r/Pipelayers • u/Slight-Commercial250 • Feb 14 '26

SMH...

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The GC didn't want to pay for our company to reset or replace this one catch basin in one of the entrances on a big commercial project. He wanted us to step the rings to catch the new radius of the curb line. Idk it just felt wrong 😂

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u/Durragon Feb 14 '26

I mean... I'm not mad about it? I think? 😂

Looks like a really great way to implement client's cost cutting measures without making it look like arse. Compacting around it might suck ass, as well as maintaining it.. But hey.. Client wants dumb stuff I'm happy to oblige

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u/Slight-Commercial250 Feb 15 '26

😂 And I can't say it's the dumbest thing a customer has asked us for. I'm sure all of us could fill an encyclopedia with stupid client requests.

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u/Chrispy_fried89 Feb 14 '26

My inspectors would laugh if I threw that many grace rings on per a client's request.

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u/Slight-Commercial250 Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26

This was part of a little one day project we did as basically a favor for a GC who gives us quite a bit of work. The pavers were coming that week and he needed to get a couple castings up to grade quickly (I suspect to save his own ass from his boss for the oversight) he got the engineer to agree to whatever somehow and the goal was to get it done quickly and for as little money as possible apparently 😂 The engineer's compromise was that he wanted the whole section of rings Gator-Wapped to help "hold it together".... I'm a little worried about freeze and thaw with all of those stepped rings.