At present, there is no definite quality standard for fair-faced concrete in civil engineering. Because the contractors are different in technique level and the fair-faced concrete construction is more complex than common concrete one and ease to cause defect. In this paper, the quality defect of fair-faced concrete is introduced and some pre-control methods from some aspects, including raw materials of concrete, casting, maintenance, steel bar cutting, formwork jointing treatment, defect mending, finished product protection and so on are presented.