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From: cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris Sylvain)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: electrical codes
Message-ID: <2274@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 88 23:24:47 GMT
References: <17905@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: cgs@umd5 (Chris Sylvain)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <17905@topaz.rutgers.edu> awalker@topaz.rutgers.edu writes:
$ can't understand why there is so much variation among the work of tradesmen
$ who are all supposed to have read the same documents.

The blame cannot be placed solely on the tradesmen.. I think the greater part
of the blame should be assigned to the Building Inspectors: either some of them
just don't care that much, or they're getting cosy with the builders.

Half the house I'm in is good work (built ca. 1960), but I detect and abrupt
change in quality from one end of the house to the other. I suspect either the
inspector gave his approval before all the work had been completed, or the
foreman on the job told his people to "get a move on".. o'course, all the parts
used in the house were all UL approved, but much, much cheaper. *I* wouldn't
install the cheaper parts..

Having been a Quality Assurance Inspector for a small manufacturer of
commercial electronic communications equipment, the workers don't always
appreciate it when you play the part of the customer's (the workers prefer
Devil's) advocate. It takes time, but most will sensitize themselves to
quality issues.
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