Electricians: Beveled Concrete Parking Lot Base? I'm an electrician in Minnesota. On many of our job, we install...
I'm an electrician in Minnesota. On many of our job, we install parking lot lights that attach to 2-foot diameter round concrete footings. The prints always specify a beveled edge to maintain the finished edge from cracking over time. After trying many different beveling tools, I've given up. How do you achieve a clean-looking, consistent beveled edge on your bases?
I'm not a mason, or electrician, so I may be mistaken, but it seems you could construct a form with the bottom constructed with the bevel, pour the concrete contained by and then invert it so the bottom becomes the top, next to a neat beveled edge.
Sound like you need to ask a mason.
Get a concrete trowel and swot to use it. If the concrete is the right consistancy you can just smooth it and let it dry. They also build rounded and 45degree trowels for the very thing you's trying to do.
Its probably that you don't own enough or more likely too much hose in the mix.
Answers: you can buy an edger for radius' instead of beveling it ...we use champers on straight forms not sure how you would champer a small radius...you could grind a wearing clothes looking bevel after it set and you stripped it...experiment...