Dry Pour Concrete
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- 0:52–0:54 Remove Formwork
From How to Pour a Concrete Landing Pad for Deck Stairs, Step 10: Remove Formwork
After the concrete has cured for at least 24 hours (or longer, depending on the mix and conditions), carefully remove the wooden formwork. Gently pry the boards away from the concrete, taking care not to damage the edges of the newly formed concrete strip. The concrete should be hard enough to stand on its own and retain its shape.
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0:02 you know how to make the internet really mad at you you dry pour some concrete so let's do it again the concrete that goes around the pool was poured in a standard form with a concrete truck Etc and it looks terrible so I decided to dry pour this piece as well which will hold our cover after tamping down some crushed stone and building a form I got some quickr and I filled the form about halfway up and then added some rebar once the rebar was in place I filled the form the rest of the way and began to screed across the top this took a minute but I didn't have to worry about concrete setting up on me yet because it wasn't wet and then I misted with our first misting setting and waited then I realized I forgot to add our control joints so I went ahead and did that before my next missing an hour later I watered every hour for a total of about six times concrete is extremely porous and it will soak all the water up into
0:48 the middle and everywhere it needs to it also pulls water up from the ground then I removed the form and it looks so good the other dry pour that I did is holding up really well and I'm wishing I would have done this all the way around the pool
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