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A finisher in Fort Worth told me I was overworking my edges and I am still not sure he was right
Two summers back I was doing a 4,000 sq ft warehouse slab in Fort Worth and an old finisher named Ray watched me run the edger for a bit, then said I was burning time on edges nobody would ever walk on. So I switched to hitting edges once, later, and got the whole pour wrapped 40 minutes faster, but now I keep second guessing whether those edges look right on the next job. One side says a clean edge is a clean edge and you never cut corners on it, the other says matching your finish time to what the customer actually uses matters more than a perfect line behind a rack. Where do you all land on edges, treat every one the same or speed up the ones that will never see daylight?
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oscar71212d ago
So Ray just walked up and told you that you were wasting your time on edges nobody would ever see? That old finisher probably saved you 40 minutes on that pour and now you are losing sleep over it two summers later, which is honestly kind of funny. Here is the thing, a warehouse slab is not a sidewalk or a driveway where the edge is the whole look, it is a floor for forklifts and pallet racks. If the edge is clean enough to pass the eye from 10 feet away, it is clean enough, done. Nobody is running a fingernail along the perimeter behind the racks and calling the GC to complain. Save the fussy edging for the jobs where people actually see it, that is just working smart not cutting corners. Maybe it's just me but Ray was right and you should buy that man a beer or two.
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