Hot tub pad in progress... 🛁 #shorts
Video by Mike Day Concrete (Everything About Concrete) · 1 moment used in Oak Valley Designs's DIY guides · 1:01 long
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- 0:24–1:01 Screed the Concrete Surface
From How to Pour a Concrete Landing Pad for Deck Stairs, Step 6: Screed the Concrete
Once the concrete has been roughly spread, use a long, straight screed board (which can be a piece of dimensional lumber like a 2x4, or a specialized aluminum screed) to level the surface. Position the screed board across the formwork, ensuring its ends rest securely on the top edges of the forms. Move the screed board back and forth in a sawing motion, while simultaneously pulling it forward across the concrete. This action effectively removes any high spots of concrete and fills in any low spots, ensuring a consistently flat and level surface across the entire slab. Repeat this process as needed until the entire slab meets the desired grade and consistency.
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0:02 Finishing pod is coming right up here in a in another minute or two, so make sure you can see how that skid steer just puts the concrete right in there for us. So much easier than wheelbarrowing. I'm getting the edges mag. Darren and Tia breaking down the concrete, getting it leveled out with the rakes. And then I'm going to jump right on the screed and get it screeded. The homeowner's going to end up putting a a nice hot tub on this part, this section here. So they're going to have a I don't know, like an eight-person hot tub on it. And then, you know, the other slab will
0:47 be like a little bit of a sitting area, like a patio area where they have their cookouts and stuff like that. So once they get all the the slab areas done and landscaping done, it's going to be a pretty nice-looking area in the back.
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