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Time Concrete Working for Optimal Finish

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Avoid getting on or working on your concrete too early after pouring. If you do, you'll create low spots and visible ridge marks from your tools or body, which will lead to puddles forming on the finished surface. Wait until the concrete has stiffened sufficiently to support your weight or finishing tools without leaving deep impressions. A common indicator for hand floating is when a finger pressed into the concrete leaves about a quarter-inch depression.

Goal: Work concrete at the right consistency to avoid low spots, ridge marks, and puddles.

Tools and materials

  • Knee Boards — Distributing weight when working on wet concrete
  • Mag Float — Finishing the concrete surface to remove bull float marks and flatten

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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 keep your edger square, you'll get nice flat edges. If we bull float the opposite direction of the screed, if we wait till the right time to mag, around

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