I don't either
To many hassles with all this health & safety stuff , no parking and 50 thousand other trades
Occupied schools still technically would require all the same "PPE" hassles but the reality is we only work there off hours. OSHA isn't going to show up to an unoccupied school building in the middle of summer, nights, weekends, Spring Break, Christmas Break, Thanksgiving Break........etc.
Hell, we have trouble getting the place opened up, the alarms shut off and whatnot. If there's a custodian or maintenance guy on site he'll hide from us so we don't ask him to DO anything for us. VERY rarely are any other trades involved. These aren't complete renovations. Just new flooring 98% of the jobs.
Parking is usually very close to the rooms, if not right up to the doors. I wear sneakers, jeans and a T-shirt. I only wear safety glasses, respirators and gloves when I really need to. So that's pretty cool.
Usually the hassles are related to these being older buildings with generally poor concrete conditions. The shops bid the work on a per unit basis-----NO EXTRA on the prep work for "unforseen" circumstances. So you're getting a contract for hundreds or even thousands of classrooms+ gyms, cafeterias, kitchens, administration, utility rooms and such---------you take the good with the bad. The Districts are too large and too busy to haggle each job so they pretty much HAVE to require
fixed price contracts. For the carpet guys it's easy money. The hard surface can be more complicated. They do very well on furniture, demo, shot blast, moisture barrier and the mark up on the goods.
So a few extra hours/days on floor prep has to be absorbed into the bigger picture. They like to argue about it when it's crazy awful. But there's not much I can do about it. Prep is prep and it takes as long as it takes. Right?
