Pouring A Concrete Slab For A New Shop: Shop Build #7
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- Опубліковано 14 вер 2022
- Dustin Ferch - the master of concrete. Here he is again: • The Secret to Finishin...
The final outcome of a concrete project depends on the preparation.
Don't cut any corners.
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Thank you, be safe, and be grateful.
Always good to see my man Kenny hanging around the job site. What a legend.
this guy looks like such a typical american granpa, thin lips, white hair, blue eyes
When you can say ‘after all it’s so and so on the job’ and you have zero worries when saying that is absolutely priceless. That’s fantastic you have such a great relationship with that crew!! Another fantastic job Dustin and guys.
When I was in high school I worked for a guy who was building his house. I learned a lot about the whole process from demolition to drywall. The best piece of knowledge I learned has little to do with construction. He told me "when in doubt, clean up."
Now that I'm the Foreman and trainer at my company I tell all the new hires the same thing.
I always admired Dustin and Phil the plumber, I never get bored watching them do what they do!
I love watching your videos. When I was working in for the home building industry we would wrap the J-bolts with tape on the top end to protect the threads from the fresh concrete sticking to it and the nut will not screw the sill easily. Just adding my two cents worth. Great job.
An almost 18 hour day at the shop this was a delight to come home to.
Cheers to you lads, and to you all who know a good hard day's work.
nate, we should get our dads together on your podcast to talk about concrete, content and whatever else. they both have the same tractor and use it for concrete. they both are about the same age and they both are great men!!!!! btw great video scott. my dad is down to talk on camera now unlike in the past, which has been a big help in me making content and ppl are saying he is going to be a star!!!!
@Jeff Johnson yur weird
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1st here, love the content, u guys are awesome. the biggest concrete channel on yt.
It’s not the first time we see Dustin and his men pour concrete on this channel, but every time they demonstrate their skills and craftsmanship.
Amazing finishing of the concrete, so much work, but the results are just stunning! I wish my contractors had a tenth of this care and disposition to achieve this work level!
Send them a link to this video.
I agree with some of the commentators: Adding two inches of poly-iso foam under the concrete will keep the slab warm preventing uncomfortable feet and reduce temperature swings leading to cracking. Perhaps not for a car garage, but for a shop this would be a must for my shop.
good to see the concrete crew again... i know i'm being selfish but i do wish it was the footings to house number 2 🤣 ...... love the channel 👍
having poured a very small pad for a garbage bin garage, I can truly appreciate the hard work and finesse this crew is putting into the job. 👊👊👍👍
Always a pleasure to watch a crew that knows it’s work and takes pride in the final results.
As a retired structural engineer I’ve seen concrete work in progress on large construction sites. I spent most of my time in an office designing buildings and foundations, and I still have the same opinion I had way back then. The REAL work occurs at the job site. The people who do that work at the job site deserve praise and respect.
I'm an office worker, so this work (and most construction work) looks brutally hard and exhausting.
I admire these men for their toughness.
I also ponder the future of those two 19 year old kids.
Man this is sooo satisfying to watch when lumpy concrete (mud) become a smooth surface. Thank Scott for a top-notch video as always.
Concrete high rise crane operator a big part of my life, I always enjoy watching a good craftsman working .
Another great video of a traditional job site. Your practices and demeanour are like the men I trained under, one of them being my dad. Scott, you are so well respected by the young guys that watch your videos that you may be able to teach them the advantages of taking a lunch kit and thermos to work every day. It's hard to watch new tradesmen waste money on fast food everyday.
Wrap the J bolts in aluminum foil prior to pour, keeps the threads clean, cheap and quick to do
Moving right along. Nice work. Thanks for the update.
Always a pleasure watching the pros do their thing!
Keep up the good work!
I'm learning so much from this channel. Thanks to all that makes it happen.
Me, at 12 years old, first day of summer vacation. Probably 5 am, dad kicks bed," get dressed, eat breakfast, I have work for you". Next 6 years plus some weekends in winter, even beyond when needed. Pouring concrete and always the gotta hurry, truck is on the way.
So much fun to watch. These folks are awesome concrete artisans. And your narration is fabulous.
Great video as always, brings back memories.
Many thanks from the UK for your content, I find them educational and enjoyable. Never too old to learn.
EC, I highly recommend Day1. It’s a surface retardant and finishing aid and works wonders. It’s a bit pricey, but every one of our customers that I give a gallon of concentrate too and let them try it for free, they always come back for more. It also has a densifier in it which significantly increases the durability of the top finish. The finishing aid and surface retardant will save almost any slab that is firing off. I always tell our customers it is cheap insurance to have a gallon in the truck. (I work at a ready mix plant as the QC manager here in the PNW in a VERY extreme climate. High desert)
Extra finisher in a can? That stuff is great
@@JerryMraz. do you have experience with Day1?
@@erikjohnson5608 i do, love it, especially when you are behind and the sun is beatin down on ya , do you get gallons get free?
@@JerryMraz. no definitely not free. We were trying to get our customers to try it because they did not like the price. So we gave some concentrate out for free to get them to try the product. They all ended up loving it and now most of our daily customers use it.
Very good narration of the slab work proccess. 👏
Impressive attention to detail, and it produced a great job and a beautiful finish!
Great job videoing this. Well Done!
Love your channel! So much craftsmanship in this work.
Another successful day at the shop thanks for the content 🇭🇲
Lovely watching you guys work!
And I love the Whislin Diesels T-shirt, it's like a crossover with another different but good channel!
Wow never get tired of watching concrete work. Looks perfect and good luck on that block.
Hats off to Justin and his crew. Another reason to hang on to a professional when they can do work like that. I feel sorry for concrete workers as it must be so hard on their backs.
Not a professional here but I finished my first ever slab for a shed. It’s 24’x12’x4”. It was a challenge but I made it happen. 198 bags of quick Crete, roll of concrete mesh, bought a 6 cubi foot concrete mixer and boom. I know there is a few hiccups here and there but im happy the way it turned out and also gave me the confidence to start/plan on a few future projects. Glad I found this channel so I can learn more about the trade and what not
Excellent as usual. Great content!
Man it's satisfying as hell watching a concrete slab come together. Good stuff.
I really enjoy your step by step new build video series. This one and the spec house. Would really like to see a renovation in the same format. Good work guys
Awesome once again.
Ah, yes. Memories of feeding a cement mixer and wheelbarrowing loads of concrete in the days before readymix and truckloads of concrete!
Absolutely facinating to watch a highly skilled tradesman perform his work.
Very professional
Their level of detail is superior work, nice job.
Love the detail and the advice. I have poured exactly one small slab in my life (son's Eagle scout project) and made all the mistakes you talk about.
That is a high quality concerte finish, well done.
Good luck my friend and you keep up the good work! Beautiful👍👍👍😎🇨🇱
Thank you so much for sharing this with us. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺 👍
"Delicately brutal ballet". SOG can be brutal, without a doubt. Professionals add the ballet-like delicately.
I hope Cody and TJ decide to stay in the trades, the industry certainly needs more young guys.
great job Dustin !!!!
Thanks for sharing 👍
Good luck
Great video.. love to watch concrete guys do the thing. And that pizza looked good !!
Love your work 👍
plumber here: we usually duct tape the toilet flange edges where the heads of the closet bolts go to prevent concrete from getting in there
nice to watch true craftsmen
Another winner!
I love the videos and I also send a big HELLO to Kenny, always good to see you!! :-) :-)
19 year old wearing a Whistlin Diesel shirt doing manual labor. Love to see it
Something I find interesting watching this video is how different the ready mix trucks are compared to where I live/work.
Good Luck!
Nice looking job. They know their stuff. With a floor like that just take your time and the block work will be easy. Good Luck...
Il be back to see the 8" block video as I'm about to close in my basement wall this fall with 8" block and il be taking notes. Thanks for all you do on this channel
Beautiful slab.
Those apprentices should be honored to work with such skilled journeymen, oh what they could learn!
I learn so much from this channel, but mostly that it's OK to just have a go at something
Most things are accomplishable if you just apply some common sense
Great hard work, I know how hard is doing concrete as I just finished pouring 60’ of curved retaining wall 3’ high
Wish you skilled luck in this built
I like the level screed
Good luck, Scott!
Definitely wish the last 2 minutes of the video were more discussed! Between the smooth glass finish and whatever product was applied (sealer or just delay to setting?) and how they finished by hand around the bathroom area to match? Good stuff regardless.
Finish details are difficult to explain. You need experience to know when to trowel and when to stop. Have to progressively mold the concrete into position as it cures. Working it too much too early pushes too much water too the surface and makes the surface weak. Power trowel will give the same result as doing it by hand, but faster. As it gets harder, you can put more pressure on it and get it smoother if you want.
Sealing or covering the concrete is the last and single most important step. If it's not sealed or covered to keep water from evaporating out of the slap, and it will cure too quickly and crack immediately.
The strongest concrete is made with as little water as possible in the mix to wet all of the cement, and as much water as possible available once it starts to get hard. Most people seal the concrete to trap moisture in it. Important projects, like bridges, often cover the finished concrete in burlap bags, soak them in water, and cover them with tarps to make sure the concrete is soaked in water for days after the pour. You don't want it to dry out for a few days
I'm loving this new series! I'm closely following it and playing catch up on the spec house series as a starting point for learning how to improve the unfinished workshop that came with the home my partner & I bought this year. I feel like it is unlikely you'll see this comment, but thought I'd put it out there that I'd love to learn whether or not you are considering putting any metal flashing between concrete/block and wood once you complete the foundation. My workshop has some, but doesn't seem to have any in some places that would count. Some wood siding is experiencing damage or rot here in rainy, rainy Florida and I'm wondering how to renovate.
Little confused so if anyone can explain please do: why did they place/cut the expansion joints and then power trowel over top? Near the end of the video Scott mentions they saw cut the slab in 6 x 7’ grid. Do they cut on top of the expansion joints (not really sure that’s even the correct term). I have to admit, I don’t really understand what power troweling does, it looks near perfect before they even start with that.
Any info is appreciated, concrete is one of those black arts (magic) that looks easy until you try it yourself.
A sure fire way to a concrete crews heart- feed em
You gotta love those XTRATUFFS!
Love it❤️
“maybe even eat a doughnut 🍩” Lol 😆
Good luck on the masonry. !
And the concrete guys are like what are all these obstructions on top of the forms!
Hello from Kansas!
Would appreciate details on the concrete mix. What slump and additives, if any were used. Coming from the pump it looked pretty loose, like it had a high range water reducer. It seemed extremely workable. Another beautiful job by Ferch team
The guys that did my workshop did a good job in my estimation but that is just on another level. If I had my time again I might have gone into concrete work, I find is fascinating.
I do not miss concrete work. That is some rough work.
Concrete is pure magic!
That was actually a really beautiful slab.
Nice to see Dustin and the crew again. Sad to not see Tom and Beau(don’t know if it’s spelled like that sorry), I hope all is well with them wishing them the best!
I wanted so much to watch the cutting off the slab!
Commenting for the concrete!
Hahaha that got my heart beating, nothing like a big slab on a sunny day
You got some of the best finishers in Douglas County right there
"THREE GRANSONS OIN THE JOB" reminds me of the old rules of thumb on "Hiring Boys:" -- ONE boy's a boy. TWO boys? Half a boy. THREE boys? No boy at all.
Friends will often ask me if I can pour concrete for them. I tell them to get a first rate, concrete finisher. I never got to see the finish work to learn how it's done. I hope you didn't ask the third truck, "how much do you have left?" The dumbest question I got asked just about every day in the thirty eight plus years that I drove concrete trucks. Retired now, I might get a labor job with some friends who do concrete work, just to stay physically active, and learn that skill.
put myself thru college working in the trades ... a concrete company hired me for a season and loved that job. The 1st job I was on was in the beginning of autumn pouring a similar garage and leaves were everywhere.
In the fall weather with leaves falling everywhere, you just can’t get all the leaves picked up or blown off so we always called the ones that got finished over “fossils”.
@@Hoaxer51 hahaha that's a fun way too look at it. Hope you and your loved ones have a glorious Autumn
@@T.E.P.., same to you and yours!
Amazing video as always. Thank you so much for making this and previous series. Some feedback hopefully taken as intended, as constructive feedback: leaving the concrete surface rough below CMU wall (or a concrete wall) will actually help the force transfer from the CMU to the foundation. Also, I am uncomfortable with the practice of wet setting anchor bolts. I am very glad you did not do that with the holdown anchor bolts. The dimensional control when wet setting - and displacement of larger aggregate around the bolt when setting it can make it weaker. Likely not an issue here, but I think it makes more sense to just post-install some wedge/threaded/adhesive anchor bolts as opposed to wet set them.
Hey Scott, does Dustin charge you extra because you help? ;)
You place concrete. You pour water. Scott, really enjoy your videos, followed the house build from the get go. Full of information that was useful and informative. You place concrete in a form, you pour liquid into a container. Might seem: Who cares? A good friend who engineered dams for the Army Corps of Engineers pounded this into my head. Let's stay correct on the course.
I don’t believe in luck EC but I will pray God will bless your efforts. 😁
We built (we being family and friends) built a 22x32 attached garage back in the mid-70's. We formed for slab, but hired a finisher for the pouring. He charged 25 cents per square for the pour. That was worth every penny to me. Was a bargain even back then.
Always time to grab a donut... even if it ends up with some concrete “flavoring” from your fingers.
Love me a concrete pouring video with my cup of coffee
It kinda looked like the concrete crew was like let Scott go try it out somewhere no one will see if he screws up 😂.