1) Enables user to pour concrete with less slump

A. Less water means stronger, longer lasting concrete that is less likely to fail slump cone or break testing.

B. Decreases required finishing time resulting in labor savings.

C. This allows for easier finishing with less agitation, bleed-off, aggregate separation, and shrinkage.

2) Once the screed elevation is set, no reworking, or remeasuring is necessary

A. This saves expensive, unnecessary labor time which is commonly wasted by dedicating a laborer to constantly monitor wet pad/bench elevations. This improves jobsite profits, and assures flatter end results.

B. Allows users to set accurate elevation without variance as with tape measure reading errors or damaged stakes.

C. Eliminates costly low or high spots in finished concrete that are associated with other screeding methods.

3) Uses standard 1/2" EMT conduit for screed stakes

A. Can be set in all types of subgrades.

B. Sets faster by 3 to 1 compared to other methods.

C. Conduit is less expensive than steel or wood, and can be recycled from demolition sites or from electrical scrap.

4) Allows user versatility

A. Can be used with power screeds, concrete pumps, vibratory screeds, or when hand striking concrete.

B. Use for slab on grade, pavers, resurfacing, wood or steel decks, vapor barriers, precast concrete, and for radiant heating installation.

C. Removal of pipe and/or power screed is not necessary while adjusting for correction or specific runoffs.

5) Designed to eliminate usage errors or problems

A. To assure accuracy, the Driver's height indicator is an 8 penny nail that is easily replaced at the job site if damaged.

B. The highly visible, light weight Yokes are virtually unbreakable. They are adjustable, and will not expand, contract, float, or deteriorate and are made to be left in the pour.

C. Screed sets remain accurate regardless of the angle the conduit stake had been cut, or direction a Yoke set is turned.

6) Extremely cost effective

A. When using our System, the average cost of Yokes left in the pour is less than 1¢ per square foot!

B. Eliminates the wasted time and energy spent by strip forming instead of pouring projects monolithically.

C. Saves fuel from hauling less forming materials, and labor from less trips to the truck at clean up time.

1) When setting pour elevation, unnecessary,  inaccurate measuring occurs

A. Due to human error and deviation between tape measure readings, screed stake locations are never set exactly correct. This results in sub-standard floors with costly low or high spots.

B. Due to the heads of the stakes concaving from blows with a hammer, even laser settings are rendered inaccurate and unreliable.

C. Regardless of the measuring instrument, expensive labor time is wasted due to the constant remeasuring that is required when setting wood stakes.

A. Besides being more expensive, wood stakes require approximately three times longer to set than conduit stakes or rebar. Using wood stakes causes injuries from over strikes, broken hammers, tapes, and string lines as well.

B. Depending on the subgrade, wood stakes either split, cannot be set, sink, or will not remain accurate or stable during set-ups or while pouring.

C. When wood stakes remain in the pour, termites are attracted, which eventually causes voids that become weak spots. Wood stakes will also absorb ground moisture causing expansion and contraction promoting floors to crack in changing weather conditions.

A. If a stake is driven too low, makeshift height adjustments do not stay accurate, so it becomes necessary to replace this with a new stake. This is commonly just let go by as being "close enough" resulting in sub-standard floors.

B. Because wood stakes are not rotatable, they cannot be used as a common screed location when pouring multi-directional slabs. This makes additional screed locations a necessity to complete such projects.

C. Wood stakes cannot be used on decks, over vapor barriers, in hard, rocky, or solid subgrades. Modern day specifications also stipulate they cannot be left in pours, which means extra labor must be spent in their removal.

1) Wet screeding sacrifices quality and increases labor costs

A. Whether using rebar stakes which are set to the pour elevation and then later removed, or when using wet pads set with the aid of a laser, constant remeasuring is unavoidable. This causes inefficiency, and valuable labor time is lost while promoting less than ideal end results.

B. Due to presetting and agitation, wet pads promote sub grade floor contamination and hot spots which can cause uneven curing which results in problematic and non-uniform finishes.

C. Due to the distances required to free-strike between stakes or pads, varying results will contain a wave effect that either wastes concrete in the form of high spots, or causes low spots which may require patch work later regardless of finishing methods used. In today's market, "close enough" just isn't acceptable.

2) Expensive, unnecessary risks are common

A. Because wet screeding requires much practice even to achieve mediocre results, pours can become jeopardized due to key employee absenteeism resulting in delays, missed deadlines, and poor end results.

B. Pours that take place on hot days, in high winds, containing chloride, or when pouring agitated "hot loads", may be lost due to the extended lay down time required by using wet screeding methods.

C. When wet screeding, extra water is added to increase the slump. This extra water weakens the concrete structurally. This causes a less durable end product that may not meet the specified slump or break test requirements for a project, and can end up requiring replacement at the contractor's expense.