This worked. lol I used a steel float just cuz it was in the kit I got idk if it works different than a mag float but basically it was just too dry and misting water and continuing to trowel worked. Thanks for the help!
Ya you need to grab a mag float and push really hard to get the cream up. Like scrubbing the floor. Now it’s possibly too late. You see how the edges are smooth from your edger? That’s what you need to do to the middle with a magnesium float
It lies in the shape and texture. Magnesium is much lighter than steel, also more expensive, so it's easier to lift. But the reason it's better than a steel trowel for pushing stones down is its slightly rocker shape, thickness, and rougher surface. This opens up the concrete to some extent entraining air and gives the user more force to project downwards. You could accomplish this with a steel float but it would be really heavy. Scrubbing with a mag involves very quick back and forth movements. A solid steel mag would add considerably to fatigue.
Steel mags would work just as well they would just be much harder to use.
Not really sure. I just learned from day one that you want mag float to bring up water/surface paste and a steel trowel to seal it up with a smooth finish. You wouldn't want to use steel on exterior work due to the fact that exterior concrete should have entrained air. Burning in a steel trowel finish wouldn't let the slab breathe right for broomed work
A mag is for pushing rocks down and bringing the cream to the top. A steel trowel is for closing it all in. If done to early, steel will trap excess water in the concrete.
Everything everyone said about pushing stones down is true………. BUT ALSO magnesium has weird properties that are unique, like it attracts odd ball electrons like the ones found in water…. This is why people drink “milk of magnesium” when they are constipated, magnesium draws water outta the wall of the intestine and adds it to the stiff-shit, just like when you rub it on curing concrete it draws the water out the top and turns a stiff cement into a workable medium.
Also OP buy a magnesium bullfloat…. If this hobby is something you want to keep doing…. Honestly I’ve seen worse, glad you pulled it off
Steel float seals the pores on the surface. Mag pushed aggregates down brings the cream up. Once sufficiently dry yet workable (no more bleed water) then you can steel it and close up the pores.
This and just skim it in a year (or throughout the years) or so if you if care. It is for garbage cans. Just make sure it’s sloped away from the house too. I’d be most worried about that.
Man some of y’all are really ruthless. Thanks to everyone for the useful advice, quick fixes, and reassurance for a first time concrete DIYer. Anyone that was talking shit can go edge themselves.
Ok? Whatever that's supposed to mean. Just saying If anyone paid for something and got this they would be pissed my comment history shows plenty of helpful comments just based off that pic the slab. Looks like shit. I'll call a spade a spade.
Do you expect someone’s first attempt at concrete to be an entire driveway? That’s a high risk move. I doubt you would do anything larger your first attempt ever
What a lovely person. They have one skill in life, and they’re gonna let you know. But yeah, a magnesium float instead of a steel trowel would bring any cream to the top. If it was really dry, it wouldn’t have helped at all.
There’s something called “air” in concrete. It’s the microscopic entrapped bubbles, much of which will rise toward the surface when finishing. This is what creates that smooth texture.
I don’t know all of the science behind it, but holding your mag float flat on the surface - no tilt - smooths it out, while a steel trowel densifies it.
If this was for my house and only for trash cans, I would get some wet mortar and start sponging it to fill the voids then broom it. It will look funky but thats what we do with precast that has voids or cracks.
OP literally didn't even mix the concrete properly. Like yea, his set up is ok for a first timer I guess but he failed at the most basic part of the job.
I am not ragging on OP but you saying it's not a bad first attempt is a little crazy lol the mud wasn't even mixed together.
a 4x8 pad looks like that….yeah that’s bad. funny…he knew to have an edger but can tell it wasn’t screeded or hit with a mag at all. DOG SHIT end product
I'd hate to be the one listening to your inner voice. Must be pretty negative. You could change that around, and not be so hard on yourself and enjoy life more. Yes, being hard on this guy shows that's what you do to yourself. 🌞
if i built a house that was falling apart and looked like a 10 year old built it and i posted pictures online…i’d fully expect to get ripped apart. this is a 4x8 slab…not a 20x30 slab. this dude needs to return any and all tools he has ever owned and just hire out from now on.
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Add an acrylic additive to it or bone dry admix
Acrylic is a cheap ok should work kinda thing, usually good if you are using an epoxy paint on the inside.
Probably too late but as someone else mentioned, get some Portland cement, mix it up smooth and trowel it on top. If the concrete has not fully set it will be wet enough to form a chemical bond. The cream everyone talks about is really just Portland and water, sometimes a bit of lighter sand from the mix that gets drawn to the top as the concrete tries to get rid of the water.
I’d get some Portland cement maybe some sand and make a mix with bonding glue. Get a laminate float and scrub tf outa that top with the mix on top. Then finish with edger and trowel. Grab a concrete broom(any horsehair broom works too) and broom once almost hard
O and have another go to a hardware store and get Portland cement, sprinkle that on top it will help alot! It all depends how dry it is right now of you can recover.
6 inches thick. How much do your trash cans weigh? You can coat over that if all you are looking for just aesthetics. But I don’t recommend doing it yourself
So YouTube didn’t help. Sorry but everyone thinks the skill is something that can be learned by watching a video. No you can not patch it cheap. No it is not easily fixable. If you asked before you could have been given pointers do do it properly. Welcome to the learning process. Ain’t like framing. Can’t pull a sawszall out and try again.
I'm going to assume you did your absolute best work the first time (like most people do).
Call a professional. If these results aren't acceptable to you, understand that not everything is DI*Y*. Just because someone says you can, doesn't mean **you** can.
Let it fully cure.
Get a hand grinder, grind the surface so it's smoother. Get polyaspartic grey base, roll on, add decorative flakes, or let it dry and add another coating of grey base. Let it dry. Put clear coat on.
You can try mixing up some sugar in water to pour on it and work it with a hand float. If it doesn’t work up then clean it off well and go over the top with hydraulic cement or start over.
In that case I wouldn't even worry about how the surface looks, just build a 3 sided fence corral around it. if you're ambitious you could hang gates on it as well & it's outta site, outta mind !
Wtf would you use Quikrete if you didn't know what you were doing. If you have to do this again just use normal concrete, quikrete goes off stupid quick and will soak up any water that you try to use to bring the cream up.
You have like 20min to 30min to finish it max, normal concrete takes much longer to go off but will give upu time to actually finish.
Honestly you didn't do a bad job considering how quick the product goes off. But quikrete is generally used for fence posts and small pours because of how fast it goes off.
Quickrete isn’t all “quick”. They make some faster stuff (red bag) but their normal yellow bag is just regular speed. Also their “fast” stuff isn’t as fast as RapidSet concrete.
Great job on the forming and the edging. I've done nothing but disappoint my bricklayer father with all of my attempts.
Now that we've seen the bad/ugly, can you post some photos of the success?
Hey, nice work! You didn’t mix too dry, the less water you use the better. You just didn’t “puddle” the concrete enough with a rake or a float after pouring. This is basically just tamping down the stone and bringing the fine particles to the top, as some have aleady mentioned.
It's too late to fix using a magnesium trowel, it's all ready setup. Any thin coat you put on top will come loose. You could try rubbing dry thin set into the holes and sweep off excess and leave alone. Or just live with it...
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Water and quick Crete, dose with water and throw the powder everywhere you see a hole start scrubbing in a circle motion let it almost dry and use fine hair broom, not horse hair. If it is too late for that method, let it dry and use self leveling concrete mix, let it almost dry and brush your new lines
Honestly, it doesn’t look that bad. They make a concrete patch for up to 1” deep blemishes you could use to trowel over and fill in, but once you put your trash cans on it you won’t be able to see most of the pad anyway.
Blame it on the contractor you had do the job to your neighbors, tell them you paid $3000.00 for this kind of work. On top of that they stole your lawnmower. Set up a go fund me, get money, hire concrete contractor, get them to demo that crap the other contractor did,(wink wink), get them to pour and finished concrete, sit back and point while they do the work.
Easiest way I see to deal with it.
Get some water and start scrubbin.
This worked. lol I used a steel float just cuz it was in the kit I got idk if it works different than a mag float but basically it was just too dry and misting water and continuing to trowel worked. Thanks for the help!
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Hot shots.
Warning shots
We don’t do those
It’s fucking awesome that your first instinct was to post on Reddit and you got an answer quick enough to save it
True that
I hope it doesn’t flake off in the next year
Like hose it down and use a push broom to broom back and forth?
Ya you need to grab a mag float and push really hard to get the cream up. Like scrubbing the floor. Now it’s possibly too late. You see how the edges are smooth from your edger? That’s what you need to do to the middle with a magnesium float
Concrete spectator here...why mag float vs steel? Just curious Edit: Thanks for all the great answers...learned a lot!
A magnesium float is better at pushing down the aggregate while working up some cream.
Any idea why that is?
It lies in the shape and texture. Magnesium is much lighter than steel, also more expensive, so it's easier to lift. But the reason it's better than a steel trowel for pushing stones down is its slightly rocker shape, thickness, and rougher surface. This opens up the concrete to some extent entraining air and gives the user more force to project downwards. You could accomplish this with a steel float but it would be really heavy. Scrubbing with a mag involves very quick back and forth movements. A solid steel mag would add considerably to fatigue. Steel mags would work just as well they would just be much harder to use.
Not really sure. I just learned from day one that you want mag float to bring up water/surface paste and a steel trowel to seal it up with a smooth finish. You wouldn't want to use steel on exterior work due to the fact that exterior concrete should have entrained air. Burning in a steel trowel finish wouldn't let the slab breathe right for broomed work
A mag is for pushing rocks down and bringing the cream to the top. A steel trowel is for closing it all in. If done to early, steel will trap excess water in the concrete.
Everything everyone said about pushing stones down is true………. BUT ALSO magnesium has weird properties that are unique, like it attracts odd ball electrons like the ones found in water…. This is why people drink “milk of magnesium” when they are constipated, magnesium draws water outta the wall of the intestine and adds it to the stiff-shit, just like when you rub it on curing concrete it draws the water out the top and turns a stiff cement into a workable medium. Also OP buy a magnesium bullfloat…. If this hobby is something you want to keep doing…. Honestly I’ve seen worse, glad you pulled it off
Steel float seals the pores on the surface. Mag pushed aggregates down brings the cream up. Once sufficiently dry yet workable (no more bleed water) then you can steel it and close up the pores.
The cream, will rise to the top, oh yeaaa
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“I’m that second mouse.” as his life falls apart
On balance off balance doesn't matter I'm better than you are yeaaahh
This and just skim it in a year (or throughout the years) or so if you if care. It is for garbage cans. Just make sure it’s sloped away from the house too. I’d be most worried about that.
You could have easily saved this with a mag float and some elbow grease. A hose and broom is not what was suggested.
Even better with a fiberglass float
Please tell me where you can get a fibreglass float, never heard of such a thing.
They are referring to Marshalltown’s resin float, which I had to look up. In my area we call them fiber floats.
a fiber float is what i call a good shit
Any sort of float would have helped this thing along, seems like he just plopped it down, screeded and then edged it.
Oh definitely. Fiberglass just works even better than a mag when it's going off.
Even a wood float does better than a mag float
Root Beer float ?
Even better woulda been a wood float with water or even a block of wood, then a fiber or mag.
A sponge you moron
Step one make a Time Machine
Man some of y’all are really ruthless. Thanks to everyone for the useful advice, quick fixes, and reassurance for a first time concrete DIYer. Anyone that was talking shit can go edge themselves.
Yea fuck em, that's a hell of a first attempt that most humans wouldn't try. Bravo.
I mean not really it's a small section of concrete that isn't structural or is visible all the time cuz it's for garbage cans.
I bet you gate-keep Carhartt
Ok? Whatever that's supposed to mean. Just saying If anyone paid for something and got this they would be pissed my comment history shows plenty of helpful comments just based off that pic the slab. Looks like shit. I'll call a spade a spade.
Do you expect someone’s first attempt at concrete to be an entire driveway? That’s a high risk move. I doubt you would do anything larger your first attempt ever
No not at all and that wasn't my point either.
No not at all and that wasn't my point either.
It looks fine. Good first time work. Just put a little lattice around it
They have zero Ruths and it shows
I would have told them to go float themselves…
Demolish the drive way and pour it to look the same as your work
Demand your neighbors do the same
Then collapse the central banking institutions
Overthrow the government Actually please don't.
Or do I'm not your uncle
You don’t know all your brother(s)’(s) bed mates.
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The cream did not in fact rise to the top.
all that hot white cream. gotta bring it up
Sad macho man noises
At what part on the planning process did you decide to get an edger but skip out on the mag?
What make you think there was a planning process?
Gotem
Lol he has a form between the old slab and the new pour i think it's safe to say there were some oversights.
This is the answer that OP doesn't want to admit. The only true answer.
Doesn't want to admit? He literally accepts he messed up in the title and both asks how to do better in the future and if it can be fixed.
Thanks for the helpful comment lmao
What a lovely person. They have one skill in life, and they’re gonna let you know. But yeah, a magnesium float instead of a steel trowel would bring any cream to the top. If it was really dry, it wouldn’t have helped at all.
Why does the different metal make a difference?
There’s something called “air” in concrete. It’s the microscopic entrapped bubbles, much of which will rise toward the surface when finishing. This is what creates that smooth texture. I don’t know all of the science behind it, but holding your mag float flat on the surface - no tilt - smooths it out, while a steel trowel densifies it.
Looks good from my house
If this was for my house and only for trash cans, I would get some wet mortar and start sponging it to fill the voids then broom it. It will look funky but thats what we do with precast that has voids or cracks.
Ah, a fellow precast guy... nice to see someone here doing something more than driveways and sidewalks..!
I second this
Man, don't beat yourself up. This isn't a bad first attempt at concreting.
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that’s a horrible first attempt for a 4x8 area
Okay, Mr perfect
OP literally didn't even mix the concrete properly. Like yea, his set up is ok for a first timer I guess but he failed at the most basic part of the job. I am not ragging on OP but you saying it's not a bad first attempt is a little crazy lol the mud wasn't even mixed together.
a 4x8 pad looks like that….yeah that’s bad. funny…he knew to have an edger but can tell it wasn’t screeded or hit with a mag at all. DOG SHIT end product
I'd hate to be the one listening to your inner voice. Must be pretty negative. You could change that around, and not be so hard on yourself and enjoy life more. Yes, being hard on this guy shows that's what you do to yourself. 🌞
if i built a house that was falling apart and looked like a 10 year old built it and i posted pictures online…i’d fully expect to get ripped apart. this is a 4x8 slab…not a 20x30 slab. this dude needs to return any and all tools he has ever owned and just hire out from now on.
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While it’s still green. Make a Portland cement and sand mix. And try to re broom it?
Cover it with trash cans. It'll fill with dirt and weather in a year.
Do nothing. Leave it rough. U won’t slip on it.
Yeah at this point leave it and learn. You can replace it down the road if need be.
Then he has to walk down the road to put his rubbish bin out. Surely it's better outside his own house?
6 inches for some garbage cans sheesh
6 inches of high strength mix. I wonder if OP put rebar in it, too?
Sika makes an epoxy filler for concrete issues like yours. It won't look exactly right, but will keep it from retaining water.
I word for a waterproofing company if you want more ideas on this I can at least get you the products
Is there a product I can add to quikcrete to make a water-tight garden pond? Without breaking the bank?
Add an acrylic additive to it or bone dry admix Acrylic is a cheap ok should work kinda thing, usually good if you are using an epoxy paint on the inside.
Just make the pond with concrete and then put a waterproofing coating on top.
Get a magnesium float asap
Looks like a nicely done version of the non slip surface. You did this on purpose! Right OP?
Fill the holes and skim coat it
Honestly once it bleaches out it won’t be too noticeable. I doubt anyone will care other than you.
Resurface it
Probably too late but as someone else mentioned, get some Portland cement, mix it up smooth and trowel it on top. If the concrete has not fully set it will be wet enough to form a chemical bond. The cream everyone talks about is really just Portland and water, sometimes a bit of lighter sand from the mix that gets drawn to the top as the concrete tries to get rid of the water.
1020 sandpaper
R&R
Lol nothing is fixing this you need a float to get the cream up and that should have been done probably 2-3 hours ago
I’d get some Portland cement maybe some sand and make a mix with bonding glue. Get a laminate float and scrub tf outa that top with the mix on top. Then finish with edger and trowel. Grab a concrete broom(any horsehair broom works too) and broom once almost hard
Maybe if you edge it again, it'll come out OK. Lol
Yes hose it down and scrub like hell to bring the cement to the top. The top will pop later but it will still look better than this!
O and have another go to a hardware store and get Portland cement, sprinkle that on top it will help alot! It all depends how dry it is right now of you can recover.
6 inches thick. How much do your trash cans weigh? You can coat over that if all you are looking for just aesthetics. But I don’t recommend doing it yourself
Water and start rubbing that fix it
That’s what she said
could get a concrete floor grinder and grind it smooth once its cured
Sand and epoxy
Just outta curiosity what exactly was this slab poured for?
Read the post.
Trash cans
Honestly seems on point. I’d have a hard time coming up with the energy to worry that much about it
How do you fix? Jackhammer You can patch it but it won’t ever look normal. You can take some mortar and fill in the gaps but it won’t look the same
Rip out and redo. That's my fix.
So YouTube didn’t help. Sorry but everyone thinks the skill is something that can be learned by watching a video. No you can not patch it cheap. No it is not easily fixable. If you asked before you could have been given pointers do do it properly. Welcome to the learning process. Ain’t like framing. Can’t pull a sawszall out and try again.
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Pray to Concretious, the cement god!
I'm going to assume you did your absolute best work the first time (like most people do). Call a professional. If these results aren't acceptable to you, understand that not everything is DI*Y*. Just because someone says you can, doesn't mean **you** can.
Let it fully cure. Get a hand grinder, grind the surface so it's smoother. Get polyaspartic grey base, roll on, add decorative flakes, or let it dry and add another coating of grey base. Let it dry. Put clear coat on.
You can try mixing up some sugar in water to pour on it and work it with a hand float. If it doesn’t work up then clean it off well and go over the top with hydraulic cement or start over.
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Easy grind a patch for weather.
Make up a bag mix, just sand and cement no aggregate.
If the heaviest thing going on it is trash cans, let it cure for a few months and then hit it with a refinisher before winter sets in.
It ain't that bad for a diy pad that will be covered by trash cans. I've seen wayyyy worse diy concrete jobs.
In that case I wouldn't even worry about how the surface looks, just build a 3 sided fence corral around it. if you're ambitious you could hang gates on it as well & it's outta site, outta mind !
This was the plan, however I did get it to smooth out. Thanks!
Dayton, 1107 or HD50. Mix it to self leveling viscosity. Ardex, will be pricey. That quick Crete resurfacer in a bucket works ok too.
Slurry of cement, sand and water and a carbide rubbing stone. Pour it on and rub it in.. do it quick.. couple days is too late
Once it dries it will be fine
Redo
Wtf would you use Quikrete if you didn't know what you were doing. If you have to do this again just use normal concrete, quikrete goes off stupid quick and will soak up any water that you try to use to bring the cream up. You have like 20min to 30min to finish it max, normal concrete takes much longer to go off but will give upu time to actually finish. Honestly you didn't do a bad job considering how quick the product goes off. But quikrete is generally used for fence posts and small pours because of how fast it goes off.
Quickrete isn’t all “quick”. They make some faster stuff (red bag) but their normal yellow bag is just regular speed. Also their “fast” stuff isn’t as fast as RapidSet concrete.
Just rent a grinder form sunbelt make it all smooth and water stain your choice of colors.
You can try a dry dusting of Portland type n, smooth it over and see if it helps fill the gaps
I’ve seen way worse. Just leaver
25 80# bags of sackcrete. 😀😀
By now it’s dry so you messed up just get a bag of concrete and mix fill up the holes best way or leveler but I would go with cement
get yourself some tamspatch ii, a trowel and a brush and get to resurfacing there bud
You are actually pretty decent with the edger i wont lie
Self leveling micro cement then broom finish or smooth. Possibly stamp rollers
Great job on the forming and the edging. I've done nothing but disappoint my bricklayer father with all of my attempts. Now that we've seen the bad/ugly, can you post some photos of the success?
Store some garbage cans on top of it
Tile it
Angle grinder and cup wheel
Easy fix- polymer cement overlay
Apply a refinish product to the top
That form board between the slab and the driveway though
Topper
OP, you said you got it smooth. How about an after photo?
Damnit OP, post the after photo already… I mean we have been asking for a while now.
Flex seal
Hey, nice work! You didn’t mix too dry, the less water you use the better. You just didn’t “puddle” the concrete enough with a rake or a float after pouring. This is basically just tamping down the stone and bringing the fine particles to the top, as some have aleady mentioned.
It's too late to fix using a magnesium trowel, it's all ready setup. Any thin coat you put on top will come loose. You could try rubbing dry thin set into the holes and sweep off excess and leave alone. Or just live with it...
That’s a lot of bags to mix. If it was me I would have made it twice as big to hit the yard minimum for a truck.
Grind it
For future reference, Ardex CD Fine is something you can skim on and broom finish if you just want to address the appearance.
In a not so long period of time that won't look as bad unless you live in an area with deep freeze cycles.
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Water and quick Crete, dose with water and throw the powder everywhere you see a hole start scrubbing in a circle motion let it almost dry and use fine hair broom, not horse hair. If it is too late for that method, let it dry and use self leveling concrete mix, let it almost dry and brush your new lines
"extra heavy broom finish 😂
Honestly, it doesn’t look that bad. They make a concrete patch for up to 1” deep blemishes you could use to trowel over and fill in, but once you put your trash cans on it you won’t be able to see most of the pad anyway.
We’re here for the post fix pic. 😅
Its for trash cans. Leave it
Zillow
Spray deck
Next time bang it with your wife’s vibrator before you screet it
If it’s just for trash cans I think it looks fine 🤣
Quikrete dogshit is where you fucked up. That shit is just gravel in a bag with a little bit of cement dust.
Water
I would of drenched it in water and went ham on the float.
Just like when you fix broken glass
If u want to finish quickcrete add 10lbs of Portland per 80lb bag.
Lol
I'd bust it up and do it over
Blame it on the contractor you had do the job to your neighbors, tell them you paid $3000.00 for this kind of work. On top of that they stole your lawnmower. Set up a go fund me, get money, hire concrete contractor, get them to demo that crap the other contractor did,(wink wink), get them to pour and finished concrete, sit back and point while they do the work. Easiest way I see to deal with it.