Brad…. This is exactly what we were hoping for whenever we first decided to share our process! People being able to have an amazing result at a really reasonable price. THIS SLAB LOOKS AMAZING!! Absolutely love the finish that you put on it! Great job!!
Kudos to you guys for starting the fire 🔥 & inspiring everyone!! We're doing ours in a few wks... can't wait. Thanks for sharing your system; Love You Guys!!
YOU! YOU JUST WON DRY POUR 2023~~~!!!! After all the crazy ass shit I have seen, this is the best. Can you post close ups of the actual texture and the exact method and from you used??
As it has already been said, this is the best one I have seen based off Cajun Country’s how to video! Great job! I have done about two dry pours, one a step off for my garage man door, and a small pad connecting my back door to my basement stairs. Both turned out nice! But this looks real good! I recently bought a rubber mat with the same pattern to try for my next project for only $8 at Lowes, cant wait to use it!
Thanks. I’ve never done this before and I totally love it. I’m tackling a stone fireplace at the end of this patio next. I’ll have to pour another base pad for it to set on.
Absolutely frickin’ awesome!!! Love the results! Very impressive you did it alone! Now I’m totally looking forward to your stone fireplace! Just subscribed!
Thanks for.the video. My husband and I recently found Cajun County Living videos on dry pour and like you, also found the naysayers and haters. We're planning on doing dry pour inside the home we're building. It's fantastic to hear someone has had great success with this method. We're just waiting for our delivery. Thanks for the video.
I’ve gotten some really nasty comments over on Tiktok. I posted this same video over there and it has over a million views. Haters are gonna hate. I get a lot of “it isn’t just gonna crack. It’s gonna crumble” time will tell. The science behind it makes sense to me. The dry mix is thoroughly mixed before you add the water. Concrete is porous. It draws the water in. In my mind this should actually be very strong as long as it’s watered properly. I’ve seen people add too much water on a wet pour and that concrete is weak. In wet pours the less water you add the stronger the concrete is. This process just makes more sense to me if done properly.
Just did a wet pour yesterday, the labor that you have to do within a short time period is very hard on the body. I love how you can take time to perfect it. It’s definitely easier. Take your time and compact the ground with gravel, put in cuts for expansion joints and it won’t crack.
Awesome job! Your landlord is lucky to have someone that knows what they're doing. If I had a tenant tell me they would attempt this I would of been like nooooooo waaay! Thinking it would be a complete mess!
That looks really good. Been looking for someone who stamped a dry pour to see how it would turn out. Your patio looks good, so going ahead and doing it myself.
@bradrustan Firstly: Great work! A long while back I had a neighbor that was a concrete expert that did a lot of high-end concrete work in Southern California. He didn't do dry pour, but he did do minimal slump very specific recipes that he then stamped and never put in any expansion joints through. You could tell his work from others because his did not crack, and looked more real. I want to applaud your not putting in the visually disruptive expansion joints. If cracks happen, then they are more likely to follow the grooves in the stamped look, which would just add to the illusion. If you do this again in the future perhaps consider colorants, or pigments that you use as both a surface color and release agent. The large patio I had him put in (wet, but carefully managed) never cracked after 20 years. He taught me that the primary cause of the cracks and need for expansion joints was too much water in the mix. He'd have his crew work the stiffer mix (more labor and sore muscles) and then have them mist it after it started to set up. He'd seal the underside (plastic I think) to keep the dry soil from "stealing" the water away and he left it covered with plastic for days. No cracks. While carefully formulated wet pours might be great for commercial work, dry pours done right are superior to the wet pours most people do because they almost always add too much water. Concrete pros can demonstrate great pours because they measure carefully, but you'll notice they still put in seams. The dry pour slab/patio I put in, in front our our house, has never cracked but I did make a mistake. I was figuring this out on my own so the idea of misting, and then coming back to finish hydrating hadn't occurred to me yet. I set up micro-irrigation misters suspended over the whole thing which we mixed ourselves from delivered rock/sand/cement/colorants. Where the misters were, it dripped and left pits in the surface of the slab. I used scrap plastic that I would wad-up and press into the surface to get a continuous stone look. The colorants are throughout, so I may grind it down to erase the pitting marks. Despite the imperfections, strength-wise I've driven over it with a tractor, parked cars half on it etc - it's not weak. It's about 8 inches at the thickest ramping down to 3.5 inches at the driveway edge.
I stamped as i went with it dry. Misted and soaked after it was all laid in there. Super easy. I just laid the stamp form on top of the smooth powder and tapped on it with a hammer. Then I ran a dry paint roller over everything before wetting it all down.
I have that form!!! It took me 2 hours to do 4 by myself mixing the concrete lol. I'm definitely gonna do this in sidewalk form and im so excited!!! It looks bomb!
How did you stamp the area in the middle without screwing up the screeded dry concrete? The edges I understand but it seems like you have to walk ito the middle
Looks amazing. Please tell me what you used to screed something that large and by yourself. I'd like to do a slab this size and I'm by myself. I can't find any input on what is best for screeding something this big.
I’m just seeing this video and was wondering about how a stamp would work on something like this. My question is how were you able to stamp areas that were further away after you screeded it?
Hi Brad, Your patio looks awesome! I have the form that you have and have had 30 bags of cement in my kitchen floor (I didn't have anywhere outside to store it without it getting wet in the bag) for about 6 months and I wanted to ask you what the time is in between the first spraying before you do the next one, and then how long before the rest of the watering? I am so excited not only to get a walkway I can do myself but also to get the bags of cement out of my kitchen! LOL Thanks in advance for you help! :) I love your imagination!
I'm wondering the same thing as others: at what point did you do the stamp? Please let us know! This is exactly what I had planned to do, but not sure when to stamp it.
I screeded it out with a trowel and then stamped it dry. I laid the form over the top and tapped it with a hammer then used paint roller dry. Then started the watering process.
@@bradrustan turned out great! nice job. I'm in NW Ohio. we have a freeze/thaw cycle that I'm still wondering about for a dry pour project I'm planning. You definitely should not have that problem down there. :)
nice one bud! I had a patio and side walk poured last summer was 20K Fing stupid...going to be doing dry pour for a sauna slab with only be 6X8' good place to start off. love the stamp look I was going to do the same. Q: did you stamp it after rolling it with a paint brush or after screening it?
Did you fill the entire form with concrete then stamp? Did you walk on the dry concrete to reach? Or did you do it in sections? I am planning on doing pretty much this exact thing and was trying to figure out how to reach out to stamp.
I'd say your landlord owns you at least 6-7 thousands for this patio. And you planning to build the fireplace and decorate it too? I feel for you, but this is all owned by your landlord and he can decide the property now can rent for more with the improvements you did, and decide to increase the rent and let you go and rent it for more to someone else. Definitely charge him what you earn per hour for carrying the bags and stuff. Landlords get that deducted from the taxes they have to pay.
I’m already out. Right after I built that I started going through a divorce. I’ve been in Denver all summer and actually moving to Chicago next week. I hope the patio and fireplace bring joy to whoever use it.
@@bradrustan Guessing frosty cools lays concrete and is feeling threatened by this technique. @frosty cools, don't worry the people who can afford you will still call. This technique is for those of us who can't afford you.
@@networkingdude That's not true. Mixing the concrete adds to the labor of the project. You are also racing with time trying to get it smooth before it sets. And there are videos out there that test the strength of dry pour 30 days later. They break it with a sledgehammer to see what inside the slab. It hardens all the way through. It's perfectly fine for an area that only gets foot traffic.
Brad…. This is exactly what we were hoping for whenever we first decided to share our process! People being able to have an amazing result at a really reasonable price. THIS SLAB LOOKS AMAZING!! Absolutely love the finish that you put on it! Great job!!
Kudos to you guys for starting the fire 🔥 & inspiring everyone!!
We're doing ours in a few wks... can't wait.
Thanks for sharing your system; Love You Guys!!
I did a 5x7 pad for a rack after watching Cajun Country Livin’. I’m not done yet!
looks great but it is a shit job cant last, without mixing you can never reach full Mpa lucky if you get one third the strength
@@frostycools1315 that’s all that’s needed. Better than standing in mud. Thanks for letting me know I was successful.
@@wesbilly ill bet you are a trump supporter too , the lack of any intelligence tells me how successful you really are
This is THE BEST ONE YET! That’s a masterpiece!
hey awesome job! can you please do a video showing us the stamp and the order of how you did the stamp?
I Would Also Love to See the Stamp & Stamping Process 😉🤔🤪
Most definitely would like to know if you stamped before misting or during the misting process?
I really love the look of your slab; great job!
Love that you gave Cajun County Living a shout out too... that's awesome!!
YOU! YOU JUST WON DRY POUR 2023~~~!!!! After all the crazy ass shit I have seen, this is the best. Can you post close ups of the actual texture and the exact method and from you used??
I’m going to do a few more projects. I did this one alone so it was hard to film and work. I’ll get some more detailed videos soon.
As it has already been said, this is the best one I have seen based off Cajun Country’s how to video! Great job! I have done about two dry pours, one a step off for my garage man door, and a small pad connecting my back door to my basement stairs. Both turned out nice! But this looks real good! I recently bought a rubber mat with the same pattern to try for my next project for only $8 at Lowes, cant wait to use it!
Thanks. I’ve never done this before and I totally love it. I’m tackling a stone fireplace at the end of this patio next. I’ll have to pour another base pad for it to set on.
Absolutely frickin’ awesome!!! Love the results! Very impressive you did it alone! Now I’m totally looking forward to your stone fireplace! Just subscribed!
When did you apply the stamp
This is awesome. Looks great!
You've sealed the deal for me. I'll be doing my front porch like this now.
How did it turn out?
Thanks for.the video. My husband and I recently found Cajun County Living videos on dry pour and like you, also found the naysayers and haters. We're planning on doing dry pour inside the home we're building. It's fantastic to hear someone has had great success with this method. We're just waiting for our delivery. Thanks for the video.
I’ve gotten some really nasty comments over on Tiktok. I posted this same video over there and it has over a million views. Haters are gonna hate. I get a lot of “it isn’t just gonna crack. It’s gonna crumble” time will tell. The science behind it makes sense to me. The dry mix is thoroughly mixed before you add the water. Concrete is porous. It draws the water in. In my mind this should actually be very strong as long as it’s watered properly. I’ve seen people add too much water on a wet pour and that concrete is weak. In wet pours the less water you add the stronger the concrete is. This process just makes more sense to me if done properly.
I absolutely love it looks amazing . The couple that came up with this is amazing God bless them both.
looks awesome...I'm going to try it with the stamped look too!
Just did a wet pour yesterday, the labor that you have to do within a short time period is very hard on the body. I love how you can take time to perfect it. It’s definitely easier. Take your time and compact the ground with gravel, put in cuts for expansion joints and it won’t crack.
That is amazing!! $500?!?! I am gonna build a patio for my smokers and put a roof over it!
Awesome job! Your landlord is lucky to have someone that knows what they're doing. If I had a tenant tell me they would attempt this I would of been like nooooooo waaay! Thinking it would be a complete mess!
That looks really good. Been looking for someone who stamped a dry pour to see how it would turn out. Your patio looks good, so going ahead and doing it myself.
Extremely impressive that you did this alone! How did you manage the leveling and screeding with it butting right up to the house?
🤔
Id really like to know this myself.
Dude - this is awesome! I hadn't even considered stamping dry pour!
$500 doesn’t go too far anymore. I think your landlord got a steal with you doing all the work.😊
I was gonna do it anyway. Nice to get a break in the rent anyway.
@bradrustan Firstly: Great work!
A long while back I had a neighbor that was a concrete expert that did a lot of high-end concrete work in Southern California. He didn't do dry pour, but he did do minimal slump very specific recipes that he then stamped and never put in any expansion joints through. You could tell his work from others because his did not crack, and looked more real.
I want to applaud your not putting in the visually disruptive expansion joints. If cracks happen, then they are more likely to follow the grooves in the stamped look, which would just add to the illusion.
If you do this again in the future perhaps consider colorants, or pigments that you use as both a surface color and release agent. The large patio I had him put in (wet, but carefully managed) never cracked after 20 years. He taught me that the primary cause of the cracks and need for expansion joints was too much water in the mix. He'd have his crew work the stiffer mix (more labor and sore muscles) and then have them mist it after it started to set up. He'd seal the underside (plastic I think) to keep the dry soil from "stealing" the water away and he left it covered with plastic for days. No cracks.
While carefully formulated wet pours might be great for commercial work, dry pours done right are superior to the wet pours most people do because they almost always add too much water. Concrete pros can demonstrate great pours because they measure carefully, but you'll notice they still put in seams.
The dry pour slab/patio I put in, in front our our house, has never cracked but I did make a mistake. I was figuring this out on my own so the idea of misting, and then coming back to finish hydrating hadn't occurred to me yet. I set up micro-irrigation misters suspended over the whole thing which we mixed ourselves from delivered rock/sand/cement/colorants. Where the misters were, it dripped and left pits in the surface of the slab.
I used scrap plastic that I would wad-up and press into the surface to get a continuous stone look. The colorants are throughout, so I may grind it down to erase the pitting marks.
Despite the imperfections, strength-wise I've driven over it with a tractor, parked cars half on it etc - it's not weak. It's about 8 inches at the thickest ramping down to 3.5 inches at the driveway edge.
Nice job!
That is so awesome! You did a wonderful job, I hope you enjoy your space!!
Looks really, really good. Nice work!
This is exactly what i want! Thanks for showing it can be done!
Looks so great!!!! Good job!!
badass dry pour!!
I just did this at my mother in laws on two smaller Pads. Great job Buddy. 👍😎 Sweet.
That is awesome. I’m getting ready to do mine. It will take 80 bags. The stamp is perfect. I got the idea from Cajun country living as well
What will you use to screed something that large?
@@mariebee3146 two people and a 16’ 2x4. Plus I’m going to do it in two sections
Sweet wow looks wonderful.
At what point in the process did you stamp it, that looks really good
I stamped as i went with it dry. Misted and soaked after it was all laid in there. Super easy. I just laid the stamp form on top of the smooth powder and tapped on it with a hammer. Then I ran a dry paint roller over everything before wetting it all down.
Wish you would have done a video
So just to be clear, you stamped it as you were screeding? I was wondering how you reached the center of it. Looks great!
@@jayhamilton8249 yes
Spectacular look!
Wow, dude, that looks amazing! Thanks for sharing.🍺🍻
I have that form!!! It took me 2 hours to do 4 by myself mixing the concrete lol. I'm definitely gonna do this in sidewalk form and im so excited!!! It looks bomb!
You did a fantastic job good sir! That looks awesome 👏
great job looks good
Awesome job! Let's hope the landlord doesn't raise rent because the value just went up!
Looks great
So can you share a little more detail on how you stamped it? I’m assuming you screeted and rolled then pressed in the form?
I'm thinking of doing this with the quikrete walk maker as a stamp instead of a mold.
Looks great! I’m preparing to do a dry pour. Did you put rock down first for drainage?
Go dig up a fence post and see if it's not attached to a boulder, dry is just fine... THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!
This looks so good!!
Nice work man give us an update soon!!
Beautiful job.
looks awesome wish i could have seen the process
💪❤️👏👏👏 That's amazing man! Job well done.
Well done
How did you stamp the area in the middle without screwing up the screeded dry concrete? The edges I understand but it seems like you have to walk ito the middle
Oh my gosh, that is amazing 😍😍😍
Looks amazing. Please tell me what you used to screed something that large and by yourself. I'd like to do a slab this size and I'm by myself. I can't find any input on what is best for screeding something this big.
I just used a board by myself and took my time. It’s not perfect but I didn’t really want it perfect.
Well done this is eco friendly,.I will try this in Sweden too 😁👍
Looks badass
I’m just seeing this video and was wondering about how a stamp would work on something like this. My question is how were you able to stamp areas that were further away after you screeded it?
I just walked on it and filled the prints back in as I worked my way out
@@bradrustan thanks. I have been watching a lot of videos and I’m really interested in doing something like this. Great job by the way.
Awesome! I've been planning on trying this for a patio out back, yours looks great. Where were you when I had a rental property?!?
Do you have a link for the stamp
I just bought it at Lowe’s by the sacks of concrete
That's freaken awesome.
How thick is it ?
Very nice.
That is sweet..!
how many inches thick was your concrete? what size boards for your forms?
Question ? Do you stamp it dry before you add any water to it Thanks.
Yes dry
Hi Brad, Your patio looks awesome! I have the form that you have and have had 30 bags of cement in my kitchen floor (I didn't have anywhere outside to store it without it getting wet in the bag) for about 6 months and I wanted to ask you what the time is in between the first spraying before you do the next one, and then how long before the rest of the watering? I am so excited not only to get a walkway I can do myself but also to get the bags of cement out of my kitchen! LOL Thanks in advance for you help! :) I love your imagination!
Right on man
How did you get the stamp on the unreachable places on the pad without ruining the smooth surface? It looks great!
I just walked on it and smoothed it out as I worked my way out
Damn I need a strong man like yourself to help me. I can't even lift one of those bags😂😂
Has anybody tried painting concrete over something like this? I'm gonna try this dry pour stamped method but wanna dye or color it to look slate color
That was my plan but I’m not living there anymore. I had some life changes and getting divorced so I’m out of that house.
I'm wondering the same thing as others: at what point did you do the stamp? Please let us know! This is exactly what I had planned to do, but not sure when to stamp it.
I screeded it out with a trowel and then stamped it dry. I laid the form over the top and tapped it with a hammer then used paint roller dry. Then started the watering process.
@@bradrustan INTERESTING! I guessed you had wet it first. Thank you for your reply, Brad. Nice job, by the way.
good job but i would like to see the pad more
Nice love it
What are the dimensions of your patio?
10x20
Great video. Where the link to buy the mode ? Going to try it out , and not buy the mud mixers for $35.000 with taxes
Where do you buy the stamp?
Lowes
Did you put rebar in it?
No
@@bradrustan Thanks for replying.
Dude, that is awesome, and a lot of work! A lot more work if you would have mixed it.
I’m completely sold on the dry poor method now that I’ve done it. I have a bunch more projects I’m gonna do around here.
@@bradrustanU R the Perfect Tenant 💯
Ur Landlord Should Also Give U Something Off for Ur Superior Labor 🤔🙃😉
Kick'n BUTT! JUST SUBSCRIBED! How wide is that walk way?
Looks great! Where did you get the stamp? Did you do it before spraying?
Lowes. Yes dry
Never saw your videos before, what part of country are you located in?
Oklahoma. I haven’t done a TH-cam video in a long time
@@bradrustan turned out great! nice job. I'm in NW Ohio. we have a freeze/thaw cycle that I'm still wondering about for a dry pour project I'm planning. You definitely should not have that problem down there. :)
Nice! What form did you use?
Way cool! Thanks for sharing.
Did you let it touch the foundation or put a board form in between? Any paver base? And how thick?
How thick did you make the patio? Gonna try and replicate it :)
Around 3” overall
When did you do the stamping? Before misting or after? I plan to do this too
Before. Water is last step
nice one bud! I had a patio and side walk poured last summer was 20K Fing stupid...going to be doing dry pour for a sauna slab with only be 6X8' good place to start off.
love the stamp look I was going to do the same.
Q: did you stamp it after rolling it with a paint brush or after screening it?
After screeding and troweling. Dry paint roller was last step before water.
Jesus Christ did you only have one stamp available?
Yes
500 bucks, which, for you, gets subtracted from your rent, so this is a huge win for you.
Actually I have about $800 in all the projects this month. But still helps out. I still pay the same amount overall but I get a nice space to enjoy
@@bradrustan our landlord is like that too... gotta love having great people like that caring for their places!!
@bradrustan U Have the Best Attitude 💯
Prayerfully U Have a God Blessed Life 🙏
LMK If U Want to Relocate to Sunny Florida 🤔🌴🌞 LOL
how thick is the concrete?
I did about 3”. It will only have foot traffic on it.
THAT IS BEAUTIFUL ..
ima do mine similar to urs + U have plenty of friends
Us !! 🏫
Did you fill the entire form with concrete then stamp? Did you walk on the dry concrete to reach? Or did you do it in sections? I am planning on doing pretty much this exact thing and was trying to figure out how to reach out to stamp.
I started in one corner and worked my way out. It’s not perfect but that was kinda the look I was going for.
I'd say your landlord owns you at least 6-7 thousands for this patio. And you planning to build the fireplace and decorate it too? I feel for you, but this is all owned by your landlord and he can decide the property now can rent for more with the improvements you did, and decide to increase the rent and let you go and rent it for more to someone else. Definitely charge him what you earn per hour for carrying the bags and stuff. Landlords get that deducted from the taxes they have to pay.
I’m already out. Right after I built that I started going through a divorce. I’ve been in Denver all summer and actually moving to Chicago next week. I hope the patio and fireplace bring joy to whoever use it.
Please stop doing this, wasting money that's going to fail earlier than it would have if you had just mixed it together beforehand.
it wont last long, if you dont mix cement it can not reach full Mpa so it if is a bag of 30Mpa you may reach 8 Mpa without mixing
Cool
@@bradrustan Guessing frosty cools lays concrete and is feeling threatened by this technique. @frosty cools, don't worry the people who can afford you will still call. This technique is for those of us who can't afford you.
@@mariebee3146 No Frost Cools is correct, its always a weaker mix and it takes LESS effort to just mix it properly with water!
100% And its easier AND QUICKER to mix it properly and do it right to avoid premature failure.
@@networkingdude That's not true. Mixing the concrete adds to the labor of the project. You are also racing with time trying to get it smooth before it sets. And there are videos out there that test the strength of dry pour 30 days later. They break it with a sledgehammer to see what inside the slab. It hardens all the way through. It's perfectly fine for an area that only gets foot traffic.