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Bull Float in the Opposite Direction of Screeding

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What happens here

When bull floating the concrete, work in the opposite direction of how you screeded. If you bull float in the same direction as you screeded, the surface is more likely to be wavy and uneven. Floating in a perpendicular or opposite direction helps to consolidate the surface and create a flatter plane. A bull float pushes down any aggregate and brings a layer of paste to the surface, filling voids and smoothing the concrete.

Goal: Achieve a flatter, smoother concrete surface by bull floating in the correct direction.

Tools and materials

  • Bull Float — Smoothing and leveling the concrete surface after screeding

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hard to get off. Now we'll tap or vibrate our forms. If we don't vibrate or tap our formwork, these edges won't turn out. Screed our concrete. If we leave low spots, do a bad job screeding, and bull float the same direction as we screed, your floating is more likely to be wavy. If you get on or work on your concrete too early, you'll have low spots and ridge marks, and you'll get puddles on your concrete. If you run an edger too early and don't run it flat, you'll get rolled edges. If you

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