Alexis
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- Location
- Los Angeles
Hello,
My business is growing and now I have a team of 7 people. We do mostly residential work - main panel upgrades, recessed lighting etc. I feel like the business is growing fast and I need to implement certain business safety practices to avoid bad situations that may happen.
For example I had really nasty situation when we were doing a panel upgrade and were driving a second ground rod near the water main and managed to drive it straight into it. Couldn't stop water for about hour and a half (the street shut off was jammed). Glad that it was outside the house. Called utility, ran to a store and bought a pump, called a plumber to do an emergency repair. One hole costed me $2100 (plumbers and discount to the client for the trouble). That was the first time something like that happened in about 50 panel upgrades we did so far.
My nightmare is something like damaging sprinklers when we do recessed lights for example. I'm thinking of having some basic plumbing repair kit to seal some water leaks at a minimum. Also teaching my team for any job to locate first water and gas shut offs (even though as I just learned they are not always possible to close without utility company).
I would really appreciate if you could share what preventative measures do you take for your work to avoid similar situations and maybe previous experiences that taught you certain preventative measures that you now use in your workflow.
Thank you!
My business is growing and now I have a team of 7 people. We do mostly residential work - main panel upgrades, recessed lighting etc. I feel like the business is growing fast and I need to implement certain business safety practices to avoid bad situations that may happen.
For example I had really nasty situation when we were doing a panel upgrade and were driving a second ground rod near the water main and managed to drive it straight into it. Couldn't stop water for about hour and a half (the street shut off was jammed). Glad that it was outside the house. Called utility, ran to a store and bought a pump, called a plumber to do an emergency repair. One hole costed me $2100 (plumbers and discount to the client for the trouble). That was the first time something like that happened in about 50 panel upgrades we did so far.
My nightmare is something like damaging sprinklers when we do recessed lights for example. I'm thinking of having some basic plumbing repair kit to seal some water leaks at a minimum. Also teaching my team for any job to locate first water and gas shut offs (even though as I just learned they are not always possible to close without utility company).
I would really appreciate if you could share what preventative measures do you take for your work to avoid similar situations and maybe previous experiences that taught you certain preventative measures that you now use in your workflow.
Thank you!