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Rant: Whoever designed those self-leveling concrete compounds never actually used one
I was pouring a basement floor in a 1920s house in St. Paul last month and the bag said it levels itself. Three hours later I'm on my knees with a trowel trying to fix giant craters and it's setting up like concrete pudding. Anyone got a go-to brand that actually lives up to the hype?
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green.mason3d ago
Used to be one of those people who'd get all technical and correct somebody on "self-leveling" versus "self-levels itself" but then I actually had to use this stuff in my own basement. Bought the expensive Henry 547 stuff and watched it turn into a lunar landscape within minutes. Ended up spending a whole Saturday chiseling off high spots and filling in low ones with a trowel like some kind of cave man. That five hundred dollar bag of powder taught me real quick that the marketing guys have never poured a floor in their lives. Mapei Ultraplan is the only brand I've found that comes close to what it claims, but you still have to babysit it and move it around yourself.
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