How to make a budget vibration rule for easy leveling of concrete floor screed

Traditional manual means for leveling concrete mortar to obtain a screed are ineffective, require a lot of time and require a lot of physical effort. The purchase of appropriate factory-made equipment involves significant financial expenses. To save the family budget, the rule can be made on the basis of an electric vibrator from available materials, and then all the difficulties noted above associated with leveling the screed will disappear by themselves.

Will need

Materials:

electric vibrator - shifmachine;
aluminum rectangular beam - rule;
steel strips of different thicknesses and lengths;
bolts and nuts;
a piece of round pipe;
limiting guides;
wooden stalk;
concrete mixture.

Tools: welding equipment, hammer, wheelbarrow with cargo capacity, electric drill, construction trowel.

The process of manufacturing and using an electric vibration rule from available materials

The rule holder is a rigid steel strip with a second strip welded transversely in the center, bent by an arc, to which a piece of pipe is welded at the end, perpendicular to the rigid steel strip.

We weld two nuts along the bottom edges to the rigid steel strip, and screw the bolts into the inner ones. We weld plates transversely to the bolt heads for ease of rotation. We insert a wooden handle into the pipe and tighten the bolt using a nut welded to the pipe to securely fix the handle in its working position.

An aluminum rectangular beam two meters long with the central part and on the “edge” is placed between the nuts and tightened with two bolts. We place the vibrator platform on one side of a rigid steel plate with threaded holes and securely fasten it to it using bolts.

We place guide-limiters on the base, along which the aluminum beam will slide during the process of leveling the concrete mass, which we bring in portions with a wheelbarrow with a container and first level it with a construction trowel between the guide-limiters.

We install the aluminum beam transversely on the guides, turn on the electric vibrator and level the surface of the concrete mixture, moving the tool back and forth the required number of times. Moreover, the thickness of the concrete screed will be determined by the height of the guides. We lay the mixture and level it in some portions, since the length of the cutting is limited.