Hello! And welcome to the As-hole-built series where we share our personal and wonderful experiences with doing as-builts. Here@HAYNE we are NOT a fan of as-builts but we DO understand how important they are so we do them and will continue to (insert crying emoji here). To bring some light into having to do as-builts, we thought a fun blog post series will help… so let’s see if it does! Plus it’s therapeutic to write down traumatic experiences.
Okay let’s start this series off with “As-Built Plan Confusion”. I’ll set the scene:
“It was a sunny Monday afternoon, birds in the sky chirping away, singing their bird tunes. They can hit some high notes, never realized how loud they actually are let me close the window… oh yeah, much better. An email just come through with existing plans for a interior remodel project.”
*BING* New email sound
WOW! This looks great, it’s a clean legible plan and is at the scale it claims to be! This is great and will make these As-builts easy-peasy! We can jump straight into design and whip up some schemes!
Oh wait! This looks a little different from the photos on file from the site visit last week. Let me update from the photos and we can go out to field verify and check what’s happening above! Phew good thing we caught that now! It should be smooth sailing from here! I mean what could possibly happen now!? #foreshadowing
Sweetness! As-built plan is generated and good to go. Now let’s get those schemes out so we can review with ID and the client. So glad this is going as well as it is!
Schemes are sent! I’m excited to hear what the Interior Designer will say… I think we really enhanced the space! Now let’s go to the site and verify some things, but I’m sure it will be very little since we had a scaled and awesome base plan to start with!
“As the designer enters the room she looks down at the plan then back up in the room.. then back down at the plan.. then back at the room again.. then back at the plan and starts rotating the sheet hoping it will make sense at some point… it doesn’t. It doesn’t make sense because it doesn’t match. Awesome.”
Looks like this amazeball base plan wasn’t correct and I am going to have to measure it all out and create a new as-built plan for us to show what is actually happening to create the schemes. Back to the drawing board I guess!
“The Designer takes out her measuring tape and begins to take field measurements as she lightly cries on the inside.”
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