Pro tip: watched a super in KC lose his cool over 40 sheets of drywall and it changed how I run subs

Reese Taylor · 2026-10-12T22:00:08.135406+00:00

Three years back I was a junior super on a 60 unit apartment job outside Kansas City. The drywall crew hung the east wing before the mechanical rough-in passed inspection, so they had to tear out about 40 sheets to open up a wall for the inspector. The GC and the sub spent a whole day yelling at each other in the parking lot over who eats the $6,800 redo. Here is the argument I keep having with other supers. One side says it is on me to make the schedule idiot proof, meaning I walk the deck myself before any trade gets the green light, every single time, even if it slows the job down a day or two. The other side says these crews have been doing this 20 years, they know the sequence, and babysitting them just trains them not to think. I lean toward walking it myself. Cost me maybe 30 minutes a day. Cheaper than a parking lot screaming match. But I have had foremen tell me flat out they hate it, makes them feel like I do not trust them. So where do you all land? Do you physically verify before you release a trade or do you hand them the schedule and let them own it?

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