Finishing Concrete

Screeding concrete Problems and Solutions!

Finishing Concrete

Finishing Concrete

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Finishing Concrete

Finishing Concrete

A concrete screed is a tool used to level concrete when it comes out of a concrete truck wet. Wet concrete must be smoothed when pouring projects like driveways, sidewalks, and flat work. Screeding can be as easy as using a wooden two by four. Wooden two by fours are the most commonly used method of screeding concrete today. It's readily ready anywhere, can be cut to any practice distance for your exact projects, it's light weight, and just works best as time has proven.

Several screeds have their place in the market. Some like to use vibe screeds, some like to use Magnesium screeds and of tasteless there are the huge expensive Truss type screeds and mechanical screeds for highways and huge projects. Most of these associates still end up using the trusty two by four wooden or magnesium screeds for cutting around the information work like plumbing stubs or narrow areas where the huge tool can't reach or the scheme is just to small to account for large equipMent.

Over the years concrete screeds have had many designs, handles, attachMents, etc. To make the favored way of screeding a little easier. The problem most palpate is that when you add handles so you can screed while standing in an upright safe position you lose the control and strength, the longer the deal with the less control. Adding handles is something that has been attempted so many times by various contractors all over the world, but you still see many just working somewhere in between the standing and bending methods trying to find that happy place.

So the problem is this; bend while being unsafe and abusive to your body to get the scheme done properly, or make a compromised attachMent of some sort to make it easier and safer on the body but with less than excellent stock results.

The solution is this; make it's so you can somehow stand in a normal ergonomically upright safe position without compromising the body or the tool all while ending with the potential results.
These are some complex scenarios to change without compromising one for the other. Now from a business prospective we needed to add yet other scenario that complicates matters even more. We need to compose something solving the first two scenarios and do it in an "affordable" manner so all contractors/workers can afford to gain the product.

In just one year 28,000 workers in concrete manufacturing experienced a Job-related injury or illness.

Osha recomMends Implementing appropriate work practices and /or controls to help cut or eliminate possible back injuries from twisting, turning, lifting, awkward postures and whole body vibrations along with chemical burns from wet concrete.

Finishing Concrete