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A foreman in Tulsa told me to stop adding water to my mix, and my slabs look better now
I was pouring a 12x20 patio in Tulsa three months back and the mix kept stiffening up on me. The foreman walked over and said I was killing the strength by adding water at the truck. He made me use a plasticizer instead, and the finish came out way cleaner with fewer craze cracks after it cured. I always thought a little extra water was harmless but I guess I was wrong the whole time. Has anyone else had a foreman call them out on this, or do some of you still water it down when it gets stiff?
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paul_owens2514d ago
Did the foreman also tell you to stop eating gas station burritos before a pour? Because I learned that lesson the hard way on a slab last summer, and let me tell you, the crew was not happy with me. But yeah, on the water thing, I used to be the worst about it. Truck shows up, mix is stiff, I'm standing there with the hose like I'm watering my grandma's tomatoes. Had a guy on a job in Broken Arrow chew me out for it too, said I was pouring weak concrete and I'd be back patching cracks in a year. He was right, because that driveway looked like a road map by the next spring. Once I switched to a plasticizer and left the water alone, the finish started coming out way better and the cracks pretty much stopped.
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