Is this a cold pour?

[mheeley]

Hello,

I came across this today and I'm not a 100% sure what it is. It looks a little like a cold pour but there is brown paper coming out of the edges of the joints between the two different colored surfaces. The concrete was fine and felt solid.

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The client had questions about it and I didn't have a solid answer. Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Mike

[kurt]

Kind of hard to tell, but it's kind of like a cold line. Except, this one has paper coming out of it. That's quite odd.

Do they line forms with paper in your area?

[Jim Katen]

Kind of hard to tell, but it's kind of like a cold line. Except, this one has paper coming out of it. That's quite odd.

Not really, they just wrapped the body in paper before tossing it into the form.

- Jim Katen, Oregon

[Mike Lamb]

Lunch bags?

[Jerry Simon]

Nope, not a cold pour. The lines/shapes/colors/cardboard(?) are from the forms.

I stripped tens-of-thousands of such forms in another life. Perhaps from a minimal/poor form-oiling job.

Client ain't got no need to fret.

[Jim Katen]

Nope, not a cold pour. The lines/shapes/colors/cardboard(?) are from the forms.

I stripped tens-of-thousands of such forms in another life. Perhaps from a minimal/poor form-oiling job.

Client ain't got no need to fret.

Yeah? Just wait till the body starts to smell . . .

[Tom Raymond]

So the paper was on the form?

My first thought was an additive of some kind. Many of them, like color or fiber, come in bags that are designed to be tossed into the mixer drum. I could see how some paper could survive to end up in the wall like that.