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Nobody tells new guys to check their screed before the first pour and it cost me 3 hours in Tulsa
Honestly I finally got my first solo pour on a 40x60 shop slab in Tulsa last week and it went smooth as glass. The thing nobody warned me about is checking your screed for bends before you start. I grabbed a 14 foot magnesium screed off the rack and it had a slight bow I never noticed, so I fought low spots for 3 hours thinking it was my technique. Took 2 guys to help me figure out the tool was the problem, not me. Swapped to a straight one and the finishers told me they check theirs with a string line every Monday. Cost me half a day of production but I still got it poured and finished before the sun set. Ngl though I wish someone told me that 6 months ago when I was green. Anyone else keep a string line in their truck just for checking tools?
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tyler_martinez2d ago
Man I felt this in my soul. My first time running a screed I was so green I didn't even know mag screeds could bend, I just assumed the concrete was out to get me personally. Spent like two hours chasing the same low spot back and forth like a idiot before the old guy on the crew picked up my screed, eyeballed it down the edge, and started laughing at me. That sound when a bowed screed hits the mud, kinda wobbly singing noise? Never gonna forget it. I keep a chalk line in the truck now for the same reason the finishers do, and I check every screed before it goes in the rack at the end of the day. Half a day of learning but you only make that mistake once.
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