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Thought I could finish a 10x12 patio in a day, the mud had other ideas
Had a pour last week where the mix was way too wet from the plant. Tried to fight it for an hour before I shut it down. Let it sit for almost three hours before it was ready to work, which blew my whole schedule. Anyone else ever have a truck show up with soup and how do you handle it?
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lily_dixon275mo ago
Been there, done that, got the ruined boots. A wet load is the worst kind of surprise. Good call shutting it down, fighting it just makes a bigger mess. I've had to send a truck back before when it was pure slurry, which is a tough call but sometimes the only move. That waiting game throws everything off for the whole week.
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dakotacraig5mo ago
Sometimes you gotta push through a wet load, lily_dixon27, to keep the whole crew and schedule from falling apart.
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casey3934mo ago
Mixed loads are a whole different beast nobody talks about. Had a buddy try to run a partial dry batch that was wet on the bottom last spring, ended up with a 2 inch crust on the concrete that had to be jackhammered out. That delay cost the GC their bonus. Sometimes the schedule is already wrecked the second you mix that first load and the real trick is knowing if it's still usable or if you're just making tomorrow's problem worse.
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