Fly Ash Concrete Polished Floor

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Fly ash concrete polished floor.

Fly ash consists mostly of silica alumina and iron. So using fly ash concrete offers the benefit of a stronger more durable product while reducing the environmental impact of concrete manufacturing and providing a beneficial re use for fly ash. This is strong enough to polish in a month but not so strong as to slow polishing progress and increase polishing costs. In the summer fly ash can be beneficial to a contractor s efforts to produce a flat floor because many fly ashes retard set increasing the time finishers have to meet a tight flatness specification.

Typically class f fly ash is used at dosages of 15 to 25 by mass of cementitious material and class c fly ash at 15 to 40. This can be beneficial for cream polishing as harder floors will be more reflective and have more depth in their finish than softer floors. Avoid fly ash slag in the mix. Concrete made with fly ash requires less mix water and bleeds less than portland cement concrete.

If floor conditions appear to be detrimental to progress and satisfactory completion of the floor the general contractor and architect should be contacted before work. Contractor should first check work area and conditions and evaluate floor for flatness and levelness. Fly ash in concrete contributes to a stronger more durable and more chemical resistant concrete mix. This means that outside moisture will not penetrate it as easily.

Increasing the fly ash content of a slab will both darken and harden the finished floor. It also makes the concrete less permeable. The main benefit of fly ash for concrete is that it not only reduces the amount of non durable calcium hydroxide lime but in the process converts it into calcium silicate hydrate csh which is the strongest and most durable portion of the. Minimize fly ash or slag cement replacement in an exposed aggregate finish.

Air content greater than three percent increases the risk of blisters and delamination in. In the winter many contractors prefer to have no fly ash in the concrete because the cold weather already retards set and fly ash retards it. Do not allow air content of trowel finished floors to exceed three percent. Further as the fly ash is a very small particle it will.

Fly ash makes the concrete more workable. Concrete properties the specified compressive strength f c is equal to 4000 psi. Its tiny sphere shaped particles fill small voids and produce a denser concrete. Currently more than 50 of the concrete placed in the u s.

A standard concrete mix contains about 5 fly ash.