Be carefull how you draw it.........

[Stress Co_]

Just what you don't want to see at a site inspection .......

[Anonymous]

Now that is an incompetent contractor!

[Dwight]

While it is funny to think that a bubble connector line could be made into a stair tread, how do you think they did it and still matched the height and number of risers?

[Stress Co_]

Dwight wrote:
While it is funny to think that a bubble connector line could be made into a stair tread, how do you think they did it and still matched the height and number of risers?

Simple..... 4-1/2" Risers

[Dwight]

Precisely!

You can forgive a builder for mistaking a line for an edge, but not for sitting down and recalcualting the stair.

[Aussie John]

The ironic thing is the guy doing the work was probably muttering to himself about what a dumb @@ the Architect is!!


An old boss once told me he arrived on site to find all the windows with diagonal glazing bars which matched the hinge/opening chevron on the drawings

[Dwight]

This is a good example of bad graphics - double checks of the riser math aside - it is like an optical illusion: once the diagonal is seen in the mind as a step, it is impossible to eradicate.

Sometimes i think the drafting board was a safer place to work because bad overlaid graphics like this could never happen. Almost never. There was the time a coffee ring on my drawing was built as a spiral stair, but that should have been easy to catch.

[Stress Co_]

Dwight wrote:
Sometimes i think the drafting board was a safer place to work because bad overlaid graphics like this could never happen. Almost never.

I once had a project with a concrete walkway that had a scored-gridline layout.
A dimension string's leader line crossed the walkway.....and you guessed it....... They scored it in the conc.
One oblique line bisecting the grid.

This was on a drafting board

[Dwight]

Stress wrote:

This was on a drafting board

This explains your avatar, then.

[KeesW]

I once drew a wobbly line to indicate a craftwood panel behind a reception desk to find it built on site. The builder had made a full size template of my scribble and cut it out with a jig-saw. Funny thing was - it looked OK!