The day a J-bolt mix up cost me a whole afternoon on a driveway job

I was working a residential driveway over in Maplewood last Tuesday and the J-bolts I grabbed from the truck were all 3/4 inch too short. The anchor holes had already been drilled and the forms set, so I had to stop everything, drive back to the supply yard, and swap them out. It set me back a good two hours and the homeowner was watching from the window the whole time. Has anyone else had a supplier mix up hardware like that and had to adjust on the fly?

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linda_murphy6d ago

Two hours isn't that bad for a driveway job.

dylan_thompson6d ago

Yeah totally, two hours is actually pretty quick for a proper driveway job in my experience. I've had ones that stretched closer to three just from moving stuff around and making sure the edges looked clean.