The Tuesday that everything went right on a foundation plan

Had a day last August where I was drafting a foundation plan for a 40x60 shop in Topeka. Every dimension I checked matched the field measurements and the engineer's notes were actually readable. No redlines came back from the client either. Has anyone else had a day where the whole job just clicked without a single revision?

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skyler_johnson3212d ago

Did your friend ever figure out why that carport job went so smooth? I remember my buddy Tyler had a similar thing happen on a residential slab in Olathe, the survey crew left stakes with the exact elevations he needed and the rebar shop just showed up with everything pre-bent to his schedule. He still talks about that day like it was a miracle, but he's never been able to repeat it either.

caleb_bell512d ago

Ask him if he checked the batch numbers on the concrete tickets that day... my buddy swears that the whole job lining up perfect meant the redi-mix plant accidentally sent him a load meant for a hospital foundation or something like that. He said the slump was dead on and the set time was way slower than normal, almost like it was a different mix design. Did your friend ever look back at the paperwork to see if something was mislabeled from the supplier?

jamesc7912d ago

...and my buddy Dave had that exact thing happen like three years ago (maybe four, time is a flat circle, right?). He was doing the foundation plan for a little carport addition in Wichita and he told me everything just lined up perfectly. The survey markers were exactly where they said they'd be, the concrete guys didn't mess up the footing layout, and the steel beam specs from the supplier actually matched the drawing. He said he literally just sat there for five minutes staring at the screen feeling like he was about to get pranked. It never happens like that again for him though, he's been chasing that high ever since.