That's funny! And good to hear! I'm actually looking at a job and the mechanical has prints and that's it, just a rectangle with a small rectangle for the boiler, two circles, one for the expansion tank, one for the air seperator and two more small rectangles for the pumps and then a bunch of lines for pipe. Only detail is a few pages later that shows the end of the pump with with a flex pipe, triple duty valve and that's it. No measurements on where they want this set or anything, just a step above what my kid could have drawn! Guy wants a hard price instead of "by the hour". Have not even seen the actual jobsite. He figures the mechanical room can be built out in 6 days, mind you the mechanical room is EMPTY at this point and we would be installing EVERYTHING. A friend of mine and I think his 6 days is a bit of a stretch! Piping to the tower, piping inside the building, probably in the ceiling(6" pipe by the way).
It's weird, you look at a drawing for sprinkler pipe and they've got exact cut measurements!! We talked yesterday and it's still gas pipe on the roof and when it rusts thru and nobody knows and it starts to spew gas everywhere then what? Underground gas and above ground gas pipe are like polar opposites! In the ground, code, coatings, blah, blah, blah. Above ground....cue Benny Hill music!!!
Like I said, glad to hear it's not just us around here with the hideous prints for a mechanical room! Not grind!! Hahaha!!!