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Pro tip: that old finisher in Lubbock told me to stop wetting my float, and he was dead right
I was pouring a 24x30 shop slab outside Lubbock last Friday and an old finisher named Dale was watching me work. He asked why I kept dunking my magnesium float in the water bucket, and I said that's how I was shown early on. He said "all you're doing is dragging water back into the cream, that's why your edges keep tearing." I argued with him for a minute, then tried it dry on the next pass and the finish came out way flatter with almost no tear out. I've been doing it wet for close to 9 years and nobody ever said a word about it. Now I'm wondering how many other habits I picked up that are just plain wrong. Has anybody else had an old timer call out something you did for years?
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foster.nathan2d ago
Wetting the float has worked fine for tons of guys for decades, one old dude in Lubbock doesn't mean the whole method is wrong. Dale probably just had a bone to pick and got lucky that the dry pass happened to come out nice that day. Plenty of crews run wet floats in Texas heat and their slabs look great, so I wouldn't toss 9 years of habit based on one afternoon.
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