Bull float

[lutonlagerlout]

got a bit of an unusual job on,its kind of an oversite but they need the surface fairly flat,needs to be thick concrete i.e.200mm and it needs to be floated ,then brushed and troweled at the edges
the problem i have is that it is roughly 7m by 7m
and there are walls 8 m high round 3 sides
i have seen guys using long handled floats etc. but what would you people recommend?
TIA
LLL

[dig dug dan]

you could always hire a cherry picker and extend the basket over the concrete, and lean out the basket with a trowel?.
something like a genie would be able to extend about 8m.

otherwise i haven't a clue!

[lutonlagerlout]

i was thinking of one of those long handled floats the pic ppl use dan
its such a weird job ,but i cant describe it fully due to confidentiality clause
i may look at probst site
cherry picker is out for at least 2 reasons
cheers LLL

[andpartington]

can u not start at the rear wall and work forward in using a semidry mix almost like a screed floating as you go a few wooden pegs set out before hand would keep you on track for the levels.

or split it in to 3 bays do the left hand one first then the right hand and come back next day and do the centre bay working off the outer 2

failing that one of thesethese will work with a harness on a length or rope

andy

[very simple simon]

What about a staging coming down off the walls? I have seen similar done for poring the slab of a basemant. All the gear came through O-shea plant somewhere in Herts, great big alli beams and looms and god knows what. Probably a bit dear for only one job though.

What is going on with the walls as well...no chance of coming off of walls and getting a youngmans board across?

either that or just order lots of snap handles for your float

Good job it's only easy float finish...never get a pan big enough for that khaki powerfloat

[Ted]

Bull floats aren't easy to hire... maybe HSS do one.

They aren't cheap to buy either.

I would have thought a powerfloat would be cheaper and easier to hire.

[Tony McC]

PICS have a reasonable ramge of tools, including mag bull floats, on their website.

[lutonlagerlout]

none there ,that i can find?
may have to use a bull float with a long handle,same with the brush etc
cheers fellas
LLL

[seanandruby]

is the wall to close to use the long handled float? is it too long for a younger man staging to span the slab? maybe a scaffold ladder beam, or two fixed together with boards on top slid along the top of the shutter, then hand trowelled. we do a lot of awkward jobs like that and when we see the finished job say " how the f**k did we manage that.

[Ted]

PICS do sell them but you need to phone; their tool selection is not listed on the wesbite...

Refina sell bull floats too:

http://www.refina.co.uk/pdf_07/p156_bullfloats.pdf

[Dave_L]

"how the f**k did we manage that.

That's what I said to the lads as we finished a particularly difficult tarmac job today..........

[lutonlagerlout]

i think its gonna have to be done in 2 ,there is no shutter and there is no where on the walls to fix anything (covered in *stuff*)
thanks for all the advice guys
LLL

[very simple simon]

*stuff*

it's not piles of burning cattle by any chance is it?

[Dave_L]

But they wouldn't tolerate that in Surrey, would they? Like we had to down here in the South West back along.

[lutonlagerlout]

finally used float the other week and what a revelation it was blade was 1200 by 200 mm and i wished i had used 1 of these years ago,makes real easy work of trowelling up concrete
cheers for the tips guys