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Posted by on June 12, 2006, 7:30 pm
I Love Lucy wrote:
> I posted a few weeks back about some work I was going to get done,
> steps, sidewalk slabs, slab by back door, and corner patching on front
> porch slab. Well I found somebody who saved me a little over $400, but
> I paid him before the dirt fill is back in which he plans to do.
>
> Am I being neurotic to want all the slag chipped off? He didn't want to
> do it and I said I wanted it off of there. He chipped a lot of it off
> with a regular hammer. I thought one of those spikes and a small sledge
> hammer might be better, but what do I know? Anyway, he gets a lot of it
> off, then says, "see I am undercutting the concrete". I agree and asked
> if he could saw it off. Yes, but why do I want it off?
>
> I want it off so when I dig for flower beds and landscaping I can dig
> right up to the cement and not hit that horrid stuff. I want to be able
> to plant edging plants there or put in a little border fence. If the
> slag isn't off, I won't be able to do that.
>
> Am I being unreasonable about this? I guess most people just have the
> dirt cover over whatever slag slips through the forms and don't care
> about it.
>
> What do normal concrete people do in cases like this? I like things to
> be done right, and am already having trouble getting my way about some
> things. I told him not to take the molds off too soon. He is a
> professional concrete finisher. He took the molds off too soon and one
> step is chipped and now I will have to put up with a crappy patch job.
> That's what I get, but it it weren't that, it would be something else no
> matter who did it.
>
> How did I know not to take the forms off too soon? Because I did a
> little homework and read it on this newsgroup.
Our company never chips away previous boil outs as we call them. Too
time consuming.
Ass for the forms, chipping happens not always from taking them off too
early, but in how they are removed. Inexpirienced people pry the forms
off wrong and you get this problem. At the buyers request, we can use
deeper forms which helps with boil outs, but this is at an additional
cost.
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