Troweled Concrete Walls

You ll have to practice to develop a feel for it.

Troweled concrete walls.

At first hold the trowel almost flat elevating the leading edge just enough to avoid gouging the surface. Application is accomplished by trowel or magic trowel. The most common types are blue stainless and high carbon steel. Used after floating to produce a smooth hard dense slab surface.

Slick troweled concrete is created when a steel hand trowel or machine is used by the cement mason to close the exposed surface of the concrete project. Scoop a small amount of the slurry mix out and put it on the middle of the blade of the mason s trowel. The key difference among tools is the type of steel used for the blade. Drag the flat of the trowel straight across the surface of the concrete to smooth it.

Steel trowels look similar to hand floats except the blades are thinner and the handles are open rather than closed. Typically slick troweled concrete can be found as garage floors basement floors warehouse floors and covered front porches. Concrete wall finishes all at thick our trowel applied concrete wall finish provides the look of cast concrete without the bulk and weight of precast or cast in place concrete. For a really smooth finish repeat the troweling step two or three times letting the concrete harden a bit between each pass.

Apply the slurry to your new concrete wall by holding the trowel blade to the wall so the slurry is pressed onto it and wiping the slurry across the wall with a smooth arcing motion. Trowel a 3 8 inch layer of concrete over the wall with a straight trowel. Trowel finish is the most common and popular finish of concrete used for major types of applications. Allow the concrete to dry for approximately 30 minutes until most of the moisture is gone from the top.

Troweling is one of the trickier steps in concrete finishing. After the concrete is laid in the formwork and leveled the trowel is used to smooth and fine level the surface of concrete. It may also be placed vertically on interior walls creating the look of venetian plaster. Concrete finishing trowel this 12 in.

It can be applied to many different substrates to create a concrete finish on walls columns reception desks benches landscape elements and fireplaces.