Screeding the Concrete for Leveling

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Pouring Concrete with Victory Outdoor Services #2

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What happens here

Utilize a long straight edge, such as a screed board or an aluminum screed, to level the concrete surface. This involves pulling the screed across the tops of the forms with a back-and-forth sawing motion to remove excess concrete and fill any low spots. This highly physical task ensures the concrete achieves the desired uniform height and slope, which is crucial for proper drainage and a flat surface. During this process, workers continuously adjust the concrete with rakes and ensure the wire mesh remains properly embedded.

Goal: Achieve a uniform and level concrete surface.

Tools and materials

Boots — Protecting feet while working in wet concrete
Rakes — Moving and adjusting concrete ahead of the screed
Safety Glasses — Protecting eyes from splashes and debris
Screed Board — Leveling and striking off excess concrete from the surface
Wire Pullers — Adjusting the position of the wire mesh as concrete is leveled

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[Music] it's actually a really important job because that's a hard job when you have a training 20-foot strikeoff and you're pulling three four inches of concrete down it's exhausting so the closer that the guys can get with this get the concrete almost perfect the less they have to pull yeah it makes their job a lot easier you came on a day we're doing a small job but we pour big driveways and by the end of the driveway if it's hot out you can be ready to pass out if you're especially if you're an old man yeah concrete's hard on the body i mean bugs is only 26. like i said before you want to get it as close as you can without leaving holes you know you don't want to leave it too high either yep you're good at grating so this is going to kind of come naturally so it goes like when we're prepping the base for pavers we want to yeah real tight yep yep okay okay and then if they start striking off and you see there's no concrete there's a gap on it and if it starts piling up in front of the board we're kind of working back and forth [Applause] [Music] let me get there [Applause] you getting him doing every aspect it's already pretty decent [Applause] the more holes we close up now the easier it is how many guys you got working for you uh seven fall like up yeah you know we used to have a lot of guys that's more headache than sure yeah i noticed one of the things i noticed was that the more guys i got the smaller my profit margin got and the more gray hairs they got and it just wasn't funny already in a work business good when you get thin like that yep so then back in 2007 2008 i decided to make a pretty radical move and intentionally cut my business in half and i told my manager

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