Finishing Concrete - Is Anyone Teaching You This Skill?

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Finishing concrete is a skill I have to teach all my employees. I've taken a lot of the same training skills and techniques and put them in video format to teach others.
When you learn how to become a concrete finisher, you learn a very valuable skill set that you will have for a lifetime.
Many concrete companies are looking to hire good concrete finishers all the time. The pay scale for a concrete finisher is much higher than a concrete laborer. I've put together a lot of videos of my working "on the job" to teach you how to finish concrete just like I do.
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@garyolsen3409 3 жыл бұрын

I worked for my family's concrete business for over 40 yrs. I retired eight years ago, but I still miss it. Had a lot of fun times. Can't believe how fast those years went.

@mikeferguson9087 3 жыл бұрын

Mike you are a champion. I really appreciate you helping to create a better future for us by teaching your children your trade. I build and do drywall. My daughters and wife help me as well.

@rockystone7949 3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU MIKE.....I AM A CARPENTER 55 YEARS.....AND I LEARN MANY NEW THINGS AND TECHNIQUES....YOU ARE MY BROTHER IN CONSTRUCTION.....

@user-sw2ny5wc6b 11 ай бұрын

AMAZING WORK!! I am 3rd/generation finisher and still love to do it every time I can .

@miketoronto6096 2 жыл бұрын

I love the way you work ,,, I worked for a Concrete and drain company here in Canada we rush in between Concrete drying to install drainage systems,,what a shitty job never stop all day 7till 5 ,,,, now it's just Concrete and my buddy's,, no more racing just cement,,, I hardly use a power trowel I have time these day's 🤙

@bryantg1412 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful work and attention to detail. Finish Master status!

@deeferred 2 ай бұрын

I remember when I did small jobs like this. The beers were always cold and ready around 2:00.😂

@Myshell444 3 жыл бұрын

Mike your the best man love watching all your videos as for me who loves to learn and excel at everything I do but concrete is my life I'm a pretty experienced finisher as far as residential by hand stuff "NEVER" Machines.Till I joined to finishers union where my guys I work with the Machine Experienced Ones like you mike. Are teaching me how to use the Power trowel machine.Im starting to catch on Just watching your videos I'm learning so much how adjust blades and when to adjust the blades is so important just by watching your videos I go in to work more confident about running the trowel machine LoL I'm starting to show these guys some tricks Lmao tx mike for all you do I wish I was taught by you maybe I'll join your concrete underworld thing and really show them up haha

@aarongrabowski3775 3 жыл бұрын

Great job guys and gal!!! Good to see you got you daughter learning to finish as well.

@MikeDayConcrete 3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Thank you!

@chadzblewski4122 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful as always, thanks for the tips and tricks!

@user-fu2kp2it8c 2 жыл бұрын

Theres no trick, its just tip😠

@macmcellheney4351 3 жыл бұрын

Really Great 👍 video. Thanks for helping me learn concrete finishing

@zuhawk15 3 жыл бұрын

You guys do great work!

@adrianadrian3446 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful... great job Prof. Mike.

@MikeDayConcrete 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@T.E.P. 3 жыл бұрын

glorious! thanks Mike! love catching a vid when i can

@MikeDayConcrete 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@davesmith7328 3 жыл бұрын

Great videos keep them up!!

@camauedd8042 3 жыл бұрын

I find cement work so rewarding, had a great time as a US Navy SEABEE BU....

@chuckconner1990 3 жыл бұрын

I learned to finish the same way. Its good to watch tradesmen doing it old school.

@robertzaske5321 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

@MikeDayConcrete 3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@armandolopez8257 3 жыл бұрын

Very professional great work

@chefblundard2051 3 жыл бұрын

One thing I like to do when I’m running the power trowel is rather than walking back and forth along the path of the machine, I like to leave my feet somewhat stationary and reach out with the machine as far as I can left and right. It’s a huge help on hot days when the concrete is setting fast, not having to deal with as many foot prints. With that being said, you guys do great work and are highly skilled finishers. Keep up the good work

@dustyniederriter7543 2 жыл бұрын

I agree bud. I don’t understand why guys do all that movement for one pass it’s got to be three times as many steps. At the same time it’s how your taught. Idc how it’s done as long as the results are the same

@JBekus 2 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t agree more. I mentioned the excess foot steps in a previous video. I was told the finisher was the best and didn’t need to learn anything.

@Psy6o Жыл бұрын

Your getting on it too soon if your foot prints are deep enough for it to matter or use flat sole boots

@jackmehoff5816 Жыл бұрын

@@Psy6o too soon if the foot prints matter? lol. No we're talking when it's hot bro. 100% thats gotta leave 3,4x as many foot prints doing it that way . Come work in in the Midwest when it's 100% humidity, HOT AF. Can't be screwing around like that going sideways, leaving all them footprints.... Yeah can't be doing that on a hot summer day

@jackmehoff5816 Жыл бұрын

But hey good looking work!

@RLynn-yu3ju Ай бұрын

Thank you for teaching and sharing this knowledge

@MikeDayConcrete Ай бұрын

My pleasure

@richardmacdougall6330 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent work boys , your videos are excellent too . 👍🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@MikeDayConcrete 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

@user-px3bq8qn8y 11 ай бұрын

great stuff

@staceymurray922 3 жыл бұрын

Old school. Similar too sanding hardwood floors or rejuvenate old decks. Cool. Nice.

@ameliemorton9849 2 жыл бұрын

Mike would you do one on hand making the expansion joints some use metal or wood but I like it done while the concrete is still soft green...thank you so much information..Amélie

@timbodtoolman7025 3 жыл бұрын

Nice those floors look great 😎👊🏻 It nice that you’re teaching the kids Keep up the good work

@MikeDayConcrete 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

@jeremyhuggins8796 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know how I missed this video Mike. Never got a notification.

@SinnisjInsulator 3 жыл бұрын

I must have missed a few videos. Is this gor a massive house? Looks great though, I've seen those finishers at work in my job sites. I'm just the attic insulator though lol so I observe for 5 min and hope non of the loosefill goes on the fresh laid concrete.

@tifpolska3760 3 жыл бұрын

Greatj job!

@dougeing6521 3 жыл бұрын

Mike, are you pouring your garage floors with or without air entrainment? In Central Ohio we always poured garage floors using 3% air entrainment.

@crazyhandshands9028 3 жыл бұрын

Another great JOB

@MikeDayConcrete 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks again!

@rodfrost5051 2 жыл бұрын

I have done a lot of walls buy have very little experience finishing floors beyond bullfloating. When you say mag floating is that considered hand wiping the floor? I always had this question

@peggypatton9170 3 жыл бұрын

First time in 1998 my buddy was running powertrowel handed it to me boy did I go for ride in circles learn real fast after that I was green to concrete work.

@john-hx9df 3 жыл бұрын

I am just a groundworker and our concrete finishing is not even close to how good yours looks.Can you tell me what like it is once the rain hits it,ours is usually covered with inch deep puddles lol.Great work btw,awesome videos

@psidvicious 3 жыл бұрын

Watching you kneeling on and over that wall, magging the edges reminds me of my days as a superintendent, doing high rise work. I remember many times having to ‘look the other way’ when the finishers were out hanging off the edge of the building, magging the edges. I felt like Sgt Schultz from - “I see nothing! I know nothing!” 😑

@MikeDayConcrete 3 жыл бұрын

I know, we used to do that too on high rises. I can remember once one of the guys I worked with ran a power trowel right off the edge of a 2nd story. Only had one safety cable on the outside perimeter. Trowel went right under it. No one was injured luckily. This was back in the 80's.

@psidvicious 3 жыл бұрын

@@MikeDayConcrete Ha! Interesting YT deleted the name of that old tv program I mentioned (H-Ø-g-a-n-s H-é-Ø-r-e-s) 🤔 Wonder why?

@D-train69 2 жыл бұрын

@@psidvicious cause it was a good ol fashion show with a bit of truth in it an that's NOT what YT is trying to promote today in fact its just the opposite.

@psidvicious 2 жыл бұрын

@@D-train69 I guess I’ve lived long enough now to watch the world throw common sense and reason out the window in favor of PC and wokeness. I wonder now if I’ll live long enough to see the world come back to it’s collective senses and reject all that ideological nonsense. 🤷‍♂️

@Thinkagain6 3 жыл бұрын

Nice and easy. Come to the uk.. We poured on wednesday! (no roof on) It didnt finish till saturday!

@2362marshall 3 жыл бұрын

nice job

@JG-jh6oe 2 жыл бұрын

What makes you choose one brand over the other on power trowels?

@PuraninderGrewal 3 жыл бұрын

Can we get a shop/work truck tour

@agustinflores5511 3 жыл бұрын

Remember my old times 30 years over and over.

@jakethesnake4971 2 жыл бұрын

It's a hard business isn't it

@bryanspriggs4290 3 жыл бұрын

Do you like the rounded edge finish trowels?

@eddiespagetti8395 3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't.mind learning finishing concrete. I do roofing many years and cooking. I am out of work and will loook if any concrete companies hiring to train guys ..I'm sure there is work like this in Vancouver BC. That's fun looking work to me I like that work

@ashleemorse5145 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome work!! We have a 32x48 garage and a 35x26 apron thinking of doing it ourselves and all of your videos are incouraging me more and more! Lol the concrete is 4200 psi fiber and 4 inches thick... I've been reading we don't need to use mesh or rebar if its 4"?

@j.ps.roosta4826 2 жыл бұрын

The garage should have #4 rebar drilled into existing foundation. For the apron depending on where you live . Check with your local building codes . The cost to benefit of rebar. Rebar wins

@scottmaass4329 3 жыл бұрын

I always had a lot more control and power if you turn those mags and hand trowels around.

@nifkad_floor Жыл бұрын

Good day sir, I will like to learn a full course on concrete floor

@billogrady882 3 жыл бұрын

Mike - 1. You need to write an Instructional Manual; the print version of audio component of your videos. 2. Power troweling; I assume you’re mag floating around all the floor protrusions (piping, electrical, etc.)? Still learning, Bill

@raypfeil8957 2 жыл бұрын

What do you do for control joints

@brian2100 Жыл бұрын

Do you provide portable restroom on you jobs for your workers

@henry9850 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I want to learn how to finish

@cosmicmirror1320 Жыл бұрын

Damn... nice

@perkssam174 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Love to come work with you for a day or two. UK is a bit of a haul. Not many here who work to your standard.!

@MikeDayConcrete 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sam!

@lemmyjones4652 3 жыл бұрын

Throw float blades away get your self a plan then dont worry about blade tilt

@muddman4193 3 жыл бұрын

You can use combos from start to finish if you know what your doing

@stewartscohtjs 3 жыл бұрын

Mike pouring a drive way in Pennsylvania should I use steel mesh with 3500 psi or leave the steel mesh out thanks for your help your videos are very well done thanks for the information 👍🇺🇸

@MikeDayConcrete 3 жыл бұрын

We use 3/8" rebar and tie a 2' mat in driveways. Block it up with pieces of brick.

@justinf1343 Ай бұрын

I'd be interested to know what per M2 rates are charged in the US for pouring a 6" slab and then power floating and grinding the surface to a 'salt and pepper' finish. In the UK, companies are quoting anything from $250 - $350 / M2. I find those numbers eye wateringly expensive.

@mario378378 2 жыл бұрын

nice... I start like this in 28 years ago

@Muajtutshiab 3 жыл бұрын

I want to do my front yard but no experience like to learn and work with you to learn

@T.E.P. 3 жыл бұрын

it's the magic part when you show the time to start the finish

@MikeDayConcrete 3 жыл бұрын

The secret to success!

@chadzblewski4122 3 жыл бұрын

You hiring finnishers at all?

@almajohnson9646 3 жыл бұрын

agree

@kendallrouse44 2 жыл бұрын

Mike, can you use power trowel with float blades to float a slab if you were getting behind rather than scrubbing with mag floats? Or would this densify the concrete too much ? Im talking exterior air entrained concrete.

@dustyniederriter7543 2 жыл бұрын

In my experience that’s Fine. I have on several occasions done just that from start to finish When guys don’t show or or just undermanned. Got to do something to get a finish on it. Keep blades flat as possible. Roll the fat smoke them slow where the shades so mike don’t know.

@haneefgurikar491 2 жыл бұрын

I'm working the vdf flooring machine sir

@haneefgurikar491 2 жыл бұрын

Sir I'm interested in vdf

@marcusirwin1824 3 жыл бұрын

Do you use a jitterbug or roller tamp to press aggregate down? I started using a roller tamp, sometimes it creates a great product, other times I can still see marks from tamper after concrete is finished.

@chucklaneChuckylane 6 ай бұрын

I don't what part of the country you're in but here in Nevada, tamps are rarely even used that much anymore, one high end outfit I was with in the 90's still use a tamp, not a roller bug, on all garage floors, never anything exterior because of the rock, your strength is in the agg, exterior would never hold up in these conditions. That's at Lake Tahoe, down here in Reno nobody ever tamps anything, one for the loss of strength by forcing the rock down & the biggest thing is that our concrete blasts of fast, no time to tamp it or you'd be scrubbing your asses off every pour. One batch plant here has mud that flashes before it gets down the chute! That's not an exaggerated statement, you can see the dull color & tone as it leaves the drum, the shine from water disappears the second it goes from the drum into the chute, and that even using Delvo, or other brand of retarder & with plasticiser added, it's enough to give you nightmares! If you're not running and closing everything up immediately, you'll loose it unless you have an army of guys & leaving nothing half assed when laying it down, sometimes all you get is one time like tract work, lay it all down like you might not get to come back on it & lots of times you don't! Everything back there is like we did it 40 years ago, we never have to wait for it to air, if ya do, it's over, but we go on a pour at 10 or 11 am if we're that lucky to get mud that early, get dumped out in an hour or less & back home having a cold beer by 1:00-1:30..about an hour and a half on a warm or hot day & we're done! I'm getting a lot older and don't have that many more years left at that pace & glad for it, I'd die if I had to run like used to on huge pours!

@godofplumbing 3 жыл бұрын

2:33 backs and knees.

@robertlibby3557 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Mike I own the same MBW power trowel have you ever had any problems with it when your full throttle. mine sounds like it's skipping or boging out when it's wide open it actually shut off and wouldn't start back up .the floor was just about done so I just wiped a little spot that wasn't polished but the next morning it started right up weird.

@1bottlefed 7 ай бұрын

A little late to the party, however as a retired auto mechanic I have seen a lot of cases where gas caps were not venting and they would cut off after running a while at full throttle and not restart until you opened the cap and gave the carb 15 seconds or so to refill the bowl......of course it could also be the ignition or about a dozen other things ;-)

@nister261 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Mike I'm interested in your course. Mainly i am interested in learning to install new driveways, patios. Do you teach about driveways in both courses?

@nister261 2 жыл бұрын

Mike?

@jeromjanko7875 3 жыл бұрын

Get that money !

@angelopalombo494 3 жыл бұрын

Great job boys I miss it I'm the estimator now and would rather go back to work.

@MikeDayConcrete 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@aarongrabowski3775 3 жыл бұрын

I estimate you are bored alot now!!!

@eloymarquez4783 3 жыл бұрын

Are you located in Maine ?

@markgriffin7016 8 ай бұрын

Is the problem people that don't want to teach or people that don't want to learn? Concrete work is a skill, and it is physically demanding. You guys are definitely good at your job.

@wicks_lindows 8 ай бұрын

In my case, people don't want to teach. I learned more off of KZfaq in an hour than I learned from my company in a week.

@strong4865 3 жыл бұрын

Oh i see youre in main - i from midwest we had front on loaders - nice ya :))) you are teaching nice body stance for finisher , but they spend to much time , 2 stroke edge and reach out more , the girl not bad but she fighting machine , last guy is a pro relaxed , never ever back machine up to fox 1 spot , keep going let machine do the work, who ever making these clips is a pro , i worked concrete im 14 years old -

@jeremyhart2435 3 жыл бұрын

Need to post on rumble app

@doitright9354 3 жыл бұрын

Nice job... But you could spend a couple of bucks on ear plugs to protect your workers ears! Just ytube the long term effects to prolonged exposure to noise from equipment.

@jimbeam9176 3 жыл бұрын

Great trade.. more young kids need to get into it..

@dandickson4638 3 жыл бұрын

I’m 17 and do it with my dad he’s been doing it for 25 years

@jimbeam9176 3 жыл бұрын

@@dandickson4638 learn everything you can.. around here there no young kids willing to do the work..

@dandickson4638 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve tried and tried to get my buddys but they can’t face the heat of Arkansas

@SportsHandicappingService 3 жыл бұрын

Machine should do All the work except for all edges and last wipe out.. first pass with machine with combo blades keeps blades flat as you can and fill in all little holes. It’s all about Timing, the mix, temperature, humidity and possible direct sunlight 👍

@richard-cf8ce 11 ай бұрын

Already know how

@eprofessio 2 жыл бұрын

I have a swirl hump in my garage floor.

@gracenyambura4667 Жыл бұрын

I am from kenya cam iget those 2

@lukeschardan6677 3 жыл бұрын

Girl doing the foot Shuffle You Can Tell She's Not comfortable with the machine yet

@RA-sz5tu 3 жыл бұрын

that machine at 9:00 blades are too high, I did this for 37 years, go by the sound the blades make, if it sounds gritty blade too high, same goes for hand trowels, you can fill a hole quicker with a flat blade

@chuckconner1990 3 жыл бұрын

Im hearing a lot of rock popping

@mule666 2 жыл бұрын

Not true you get it much smoother with an old trowl they bent a bit after use

@tombryan1 3 жыл бұрын

I dont miss doing any concrete, its the equivalent of roofing but on the ground. Put in 15 to 20 years of hands on work and you will be guaranteed pain and suffering after 50.

@darrenmall7963 3 жыл бұрын

Tell me about it👍

@jamesnm21 2 жыл бұрын

So does the clickbait cutie get a cut of the proceeds? Edit: informative video as usual

@naima745 3 жыл бұрын

❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👏👏👏

@rodriquezbroadwater2427 11 ай бұрын

That's how you condition floors

@gerryvanwoerkom2660 3 жыл бұрын

hearing protection should be used !!

@mudslutmusic9052 3 жыл бұрын

Goes fast in the sun

@MikeDayConcrete 3 жыл бұрын

It does!

@darrelljohnson205 3 жыл бұрын

I bet the boss is in flip flops on the job site sorry Odell just seemed like that kind of guy and your employees hate you 😆

@joehuinker7009 3 жыл бұрын

Run those machines that fast burns the blades

@tbobmann229 3 жыл бұрын

We call it "whoop up a floor"...

@muddman4193 3 жыл бұрын

Fuck you can use combos from start to finish if you know what your doing

@phogol 3 жыл бұрын

How to build a solid foundation....by building a solid foundation

@darrenmall7963 3 жыл бұрын

Put the pan on

@freeman7788 Жыл бұрын

Be a great Floor sander just glue on some sand paper....

@haneefgurikar491 2 жыл бұрын

Sir I'm in indian sir

@randynelson5369 3 жыл бұрын

The only thing I want to know is why are you all wearing tennis shoes while running a power trowel good way to lose some toes or maybe worse and I'm sure Osha would frown on that

@wbaker6037 3 жыл бұрын

Lost me with the ad...

@Gearhead-en8dz 3 жыл бұрын

Never ran a power trowel. The company that I worked for "didn't have time" and the foreman was an arrogant prick. Funny thing is; my hand finishing skills were ten times better than his. They let me bull float, slick, broom, crawl edges, run deep jointers & edgers, sponge steps and curbs and run the screeds. I would be left behind on basements after sand was dumped, and shovel the whole thing, this included digging out tubs and center wall footings. I was a shovel slinging S.O.B.🤣 I became the only person on the crew to set up symmetrical circles and triangles, because the boss couldn't keep them looking decent. I saw cut everything that needed it and set all screed stakes( L's). I was allowed to unload and maintain the Bobcat but never really allowed to use it. Arrogance and Ignorance played a big part in all of this. This was 20 some years ago. A crew of five men, all hand screeded, wheeled & in some cases bucket poured. There are still days I miss it........

@dopeytripod 3 жыл бұрын

concrete....it gets harder the longer you do it

@Volga.S-pb 3 ай бұрын

Я этим занимаюсь 20+ лет. Мне одно не понятно - зачем вы ползаете на коленях с кельмой по всей плите? Себя не жалко? Какой в этом смысл, какой дурак вас этому научил? Мы в ручную делаем только места, где не достаёт вертолёт,в углах, стыки.

@curtisblowers7258 Жыл бұрын

Slowest guy ever on skates with a round pool trowel...prob his top guy...SMH. location and Temp, weather, and wind make all the difference between timing

@nifkad_floor Жыл бұрын

Good day sir, I will like to learn a full course on concrete floor

@MikeDayConcrete Жыл бұрын

The course in in my private membership The Concrete Underground. Link to join is in the description of the video.