NEVER SEEN BEFORE TECHNIQUE TO BUILD STAIRS
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- Опубліковано 24 лис 2024
- Here we are building two sets of stairs on a new house out of chimney blocks. This is quite labor intensive but quite easy to lay out the step height because the blocks are 7-1/2" tall and they are big enough to make a comfortable stair tread. I am sure you have never seen stairs built like this before but the customer wanted something cost effective and unique for their new home.
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?
looks just like my dog MAGOO, GREAT JOB AS ALWAYS...........2 THUMBS UP
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 !👍
Those concrete stairs are fricken gorgeous!
Thanks Robert
Nice work. Chimney block was a smart idea - looks great.
Thanks.
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.
Sure is a lot of work for stairs, your guys are good workers.
Ya a big project if you see it from the start.
What a great idea using chimney block it gives me an idea thank you you guys are amazing
Awesome glad to help.
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.
The teamwork is good here.Those stairs will last a very long time!
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.
Turned out great brother.👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks Joe.
You did a great job. Hold up that wall as well.
LOL that wall is not going anywhere either.
Nice job guys it sets the whole front of the house off the main focus point
Thanks.
Another beautiful job, looks like it should hold anything they want to haul up them!
Thanks 😊
Excellent job Bondo as usual
thanks Joe.
I hit the liked button. Lol
Good job as always.
thanks Mike.
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.
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.
They look great I’d worry about the sides cracking and chipping away but awesome work fuys
That definetly will not happen.
Good job Gopher🎉🎉
Beautiful job 👏
Thank you
Beautiful!
Thank you
Well if its only 8 watching I'm gonna make it 9. Subscribing now ❤ yalls personality and workmanship
Thanks Kay
Great work as always 🙂👍👍atb
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
5 👍's up BB thank you for sharing 😅
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.
I think quicker than i can type. Staggered!!
😀
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
my dad is the opposite with getting old and teaching, he has 0 patience lol, fellow concrete finisher here. good job!!
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.
Excellent job.
The best I've seen. WOW.😁.
Salute to the chat
What's that mean buddy? LOL
Awesome steps!
Thank you
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
Nice job friends..😊😊😊
Thanks 😊
Looks awesome Bondo !!
thanks
1.2 watching the bull floating 😁😁 is he nervous now??🤣🤣🤣 nice pore
His first time. lol 😂
looks great
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.
Need to get a power buggy for those long pushes
I have one but we like the wheel barrows actually
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.
Very soon Golfer will be promoted to Big Golfer
Maybe this year. LOL
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
only thing i learned from bondo is how to say "here comes the mud!".
ya buddy
enjoy the videos. keep em coming !@@bondobuilt386
I think you need a little more sealer on those stairs😂
lol 😂
Return of the Bobkitten
I thought maybe you got rid of that little feller
No we use the little guy when we can.
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.
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
Nice Job
Thanks
Super nice
thanks.
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.
If your property is on the water the front is always the water side if the house!
That is a good point Greg.
I'm curious about how you formed that overhang
We used 2x3 and tap con fasteners
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.
Nice. 👍
Thanks Jim.
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
i've seen this before
@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
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
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
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?
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Here is a video where we did blocks on a footer and then poured a cap on top.
Aren’t you supposed to tie the rebar together?
You can. sometimes we pour out a slab then drop them where we want them.
Nice job on the stairs. What's the purpose of the sealer? Should a sealer be used on all new concrete stairs?
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.
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.
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.
quit teachin him sh*t im about give him a dang raise :lol: classic
Ya I'm gonna go broke. LOL
Hey Ron, How many sf does a 50lb bag of Conproco cover?
50 square feet at 1/8" thick.
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.
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.
What’s being sprayed on at the end?
it is a water based cure and seal.
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.
The foam doesn’t get crushed from all the weight?
No definitely not.
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.
Is that ,lake Superior?? 😮
I bet the neighbors didn't have all that standing water before that house was built.
That house is low for being on the pond.
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.
Bisquit dont move so fast😅
Hard to keep the camera on that boy. lol
That is a seriously motivated worker 😂😂😂😂😂
He would surprise you how he works. @@jaxsonhugh9334
It’s definitely not a piece meal job
If you've ever done this work slow and steady wins the race. Especially when it's hot and sticky out. I've watched a ton of these and biscuit works his butt off.
What kind of insulation and where do you get it?
2 Words POWER BUGGY
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.
So i suppose that the theory is that frost wont penetrate the foam.
Therefore the ground wont heave due to the frozen ground.
And the steps wont be damaged as a result.
Stay tuned, because only time will tell how good the theory is.
I remember back in the early 90's when I was on my 1st job like that with the foam under the entrance slab/steps - all of us were like "well this is different"
Trust me it works and those slabs are still there today. I know it's not common but many professional jobs are engineered that way and have been for decades.
Thanks it sounds like you know about it too. 😀@@ripperwrestling6587
Frost protected foundations have been in use for decades in colder climates. It is no longer a theory.
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.
You didn't tie your rebar? 😂😂😂.
Shame on me. lol 😂
You don't use the Bob Kitten for hauling the mud on occasion?
No the wheel barrows are much faster.
is ROW a snoodle
Row is a labradoodle
How much for those 2 set of steps??
Not cheap.
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 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.
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.
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.
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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.
Do you put a french drain at the base of the foam pad?
There is a drain around the entire house slab.
Y'all could've moved the plants so they wouldn't have gotten coated with sealer.
Yeah just lazy
Ya we are just lazy LMAO @@Youtubsucks5
its water based it will not hurt the plants.
@@bondobuilt386 Those plants identify as concrete! There, problem solved!
Ya good one Kurt. LMAO@@Musclecar1972
Can I ask why u went through all that instead of just forming steps I’m not saying it wrong I’m just cirious
The homeowner wanted the steps to look just like the concrete porch.
i think row should be driving,
LOL
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???🙂