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Concrete Power Trowel for Floor Surface


Power Trowel  is widely used in surface of concrete raised paste and trowel and smooth out in high-standard workshop, warehouse, parking lot, square, airport and frame-style building. 

Troweling with a steel trowel is done when a smooth, dense surface is desired, such as a warehouse or garage floor. Troweling is not recommend for external slabs in Florida, add water, a little mold, and someone wearing flip flops and you have a extremely dangerous situation.

Be sure the surface has been floated before troweling. Bull floating or darbying alone are not adequate preparation. To save time the finisher can float the slab then trowel it as he moves across the slab on knee boards.

During the first troweling use a wide trowel (at least 4 ½” wide) one that has been broken in, or a trowel that has the edges machined to give it a broken in feel. This will allow the finisher to work the trowel flat without digging into the surface.

Move the trowel across the slab in a sweeping arc motion, tilting the trowel on slightly to keep the trowel from skipping across the slab. Overlap each pass by at least half of the trowel length this will ensure that the trowel cover the surface twice.



To improve surface wear resistance, and smoothness additional troweling may be desired. On later passes use narrow trowels to increase trowel pressure at the surface.

Fresnos are large trowels that attach to bull float handles. Fresnos are used for troweling slabs that do not require a hard trowel surface. A Fresnos will speed up the troweling process. Fresnos should not be used as bull floats.

Troweling can also be accomplished by machine. Power trowels range in size from small walk-behind machines to larger double or triple rotor ride-on machine. Take care to make sure that all of the blades on a rotor are in the same condition. If one blade is bent or broken, you must change all the blades on the rotor.

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