Special Report: Cracksealing
Cracksealing “Best Practices” Starting the night before a job, here’s how to be productive and guarantee clients quality work BEST PRACTICES FOR any cracksealing job start well before the job does and carries through all the way until the crew and equipment are back in the yard, readying for the next day. And then it starts all over again. Once the job has been awarded, planning starts and it’s important that both the crew leader and estimator are involved. That way the person leading the execution of the job will understand how the person who bid the work was thinking. But once the planning is done it’s time to go to work. Let’s start at the end. After the day’s work is done and the crew returns to the shop, manufacturers say the best practice is to ready the equipment for the next day. The goal is to enable the crew to get a quick start out of the yard the next morning and to eliminate any reason a crew member might have to be pulled off a job to go back to the yard to get something they forgot.
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Overnight Care of Material Once the crew returns to the yard, the first step is to take care of the material still left in the tank. Ben Thielbar, director at Cimline Inc., says it’s important to follow the manufacturer’s
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