This channel is an insane amount of free knowledge. It really shows that with the smallest amount of diligence u can find life changing amounts of free information online. I'm 34 and damn if I had these videos when I was 16 my life would've been different. I hope young kids nowadays learn how to appreciate this tyoe of content. Thank you
I love the series. I watch it with my Dad and it reminds him of my Grandfather. Major difference is Grandpa was a bit of a drunk and a real rough framer great with stairs. So its fun to watch the right way things are done and hear about past experiences my dad went through on the jobsite as a kid with Gramps. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and giving me a lil something to share with my Dad.
Person 1: I wish you lived near me! Person 2: Your home sucks! It's completely unnecessary to be so uncivil and rude, Matty. From what I've seen of Scott in these videos, he'd never be so unmannered as to insult somebody's home, out of the blue, in casual conversation. You shouldn't either. It's not a joke, it's not banter, there's no "sense of humor" at play. It's just rude and discourteous to your host and his other guests here.
Rod Fitzsimmons Frey he was making an observation that one country has different rules about construction than the other and is a better work environment. Why does that offend you, it may be true? Should people be forced to work in countries regardless of how difficult it's made by politicians and bureaucrats? No need to be offended.
Matty Ice Maybe that's not very relevant. It's not like I suggested he actually moved here. I just wished he already lived here. But, since you brought it up I can tell you an example of what we get for our taxes. A healthy and very well educated workforce. The are tons of other benefits as well, but if you really would like to learn about this I think a TH-cam content section might not be the best forum. Either way, I will do my best to answer any questions on the subject.
Can't agree with you more, worked with my grandfather 50 plus years ago, he always made sure the job site was cleaner when he left than when he got there. That has stuck with me all these years. Also had to clean all the tools before they went back on the truck. At the time I'm sure I griped about it but it didn't take me long to learn the wisdom of his ways.
Also worth mentioning-- if you manage to spray your skin with a pressure washer you need to go to the emergency room. High pressure water injection is no joke, and it can cause major injuries even if they aren't immediately apparent.
Does not matter if the wand is 3'. You can spray yourself in the leg, or spray your buddy, or spray your own hand if your fiddling with the nozzle with your hand on the trigger. Power washers and airless paint sprayer can inject liquid, and it can cause huge damage.
Clean job site separates the professionals from the wannabes. Spraying form oil on outside of forms is unusual though, as is using a pressure washer prior to stripping (we'd hose down forms before concrete set up - that's the easiest time to clean forms and aids in curing). Never allow concrete trucks/pumps to dump in one large pile - make them use a shovel to spread it around - or use blade/bucket of piece of equipment to spread thinly. Excess concrete can make a nice roadbase material if you separate the concrete into mostly aggregate. Otherwise you end up with a pile of hardened concrete you then need to break up and dispose of - as is shown in the video. Typically, forms are stripped and most of the excess concrete falls away during that process (washing down forms right after the pour is finished dramatically lessens the amount of cleaning necessary).. When we stacked forms, that's when inside faces were scraped and oiled in preparation of the next job. In this situation, where you were borrowing the forms (likely w/a friendly-contractor price), made sense to be very careful and considerate.
A tidy workplace is a safe workplace. I firmly believe the adage. Concrete can be messy and sometimes challenging to clean up. Get on it right away, it pays off in the long run. I've been on jobs where a homeowner/client has been surprised at how i often use a broom or vacuum to tidy up. Nothing worse than twisting an ankle on an off-cut hiding in sawdust. Same thing for tripping over a lump of solid concrete. Keeping things tidy means you get a look at the whole site and can spot potential hazards. Additionally, if you tidy as you go, the end clean-up is simple. Clients appreciate it.
I remember all the incredible messes I used to make when I first started driving concrete trucks. On big jobsites there would be an area set aside or not and we would reverse the drum and spray it out to our hearts content. Then a law got passed which to tell the truth wasn't too popular but was based on the idea that the process of making the portland that goes into the concrete, releases chromium into the mix and if you wash that chromium out onto the ground, it can seep into the ground water. Now I use a self contained washout system that has a bucket that hangs on the end of my chute with a hose that runs to a trash pump and the pump sends it into the drum of the miver truck. Back at the plant, we have a weir that separates the fines from the water and we can reuse the water for rinsing out at the end of the day. Frankly, I love the way it is now. I can rinse off my chutes and do a wash down pretty much anywhere I want to. No messes no pissed off customers. Plus if it rains, I can use the hose and trash pump with the hose to the drum disconected as a vacuum to get water out of flooded footings.
I'll be honest, There is very few TH-cam channels that I stick with for the long haul. But I could see this being one, AVE's suggestion to come check this channel out was a Very well placed suggestion. Great videos sir.
In all the years I ran framing and remodeling crews, I was first on the job walking it, seeing if there were scheduling problems, or possible safety issues while thinking through that days work. At the end of the day, I always picked up the drops and swept the area we were working in. Often found small tools and usable hardware in a pile of sawdust. Yessir, even doing forms and concrete work, as my dear mother used to say, “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.”
Scott once again spot onIt's all about clean work area,,,,,,,is a SAFETY. WORK AREA. !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank for share you time with us!!!!!!! the watcher JUNKMANDO
A GOOD HAND KEEP IT ALL CLEAN & HIS TOOLS. U CAN TELL ALOT ABOUT A MAN'S CHARTER BY THE WAY HIS TOOL'S LOOK. GREAT JOB. PEACE UNTO YOU MY FRIEND SAFE JOURNEYS TO YOU
Two colleagues, later good friends, and I, were the service crew for a home builder... Took care of whatever little things occured after a year of use. One did the preliminary check, made a list and passed it on to us other 2. One brick layer/tile guy, and me - the carpenter. The general motto was that the only way the homeowner should be able to tell that we'd been there, was that whatever was on the list, was fixed. And so the the tile guy was out on a minor repair, set up work station outside to limit the amount of dust inside the house to a minimum. He finished the job, started packing up his van and cleaning on his way out of the house. Last stop was the outside workstation, and not to leave any marks on the pavers, he ran them over with the shop vac. A woman walking her dog saw this and stopped to look at the end of the driveway... staring basically. He sees this out of the corner of his eye, whips around and starts vacuuming the lawn as well. The woman shook her head and disappeared in a hurry... in disbelief!
Yea yeah yeah... Clean what you borrowed.. pick up the mess.. bla bla bla.. but anyone that would stop a busy day to pet a kitty cat.. you got my vote my man.. 👍
Pressure washers sure can make for some 'fun' workplace accidents. Especially if you get some of the higher capacity industrial units that put the little home use ones to shame. Have seen more than a few broken noses from new guys who 'know what they're doing' getting their hands on them. They can also move a lot of material around in a hurry. If you're standing there shouting at someone while holding the trigger on one, you can do 'fun and interesting' things, like ripping through part of your own boot, wearing a hole in wood, or making very interesting patterns in dirt.
i took me months to convince my boss, to get a pressure washer, once we got one we saved hours of labor cleaning the site it paid for its self in two days. 80 foot super screed.
That goes for any carpenter. The job should be as clean if not cleaner after I leave is what my old boss always told me. You’ll get more work than the other guy if your work site is like you were never there
The Romans used concrete to build docks. They just dumped it in the ocean and it set up. Some are still there to this day. Pretty amazing stuff...til you order too much and the concrete company leaves you with a pile, LOL.
Roman concrete was so good that engineers and materials science labs are still looking for the formula. Our concrete has a lifetime of between 50-100 years.
Usually i just have it poured in cube molds, put a loop of chain inside and then sell them on my local variant of fleaBay. Money goes in to new tools or repairs, people want them apparently.
I was on a framing job, and watched a demo/concrete guy clean a wheelbarrow with some concrete out maybe 10 steps from the front entrance, then spent a month wishing I had jumped down the guys throat and made him dump the stuff literally ANYWHERE else. Certainly not a lesson I will forget; I tripped over that damn mound of concrete so many times...
Worrying about extra and spillage in the dirt I can just bury and taking the time to pressure wash material after a forum would get me yelled at at my company. But we don't use rented forms also.
Moisture, so many folk bury trash on-site. I was annoyed when digging for my landscaping to find buried debris, including scrap lumber, which is sustaining the local termite population. And I never lend a tool anymore to friends who return it dirty or damaged.
It's amazing (in a bad way) what concrete can do to a greenhorn's brand new pair of leather Carolina boots...let alone his hands. I can't say the foreman didn't try to warn me though!
Now dang it, you just had to go and show that cat, I'M ALLERGIC TO CATS !! 😆 Now I'll be sneezing for the next hour ! 😊 Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍
Jovan Bergh Nothing about job site or pressure washing is sanitary... relates to health, not concrete or cleanliness. From French sanitaire, from Latin sanitas(“health”)
In order to be sanitary, it must be clean correct ?? So I believe the usage is correct, if not I do not think many who observe this video will raise a fuss over it !!!!
Chris Nelson Not necessarily, cleaning just means removing mess/clutter. As he said sanitary refers to health, so something can be cleaned but not sanitized (i.e rinsed but still have harmful bacterium attached), and vise versa.
This channel is an insane amount of free knowledge. It really shows that with the smallest amount of diligence u can find life changing amounts of free information online. I'm 34 and damn if I had these videos when I was 16 my life would've been different. I hope young kids nowadays learn how to appreciate this tyoe of content. Thank you
I love the series. I watch it with my Dad and it reminds him of my Grandfather. Major difference is Grandpa was a bit of a drunk and a real rough framer great with stairs. So its fun to watch the right way things are done and hear about past experiences my dad went through on the jobsite as a kid with Gramps. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and giving me a lil something to share with my Dad.
I wish you lived in Sweden so I could utilise your services for my upcoming workshop. Never heard of a contractor with your level of integrity.
Jim Groth Yeah, scott would be taxed 50% of the profit that he makes from the job! With way more regulation and beaurocratic red tape!
Person 1: I wish you lived near me!
Person 2: Your home sucks!
It's completely unnecessary to be so uncivil and rude, Matty. From what I've seen of Scott in these videos, he'd never be so unmannered as to insult somebody's home, out of the blue, in casual conversation. You shouldn't either.
It's not a joke, it's not banter, there's no "sense of humor" at play. It's just rude and discourteous to your host and his other guests here.
Rod Fitzsimmons Frey he was making an observation that one country has different rules about construction than the other and is a better work environment. Why does that offend you, it may be true? Should people be forced to work in countries regardless of how difficult it's made by politicians and bureaucrats? No need to be offended.
Matty Ice Maybe that's not very relevant. It's not like I suggested he actually moved here. I just wished he already lived here.
But, since you brought it up I can tell you an example of what we get for our taxes. A healthy and very well educated workforce. The are tons of other benefits as well, but if you really would like to learn about this I think a TH-cam content section might not be the best forum. Either way, I will do my best to answer any questions on the subject.
Jim Groth, Sweden has many fine musicians. The sister group First Aid, and of course ABBA, are good examples. Stay well 😀
So true about having a clean jobsite!! I hate it when contractors leave a mess. I love cleaning my jobsites. Great video!
Hold up...
I'm gonna need some more info on the cat
I flippin' love this channel. Thanks so much!
You're the kind of man any appretice would treasure to learn from. If not right away, then later as you gain retrospective. Your videos are fantastic.
You sir are the definition of integrity!
Very well spoken and put, cleanliness is a huge virtue to have in almost any line of work!
Can't agree with you more, worked with my grandfather 50 plus years ago, he always made sure the job site was cleaner when he left than when he got there. That has stuck with me all these years. Also had to clean all the tools before they went back on the truck. At the time I'm sure I griped about it but it didn't take me long to learn the wisdom of his ways.
Also worth mentioning-- if you manage to spray your skin with a pressure washer you need to go to the emergency room. High pressure water injection is no joke, and it can cause major injuries even if they aren't immediately apparent.
Does not matter if the wand is 3'. You can spray yourself in the leg, or spray your buddy, or spray your own hand if your fiddling with the nozzle with your hand on the trigger. Power washers and airless paint sprayer can inject liquid, and it can cause huge damage.
Perfect bedtime viewing here in Northern Ireland. Good man EC
Clean job site separates the professionals from the wannabes. Spraying form oil on outside of forms is unusual though, as is using a pressure washer prior to stripping (we'd hose down forms before concrete set up - that's the easiest time to clean forms and aids in curing). Never allow concrete trucks/pumps to dump in one large pile - make them use a shovel to spread it around - or use blade/bucket of piece of equipment to spread thinly. Excess concrete can make a nice roadbase material if you separate the concrete into mostly aggregate. Otherwise you end up with a pile of hardened concrete you then need to break up and dispose of - as is shown in the video.
Typically, forms are stripped and most of the excess concrete falls away during that process (washing down forms right after the pour is finished dramatically lessens the amount of cleaning necessary).. When we stacked forms, that's when inside faces were scraped and oiled in preparation of the next job. In this situation, where you were borrowing the forms (likely w/a friendly-contractor price), made sense to be very careful and considerate.
thank you again - I havn't seen such a clean job site in my life ;)
A tidy workplace is a safe workplace. I firmly believe the adage. Concrete can be messy and sometimes challenging to clean up. Get on it right away, it pays off in the long run. I've been on jobs where a homeowner/client has been surprised at how i often use a broom or vacuum to tidy up. Nothing worse than twisting an ankle on an off-cut hiding in sawdust. Same thing for tripping over a lump of solid concrete. Keeping things tidy means you get a look at the whole site and can spot potential hazards. Additionally, if you tidy as you go, the end clean-up is simple. Clients appreciate it.
Kirk Hancock so true, So true
I remember all the incredible messes I used to make when I first started driving concrete trucks. On big jobsites there would be an area set aside or not and we would reverse the drum and spray it out to our hearts content. Then a law got passed which to tell the truth wasn't too popular but was based on the idea that the process of making the portland that goes into the concrete, releases chromium into the mix and if you wash that chromium out onto the ground, it can seep into the ground water. Now I use a self contained washout system that has a bucket that hangs on the end of my chute with a hose that runs to a trash pump and the pump sends it into the drum of the miver truck. Back at the plant, we have a weir that separates the fines from the water and we can reuse the water for rinsing out at the end of the day. Frankly, I love the way it is now. I can rinse off my chutes and do a wash down pretty much anywhere I want to. No messes no pissed off customers. Plus if it rains, I can use the hose and trash pump with the hose to the drum disconected as a vacuum to get water out of flooded footings.
I work in construction and I realy apreciate your wisdom.Thank you for your videos.
We also spray both sides with diesel and pressure wash all formwork before it leaves site.
Quick and easy.
A clean job site is also a safe job site
I'll be honest, There is very few TH-cam channels that I stick with for the long haul. But I could see this being one, AVE's suggestion to come check this channel out was a Very well placed suggestion. Great videos sir.
It's all about the details, Thanks for the videos.
Leave it better than you found it!
milbert ALWAYS LIKE WHEN YOU BORROW SOMETHING.
milbert
Goes for tools, locations, and people, too!
Clean jobsite is a really nice thing! In the past couple months we’ve had 2 slabs poured at work and they have left all kinds of mess both times!
I really love the music near the end. Keep it up!
Amen brother....to the clean job site. During construction is as important as after the job is done.
Love it Scott! Cheers from Michigan!
Eye protection. Don't need anybody Shootin his eye out!
Good job!
In all the years I ran framing and remodeling crews, I was first on the job walking it, seeing if there were scheduling problems, or possible safety issues while thinking through that days work. At the end of the day, I always picked up the drops and swept the area we were working in. Often found small tools and usable hardware in a pile of sawdust. Yessir, even doing forms and concrete work, as my dear mother used to say, “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.”
This should be a PSA for all the contractors in my area. I always kept the sites clean makes for a more efficient and safe work environment
Thumbs up for the cat 👍 (& Scott's awesome videos)
Scott once again spot onIt's all about clean work area,,,,,,,is a SAFETY. WORK AREA. !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank for share you time with us!!!!!!! the watcher JUNKMANDO
I like how you are working.
The job is simple but very important.
A GOOD HAND KEEP IT ALL CLEAN & HIS TOOLS. U CAN TELL ALOT ABOUT A MAN'S CHARTER BY THE WAY HIS TOOL'S LOOK. GREAT JOB. PEACE UNTO YOU MY FRIEND SAFE JOURNEYS TO YOU
Nice work as always great video
Nice one! it got me thinking if there was any uses for that left over concrete!?
Might as well abandon my current tinkering, EC just posted....unsupervised exposed flames around combustibles will be fine right?
Great cleanup.
sound advice! Keep up the amazing work!
how much did all this concrete work cost?
Two colleagues, later good friends, and I, were the service crew for a home builder... Took care of whatever little things occured after a year of use. One did the preliminary check, made a list and passed it on to us other 2. One brick layer/tile guy, and me - the carpenter.
The general motto was that the only way the homeowner should be able to tell that we'd been there, was that whatever was on the list, was fixed. And so the the tile guy was out on a minor repair, set up work station outside to limit the amount of dust inside the house to a minimum. He finished the job, started packing up his van and cleaning on his way out of the house. Last stop was the outside workstation, and not to leave any marks on the pavers, he ran them over with the shop vac. A woman walking her dog saw this and stopped to look at the end of the driveway... staring basically. He sees this out of the corner of his eye, whips around and starts vacuuming the lawn as well. The woman shook her head and disappeared in a hurry... in disbelief!
Great job, as usual.
Great advice!
Got my t shirt. I love it!
Yea yeah yeah... Clean what you borrowed.. pick up the mess.. bla bla bla.. but anyone that would stop a busy day to pet a kitty cat.. you got my vote my man.. 👍
I've always told the guys that work with me that most of our customers don't know good work from bad, but they all know clean.
What backhoe is that at the beginning?
Why do u only have waler clamps on top ??? Wouldn't it be better to get al least another set of waler clams 1'-6" from bottom to top ?
Great Video.
Love ur advices
Always clean..
Pressure washers sure can make for some 'fun' workplace accidents. Especially if you get some of the higher capacity industrial units that put the little home use ones to shame. Have seen more than a few broken noses from new guys who 'know what they're doing' getting their hands on them.
They can also move a lot of material around in a hurry. If you're standing there shouting at someone while holding the trigger on one, you can do 'fun and interesting' things, like ripping through part of your own boot, wearing a hole in wood, or making very interesting patterns in dirt.
Straight facts 💯
i took me months to convince my boss, to get a pressure washer, once we got one we saved hours of labor cleaning the site it paid for its self in two days. 80 foot super screed.
That goes for any carpenter. The job should be as clean if not cleaner after I leave is what my old boss always told me. You’ll get more work than the other guy if your work site is like you were never there
The Romans used concrete to build docks. They just dumped it in the ocean and it set up. Some are still there to this day. Pretty amazing stuff...til you order too much and the concrete company leaves you with a pile, LOL.
Don't quote me on it, but I believe the Coliseum is a mostly concrete structure. Amazingly resilient stuff to have lasted so long.
Concrete and a whole forest worth of timber, yeah
High....At least they saved the olive trees.
Roman concrete was so good that engineers and materials science labs are still looking for the formula. Our concrete has a lifetime of between 50-100 years.
+DanielinLaTuna ...I guess that is good. But too bad they didn't know about the hazard of lead water pipes. They were great engineers.
Usually i just have it poured in cube molds, put a loop of chain inside and then sell them on my local variant of fleaBay. Money goes in to new tools or repairs, people want them apparently.
aserta sounds like a good boat anchor, better then a cinder block or a rock.
aserta, Great idea. Do you have Craig’s List where you are? My neighbor is addicted to finding bargains and odds and ends on that site.
Do you have many people from the mob buy your cubes?
William Butler, lol; you’ve been watching too many Sopranos episodes! 😂
I could pressure wash all day! ! One of my favorite jobs to do anywhere anytime :) 👍👍
Jordi El Niño Polla• im gonna agree with that. Nothing more satisfying than cutting years of grime off something.
same.
This video convinced me to sub.
Worked with a guy said to me every day a clean house is a happy house and if it's not happy at the end of the day don't come back Jack .
If I had to hire a guy to build me a house this is the guy I want.
Amen to that! Thanks for the video.
EC has me dreaming of concrete around my house and land. I don't know if my house will last another 130 years without walls
I hope you had help!
I always felt that having a clean job site helped me get jobs. It was a lot safer too.
Clean is professional.
You’ll put your eye out with that thing ! LOL!!
I was on a framing job, and watched a demo/concrete guy clean a wheelbarrow with some concrete out maybe 10 steps from the front entrance, then spent a month wishing I had jumped down the guys throat and made him dump the stuff literally ANYWHERE else. Certainly not a lesson I will forget; I tripped over that damn mound of concrete so many times...
As I was told when I was an apprentice clean as you go and don't go until it is clean
It's a wet job, but somebody's got to do it!
About damn time.
Pat Pikulski so entitled. What do you think Scott wouldnt see this comment? What the hell is wrong with you.
Matty Ice ohh he definitely saw it...
Get with the program.
Always!!👍🇨🇱
Atta be Ralphy protecting yourself from shooting your eye out
more cat shots!!
An excellent video!
....13
2 FNGs, and your semi retired buddy to babysit. Boom, 4 hour mini.
A concrete washout container will do the trick...
Scott are you wearing a mask and a face shield?
Why haven't you got the "verified" check mark for your channel yet?
!;-)Thankyou
I'm thinking you don't wanna be pressure washing like that in cold weather either. Looks like you got soaked.
You got that right. I guess i just paid for a driveway, but they didnt have to destroy everything around it. jerks
Worrying about extra and spillage in the dirt I can just bury and taking the time to pressure wash material after a forum would get me yelled at at my company.
But we don't use rented forms also.
Moisture, so many folk bury trash on-site. I was annoyed when digging for my landscaping to find buried debris, including scrap lumber, which is sustaining the local termite population. And I never lend a tool anymore to friends who return it dirty or damaged.
Leave it better than you found it ;-)
Mud burns are SOOOOOO bad
So true, alway wonder why people hire a painter if there van is looking like 💩. First thing look for is a clean job site and organized vans.
You: It's really important to think ahead and take a serious, heads-up approach to planning and designing your...
Me: Eee, a kitty!
It's amazing (in a bad way) what concrete can do to a greenhorn's brand new pair of leather Carolina boots...let alone his hands. I can't say the foreman didn't try to warn me though!
HoneyGlzedHam CONCRETE BURN. JUST BOOTS. I WATER PROOF MINE. LIKE I SAY JUST BOOTS.
HoneyGlzedHam 15 dollar muck boots!
Now dang it, you just had to go and show that cat, I'M ALLERGIC TO CATS !! 😆 Now I'll be sneezing for the next hour ! 😊
Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍
I guess I was psychic asking this question in your last video.
I think wood is the most versatile building material on the planet. You just can’t beat what God created.
Little disappointed. Title made me think this would give details of the cleaning process.
Nothing a couple of sticks of dynamite can't handle
Obligatory CAT scan
Built in air conditioner while you work.
Wrong usage of the word sanitary...
xephael - how so?
Jovan Bergh Nothing about job site or pressure washing is sanitary... relates to health, not concrete or cleanliness. From French sanitaire, from Latin sanitas(“health”)
I bet you are an absolute blast to be around!
In order to be sanitary, it must be clean correct ?? So I believe the usage is correct, if not I do not think many who observe this video will raise a fuss over it !!!!
Chris Nelson Not necessarily, cleaning just means removing mess/clutter. As he said sanitary refers to health, so something can be cleaned but not sanitized (i.e rinsed but still have harmful bacterium attached), and vise versa.