r/Concrete 1d ago

MEGATHREAD Weekly Homeowner Megathread--Civilians, ask here!

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Please take a look at the WikiFAQ posted here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Concrete/wiki/index

The chances that your situation is covered in the WikiFAQ are pretty dang good.

If your issue is NOT covered in the WikiFAQ, this is the place to ask if that hairline crack warrants a full tear-out and if the quote for $10k on 35 SF of sidewalk is a reasonable price.


r/Concrete 3h ago

General Industry saw this cool truck!

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10 Upvotes

looks like the bags are loaded in the top and fed into the hopper.


r/Concrete 7h ago

Showing Skills My 3rd application for acceptance into your club

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About 26ft up in the air. Company didn't want scaffolding. 8 " slab with 12" beams and a 4'×4' opening. Did lay out and built. Did not do the rebar. Slab just sitting on about 4" of wall all the way around. Engineer wanted it to be "removable". Was not nervous at all when it was being poured.


r/Concrete 7h ago

Work In Progress Polymer concrete drainage channels

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r/Concrete 16h ago

General Industry Work Rig!

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70 Upvotes

r/Concrete 1d ago

Concrete Pro With a Question What tool do you use for sealing/curing compounds on bigger pours?

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Normally we use pump and backpack sprayers for smaller jobs, but sometimes slab is out of reach for them. I was thinking about buying petrol engine sprayer from Stihl, but I'm not convinced about their reach with fine midst. What are your thoughts on that?


r/Concrete 1d ago

OTHER Time for a little self awareness...

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r/Concrete 2d ago

OTHER When people said concrete is a hard job.

438 Upvotes

r/Concrete 3d ago

I Have A Whoopsie Hired a new concrete finisher.

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Found this beautiful slab in the wild yesterday.


r/Concrete 3d ago

OTHER Pumping in the clouds

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53 Upvotes

Ever pumped concrete in the clouds about 1,000 ft up


r/Concrete 5d ago

Showing Skills Repost: “The whole base is actually on these huge, big, solid concrete railway tracks that are 600 by 600 wide, and they're actually piled down to rock, about 18 metres down, so we had to excavate the whole site and retain it to actually keep the sand out of the foundation, but it was incredibly com

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38 Upvotes

r/Concrete 5d ago

Showing Skills Ever work with a,,,

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45 Upvotes

Company that allows butchers to run jobs?


r/Concrete 5d ago

Showing Skills Rebar installers

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289 Upvotes

Hired some rebar installers in Winnipeg. They did a fantastic job! Just wanted to give a shoutout to Justlee Construction Ltd. They were super fast compared to our guys. Do yourself a favour and hire rebar installers (Rodbusters) and save yourself more time to do what you’re good at!


r/Concrete 5d ago

Showing Skills I rarely take pictures of my work but here’s a couple from the last year

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r/Concrete 5d ago

General Industry Big wrap around 3 finishers 102 degrees outside cut same day

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Starting to get really use to not having anyone around and doing everything with the couple homies I have. We do about 100 yards a week I just don’t post.


r/Concrete 5d ago

General Industry Resurfacing

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52 Upvotes

r/Concrete 6d ago

Showing Skills Stencil used to create river design, saw cut, then filled with colored epoxy!

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49 Upvotes

r/Concrete 7d ago

Showing Skills Concrete Miniatures [not for sale]

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I started making some miniature low-poly concrete models as decor pieces for my friends. I’m relatively new to working with concrete and was wondering if I can skip applying a sealer given that they will be kept indoors?

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Edit: Thank you all so much for the words of wisdom+support for this project. I’ve made an instagram account for documenting my process and progress for anyone who wants to follow along @wocrete.co


r/Concrete 7d ago

Work In Progress Replacing Bridge on my Street

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r/Concrete 8d ago

MEGATHREAD Weekly Homeowner Megathread--Civilians, ask here!

3 Upvotes

Please take a look at the WikiFAQ posted here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Concrete/wiki/index

The chances that your situation is covered in the WikiFAQ are pretty dang good.

If your issue is NOT covered in the WikiFAQ, this is the place to ask if that hairline crack warrants a full tear-out and if the quote for $10k on 35 SF of sidewalk is a reasonable price.


r/Concrete 8d ago

Showing Skills Big job we just did

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66 Upvotes

r/Concrete 8d ago

General Industry Let's not over complicate things boys...

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Sometimes good enough just is


r/Concrete 9d ago

Concrete Pro With a Question One sided walls

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I’ve been doing one sided walls basically the same way forever, it’s that, some banding wetset into the footing and a stud nailed across the bottom. Anyone have any tricks or anything they do different?


r/Concrete 9d ago

OTHER How bad is this?

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Apologies if there isn’t enough info or this is the right place to ask this. I have no experience in concrete or construction. This is the 2nd floor of a concrete parking garage for my work. It’s always had a little bit of bowing (about a year or so that I’ve seen) but today I noticed it almost looks to be sagging more. I could be wrong but my gut says it shouldn’t sag like that at all. The photo doesn’t do it justice, either. I’d guess the low points and high points are about 8-10 inches apart in height. Thoughts?


r/Concrete 9d ago

Showing Skills Just a few jobs we knocked out last month 😎

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