Goedjn wrote:

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:40:05 -0400, "No" wrote:

It reaches almost its complete final strength in 24 hours and will continue
to cure for days/months/years. Not sure where you went wrong. In practice,
the amt of water is really a guide. Your surrounding areas in your hole may
have sucked up some water and your mix was too dry. When finishing, you
trowel the top and 'bring up the cream', thats after about 5 or 10 minutes.
Broom finish is to make it rough, like for sidewalks. That is done one crete
starts to set up. After a day you are pretty much done and SOL.
"Joe Sloppy" wrote in message

Or you could have gotten a crapy batch of pre-mix that was already
half-cured before you started mixing.

Possible but unlikely given his description of not being able to work it
even when he first tried troweling.