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<blockquote data-quote="Parks 788" data-source="post: 1581977" data-attributes="member: 14646"><p>On the Paper Trail: Get a dedicated binder or folder of sorts. Make sure (as said already) have the builder, in wirting, get you a letter stating what their conclusion is and tuck that away in the binder. From here on out, on every single phone call to whomever it is to you write the company/organizations name, date, time, the first and last name of person you spoke to and their title within the organization. Also, a brief discription as to what the conversation was about. You need details as to what was said and talked about for every conversation you have on the phone. Also, when you have a visitor from the builder, city building department, engineer or whomever have a small video or voice recorder and make sure it is all on tape. Thell the visitor you will be recording by video or audio the visit. Make sure they know this is happening. Any and all letters and emails need to be printed and put in said binder. It really is a pretty simple process to get/keep a paper trail.</p><p></p><p>On another note. You mentioned the builder said that it looks like the plumbing trench was settling. I know from experience that if the recompaction of trenches are not done at all or not done properly they can wreak havoc on a building footing/foundation. SImply laying your pipe and throwing dirt back in the trench and then having a 300# guy walking the trench is not even close to properly compacting a trench. It takes the proper equipment to get compaction so the rest of the building doesn't have problems down the line. Chances are, there is something in the building code that states how the compaction should be done and to what percent the compaction should achieve.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Parks 788, post: 1581977, member: 14646"] On the Paper Trail: Get a dedicated binder or folder of sorts. Make sure (as said already) have the builder, in wirting, get you a letter stating what their conclusion is and tuck that away in the binder. From here on out, on every single phone call to whomever it is to you write the company/organizations name, date, time, the first and last name of person you spoke to and their title within the organization. Also, a brief discription as to what the conversation was about. You need details as to what was said and talked about for every conversation you have on the phone. Also, when you have a visitor from the builder, city building department, engineer or whomever have a small video or voice recorder and make sure it is all on tape. Thell the visitor you will be recording by video or audio the visit. Make sure they know this is happening. Any and all letters and emails need to be printed and put in said binder. It really is a pretty simple process to get/keep a paper trail. On another note. You mentioned the builder said that it looks like the plumbing trench was settling. I know from experience that if the recompaction of trenches are not done at all or not done properly they can wreak havoc on a building footing/foundation. SImply laying your pipe and throwing dirt back in the trench and then having a 300# guy walking the trench is not even close to properly compacting a trench. It takes the proper equipment to get compaction so the rest of the building doesn't have problems down the line. Chances are, there is something in the building code that states how the compaction should be done and to what percent the compaction should achieve. [/QUOTE]
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