Concrete driveway / sidewalk

[Masked Bandit]

Question for any legit concrete guys out there. When a driveway & sidewalk are freshly poured (new house) how long before you can:

- Walk on it?


- Park on it?


They did it today when I wan't there (wife was home) and they didn't tell her anything.

[Heff]

Walk on it:

24-48 hours

Park on it:

21 days

[A790]

Originally posted by Masked Bandit
Question for any legit concrete guys out there. When a driveway & sidewalk are freshly poured (new house) how long before you can:

- Walk on it?


- Park on it?


They did it today when I wan't there (wife was home) and they didn't tell her anything.

Walk on it? Give it a couple of days.

Park on it? A couple of weeks.

[hrdkore]

umm is that true?? base it off the dryness factor, if its been hot and dry 10 days shoudl be good to go, if the weather has be wet then 2+ weeks

[barmanjay]

Originally posted by Heff
Walk on it:

24-48 hours

Park on it:

21 days

Yup

from what I'm told

[Masked Bandit]

Sounds reasonable.

Thanks guys.

[theken]

Wet has nothing to do with it. You want it wet. It will be stronger. You can walk on it in a couple hours 5 hours 6 hours. Park on it week

[Masked Bandit]

Originally posted by theken
Wet has nothing to do with it. You want it wet. It will be stronger. You can walk on it in a couple hours 5 hours 6 hours. Park on it week

Don't you need to change the "what I drive" section of your profile?

[Supa Dexta]

Yeah leave it over night before walking on, then a week you can park on it no problem.. I just wouldn't park anything crazy on it, or jack anything up on it for a few weeks (as in putting a lot of force in a small area).. I've poured tons of it.

[A790]

Originally posted by Supa Dexta
Yeah leave it over night before walking on, then a week you can park on it no problem.. I just wouldn't park anything crazy on it, or jack anything up on it for a few weeks (as in putting a lot of force in a small area).. I've poured tons of it.

I just beat the shit out of my monitor trying to kill the bug in your sig before I realized it was not a real bug .

[Tomaz]

Originally posted by A790

I just beat the shit out of my monitor trying to kill the bug in your sig before I realized it was not a real bug .

[A790]

Originally posted by Tomaz

Work slow?

[420Ninja]

The people across the street just got a new concrete driveway put in, about a week later they were parking on it, I noticed because they decided to park right infront of my house, completely across the culdisac from them... I dont really care but it was still pretty stupid, they must hate me because of all the noise my cars make :P

[redline_13000]

You CAN walk on it pretty much a couple hours after its poured, but shouldnt for a few days (especially on the broom finish). Park on it is minimum 28 days.

[Supa Dexta]

Is this for "warranty" or what? Because when we poured our own, we had tractors and everything else on it after a week.

[craigcd]

My neighbours were parking on their drive way about a week after it was poured. Now if you look at it from a distance you can see wavy tire indents up and down the drive way lol. I would wait a couple weeks for sure.

[Masked Bandit]

It was fine to walk on this morning (24 hrs) but we've been parking on the street for three months so what's another few weeks right.