A sparky told me I was overcomplicating job site layouts and he was right

We were setting up staging for a 12-story apartment build in Seattle, and I had this whole color-coded plan drawn up for material drops. This electrician, guy named Rick who's been doing this since the 80s, just looked at it and said "you're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist yet." He showed me how his crew just stacks everything in one bay and moves it by hand as needed, saving like 4 hours each day. Has anyone else realized they were overthinking workflow and a simple tweak saved them huge time?

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kelly611d ago

@violafox that color coded plan thing hits close to home man. So here's the real question - when you stripped away all that planning, did you actually save time or did it just feel like you saved time because you were less stressed? Because I've been in that spot where I simplified a layout and thought it was genius, but then realized the crew was spending the same amount of time hunting for materials in a messy pile, just in a different way. Rick might be onto something with the single bay system, but I wonder if it scales when you're dealing with multiple trades fighting for the same elevator.

violafox2d ago

Wasted about a week of my life on color coded plans that turned into coffee cup coasters.