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Pencil whipping my daily logs cost us $18,400 on a change order in Boise
I used to write stuff like "framed walls, poured footings" in my daily reports because who has time, right? Then a contractor in Boise disputed a 3 week delay claim on a job, and the owner's rep pulled my logs and found nothing useful in them, not a single weather note, crew count, or inspection detail. The change order got denied and we ate $18,400, so now I write full logs, but how detailed do you all get with yours before it starts feeling like overkill?
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emmar7527d ago
What about the photos though, not just the text? Everyone talks about writing more words but nobody mentions that a log with a time stamp on pics is basically untouchable in a dispute. I started snapping three or four shots a day, one of the whole site, one close up of whatever got done, and one of the sky or a thermometer if the weather was bad. When that rep asks why week two was slow, you don't argue, you just hand over a photo of a flooded footing trench from 7am Tuesday. Words can get twisted or called vague but a date stamped image of standing water doesn't leave much room to argue.
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