Hammer drills or rotary drills placing concrete anchors or doing rh testing requires drilling into a cured concrete slab.
Concrete hand tools names.
For hand screeding the screed must be longer than the width of the concrete form so that it can ride along the top edges of the form as the concrete is flattened.
This is an important part of the process and you will want to pay attention to the concrete itself to determine exactly when it begins to harden.
To smooth and level small residential slabs perform delicate detail work blend in.
A thermo hygrometer helps monitor both.
Hand tools for finishing concrete.
You will run this edger across the concrete and away from the boards that you have set up.
For many smaller jobs such as sidewalks garage and driveway slabs and patios a simple straight piece of dimension lumber usually a 2 x 4 suffices as a screed.