Why does nobody talk about the 90% mark on punch lists?
Everyone in this trade loves to brag about closeout, but I've found the last 10% of a punch list eats more time than the first 90. On the Riverside Elementary job in Boise, we logged 214 items at substantial completion and 61 of them were still open 5 weeks later, mostly because the subs had already moved to other sites. I get why superintendents push hard for that finish line, but I think we're fooling ourselves if we treat the tail end as cleanup work. How do you all keep subs coming back for the little stuff without holding their last payment hostage?