Forming A Concrete Porch Ep.91
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- Опубліковано 6 лис 2020
- This was filmed in September... fires are finally out! Fire: • Oregon Forest Fires: U... Enjoy
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Thank you, be safe, and be grateful.
After learning his backstory, it gives me a warm feeling now seeing Ken in the videos sitting contentedly smoking his pipe.
Yes! I’m sorry it took us so long to get that video out there. I knew every time I used to read a comment questioning his ambition, that when the whole story was known he would be seen in a completely different way. It feels great to have him understood by so many new friends now!
Where did you learn his backstory?
@@GS540 They did a video on how Scott and Ken know each other. Its a few videos back.
A person character is often told by the person’s family and friends. Your friendship with Ken tells a lot. Keep up the good work.
BACKSTORY ON KEN: ua-cam.com/video/q8LerObhzlE/v-deo.html
I am 13 and don't do stuff like this but still watch every video for the knowledge gained.
ATTABOY ETHAN!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t worry, one day you will get to use it all. The beauty of UA-cam is how many different ways you can see the same thing done.
Never too early to learn real life skills lad! Remember school is great for basics but always educate yourself in things the schools dont teach... get yourself ahead while youre young and continue to progress daily.
I am 14 and I watch so many of these videos some times to learn or some times just to see a master at work
Oh man I just binge watched the first 91 episodes and couldn’t figure out where episode 92 was. I didn’t realize I had caught up to real time. You are a wealth of knowledge, have a great speaking tone, and your show should be on DIY or something similar. How have you not been discovered yet?
Hey Scott, I'm a teacher and my 28 year old son is a builder, concrete and steel mostly, He told me about his favorite UA-cam channels and at the top of his list was the Essential Craftsman, he told me that you are the kind of person he would most like to be, Thank You for such an excellent role model. May God be real to you today. Tyler's dad, mike
Tell your son to make a vlog Chanel about his work
Nothing like a hot cup of coffee and Essential Craftsman for a nice Saturday morning
Julián Dupuy I need to go make a cup!
From Chile, same feeling
Well said!
Right there with you
Literally me right now
Things you will never learn in school (even a trade school): Two 16 D nails fit a ¼" hole. This is why we need Scott around!
The holding power is enormous and the ease of removal make it a brilliant temporary fastening technique.
I don't even know how it came to me, but I thought of that this summer when framing in a basement. At first I wasn't sure it would work, but it held really well. Seeing Scott do it too affirms to me I must be doing something right.
2x2 1/4 doopies will fit a 3/16 hammer drill bit hole. As well for pinning plywood to concrete.
I use a 3/16 inch bit and a piece of tie-wire with a single 16 double. Same thing though
I learned that in trade school
A man gets a skill set this wide and this deep only by paying attention and living 60+ years. And he shares it with us!
I love the concrete portions of your channel. Gives me a chance to show my son some of the kind of things I do for work. Thanks for a bang up job, Scott and company.
Same I like showing my girlfriend my workout regimen.
I'm a lifer in remodeling. And I can't say enough how much I respect and am always in awe. Of the amount of labor concrete demands. You know it's Love for the work that goes in to every project or you just wouldn't do it. Salute to you and your channel.
I have built concrete skateparks all over the planet. Shotcrete pros. Done road and bridge, vertical pours, walls, pour in place, monolithic panel, hill stabilization. This is pretty spot on. Form aligners, soaking subgrade, tha admitting that the turndown dirtwork is a pain in the azz, seal foam. All pro. But then again, I have poured concrete with boys from the PNW, and they were always Pro. Coming from a Texan haha
Rebar detailer here! Standard for most concrete jobs I’ve done is 3” cover for casting against earth, and 2” cover from sides, unless noted otherwise.
Rebar detailer here! Standard for most concrete jobs I’ve done is 3” cover for casting against earth, and 2” cover from sides, unless noted otherwise.
after watching you plastic of the front before the pore make me happy for the painters. ive had to scrape off a dump truck ful of dried concrete from siding and doors. it's hard to stain a wooden door and make it look good with the stain marks of concrete. WELL DONE!!!
Ah, single-sided ‘wall’ forms 😣. The bane of every form carpenters existence.
Brilliant idea using the wedge anchors for sacrificial ties 👍!
We had a similar problem in the below ground level, of a parking garage once. We solved the problem in a similar way, by welding all-thread to the surrounding sheet piles.
As you stated, the vulnerability of the form to float, can’t be overstated and measures must be taken to prevent this from happening. Unfortunately the form will give zero warning that it’s about to happen, until it’s about 2/3’s full and then, in one mighty ‘concrete burp’, all the mud comes pouring out from underneath the form, creating an enormously difficult mess to clean up and fix.
It happened to me ONCE...lesson learned.
Some of this stuff on the channel like the wood stairs or the siding are things that I go “yeah, I can probably tackle that.” But man, it’s videos like these that remind me just how skilled Scott is, what a treat to be able to see such a skilled worker.
Old school crotchety guy who worked for the US Corp of Engineers rather forcefully told me many years ago that is is not possible to pour concrete. It is technically a solid and thus can be "placed" and further more, as he verbally smacked me around some more, that concrete does not "dry" but hydrates as a chemical reaction and thus continues to cure "forever"? I really enjoy Scott's work. What is so hard about construction? HGTV does kitchens in 55 minutes so a house should only take a day or two at the most.
Personally I love the HGTV parts that involve any type of digging.
Lol.
"Simply remove the dirt" shows guy with a short handle spade. Commercial break. Comes back has a 10' x 10' hole 8" deep.
Also where are these yards that has the good black dirt with no rocks, tree roots, or red clay.
I wanna move there.
Lol
Simple math: 9'×9'×9' hole to be dug. Why does it take 10 ten yard dump trucks to get it taken away?
Didnt appreciate concrete work till instarted doing it a few months ago steps and curbs for a plant so many details you didnt think would be involved this guys channel is gold
Hey EC, your walers on your forms go the other way! Stronger to run them on edge not the flat! Don’t worry about me just a dirty old formworker from Australia
Yeah, and we call the natural ground the subgrade then earthworks then sub,base then top layer is base course. Don't worry about me, just a ex senior lab technician (dirt doctor) from the South Australian Government.
Frequently you will see concrete forms with 2x dimensional lumber along the top of the forms, as an aid to aligning. This is called a ‘Waler’. It is most commonly incorrectly called a whaler.
The name comes from boat building. The top of the sides of a boat are called gunwales the topmost board aligns or makes fair the ribs or frames of the boat.
Interesting. I know about gunwhales, but didn't know the term had migrated to concrete form work.
@@andrewalexander9492 I spent 22yrs manufacturing aluminum concrete forms and accessories. One of our products was a waler bracket that attached to the form work allowing waler boards to be placed. A colleague from the east coast had some boat building experience as well as concrete forming experience. He made the connection for me. I allow he might be wrong but it does make sense.
Good straight waler boards used with a few turnbuckle style wall braces will bring your forms true to a string line in short order.
@@1911wood I use those forms every day.
@@thehouseofcrumblingidols2694 Here’s a hard working man.
Did not know.
Dear Scott and Nate. I have to tell you both. This is by far my most favorite channel of all, for sure. The dedication and pure passion you both exude is apparent and quite obvious. And Scott, the way you impart knowledge with humble grace is truly awesome. Thank you both again for another excellent experience. Keep up the great work, and keep it level, straight and true, Jim.
Well said. I fully agree .
Is it just me, or is he the living embodiment of everything we stand to loose as a society if we continue on our current trajectory?
I see what you see. You are far from alone. Have faith and continue to speak out.
I have heard when someone like him leave’s this earth we are losing a library.
Flat work, logging, blacksmithing, welding, home building, this guy does it all. Nice work.
You can’t beat levelling up timber with a spirit level, even when using it to tap it down a couple of mm. Love it!
Little tip for attaching board to block or concrete. Use a 3" screw with a piece of tie wire. It doesnt blow out the concrete near as much when pulling out the screw. Pretty much just the hole you drilled is all thats left.When pulling out the 2 nails, it really blows out the face of concrete.
Nice video, thank you for pointing out the important things like welding the nut so it won't blow out the front and planning ahead to be able to strip to finish exposed parts.
This brings back memories of a 3 story monolithic free standing concrete stairs with exposed edges with insets. It was only attached at each floors with 2 expansion joint to 4x4 square steel tubes & 3 slip dowels at thresholds. It is located at 400 E Main in Midland MI
American tradesmen are awesome.
I just want to point out, Nate, the production quality in this series has been phenomenal
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thank you so much
I'm learning a lot watching your videos and am entertained. I am not planning on doing any construction myself per se but we lost our home of 22 years in the Almeda fire last Sept. and we are rebuilding. I do have a general contractor but thanks to you guys and your videos I feel I can monitor our progress and look for quality work.
Thank you!
Great video! A thought to add is an alternative to welding the coupling nuts onto the wedge anchors is to add a second nut to the wedge anchor effectively "double nutting" it. Just a thought for those who may not have access to a welder on the job site. Thanks for the video, I learn so much from them!
-CJ
Have constructed concrete stair forms for years, try beveling bottom of tread and leaving 1/4 inch lip to act as a trowel guide and 1/4 above stair top below giving a 1/4 inch slope, it is backwards of wood stairs! Great job kids!😊
This man is the only one I trust on UA-cam. There are several other framers on here that I have seen serious design flaws in their builds and they refuse to address them.
Truly one of my favorite channels
As always Scott, this is text book in forming and placing a patio and stairs. Thank you for sharing, including many of the steps that are often over looked and when not done only cause more work and potential problems, saturating the subgrade, greasing the shebolts, placing visqueen on the house, wet striping, screws at the stairs to wet strip, etc.
God Bless the hardworking American!
I think the reason I love watching E.C. Videos is the fact that he is cut out of the same cloth as my old man. We are concrete contractors in southern utah. I’ve learned everything from him and he does everything so similarly to E.C. That when I watch the channel it’s almost like I’m watching my old man. He also was a framer and concrete contractor and also worked for a long time in Clark Count NV. It’s almost like they learned the same tricks as they were going along. I’m just happy to know that it’s logged on video the way that true craftsman work like my dad and E.C. I love these videos
Use 5/8” drywall as a stone hold and then use 2x6 spacer boards about 12” on center in between drywall and form to keep the gap. As concrete is placed the 2x6 spacers can be removed and the drywall is already made from rock so not a worry of burying wood. This keeps concrete volume lower and also helps with total push effects on forms. Just a little tip. 👍
I certainly appreciate you two sir's making this series it has taught me a ton. I am from New Zealand and I'm aware building codes etc are different but it's still really neat watching a house getting built from scratch. Involving plumbers, concrete pourers etc has been an excellent idea as well. I thank you all for sharing this build and I'm sure we have learnt a lot.
He's so smooth. Bob Ross style. Making it look so easy. So happy n comfortable with that Skillsaw in his hand. Making happy little projects. Much appreciated Sir. Cheers
First, thank you for the video series.
I have been watching since pretty much the start and it has been a pleasure to watch true craftsmen at work. And I mean everyone involved. No second rate work here. Whoever buys this house will have a beautiful home, view included.
Yeah, a 16lb hammer, takes work just to use the darned thing.
Damned shame about the wild fires but as far as I can figure nature has been dishing them out since forever. Doesn't make the losses any easier to take though.
Thanks and Cheers
I watched and commented on the podcast you mentioned about the fire while having to wait to go back home (Gates Oregon). Thanks for the distraction! Now I'm back in what is left after the fire: I am part of the volunteers helping to rebuild our little town. Going to be a long road. Thanks for the great content!
William, I wish you well in your efforts of rebuilding. I live in western New York and cannot even begin to fathom the destruction done by forest fires. The worse we get around here are snowstorms that slow things down for maybe a day or two. Stay strong.
Thank you. This is like nothing I've ever experienced before. We have a long way to go but, with luck and hard work: Gates will come back better than before the fires.
Its been 5 years since I last poured concrete, plumber now. A little trick I found extremely helpful when using screws on forms is to dab a little plumbers putty into the heads, makes screw removal a breeze!
I'm an industrial arts and construction teacher from Michigan. I love watching your shows, and enjoy showing them to my students. Keep up the great work! Thanks
You keep up the great work also sir. Trade schools are invaluable. Not every kid is meant for college like they were brainwashing us with a couple years ago.
Amazing craftsmanship. So much fun to watch. Best way to spend a Saturday morning watching Scott and Nate.
Hammer drilling into the column and using bolts strengthen the form is genius!
I thought it was clever too, but then it seemed to negate the isolating effect of the foam sill sealer. Personally, I don't think the slab can be effectively isolated from the column, nor does it need to be. I've got the same situation at my current job, and I welcome the extra stabilization of locking into the piers.
I am not a builder or craftsman of any sort, but I enjoy watching your video’s and you really inspire me to conduct my work professionally and to take pride in my work, Thanks a lot.
God bless the firefighters dealing with all these fires across the west coast!! Real Heroes
Always enjoy watching you work!
We appreciate you for allowing us to watch essential craftsman and all of the expertise we normally wouldn't get to see unless we hire someone and sit on their shoulder the whole time while they do it!
Thank you for sharing and stay safe, can't wait for the next video
You have the best content on UA-cam, bar none. It comes from your very soul. Seeing Ken warms my heart too.
Excellent channel, the music is amazing. I have seen more than 90 episodes. Very informative and interesting things to see.
And one thing more, when ever i start watching your channel episode i go to sleep very quickly.
Thanks for all this
And keep up the good work.
So glad the fires are over but it still left some devastation.. prayers to those who lost their homes
Ive used huge polystyrene blocks as the hard fill before. That way it can be filled right out to the rebar without tapering away. Love the vids!
im not a carpenter, never want to be or will be. but i still watch every video you post.
At 1:30 in, you commented that, “too much is always enough”. Very similar to a mantra that I learned from an “old timer” in my youth. His wisdom vowed that “If a little bit is enough, more is better, and too much is just right.” So, there isn’t quite as much difference in east and west as we often presume. Godspeed.
He he he... I'm going to use "Remember, too much is always enough" the next time I'm at a buffet line.
I like seeing you form your own pours , builders here don’t touch much of anything but the check book! I prep for the concrete guys and they form and pour typically...
Thank you so much for the teachings. Invaluable.
Gee.......I always learn and enjoy this channel. Always something to learn.
Love this guy and his videos! Inspirational!!!!
We just had our worst fire season here in east coast of Australia thoughts are with u guys over there
I appreciate you and Nate producing these videos. Stay safe, God bless.
Gotta love that hammer which doubles as a small level.
amazed by many tricks yo do
Every saturday i wait for the video, awesome job!
I'm form Costa Rica, i study engineering and a maker. I love the construction work and all the details that you point, also all the other professionals that you showcase
Man that looks like a whole lot a work. Thanks Scott, Nate.
Keep up the excellent work. Stay safe.
Enjoy Elohim!
Thank you for sharing your extensive knowledge and experience. You're a great teacher, and explain WHY you do things they way you do them.
As an apprentice concrete carpenter, These videos on the weekend keep me sharp and my head in the game for Monday morning.
Many thanks for the knowledge.
I caught the 16d sinker along with a 16d scaffold nail for the for hold. Something to hook you ply bar to for removal. NICE!
When you get good with a hammer, you can use two sinkers but only drive one home.
@@joshdaly2343 What's a hammer? I use rock. Big rock.
We are grateful for your time appreciate n effort 😍
This channel makes the internet a better place!
Wow! Oregon fires! California gets all the press but Colorado had a ton this summer too. Probably the whole western half of the country.
These videos can NOT happen fast enough! Such an amazing and addictive series.
Keeping you in my prayers- y’all always inspire me to try harder, work smarter, and to do my best. Thank you. cm
Crusher dust, we call that Cracker Dust here in Western Australia... because it looks like cracker crumbs, and we're creative folk with names :)
It's called that because it comes from a rock cracker, or a rock crusher. Good to see a fellow West Aussie on here. Shout out from the Pilbara.
We used to call it stone dust when I worked for a mason/general contractor. Used tons of it when we did dry laid flagstone. We would strip off about 8-10 inches of topsoil, put in a base of Item Four, then a setting bed of 2” of stone dust, and then dress the joints by sweeping more stone dust back and forth across the top of the stones. If we bought the material direct from the crusher, we had to ask for screened stone dust for the setting bed, regular stone dust was what the mason yard sold as Item Four, which was anything that would pass through a 3/4” screen after being crushed.
@@michaelrobinson1341 Ha, little bit south from you, Mandurah.
Appreciate your sharing of all the knowledge you've acquired up to this point.
your input is the best, sir !!! be well
This is superb. Thank you.
New Skill saw. I just spotted one without a cord! I like watching, but my brother exacted a promise from me that I am not allowed to work with concrete any more. Let's just say I did a job that didn't come out very well. 🤗 Scott, you are incredibly well versed in such a broad range of skills. Please keep the cameras rolling. Sorry you guys had so many fires this year. I think you need lots of brush cutters and bush hoggers. People scavenging for for firewood. Something, lm not sure what. Prayers anyway.
Try using an ultra fine mister on the next pour you do. The kind they use for gardening.
Keep up the good work. It’s always good to listen and watch what you do. Thank you
Another great video, thanks Nate and EC
Looks great! I can't wait to see the pour video
Looking forward to the pour. 😃👌👍👍
Although I'm an indoor / workshop woodworker I occasionally do some house-building and I find this series of videos a great source of knowledge and how-to info.
Thanks a lot !
From a Norwegian woodworker
I am amazed at the back braking hard work you all perform. Your channel illustrates the excellent, hardworking, caring professionals in home construction
The forms look good. Start right, finish right....Thanks guys
Awesome job Scott, thanks for sharing your outstanding content and keep up the great work. Your extreme attention to detail and quality of work is encouraging coming from a fellow carpenter.
Best series ever. Thank you for all your hard work.
Cup of jo and an essential craftsman video-perfect way to spend my Saturday morning
Always learning something here
Great Job. I carry a mastic gun on my belt and put a squirt on the head of every screw, after I have I put it in the form. When it comes to striping the screw driver bit slides through the sealant into the head and the screw comes out like a dream.
A previous concrete form video showed Scott doing something similar. I think it was lard, but I might not remember that correctly. Anyway, the basic concept was the same.
That smoke is bad. It looks like AQI 150-200 behind you, and when that happens here in So. OR, I put on my respirator with the organic vapor filters and breathe like a king while my eyes burn. All the decks and porches I put in as a handyman (retired 2016) were entirely wood or composite, so this was an interesting turn for me to watch. Just watching and listening to this one video so far on the spec house, I can see that you are definitely a very high quality builder. No trash anywhere, no hand prints on the siding, no bent metalwork, etc. for ten minutes. Congrats, and thank you for caring enough to build like that. Now I have to watch your pour and finish that puppy.
Love a cool concrete form!!! Basic boxing is boring but projects like this is why I'm a builder, looking forward to see that form come off clean!!
You and your knowledge keep popping up when I need it. Thanks👨🏭
Amazing work, I wish more tradesman took this pride in their work.
Nothing better than watching some essential craftsman videos listening to his stories while eating breakfast
For soaking the gravel on something like this, how about one of those flat hoses with holes down the length? You can clamp off the far end to adjust the length.
Yeah but sometimes you've got to use what you've got and get on with the job.
Also handling a sprinkler is a lot easier than a hose full of holes.
Hard work, True Craftsmanship... looks like you really enjoy the Satisfaction still. Stay young Sir !
Love the work you guys do...
Thanks for the great video!
Loving all your videos, I'm a bricklayer but watch more of videos on youtube than anything else, pure genius, keep it up Thanks
You guys are amazing men!