Clearly neglected to rod it down when I ran out of concrete.
But what the hell. It’s still better than Soviet or Detroit cementwork, and their buildings almost never fall down. Unless acted on by outside forces, you know, like a puff of wind or a bird landing on it or something unforeseeable like that.
No, I’m not taking off the forms from yesterday’s pour today. Specially not after gazing upon the mess I made of the first one. I’ll leave those on till Monday.
Hey, green paint fixes everything.
I may have wandered into the wrong blog as the woman appears to be spanking herself while waving an oven mitt. Ya can find anything on the interweb.
I thought that flat black paint was supposed to cover all sins. Seriously, you can plaster that with sand mix or mortar if it makes you feel better. Otherwise, your skirting should cover your divots.
Well, yeah. So?
” . . . you can plaster that with sand mix or mortar . . . ” yep, it seals up the surface like the rest of the pier. Good to do it while the pier is still kinda “green”. Trowel it on a little “wet”.
I’m sorry Joel this is not acceptable you will have to rip it all out and start again… Just kidding. ;^)
Even if you don’t bother hiding the imperfections who the heck cares. Form follows function and so long as the function is correct who gives a rat’s ass about the looks. It will be hidden by the skirt so it’s all good.
Can you believe this crowd is actually trying to get you to stucco your piers???
🙂 Go ahead and laugh now but it’s not out of the question. The piers in the front are going to be really prominent. It’s either cover them with skirting or hide the ugly with paint or stucco.
Stucco is work. Paint.
Sealing up an ugly pier will prevent any possibility of moisture condensing in the obvious nooks and crannies with the potential for freezing and degrading the structural integrity of the pier. This is not a cosmetic consideration, and it’s relatively easy to do now. I will now butt out of the discussion.
What Kentucky said. The damage from freeze-thaw over even a short time is not pretty and is difficult and expensive to repair. No I didn’t build it but I sure have gotten to fix it. Seal that concrete with everything everyone recommended.
For freeze thaw protection I’d recommend filling that with a mortar mix as previously suggested. Probably be okay, but ten minutes and a couple bucks is small insurance.