Had a big pour in Tacoma where the crew insisted on using a 5 inch slump mix for a driveway, said it would finish faster. It bled out so bad we were troweling soup for an hour.

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Yeah, the "finish faster" line used to make sense to me. But after seeing a few jobs turn to soup and dust, I learned a proper slump is cheaper than a callback.

taylor9292mo ago

Oh man, that's brutal! Sounds like they were trying to finish a driveway and ended up making cement soup instead. Hope you at least got paid by the hour for that troweling marathon.

charlie_fisher452mo ago

Was the slump even tested on site or did they just trust the ticket? I've seen guys add gallons of water to a 5 inch mix trying to make it "workable", which just turns the cream into a river. Bet the surface was dusting by the next morning too.