I love that it's clear here that you gave full and clear instructions and were patient as he learned instead of just making him watch and complaining that he can't get the motions right in just a few minutes. Patience is the mark of a good teacher. Adding good communication to that makes a great teacher!
Hey Mike. Gatesville Texas. Y’all did an amazing job getting it on the ground, the screeding and bull floating. Young Luke has gotten a lot better at dragging and pulling mud. Great video, excellent teaching. Thank you 👍
Québec, Canada, Love watching those fast and immaculate pours of yours. Makes me want to pour concrete so bad. I've done 2 pads for myself so far (total of 10 m³) and both times I was struggling a bit. When I watch you guys work i get super motivated and optimistic. Hopefully I find another project soon. Keep it up
Northeast CT, USA YES! I think you guys are super efficient and very fast. I’m a total amateur DIYer and I have found your videos extremely helpful for my own concrete projects. Thanks for all the help, Mike😎
Im glad you explained this, I watched another tuber Nate Petroski do a entire shed slab on a hilltop and say reo was not needed and it scared me how many in comments agreed with him
Nice video, just did my last flatwoork last Thursday for a Falmouth Lions Safe Housing project. Gave my bull float to Jr. from Scott Construction,They sent me three of his his guys. Have used that bull float for 40 years. Appreciate your professionalism. You have a stellar reputation.
Hi Mike, I am going to build in 🇧🇷 Brazil. I wish my contractor could get a truck up the mountain. They use a mixer on site. One thing I have difficulty with people here is that when I mention a vapor barrier, they look at me weirdly . I visited friend's houses in the mountains and noticed water problems with their brickwork, and I can smell mold and see how water migrated up through the cement foundation spalling and degrading the bricks. I've learned so much watching your videos over the years! As a DYI guy, I really appreciate your expertise. I wish I hired someone like you for my old house in Massachusetts. I had a terrible experience a few years ago.
Very smooth job. Exactly right: subgrade prep is 90% of the job for a slab on grade. Compaction is a real science. Fill quality and correct moisture. A bit surprised though that there's no flex joint material between slab and wall as it helps reduce shrinkage cracking.
Northern Illinois, getting ready to pour a 42x10 today, very helpful for a rookie like myself, but I have a couple guys coming with experience, after watching your videos, I feel I could try it with my boys, if I had to thanks!
I agree with everything you say about wire and rebar. Most people don't know, that is true. Our slabs here in Florida do crack a lot because they don't do what we used to do in NC 30 years ago. We used to cover it up with plastic or hay or spray water on it so it don't dry too fast. Here in Florida, they just don't care. You pull up any carpet on any slab here, and it is spidered with cracks. They all let them dry way too fast.
Ex GC here on Cape Cod now. Did public bid work throughout eastern New england from Caribou Maine to PTown Cape Cod. Had a lot of Crete poured for us and did plenty ourselves too. You're pretty damn good Mike!
Nice to see Luke getting the hang of things. You can tell he’s getting better every video. Wish my first concrete boss would of taught me how you teach him. Looks good though!
Thanks so much for these videos! We're pouring a 12'x20' slab next week with confidence thanks to you. We'll be wearing our Concrete Underground hoodies, too. :)
I’m down here in RI, I’m a pro-am concreter. I don’t do a ton of jobs a year because I’m semi retired. Def on board with 6-1/2” slumps, it’s so easy to float and also screed. I’d need 4guys, awesome to see the orchestra do this with 3 guys!
Aloha Mike Tuning in from Hawaii. Your process is very quick for an open area. Most of my pours are for residential monolithic slabs that have plumbing protuding. As for the water reducer, is their a formula for the ratio to get that nice and easy flow that you get? Thanks for the video have a beautiful weekend. David
Thanks for the explanation. I posted a video of my shop foundation getting poured and got some flak for them not putting rebar in. The footings have rebar just not the greater part of the slab. Been subscribed for a while now and love your videos. Like joe dirt says "keep on keepin on".
Nice to watch the Pros in action. In Rhode Island planning a one car garage pour. 4”, 4000, 3/4’, with fibers, no resteel. What is the water reducer called, how much more perCY? Thanks, Roger
You guys are much faster than anyone else I have seen on you tube .Alot of guys use power buggies to haul the concrete over the black top or set up forms with the wire mess t hey have never power trials on the ground for driveways .
How large of a floor can you pour against the foundation without joint foam? Asking because I just had my floor poured 48x32 for my garage (has stem walls, like this one) and the inspector, engineer, and concrete guy all separately recommended I do that.
In New York the union masons always use a Fresno after the bull float does a beautiful job it’s great watching professionals working no fixing concrete after it gets hard
So?,,, water reducers dont allow the aggregate to sink lower in the crete?? Do reducers keep the aggregate at the top? If the mix is wet,, do not the aggregate sink to the bottom regardless? Just asking. Haven't poured in a minute?
Eastern wa. Monolith pour 36x28. Footing’s 24”x30”. Full load In this location is 7.5 yards. So 2 trucks at a 3500 mix. Then topping with water reducer. It’s all caged with 1/2” rebar 24” o.c. My laser took a 💩 right before our 3 man pour so we drove 3 grade steak 🥩 down the middle and did our best with 2x4 saddles and a ultra tight string line for grade Turns out we were as good as a laser wet pad. It just seemed to take forever! We had a delay on the 3rd truck that worked out perfectly! Love learning from all of your videos. Hopefully we can continue to teach the next generation before done.
I’m sure you have explained it somewhere else, but what’s the deal with the pin you mentioned in the middle along with the laser? How do you know when you first start screening that you are exactly at the right level are there lines on those forms that yourup to?
Been preaching the rebar thing for years I know guys have been doing concrete work all their life or adamant that everything has to have wire or rebar and that’s just not the case like you said if it’s sitting on something solid, it’s good
Nice, mag the edges 8 inch pull, I like it. All the carpenters saw with the screed her in Ca. I learned a lot just by watching this. The last garage pour I saw carpenters do did not look good.
we do bull float always perpendicular to screeding and the setting parameters limiting or influencing bull floating, thereby determines the direction of our screeding
York, PA wanting to build a 28x30 garage and trying to figure out how to do it myself you guys make it look pretty easy and simple but I know its not lol
Retired recently after 45 years of doing this. I agree with everything that was said, but for the second half of my career we tossed the wire mesh (we would use 6 gauge instead of 10 gauge on occasion) and put in #3 (even #4 rarely), usually at 18" o.c. Cheap insurance on an expensive commercial project or a multi-million dollar house. Control joints are best invention ever when it comes to slabs, with fiber mesh not far behind. Crazy thing is my desert house (only house I've ever own I didn't build) has a walkway where the concrete is heaving a bit, this in an area where it never freezes (not even close), gets about 10cm (4") of rain a year, and over nothing but sand. Go figure.
I use to also believe wiremesh had no other purpose than holding it together if cracked. However in the case of slab warp it can restrain some of the potential warping especially if it warps up the wiremesh should be closer to the top to prevent. I would think about 1/3 away from top. But im sure there’s better way to spec how close. Similar to rebar in walls should favor the side stress can break in soforce wont fold rebar through concrete. This is also why fiberboard against walls concrete is poured at floors to reduce stress. I know almost nobody does it in residential.
Montana. All the concrete contractors here are way behind times. Most of the flatwork here cracks or flakes off the top. I am building a new shop next year and it's been a pain to find a good flat guy.
All concrete needs reinforcement (even minor settlement can crack slabs). I prefer fiber over mesh simply because mesh can sink during screeding (if it's manually kick screeded) - when old slabs get ripped up, the mesh is often sitting at the bottom of the slab doing almost nothing, or worse, it's rusting away.
thanks for the vid. When you talk about concrete strength I think you need to be more specific as material strength can be defined in a number of ways; tensile strength, compression strength, impact strength, yield, hardness, shear and many more. So to say rebar doesn't make it stronger is not true. It does and it does quite a lot. Just a point to make as a Civil Engineer.
Put a 5 hp air compressor in the corner next to the basement and in a couple of years that slab could settle 10 inches from what u said about your prep
If the sub grade layer is strong enough... stiff enough... then even cracked concrete will "hold" the loads... because... it is not holding any loads. It is just a "stiff surface", on top of stiff subgrade... Why reinforce concrete... that is "on top" of a subgrade, that is already as strong as the reinforced concrete? just got to make sure the corners are never loaded / no extra rigid support from foundation there.
Just because you don't have to put steel doesn't mean you shouldn't. Just cheap not putting it in. How much more would it have cost to add that little extra?? If you're cutting corners here where else are you cutting corners?
I love that it's clear here that you gave full and clear instructions and were patient as he learned instead of just making him watch and complaining that he can't get the motions right in just a few minutes. Patience is the mark of a good teacher. Adding good communication to that makes a great teacher!
I’m obsessed by concrete work. I watch three vlogs regularly: Mike Day, Hauses and Odell! Beautiful work today, Mike.
👍👍👍
Add Victory Outdoor Services to the list.
There can be only 1 (Mike)
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I watch all of them.
Hey Mike.
Gatesville Texas.
Y’all did an amazing job getting it on the ground, the screeding and bull floating.
Young Luke has gotten a lot better at dragging and pulling mud.
Great video, excellent teaching.
Thank you
👍
Québec, Canada,
Love watching those fast and immaculate pours of yours. Makes me want to pour concrete so bad. I've done 2 pads for myself so far (total of 10 m³) and both times I was struggling a bit. When I watch you guys work i get super motivated and optimistic. Hopefully I find another project soon.
Keep it up
Northeast CT, USA
YES! I think you guys are super efficient and very fast. I’m a total amateur DIYer and I have found your videos extremely helpful for my own concrete projects. Thanks for all the help, Mike😎
Hi Mark! I'm watching you from San Paulo, Brazil! You are one of the biggest references on stamped concrete on TH-cam. To me, you are an artist!
#1: Ontario Canada here. #2: I love watching your videos.
Northern MI. Youre a great teacher. Very well spoken!
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. You make it look so easy, but that is years of experience and great teamwork.
Near Flint, Michigan. You guys are definitely veteran pros!
UP of Michigan...always great work from Mike Day !
Much appreciated
Kalapana, Big Island. The true mark of a pro is making it look easy. You guys made it look way too easy!
From Michigan enjoying your crew. Nice work.
Im glad you explained this, I watched another tuber Nate Petroski do a entire shed slab on a hilltop and say reo was not needed and it scared me how many in comments agreed with him
The young Luke is learning great from a great teacher 👏 🎉
Bluffton SC...Nice work. My back hurts just watching...lol
Nice video, just did my last flatwoork last Thursday for a Falmouth Lions Safe Housing project. Gave my bull float to Jr. from Scott Construction,They sent me three of his his guys. Have used that bull float for 40 years. Appreciate your professionalism. You have a stellar reputation.
watching from Romania. super job as always!
Awesome! Thank you!
Hi Mike,
I am going to build in 🇧🇷 Brazil. I wish my contractor could get a truck up the mountain. They use a mixer on site. One thing I have difficulty with people here is that when I mention a vapor barrier, they look at me weirdly . I visited friend's houses in the mountains and noticed water problems with their brickwork, and I can smell mold and see how water migrated up through the cement foundation spalling and degrading the bricks.
I've learned so much watching your videos over the years! As a DYI guy, I really appreciate your expertise. I wish I hired someone like you for my old house in Massachusetts. I had a terrible experience a few years ago.
Very smooth job. Exactly right: subgrade prep is 90% of the job for a slab on grade. Compaction is a real science. Fill quality and correct moisture. A bit surprised though that there's no flex joint material between slab and wall as it helps reduce shrinkage cracking.
Yes! You always want to isolate the slab from walls
Quebec, Canada !! nice job !!
Thanks! 😃
Northern Illinois, getting ready to pour a 42x10 today, very helpful for a rookie like myself, but I have a couple guys coming with experience, after watching your videos, I feel I could try it with my boys, if I had to thanks!
I agree with everything you say about wire and rebar. Most people don't know, that is true. Our slabs here in Florida do crack a lot because they don't do what we used to do in NC 30 years ago. We used to cover it up with plastic or hay or spray water on it so it don't dry too fast. Here in Florida, they just don't care. You pull up any carpet on any slab here, and it is spidered with cracks. They all let them dry way too fast.
How true, the days of properly curing concrete are long gone.
Northwest Montana. Very nice work guys. Thanks for all your knowledge.
Ex GC here on Cape Cod now. Did public bid work throughout eastern New england from Caribou Maine to PTown Cape Cod. Had a lot of Crete poured for us and did plenty ourselves too. You're pretty damn good Mike!
Watching from western Washington. Your screed technique is nice.
Nice to see Luke getting the hang of things. You can tell he’s getting better every video. Wish my first concrete boss would of taught me how you teach him. Looks good though!
Thanks so much for these videos! We're pouring a 12'x20' slab next week with confidence thanks to you. We'll be wearing our Concrete Underground hoodies, too. :)
Send me some pictures. everythingaboutconcrete@gmail.com
I’m down here in RI, I’m a pro-am concreter. I don’t do a ton of jobs a year because I’m semi retired. Def on board with 6-1/2” slumps, it’s so easy to float and also screed. I’d need 4guys, awesome to see the orchestra do this with 3 guys!
Aloha Mike Tuning in from Hawaii. Your process is very quick for an open area. Most of my pours are for residential monolithic slabs that have plumbing protuding. As for the water reducer, is their a formula for the ratio to get that nice and easy flow that you get? Thanks for the video have a beautiful weekend. David
Southwest Michigan, smooth and efficient job.
Thanks for the explanation. I posted a video of my shop foundation getting poured and got some flak for them not putting rebar in. The footings have rebar just not the greater part of the slab.
Been subscribed for a while now and love your videos.
Like joe dirt says "keep on keepin on".
From the UK. Top job! Is there a reason you don’t poker the pour?
Great job love watching your videos you guys did great work 😊 good job
Orlando here. Never poured a slab or assisted. Just appreciate hard work made to look easy via skill.
Pro job is a pro job …. Well done!
Nice to watch the Pros in action. In Rhode Island planning a one car garage pour. 4”, 4000, 3/4’, with fibers, no resteel. What is the water reducer called, how much more perCY? Thanks, Roger
You guys are much faster than anyone else I have seen on you tube .Alot of guys use power buggies to haul the concrete over the black top or set up forms with the wire mess t hey have never power trials on the ground for driveways .
How large of a floor can you pour against the foundation without joint foam? Asking because I just had my floor poured 48x32 for my garage (has stem walls, like this one) and the inspector, engineer, and concrete guy all separately recommended I do that.
Wow that was fast. Nice work.
I love watching you guys!💞
In New York the union masons always use a Fresno after the bull float does a beautiful job it’s great watching professionals working no fixing concrete after it gets hard
From Philly , you guys are very fast !!!
So?,,, water reducers dont allow the aggregate to sink lower in the crete?? Do reducers keep the aggregate at the top? If the mix is wet,, do not the aggregate sink to the bottom regardless? Just asking. Haven't poured in a minute?
Eastern wa. Monolith pour 36x28. Footing’s 24”x30”. Full load In this location is 7.5 yards. So 2 trucks at a 3500 mix. Then topping with water reducer. It’s all caged with 1/2” rebar 24” o.c.
My laser took a 💩 right before our 3 man pour so we drove 3 grade steak 🥩 down the middle and did our best with 2x4 saddles and a ultra tight string line for grade Turns out we were as good as a laser wet pad. It just seemed to take forever! We had a delay on the 3rd truck that worked out perfectly! Love learning from all of your videos. Hopefully we can continue to teach the next generation before done.
I’m sure you have explained it somewhere else, but what’s the deal with the pin you mentioned in the middle along with the laser? How do you know when you first start screening that you are exactly at the right level are there lines on those forms that yourup to?
Been preaching the rebar thing for years I know guys have been doing concrete work all their life or adamant that everything has to have wire or rebar and that’s just not the case like you said if it’s sitting on something solid, it’s good
Nice, mag the edges 8 inch pull, I like it. All the carpenters saw with the screed her in Ca. I learned a lot just by watching this. The last garage pour I saw carpenters do did not look good.
Louisiana you doing pretty efficient I’ll say.
Nice work, funny thing - I had the closed captioning on and when the sound of the truck was idling the closed captioning picked it up as : [applause]
Memphis TN. I'm blue collar but never done concrete in big jobs. I'd LOVE to do this a day or two.
Michigan. I think you guys know what you’re doing. It’s hard work but you make it as easy as you can
Where are you located and how is the labor pool!
Good job as always. Just leaving a comment for the algorithm..
Watching from North Alabama.
Watching from North Windham (Windham), Maine.
how long you think it will last without any rebar
we do bull float always perpendicular to screeding and the setting parameters limiting or influencing bull floating, thereby determines the direction of our screeding
Nice work Mike! Where's Luke, sleepin in ?🤣from Codorus PA
York, PA wanting to build a 28x30 garage and trying to figure out how to do it myself you guys make it look pretty easy and simple but I know its not lol
Retired recently after 45 years of doing this. I agree with everything that was said, but for the second half of my career we tossed the wire mesh (we would use 6 gauge instead of 10 gauge on occasion) and put in #3 (even #4 rarely), usually at 18" o.c. Cheap insurance on an expensive commercial project or a multi-million dollar house. Control joints are best invention ever when it comes to slabs, with fiber mesh not far behind.
Crazy thing is my desert house (only house I've ever own I didn't build) has a walkway where the concrete is heaving a bit, this in an area where it never freezes (not even close), gets about 10cm (4") of rain a year, and over nothing but sand. Go figure.
Watching from Georgia
Hello. I wtaching form Russia. I love economy and rational solutions. US codes allows not ot use rebar?
I use to also believe wiremesh had no other purpose than holding it together if cracked. However in the case of slab warp it can restrain some of the potential warping especially if it warps up the wiremesh should be closer to the top to prevent. I would think about 1/3 away from top. But im sure there’s better way to spec how close. Similar to rebar in walls should favor the side stress can break in soforce wont fold rebar through concrete. This is also why fiberboard against walls concrete is poured at floors to reduce stress. I know almost nobody does it in residential.
Montana. All the concrete contractors here are way behind times. Most of the flatwork here cracks or flakes off the top. I am building a new shop next year and it's been a pain to find a good flat guy.
Watching in north Georgia I think it’s different screeding without water reducer
All concrete needs reinforcement (even minor settlement can crack slabs). I prefer fiber over mesh simply because mesh can sink during screeding (if it's manually kick screeded) - when old slabs get ripped up, the mesh is often sitting at the bottom of the slab doing almost nothing, or worse, it's rusting away.
thanks for the vid.
When you talk about concrete strength I think you need to be more specific as material strength can be defined in a number of ways; tensile strength, compression strength, impact strength, yield, hardness, shear and many more. So to say rebar doesn't make it stronger is not true. It does and it does quite a lot.
Just a point to make as a Civil Engineer.
Great point!
cool!
Put a 5 hp air compressor in the corner next to the basement and in a couple of years that slab could settle 10 inches from what u said about your prep
If the sub grade layer is strong enough... stiff enough... then even cracked concrete will "hold" the loads... because... it is not holding any loads. It is just a "stiff surface", on top of stiff subgrade...
Why reinforce concrete... that is "on top" of a subgrade, that is already as strong as the reinforced concrete?
just got to make sure the corners are never loaded / no extra rigid support from foundation there.
Nice
Nova Scotia
What is the slump??? shamefully too wet What are you doing???
I see sidewalks in the city with bird footprints. They never fix those areas.
UK
Why are you using a front concrete truck instead of the back concrete mixer
I found a Real easy was of doing Concrete??? Hire some one and leave for the day
Ct.. average speed..not breaking any records ..YOUR NOT YOUNG ANYMORE BROTHER...wanna race
It is easy to Pull concrete
Just because you don't have to put steel doesn't mean you shouldn't. Just cheap not putting it in. How much more would it have cost to add that little extra?? If you're cutting corners here where else are you cutting corners?
Lol you think he made the decision 😂 take it up architect/engineer signing off on the structure.
Stop embarrassing yourself.
@johnthumble5154 tell yourself whatever you'd like. Cutting corners is cutting corners.
@shaynelhta it's been engineered that way. How simple are you? Do you even work in construction? .
Take the free advice, stop embarrassing yourself.
@@johnthumble5154 yea cause everything engineered works out excellent... you've clearly never actually been on a jobsite.
@shaynelhta lol keep talking mouth breather. Everyone is laughing at you.
You have the comprehension skills of a 6 year old.