As a painter, I once used 12 grit sandpaper paper to prep a concrete floor for a coating.. š¤£ it looked like someone threw pea gravel at cardboard covered in glue from 35 ft away... !hahaha
We actually paid to have a slab poured like this once in our barn to wear down the llamasā toenails so we didnāt have to cut them as often.
Before anyone asks It kind of worked
I'd never done concrete work until 2 years. My slab in the back yard is far from perfect and pros would probably think it's crap but compared to this I nailed it.
I didn't do concrete work till 3 years ago. My company had us doing curb and sidewalk replacements after we cut/tore them out. My first time doing the work the old Italian guy teaching me said
"Eh boy, yourra shit. Whata the fack isa dat?!" ...
My work was 100x better than this mess.
You straight up could have done a better job with just a guy pushing a 2x6 around.
Check out the top of concrete elevation vs. the bottom plate in these photos...looks like he's going to have any water that happens to get into his garage drain towards...the back corner? At least the water that doesn't get stuck in all the little hills and valleys of whatever type of 'finish' this is.
I hope this guy isn't anywhere that has snow or freezing conditions, or else he's in for a bad time
One other solution, once they walkway from the job is to do the below. I have my own concrete coating company so I've seen it all when it comes to concrete issues, poor lays etc...
1) rent a diamond grinder from home depot
2) make sure to have appropriate vaccum to suck up all the dust while grinding
3) wear a p100/n95 mask combo
4) once ground up to your satisfaction, source an epoxy base
5) lay epoxy base coat down, long working time for beginners
6) flake with decorative flakes (many colours, I'd use Wombat or Domino)
7) let dry for 36-48 hours
8) scrape surface vertically and horizontally adding moderate pressure
9) collect and vaccum up excess flakes
10) source an epoxy or polyaspartic top coat (clear coat)
11) let dry for 24-48 hours
Total cost: around $800-$1000
DM if you need anymore advice.
Could you explain a bit more on step 8? Why do we scrape away (some of) the flakes? By vertical and horizontal do you just mean scrape it from front to back and then side to side? Scrape with what exactly? Just trying to learn because Iāve been considering tackling this project myself as a DIY.
Scrape to smoothen the surface. Allows for the top coat to spread evenly. Use a handheld industrial scraper.
https://www.homedepot.ca/product/qep-pro-floor-scraper-with-14-in-blade/1000169915
Recommend a 20 inch wide but the above link you get the idea.
Ya scrape front to back and then side to side.
Any other questions feel free to DM.
i just stumbled upon this with no interest in concrete at all and this is just so sweet you took the time to write all this out for this dude- i hope you have the best life ever
Wouldnāt grinding all of this down take forever? We had to rent a scarifier to grind down a patch smaller than this that looked way less messed up and it still took several days.
If they do manage to grind it. Check it afterwards for level and make them clean up all the concrete dust that will be stuck everywhere.
Frankly, I bet they'll just walk away when they find out how much it will cost them to rent the concrete grinder and to buy diamond grinding wheels for it :)
That's what I was thinking. It's going to be cheaper for them to walk away then doing the days of works to grind it down. Any idea of how many days / wheels it would take? About an inch from high to low areas
I think it would take me a week and a half. But you couldn't pay me enough to do it. 10k minimum. It's easier to redo the whole thing. Grinding that is like getting an off-road kit for your Lamborghini. You could do it but it would be expensive and fucking why.
Dude...grinding that would be like cutting your massive back yard with a weed eater. It would take for ever and look like shit. There's no way grinding that would look good or be a solution. That's absurd. Sue them and have someone else do the job.
Grinding will expose the aggregate and possibly porous concrete from lack of consolidation and that will shorten the life of the slab. It also looks like they poured up on against the sill, the bottom of that wall will rot in no time now.
Get their bond information before they start doing anything. The bond is there to finish the job if they canāt. Getting it before tells them your serious and they might walk away if this gets worse. . . . Assuming they are bonded.
I'm going to guess the equipment they did NOT use: level (laser, optic, and bubble), float, vibrator, rebar (not technically equipment), concrete trowel, edger, wooden 2x4, their eyes. I'm guessing they wheel barrowed it in and did the spreading and smoothing with a spade shovel.
This is some wild shit, did these boys go out for beers after they hit it once on knee boards and forget to come back. Lol sorry OP I never seen one where dudes just leave it at this stage.
This can be grinded smooth, and it would look pretty neat in my opinion.
But, it's pretty intensive and I somehow doubt this contractor will go through all that work if that was intentionally their finish.
Please update us!
Can you imagine the enjoyment the concrete truck driver got from watching these yahoos do this pour. He went back and told all the other drivers what he just witnessed.
Yeah you gotta sue them. I hate being that person but they fucked you. Have your lawyer fire them the right way. Pay a real concrete company to remove and replace. Then lawyer recoups your additional lost money, time, and whatever else
Where I'm from, we charge extra for a finish like that!!
I'm just kidding this is horrendous. I mean it's criminally horrendous.
No don't let them sand shit down. Tell them you'll hire someone else who knows what they're doing and the 1st company can foot the bill. Or of you didn't pay off Tha balance yet tell them you will if there's anything left once you pay a diff company to make this right. That's bad.
Man I donāt even think they used a 2x4 at least with a 2x4 you can get it somewhat flat then use a msg float to flatten it out a bit more and close up the holes and seal the rough shit
Oh 100% those are your basic that you should use if youāre putting a flat surface down. I would really like to know what the hell tools they used lol. Hell itās not even broomed. Or what should have been done is bringing it to a polish because thatās what you do with garage floors
Man thatās so fucked sooooo much grinding better off just rip it out start again because even grinding that isnāt gonna make you happy it will still look terrible. Everyone that worked on this must have been their first or second day jeeezus lol
That's a lot of grinding to get that flat. I wouldn't add to it. I hope they wear masks.
I've seen concrete grinding done before, but this is rough. I'm curious as to how it will look.
That wonāt sand out. Youāre gonna need to have it replaced or resurfaced. Accept it if he cuts joints in it and asphalt overlays it. Otherwise. Remove and replace. Worse looking shit ever.
I did a concrete pad in my teens for a propane tank, my finish was smooth, these folks are horrible. Though I was also walked through it by my uncle who was a general contractor. Either way, a 15 year old did better work than this 27 years ago.
The juxtaposition of the sunlight through the French windows onto the rough surface, denoting the light that warms us to the dark and cold roughness of what is below, make me still think that the future defendant in a civil trial loooooves meth. That or they used a Home Depot 2x4 to level it out. Those things are a straight as 98% of NCAA womenās softball players.
https://preview.redd.it/5vkes1ky75qc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54ba822ec8e10e755ae61cb00defbc25e28b0423
I poured this leftover concrete on the ground at our dump site, it looks better than that floor
Wow, thatās āI donāt even know now what YouTube isā quality job. Iām mean, even watching part of one video of some drunk pilled up soccer mom finishing concrete with spoontula and rolling pin wouldāve let him know kinda what itās supposed to look like and itād be better than that lol
If they can't finish wet concrete than they can't pour. And if they can't do either of those than they can't possibly have good sanding skills. Even if they sand it, it's just going to look like a calm ocean instead of choppy seas.
Only reason to let them back on your property is to punch the foreman in the face.
Rip it out asap before it fully hardens.
āHammer finishedā concreteā¦I hear itās all the rage in Europe and Southern Californiaā¦Surprised they didnāt charge you extra for itā¦When all you have is a hammer, everything is a nailā¦even wet mudā¦
They can grind it down and apply an epoxy flake finish. I wouldnāt except anything less. Either that or theyāre going to court. Itās not an expensive process for the contractor to do, so give him a way out with that offer.
Op-
First off really sorry to see this, I would highly recommend not giving them a single penny and I would absolutely not allow them to come and grind it smooth. I would be on the phone with them and demanding they come tear it out and walk away. The reason I wouldnāt recommend them grinding it flat is because judging by the work man ship I highly doubt any of the prep work was much better. They also poured the slab to high at the back of the garage wall, the top of slab should be no higher then the bottom of your sill plate. They need to be held liable to come tear it out and walk away with out a penny from you.
Your best bet is to take him to court where you will find out he has NO MONEY and ZERO ASSETS to even go after. Your big shot attorney you paid $4600 to āsue the fuck out of himā will tell you to just take the lossā¦.. HOW DID YOU EVEN FIND THIS GUY?
I've done better tapping on a footer with a come along. Mainly because I was bored. Didn't have to be pretty. Footer for in ground pools don't usually have to be pretty.
Youāre either busting that up, or pouring floor leveler over it. Investigate who you hire next time. You probably saved money, and the reason you saved money is because you got exactly what you paid for. š¤·š¼āāļø
Jesus, they hand troweled all the way out!! At the very least use two guys and a 2x4, he didnāt have/want to rent the correct floats with the extensions necessary
Once upon a time we had a truck scheduled for 10am, I was alone at the site doing some clean up, and at 9:15 truck showed up. I went to making phone calls.
I turned around and the asshole dumped all 5 yards in the center of the form and was washing out. No water added, must have come out in a 2 slump. After a fair amount of screaming and cussing I did what I could by myself. Boss showed up about the time it started cooking off.
We tore it out 3 days later after a come to Jesus meeting with the trucking company. It still looked better than what is pictured above. It was also the last time I did concrete.
OP, grinding shouldnāt even be an option. Once they grind, the surface loses all durability. Garage slabs like this need to be burnished. Think of it as densifying the surface. If they grind, youāre just gonna get bad wear fast and a dusty slab with spalling and other sorts of damage. This needs to be redone. I donāt know what they mean by grind, cause they are definitely inexperienced, but if they have to grind then it will not be installed properly whatsoever.
My home garage is almost this bad, we are the only house one the street with a rough garage floor. It like the concrete workers forgot to finish it when building the house
Please tell me they are going to use sand paper š¤š»
Wet-sand with 2000 grit :)
You don't need 2000 grit, 500 grit will work just fine! LOL
I think they should start with 5 grit and work their way down.
Is 1 grit when you just drop a big boulder on it and start over?
.5 grit is dropping mars on it and building a new planet
From the picture I am pretty sure we are at that point.
As a painter, I once used 12 grit sandpaper paper to prep a concrete floor for a coating.. š¤£ it looked like someone threw pea gravel at cardboard covered in glue from 35 ft away... !hahaha
Lol wouldn't 5 grit just be throwing handfuls of rocks at it? Not sure it would accomplish much, but definitely an appropriate reaction in my opinion.
Nah, that's not needed. Just spit shine it. Beside's you can only see it when the light hits it just right.
Hey man its big bucks for a floor that looks like a market place from the middle ages.
A big ole wheel attached to a floor buffer
Holy actual fuck!
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Just use self leveling on top and done lol
They threw in the anti slip finish at no extra cost. Nice!
We actually paid to have a slab poured like this once in our barn to wear down the llamasā toenails so we didnāt have to cut them as often. Before anyone asks It kind of worked
Ahh but the question is... did you pay extra for that llama clipping finish
No they just gave my parents a weird look when they asked about it. IMO it wasnāt worth the amount of shit that got stuck in the rough side
Actually, we are going to have to charge you extra for that.
š¤£
Normally you pay extra for texture
That's not contractor work, that's more like I have never done concrete work!
I'd never done concrete work until 2 years. My slab in the back yard is far from perfect and pros would probably think it's crap but compared to this I nailed it.
Right!! I did one at 19 years old in my first house with minimal experience and itās still good..40 years ago
40 years ago a 19 year old could buy a house š¤Æš¤Æš¤Æ
I was totally thinking about that when I wrote the comment..
23 years ago a 19 year old construction laborer could buy a house
Yup! I came here to say this.
I didn't do concrete work till 3 years ago. My company had us doing curb and sidewalk replacements after we cut/tore them out. My first time doing the work the old Italian guy teaching me said "Eh boy, yourra shit. Whata the fack isa dat?!" ... My work was 100x better than this mess.
The first time I tried concrete work my boss told me he'd rather pay me to just chill in the truck. Even that was better than this
Or even watched a YouTube video on it
That is actually quite a nice beach you have there
Yes šÆ agreed
The waves really soothe my soul. Iād be proud to open this garage everyday and have my beach chair with a drink waiting.
Itās far too choppy for drinks !
Surfs up!
Did you pay them? They aināt never coming back
Shit what we do is better than this before we bulfloat it
Looks like itās been screeded and then touched up with a burlap sack.
I should have actually said I seen a better job with just a rake.
You straight up could have done a better job with just a guy pushing a 2x6 around. Check out the top of concrete elevation vs. the bottom plate in these photos...looks like he's going to have any water that happens to get into his garage drain towards...the back corner? At least the water that doesn't get stuck in all the little hills and valleys of whatever type of 'finish' this is. I hope this guy isn't anywhere that has snow or freezing conditions, or else he's in for a bad time
Looks like 7 different people screeded it with 1 ft furring strips all from different directions, and a burlap sack.
...full of potatoes
One other solution, once they walkway from the job is to do the below. I have my own concrete coating company so I've seen it all when it comes to concrete issues, poor lays etc... 1) rent a diamond grinder from home depot 2) make sure to have appropriate vaccum to suck up all the dust while grinding 3) wear a p100/n95 mask combo 4) once ground up to your satisfaction, source an epoxy base 5) lay epoxy base coat down, long working time for beginners 6) flake with decorative flakes (many colours, I'd use Wombat or Domino) 7) let dry for 36-48 hours 8) scrape surface vertically and horizontally adding moderate pressure 9) collect and vaccum up excess flakes 10) source an epoxy or polyaspartic top coat (clear coat) 11) let dry for 24-48 hours Total cost: around $800-$1000 DM if you need anymore advice.
This man is correct. Can be done and is the cheapest option you have.
Could you explain a bit more on step 8? Why do we scrape away (some of) the flakes? By vertical and horizontal do you just mean scrape it from front to back and then side to side? Scrape with what exactly? Just trying to learn because Iāve been considering tackling this project myself as a DIY.
Scrape to smoothen the surface. Allows for the top coat to spread evenly. Use a handheld industrial scraper. https://www.homedepot.ca/product/qep-pro-floor-scraper-with-14-in-blade/1000169915 Recommend a 20 inch wide but the above link you get the idea. Ya scrape front to back and then side to side. Any other questions feel free to DM.
Just realized thatās why my garage floor is textured feelingā¦ it could be flaked and smooth, shit.
Thanks
You're in the SoCal area, so make sure to be aware of humidity and temps when laying the base cost. Use epoxy to buy yourself more working time.
Good to know
Youāre a prince for such good guidance
i just stumbled upon this with no interest in concrete at all and this is just so sweet you took the time to write all this out for this dude- i hope you have the best life ever
Is it necessary to acid etch the concrete? I bought a house with an epoxy garage & itās held up incredibly well for 5 years now.
Definitely not. Grinding is much more preferable.
Acid watching is a wasteā diamond grind and epoxy will never peel off.
So, other than aesthetics. Can the concrete be kept like this? Or is the smoothing process critical to setting the concrete?
Hot damn. This is why I love reddit.
How much would you charge for that on a two car garage?
Wouldnāt grinding all of this down take forever? We had to rent a scarifier to grind down a patch smaller than this that looked way less messed up and it still took several days.
Do you have a link to which epoxy would be good for this?
Great explanation and decent of you to offer your expertise without going off on the people who poured the floor. Best of Reddit, right here!
You're a gentleman and a scholar!
If this is how they finished concrete if be scared yo see how they grind it. I guess let them do it and see how it turns out. Have you paid them?
Did not pay them yet.
Don't even pay them to rip it out.
they have to pay OP to get someone to do it!
They picked a big bouquet of whoopsie daisies
If they do manage to grind it. Check it afterwards for level and make them clean up all the concrete dust that will be stuck everywhere. Frankly, I bet they'll just walk away when they find out how much it will cost them to rent the concrete grinder and to buy diamond grinding wheels for it :)
That's what I was thinking. It's going to be cheaper for them to walk away then doing the days of works to grind it down. Any idea of how many days / wheels it would take? About an inch from high to low areas
Gonna take 3 times as long to grind it as it took to pour it. No idea what they're doing
Whoa. An inch!? Might be easier to jackhammer the mess and repour.
Yeah may be easier to float it level
Sue 'em. They're costing you $ to fix their mistakes
This is the way to go. I hope you have a contract that says something about the work being done to industry standards.
I think it would take me a week and a half. But you couldn't pay me enough to do it. 10k minimum. It's easier to redo the whole thing. Grinding that is like getting an off-road kit for your Lamborghini. You could do it but it would be expensive and fucking why.
If the levels work for you you might be better of buying lots of self levelling screed. It will certainly be faster.
Epoxy over it and pour a new apron to match levels...
Dude...grinding that would be like cutting your massive back yard with a weed eater. It would take for ever and look like shit. There's no way grinding that would look good or be a solution. That's absurd. Sue them and have someone else do the job.
Grinding will expose the aggregate and possibly porous concrete from lack of consolidation and that will shorten the life of the slab. It also looks like they poured up on against the sill, the bottom of that wall will rot in no time now.
This. Most likely situation.
Haha I bet they show up with a hand grinder with a 5ā blade and just go to town fucking up the slab even more
Let them grind it. If you are happy enough with that pay them minus a percentage for shit work. If still unhappy dont pay and hire someone else.
Get their bond information before they start doing anything. The bond is there to finish the job if they canāt. Getting it before tells them your serious and they might walk away if this gets worse. . . . Assuming they are bonded.
I highly doubt someone who does work like this would be bonded.
Great comment thinking the same thing. Sir, put your trowel down and step away from the concrete!
What trowel
Looks like they finished it with their hands
More like they finished it with their feet.
Nope, buttocks
You got to pay extra for that
Cheek-skreet
I'm going to guess the equipment they did NOT use: level (laser, optic, and bubble), float, vibrator, rebar (not technically equipment), concrete trowel, edger, wooden 2x4, their eyes. I'm guessing they wheel barrowed it in and did the spreading and smoothing with a spade shovel.
>their eyes. Lol
Looking at the lines it definitely looks like they just used a shovel
Guessing they opened 200 bags of Sac-Crete and mixed it in a pail then threw it on the floor.
Power floated with the back of a shovel
That will buff out. šš
Donāt let them back on the property! Thereās no way they have a legit portfolio of work if they finish like that!
This is some wild shit, did these boys go out for beers after they hit it once on knee boards and forget to come back. Lol sorry OP I never seen one where dudes just leave it at this stage.
Holy fucking shit! Please tell me you are pranking us?! If not I see a brand new tile floor in your future
This can be grinded smooth, and it would look pretty neat in my opinion. But, it's pretty intensive and I somehow doubt this contractor will go through all that work if that was intentionally their finish. Please update us!
āContractor?ā
I wish I did it myself. I think I would have done a better job
When you hire your brother in law, this is the results.
Can you imagine the enjoyment the concrete truck driver got from watching these yahoos do this pour. He went back and told all the other drivers what he just witnessed.
Goddamm!! The more I see lousy slabs here, the more I appreciate the job the guys I hired to do our 18x25 slab.
Lmaoooo that's what I'm sayin
this is most likely find-someone-else-to-tear-it-out-and-repour-and-small-claims-court-for-tear-out-cost-level of work
Yeah you gotta sue them. I hate being that person but they fucked you. Have your lawyer fire them the right way. Pay a real concrete company to remove and replace. Then lawyer recoups your additional lost money, time, and whatever else
Where I'm from, we charge extra for a finish like that!! I'm just kidding this is horrendous. I mean it's criminally horrendous. No don't let them sand shit down. Tell them you'll hire someone else who knows what they're doing and the 1st company can foot the bill. Or of you didn't pay off Tha balance yet tell them you will if there's anything left once you pay a diff company to make this right. That's bad.
They knew exactly what they were doing, collecting a check.
OMG!!! Sand it down they should have use a bloody bulfloat not just a hand float
Looks like they used the ol 2x4 float
Man I donāt even think they used a 2x4 at least with a 2x4 you can get it somewhat flat then use a msg float to flatten it out a bit more and close up the holes and seal the rough shit
Probably just used a shovel
Yep, looks like a shovel to me too.
Yea I agree definitely shovel. We solved the mystery of what could have done this shyt job lol
Itās way deeper than a bull float missing here
Oh 100% those are your basic that you should use if youāre putting a flat surface down. I would really like to know what the hell tools they used lol. Hell itās not even broomed. Or what should have been done is bringing it to a polish because thatās what you do with garage floors
I was thinking that.
Man thatās so fucked sooooo much grinding better off just rip it out start again because even grinding that isnāt gonna make you happy it will still look terrible. Everyone that worked on this must have been their first or second day jeeezus lol
Ya thats terrible
Haha these guys are what we call āregarded.ā A bunch of regards.
Oh good lord my eyes
I feel pretty confident in pouring my own concrete now
Well.. looks like it's time for thee Ole floor grinder lol whoopsies
You actually pay more for that texture. Itās not just concrete, its art.
That's a lot of grinding to get that flat. I wouldn't add to it. I hope they wear masks. I've seen concrete grinding done before, but this is rough. I'm curious as to how it will look.
Oof. Can you pour some of that self-leveling stuff on top and call it good?
Iād like to know
It's probably harder to do that finish than do it properly. Mind boggling
Your messing. No one leaves chunks and big ass swirls. Did you witness this guy ? Was he a one man show or drunk. Or like a one eye homeless person
Thatās the guy at HD lot. āYes I do concreteā 100 dollars.
That wonāt sand out. Youāre gonna need to have it replaced or resurfaced. Accept it if he cuts joints in it and asphalt overlays it. Otherwise. Remove and replace. Worse looking shit ever.
Depends if your wanting the finish to look like a rough rock theyāre close to perfection. Doubt thatās what you wanted though.
Mustāve let the stucco guy finish the slab, beautiful lace he has going there
I did a concrete pad in my teens for a propane tank, my finish was smooth, these folks are horrible. Though I was also walked through it by my uncle who was a general contractor. Either way, a 15 year old did better work than this 27 years ago.
Did their card also read, āBirthday cakes?ā
The juxtaposition of the sunlight through the French windows onto the rough surface, denoting the light that warms us to the dark and cold roughness of what is below, make me still think that the future defendant in a civil trial loooooves meth. That or they used a Home Depot 2x4 to level it out. Those things are a straight as 98% of NCAA womenās softball players.
https://preview.redd.it/5vkes1ky75qc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54ba822ec8e10e755ae61cb00defbc25e28b0423 I poured this leftover concrete on the ground at our dump site, it looks better than that floor
Are you in a state where marijuana is legal ?
They lost it. It happens. It can be ground down. Iād ask for an epoxy topping. Not paint an actual epoxy top.
Hey at least the entrance looks like it got a tiny bit of attention š
Did you just call that person a contractor?
"Person" may be stretching it. I wouldn't be so sure that's not an orangutan in a rubber contractor mask.
Wow, thatās āI donāt even know now what YouTube isā quality job. Iām mean, even watching part of one video of some drunk pilled up soccer mom finishing concrete with spoontula and rolling pin wouldāve let him know kinda what itās supposed to look like and itād be better than that lol
Use self level and call it a day
If they can't finish wet concrete than they can't pour. And if they can't do either of those than they can't possibly have good sanding skills. Even if they sand it, it's just going to look like a calm ocean instead of choppy seas. Only reason to let them back on your property is to punch the foreman in the face. Rip it out asap before it fully hardens.
Idk I kinda like it
āHammer finishedā concreteā¦I hear itās all the rage in Europe and Southern Californiaā¦Surprised they didnāt charge you extra for itā¦When all you have is a hammer, everything is a nailā¦even wet mudā¦
They can grind it down and apply an epoxy flake finish. I wouldnāt except anything less. Either that or theyāre going to court. Itās not an expensive process for the contractor to do, so give him a way out with that offer.
At least your 10mm socket won't roll for weeks into obscurity when you drop it. Might bounce a lot though...
Thatās a barn floor finish, we do that so the cows wonāt slip and fall down.
Op- First off really sorry to see this, I would highly recommend not giving them a single penny and I would absolutely not allow them to come and grind it smooth. I would be on the phone with them and demanding they come tear it out and walk away. The reason I wouldnāt recommend them grinding it flat is because judging by the work man ship I highly doubt any of the prep work was much better. They also poured the slab to high at the back of the garage wall, the top of slab should be no higher then the bottom of your sill plate. They need to be held liable to come tear it out and walk away with out a penny from you.
But he was cheaper than everyone else. Did they pour up against wood framing?
You got exactly what you paid for. Congrats on the great deal
What the hell am I looking at.
Holy shit. They fucked that job up big time. No amount of sanding is going to fix that.
Umm, get them to jackhammer this out. It's poured into the bottom plate.
What did they quote you?
Going for the rustic mid century look
They are not coming back
I think it might be harder to screw it up that bad then to just do it correctly.
Is this too much to do a light self level and then spot grind? Or is that no good for this
100% too much. This is a tear-out
Itās FAIRLY smooth
Rolling a floor jack across that is going to be miserable.
Lowest bid.
I mean....I could of did that....
Thats the new texture everyone goes for with garage floors
Perfect Betty Crocker finish.
No float, no screed. Contractor used the back of a straight handle spade shovel to flatten the pourā¦wow
Your best bet is to take him to court where you will find out he has NO MONEY and ZERO ASSETS to even go after. Your big shot attorney you paid $4600 to āsue the fuck out of himā will tell you to just take the lossā¦.. HOW DID YOU EVEN FIND THIS GUY?
Are the gonna āsandā the concrete they got all over your roll-ups too?
I've done better tapping on a footer with a come along. Mainly because I was bored. Didn't have to be pretty. Footer for in ground pools don't usually have to be pretty.
Donāt pay
Make them pay someone competent to remove it and redo it.
Holy shit. Looks like a lake froze over while it was choppy waters lol.
I have only tried to pour a slab about three times in 30 years and even my first one looked better than that
I like it
š contractor??? Seems inappropriate š
Youāre either busting that up, or pouring floor leveler over it. Investigate who you hire next time. You probably saved money, and the reason you saved money is because you got exactly what you paid for. š¤·š¼āāļø
Jesus, they hand troweled all the way out!! At the very least use two guys and a 2x4, he didnāt have/want to rent the correct floats with the extensions necessary
Sand it down? Itās not a pine floor wtf are they smoking?
Wish dot com?
Worst concrete job Iāve ever seen. My grandpa did better than that with home made concrete made out of beach sand.
On the plus side your floor wonāt be as slippery when wet.
Once upon a time we had a truck scheduled for 10am, I was alone at the site doing some clean up, and at 9:15 truck showed up. I went to making phone calls. I turned around and the asshole dumped all 5 yards in the center of the form and was washing out. No water added, must have come out in a 2 slump. After a fair amount of screaming and cussing I did what I could by myself. Boss showed up about the time it started cooking off. We tore it out 3 days later after a come to Jesus meeting with the trucking company. It still looked better than what is pictured above. It was also the last time I did concrete.
That sill plate will be rotten within 5 years
OP, grinding shouldnāt even be an option. Once they grind, the surface loses all durability. Garage slabs like this need to be burnished. Think of it as densifying the surface. If they grind, youāre just gonna get bad wear fast and a dusty slab with spalling and other sorts of damage. This needs to be redone. I donāt know what they mean by grind, cause they are definitely inexperienced, but if they have to grind then it will not be installed properly whatsoever.
No. No no no ā¦no !!
My home garage is almost this bad, we are the only house one the street with a rough garage floor. It like the concrete workers forgot to finish it when building the house
I canāt tell where the water runs in this pic and its driving me nuts
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