When pressed further, he didn't like it because it needed more time/effort to finish when steel trowled so the fibers didn't show.

I worked in Ca. doing concrete repairs, and always thought of fibers in the concrete taking care of the small cosmetic cracks, and the steel taking care of the structural integrety of the pour.

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