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[Pan mixer]

Pan mixer will be drying his eyes!!!!!

I am familiar with the names of several different types of concrete finishes - tamp, wooden float, steel float and brush finish.

I don't recall the name for that finish though?

Suggestions - 'In a hurry' 'couldn't be bothered' 'the wife went out and I was on my own' 'It was lunchtime when the lorry turned up'

Any of those?

 

[Philip Watkins]

Nice,smooth ,just like jazz

More like jizz

 

[Steevo]

I am familiar with the names of several different types of concrete finishes - tamp, wooden float, steel float and brush finish.

I don't recall the name for that finish though?

Suggestions - 'In a hurry' 'couldn't be bothered' 'the wife went out and I was on my own' 'It was lunchtime when the lorry turned up'

Any of those?

Modern art

 

[Lincsman]

I am familiar with the names of several different types of concrete finishes - tamp, wooden float, steel float and brush finish.

I don't recall the name for that finish though?

Suggestions - 'In a hurry' 'couldn't be bothered' 'the wife went out and I was on my own' 'It was lunchtime when the lorry turned up'

Any of those?

Anti slip.

 

[phillipe]

feckin rough

 

[Willie adie]

I am familiar with the names of several different types of concrete finishes - tamp, wooden float, steel float and brush finish.

I don't recall the name for that finish though?

Suggestions - 'In a hurry' 'couldn't be bothered' 'the wife went out and I was on my own' 'It was lunchtime when the lorry turned up'

Any of those?

Are you familiar with the finish.
Too tight to get job correctly so will make a slap dash job using a sleeper and back of shovel.

As thats the finish he went for at to be fair we pulled it off

 

[phillipe]

Are you familiar with the finish.
Too tight to get job correctly so will make a slap dash job using a sleeper and back of shovel.

As thats the finish he went for at to be fair we pulled it off

you can only do what is asked of you

 

[haulmblower]

"Rustic"

 

[Pan mixer]

"Rustic"

Rough

 

[David.]

In his defence, if you are not going to break up the original knackered concrete and re-lay the lot properly, then you might as well bodge the worst of the holes up.

 

[Pan mixer]

In his defence, if you are not going to break up the original knackered concrete and re-lay the lot properly, then you might as well bodge the worst of the holes up.

Would be easier to call that bit hardcore or oversight and put 6 more inches on top properly.

 

[Ukjay]

you can only do what is asked of you

There is no way on this earth I would put my name to something like that - I would rather have walked, as it is a legacy of your skills and that is quite a large memory for people to ponder over!

 

[phillipe]

There is no way on this earth I would put my name to something like that - I would rather have walked, as it is a legacy of your skills and that is quite a large memory for people to ponder over!

Joke?

 

[michael N123]

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Why not just do a proper job while your on

 

[Willie adie]

Why not just do a proper job while your on

I did suggest a proper job but why spend money on doing it correctly when you scrimp on everything else

 

[Davy_g]

I set up all the levels and boards around the perimeter. Use a chalk line if concreting up to a wall.
If the finish surface is level I order 120 slump, 30 or 35n (depends on the weather so it goes off during the day) with 10mil stone - sometimes with fibres if I think it's required. A good man on the lorry, my dad on the chute and me and a good mate on rakes. We have 8m off in 20 minutes.
While the lorry is bringing the return load we tamp the concrete once correcting any highs or lows and set up anything for the next load.
Use a bull float to take out the tamp marks and leave it to finish with the power float.
For cattle I power float with the pan once then finish with one pass on the blades, do the edges with a steel hand float.
If it's a workshop floor I powerfloat with the blades till it's polished.

If the finished surface is sloped I order standard slump of 80. Sometimes 70 depending on the slope

 

[Aw Build]

Roller screed sometimes called a Bunyan roller is what we use Concrete at 80 slump. We can do bays up to 6m wide generally 3 men 2 on the roller one with a rake in front makes light work of it. Surface can then either be tamped or brushed depending on application.

 

[dannewhouse]

anyone had a similar problem to this:

ordered 16 cube + make up load

1st 8 cube came was supposed to be 120 slump and by the time we got to unloading the last dumper load (couldn't get wagon in due to skidding) it wouldn't even flow down the shoot, after we had him put his tank of water in to help it flow. we laid 3.5 cube the rest was just solid tracked a mini digger on it at 6" thick and only put tread marks in it only 1hr after putting last bit down.

this morning the 3.5 cube we laid is very dark as appose to nearly white like new conc and you can still mark it with finger nail.

it was supposed to be rc 40 with fibres in

 

[Lincsman]

anyone had a similar problem to this:

ordered 16 cube + make up load

1st 8 cube came was supposed to be 120 slump and by the time we got to unloading the last dumper load (couldn't get wagon in due to skidding) it wouldn't even flow down the shoot, after we had him put his tank of water in to help it flow. we laid 3.5 cube the rest was just solid tracked a mini digger on it at 6" thick and only put tread marks in it only 1hr after putting last bit down.

this morning the 3.5 cube we laid is very dark as appose to nearly white like new conc and you can still mark it with finger nail.

it was supposed to be rc 40 with fibres in

Should have sent it back, a local job being done by a big utility seems to be rejecting more than keeping, local farmers are getting lots for free!

 

[RWG Contracts]

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