Had a week where every job site was pure mud

We had three vinyl fence installs scheduled back to back in my town after heavy rain, and each yard was a swamp. The worst was a corner lot where our post hole digger got stuck twice, costing us half a day. What's your best trick for keeping a schedule when the ground just won't cooperate?

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3 Comments

hart.sage11d ago

Schedule a mud day. Block out one day a week, maybe Mondays, for the worst sites and push everything else back. It's a buffer that stops one swamp from wrecking your whole week. You tell clients the ground needs a day to dry, which sounds professional. It's better than showing up, failing, and then scrambling to move three other jobs. This saved us last spring.

michael_jenkins3911d ago

Sounds good in theory but clients hate getting bumped last minute lol

theagibson11d ago

We call it weather buffer Tuesday and it saved our schedule twice last month.