r/Concrete

Welp... I guess it's gonna be me, after all.

I don’t have questions or complaints about this. I just want to say it looks amazing. I can’t wait to see how it looks after backfilling.

The only slight disappointment is this gap between my walkway and the house. Do you know what I can put in here to protect the foundation and make it look better? I might be jumping the gun, too. He’s not done yet.

But I sure do like the look of fresh concrete! I couldn’t help but take photos.

P.S. is cure and seal necessary for this? It's been a very wet month. These are the only two dry days we've had, and it'll probably rain again within the next 7 days. He says he will apply salt guard to it after 30 days, but he never said a word about cure and seal. With how much it has been raining, it may not be needed. I just don't know enough about concrete work. 🤷

My guys did this resurfacing job, why is the color like this after two weeks.

Green lines would be wet joints. Thoughts?

I've been with digital concrete as a technician for 9 years. This One of many jobs

Kyle Petersen

GCing a house and finding a concrete guy to form and pour this has been difficult. How would you form this upper garage slab around the perimeter so it's flush with the wall?

This backyard has been an ongoing DIY project over several years. I poured and stamped the concrete in phases, then hand-colored many of the decorative features using concrete stains instead of leaving them plain. The compass medallion, butterfly, dragonfly, lizard impressions, and other details were all colored by hand. Here's a quick walkthrough of the finished result. Happy to answer any questions about the process or materials.

I had never formed anything like this before. Had formed a few residential footing/stem wall and slab foundations.
Considered using MDO and snap ties, but started looking into how form work is built with those i decided to board form it, simply due to lack of experience in forming with snap ties.
Also lacked experience in having a sense of how strong is strong enough. So it’s got wedge ties every 12” or something like that about half way up, then I increased the spacing, can’t remember the spacing. Also have vertical double 2x4 strong backs that are held together each side with threaded rod, washers and nuts, bottom, middle and top. Built a cat walk to work on around the outside perimeter.

Noticed this in my local Walmart. Ground edges at the control joints had been ground to level high spots and exposed this little artifact.

Brother was steamfitter 30+ years he recently passed coming across tools , bits Any info on Diamond 3” diameter Core Bore premium black wet core bit
Never used 11” length

A client 3 days after my concrete washing called me back to mention that it looks like I took the cream off the top of her concrete ? I have to admit I’ve never heard of this before and was left speechless. I told her that often times the markings after a thorough cleaning seem different as the before and after on concrete can have a stark contrast!

Did I really take the cream off or just expose markings underneath the dirt ? (no surface cleaner was used, just the wand, the circles for sure weren’t from me)