We spend a few minutes talking with John Generoso from John’s Precision Plumbing about his work on the Hatfield Street spec home in Coburg. He tells us what it’s been like working with John Webb over the years, the Hatfield New Home Build Project, and John’s commitment to quality. John Generoso has worked with John Webb Construction & Design on quite a few projects over the years, from New Home Construction to numerous Remodel Projects. Generoso brings a ton of practical experience to the table that our clients appreciate immensely.
I’m John. John’s precision plumbing. I’ve been plumbing since 1996. I’ve been working with John Webb Construction. He’s got a good group of people. He’s got the same people around 95% of the time. It’s kind of camaraderie. A lot of fun. From my perspective, plumbing is actually a good design for the for the purpose of the fixtures in the bathroom stacking over each other.
It’s got a good friendly layout. You can come in from one room. You’ve got your utility area separate, completely separate from the living area. Then you’ve got your kitchen area. You can head upstairs and you’ve got an entertaining area with the bar sink and whatnot. The recirc is really cool. He’s got a hot water recirc system as well as a boiler system, which is very efficient.
Framing is interesting. There’s a lot of lot of wood, a lot of distance to get to. And generally a lot of times you can go through in a few little spots and make it pretty simple and consistent. But on these, every one is unique. Every time you build the house, you don’t just go to the standard what you think you’re going to be doing.
You go in and you’ve got to kind of create things and think outside of the box. So which is cool. John’s very creative like that, though. He’s kind of reinventing the wheel sometimes. And that’s funny because at the end, like for years in the past, I’d never seen people come through and like take eight foot levels and plane the whole wall and then put stapled plywood on, and I mean, they smooth plaster wall.
He wanted it perfectly, perfectly smooth. You know, and this was back when Dale was, this about 15 years ago. And every single, every stud, every framing remembered was you had to take it, put it this way. It couldn’t rock back and forth, had to be perfect level this way. I remember Dale was really wound up because they spent about three days doing that s^!t. Just stapling plywood or stapling cardboard to walls. And sometimes it only start here. It got four foot and six foot. But he wanted it. He wanted a good product. That was the bottom line. No matter what. It wasn’t the recall. It that he wanted to turn a good product.
A lot of people are more production driven. And it’s not that you just stop working here, but you don’t have to be production driven. It’s more important to do a cost effective job, but turn the best product you can. And that’s funny cause like some of the jobs I come off of recently, it’s exact opposite. They just want the plumber in and 8 hours, electrician 8 hours and they want to sell the house in 16 hours, you know.
So and there’s so much money in that. I’m sure there is, but there’s a lot more callbacks too. Yeah, a lot more issues to deal with that are after the 365 days. Yeah. Like this one that these these type of slabs are really cool and unique. I’ve never seen them. You know, when I first started working there, I’d bet It was more like 18 years, when I first started working with him.
And the whole concept of the post tension lab and the stretching it tight and everything. When we actually plumb this thing, there’s a whole bunch of cables and we have to design this plumbing systems so that all the pipes that come through the floor. When he stretches those cables, all that stuff stays where it belongs and it has to be just right and perfect.
Like when Dale and I laid this out, there was issues where these cables were interfering. Well, there’s one right here, and they would. And so we took the time of moving them to let the plumbing be good and not be damaged ten years later. Where then the other guy might just grab the cable and stretch and it may give it maybe five years before it shifted.
But those were the things that were much more important. And the know the most builders would be like, I don’t worry about it now you’re overthinking it, you know. So, that part I really enjoy. The fact that willing to go the extra to give the most. That part I really like.
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