Do It Right! Lessons from the field not to be repeated
Surface finish
- Make sure they completely fill-form tie holes and she-bolt holes with mortar.
What you see is what you get!
This abutment has been ground, rubbed and painted. This is the reason the contract usually calls for a Special Surface Finish.
- This wing wall has been ground, rubbed and painted.
- Fortunately, most of this wall ends up buried in the slope!
- They said this was ready for S.S.F. I can still see both efflorescence and “dissipating" cure on the surface, improperly filled-form tie holes, and a large seam where bowed plywood sheets met.
- The Special Surface Finish isn’t suppose to be applied until the Ordinary Surface Finish has been completed!
- Sometimes you wonder if they think it's a joke...