Crews, superintendents and schedules all talk in pours: pour day, the deck pour, a pour break, a 600-yard pour. Specifications and engineers prefer the word placement, and on site pouring covers pumping, chuting, bucketing and buggying alike. Every pour is planned around truck spacing, crew size, weather and where the joint goes if it has to stop.
Pour's at 5 a.m. Friday, first truck on site 4:45, pump sets up at 4, nobody's late.
A pour is never just the concrete: pump, testing lab, inspector, finishing crew and weather all have to line up on the same morning.
Also heard as
- placement
- placing
- pour day
Related terms
Yard
One cubic yard of concrete, 27 cubic feet, the unit used for every US ready-mix order and invoice.
Boom pump
A truck-mounted concrete pump with a folding hydraulic boom that places concrete right where it is needed.
Cold joint
An unplanned seam left where fresh concrete was placed against concrete that had already begun to set.
Construction joint
A planned stopping point between two placements, prepared so the next pour bonds to it or transfers load across it.
Mud
Jobsite slang for fresh concrete, used by finishers, pumpers and ready-mix drivers alike.