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Essential Concrete Finishing Tools

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Ron demonstrates various essential hand tools for concrete finishing. These include an outside corner tool and an inside corner tool for shaping the edges of steps and corners, as well as a hand float and a large bull float for smoothing wider areas. He emphasizes that selecting the correct tools and knowing how to use them is crucial for achieving a professional finish.

Goal: Identify and understand the use of various concrete finishing tools.

Tools and materials

  • Bull Float — Smoothing larger concrete surfaces from a distance
  • Hand Float — Smoothing smaller concrete surfaces
  • Inside Corner Tool — Shaping inside corners of concrete
  • Outside Corner Tool — Shaping outside corners of concrete

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dammit that makes us old all right so you've got the everything excavated out the soil you're gonna be hauling away no organic material goes beneath any concrete ever right I mean that's my rule of thumb I mean it's what's underneath it besides what you put over it so but we get rid of all the vegetation and the grass yeah topsoil basically yeah so I'm gonna jump in here because what you do beneath the concrete is gonna have a major impact on how well

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