Better give the gopher a raise. He did good in front of all of the 7 subscribers. I wonder if the air bags in your truck can be increased in size for more weight capacity. I have never had a problem with the air bags in my Kenworth.
Bondo you are a good instructor, your level of experience speaks for itself! Interesting frost protection work and step construction. Good looking steps made with chimney blocks!
Legit work, you always produce high quality work, seeing that cut Block in the middle of the run on the steps, obviously because of the predetermined width of the steps , got me wondering , why not run those half bond or running bond. ? Then as I'm typing it hit me. There all getting core filled and it prolly fills more complete without the bond.
Fulton Spring Works 👍, and the slow shift into gear is probably a sticky air servo, sometimes you can clean them up, sometimes just replace them, might be electric too, but yours sounds like an air servo.
@@bondobuilt386 Been there, done that! 😉 By the way, a lot of armchair quarterbacks in here today, I think you should take everything they say very seriously! And to make sure you don’t forget, write it down on some Charmin, or Angel Soft, using some brown ink, of sorts! 😂🤣
On Lake Ontario, in about a month we will be living in the house we purchased in ST Thomas Ontario. I would love to have one of the t-shirts you guys wear. I know I am in Canada, but it would be a great advertisement for you guys
The bottom step looks different but it is not even backfilled up to finally grade so after that it will look the same. Don't pay much attention to a hater who UA-cam name is UA-camsucks5 LMAO @@rickallen9382
Just a little tip the edge underneath i know is hard so i would have placed a half inch pipe at the 90 degrees angle there to give it that indented look. Edges would be looking better. Job well done though
Great instructional video...thank you. I am sure you also do traditional concrete stairs all the time. Would be real interesting if you had or could make a video with the same level of detail as this one. Especially interested in the overlapping forms, rebar structure, stair caps that overhang...just think it would be really instructional. Really enjoy your channel. Thanks again.
Beautiful, not to be a Debby Downer, but the bottom edge could use a more finished look like the top edge, instead of the rough edge look. Just a simple edger like the top edge.
What a great job guys I was wondering what kind of sealer you were using on those some stairs if you wouldn't mind sharing. Those stairs look absolutely fantastic
I just caught this one; very interesting deserves a patent. btw, before I enlisted in the Coast Guard in 68, I worked for a summer at Rail City, (sadly, for the guy who nailed the cofin in Dr.Groman's dream). I noticed this is another job you did on Sandy Pond.
Great informative videos. You mentioned that the step caps have a slight pitch to them. I don’t understand how the pitch can be formed when the concrete is in a fluid state. How can the pitch stay put until the concrete hardens? Just trying to understand this. Thanks again for the effort that you put into making and publishing these videos.
Very nice, was wondering if you were going to do the bottom step and you did, very nice, luv the over hang of the steps, i'm thinking its 1 1/2"? I do this often an 1 1/2" with chimney caps and columns.
I need some help. I hope you have time to answer my question. Awesome video as usual. Love watching your videos. I learn a lot from them. Things have definitely changed since i worked with my Grandfather (concrete mason,crew leader) 35 years ago. I need to build a house, my40 year old mobil home is coming down around me. I want to pour a slab but don't have the money for a monolithic pour. Here's my question: Can you pour footers and footers for beams, build stem walls and beams for loadbearing walls with concrete blocks, and pour concrete inside to top of concrete blocks for a fished slab?
Make sure your axle can handle, i would just look into airbag helpers. The air ride system is safer and smoother ride. That truck can only take so much. In long run if you need more weight capacity you may need a dual axle bigger truck
The comproco we used in this video. Chip off all the loose and fill the low spots then let dry and re parge the entire wall. Wet the blocks if it is dry out.
I wanted to line the foam up with the foam that was around the house slab but I did not want the slab to be 16” thick so we added 6” of gravel so slab was 10” thick. The house slab was 16” thick on the edge.
I’m curious about something - when you are laying your blocks down, wouldn’t it be more stable if you used your half block at the end of alternating rows so you don’t always have the edges in the same spot? I know nothing about out this type of construction. That was just the first thought I had when watching it.
When I was a youngster some 50 years ago, we would lay at that time the 'cinder block' and fill with sand and pour steps over. Sometime later maybe 70s the precast stairs took over.
So close to perfect, but no nosing on bottom step, top step looks like a lower rise, and bead of caulk on forms for bottom of nosings could have made a smoother finish.
hey bondo.. I loved the stairs you built. I wanted to ask a question not related to this video but I have seen your guys with the boots on to be in the concrete however i see them step out so how do they NOT get dirt into the concrete when they get back in ? My mother watches you when I watch you now so you have another fan. Also Have you ever laid concrete for an in ground pool? I would love to see that.. Take care and say hello to your guys.
ua-cam.com/video/usLmJ3F9KW0/v-deo.htmlsi=LxCEfuxeJODFrSsf Here is a pool we did. A little dirt on your boot should not affect the concrete. Thanks for the comment and tell your mom I said hi.
Great videos. Please let me know if my thinking is correct. Is the foam to thermally decouple the stairs from the warm ground so that all of the concrete gets cold?
@12:24 "The whole world is watching...." except for the dog. The poor dog couldn't stand watching someone other than Big Biscuit doing the bull floating.
Wow in Ontario they would make you do underpinning? Just saying!!! What's with the lady helper wheelbarrows??Why not just form it and pour it? Also why does the last step not match the rest of the steps? And Also, the first step? Damn I have a lot of Questions EH???🙂
Don't know how it works with heavy trucks but with pickups and RVs if you alter the springs and shocks it does not increase the vehicle gross weight rating and you can get ticketed for being overweight.
If you put leaf springs instead of air ride, the gvw will still be the same. your brakes and tires can only hold so much weight. I'm assuming the truck is 26000 lb gvw, if you want to haul more weight you need a bigger truck. CDL fuel tax sticker etc.
@@bondobuilt386 Compaction isn’t necessary. Stronger? Maybe, but remember they’re non-load bearing, only supporting themselves. Treat it as any other free-standing concrete stairway with a single bottom mat of #4 rebar (temp steel). Even heavy gauge W.W.F. would suffice. If your municipality will allow it, form up the underside with the cheapest material possible or preferably, some of those old scraps and cut-offs you’ve been thinking about trashing anyway and just abandon it underneath. There are a couple ways to defeat any potentially problematic outward forces, if they were a real concern. 1) Fill the cells of the chimney block on the outsides with concrete first (a piece of vertical #5 in the cells, doweled into the foundation) 2) Run 2-3 bands of steel 3/4” strapping all the way through from side to side, coming through the side walls at the block joints. Considering the above approach, wall footings on each side would be sufficient and save at least 4 yards of foundation concrete. These stairs are done of course but just some ideas to save some money, next time you come across something similar.
Those stairs will be there until the end of time. Nice work as usual
Thanks
I used to work for a concrete company 30 years ago and we built stairs like that all the time so I’ve definitely seen stairs built like that before.
Did you use chimney blocks?
Better give the gopher a raise. He did good in front of all of the 7 subscribers.
I wonder if the air bags in your truck can be increased in size for more weight capacity. I have never had a problem with the air bags in my Kenworth.
Ya he is getting a raise 👍🏻
Beautiful job boys !👍
Bondo you are a good instructor, your level of experience speaks for itself! Interesting frost protection work and step construction. Good looking steps made with chimney blocks!
Thank you.
Those concrete stairs are fricken gorgeous!
Thanks Robert
looks just like my dog MAGOO, GREAT JOB AS ALWAYS...........2 THUMBS UP
Interesting those steps are the strongest thinking steps I’ve ever seen put together those things will last forever!😊
I hope they last a long time.
Sure is a lot of work for stairs, your guys are good workers.
Ya a big project if you see it from the start.
Legit work, you always produce high quality work, seeing that cut Block in the middle of the run on the steps, obviously because of the predetermined width of the steps , got me wondering , why not run those half bond or running bond. ? Then as I'm typing it hit me. There all getting core filled and it prolly fills more complete without the bond.
You are correct my friend. 😀 Thanks.
Nice and big, good overhang.
there a reason you didn't tie the stacks to each other, and stagger the joints? ?
How long will the sealant last?
Thanks. We line the blocks up that way I could fill the cells with stone.
Definitely know where you are on this project, my brother had a house down the street, good to see the old stomping grounds.
Awesome it's a small world.
Nice work. Chimney block was a smart idea - looks great.
Thanks.
Nice job guys it sets the whole front of the house off the main focus point
Thanks.
The teamwork is good here.Those stairs will last a very long time!
What a great idea using chimney block it gives me an idea thank you you guys are amazing
Awesome glad to help.
They look great I’d worry about the sides cracking and chipping away but awesome work fuys
That definetly will not happen.
Beautiful!
Thank you
Another beautiful job, looks like it should hold anything they want to haul up them!
Thanks 😊
Fulton Spring Works 👍, and the slow shift into gear is probably a sticky air servo, sometimes you can clean them up, sometimes just replace them, might be electric too, but yours sounds like an air servo.
Thanks for the info on the truck.
@@bondobuilt386 Been there, done that! 😉 By the way, a lot of armchair quarterbacks in here today, I think you should take everything they say very seriously! And to make sure you don’t forget, write it down on some Charmin, or Angel Soft, using some brown ink, of sorts! 😂🤣
Ya buddy this video has brang them out of the woodwork. LOL@@Musclecar1972
You did a great job. Hold up that wall as well.
LOL that wall is not going anywhere either.
On Lake Ontario, in about a month we will be living in the house we purchased in ST Thomas Ontario. I would love to have one of the t-shirts you guys wear. I know I am in Canada, but it would be a great advertisement for you guys
Well if its only 8 watching I'm gonna make it 9. Subscribing now ❤ yalls personality and workmanship
Thanks Kay
Excellent job Bondo as usual
thanks Joe.
I am embarking on a home build and I have found your videos on concrete work both educational and entertaining. Wish you were located in Wisconsin!
Thank you I appreciate that.
Great work as always 🙂👍👍atb
Thanks
What a beautiful job you have created!😊
Them some nicest stepers I've ever seen built!!
Thank you.
Too bad the front of the slab doesn't match the steps ,if I was paying for that we would have a problem
No idea what you are talking about?@@Youtubsucks5
What is he trying to say
The bottom step looks different but it is not even backfilled up to finally grade so after that it will look the same. Don't pay much attention to a hater who UA-cam name is UA-camsucks5 LMAO @@rickallen9382
Looks like a beautiful house. Some day I'll have to take a motorcycle ride around the pond see if I can find it lol....
That would be a nice ride I do it sometimes myself.
Beautiful job 👏
Thank you
Turned out great brother.👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks Joe.
Just a little tip the edge underneath i know is hard so i would have placed a half inch pipe at the 90 degrees angle there to give it that indented look. Edges would be looking better. Job well done though
Thanks for the tip. I will have to try that.
Your welcome sir
my dad is the opposite with getting old and teaching, he has 0 patience lol, fellow concrete finisher here. good job!!
Nice job friends..😊😊😊
Thanks 😊
Awesome steps!
Thank you
For the type of concrete work that you do I don't see how it could be done any better. Well done as usual!👍👍👍
I hope these Lake elites tip well 😁
Thanks John.
Great instructional video...thank you. I am sure you also do traditional concrete stairs all the time. Would be real interesting if you had or could make a video with the same level of detail as this one. Especially interested in the overlapping forms, rebar structure, stair caps that overhang...just think it would be really instructional. Really enjoy your channel. Thanks again.
Thank you. We only build stairs once in a while but I will video next time we do.
Beautiful, not to be a Debby Downer, but the bottom edge could use a more finished look like the top edge, instead of the rough edge look. Just a simple edger like the top edge.
Not sure how that frost protection works. Is the foam board there to take up the heave expansion, sparing the concrete?
The foam stops the ground from freezing under the slab and lifting it up.
What a great job guys I was wondering what kind of sealer you were using on those some stairs if you wouldn't mind sharing. Those stairs look absolutely fantastic
5 👍's up BB thank you for sharing 😅
Thank you.
looks great
thanks John.
I just caught this one; very interesting deserves a patent. btw, before I enlisted in the Coast Guard in 68, I worked for a summer at Rail City, (sadly, for the guy who nailed the cofin in Dr.Groman's dream). I noticed this is another job you did on Sandy Pond.
Yes we work there a few times a year it seems ike.
Good job Gopher🎉🎉
Nice job on the stairs. What's the purpose of the sealer? Should a sealer be used on all new concrete stairs?
Great informative videos. You mentioned that the step caps have a slight pitch to them. I don’t understand how the pitch can be formed when the concrete is in a fluid state. How can the pitch stay put until the concrete hardens? Just trying to understand this. Thanks again for the effort that you put into making and publishing these videos.
I think quicker than i can type. Staggered!!
😀
Compaction is the best thing
Excellent job.
Very nice, was wondering if you were going to do the bottom step and you did, very nice, luv the over hang of the steps, i'm thinking its 1 1/2"? I do this often an 1 1/2" with chimney caps and columns.
Need to get a power buggy for those long pushes
I have one but we like the wheel barrows actually
I hit the liked button. Lol
Good job as always.
thanks Mike.
Salute to the chat
What's that mean buddy? LOL
The best I've seen. WOW.😁.
I need some help. I hope you have time to answer my question. Awesome video as usual. Love watching your videos. I learn a lot from them. Things have definitely changed since i worked with my Grandfather (concrete mason,crew leader) 35 years ago. I need to build a house, my40 year old mobil home is coming down around me. I want to pour a slab but don't have the money for a monolithic pour.
Here's my question: Can you pour footers and footers for beams, build stem walls and beams for loadbearing walls with concrete blocks, and pour concrete inside to top of concrete blocks for a fished slab?
ua-cam.com/video/VwM0fJQ_xTw/v-deo.htmlsi=6U_qggyI_oE4FEuQ
Here is a video where we did blocks on a footer and then poured a cap on top.
Looks awesome Bondo !!
thanks
I was picturing a half circle staircase, but it looks good nonetheless
The foam doesn’t get crushed from all the weight?
No definitely not.
Nice but could do with bullnose front edges
Nice Job
Thanks
Beautiful. They ain’t goin anywhere. What’s the rise & run?
Uncle JIM. 😀The rise was 7-1/2" I think the runway like 18" maybe? LOL
Those are so smooth stairs I hope no one slips on them 😂
Make sure your axle can handle, i would just look into airbag helpers. The air ride system is safer and smoother ride. That truck can only take so much. In long run if you need more weight capacity you may need a dual axle bigger truck
Ya I think you are right
I have a parged basement from 2007 in Maryland that has chipping spots any repair products you’d recommend
The comproco we used in this video. Chip off all the loose and fill the low spots then let dry and re parge the entire wall. Wet the blocks if it is dry out.
Hey Ron, How many sf does a 50lb bag of Conproco cover?
50 square feet at 1/8" thick.
What's the reason for the layer of gravel between the foam and the concrete?
I wanted to line the foam up with the foam that was around the house slab but I did not want the slab to be 16” thick so we added 6” of gravel so slab was 10” thick. The house slab was 16” thick on the edge.
Looks awesome. I think I’d want the bottom step to match the rest tho 🤷🏼♂️. Kinda looks odd like that
The dirt is going to the top of bottom step after backfill.
Those block are huge ! what size are those?
There chimney blocks with an 8x12 flue
What are the external dimensions of the block.
I'm from the Caribbean we don't use chimneys.
1.2 watching the bull floating 😁😁 is he nervous now??🤣🤣🤣 nice pore
His first time. lol 😂
What kind of insulation and where do you get it?
Great work looks fantastic ! Has Biscuit thought about modeling ? LOL
I’ve thought about it but I’m too busy pouring concrete 😂
Big biscuit
LOL Good one Jason. @@jasonbond1666
A good winter gig. LOL
nice stairs. I wonder if there are 'light weight' blocks you could have used instead of those 120lb behemoths.
I find light weight blocks to be junk. But I do not think so.
Aren’t you supposed to tie the rebar together?
You can. sometimes we pour out a slab then drop them where we want them.
Is that ,lake Superior?? 😮
I’m curious about something - when you are laying your blocks down, wouldn’t it be more stable if you used your half block at the end of alternating rows so you don’t always have the edges in the same spot? I know nothing about out this type of construction. That was just the first thought I had when watching it.
We line the cells here so we can fill it with the stone and that helps lock it together.
Cool. I love your videos. The big Fox Blocks videos were really interesting.
When I was a youngster some 50 years ago, we would lay at that time the 'cinder block' and fill with sand and pour steps over. Sometime later maybe 70s the precast stairs took over.
Yes I have made steps from regular blocks as well.
Nice. 👍
Thanks Jim.
Why did you hand wheel when you’ve got the Bobcat sitting there?
We had 3 wheel barrels and they each hold 2 bobcat scoops.
What’s being sprayed on at the end?
it is a water based cure and seal.
Super nice
thanks.
What's the purpose of the foam?
😮 why didn't you use your walk behind machine with the bucket that you deliver the block with to take the concrete around the house
What's the difference between filling the cores of the blocks with stone rather than filling them up with concrete as you're pouring the caps?
Personally I would prefer the stone in the cores for moisture control during the freeze thaw cycle.
the stone is to let water drain out as I stated in the video.
So close to perfect, but no nosing on bottom step, top step looks like a lower rise, and bead of caulk on forms for bottom of nosings could have made a smoother finish.
the bottom is the slab and it will be backfilled to the surface so no need in making nosing.
Do you put a french drain at the base of the foam pad?
There is a drain around the entire house slab.
only thing i learned from bondo is how to say "here comes the mud!".
ya buddy
enjoy the videos. keep em coming !@@bondobuilt386
hey bondo.. I loved the stairs you built. I wanted to ask a question not related to this video but I have seen your guys with the boots on to be in the concrete however i see them step out so how do they NOT get dirt into the concrete when they get back in ? My mother watches you when I watch you now so you have another fan. Also Have you ever laid concrete for an in ground pool? I would love to see that.. Take care and say hello to your guys.
ua-cam.com/video/usLmJ3F9KW0/v-deo.htmlsi=LxCEfuxeJODFrSsf
Here is a pool we did.
A little dirt on your boot should not affect the concrete. Thanks for the comment and tell your mom I said hi.
@@bondobuilt386 Thanks for the reply. I will be sure to tell her.
Great videos. Please let me know if my thinking is correct. Is the foam to thermally decouple the stairs from the warm ground so that all of the concrete gets cold?
It's to prevent frost from getting under the steps.
Yup thanks. @@ripperwrestling6587
to to protect from the frost getting under them
If your property is on the water the front is always the water side if the house!
That is a good point Greg.
@12:24 "The whole world is watching...." except for the dog. The poor dog couldn't stand watching someone other than Big Biscuit doing the bull floating.
😂I can’t do it all the time or gopher will never be able to learn
Big biscuit
Wow in Ontario they would make you do underpinning? Just saying!!! What's with the lady helper wheelbarrows??Why not just form it and pour it? Also why does the last step not match the rest of the steps? And Also, the first step? Damn I have a lot of Questions EH???🙂
I hope you put some dura-wall in the steps. It’s all stack bond.
the stone inside the cells locks them together better than dura wall. Just as a retaining wall works.
You don't use the Bob Kitten for hauling the mud on occasion?
No the wheel barrows are much faster.
Very soon Golfer will be promoted to Big Golfer
Maybe this year. LOL
I think you need a little more sealer on those stairs😂
lol 😂
Don't know how it works with heavy trucks but with pickups and RVs if you alter the springs and shocks it does not increase the vehicle gross weight rating and you can get ticketed for being overweight.
How much for those 2 set of steps??
Not cheap.
What makes this a new technique lol?
is ROW a snoodle
Row is a labradoodle
If you value your back do not get rid of the air ride!!
Air suspension seat and he can haul as much as he needs with regular HD springs, air bags are problematic.
LOL ok.
If you put leaf springs instead of air ride, the gvw will still be the same. your brakes and tires can only hold so much weight. I'm assuming the truck is 26000 lb gvw, if you want to haul more weight you need a bigger truck. CDL fuel tax sticker etc.
@@kennethplunkett5476 yup you are correct I did some research on it.
Why didn’t you just lay the block on the 2 sides and then fill the middle with dirt/stone? Those chimney block are kind of expensive fill.
This is much stronger I would think the stone would push the blocks out to compact it properly.
@@bondobuilt386 Compaction isn’t necessary. Stronger? Maybe, but remember they’re non-load bearing, only supporting themselves. Treat it as any other free-standing concrete stairway with a single bottom mat of #4 rebar (temp steel). Even heavy gauge W.W.F. would suffice. If your municipality will allow it, form up the underside with the cheapest material possible or preferably, some of those old scraps and cut-offs you’ve been thinking about trashing anyway and just abandon it underneath. There are a couple ways to defeat any potentially problematic outward forces, if they were a real concern. 1) Fill the cells of the chimney block on the outsides with concrete first (a piece of vertical #5 in the cells, doweled into the foundation) 2) Run 2-3 bands of steel 3/4” strapping all the way through from side to side, coming through the side walls at the block joints. Considering the above approach, wall footings on each side would be sufficient and save at least 4 yards of foundation concrete.
These stairs are done of course but just some ideas to save some money, next time you come across something similar.