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Finish Edges and Prepare for Stamping

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Amazing Stamped Concrete Job Start to Finish...Design, footings, Cost?

What happens here

After the initial leveling, workers use a concrete edger (trowel) to round and smooth the edges of the concrete slab. This provides a neat, durable edge and prevents chipping. They also continue to float the surface to achieve a smooth finish, ensuring that the concrete is perfectly flat and ready for the stamping process. The presenter highlights the importance of proper water drainage by mentioning that the concrete is sloped away from the building and garage doors, and towards specific gutters to prevent water accumulation. This step is crucial before applying the color release and texture mats.

Goal: The edges of the concrete are rounded using a finishing tool, and the overall surface is floated smooth before applying the release agent and stamps.

Tools and materials

  • Concrete Edger (Trowel)
  • Hand Floats

What they say

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[Music] we're getting to the point where we're about to start stamping now there's something that you need to know water water and more water we got to think about water this entire time once this is hardened we'll get a little bit better shot of where water is supposed to flow there's actually a slope that goes up to that door and once we start building it out over here there'll be a slope that goes up to each individual garage door this will be broomed concrete and you'll see that in the next video this will be stamped concrete now there's a slope away from the door so water doesn't flow toward the door there's also a slope away from the building so water flows away from the building there's also a slope away from that gutter right there so water flows that way and then there's another gutter over here so water flows this way so there's a lot of thought that goes into getting water away from the building what he's doing right here guys is rolling the nose over right here you can see that way water sheds off appropriately and it has a nice finished look again there's a slope from about here out this way so water that comes from that gutter goes out and down eventually we'll have it plumbed out here then we'll go underground that way so you got to wipe these down good before you put them on there yes very good to release them to the previous job all gotcha and the release is powder it's in a bucket over there and you'll throw the dust on is that right yep and it helps preventing the mat from sticking okay through the concrete and give it a contrast of color so they've got it all trowed out now it's really smooth and the next part of this is they're going to put this Redwood releasing agent on here Redwood

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