Damn, dude you went hardcore mode, lol. I've built my own launch ramps before, but I never even thought about making curbs. Then again we'd have nowhere to put it. We used to put the ramps I made on our skateboards, and roll it to a place called "the slab". It was just a huge empty lot that had been neglected, but there were some pretty huge areas that weren't cracked, or heaved from rain, and earth shifting. On the weekends we'd have like 30 people skating that spot, and it was a ton of fun. I got to meet a lot of cool people there. To answer anyone's question, no, we didn't have a skatepark. This was in the mid-80's during the period when adults couldn't understand skating, and tried to ban it. We picked the slab because no one cared about it, and we'd be left alone to shred, and incur medical bills for our parents, LOL. Thank you, Ben, this takes me back.
Im a finish carpenter so I dont do concrete very often but I have poured a fair amount of small walkways and patios over the years. I usually run the edger almost immediately after screeding it (while im mag floating it first pass) but only a very rough pass just to get the rocks out of the way. I come back later and actually make it nice once its set up enough. Cheers from Toronto. Nice curb!
I remember also anytime we started a curb I would always save my old beat trucks. I used to go over the new curb and it would be like glass plus I found it did not chip as much over time since there was a nice layer of metal on the edge.
same, started going crazy being like, did the video change? i dont remember that shot in the video i watched... then realized its a completely different channel of his.
Had a curb like that outside an old school (not in use) down the street that was one of the major skater hangouts. We had it waxed up slicker than wet soap. My grandpa had helped weld the school when being build. Sucked to see it torn down.
This is so rad. First cut, maybe one could clamp the factory milled edge of a board as a guide for the skill saw when cutting the diagonal. Takes some of the skill out of the saw cut.
Hey Ben! I’ve been a fan of the channel for a while now. I know this is a concrete video but I have a taping question that you might have an answer for. Say I already taped my inside corners with the slop bucket method, roller & flusher- and now the inside corners are ready for a coat of mud. Instead of using a compound tube with an inside corner applicator head, and then using a flusher to feather everything out; could you use one of those spherical paint rollers (I think you’ve called it a lambs wool roller, or it’s called a corner roller) in place of the compound tube, and still use a flusher after. I invested in a Columbia super taper, roller, and 2.5/3 inch flusher heads but not sure if I want to invest in a compound tube with inside corner applicator just yet. I was hoping I could just use one of those spherical paint rollers to apply mud then proceed to flush with flusher instead of the compound tube method. Sorry if that was a lot aha.
@@vancouvercarpenter Ok 👍 I’ll have to give it a shot soon then! Thanks for taking your time to reply. Much love, and respect from Chatham, Ontario (near Windsor/Detroit Border)!
Should have lined the form with plastic that comes in those big rolls and the curb would have come out of super smooth. Forgot where I watched this but I’ve seen it done on UA-cam before
Run the edger as soon as you can .. running it too late can be a hassle .. edging pushes the rocks away from the surface so you don’t have rocks and sharp edges .. when it sets up more you can get a better finish on it
How many skaters build their own curb?!! Most just wax someone else's flower bed because they break their knees long before their old enough to think to make their own😂 (Speaking from experience) Congratulations on holding your body together long enough to enjoy the sport as an adult!
Canadian Builder Magazine Cover: "Turning your tennis court into a skate park." 😁 Don't worry about rebar; it rusts because concrete is porous, allowing moisture to penetrate and reach the rebar. I have precast concrete sidewalk panels in the back yard of my 82-year-old house in the USA; the rusting rebar has caused the concrete to weaken and start breaking up. I've had to cut the exposed rebar out on more than one panel.
PPS- when using screws with concrete work I'll just use some cheap candles, u could use skate wax to fill the heads. I use torx drive. It works great to keep concrete out of the heads and makes taking forms apart a breeze 👍
Ben, that was so cool that you went out and built that. I’m 64 years old and loved skateboarding. We started skateboarding in south Texas back in the seventies. Great memories and awesome job on that curd🤙
Hello, red seal carpenter here in Ontario, I get your feeling about going from drywall to concrete work and your drywall experience being a hindrance in concrete. I came from a concrete background and trying to learn drywall after being a concrete finisher was tough. Luckily I found your videos! Thanks for all you do.
Typically the braces i put on a form like this stay in the way and i scrub with a mag and edge right before stripping the form. You pulled the form partly right in my opinion i pull away slightly then i press it back into the crete and slide up i found if sliding straight up the suction can pull the top edge off. Sometime in certain circumstances i pull them just like you did scrape the cream off the board with youre trowel. Then use a float to work it back into the voids. I think its really funny you kept it that wet for 30 days but you are 100% correct and it made it alot stronger than i think you realize it did. It basically melts the lime dust back to the lime rocks much better than a fast cure ever could. You did a great job watching this made me want to build a mini skate plaza in my yard haha
Great video Ben! I built a bunch of skate curbs over the years, and from my experience I think its really hard getting the dimensions just right. Different dimensions work better for different tricks, so finding the sweet spot can be really challenging! Your curb looks great and it shows when you skate it! Hope we also get to see a build video of your concrete bench! One tip I can share to anyone doing this is that if your hammerdrill can be set to only the hammer function you can use it as a vibrator on the forms. Works great!
Thanks for pulling back the curtain so to speak. It’s cool that you built that with your kids. I can tell you from someone that has done a lot of concrete. It just has to be functional. Yes maybe you could have use a mag float. Maybe you took it off the form too soon. But hey. It works, you are having fun. And most importantly your kids are going to remember this. Great job.
Yo link the skate channel in the description! Great build. That slappy crook probably felt amazing first time on your own curb. Clean DIY spot too! Ours is always covered in broken glass from morons 😭
I use hex screws tho and clean the tip out w another screw and re use and re use the screws. But i do it every day, either way i still wnjoyed yur video and think it was very nice
Wow. Now words. All I could say that you’re awesome. I did a ton of concrete work before I began doing drywall, learning a lot by following you etc.. What gets me is that you could skate! 😎😎😎
Yup old motor oil thinned with diesel for pump spraying. Cooking oil works too if wanna be more eco, can also get good eco release oils now too but cooking oil cheaper
I have a PhD in concrete, and I can confirm that finishing low slump concrete like that is very difficult. 😅 With the environmental exposure and the physical abuse you're putting on it, I think the rebar and month of wet cure were justified.
the rebar is good so long as the cracks stay tight (as they should here) and you didn't put too much water in your mix. With a higher water/cement ratio you'd have more porosity and you'd get rusting on your bars - failure - at a shorter service life
I'm in the same boat as you. Contractor/Skater (although my skateboarding skills aren't as good as yours), with intermediate at best concrete skills. Just wanted to say that I appreciate the fact that even though you knew your concrete skills weren't great, you still did it and even recorded it for the world to see. It teaches us viewers two things. 1. We can learn from the mistakes you made in case we ever make a curb ourselves. And 2. Don't be afraid to be vulnerable or show your weaknesses. We can all grow by doing so 🙏 (Edit: The curb came out great, btw!)
Awesome! Skateboarding brought me here in life as well! We started building ramps when I was younger and now I flip and rent houses. I remember the one time we got 6 x 6 lumber and cut out 1/2" on each side and put in 1/2" copper for a little "curb"
I'm far from a Master of concrete - but I've been told by some that in general, you want to avoid using anything that agitates it too much while it's drying. The reason - it makes the aggregate (rocks) settle to the bottom, leaving the "soup" part of the concrete higher - and that is weak - and how cracks/chips form. I'm not saying you can't vibrate it, or trowel it - in fact you need to, in order to get a good shape - but I am saying that it is better to apply those methods as sparingly as possible - the better off the final product is from a structural standpoint. Good video - always liked this channel. Learned a lot from it and my house has definitely benefitted from many a DIY project gone right!
the construction company here hates skaters and has the monopoly on things being built. EVERYTHING is stuco square or rectangles surrounded with round evergreen bushes... a blacktop parking lot and a short cement strip leading to the door.
Im sorry Daddy Ben, but as someone who grew up doing concrete projects my whole life this video was hard to watch. Theres no need to be so delicate and finicky With concrete. The finished product wouldve turned out the same without all of that OCD behavior. Anyways, keep it up. Love seeing you drop videos even if its a lil cringe 😅
Very nice. I was always taught to to never pour concrete around wood. The wood you used to hold up the rebar is going to expand. A rock or a piece of broken concrete should have been used to hold up the rebar? What do you think?
The most drywalliest, concretious, skateboardious, carpenter out there and I love it !
Thanks 😊
@@vancouvercarpenter thanks for taking the extra time to film, edit, and post videos !
😂😂😂
Cementitious 🤌
Hopefully joa does a park review episode here with his dad. Gifted curb
I did a small project recently, instead of a hammer I used a sawzall with the blade removed. Press against the form. Worked great to vibrate.
A palm sander works good also as a vibrator
Dome headed bolt into a drill and use the hammer mode.
Damn, dude you went hardcore mode, lol. I've built my own launch ramps before, but I never even thought about making curbs. Then again we'd have nowhere to put it. We used to put the ramps I made on our skateboards, and roll it to a place called "the slab". It was just a huge empty lot that had been neglected, but there were some pretty huge areas that weren't cracked, or heaved from rain, and earth shifting.
On the weekends we'd have like 30 people skating that spot, and it was a ton of fun. I got to meet a lot of cool people there. To answer anyone's question, no, we didn't have a skatepark. This was in the mid-80's during the period when adults couldn't understand skating, and tried to ban it. We picked the slab because no one cared about it, and we'd be left alone to shred, and incur medical bills for our parents, LOL. Thank you, Ben, this takes me back.
Im a finish carpenter so I dont do concrete very often but I have poured a fair amount of small walkways and patios over the years. I usually run the edger almost immediately after screeding it (while im mag floating it first pass) but only a very rough pass just to get the rocks out of the way. I come back later and actually make it nice once its set up enough. Cheers from Toronto. Nice curb!
I remember also anytime we started a curb I would always save my old beat trucks. I used to go over the new curb and it would be like glass plus I found it did not chip as much over time since there was a nice layer of metal on the edge.
It helps for sure. It’s like an aluminum rub brick that also fills the voids.
Now this is what I call quality content. Just finished watching the other curb video on your skate channel.
same, started going crazy being like, did the video change? i dont remember that shot in the video i watched... then realized its a completely different channel of his.
Future episodes; “Building a Moat” , “Building Your Own Off-ramp” , “Appendectomy at Home? Yes You Can!”
Wait until I do the "Earth's first faster-than-light Starship; built for $1,000!"
Vancouver Cement 🤔......😜 haha nice work dude love all your videos 👍!!
"Vancouver Carpentry, Concrete, and Etc., Ltd."
Sawzall without a blade against the form is a good alternative to hammering the form on small pours.
Great idea. Thanks! Next time.
Had a curb like that outside an old school (not in use) down the street that was one of the major skater hangouts. We had it waxed up slicker than wet soap. My grandpa had helped weld the school when being build. Sucked to see it torn down.
Concrete ASMR now... What's next? Perhaps installing doors ASMR?
Impressed you can mix that amount in a wheelbarrow without it ending up with too much water.
Great video Ben. Looking forward to the skate channel version.
This is so rad. First cut, maybe one could clamp the factory milled edge of a board as a guide for the skill saw when cutting the diagonal. Takes some of the skill out of the saw cut.
Pebbles definitely add curb appeal
Fun! You're a good dad.
Is that it a community park? Or your back yard? 🙌
Not telling 😏
😅🤣😂@@vancouvercarpenter
Very cool and informative vid. I wish I could’ve painted it yellow
Bet the tennis players were pissed. 😝
I love these voice over videos where your just doing the work and it’s not a detailed how to video.
Thanks 😊
Definitely need rebar...it's most likely the snow plows that destroy the curbs..🙂👍💯
hell yeah! I was waiting for you to paint it with some safety red Rustoleum haha
Hey Ben! I’ve been a fan of the channel for a while now. I know this is a concrete video but I have a taping question that you might have an answer for. Say I already taped my inside corners with the slop bucket method, roller & flusher- and now the inside corners are ready for a coat of mud. Instead of using a compound tube with an inside corner applicator head, and then using a flusher to feather everything out; could you use one of those spherical paint rollers (I think you’ve called it a lambs wool roller, or it’s called a corner roller) in place of the compound tube, and still use a flusher after. I invested in a Columbia super taper, roller, and 2.5/3 inch flusher heads but not sure if I want to invest in a compound tube with inside corner applicator just yet. I was hoping I could just use one of those spherical paint rollers to apply mud then proceed to flush with flusher instead of the compound tube method. Sorry if that was a lot aha.
Yes you can. Give it a try, it should work
@@vancouvercarpenter Ok 👍
I’ll have to give it a shot soon then!
Thanks for taking your time to reply.
Much love, and respect from Chatham, Ontario (near Windsor/Detroit Border)!
Had no idea u could skate this good 👍👏💪
He hovers around pro level at flatground tricks. He's amazing
This was a teaser. I’m going to do a way longer one on my skate channel.
Should have lined the form with plastic that comes in those big rolls and the curb would have come out of super smooth. Forgot where I watched this but I’ve seen it done on UA-cam before
if you make more curbs i'd recommend a Saws-all without a blade in it to vibrate the forms
Run the edger as soon as you can .. running it too late can be a hassle .. edging pushes the rocks away from the surface so you don’t have rocks and sharp edges .. when it sets up more you can get a better finish on it
could always take a grinder to them and reshape the corners.
I’ve been slowly reshaping it with my board for a year and a half 😉
We always put used motor oil on our forms. Or if we were in a pinch diesel fuel works great💯
how rich do you have to be to have your own tennis court in vancouver?
love it
What’s the name/link of the skateboard channel?
“Ben Degros”
What’s the other channel?!
What is the skateboarding channel name?
Ben Degros
Those are shear curbs. They’re designed to break when the kids hit them. Saves their rims.
😂
Very fine (or is that - gnarly) video.
Hello, I really love your video and it has good content. May I ask how to become a builder in Metro Vancouver from zero like you?
Gosh darn, you are too cool.
Concrete thicker than about 4 inches ALWAYS needs rebar, unless you don't care if it lasts longer than a couple days, or you're a Roman engineer! 😁
so many people will use this now slappys are in fashion at the moment lol
Dios mio, he is not doing drywall, what happened , he is sick AF please send thoughts and prayers 😥😭
If I see “building an entire West LA Courthouse replica with Crob” on this channel, well let’s just say I’m Glad I’m Not Me
Couldn’t you just spray it with lacquer? Same shit I’m gonna spray on top to make it grind
The Vancouver mason???
concrete needs rebar every time that’s it
Sk8er daddy! Can you get any cooler?
Slappy 👀
It’s basically hot mud that you can’t sand
Could have used durock for it and it would last just as long 😅🤣
Sure you can! You just have to sand it with diamond grit and it takes a really long time ;)
The tennis players will not be happy!
Vancouver Skater 👍
How many skaters build their own curb?!! Most just wax someone else's flower bed because they break their knees long before their old enough to think to make their own😂
(Speaking from experience)
Congratulations on holding your body together long enough to enjoy the sport as an adult!
People use diesel fuel on forms.
I’ve heard. Didn’t have any kicking around.
that school should just redo the curb once and for all.
stupid money pit fixing it over and over and over
72 hours before pulling forms min
a curb to skate? Yes. A regular curb doesnt
gifted haters dad?
fuck yeah man! my man!
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0:33 wait... what the fuck???????? Looks like you live in so-cal... why didn't you just take measurements of it?? It's still there.
oh... "vancouver carpenter"... got it. haha. Well... someone could have sent you some real dimensions. Good job though!
The skateboardiest Vancouver carpenter
Yes :)
A skater will always notice the curbs wherever they are. Really enjoyed this thanks Ben,
Canadian Builder Magazine Cover: "Turning your tennis court into a skate park." 😁
Don't worry about rebar; it rusts because concrete is porous, allowing moisture to penetrate and reach the rebar. I have precast concrete sidewalk panels in the back yard of my 82-year-old house in the USA; the rusting rebar has caused the concrete to weaken and start breaking up. I've had to cut the exposed rebar out on more than one panel.
PPS- when using screws with concrete work I'll just use some cheap candles, u could use skate wax to fill the heads. I use torx drive. It works great to keep concrete out of the heads and makes taking forms apart a breeze 👍
Ben, that was so cool that you went out and built that. I’m 64 years old and loved skateboarding. We started skateboarding in south Texas back in the seventies. Great memories and awesome job on that curd🤙
Hello, red seal carpenter here in Ontario, I get your feeling about going from drywall to concrete work and your drywall experience being a hindrance in concrete. I came from a concrete background and trying to learn drywall after being a concrete finisher was tough. Luckily I found your videos! Thanks for all you do.
My pleasure!
Great skating!
This brought me great joy to see someone continuing to skateboard in adulthood.
Typically the braces i put on a form like this stay in the way and i scrub with a mag and edge right before stripping the form. You pulled the form partly right in my opinion i pull away slightly then i press it back into the crete and slide up i found if sliding straight up the suction can pull the top edge off. Sometime in certain circumstances i pull them just like you did scrape the cream off the board with youre trowel. Then use a float to work it back into the voids. I think its really funny you kept it that wet for 30 days but you are 100% correct and it made it alot stronger than i think you realize it did. It basically melts the lime dust back to the lime rocks much better than a fast cure ever could. You did a great job watching this made me want to build a mini skate plaza in my yard haha
Thanks for the tips!!!
Great video Ben! I built a bunch of skate curbs over the years, and from my experience I think its really hard getting the dimensions just right. Different dimensions work better for different tricks, so finding the sweet spot can be really challenging! Your curb looks great and it shows when you skate it! Hope we also get to see a build video of your concrete bench!
One tip I can share to anyone doing this is that if your hammerdrill can be set to only the hammer function you can use it as a vibrator on the forms. Works great!
Even though it happened off camera, still thank you for actually mixing the concrete unlike those dry pour videos people keep posting.
Pffffft. Dry pour. Placing wet concrete is half the fun!!!
epic! thank you sir, was looking for a new spring project. this shaped curb in particular, glorious!
Thanks for pulling back the curtain so to speak. It’s cool that you built that with your kids. I can tell you from someone that has done a lot of concrete. It just has to be functional. Yes maybe you could have use a mag float. Maybe you took it off the form too soon. But hey. It works, you are having fun. And most importantly your kids are going to remember this. Great job.
Thanks Chris 🙂
Yo link the skate channel in the description! Great build. That slappy crook probably felt amazing first time on your own curb. Clean DIY spot too! Ours is always covered in broken glass from morons 😭
Nah hit it sideways bro when u r pulling the form Trust me, its the best way.
I use hex screws tho and clean the tip out w another screw and re use and re use the screws. But i do it every day, either way i still wnjoyed yur video and think it was very nice
Love your work brother the drywal work is insane
Wow. Now words. All I could say that you’re awesome. I did a ton of concrete work before I began doing drywall, learning a lot by following you etc.. What gets me is that you could skate! 😎😎😎
Used motor oil lightly sprayed on the forms really helps with releasing the forms. Hard work but very satisfying.
I read so many people saying diesel as well.
Glad you said that because when we use oil we dilute with diesel for going through yard sprayer. Good stuff man.
Yup old motor oil thinned with diesel for pump spraying. Cooking oil works too if wanna be more eco, can also get good eco release oils now too but cooking oil cheaper
Damn bro killing it w the concrete forms! Nice channel
I have a PhD in concrete, and I can confirm that finishing low slump concrete like that is very difficult. 😅
With the environmental exposure and the physical abuse you're putting on it, I think the rebar and month of wet cure were justified.
the rebar is good so long as the cracks stay tight (as they should here) and you didn't put too much water in your mix. With a higher water/cement ratio you'd have more porosity and you'd get rusting on your bars - failure - at a shorter service life
I think adding rebar would add to the number of teeth getting picked out of the steering wheel…
By the snow plower.😂
8:40 🔨🎵🤣💕👍
PS- i was like woops Ben uploaded on wrong channel when 1st saw this
I'm in the same boat as you. Contractor/Skater (although my skateboarding skills aren't as good as yours), with intermediate at best concrete skills. Just wanted to say that I appreciate the fact that even though you knew your concrete skills weren't great, you still did it and even recorded it for the world to see. It teaches us viewers two things. 1. We can learn from the mistakes you made in case we ever make a curb ourselves. And 2. Don't be afraid to be vulnerable or show your weaknesses. We can all grow by doing so 🙏 (Edit: The curb came out great, btw!)
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Awesome! Skateboarding brought me here in life as well! We started building ramps when I was younger and now I flip and rent houses. I remember the one time we got 6 x 6 lumber and cut out 1/2" on each side and put in 1/2" copper for a little "curb"
I'm far from a Master of concrete - but I've been told by some that in general, you want to avoid using anything that agitates it too much while it's drying. The reason - it makes the aggregate (rocks) settle to the bottom, leaving the "soup" part of the concrete higher - and that is weak - and how cracks/chips form. I'm not saying you can't vibrate it, or trowel it - in fact you need to, in order to get a good shape - but I am saying that it is better to apply those methods as sparingly as possible - the better off the final product is from a structural standpoint.
Good video - always liked this channel. Learned a lot from it and my house has definitely benefitted from many a DIY project gone right!
Dudes a skater too??!? Thats so awesome. Hell yeah
if you want to use screws you can put crisco on the screw heads
In the words of letterkenny, "Ya be overhandling it there just a bit, squirrely Van(couver carpenter)
Much needed vid thanks father ben 🙏
This is great. Other than… duplex nails. Or, duplex screws!! (They are great!!!) And.. a DaMN StrING LInE
Use a saw zaw w no blade next time when u vibrate the form, lil tip just run it on the form
the construction company here hates skaters and has the monopoly on things being built. EVERYTHING is stuco square or rectangles surrounded with round evergreen bushes... a blacktop parking lot and a short cement strip leading to the door.
Love watching people get out of their comfort zone. I appreciate you saying what you did wrong too, so we can all learn!
Im sorry Daddy Ben, but as someone who grew up doing concrete projects my whole life this video was hard to watch.
Theres no need to be so delicate and finicky With concrete. The finished product wouldve turned out the same without all of that OCD behavior.
Anyways, keep it up. Love seeing you drop videos even if its a lil cringe 😅
Dang super cool you skate!! I used to a long time ago. Looking good bro.👍😁
I don’t normally watch DIY skate stuff but this was super cool, who doesn’t want to know how to make hard shiny concrete, love it!
For vibrating, try using a reciprocating saw with no blade. Just place the shoe against the form and pull the trigger.
Very nice. I was always taught to to never pour concrete around wood. The wood you used to hold up the rebar is going to expand. A rock or a piece of broken concrete should have been used to hold up the rebar? What do you think?
At first I was like "why the heck are you putting a curb in the middle of a tennis court?!?" But great work!