[AsianCowboy]

Never will I ever attempt to pour 8 yards with just one guy helping again. Last week was hot. Concrete came from a yard 45 minutes away. 50 ft of sidewalk leading to a pad in front of an above ground pool. Almost lost it. It still isn’t great. My guy almost stroked out on me but we got it poured. But it was already setting up before we could get all of it screeded. I did the best I could. Now I need to find a way to make this look better

There’s some humps and the exposure is irregular/uneven. I’m looking for advice on what can be done to make it better without tearing out and starting over. I hadn’t delivered on a 6 and asked for retarder to be in it. They said they would send a slag mix. Not sure what that is exactly. I feel like it set up very quickly. I wet the gravel before we poured. I don’t do concrete everyday so you can make fun of it if you need to but I aint here for all that and it don’t mean squat to me

 

[Pounder]

Could you just cap it with another 3" of concrete and have plenty of help when you do it? There is also a trowel on epoxy/fine gravel material I've seen that would work, my guess it's expensive.

Something like this stuff.

How To Install Epoxy Natural Stone Flooring – Flooring Guide by Cinvex

cinvex.us

 

[Thom Paine]

Jus' guessin' here...
Ya' shoulda' hired a Pro instead of DIY

Now you can consider it a "Non slip surface" and live with it.

 

[Bad Boy Biker]

Maybe the wives could have helped.

 

[Snobnd]

Not to mention the damage you did to the pool liner and supports, you have a few choices, rip it out and hire someone with a lot of guys to make it look beautiful, as other others have suggested, skim coat over it, or have someone go over it with bluestone and give them a really beautiful walkway…. On your dime for not doing it correctly the first time.👍

 

[Teh Swede]

Rip down some 2x material, slap it on forms. Use non shrink industrial grout. It pours on and takes a sweat or broom if done correct . This method needs a primer or a parge.

 

[Half-fast Eddie]

Usea largediamond cup grinding wheel and change from exposed agg to ground concrete. Much easier on bare feet.

 

[Kingcarpenter1]

Forget the bandaids that ain’t gonna work, rip it out. Then hire somebody w/a crew that knows how to do it


Mike

 

[greg24k]

Look on the bright side, you will not slip and fall when you're out of the pool, you will have some good traction.
That said, use this as the base and put pavers or blue stone on top.

 

[Porterfarm]

That's a lot ...

You maybe able to pour a two inch cap on top of what you have.

It may / probably separate over time in freezing climates.

You could try to call it using flagstones or bluestone. Set it in a mud bed. It depends how big your dips and jumps are. But two-three inch mud with a stone set in it.

From a cost perspective it's probably cheaper to break it up and redo it in smaller more manageable pours. Use a truck where they mix it on the truck?

 

[Fishindude]

Tear it out quick while it's green and will break up easily, then get your act together and replace it with what you originally promised them.

 

[Waskin]

If personal and want to make do, hack it up.
if for a client. Own up to it and re-do with either full confidence or subbed out.
the scary gamble of concrete work.
if no steel the tear out will be easier.
I always try to put steel and I always try to go 2 x 6 forms. But I also don’t do a lot of concrete work.

 

[RacinMason]

Pouring exposed ag, I always have a liquid retarder in a sprayer, whether I need it or not. This would've given you more time to finish. I've done the retarder before, covered it with plastic, then sprayed off the top the next day. The weather has to be on your side for this method.