proffesional indemnity

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Agreed! I think most contractors are left with that dilemma when it comes to not agreeing with dodgy specs, especially if the task seems ridiculous in the first place or if you know from professional experience that the work will make the tree weak or left in a poor condition. Who do you keep happy? the client, consultant, public or your own conscience? Everyone sees it from a different angle which makes it difficult, sometimes unfortunately its safer to go exactly by the spec.

 

Safer for who?

 

I have to sleep at night, and I am confidant enough in my ability to hold a good argument to fight my corner, i would rather do what is correct and do a little extra effort than get the client to go back and ask the consul to re consider his spec then get back to us to do it again, there is a cieling to peoples budgets and you have a duty to keep that to a minimum. especialy when theyve paid out for a consultant on top of the contractor!

[leo_h]

From our point of view (contractor), just keep your own opinion out of it completely and do precisely as told, as its all been agreed already. Obviously its a different mater if you know for certain that the work will make the site hazardous.