F Minus by Tony Carrillo for March 28, 2020

Always add 30% to schedule and budget. Give wife controlling vote on all modifications.

And she always has control of the colors.

Contractor’s axiom: The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time; the last 10% of the job takes 90% of the time.

I’d be wary of any construction company that issues soup bowls for hard hats.

Cheap company – uses soup bowels for hard hats.

Close enough for government work?

Bonuses for finishing early don’t work as well as penalties for finishing late.

No construction project is ever completed as soon as they told you it would and for anything close to the original cost estimate.

A word from the other side – a plumber told me it took him way longer to finish a project because the architect, kitchen designer, interior designer, and then the owner would come in and insist on changes.

Hey, wasn’t that guy formerly the construction crew chief on an Illinois road repair crew?