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Job Description

Smooth and finish surfaces of poured concrete, such as floors, walks, sidewalks, roads, or curbs using a variety of hand and power tools. Align forms for sidewalks, curbs, or gutters; patch voids; and use saws to cut expansion joints.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 47-2051.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 43,720.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 21.00
Currently, there are 173,920 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers”.

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Tasks for “Concrete Floor Installer”

Fabricate concrete beams, columns, and panels.
Build wooden molds, and clamp molds around area to be repaired, using hand tools.
Direct the casting of the concrete and supervise laborers who use shovels or special tools to spread it.
Waterproof or restore concrete surfaces, using appropriate compounds.
Chip, scrape, and grind high spots, ridges, and rough projections to finish concrete, using pneumatic chisels, power grinders, or hand tools.
Signal truck driver to position truck to facilitate pouring concrete, and move chute to direct concrete on forms.
Apply hardening and sealing compounds to cure surface of concrete, and waterproof or restore surface.
Wet surface to prepare for bonding, fill holes and cracks with grout or slurry, and smooth, using trowel.
Clean chipped area, using wire brush, and feel and observe surface to determine if it is rough or uneven.
Cut metal division strips, and press them into terrazzo base so that top edges form desired design or pattern.
Push roller over surface to embed chips in surface.
Wet concrete surface, and rub with stone to smooth surface and obtain specified finish.
Mix cement, sand, and water to produce concrete, grout, or slurry, using hoe, trowel, tamper, scraper, or concrete-mixing machine.
Install anchor bolts, steel plates, door sills and other fixtures in freshly poured concrete or pattern or stamp the surface to provide a decorative finish.
Monitor how the wind, heat, or cold affect the curing of the concrete throughout the entire process.
Set the forms that hold concrete to the desired pitch and depth, and align them.
Cut out damaged areas, drill holes for reinforcing rods, and position reinforcing rods to repair concrete, using power saw and drill.
Apply muriatic acid to clean surface, and rinse with water.
Mold expansion joints and edges, using edging tools, jointers, and straightedge.
Produce rough concrete surface, using broom.
Sprinkle colored marble or stone chips, powdered steel, or coloring powder over surface to produce prescribed finish.
Polish surface, using polishing or surfacing machine.
Spread, level, and smooth concrete, using rake, shovel, hand or power trowel, hand or power screed, and float.
Spread roofing paper on surface of foundation, and spread concrete onto roofing paper with trowel to form terrazzo base.
Check the forms that hold the concrete to see that they are properly constructed.
Operate power vibrator to compact concrete.

Related Technology & Tools

Wood floats
Vibrating concrete screeds
Ride-on concrete breakers
Tuck-pointing trowels
Straightedges
Scarifiers
Finishing screeders
Wheelbarrows
Center discharge floor hoppers
Drain spades
Slipform curbing pavers
Gas concrete saws
Abrasive blades
Hammers
Concrete chutes
Measuring tapes
Brick hammers
Edgers
Surface concrete vibrators
General purpose concrete buckets
Walk-behind laser screeds
Collection hoppers
Spreaders
Grout pumps
Wet screeds
Rubber floats
Braces
Utility knives
Notebook computers
Brick trowels
Desktop computers
Concrete vibrators
Rock hoppers
Bump cutters
Tile setter trowels
Jitterbug tampers
Round end trowels
Hydraulic material spreaders
Wooden forms
Spirit levels
Slipforming machines
Ride-on saws
Torpedo levels
Ladders
Steel forms
Rebar benders
Magnesium channel bull floats
Pry bars
Stippling brushes
Portable gas drills
Post hole diggers
Glittermaster guns
Hydraulic concrete breakers
Pointing trowels
Walk-behind power trowels
Bit spades
Masons jointers
Barrel mounted sprayers
Concrete finishing brushes
Concrete texture rollers
Masonry saws
Crack saws
Cold chisels
Dumper riders
Concrete tampers
Screeds
Walk-behind concrete buggies
Channel floats
Core drills
Diesel concrete saws
Crowbars
Sidewalk forms
Elephant trunks
Fresno trowels
Long handle shovels
Screwdrivers
Transit mix deflectors
Form tubes
Low rider power trowels
Abrasive rubbing stones
Personal digital assistants PDA
Concrete pumps
Bar cutters
Form braces
Power troweler blades
Diamond blades
Measuring wheels
Mortar and plaster mixers
Edging trowels
Concrete floats
Roofing buckets
Multipurpose saws
Pool trowels
Roller tube finishers
Concrete routers
Cement trowels
High-speed saws
Pneumatic air nailers
Masons levels
Dust respirators
Groovers
Lightweight laydown buckets
Hand clamps
Driveway squeegees
Brick jointers
Concrete spreaders
Internal concrete vibrators
Pavement stripers
Brick tongs
Form liners
Slump buckets
Cure sprayers
Bar benders
Walk-behind concrete breakers
Concrete saws
Truss screeds
Double-beam screeders
Grapevine jointers
Chain saws
Concrete mixers
Steel trowels
Electric generators
Water pumps
Round-gate concrete buckets
Aluminum floats
Right angle grinders
Combo buckets
Grout mixers
Rebar cutters
Lifting systems
Gas generators
Notched trowels
D handle shovels
Ride-on concrete buggies
Power floats
Brick splitters
Grinders
Square point shovels
Compression sprayers
Vibrating wet screeds
Ride-on trowels
Round point shovels
Gutter forms

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