How to give key information
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Speaker 1: Morning, lads. Alright?
Speaker 2: Morning. How are you?
Speaker 3: Alright?
Speaker 1: Good weekend?
Speaker 3: Yeah. You?
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. All ready for the off.
Speaker 1: (TO AUDIENCE) The purpose of the weekly meeting is so me and the guys can get together discuss where we've got to already with the works and then we can just decide how we're going to push forward with the job.
Speaker 2: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) What's the plan of attack, then, mate?
Speaker 1: The plan of attack today, Nick, is I'll get you and Patrick back on the garage on the clad again.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The architect's been out.
Speaker 2: OK, was he happy with everything?
Speaker 1: He is over the moon with it, mate.
But on this front fascia cover, on this edge here we've got to put an add-on on the top for him to look at, so he can look at it at a slightly different angle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thats all right, mate.
Speaker 4: What are we up to today, mate?
Speaker 1: You'll be on the stonework again, you and Dan.
There's no stone here at the minute so you're going to have to be dressing it again unfortunately.
Speaker 5: Is there a reason the stone's not turning up?
Speaker 1: Yeah, same old, same old, mate.
Delivery driver didn't turn up. He's going to come tomorrow with a full load, so…
Speaker 5: What, the dry stone and the builder?
Speaker 1: Dry stone and the builder, mate. Sorted.
Speaker 5: Sorted.
Speaker 1: Have your brew.
Important details
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Knowing the fine details
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Speaker 1: What's that detail up there where the board goes into this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we basically chamfered this fascia piece, so the water just runs straight off it.
Speaker 2: (TO AUDIENCE) The specifications are all done by the architect.
They're running the job, as such, and then I run it from a work point of view.
Speaker 2: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) We can actually change that, if necessary.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And, er… To what you prefer, obviously.
Speaker 1: OK. And then the rainwater goods comes round here.
Speaker 2: (TO AUDIENCE) A specification describes all parts of the work you're doing, i.e. materials, the gauges of all the cements and mixes you need to do the job, and how they want you to do it.
Speaker 2: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) It's a nice oak, a lovely oak.
Speaker 2: (TO AUDIENCE) I get to know the specification of works by sitting down at home, and reading through it.
I have to read through it a few times.
It's the most important book I have about the job we're doing.
The spec is basically the key communication point between me, the client and the architect, so that's what all of us relate to.
Speaker 2: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) Ta-ra.
Speaker 1: Take care.
Reading the specification
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Working together
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Speaker 1: (TO AUDIENCE) I relate the spec to the lads verbally.
Obviously we'll keep a copy on site anyway, so if I'm not here, one of the guys working can actually look at it and depict the point that he needs to see for whatever work he's doing.
Speaker 1: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) Obviously make the window hole to the specification, in the scale on the plan.
Speaker 2: And then with the detail in the corner, what do you want me to do about that?
Speaker 1: We've got no detail on the spec of how they want that corner to finish, so if we get all the cladding first, then we'll see what we're left with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, OK.
Speaker 1: (TO AUDIENCE) You always get things that hold the work up, like certain materials might not have turned up yet, so we can find out what's needed to do to make it easier to progress.
Speaker 3: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) Hi, Ren. Are you all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. All going alright, isn't it, mate?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just a few more to dress in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Tom's stacking them in sizes and we're going to be continuing on filling that panel down there.
Speaker 1: And bringing the back through?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nice, mate. When the stone gets here tomorrow, though, if you can break off the dry stoning and concentrate on the dress work for the extension.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not a problem.
Speaker 1: All right. Cheers, mate. Thank you. Ta-ra.
Speaker 1: (TO AUDIENCE) Communication is what makes the wheels go round in the team.
It's the best bit and worse bit, isn't it, really, to be fair - people!
What's in the spec?
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