Pro tip go thicker like 2.5 inches minimum . Also ad a couple of 1/8 inch galvanized reinforcing wires for masonry trade install stepping stones on very flat ground or sand base . These steps will greatly increase longevity. Retired Mason
I had a bunch of 4' trex leftovers from a deck build. I hung onto them for years hoping to find a use, but recently gave up and got rid of them! And of course, you would NOW give me the idea of making concrete molds out of the boards I finally convinced myself to dispose of.
@@kurtdowney1489 It is always like that. Hence why I just chuck things in the 2nd floor of my garage or basement. It will always find a purpose one day. I'm with that with screws and random pieces of wood.
Finally, an awesome video on you tube! I just watched one that wasn't horrible, but not great. Until the end where the guy started talking about surfing. I'm trying to learn about concrete, not surfing. Then the next video with some peppy lady talking about her Disney sweater. Skip. Then your video. Excellent!!! Cool music, great editing, no excessive talking about crap. Great ideas! Loved it and gonna check out all your videos. Got so many ideas from this. Putting a board in between each piece. Simple, but kind of a eureka moment for me (I'm just getting into concrete stuff). The stain? Awesome! I've seen powdered pigments and a lot of videos about painting concrete, but I didn't know about that. Thank you! Your six minute video taught and inspired me more than the last fifteen videos I've watched about concrete work.
Love your videos. I did my bar top out of mortar mix because of you. Now I’m about to do concrete pavers to my shed. Thank you love your channel continue being GREAT!!!!
Would you then CUT the concrete for the herringbone angles? I have a deck in that formation that needs replacing. This would be a GR8! idea. Would love to hear from you.
This is another great video. I'd like to see you make statuary, a fake boulder, or a mock japanese stone lantern (like an homage or something). I'm trying to zen garden my backyard and so I keep watching this channel for ideas.
The metal will somewhat strengthen but is more meant to keep from separation. For decretive stuff this thickness will work, for more structural they need to be thicker as he advised. And if you live in a frost zone, you will need base material (gravel, item#4, sand) and it will need compaction. Keep in mind all surface Organics (topsoil) need removing as well or they are likely to heave with frost. I’m in the northeast along Canadian border so frost is always a concern for us here. Always keep in mind there are two types of concrete.. the type that has cracked and the type that will crack. Paver stones always strongly recommended for anything large but these are a great decretive DIY project!
it will increase only if the foundation fails at the center (like a weird case of liquefaction). In any other case, it a complete waste of metal. It should be installed in the upper face to control more typical tensional conditions (failure at the extremes of the foundation because erosion or displacement)
This is so friggin cool! You always make this projects so awesome and come up with the coolest ideas. Thanks for having such a cool channel I'm glad TH-cam sent me your way so long ago lol. 😊
THIS is SOOOOOO cool. I can't wait to see what design you put down. Who would have thought to use a decking board to get a wood grain look, AWESOME IDEA.,..........my mouth is still open in aw.
This was a great video! Love the ingenuity as this makes it also have a nice textured surface for less slipping. You know, after pressure washing every once in a while. Looking forward to more!
From and really old gezzer from the construction biz THANKS to you for thinking outside the box. Back in the olden days when Super Plastizer first came out we thought what kind of BULL CHIT is this? Back then in the GREAT STAE OF TEXAS our Highway Dept. believed in 6 sacks of cement minimum per CYD. Pumping was coming into it's own and pumping 6 sack concrete stood a good chance of clogging the hoses. Someone from the Concrete Company would come out with the truck and pour in the powerded Plastizer. Dang if it didn't work!!! Made the concrete super runny like someone with the runs. Hence it earned it's name POOPY Dust. THANKS again you remind me of a young me but a LOT smater. :-)
WOW! I have five 3 ft. pieces of Trex left over from when i built my patio deck. I have been moving them around the house for years. Never knowing what i would use them for. Your idea is awesome. I just started to investigate ways to make concrete tiles for the yard. This process you came up with will do the trick for many areas i need to have this added to my landscape work. Thanks for your post here!!!🦺⚒
I think you could add the dry pigment to the form and then pour the concrete over it. That will give a more natural look. Alternatively you can also stain with kemiko acid stain and seal. Good job
This is an amazing idea. I am renovating an old 1893 house and I need to replace the steps for every door. Consider this done. I assume if you do 4 supports they could be used as stairs.
It was a happy coincidence isaw this video . I have ben brainstorming methods to create steps in my grass and you did the practice pour I was planing on later this week. Thank you for sharing this method. 👍
Oh the ideas! I have never done anything like this, but I have seen lots of cool stuff that gets me thinking. Your video is one of those that really has me thinking out loud with color variations of drift wood (maybe stain, maybe concrete paint, maybe a very light first layer in the mold - out of more than one bucket of less or more pigmented concrete). We did a bathroom floor (drift wood grain) porcelain tiles, laid out horizontally as stepping boards, each section then separated with a row of vertical boards, which looks kinda like walking a boat dock. I loved this video and I may have to get my hands dirty.
That's a really good idea. They're a little thin looking to me and not appealing to the eye (but in a pattern like you're doing at the end they look great). I agree with so many of the other commenters about a pattern. I wonder how hard it would be to pour one 2-3 boards wide and what that would look like.
I used wood grained LP Smart Siding from Home Depot to make concrete forms. They left a nice wood grain pattern in the concrete. I sprayed them with WD-40 as a release agent.
One of my projects (honey do list) this summer is to build a raised bed vegetable garden. These cement boards will make a great walk path between beds! Thanks man!!!
Never fails, you come up with an idea and provide details that I can use. I’ve been wanting to do something like this around my above ground pool and then put stone around the steps so I don’t have to get the weed eater near my pool.
Hi thank you for this brilliant idea. I wanted to put a walking board in my yard, just worried of rotting. Thank God he put your channel for me to see. I have a question. Why the pigment could be put while its liquid if you could teach me, sorry for the question. Thank you in advance.
You could also use an aircrete method, or even add a little grou d white foam to each batch. It would make the pieces much lighter and save some concrete.
Love the idea. Will be interesting to see how they hold up. I’d definitely make sure they have a very stable bedding of compacted gravel and sand before rolling anything heavy across them. Looks like you have already had a few breaks. I’ve been planning to use the concept for the wood grain in landscape wall blocks. For stability, the blocks will be 4-6” thick, so just using regular concrete and waiting a few days to unmold. I’ll set a pvc pipe in the block so I can drive a piece of rebar through for stability. And definitely adding the die to the mix. Would love to figure out how to incorporate yellow-orange-red streaks to match the cedar fence above. Unfortunately, I’m more autistic than artistic so will probably just use one color.
I found this video today.. rain day for me.. instantly fell in love with the idea of this channel, and I can tell you have knowledge of the materials you are working with. The recommendation of 1”-1/2 form form thickness had crossed my mind then you mentioned it. I have 10 years background in excavation and prep on this type of work. A strong base would be recommended for any large projects with these such as a patio. Glad you went with the stain instead of pigment, it’ll hold up and protect better. Keep up the good work!
These look fantastic! I'd love to try some that are wider, ideally 12". I feel like they could easily break, however, if the ground underneath is not perfectly level. I have had paver stones in my garden crack in half in a similar situation. I haven't used this RapidSet product. Perhaps it is stronger than I'm picturing.
I got a heart shaped steping stone before that had glass stone in it. When you do maybe a bamboo look you could put river rock around in it for a tropical look.🐲
So cool!! I just found your channel! I just bought some molds to make stepping stones. I'll have to try that mix so I can get a bunch done in a day! It would cost a small fortune to buy as many as i want... LOL Glad to see you use WD40, I was wondering if that would work in my molds. I'll DIY anything! Haha.Thanks for sharing.
Here's a crazy one for you: I wonder what the feasibility of building a complete deck with those would be? The deck would be on the side of a raised ranch house to replace an old pressure treated deck on 6x6 supports. It's about 11' high in the back and 1'-2' above ground in front, with a width of 10'x15'. What are your suggestions, thoughts, challenges to deal with?
I was thinking about this, too. I would imagine you'd have to space the joists closer together (12" on center or less) and/or make the concrete thicker.
At first I thought this was insane, but I've been reading about it, and there are people that actually do this. DekTek makes 16"x16"x1" tiles that they claim can span 16" while holding up to 1,000 lbs. I don't know if I would trust it, but I certainly wouldn't trust strips as narrow as these concrete "boards". Maybe if you made them thicker and put a 3/4" strip of treated plywood under each one. MAYBE. But then, are you really gaining anything? If you really want an elevated concrete tile deck, I would build a proper elevated slab, then lay these tiles on top of it.
Unfortunately this won’t work to replace deck boards. They’re just not strong enough to support themselves without a gravel base below them. But it would still be cool!
@@MichaelBuilds crazy I haven't replied or spoken on this page since your first video well your first 10 videos years go by very fast. But I will say could this not make a patio that can be in conjunction to a composite deck this should be able to handle the frost line it can be directly put on the ground to look like a deck or patio would be nice for it to like blend in with the steps to go to the ground
Would those be strong enough to make a raised bed? I use the Oldcastle 8x6x8 concrete retaining wall blocks-from Lowes (think legos for gardens) and use wood to put into the slots, but concrete planks would be great too!
This is fantastic!! I’m thinking of using the same approach to build “panels” for raised beds and using concrete screws to secure them to wood posts. I think I will add the color into the mix instead of painting it on. But, there may be more color options with the paintable stain. Thanks for sparking this idea. Oh, one two-part question, what thickness did your slabs turn out to be? And would you recommend this thickness for the raised bed panels?
Great video. Thanks Now, concrete thickness needed for driveway planking ? Want something great like the wood planks for my drive. Enjoy the summer of 2023, cheers
01:12 I didn't see anything that looks like a Star. What do you mean "... I like to do kinda like this star pattern..." ? Also, Finished product is absolutely gorgeous.
Maybe with the stain you should look into what they do with Kwik Kerb which is like a coloured glaze they pour over after the very dry mix they use and then stamped finish before pouring the finish on with a watering can, it’s like some sort of reaction perhaps because the mix is so dry but it sucks it up and goes off fast
This is great! Thanks for making a video on exactly what I was looking for. Might I suggest adding the word 'wood' to your title or keywords on the back end? I was actually looking up "how to make cement 2x4s" and "how to make cement planks" and variations of that, but nothing came up. I'm looking at other videos today and this one randomly came up, so I got what I wanted after all. I got french drains years ago and made the big mistake of adding rocks on top(its the side of the house) and its been a headache to maintain with my neighbors tree leaves in the fall. I'm don't want to go back to full grass but was afraid of pouring concrete over. This cement pathway gives me another option!
I'm randomly compiling a list of things to be able to make using left over laminate flooring. My restore (habitat for humanity) has allotted a rather large area to such left over pieces for 50cents to $1. Some have wood texture, some are even 9" wide planks. I think this would be a project that could work and I could pour more than 1 at a time using varying widths.
Love your enthusiasm over getting math right! 😅🤣😂 At the cost of wood and all...(now knowing that you are good at math and all....) would you say that this would be a cost effective way of making a deck with...like all the surface where feet will walk being durable concrete vs wood?
Pro tip go thicker like 2.5 inches minimum . Also ad a couple of 1/8 inch galvanized reinforcing wires for masonry trade install stepping stones on very flat ground or sand base . These steps will greatly increase longevity. Retired Mason
Thanks, this is the comment I was looking for, these look pretty thin to me.
So many options now days there's also stampable concrete overlays for existing concrete
That or use structural grout
You can do it without the iron reinforcement if you add glass fiber. I agree the 2.5 will be better.
I have a CNC router and I reverse cut my name in blue styrofoam and poured concrete in it and made a cool stone for the mulch bed. Concrete is fun.
I had a bunch of 4' trex leftovers from a deck build. I hung onto them for years hoping to find a use, but recently gave up and got rid of them! And of course, you would NOW give me the idea of making concrete molds out of the boards I finally convinced myself to dispose of.
I just found some at my Dad's house almost threw them away- Not now
@@kurtdowney1489 It is always like that. Hence why I just chuck things in the 2nd floor of my garage or basement. It will always find a purpose one day. I'm with that with screws and random pieces of wood.
This is awesome man! I am an IT guy who bought a house and learning how to do "thing" :) and thanks to you I am learning a lot!!! KUDOS!
Finally, an awesome video on you tube! I just watched one that wasn't horrible, but not great. Until the end where the guy started talking about surfing. I'm trying to learn about concrete, not surfing. Then the next video with some peppy lady talking about her Disney sweater. Skip. Then your video. Excellent!!! Cool music, great editing, no excessive talking about crap. Great ideas! Loved it and gonna check out all your videos. Got so many ideas from this. Putting a board in between each piece. Simple, but kind of a eureka moment for me (I'm just getting into concrete stuff). The stain? Awesome! I've seen powdered pigments and a lot of videos about painting concrete, but I didn't know about that. Thank you! Your six minute video taught and inspired me more than the last fifteen videos I've watched about concrete work.
Wow! They are so cool. Keeping this one in my mind. Thanks for another great video. Hope everyone including puppy are well.
Thank you so much Honey Bee!
Love your videos. I did my bar top out of mortar mix because of you. Now I’m about to do concrete pavers to my shed. Thank you love your channel continue being GREAT!!!!
This would be great idea for making wall caps by just adding the grain to your outside edges!
Oh heck yeah!
Michael your a gentleman of the scholar I like your idea I’m impressed. ❤❤❤
Great content! Thank you for all the excellent information.
OMG! thank you SO MUCH AJ!!!! you have no idea how much I appreciate that dude! Foshizzle my Nizzle! 😂☺️👍🏻💪🏻🎉🎊💥
Perfect timing! I've got a high-traffic area I have been wanting to install a small stepping path in. Just the thing! Thanks for sharing! Well done!
The one bag of mortar mix is so satisfying!
A patio made in the herringbone pattern with these would look amazing
Was thinking the same but I would go with his 1” and 1/2 method he recommended and using something with more strength besides mortar mix.
Would you then CUT the concrete for the herringbone angles? I have a deck in that formation that needs replacing. This would be a GR8! idea. Would love to hear from you.
Great idea. If you used a composite fascia board (~12"), you could do wider planks, which I think would make better pavers.
And thanks for the silicone/foam glass cleaner tip.
NO WOOD GRAIN...
Remember the weight..
This is another great video. I'd like to see you make statuary, a fake boulder, or a mock japanese stone lantern (like an homage or something). I'm trying to zen garden my backyard and so I keep watching this channel for ideas.
What a great idea. Does the metal lath strengthen the pour? it appears to me that these would break when stepped on. How durable are they once set?
The metal will somewhat strengthen but is more meant to keep from separation. For decretive stuff this thickness will work, for more structural they need to be thicker as he advised. And if you live in a frost zone, you will need base material (gravel, item#4, sand) and it will need compaction. Keep in mind all surface Organics (topsoil) need removing as well or they are likely to heave with frost. I’m in the northeast along Canadian border so frost is always a concern for us here.
Always keep in mind there are two types of concrete.. the type that has cracked and the type that will crack. Paver stones always strongly recommended for anything large but these are a great decretive DIY project!
it will increase only if the foundation fails at the center (like a weird case of liquefaction). In any other case, it a complete waste of metal. It should be installed in the upper face to control more typical tensional conditions (failure at the extremes of the foundation because erosion or displacement)
This is so friggin cool! You always make this projects so awesome and come up with the coolest ideas. Thanks for having such a cool channel
I'm glad TH-cam sent me your way so long ago lol. 😊
THIS is SOOOOOO cool. I can't wait to see what design you put down. Who would have thought to use a decking board to get a wood grain look, AWESOME IDEA.,..........my mouth is still open in aw.
This was a great video! Love the ingenuity as this makes it also have a nice textured surface for less slipping. You know, after pressure washing every once in a while. Looking forward to more!
From and really old gezzer from the construction biz THANKS to you for thinking outside the box. Back in the olden days when Super Plastizer first came out we thought what kind of BULL CHIT is this? Back then in the GREAT STAE OF TEXAS our Highway Dept. believed in 6 sacks of cement minimum per CYD. Pumping was coming into it's own and pumping 6 sack concrete stood a good chance of clogging the hoses. Someone from the Concrete Company would come out with the truck and pour in the powerded Plastizer. Dang if it didn't work!!! Made the concrete super runny like someone with the runs. Hence it earned it's name POOPY Dust. THANKS again you remind me of a young me but a LOT smater. :-)
WOW! I have five 3 ft. pieces of Trex left over from when i built my patio deck. I have been moving them around the house for years. Never knowing what i would use them for. Your idea is awesome. I just started to investigate ways to make concrete tiles for the yard. This process you came up with will do the trick for many areas i need to have this added to my landscape work. Thanks for your post here!!!🦺⚒
I think you could add the dry pigment to the form and then pour the concrete over it. That will give a more natural look. Alternatively you can also stain with kemiko acid stain and seal. Good job
This is an amazing idea. I am renovating an old 1893 house and I need to replace the steps for every door. Consider this done. I assume if you do 4 supports they could be used as stairs.
I’m thinking the same thing
It was a happy coincidence isaw this video . I have ben brainstorming methods to create steps in my grass and you did the practice pour I was planing on later this week. Thank you for sharing this method. 👍
Love it. I had two watch this video twice. This project is moving up to the top of the to do list!
You watch it twice?!?! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Haha
That is so awesome!!! I was just planning to lay pavers for a back patio, and this would be amazing!!!!! Thanks for the great idea!!
Oh the ideas! I have never done anything like this, but I have seen lots of cool stuff that gets me thinking. Your video is one of those that really has me thinking out loud with color variations of drift wood (maybe stain, maybe concrete paint, maybe a very light first layer in the mold - out of more than one bucket of less or more pigmented concrete). We did a bathroom floor (drift wood grain) porcelain tiles, laid out horizontally as stepping boards, each section then separated with a row of vertical boards, which looks kinda like walking a boat dock. I loved this video and I may have to get my hands dirty.
I could watch your videos ALL day long!!! This stuff is so cool!
AWWWWWWW MICHELLE!!! Thank you so much!!! ☺️☺️☺️
I’m so glad I watched this. It gave me a great idea for a path in my front yard! Thank you so much.
OK OK OK! This is so creative and useful! Let me put on my thinking cap and plan things out a little. THANK YOU!
you sir are a mad scientist and I love it!
Looks like a few broke. Amazing! You took them out of the mold so quick.
Just came across your page and I'm soooooo thankful I'm hooked
Came across this at random. LOVED IT! Instant subscribe! 🙌🙌
That's a really good idea. They're a little thin looking to me and not appealing to the eye (but in a pattern like you're doing at the end they look great). I agree with so many of the other commenters about a pattern. I wonder how hard it would be to pour one 2-3 boards wide and what that would look like.
I used wood grained LP Smart Siding from Home Depot to make concrete forms. They left a nice wood grain pattern in the concrete. I sprayed them with WD-40 as a release agent.
OMG I think you just gave me the solution of my DREAMS for this project I have outside. LOVE THIS!!!!! ❤
One of my projects (honey do list) this summer is to build a raised bed vegetable garden. These cement boards will make a great walk path between beds! Thanks man!!!
Gonna make a nice walkway to my pool. Gonna start this next month. Great idea.
Fantastic !!!!! Simple and practical !!! Love it !!!
You are awesome! So happy I found your channel! You have a new subscriber!!
No, you’re awesome!!! Thank you so much and WELCOME TO THE CHANNEL!
Dude.....my crafty budget brain is exploding right now. Thats AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
Great idea! I'm considering doing something like this to make a pathway on the side of my house that I can also drive/push my trailer over.
The gray looks modern, but they will look amazing stained too. Great video!
OMG. This is awesome
Could you use cement all? If so what would the difference in outcome be?
I see this texture on concrete walls in some buildings which is what I want to do on a home! I love them left natural too. 👏🏼
That's fu amazing 👏🏼
Thank you! ☺️👍🏻
Look forward to this type of series.
I’m gonna try to keep it goin!
@@MichaelBuilds would love to see bigger, white pavers with reinforcement for walking and river stones around it.
Awesome idea and results! They look great!
Awesome results, and video. Love the projects you make with Rapid Set !
This idea good for termite problems and also raining days
Never fails, you come up with an idea and provide details that I can use. I’ve been wanting to do something like this around my above ground pool and then put stone around the steps so I don’t have to get the weed eater near my pool.
That’s outstanding. Nicely done…. ❤
Dude this is cool! I'm currently building a house and the options are open as to wtf am I going to do. These tutorials help a lot for ideas!
Thanh You for sharing this awesome video with us. Absolutely Fantastic. Good on You!!!!
perfect timing, its spring and i was thinking about doing exactly this.
i absolutey love all your builds
That would be cool for a table. I also wonder if you could do the dry pour technique with this.
Hi thank you for this brilliant idea. I wanted to put a walking board in my yard, just worried of rotting. Thank God he put your channel for me to see. I have a question. Why the pigment could be put while its liquid if you could teach me, sorry for the question. Thank you in advance.
There’s my fav concrete guy ever ! 😊
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Great job! I especially liked: "where do I find the straight boards!"
Thank you for inspiring my next backyard project!
You could also use an aircrete method, or even add a little grou d white foam to each batch. It would make the pieces much lighter and save some concrete.
Love the idea! I’m curious why mortar mix and not concrete mix? Thank you!
Very cool! Do you think you could use the composite boards as a stamp on a slab? Thanks.
love your channel!!
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This would be a neat way of making raised garden beds or garden edging
Love the idea. Will be interesting to see how they hold up. I’d definitely make sure they have a very stable bedding of compacted gravel and sand before rolling anything heavy across them. Looks like you have already had a few breaks.
I’ve been planning to use the concept for the wood grain in landscape wall blocks. For stability, the blocks will be 4-6” thick, so just using regular concrete and waiting a few days to unmold. I’ll set a pvc pipe in the block so I can drive a piece of rebar through for stability.
And definitely adding the die to the mix. Would love to figure out how to incorporate yellow-orange-red streaks to match the cedar fence above. Unfortunately, I’m more autistic than artistic so will probably just use one color.
LOVE THIS!
Michael! Heeeyyyy! ❤ I love this project!
Thank you! ☺️☺️☺️
Bloody brilliant 👍🏻well done
I found this video today.. rain day for me.. instantly fell in love with the idea of this channel, and I can tell you have knowledge of the materials you are working with. The recommendation of 1”-1/2 form form thickness had crossed my mind then you mentioned it. I have 10 years background in excavation and prep on this type of work. A strong base would be recommended for any large projects with these such as a patio.
Glad you went with the stain instead of pigment, it’ll hold up and protect better. Keep up the good work!
These look fantastic! I'd love to try some that are wider, ideally 12". I feel like they could easily break, however, if the ground underneath is not perfectly level. I have had paver stones in my garden crack in half in a similar situation. I haven't used this RapidSet product. Perhaps it is stronger than I'm picturing.
Did you intentionally break some of the planks for the layout at 5:48 point or did they break when you walked on them?
great video! Sure is a lot cheaper to build the mold than to buy them
I got a heart shaped steping stone before that had glass stone in it. When you do maybe a bamboo look you could put river rock around in it for a tropical look.🐲
So cool!! I just found your channel! I just bought some molds to make stepping stones. I'll have to try that mix so I can get a bunch done in a day! It would cost a small fortune to buy as many as i want... LOL Glad to see you use WD40, I was wondering if that would work in my molds. I'll DIY anything! Haha.Thanks for sharing.
Windex also works for removing excess silicone and most people have it in their home already.
Here's a crazy one for you:
I wonder what the feasibility of building a complete deck with those would be? The deck would be on the side of a raised ranch house to replace an old pressure treated deck on 6x6 supports. It's about 11' high in the back and 1'-2' above ground in front, with a width of 10'x15'. What are your suggestions, thoughts, challenges to deal with?
I was thinking about this, too. I would imagine you'd have to space the joists closer together (12" on center or less) and/or make the concrete thicker.
At first I thought this was insane, but I've been reading about it, and there are people that actually do this. DekTek makes 16"x16"x1" tiles that they claim can span 16" while holding up to 1,000 lbs. I don't know if I would trust it, but I certainly wouldn't trust strips as narrow as these concrete "boards". Maybe if you made them thicker and put a 3/4" strip of treated plywood under each one. MAYBE. But then, are you really gaining anything?
If you really want an elevated concrete tile deck, I would build a proper elevated slab, then lay these tiles on top of it.
Unfortunately this won’t work to replace deck boards. They’re just not strong enough to support themselves without a gravel base below them. But it would still be cool!
@@MichaelBuilds crazy I haven't replied or spoken on this page since your first video well your first 10 videos years go by very fast.
But I will say could this not make a patio that can be in conjunction to a composite deck this should be able to handle the frost line it can be directly put on the ground to look like a deck or patio would be nice for it to like blend in with the steps to go to the ground
@@TheRealAmythyst WOW! I haven’t heard from you in years! Back when you were “The Real Amee Thyst”! Hi ☺️
Would those be strong enough to make a raised bed? I use the Oldcastle 8x6x8 concrete retaining wall blocks-from Lowes (think legos for gardens) and use wood to put into the slots, but concrete planks would be great too!
WOW how ever did you think of this ? It looks GREAT !
This is fantastic!! I’m thinking of using the same approach to build “panels” for raised beds and using concrete screws to secure them to wood posts. I think I will add the color into the mix instead of painting it on. But, there may be more color options with the paintable stain. Thanks for sparking this idea. Oh, one two-part question, what thickness did your slabs turn out to be? And would you recommend this thickness for the raised bed panels?
Hello, I am also looking for ideas to make raised planters, I only want them for my flowers, if you did it, could you share how it worked for you?
Dude, that’s awesome
Wow. Those turned out very nice ❤
Excellent ! I’m going to try this !
Fantastic, I love this idea!
Thank you Caroline!
@@MichaelBuilds No problem 😉 I love your channel!
Great video.
Thanks
Now, concrete thickness needed for driveway planking ? Want something great like the wood planks for my drive.
Enjoy the summer of 2023, cheers
Now THAT is pretty f’ing cool!!!!
Absolutely fabulous. Thank you for sharing .
01:12 I didn't see anything that looks like a Star. What do you mean "... I like to do kinda like this star pattern..." ? Also, Finished product is absolutely gorgeous.
That looks amazing
Oh man…I wanna do this!!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Wow great video with a lot of energy! I hit the subscribe button ASAP
How long could you get these to span? Test???
Maybe with the stain you should look into what they do with Kwik Kerb which is like a coloured glaze they pour over after the very dry mix they use and then stamped finish before pouring the finish on with a watering can, it’s like some sort of reaction perhaps because the mix is so dry but it sucks it up and goes off fast
Awesome job! You provide me with great ideas.
This is great! Thanks for making a video on exactly what I was looking for. Might I suggest adding the word 'wood' to your title or keywords on the back end? I was actually looking up "how to make cement 2x4s" and "how to make cement planks" and variations of that, but nothing came up. I'm looking at other videos today and this one randomly came up, so I got what I wanted after all.
I got french drains years ago and made the big mistake of adding rocks on top(its the side of the house) and its been a headache to maintain with my neighbors tree leaves in the fall. I'm don't want to go back to full grass but was afraid of pouring concrete over. This cement pathway gives me another option!
I'm randomly compiling a list of things to be able to make using left over laminate flooring. My restore (habitat for humanity) has allotted a rather large area to such left over pieces for 50cents to $1. Some have wood texture, some are even 9" wide planks. I think this would be a project that could work and I could pour more than 1 at a time using varying widths.
Love your enthusiasm over getting math right! 😅🤣😂
At the cost of wood and all...(now knowing that you are good at math and all....) would you say that this would be a cost effective way of making a deck with...like all the surface where feet will walk being durable concrete vs wood?