Working the 'mud' at the living room steps.
More of the living room steps.
Mid pour at the kitchen depression - depressed to receive a wood finish floor.
Concrete is called a 'plastic' material because it is so easily moldable - by a boot or by a trowel.
A concrete pour like this one starts early and finishes late. To do it right, the finishing process is long and arduous.
The dinning room slab showing a circular pattern from the 'final touch' on the concrete. It was supposed to be linear running with the long direction of the house. Short of ripping out and starting over, finishing mistakes are very hard to correct. Most efforts at doctoring poured concrete make it look worse, exaggerating the problem rather than concealing them.
The living room steps still a bit green from the pour, and a bit rougher than the Owner's and I were hoping. Arguably the most important part of placing concrete is the final touch; whatever is done then is visible (unless the finish is ground or covered). Note that the control joint is huge, roughly half an inch. At this size it is a high heel magnet so we will have to fill it in with an epoxy grout. The joint is also placed an inch in from the edge of the stair not at the edge as it was supposed to be.