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Driveway drainage repair – Lessons learned
Driveway drainage repair – Lessons learned
#Driveway #drainage #repair #Lessons #learned
“Gate City Foundation Drainage”
This driveway partial repair almost cost me the whole job in a redo.
The driveway was still holding water.
The Beak
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prob cracked in first place due to the lack of rio bar
If the homeowner didn't mention the secondary area that turned out to be holding water before work started then it is outside of the scope of the agreement. I'd be having a written agreement with layout sketches of what and where the problems are, what is going to be done to fix it and the outer boundaries shown on a plan map showing where works stop which everybody signs before starting. Customers moving the goalposts after a job is completed is a national passtime it seems nowadays. Covering your a55 at the outset should be paramount.
Great work 🔥
"I need half a dozen eggs delivered immediately." "OK, we'll send over an 18 wheeler straight away."
have people like this all the time on my side job where I do computer repair, they try to get me to do work with paying for the additional work I just walk away if it was not on the original work order too bad its extra, Guarantee if the home owner ran his own business he would do the same thing!
Another great video.
What happened to the front of the truck that had the trailer?
I was having a panic attack thinking they were not going to replace the last 4 feet before the street….😮
oof theres such a hump in that driveway + yard. lucky shaun eeks out a save.
Everyone has 20-20 vision hindsighting. It feels a bit obvious that this would be the case looking back. Glad it was a customer that could be reasoned with as this is on both parties. Lesson leaned and we get bigger project videos in future 😊
Starting off i said Oh crap…i hope the Big tree didnt croak by affecting the roots Etc… Yeah thats a tough one, I agree overall….Glad it turned out ok.. With so many years in my family's roofing business we had a lot of these type deals where you could only do so much & had to pass on the others.
Real problem homeowner is ignoring root cause, which is the willows gotta go 🌳. Either they have an emotional attachment to the trees or don't want to spend; however, they need to be removed for driveway refurbishment to last a few without being compromised.
When you were first bringing the skid steer around to the end of the driveway, I thought DAMN, the hydraulic pump on that thing is just SCREAMING, how do you not hear that? It sounds almost like a chainsaw or … oh… concrete saw. Right. 😂
The classic, I want the whole job done but want to pay for a half job.
i think with most reasonable homeowners it wouldn't be an issue.
just because you had one bad experience with one black homeowner, doesn't mean all homeowners are the same.
but in a typical liberal response now you need to punish/inconvenience ALL homeowners.
i think partial replacement should still be fine, it's obviously not the issue here. it's evident from your own video.
no need to shoot yourself in the foot over this. keep on keeping on.
were you a yard short because at the last minute the homeowner decided to remove that skirt?
I would have just said from the walkway to the end of the road is what I'm doing if you don't want that then if I do from there to there it's going to create water back here my thing is to nip it all in the butt you should do it from the start of this point back to nip it all in the butt
You know, Shawn, sometime Murphy's law will prevail. But you always seem to endeavor to persevere, even when it bites you in the butt. No matter what, you always seem to prevail.
I run into this all the time in the automotive field.. Vehicle will present with multiple issues, solve them in the order of priority,… Sometimes other things come up and people expect it all fixed for free… Uh, sorry mr owner, you only approved half the repair…
That was good and quick thinking Shawn to grade away from that area. I'm glad it worked for you because you always put in a good effort to do it right.
Follow your instincts you are the professional
Well, that job didn't go the way I expected.
When I first saw it, I thought it was gonna be tree removal, house drains, with maybe a French drain next to drive way or channel drain in driveway, with the concrete repair plus dirt grading away from house.
Oh well, still enjoyed it.
You handle problems like I do and everyone should… you run to the problems, not from them! Nothing is more important than the reputation.
Go with your gut.
Everyone could tell that they would be a problem with that hoovering as you did the work. I would as a home owner check you guys out but not stand outside all day. They wanted something done they did not want to pay full price in my opinion. Good job as always!
Well done getting out of that one. You did what you were tasked with. Homeowner shouldn't have queried something you weren't tasked with resolving. Time to pull that hose trick was when he got you there to look at it not after the fact. Good you are on good terms with him, I am not! Hahaha.
You never fixed the drainage causing the driveway to sink and hold water, you simply moved the water around.
Is your helpers your employees or the concrete companys employees?
awesome job, looks great!!! 👍
100% is not your fault.
All or nothing, that's the way to go, Shawn
Sometimes you talk about turning down jobs that are a drainage challenge, but these are the jobs you need to turn down.