narratives and recommendations

[John Dirks Jr]

Assume you have multiple problems in a single category such as electrical. There are 8 different problems and each one needs an electrician to fix.

Do you think it is ok to begin the electrical section of the report with a single narrative paragraph that includes the recommendation relative to a description of problems that you list below?

The other way is to be quite redundant by saying, get and electrician....get an electrician...get an electrician....get an electrician....over and over and over....

[SonOfSwamp]

I wrote something like this:

I saw problems in the electrical system that include, but aren't necessarily limited to:

*Fleas

*Peas

*Knees

*Skis

*Trees

Have an electrician make repairs, modifications or upgrades as needed. The sooner, the better.

WJ

[kurt]

That's what I do.

When a system has a pile of defects, I list several of the worst, state flatly there are more, also state that w/this sort of mess there are probably even more where I can't see them, etc.

I then tell them to have a (whatever) tradesman look it all over and tell them specifications for repair and what it will cost.

I understand the need to list specifics in some cases, but when it's a single system w/lots of problems, most of it usually ends up coming out anyway, so what's the point(?).

[John Dirks Jr]

Great. That is basically how I did my last report.

[John Dirks Jr]

How about this situation? How often do you identify a problem where you know that acting towards a solution is far more trouble than the benefit of the repair?

What do you say there? Live with it?

[Jerry Simon]

Originally posted by AHI

How about this situation? How often do you identify a problem where you know that acting towards a solution is far more trouble than the benefit of the repair?

What do you say there? Live with it?

WJ addressed this question once. I think his line was "If it bothers you, have it fixed".