It has been said that if you don't succeed, you should try, try again.

At the site of the old General Motors factory in Windsor, they'll soon be seeking to take down a smokestack for a fourth time, after three demolition attempts failed on Monday.

John Revell, the city's chief building official, said that next attempt could come by the end of the week.

"We're in a situation where they're going to have to work very diligently over the next few days, so that we can set up to try again, perhaps as early as Friday, for a fourth demolition on this," he told CBC News in an interview on Tuesday morning.

Following the demolition issues yesterday, Revell said that the city is now closely involved in the process to bring down the smokestack.

"We're going to be inspecting this virtually every day now. We're getting almost hourly updates from the engineer. We're getting photographs," he said. "We've got a game plan for moving forward that we're approving on how they're going to prepare the stack for a future try."