Ribbon around tree at construction site: what does it mean?
Carol love_the_yard (Zone 9A Jacksonville, FL)
10 years ago
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Comments (25)^^^ Quite right. The thought process we use in justifying a little more care taken in planting trees and shrubs is along the lines of "What's a few more minutes spent planting a tree when that tree could conceivably be around for one hundred years"? kind of thing. Most folks can understand that if so told. But yes, there is a problem when most projects are bid out time and materials. I oversee lots of bid-out projects for our local stormwater utility. The range of quality and care taken by different landscaping firms is huge. As these are usually subs hired by the main contractor for the project, we don't always have a lot of control over who we end up with on the landscaping end. We can use language to sway things a bit, but ultimately, bottom dollar still rules much of the time. I'm on vacation through the end of the year, but in keeping in touch with the engineers I work with, I've learned that our least favorite landscaper is installing trees this week yet! That's very late for this part of the world. There is a warranty period, so in that sense, we'll be okay, but it could easily be a lot of wasted motion! +oM...See MoreEasements, neighbor's pool/deck, what does it all mean?
Comments (11)I can't provide a very extensive answer, but in a nut shell an easment gives a 'right' [hence, right-of-way] to a specific entity for a specific use-- for instance, a utility company easement gives them the right to build and maintain lines, but not to host a company picnic. If the pool deck were over a power line easment, the power company could destroy it to fix/expand the line. If it were on an access easement, it would have to go if it interfeared with people's access. If there is a recorded easement here, there should be some specifics: how wide, who owns the easement and for what purpose, etc. Anything interfearing with this purpose is in violation, and may have to be removed at the homeowner's expense, and the homeowner would not need to be compensated. To cover their own exposure, the owner of the easment would need to keep any damages resonable, and do their best to mitigate them by [for instance] not removing a tree if they could acheive their goals by pruning it. So a lot depends on the language granting this easement. If the fence is on your property line, the easment probably allows you and the neighbor to maintain the fence, even if it means stepping over the actual line. But you probably can't get the pool deck removed unless or until it impacts that maintenence. It would be an issue for the courts, not the city bureaucrats. But there may be separate regulations about structural setbacks that would give you a bit more leverage. I have to admit, it would really bug me for the neighbor to have a deck beside this sort of fence if it gives them an eagle eye veiw into my yard. I might have to give them a bit of a show from time to time, just to discourage them from looking....See MoreConstruction Site Cleanliness - Photos
Comments (16)Papering off subfloors or even covering the whole deck in #30 felt seems extreme to me. And just how sloppy are your taping guys? if you want the framers to throw every piecfe of scrapo in the trash you are going to wast a lot of usabloe lumber. (sic) When I started building, my project manager let the carpenters get away with this, using their rationale that pulling nails out of of wood was beneath them. (Pretty much going along with whatever the trades did or asked was a tactic the manager used to endear himself to them.) Once on my own, I was pulled up short by an old world carpenter who admonished me for scrapping small pieces. Since then, I keep cutoffs down to 10" on site till final cleanup. You can't assume it means one or the other definitively. Maybe not in a court of law! But as a rule when I see a messy site, I know it's a care-for-nothing-but-the-bottomline builder, usually an absentee investor or first timer. And no matter how pretty the place looks in the end, I know there are loads of hidden flaws. I watched one of these messes go up and heard all the tales of woe from trades who had been on site. When it was finished I went to an open house. I didn't want to be critical to the listing broker as it would look like builder rivalry. But then he said, "I could show you half a dozen things wrong in each room!" In the end, that builder made a killing largely on the basis of the impressive fake stucco mouldings on the front elevation. Good for him!...See MoreKabinart - What does 'production grade' mean?
Comments (14)Plywood is only an "upgrade" in a some consumer's minds. Plywood comes in many many grades, while "furniture board" (NOT partical board or MDF as I often see it referred to) is manufactured to much more consistent specs and a higher density than plywood and is more dimensionally stable and when melamine coated, easier to clean. Overall, furntiture board performs better, and is less costly, and is more "green". Thicker sides are better sides. Sides and backs are structural. There isn't a single unimportant part when it comes to framed abinets. Yes, the face frame is the most important part, but couple a strong 3/4" solid wood face frame with poor quality thin plywood sides and you still have a poorer quality cabinet. But, even poorer quality cabinets are very well constructed compared to poor quality site built cabinets of the past. Even builder's grade cabinets meet KCMA standards and will support heavy granite countertops. KCMA standards are minimum standards though, and there are plenty of manufacturer's that surpass those. Thicker IS better, but even thin is stable when properly attached to a wall. For the most part, the biggest difference in cabinet construction isn't really structural. Kitchen cabinets from many lines will be structurally sound for many years. THe biggest difference is the quality of wood used for the doors (and face frames), and how that wood is finished. That is usually what separates the builder's grade cabinets from the mid to high range ones. Better quality wood finished to a higher standard will always be more costly. Better quality cabinets will have better hardware and better more easily cleaned interiors. Melamine is preferred as the finish surface of the interior for that reason....See Moreabnorm
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