Cribber Oops…
The cribbers were nice guys and easy to work with. I was there for the pouring of course, since I had to pay the concrete supplier and get the invoice from the pump truck. This is basically co-ordinating three different subcontractors to all show up at the same time to do their work. While that took a bit of juggling (basically about 10 phone calls back and forth to find a time that worked for everyone). By the way, the most difficult one is the concrete. So, what I did was find a bunch of times that the cribbers could come, then the concrete, then the pump truck. Eventually it all worked out, and the co-ordinating really took less than half an hour.
Well, they got everything poured and set, and everything looked great. But the cribbers screwed one thing up. They lost where they had put the pipe for the sump pump under the cribbing! It had simply disappeared. They hadn’t marked it ahead of time (mistake 1), they put it directly into the footing (mistake 2, ideally it will go just under it), and then they also had the pipe cut shorter than the width of the foundation footing (mistake 3). After the walls were up, we had to dig a hole under the footings to put the sump pump pipe in. And what a pain that was! The cribbers ended up doing that, at their cost.