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Unpopular opinion: switching from paper plans to a tablet on site cut my rework calls way down
For the past 8 months on a 40 unit apartment job in Tulsa, my crew was still running off printed drawings, and we were getting about 3 or 4 framing rework calls a week because someone was working off a sheet that was already revised. I moved everyone to shared drawings on cheap 10 inch tablets back in March, and the rework calls dropped to maybe one a week within the first month, mostly because the supers could push a revision and everyone saw it the same morning. Has anyone else made that jump and did the tablets actually hold up, or did yours die in the dust and rain after a few months?
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ramirez.vera5d ago
Three or four rework calls a week on a 40 unit job is brutal, that is a ton of wasted framing hours and probably a few choice words between your lead and the super. The whole "working off a dead revision" thing is such a classic mess, somebody marks up a sheet in the trailer, nobody tells the guy on the third floor, and suddenly a wall is 6 inches off. Going from that down to one a week just from putting the current set in everyone's pocket is honestly not even a tech win, it is a common sense win that the industry somehow skipped for 30 years. The tablets dying in dust and rain, though, that part is the real question, because a $150 tablet that eats it in two months costs more than the paper ever did. Curious how yours are holding up and whether you went with cases or just let them take the beating.
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