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working with a family crew.
It takes more diligence - more direction.
Paid crews like to take breaks, and those breaks can add up very quickly as money spent for no work done.
And paid crews tend to seek shortcuts, when the simple fact of building with Structural Insulated Panels dictates that there shall be no shortcuts.
That nothing shall be left undone, or done poorly.
There are two goals in supervising a SIPs project.
1. Nothing gets done, or left undone, that will compromise the integrity of the Structural Insulated Panel System of building a super insulated structure.
For example. A single beam placed backward will cost hours of very expensive electricians pay later.
2. Do not allow the owner to be cheated.
A break is money going out while accomplishing nothing but rewarding sloth and incompetence.
A crew is paid to work - to give the owner fair value for his investment.
Slinging SIPs roof beams and panels is fun to watch.
Like the rest of a SIPs project, fresh rewards come with each panel fastened into place.
And tend to attract watchers who have never seen such a thing.
Some contractors see Structural Insulated Panels as a threat to the stick built homes they build, see them as a new fangled thing - that because it is new must be inferior.
They will continue to build homes the way their great grandfathers did.
Other contractors
watch with interest - ask intelligent questions.
And are quick to perceive that the shortened time required to build with
SIPs means fewer skilled craftsman to pay, and in the end allows them
more time to start another project.
Straight and solid walls.
Roofs engineered to resist the highest snow loads.
Heating and cooling costs up to half those of stick built structures.
Even possible savings on the mortgage.
