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re: General Contracting your Home Build
Posted on 2/13/12 at 5:03 pm to TigerEye2
Posted on 2/13/12 at 5:03 pm to TigerEye2
The two biggest cons I can think of are:
1. The amount of time it would take. Unless you have a LOT of spare time, there is no way you could manage the jobsite, get bids, etc.
2. You have no recourse if anything major goes wrong (IE structural deficiencies). Since you are the GC, you'd have nobody to sue.
For example lets say your slab cracks and starts sinking in the ground, you could try to sue whoever poured your slab, but they would immediately say that the soil wasn't compacted properly and it wasn't their fault (and they'd be right). It would have been up to you to do a soil compaction test.
1. The amount of time it would take. Unless you have a LOT of spare time, there is no way you could manage the jobsite, get bids, etc.
2. You have no recourse if anything major goes wrong (IE structural deficiencies). Since you are the GC, you'd have nobody to sue.
For example lets say your slab cracks and starts sinking in the ground, you could try to sue whoever poured your slab, but they would immediately say that the soil wasn't compacted properly and it wasn't their fault (and they'd be right). It would have been up to you to do a soil compaction test.
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Posted on 2/13/12 at 10:47 pm to MikeBRLA
I looked into it and figured noway do I have the time nor the experience to deal with this type work. We are scraping dirt beginning tomorrow or whenever the rain gets out of here. Cost us 8.5% of the build to just hire a GC. I figure I'd rather pay someone 8.5% and have it done right. I'm not saying that those who do it themselves can't do it the right way, I'm just not convinced that a sub who will only be doing 1 job for me will be as willing to do a good job for me as he would for someone that he would have to depend on repeat business.
This post was edited on 2/13/12 at 10:50 pm
Posted on 2/14/12 at 10:29 am to MikeBRLA
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For example lets say your slab cracks and starts sinking in the ground, you could try to sue whoever poured your slab, but they would immediately say that the soil wasn't compacted properly and it wasn't their fault (and they'd be right). It would have been up to you to do a soil compaction test.
If he used a GC, a GC's policy wouldn't pay for it either. Better used an insured professional soil engineer.
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