During the demolition of the old garage their Kubota Mini Excavator failed. It had something break that allowed it to bleed hydraulic fluid to its death. Now I have a large puddle of hydraulic fluid on my garage pad, a small puddle on my driveway, a streak of fluid across the driveway to the back yard, and an unknown spill under the machine where it died in my yard. They had a Kubota repair tech out at my property for ~2 hours Thursday, he just took notes, and it seems they are trying to get an upgrade along with the repair; taking measurements of the bucket and even cutting a smaller piece of OSB and drawing an outline of the bucket (never seen that). I figured Kubota would have a website or catalog with the available attachments (including buckets), not sure why they would need to make a outline pattern of the bucket (like kids drawing around their hand and making a turkey in kindergarten crafts).
I haven't said anything yet about the fluid. Their is the owner, a project coordinator oversees all the current job sites, and then my job site crew lead. They also crushed my floor drain (after I covered it up with duck tape right in front of the site crew lead. I highly doubt it connected to any plumbing, not the City, and no drain out of side of the garage. I suspect it's a large pit of rock and lawn fabric to allow water to drain and naturally absorb into the ground over time without filling in with sand and fine partials from the floor I haven't swept up yet. But now I will have to pay a plumber to inspect this drain hole and (concrete) saw out the old drain, and install a new grate (or it's yet another DIY added to my large list of things to do once they are done with the basic construction.
To save money I'm; installing my own doors, installing the siding, full electrical, HVAC, insulation, finishing out the interior, etc. and now possibly cutting out the drain, inspect where/what it drains into, and repairing all of that.
When/How should I bring up this hydraulic fluid? I didn't have a new pad, or fancy epoxy flooring, it did have a few small stains from work over the last 30 years, but nothing this large; and I DID have a new footing and new pad extension for maximum allowed square footage. PLUS they started framing the side walls right away with that hydraulic puddle in the way, I'm going to have a 8ft x 6ft area of hydraulic fluid stain on my wall studs. No cat litter, no absorbent material, no cardboard put down; just kept working over it. They've already torn out many sections of the grass as they were separating the demolition into piles of siding, metals, and other items they separate (out in my lawn). They ripped out grass picking up their piles of separated recyclables and trash to haul away. How much yard damage is expected for a demolition and rebuild, before I need to bring this up. The concrete contractor had this in his contact that he would only do a rough fill after doing his extension for a larger garage. While the House roofing contractor (for the house last year) had a full cleanup in their contract. There is no job site cleanup in the construction contract to specify how much trash will be left or grass repaired, or not. I should have asked about the job site cleanup, but I made the mistake of assuming. I know some is expected, but is this all my responsibility, or is there an implied expectation for a site cleanup?
What/how should I bring this up and ask for? Attached is a picture of the mini excavator driving away from where it in broke a hose/fitting. Picture of the smaller driveway puddle, and streak to where it finally died and was abandoned in my yard, waiting for the Kabuto tech to fix it.
I haven't said anything yet about the fluid. Their is the owner, a project coordinator oversees all the current job sites, and then my job site crew lead. They also crushed my floor drain (after I covered it up with duck tape right in front of the site crew lead. I highly doubt it connected to any plumbing, not the City, and no drain out of side of the garage. I suspect it's a large pit of rock and lawn fabric to allow water to drain and naturally absorb into the ground over time without filling in with sand and fine partials from the floor I haven't swept up yet. But now I will have to pay a plumber to inspect this drain hole and (concrete) saw out the old drain, and install a new grate (or it's yet another DIY added to my large list of things to do once they are done with the basic construction.
To save money I'm; installing my own doors, installing the siding, full electrical, HVAC, insulation, finishing out the interior, etc. and now possibly cutting out the drain, inspect where/what it drains into, and repairing all of that.
When/How should I bring up this hydraulic fluid? I didn't have a new pad, or fancy epoxy flooring, it did have a few small stains from work over the last 30 years, but nothing this large; and I DID have a new footing and new pad extension for maximum allowed square footage. PLUS they started framing the side walls right away with that hydraulic puddle in the way, I'm going to have a 8ft x 6ft area of hydraulic fluid stain on my wall studs. No cat litter, no absorbent material, no cardboard put down; just kept working over it. They've already torn out many sections of the grass as they were separating the demolition into piles of siding, metals, and other items they separate (out in my lawn). They ripped out grass picking up their piles of separated recyclables and trash to haul away. How much yard damage is expected for a demolition and rebuild, before I need to bring this up. The concrete contractor had this in his contact that he would only do a rough fill after doing his extension for a larger garage. While the House roofing contractor (for the house last year) had a full cleanup in their contract. There is no job site cleanup in the construction contract to specify how much trash will be left or grass repaired, or not. I should have asked about the job site cleanup, but I made the mistake of assuming. I know some is expected, but is this all my responsibility, or is there an implied expectation for a site cleanup?
What/how should I bring this up and ask for? Attached is a picture of the mini excavator driving away from where it in broke a hose/fitting. Picture of the smaller driveway puddle, and streak to where it finally died and was abandoned in my yard, waiting for the Kabuto tech to fix it.
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