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That week in April when the crane showed up a day early and my pad wasn't poured
Last April I was building a 40 foot two container build on a lot outside Waco and everything had been going smooth for about three weeks. Then the crane company called on a Tuesday afternoon to say they were moving me up a day because a job in Dallas fell through. My concrete pad was still wet, I had poured it Monday morning and it needed more cure time, so I spent that night under a work light with a tarp trying to keep rain off it. The driver showed up at 7 the next morning and just sat there shaking his head at me. We ended up waiting until Thursday and it cost me $400 in rescheduling fees. Worst part was the containers sat on the street for two extra days and a neighbor called the city on me. Has anyone else had a crane or delivery outfit change the schedule on them at the last minute?
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janab8729m ago
Watched my buddy go through almost the same thing last summer on his shop build up in Hillsboro. Crane outfit called him at 4pm on a Friday saying they'd be there Saturday at 6am instead of Monday, and his slab had only been poured Wednesday. He stayed up half the night wetting it down and covering it with plastic, and the operator still refused to set the trusses because the concrete was still green. Cost him $650 to rebook and his trusses sat on a trailer in the road for three days until the county made him move them. The scheduling folks never seem to care that concrete runs on its own clock, not theirs.
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