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You can hire a vibrating tamping bar for about £150 a week I think in west wales
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Made my own, not difficult.Best place to buy new/good used beam screed? A fair amount of concrete to lay and hire machines are normally knackered/bent/dirty.
Order it wet and it wont need screeding and I did say ORDER it wet.Best place to buy new/good used beam screed? A fair amount of concrete to lay and hire machines are normally knackered/bent/dirty.
Yes used it twice then upgraded to proper magic screed as it went bang. We use these prior to power floating.
Had these lads in to lay some concrete for us
They used to like to pour 180 m3 a day with 3/4 men. The finish was with a ride on power float fitted with pans very impressed with the result
It seems to make the surface harder than a tamp or brush finish
I have a milk mans fridge base to concrete, he has suggested granite concrete as 1 fridge he has is done in that and hasn't gone aggregatey with milk crates being slid over it for years, we were thinking of power floating it, I assume your state ting this is a lot strong than just the "blue bird" float. any suggestions welcomedIdeally u will need a professional with the proper tools to do a proper job.
A powerfloat pan will pull cement via suction from the hardening concrete. This paste is then closed in with the blades over several runs to ensure a hard wearing impact resistant surface.
Concrete just closed in with a bull float will wear through fast exposing aggregates bellow and leaving a roughish surface prone to wear!
If you want grip a then pan the surface to suck up paste, then bull float to smooth top, let harden a while and a brush finish. will last far longer than a brush finish straight of the top of "green" concrete.
Also an aluminium edge that's broke in will leave a far nicer more uniform tamper finish than a gastly piece of timer.
Just my 2 cents worth...
Had these lads in to lay some concrete for us
They used to like to pour 180 m3 a day with 3/4 men. The finish was with a ride on power float fitted with pans very impressed with the result
It seems to make the surface harder than a tamp or brush finish
Around 5mMost second hand beam screeds are beat up. What width you after?
Our cold store floor was floated with one of those long handled floats.Think it was a C42 mix No wear after 9 yearsI have a milk mans fridge base to concrete, he has suggested granite concrete as 1 fridge he has is done in that and hasn't gone aggregatey with milk crates being slid over it for years, we were thinking of power floating it, I assume your state ting this is a lot strong than just the "blue bird" float. any suggestions welcomed
what do you use it for?Our cold store floor was floated with one of those long handled floats.Think it was a C42 mix No wear after 9 years
Yep. Plastic crates. 10,000 litres a weekwhat do you use it for?
is it like dragging milk crates 6 high day in day out though?
@dannewhouse Laid our cold store concrete over 100mm kingspanI have a milk mans fridge base to concrete,