framing contractor
When building your own home, managing your framing contractor will help save you time and money. But you also need to do your homework and make sure that you are not going to be hurting your framing contractors ability to complete his job to a satisfactory level. So before providing your house plans to the framing contractor, you need to to a thorough review of your home plans. You need to review framing dimensions against foundation dimensions. You need to review the intended elevation of the home for any discrepancies with what you had intended to build. If there are any known or intended changes they need to be redlined on the plan so that your framing contractor does not make any mistakes or waste unnecessary time.
When working with the framing contractor it is also important to set up expectations of work and performance. You should make sure that he is aware that he is responsible for culling out usable lumber from the foundation form boards located in the garage for use during framing. The remaining unused material he should put in the trash pile. He then moves forward with the framing phase. He will clean the foundation of dust, snap chalk lines, and begin the framing of your home. He is also to be responsible for securing any required hurricane or tornado bracing that was required by the engineer and/or city. This is not your foundation contractors responsibility to come back to the job site to secure these straps. He will then begin the framing.
It is important during the management of this process to follow up on what is in agreement to be done. At no point should payment be made until the framing contractor has satisfactorily completed his agreed upon work.
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They have to hold back a week because of tax purposes. The employer can only pay a sub contrator for a amount of time before he has to be on the payrole unless the sub contractor carries his own liability insurance. So there really isnt a compromise to be made except save your $ for the week of hold back.