Last week, I had a contractor pour concrete in our backyard for a backyard patio. The contractor came in one day with his crew, got concrete mixing trucks, poured the concrete and left.
Now the patio looks good, but I see that he "broomed" it at the end, so the patio is not "smooth". I had not expected this and I guess I was hoping for a smooth finish (as in a garage floor). I assumed (I guess naively) that the contractor would make it a smooth finish. Why do I like a smooth finish? Well, I'm thinking since it is a patio, sometimes we may want to wander on it barefoot :-) In the future, I also want to stain it, and I'm thinking a smoother finish will look better when it is stained.
He is going to come back next week... I have to pay him yet.
Is there anything I can ask him to make it smoother? Is it possible at all? Is it very expensive? The concrete patio is about 16x30 sq.ft.
Thank you all.
Bill