WILL IT CAVE IN BEFORE WE FIX IT ???
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 พ.ค. 2023
- This foundation for this garage is a complete disaster!! We were trying our best to get this fixed before the entire garage caved in. The clay soil had completely eroded the concrete block wall and it wanted to topple over before we could get our wall braces in. We used the dry stack method for Building the block wall because it was faster and more cost effective and we could keep the weight of the garage on the wall as we moved along. This is a good way to do a DIY foundation repair. I also would not hesitate to do a foundation out of dry stacked blocks that are parged on both sides with Comproco fiberglass reinforced block bond. Testing has shown this method to be stronger than a laid wall. If you combined that method with some good core filling with rebar and a bond beam on the top that would make for a strong DIY house or garage foundation.
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This was our house, they saved us from a total diaster. They were very professional, honest we are very glad Bondo was one who helped us. I'm not sure anyone else could of done what Bondo and his crew did in a very efficiant time. All we can say is Thank you so much.
So what did he pay you to say this ? ( joke)
You are more than welcome Dave. Just glad we caught it in time before it got worse. 👍
@@scottb6098 LOL 🤣
That's what happens when you get the best in the business.
@@MrSprintcat Thanks
Gopher needs a raise. I can't hardly find anyone to work, let alone dig like that. You and your crew deserve a big pat on the back for your hard work. Great work, crew!
Thanks Ben and yes I keep raising him as he gets more skills. 👍
Nice job! You essentially created about a 6' wide foundation compacting that material. I couldn't tell from the video if the blocks were Haydite, they didn't look like concrete. I was in the masonry business my whole life and we never ever buried them. I spent a summer when i was 16 doing nothing but replacing full 8' foundations. My dad bid a whole neighborhood of rental houses and nearly all the foundations were caving in. I was worked like a rented mule. Oh one thing you want to thing about. Never place a block on it's side and put weight on it. You were centered, but I have seen a few scaffolds crash down after guys used them to level the ground. Makes an eerie pop!
This is a great educational video for why foundation drains are needed. I never thougt about how much concrete blocks can deteriorate in that situation. A real eye opener. Bondo does some really good work on this.
Dry stack with surface bonding. That was a first for me. Very interesting.
Not good at All
I love these saves you guys do Bondo. Really heavy duty work but you saved the homeowner tons of grief down the road. Mission accomplished.
Thanks glad you like these videos. Hope to save people some grief by showing how things should be done.
Before you end your videos can you give us a 1 week post reconstruction picture? Would be nice to see a fully completed project. Maybe a before and after shot at the end. Would be satisfying. Compliments to your workers. Hopefully you pay them well.
im sure they get minimum wage ;)
What a great team. Excellent construction knowledge and no fancy marketing department full of wet behind the ears graduates! I'm from the UK and would hire you tomorrow but for the travel and hotel costs. Well done Bondo, Gofor, Biscuit and the concrete haulers.
Thanks for that comment.
That is one lucky homeowner to have you and your crew repair that garage. Well done sir!
Oh, I did cringe a bit when I saw how that garage was supported by those 6x6's while you were working under it.
Ya it was a bit scary. LOL
Really enjoyed seeing your process. As a restoration carpenter i can appreciate figuring out how to "do it from the inside out" Great attention to details and doing it right. That's quality and looking out for your client. You've got a great demenor and seems like you and your crew work really well together.
Very risky job, the result is AMAZING!!
thanks.
This might be the most impressive build I have seen from you guys. No "one step forward, two steps back" approach. I'll bet that vinyl siding was "conveniently" hiding most the defects/sins. -Brian
I am fixing to hit 69 and I can remember doing that kind of work for most of my life. I built houses, apartments and high rise buildings and Bridges THEN, I did home repair and improvement . I also did lots and lots of foundation work repairing bad work I also majored in floor repair for many years before I finally had to retire. I called myself the Floor Doctor. It was hard work but for a young man it was rewarding work and it paid better than working in some factory waiting for bells to ring. I miss doing it, I miss being able TO DO IT. SO Be happy in your work boys if you live as long as I do you will miss it to...Getting old means you can't get in gear like the old days especially for me two heart attacks a triple bypass and 7 stents later LOL. I do enjoy watching you work. I too used to run a bobcat and a jack hammer and a cherry picker and a dump truck and a front end loader and a forklift etc. etc. Yehaww the memories. ..Yeah those were the good old days for me. You guys do great work no doubt about it, YOU KEEP IT UP AND I WILL KEEP WATCHING YOU SWEAT LOL
Those finishers in the blue shirts.. You can tell right away they're elite and know what they're doing. Super fast and efficient. Amazing job.
from my experience on such cases I will not allow to use hollow concrete blocks as a foundation or wall below NGL instead I recommend stone masonry or concrete shear wall especially on submerged soil and I appreciate the use of drain pipe it will be more perfect if you make it perforated too to drain the surrounding water too and a geotextile wrap around the pipe to protect the backfilling from erosion/ or piping effect formation, water proofing the walls also protects from dampness and algae formation due to moisture.
Back for my Bondo fix...glad they picked ya and went all the way for the repair! Some people have good sense.
Thanks Marcos
done a lovely job, i know its a ball ache, and extra money you didnt think off, but its as good as new. nothing to worry about in the years ahead. Really nice to watch.
Looks great. All these experts have unlimited resources and time. Nobody has expressed the importance of time and safety. You did the right thing for safety of the structure. You were hired for one job and ran into a land mine!!!
Wow! Good job to all of your team! You can be proud! 💪
Gopher a great laborer! This was an excellent foundation walls repair.A single story garage allowed you to forfeit a footing at lowest point.
I've subcrontred a few concrete jobs. At first I thought they were headed for a "world of screw up", BUT I watched carefully and they did pull off an AMAZING FINISH!
I was concerned at the start of the pour that didn't specify exactly what "slump rate" they wanted.
Thanks. I like to look at it and go from there. some of the drivers slumps are different if you ask for the same slump. LOL
Killing it you’re murdering it you guys are amazing. This kind of video makes me kind of want a foundation problem. Way to go plaster, master tilt of the hat to the golfer that was amazing what a great crew you have. Good luck in your endeavors.
You should get a beak attachment for the skid loader for concrete demo. Works way better than forks!
Makes a mess and lots more work cleaning up. I love forks
Awesome job. My back was killing me after watching those guys work.
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen in long time, you guys did awesome job to save this garage. I’m amazed that place didn’t come down, you would think that it should’ve just started sinking into the ground, one morning the door handle be in the mud 😂. Great work by the guys , that had to be back breaking with all that hand digging. 👍👍
Great work Bondo & Crew!
You guys do good clean work that’s gonna last forever. Great video!
You are the MAN BROTHER. Awesome job.👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
How do I judge your work? Not even a dust flew off this shelves inside the garage even with all that hammering and thing.😅 Godd job guys
Thanks 😀
Tremendous job and the clients are lucky they found you
Excellent work on a difficult job. The old wall was really a mess.
Very nice work. Dry stack with the surface bonding concrete plastered on both sides is strong. Prob a lot stronger than regular layed block.
Writing as a retired construction boss here in the U.K. - it never ceases to amaze me how houses are built in America - we wouldn't be allowed to build so poor. Considering how many people here look up to all things American - the country that gave as Spam and skyscrapers, jeans and Rock & Roll (or Glen Miller if you like ) Boeing 747's - some of you live in chicken sheds! Our 100 year old slums are built of brick - their walls stand on continuous concrete strip foundations or sometimes even deep cellars, supporting well designed roofs covered in non combustible slates or tiles.
What's the winter like where this building is? It looks to me as if there's been a goodly amount of heave somehow. Using those hollow pots without solid filling is ridiculous.
Do you have no inspectors of buildings? Well - I know you do AFTER they fall down but I was taught prevention is better than cure eh?
In the uk we would use brick or block which is different for below ground, doesn’t absorb water like normal brick. Not saying it’ll never fail but it’s sure better than what the original builder used.
Thats awesome this only took a few extra days. This guy saved this thing.
Thank you.
Nice save there, Bondo. Great crew you have there. That was a long video but worth watching. I crank it up to 2 x's speed on the video and still understand what you're saying. Thxs for the vids!
Cool thanks for watching. Yes it was along one but I wanted to show the entire fix.
Strong work! And fast, impressive!
Thanks Phillip.
In the Masonry business, you never know what you’ll run into
Happy to see Biscuit was there doing most of the work 👍👍👍
Well that was one hell of a job as always it looks great lol a quick easy pour ya that don’t happen a lot but they had the right group of guys to fix it the way it should be we on to the next adventure can’t wait to see what that one is have a good one 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Gary for the comment 😀
Maybe my favorite video on youtube right now. Inspiring
Awesome thank you 😊
I hade to do this to a 3 full foundations in Woodbridge Ontario. The concrete company that supplied the concrete to the masons used road sand. And in Ontario they use salt mixed with the sand. Within a year the foundation could literally be kicked and to be busted open. Extremely good pay for even harder work.
This is a great video. You do some quality honest work!!
I like these long vids and I sometimes slow them down to .75 speed to take in detail. Great work. Thx.
Awesome. Some do not like them long but I wanted to show the entire fix on this one.
What a good job. Your gang is quick I thought it would take a few weeks 👏👏👏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Thanks Peter.
I watched every painful step. Good Job,Close call, the whole garage could have snapped off and cave in had yu not braced it so well. Thanks for sharing the procedure.
You guys did an awesome job!
Thank you
You guys are terrific. Stay safe...
Amazing!! That’s all I can say u guys do Amazing work….
real quality and value workmanship
Wow. Many a contractor would have walked away. You are good people.
Thank you
Excellent work all the way around.
ya got a great team of guys there! good management too.
Masterful. Nothing more satisfying than watching a professional do their work. I would hire you in a second after watching your vids.
You are a True Professional
Great video, thanks for sharing.
Amazing job love your work
Thanks Tracy
Excellent work and video.
Thanks
My small company does this work. Nice job guys.
Thanks
Nice work. I dont understand the drainage system. The pipes dont go away from the house. How does it drain water away from the foundation?
Good question. The house had a drain that went to daylight that was working. We tied the NEW garage drain into that existing and Working drain.
nice job boys! really nice!
Mezzanine.... your welcome...🤣😂😎🇦🇺👌 can't believe you never had to take the stuff off the shelves.. great job all round.
I have a 2ft stump bucket with a grapple that i use for concrete removal. Works very good
Cool I need something for concrete removal.
They must not have needed a new footing because it was just a garage? Very nice work, I know how grueling these are. I like your dry stack method as well.
Your work is phenomenal-its craftsmanship.
Thank you
Was this an acidic soil combined with poor drainage issue. Great video, learned a lot here. Thanks!
That's the 1st time I've ever seen a tamper used when doing a foundation and thats absolutely brilliant. You want the dirt around your foundation packed down just like undisturbed soil is
Yes sir we use it all the time.
@@bondobuilt386 Yep. I think a big reason foundations fail is because the workers don't tamp down the dirt around it so it's always going to be looser than soil that's never been disturbed
@@bend4852 Also the dirt should be free draining soils and not clay against the wall.
I was 40yrs. construction, and that pharse you used "Less Difficult", used it all the time, I get it.
Wow looks like the whole structure is in a low area. I know you said it was raining but wow thats nuts
Real concrete! Not just a grey soup like a lot of jobs I´ve seen on TH-cam!
GREAT JOB WELL DONE LADS FROM UK👌
very interesting, great job and video . 👍👍👍
Thank you
WOW! That is pretty scary. I've seen bad but this takes the cake.
Nice work well done. 👍
Thanks Richard
Great job.💪
Digging that human counterweight!
You got the OSHA nerds freaking out on that one. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Okay... I gotta give it to you... THIS was pretty cool. I can't imagine what the multiplier was though... 5 times more than what you originally planned? ... something like that. Good thing the owner was able to manage it. Anyway, nice job. I'd never seen dry set blocks before.
Thanks Tyler.
Ronny…. Sorry I’ve been unable to comment for awhile, but I’ve been watching. Keep ‘em coming Bud.
I wondered where my uncle Jim has been. Will do buddy.
Amazing work
Never seen a dry laid block foundation. Interesting!
Neither have I. What state are they in that this passes code?
100% percent great job!
🤔 how the heck that happened maybe the gutters are full and the water came in behind the walls idk anyway everything happens for a reason glad your fixing the results that's the way stuff happens thanks for sharing!
WOWZWERS... Great work guys... New subscriber...
Great Great job men!
What is the idea of the very thin rebar on the plastic below the concrete, as it is not raised into the concrete it is not going to add much to strength of the new slab?
Is it all from rainwater or plumbing leak? I am glad that you’re putting a perimeter drainage system. The owner have a recourse suing their builder. Mostly insurance don’t cover these typed of losses. What a mess! 😮
Nice job! When would you need to cover your drain pipe with fabric to assist in keeping the drain pipe open? Overall, very nice job.
Perfect looking 👍💪🏻
It’s amazing that didn’t fall down !!
Nice job guys
Looks good, but left the floor drain out. Some thing new I notice the re-enforced fiberglass parge coating on dry stacked cmu's.
I loved your repair, fantastic work. I don't understand the original construction of the garage. Why dig down about four or five feet below grade to pour the footer (on an out building with no crawl space) just to build up to grade with four or five rows of block? Is it because of the freeze line? When they were originally building the thing wouldn't it have been better to have trench poured the footer (from whatever depth is required for the region/county) up to about four inches below grade, or even better 4 inches above grade?
I've used wedge anchors and a chain from one side to the other and slide the forks under the chain to lift out those big slab pieces.
Great work almost unheard of these days.
What a mess ! But great job looks awesome!!!
Thanks Joe
Great video. I also love how you didn't make this 40 videos, like a lot of people lol
Some people don't like the long videos but a lot to show here. LOL
Amazing job
Excellent work, sorry to say there are a LOT of contractors that would have just ripped out the floor, re-pour, and be in the wind when it fell apart as the garage settled...
Thanks and I couldn't sleep at night if I did that to somebody.
i have never seen forks pull out concrete ,works real well.
Yes they came up nice.
I am absolutely speechless!
Very nice job