{"id":3157,"date":"2013-03-07T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T09:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markstephensarchitects.com\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2013-03-07T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T09:44:08","slug":"there-comes-a-time-when-you-as-self-builder-need-to-step-up-to-the-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/there-comes-a-time-when-you-as-self-builder-need-to-step-up-to-the-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"There comes a time when YOU as self-builder need to step up to the plate&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about something similar to this in <a href=\"http:\/\/markstephensarchitects.com\/2012\/11\/27\/self-build-week-no-2-you-are-the-contractor\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;YOU are the contractor!&#8217;<\/a> but I think a little more needs to be said:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The comes a time when YOU as self-builder need to step up to the plate&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember in <a href=\"http:\/\/markstephensarchitects.com\/2012\/11\/27\/self-build-week-no-2-you-are-the-contractor\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;YOU are the contractor!&#8217;<\/a> I explained that you are the person responsible for ordering materials, getting trades on site at the right time and in the right order etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The self-builder needs to understand what each persons role is in the build and there comes a moment during the build when the self-builder realises this and has to act accordingly and as the title says <em>&#8220;step up to the plate&#8221;<\/em>. This is my moment:<\/p>\n<p>The grass roof on our house has a mass-concrete retaining wall at the rear and on the roof. Cast into the wall were steel grooves ready for wall ties to be placed.<\/p>\n<p>When the block layer started, I foolishly thought that the blocklayer could clean out these grooves of the concrete that had slipped down into them. Now block-layers can lay blocks, they&#8217;ll only lay blocks. They don&#8217;t really like putting insulation between the blocks but will do it under duress. The blocklayer then proceeded to explain:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Mark this is your house, you are the builder. If you want the grooves to be clean then either:<\/p>\n<p>a. You will need to do it or\/<br \/>\nb. You&#8217;ll need to pay someone else to do it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I then proceeded to clean each and every groove out.<\/p>\n<p>This thought process (as a self-builder) should apply to each and every task in your project &#8211; including what the architect should and more importantly should not due during your build with YOU as builder!.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about something similar to this in &#8216;YOU are the contractor!&#8217; but I think a little more needs to be said: The comes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15,17,53,62,73,78,85,89,90,97,100],"tags":[311,312,434,703,1154],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>There comes a time when YOU as self-builder need to step up to the plate... - MARK STEPHENS ARCHITECTS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/there-comes-a-time-when-you-as-self-builder-need-to-step-up-to-the-plate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"There comes a time when YOU as self-builder need to step up to the plate... - MARK STEPHENS ARCHITECTS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve written about something similar to this in &#8216;YOU are the contractor!&#8217; 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