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Guy on my crew taught me to float the edge before the field and it cut my finishing time way down
I was finishing a 24x30 garage slab out in Boise a couple months back and kept fighting the same thing, by the time I got the field bull floated and hit the edges, the edges were already too far gone to work. My lead guy watched me cuss at it for about ten minutes and then told me to run the edge first, mag it early, and then work my way in toward the middle. I tried it on the next pour and it honestly felt wrong at first because you're working backwards from how most of us learn it. But the edges stayed open long enough to get a nice clean turn, and I stopped having to come back with a second pass to fix raggedy borders. We did a 30x40 the following Friday and I finished the whole thing about 25 minutes faster than usual with way less touch up. Your mileage may vary depending on mix and weather obviously, a hot windy day out here will still eat you alive no matter what order you go in. Has anyone else switched up their sequence like this, or do you all still float the field first and chase the edges after?
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