🏡DIY Stone Porch Columns with Concrete Topper || Barndominium Living
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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In this video, our columns are completed using stacked stone and a DIY concrete topper.
They turned out pretty cool but they took much longer to complete than we anticipated.
Hope you like it.
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You did a great job brother🤙🏼💪🏼
Pro Tip: Keep a spray bottle of water close by and spritz the cement board right before setting a tile. Helps keep the cement board from wicking all the moisture outta the thinset and drying too quickly...
Correct...I always used a wet sponge.
GENUIS! Simple, but DIYer’s wouldn’t think to it.
We, your viewers, appreciate the effort you put into this video. Not easy doing a project while video recording at the same time. Most definitely appreciate the inspiration. I am ready to do my backyard now.
Thank you for your kind words.
Amazing! I just had my eavestroughs replaced on my house today. The contractor pointed out my car port beam was rotted away and suggested i do something like this. I came on here and found your video. I will be doing this on my own . I just am not sure how to remove the old beams and install new ones without my roof collapsing. Might hire someone for that prt
Did the contractor say to install something like this to keep it from rotting in the future?
@@TheBattery124 not for rotting in the future. Problem was my downspouts were in bad shape and over time it dripped on the beams and the bricks and caused it to rot
In my opinion and years of experience I’ve found that using a thick bead of 100% silicone or some durable type of gap sealer or caulk is the best option because your 1/2” gap wouldn’t always prevent wicking from occurring due to dirt and other debris that can and will build up inside that gap making it as if your column material was installed directly on concrete. Unless your planning to clean those gaps frequently! Enjoy your build project that looks great and keep those informative videos coming.
I’m not sure I understand, and I want to! Are you referring to dirt (not water) to stick to the caulking?
Maybe you could help me anyway: I want to clean the caulk that a handyman used to fill in small cracks in my white columns on my Craftsman style front porch. I want them to be waterproof and look clean. I intend to clean those spots, and paint the columns (I hope: I’m VERY tiny and have some chronic illnesses including Lyme infections, so I need advice❣️🙏 Thank you!
BTW, my father was a builder and I learned quite a bit, but he passed away a long time ago. I still have sawdust in my veins, though at 68.
@@Tinyteacher1111 Yes, I kinda know what health problems can set you back whereas I’m 60 years old and during the first week of March founding that I was having difficulty breathing, so I visited my family doctor who scheduled various medical test on the next day, however I didn’t make it that long as my ability to breath became severe so my wife took me to our local HCA Emergency facility near my home, where they quickly did medical test and confirmed my diagnosis was Double Pneumonia and considering that I already had COPD lung disease and Heart problems and 2 new stents, so they needed to transfer my by ambulance to our local HCA Hospital where they put me directly into ICU where after a couple days my condition had somewhat improved as they kept me heavily sedated, however on the 3rd. Day my condition took a major turn for the worse as doctors told my wife that I’ve suddenly become worse as test indicated my having Streptococcus Double Pneumonia with sepsis, which seriously affected my already COPD lungs to a very severe state, it affected my heart with heart failure with A-Fib, plus having kidney failure that required dialysis, and throughout my very long 53 days in ICU where I remained on full life supports for most of that time, and I was also plus taken into emergency surgery 6 different times where surgeons were barely able to repair hematomas (bleeds) in my stomach and esophagus that was caused by another one of the blood thinners they were giving me. Nonetheless, once they got me healthy enough to discontinue heavy sedation whereas I slowly woke up very confused not knowing what had happened to me, and I certainly was surprised to hear the total number or days totaling more than two months that I was hospitalized. Noting I was later told by doctors that I had quit breathing 4 times, and the stomach bleeds were extremely dangerous and my life was in danger each time they attempted to do any of those 6 surgical repairs that was causing me to loose massive amounts of blood which they were pumping blood in as fast as I was losing blood. Sorry, for giving you most of the medical events that I’m still recovering from and any full recovery could take up to a year or last a full lifetime.
Regarding weatherizing your post in my opinion is usually done using 100% paintable silicone that every space where water and or dirt can get under or into it, whereas if your post were installed correctly, it should have a galvanized metal bracket installed under or between the post and the concrete or wooden floor which allows a small space between the post and floor for water and dirt to enter and escape without applying future rot and a need to replace the post. However, if your finding that your post have been firmly attached to the flooring, whereas I personally would use a good bead of 100% clear Silicone or 100% paintable Silicone that would be necessary to prevent any water or dirt from entering the post bottom and includes sealing any post trim work. I hope this helps you, if not please let me know and I’ll try to understand and help you with your problem. Good luck…
I read your comment and felt compelled to at least say that I wish you well and a speedy recovery.. Your body took a huge beating but hey, at least you are still here and I hope it continues that way for long time. Take care.
@@menoyuno8430 Thank you so very much❣️
box it, cement board, then stone...seems straight forward enough. I will give this a go
When this video started, you gave tribute to the American Flag, I knew then, I was at the right place.
Thank You for sharing this great video, I'm your newest subscriber.
God Bless You and your Family.
Thank You! 🇺🇸 They flag will always fly high at our place! 🇺🇸
You should always wet your stone and board before applying even for back buttering or a large spread
use a spray bottle to moisten the cement board, that helps both pieces adhere and cure best.
I like the toppers a lot. If I did something like that I'd build a solid frame with the cement board and then sort of just paint a layer of concrete on top of them rather than using so much concrete to fill it and try to shape it as it dries. I give you props for your creativity, though!
Pro Tip #2: Take an old palm sander, (no sandpaper necessary), and use it to vibrate the sides of your forms while the concrete is still wet. This will vibrate out the air pockets and you'll end up with nice smooth sides where your form boards were...
Thanks for the tip!
Or, tap with a hammer
You can also use a hammer drill with no bit in it.
Sawzall with no blade
Beautiful job you two,true craftsmanship love how you work together. Thank you for sharing
Thanks for your wonderful comment.
I tell ya! He did this allll by himself rain or shine and going to tell us to hang in there? Sir you definitely have patience as a virtue and to be smiling along as you do it. We see this was hard tedious work and it came out sooo beautiful ❤ you had me eat a whole can of butter cookies watching 😄 lol I felt bad every time you wanted to rest and lean on the post but couldn’t. It is a well done 👏🏽🎉 just beautiful! 😊
Thanks for the tutorial. l actually pulled some good tips from watching you do this project.
Good job ! Especially with the custom poured cap ! I wrapped my porch columns exactly the same way as you. That was 15 years ago - and today, they are still there, just like new ! Thank you for sharing !
looks real nice good job my friend thanks for sharing
Thanks!
Got alot of value from this video!
Thank You!
This helps me with my future outdoor ideas. I didn't know you could tint the grey mortar. I'm going to look for that now. Thanks!
This man knows how to find a seat for the job lol
He a had seat for each side of the post, every mark and measure, every cut, lean for the back butter 😂
Wow! What a difference it makes in the look of the porch. Looks like it was challenging, but so worthwhile!
It looks so much better and clean now too😀
@@RVBarndominium It is the little details like this that really make a difference!
Awesome project, Awesome taste in music. Loved this video.
Great job folks. Nice to see Lady boss encouraging you . You guys got me hooked. Subscribed thank you
I think you're supposed to take a wet sponge and go over the board to prevent it from absorbing the moisture out of your mortar. Also, they make corner stones that would make it look more natural.
The whole time watching I was thinking of those cornerstones would make it look much more natural!
Also that gap on the bottom needs caulking not only to keep water out, but insects as well! You'd hate to have bees start a hive inside one of those columns.
Just a thought......have a spray bottle of water on hand and lightly spritz the backer board to deter it from sucking the moisture out of the mortar.
Love it great job
You must have built the great pyramids in your other life😏😎🍺🍺great job ‼️💯👍🏻
wow Looks awesome I am learning from you I done a little but never done this type of work I laid ceramic tile before you did an amazing job love it Watching from Texas Panhandle Amarillo tx
Thank you Ramiro. Texas- Whoohoo. Been to SanAntionio many times. 🇺🇸
Bad ass brother .
I want the same set up on my 1994 2 door blazer .
This job was not easy because it was so hot outside. It also took longer than expected. Glad its done, and now off to the next project. ✔
I feel like you were just making excuses mate. It's okay to admit you're old and it's your first time. Would have made mi wife put down the bloody camera and help yh. Over all you did a gud job for blind bloke eh
How long did it take you to complete all 6? Great job, and great video
@Marcello A couple weekends
Excellent Excellent !!
Great ! Project 🎉
Looks great!
Dang you grew a whole beard by the end of this video LOL.... Great job on the Columns!!!!
Great job! I am not a pro at this, but when did something similar, I painted the bottom of the post, all the way up to the part that comes just out the concrete, with a special paint to keep it from rotting, even though it is already pressure treated.
Please can you confirm which paint did you see use? Once you painted did you pour concrete in the cavity?
That seament board is real good! I apologize, I couldn't help myself.
Really wanted to say that what you made really looks good and gave me some great tips. Thanks!
You said it so I didn't have to...when I hear it, it's like hitting my knuckles on the cheese-grater...
Now he needs to build a seament pond, like the Beverly Hillbillies had!@@YankeeinSC1
@@YankeeinSC1 How would they say cemetery ?
Thank you for sharing.
Looks pretty good.
It looks amazing, 👌🏽👌🏽 great job!👏🏽👏🏽
What I loved is watching your wife get involved in the project. Most wives just tell you to get it done and leave you to yourself...lol
Wow looks amazing
Beautiful 🎉❤🎉
Thank You!
you r a machine,great work son............peace
amazing job your great video
Great job!
Great work man .
Looking good for protect the frame
real nice ,i have 4 to do
You could have taken some sand only mix and add that colorant to it and applied and rubbed it down with a sponge to smooth out the imperfections of the cap.
Great effort. I would have made the caps thicker, more to scale with the size of the stone base. However I think you guys are a fantastic team, and can conquer any project you set your eyes on.
Got my thumbs up in the 1st 10 seconds
Great look, good job!
Mastic won't seal the cement board . You have to put rubberized coating on cement board then mastic then stone. . cement board is porous mastic won't seal it . Then you need it on both sides if outdoors for constant humidity after rain in summer .2 applications of rubberized coating . Or treated ply, 2 roof felt layers , chicken wire nailed wrapped around it then a scratch coat of type S mortar then mastic or type s mortar then stone. That backerboard will break down.
Beautiful
Great work on the column caps.
Good idea.
Looks great! Great video... right to the point. Suggestion... if you spray the cement board with water before applying the mortar, it will not suck the moisture from it.
Excellent tip..thanks for sharing!!
Love the involvement
Wow bro 🙏👍
super nice
Awesome job you two!! Thanks for sharing your build! I appreciate the hard work and care you both show.
It will help if you use a small fan to blow the dust away while dry cutting the stone .
I love that song from rush... whoah
Rush Subdivisions off of their Spirit of Radio album. I got to see them live on their final R40 tour in Columbus, OH.
Epic Talent
Great video
VERY NICE JOB SIR
Thanks!
Great job! No resting a beer on those cappings though! I get why you need it sloped though 👏🏽
Thanks for sharing
Gorgeous!
I would have built the form and poured the cap before placing that last layer of stone on the pillar. Makes for a cleaner transition
Nice job man
Very nice job on the toppers, everything looks very professional!
We appreciate your comment and we are glad they turned out pretty nice.
Good job man 👨 👏
Thanks for posting this, you convinced me .... to just buy the faux panels. :) This looks like a ton of work.
Yeah but the faux panels are cheap looking
Nothing comes out looking as good if it can be done quick.
Very nice job,you should put some grease on the 2x to give you a god finishing on edges,concrete won't stick on the 2x
Good idea! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful work, I think I’ll try that😊
Snakes love that 1/2" gap you left at the bottom.
We love snakes because they keep the mice away. 😉
Have you ever seen a kid that was bitten by a copperhead or any venomous snake ? I agree about the mice thing but just don't need to give more opportunity to kid being bitten. Nice work regardless.
Plygem makes a prefab unit that yields same result.takes about 30 minutes per column
Why put screws in the post to tie the concrete caps to the post? Is that something that was recommended? What about expansion and shrinking of the post without any expansion joint? How about trimming that joint of the concrete to the post--were you able to make a clean looking joint, especially without protecting the surface of the wood?
Nice to see you both working together
Good job you remind me of king of the hill
Haha...someone else said that too.
Those look great. How wide did you make them?
Nice!
Be advised that if you are not in the HZ 10 climate zone that James Hardi has on their website, you cannot use this product for exterior applications. Judging by the accent he’s likely below that line so he’s fine but if you were to try to do this here in VT it would be a major no no.
Looks good, but I would have put metal columns in place of the wood. Our house was built in 2014. They put in wood columns and the wood is rotting where it meets top of the stone. Maybe if they were wrapped, it would keep the water off of them.
I thought about doing this too but with cinder blocks. My worry though was the wood column rotting out over time.
I would liked to have seen more details on how you made the template.
Tony Great Job and it’s great to see your wife in there and getting dirty and helping out. This is truly a DIY project. Is there anything you would son different after doing this project? Would you lay the stones out and precut before or would you do everything the same?
I could have made the box dimensions to fit the stone width better, but I thought at the time it was right. Perhaps a premixed mastic also....
And should have purchased a wet saw.
Mucho bueno👍
Can't help think those gaps at the bottom are going to be a great entrance for wasps to make a home. Other than that, looks great.
It's hard to keep nature out...We have an abundance of spiders on our porch.
For this non structural application of lightweight blocks, wouldn't some construction adhesive be a much easier solution for attachment? You wouldn't have to go through the trouble of mixing cement and worrying about it drying out on you.
I would have loved to use a pre-mix adhesive. This is the morter that is specified for that block. Most tile mastic are for indoor use only. Mastic or caulk gun based adhesive would have been much easier and faster
If you do this type of thing daily, you quickly come to the realization that its better to minimize wasted energy and create an enjoyable workspace. This stuff is hard enough…We dont have to make it harder
-Setup the grinder in the vicinity of material pile waisthigh and upwind so you dont have to bend over and hold your breath. (In the shade if possible)
-Use earplugs!
-Keep a wash bucket of water next to yourself when troweling mud. Cleaner job in the end.
PUT SOME CHILL MUSIC ON! Something that keeps you calm and focused.
These are all good points.. except maybe the chill music. Jk! Thanks for the suggestions.
Nice work ! Question though--why not start from the top down so that aesthetically the eye work high to low when viewing them?
The stone I bought is the same height so they are all the same height. If you start from the top you may end up having to cut the bottom row. The caps are slightly different but I'm only a homeowner, not a contractor so we're OK with it. I would have loved buying caps but just couldn't find anything that would work and custom caps were $$$
Great video. I need the pink floor saver to elder walker damage !! Also need to do this on four posts. Any issues with ants nesting up under the frame voids ?
No ants at all.I see a few spiders now and then.
God job
Should wet the cement board so it doesn't draw the moisture out of the mastic.
Look great, however, would have greatly appreciated more detail in how you built up your frames as well as how you made up your forms for the caps, didn't really get a good look at any of that. Also, do you have plans to further finish the upper part of your columns? Cladding (like cedar), stain, paint, etc.?
Genius
Like how you kept the wood from touching concrete, 1/2” gap was great, did you let concrete touch wood on cap
Yes, the concrete touches the wood.
MASTIC??? Thankfully you used mortar. Way better choice. Looks Great!
Can you stand a beer on the top??
Great video 🍻
You bet!
Badass!!! Im trying to make some cinderblock columns for my fence. Could i stick that stone directly onto cinder block?
You should be good as long as you use the manufacturer recommendation for mastic. Good luck man!
@@RVBarndominium thank you👍🏽
I want to do that but .y porch doesn't ha e the extra width on the sides. I don't know if it will look right if .y stone hangs off the edge just a bit. Nice work.