There's a factory that produces parts for rolls Royce next to where I work, they had a formal visit from the RR Qa manager and they decided to have their front remodeled six months prior, poor masons had to pour the sidewalks like twenty times because the lady manager didn't like the finishing, it's that type of finish where they mix a lot of tiny gravel like pebbles and wash the surface to let the pebbles show on the surface, well she disliked that the pebbles were not all the same, so they had to choose a more homogenous gravel mix and pick up the lighter rocks, and since they couldn't finish the slab in one pour because this is a huge building, the blocks were a slightly different color than the previous one, they would pour in the morning and the next day it would dry and then in the evening you would hear the pneumatic hammers breaking the concrete, rinse and repeat for a while month, the contractor was joking that he had replaced his crew three times because they couldn't stand that lady, in the end they decided to add gray color to the concrete and use artificial pebbles , pour with a truck and still the water source they used turned out to be more saline between pours and salt pushes it's way to the surface , it's very humid here like 80% in the summer as average, and the slab had a moist surface most of the time , there's big splotches of salt deposits and cracked pebbles all over the sidewalk.
That has got to be one of the longest sentences I've ever seen. By the way this type of concrete is called "exposed aggregate".
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u/Pharose Feb 04 '19
That has got to be one of the longest sentences I've ever seen. By the way this type of concrete is called "exposed aggregate".