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Mag Floating Edges and Forms

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Pouring Concrete with Victory Outdoor Services #2

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What happens here

After the initial screeding, use a mag float (a magnesium hand float) to lightly smooth the concrete along the edges and forms. This action helps to push down any larger aggregates and bring the cement paste (known as 'fat') to the surface, creating a denser and smoother edge. It also closes up any small voids or 'honeycombing' that may have occurred along the forms, establishing a clean elevation for the finished slab.

Goal: Smooth and consolidate concrete along the forms and establish initial elevation.

Tools and materials

  • Boots — Foot protection while working in wet concrete
  • Kneepads — Providing comfort and protection when working on hands and knees on the concrete surface
  • Mag Float — Smoothing, consolidating, and raising cement paste to the surface along edges and forms

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okay so i'm going to be what am i going to be doing next greeting yep okay out striking off or screening okay first thing you do is you take your mag just create the top of the form you want to establish your elevation the top of the form is your elevation so you run your maid back and forth that way you can really see what you're doing when you're pulling that screed board you can see what's going on if you just got a mess over here you got rocks on the form it's never going to ride that form so you want to clean that off let you do it okay back and forth with the mag if it's too high you just push it away you're natural yeah that's true come on man i'm already 64. oh wait for me all right so you're going to grab it with your left hand here i usually stand up you can get a lot more power on it when you're standing and you grab it like this and you ride the form so you're pushing it down onto the form and you're pulling back at the same time see nobody's puddling for us so we got so much concrete here it's really hard to do yeah i can actually see the board bending in the middle gotta ride his form so the next one you're gonna you're gonna hold the board he's gonna take him to his form and you wanna make sure you're not digging it you just want to float it over the top of that floated over the top [Music] one more time [Music] that was really good dig in a lot [Music] more easier you guys make it look easy that's fine yeah

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