DAE spend 6 hours chasing a cold joint that was really just my float getting dry

Beth Baker · 2026-10-01T12:40:02.548312+00:00

I fought a 12 foot cold joint on a Tuesday pour in Tucson for almost 6 hours, reworking the mix, adding retarder, adjusting my timing, before I finally figured out the real culprit was my magnesium float drying out and dragging the paste, and a quick dunk in a bucket of water fixed it in 2 minutes, so has anyone else blamed their mix when it was really a bone dry tool the whole time?

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