where you are located , the big buildings is what you have to deal with every day.....
I would guess that the price of insurance to work in high rise buildings is astronomical... I just dont care to drive my box trucks downtown and fight
the parking and other issues...
here is a little article about a swimming pool that flooded everyone out below ,,,, I bet you already know about this disaster.... I guess he is suing his pool company now..
https://pagesix.com/2015/03/20/david-copperfields-rooftop-pool-flooding-was-no-illusion/
https://pagesix.com/2016/08/29/david-copperfield-suing-pool-company-over-rooftop-flood/
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Insurance is insane as parking and dealing with superintendents in buildings
What I used to do until 3 years ago was replacing roof drains
The JR Smith 1330 IC cost around $70 each and sheet lead was .75 per pound x 3 x 3 x 4 PSF $27.00
So for about $100 I was charing $1,200 -$1,500 per drain and any work below the slab was T&M
The actual drain replacement took about 2 hours the rest was traveling time ,waiting for the freight elevators .
The job on the 86 floor took OVER 45 MINUTES to get up there because of heightened security
Fire and sprinkler jobs in Manhattan can take months to complete with tennent changes so the materials are dropped by the job site and the employees show up with public transportation and report to that job for months at a time
I have two companies.
One does strictly plumbing - gas fitting -expert witness - boiler inspections and installations and new construction and jobbing along with sewer and drain cleaning commercial, industrial,residential and residential
My other company is strictly working in Manhattan installing fire suppression systems and very little plumbing
The agent who quoted us the insurance for sprinklers I asked " is that a phone number"?
Manhattan FORGETABOUT it for jobbing as the travel time from west side to east can easily take over an hour for less than 3 miles
My 1995 Manhattan van as of last year had less than 30,000 miles
My 2002 Ford Jobbing van has under 17,000 miles
If I had a meter to count time lost to and from jobs it would be counted years not hours
I worked for three embassies and the very last time I was working for them Rudy was the mayor
The Ambassador of Benin (this is why I gave up on Manhattan ) called he had a gas leak and I drove to 125 E 38th St, New York, NY and located the leak and I went back to my van to get a wrench to shut the gas main and the van was already hooked up to a NYC tow truck
I had commercial plates and told the low life POS tow truck driver please let me at least shut the gas valve as there is a gas leak but she could care less
She said no way and I had to get one of the embassy drivers to follow the tow truck to the other side of manhattan to pay for the tow and the ticket fine . I was parked right in front of the embassy ( no standing except for diplomatic plates)
In the meantime In called the gas utility and told them what had happened
I called the mayor's office the next day and reported it
I was given a refund for the ticket not the tow $150.00
Then NYC under Mayor Rudy no longer had emergency vehicles towed as long as vans had "gas emergency" posted on them
He was a fantastic mayor