Finishing Timeline
- Place concrete within 90 minutes after it leaves the ready-mix plant.
- Screed immediately after spreading and consolidating concrete.
- Bull-float or darby as soon as possible after screening and before bleed water appears.
- Allow all bleed water to rise to the surface and evaporate; concrete should be hardened enough so that footprints are 1/4 inch deep or less.
- Edge the concrete and cut tooled joints, if desired (not necessary if saw-cutting joints).
- Float the concrete to embed aggregate, remove imperfections, and consolidate surface.
- Trowel to produce a hard, flat surface.
- Saw joints with early-entry saw in one to four hours.
- Saw joints with traditional wet-cut saw after four to 12 hours (as soon as concrete can be sawed without aggregate loosening).
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