build Remodeler has a hand in every element of the remodeling process-from developing the initial design concept to signing off on the final punch list. The shape that this process ultimately takes can look strikingly different from one company to the next. Your thoughts....?

4 comments:

  1. what happened to that kid below???
    M.g. still hasn't called me back... but maybe I'll call her!
    How's about thata bubba gump???

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  2. I'm just a construction WHORE!!!
    Show me the money honey!!!
    I'll nail your sh-t together!!!
    Where do I cut it?
    I can't afford to get my carbide sharpened but I'll burn my way through your knotty eastern european hardwood coffin door!!!
    I'll nail on my coffin handles to your coffin door and bend the 16d nails over so the hanle won't come off for at least a month!!! Then I'll lien you, put a collector after you like I did to David Br-ndes of Beverlywood, Los Angeles, and out of work screen writer who sponges off of his wife's semi-wealthy family in Santa Barbara... who wrote a screenplay named "The Quarrel" (Oh... you haven't hear of it??? I think it got a .0001 in your "man hole" on the Nielson rating.. and there's a poster of it right outside of his office door where he bent me over really good!! ) who is trying to screw me out of thousands of dollars when I got him close to $250,000 from and cheap insurance company that sent their best general after me to poke holes in my Xactimate estimate to re-build that dog faces house with a rather CHEAP contemporary designed house he has some Israeli contractor building as I write this post!!! A marriage made in heaven to be sure!!! ... I was in therapy with his wife and know he doesn't take care of business between the sheets, so he takes it out on the help. God help me 'cause he sure won't!

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  3. I didn't mean it... really I didn't!
    Ummmmmm.... let me seeeeeee
    :-)

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  4. You’d be an interesting addition to our community of Portuguese Bend. It’s a wonderful spot which is inching it’s way ( or footing it’s way, in some parts) towards the ocean. We had a building moratorium here that protected us from more human-triggered damage, but that as just thrown out by an appellate court decision in favor of speculators ( or just stupid lot buyers?). the decision pulled the rug out of all Ca. cities ability to determine safety factors before issuing bldg. Permits. We’re pretty freaked and I’ve set up a meeting here with reps from our state sen., assembly and county sup’s offices with a couple of city councilmen and neighbors to see how we can stop the development either all together or until there are concepts in place to do it safely/ responsibly.

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