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id: 2026-01-07T12:13:00-0500
title: 2026-01-07 12:13:??
tags:
  - occupational
  - topic/estimating
  - topic/organization
daily: "[[2026-01-07]]"
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# 2026-01-07 12:13:??

Just now Jorge admonished another peer
for using insulated wire for pool bonding,
his rationale was flawed beyond saving
(something about the difference between bonding and grounding),
but stemmed from a frustratingly common misunderstanding
that our Accubid assemblies are intended to be an accurate list
of the material to be installed.

They are not.
If they were intended to be accurate,
there would need to be several times as many.
They are a compromise between accuracy and estimator effort.
It should be assumed that for common scope,
at least one assembly should be acceptable as-is.

Pool bonding is required for at least a quarter of our jobs.
We have no bonding assemblies with bare wire.
Therefore it must be assumed that it was determined
that it would be acceptable to represent bare wire bonding with insulated wire items,
because otherwise it would be necessary to have double the assemblies,
or to expect estimators to substitute each size of wire
everywhere bare was necessary.

See [[heuristics#Realism vs. Instrumentalism]].
