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08-16-2009, 05:40 PM
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Resi-Guy turned commercial...
...first week on a commercial job and man it's been quite painful. My body and my brain hurts. Kudos to the veterans.
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08-16-2009, 05:42 PM
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just turned A card commercial too, why was it hard?
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08-16-2009, 05:49 PM
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What sort of work they got you doing?
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08-16-2009, 06:00 PM
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see the grass isn't greener on the other side !
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08-16-2009, 06:05 PM
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What sort of work they got you doing?
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If it's his first week on a comm. job, I'll bet he's shagging down material from the trailer and is also the official coffee and doughnut fetcher. 
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08-16-2009, 06:09 PM
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It's a tennant buildout...a heart transplant treatment center/hospital. We're behind as well so, the celing grids are going up around me as I'm trying to work.
Now if I only had a clue to what I was doing and how to go about it I'd be much less stressed about it.
I've been off of work since May of '08 and for the last three years before that I was a "trim guy". I didn't bend any pipe. Plus it was all residential. My body is waaay out of shape from being off for so long which just adds to the frustration...my calf muscles are killing me from all the ups and downs 10 and 12 foot ladders.
Now I'm having to catch up on my skills, physical abilites and at the same time try and figure out how things are generally done in the commercial setting. To top it off my boss is from Poland and I can't understand half of what he says except for that I'm a m@!her f%c&er! for not understanding his instructions.
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08-16-2009, 06:13 PM
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commercial work is just bigger pipe , not that hard!
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08-16-2009, 06:14 PM
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If it's his first week on a comm. job, I'll bet he's shagging down material from the trailer and is also the official coffee and doughnut fetcher. |
Actually not true. I'm a Journeyman at full scale, we have three apprentices that take care of the "bitch" work. I've got 11 years under my belt union residential. Was with one contractor for 8 years.
I upgraded my classification this past summer without any on the job experience. Contractors weren't taking "pending education" guys which makes it even tougher.
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08-16-2009, 06:15 PM
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commercial work is just bigger pipe , not that hard!
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I keep hearing that. yet I don't see it that way. 
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08-16-2009, 06:18 PM
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installing pipe is not bitch work! 
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08-16-2009, 06:20 PM
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I keep hearing that. yet I don't see it that way. |
I think what you don't 'see' is that the larger the pipe, the fewer linear feet that gets installed per hour. You can't run 4" at the same rate your install ½" or ¾".
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08-16-2009, 06:28 PM
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I never said that. I was refering to this statment...
Originally Posted by 480sparky
"If it's his first week on a comm. job, I'll bet he's shagging down material from the trailer and is also the official coffee and doughnut fetcher".
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08-16-2009, 06:33 PM
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oh ok!
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08-16-2009, 06:36 PM
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Quote:
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I think what you don't 'see' is that the larger the pipe, the fewer linear feet that gets installed per hour. You can't run 4" at the same rate your install ½" or ¾".
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I agree but I'm also talking about the way things are generally laid out and done altogether. And the mass material...I never used beam clamps, cut or hung strut, batwings, mini's, threaded rod or ever been on a lift. Not to mention I've never been around more than 220V single phase.
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08-16-2009, 06:50 PM
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you just have to be precise! i like it better!
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08-16-2009, 07:25 PM
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...first week on a commercial job and man it's been quite painful. My body and my brain hurts. Kudos to the veterans.
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i know exactly what you mean
worked last week at a hospital doing patient room renovations
my knees were killing me from all the walking and up and down ladders all day. Felt like a puss by friday.
I did this type of work my first 10 years in the trade and it didnt bother me a bit
must be just out of shape or getting old
residential service is so much easier on the bones
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08-16-2009, 07:25 PM
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Are there guys who do ONLY resi or ONLY commercial?
I would guess this is a big company/union kind of thing?
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08-16-2009, 07:28 PM
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yes! r- card and a- card
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08-16-2009, 07:29 PM
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yes! r- card and a- card
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OOO-K. 
What does that mean to someone from NY?
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08-16-2009, 08:52 PM
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I started in commercial, tried the residential and hated it, and am back to commercial again.
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