Complete Process from Removal to Stamped Ashlar Concrete Driveway

[Music] hi david o'dell here with odell complete concrete this is our first day on this job site we're going to be removing this asphalt driveway we're going to be putting in stamped concrete it's going to be colored and stamped we're going to use the ashler slate pattern silver smoke by davis intrical color also we're going to saw cut that concrete off right at the garage door because we're going to want all a uniform stamp right up to the door that porch is going to stay all those bushes are coming out here's the saw cutting so we can remove that concrete without damaging the inside of the garage floor putting a little water on that blade out of a sprayer pump up garden sprayer just to keep the dust down also we covered a few things in the garage with some plastic but asphalt i really enjoy taking out because it's really easy to remove especially when it's only this thick when you get into asphalt that's like six inches thick and over it's real difficult to remove because it it flexes rather than cracks but in this case it's only about two and a half two inches thick so it just shatters when you touch it no breaker attachment needed on this one here we are 14 000 pound capacity trailer dump trailer all the asphalt's gonna get recycled that's gonna go to one specific dump that crushes it and then they mix it in with the broken concrete asphalt it makes a great road base for pavers for just about anything makes a nice base because we're going to be widening this driveway all the way to the property line on the right side and then we're going to take out that deep curve on the left side and just kind of straighten that out a little bit we'll still have a little radius but not as severe that way we'll get a two-car entrance this ground is really good ground for a concrete base actually it's a sandy loam it's not an expansive soil at all so it's a good base you could actually pour on this native soil without any problem but i'm going to bring in some base because i'm going to be doing a stamp and i want a really uniform base so i get a good curing and the coffee dries out all at one time so i have to jump around with my pattern stamps because that can happen on native soil there might be a little moisture here or there and drawing water at different rates in different areas so i'll put a base down on this one and here's that little two foot pop out on the garage it's pretty tough concrete it's a three-quarter rock it's been there a long time so it's optimal strength right now but once it cracked it really came out pretty easily once we got it started we had some stepping stones because all those bushes came out where they had a raised planter we're gonna pour all the way up to the house the bushes and the dirt grass removal because of the widening that's gonna go into it i'm gonna have a bin drop off here momentarily oh there it is just arrived we'll put the hard to dispose of stuff in this because i don't really want to typically in this area we have to drive about if you really want a good rate on dumping you know just some debris that can't be recycled you got to drive about two hours and that could be a very big problem in a traffic jam so i get a bin on this situation and then they can haul it here's property line i just pulled the string line there that's actually property line but i'm going to allow for about two three inches for my formwork to get in there two by four plus a stake behind it but i cut it right on that string line so i get a clean edge you know minimize the collateral damage on my initial removal i'm using the tooth bucket i have a smooth bucket that i'll end up putting on here to do my fine tuning and detail grading here's the road base coming out would have been nice to have a grinder on site i gotta dump that asphalt and re utilized it but that's a pretty big operation then and what i did before i put the basin is i actually graded the sub subgrade the native soil i made that perfectly on the money that way i get an even lift of the base over the top of it so we have a good uniform platform to work off when we start placing the concrete now all we have to do is saturate it real well let that water soak in for about 30 minutes and then we can run the plate compactor over it it'll be nice and tight ready to start forming tying some fiberglass re fiberglass reinforcement in there so we set our line stakes on the inside of face of two by four to to height now we can start setting the two by fours right there on the property line then on the other side we're using some plastic recycled two by four material so within this video you're gonna get to see the whole package from beginning to end that means the entire removal the setup the base going in the pour the stamping and the ceiling this was actually a month-long process because we waited for it to cure out to get the sealer on there down here at the bottom back of sidewalk we have the expansion foam going on and we're using some other type of adhesive spray adhesive that doesn't work that well and it's that gorilla adhesive which is the only one really available now at all the hardware stores because the good stuff the 3m is sold out for some reason but i was able to find it on amazon pretty readily available on there actually i went ahead and bought a case now i have some for future stuff without having to uh use inferior products now because we've widened this driveway and pushed into the house that porch wasn't really designed to step off the other direction we're gonna have to create a new landing or step coming off going out sideways and that'll all be part of the same pour so it's gonna have that silver smoke in there but that porch is gonna get covered in some outdoor non-slip tile something in the range of the color we're going with on the driveway but it's best to let it cure out the concrete before you order your tile in these situations that way you get a nice match you can actually throw some tiles out there on the concrete look at it compare and then make the purchase setting some screed pins in the middle you can see them because i painted them orange at the top so i did that because i didn't want anyone to trip over them you know throughout the night going in and out of the house although they have a side entrance but it's just a little safety feature i threw in there it's not fun stumbling over a steel stake huh here's the fiberglass reinforcement i was talking about it's a 3 8 inch diameter basically what it is it's fiberglass throughout the center and it's covered with an epoxy grip that makes it bond to the concrete when the concrete hits it really nice design so in other words when you try to break this out in the future you can't separate the rod from the concrete it becomes a integral part of the concrete and it never rusts that's the other beauty of it and it's lightweight so i can carry i could probably carry a thousand bars on my rack on my three-quarter ton pickup without any issues here it is we got them at about 18 inch on centers both directions there's your expansion phone quikrete happens to make that item there's my elevation i marked that with a permanent pin marker that way i won't lose the mark through through the entire pour we did some dowling on this porch drill and drive technique half inch rebar half inch hole pound them in with an eight pound sledge hammer and you can't get them out ran some angle bars off all those protruding corners hi we just arrived at the job site we're getting ready to pour this got here this morning and a lot of debris accumulated down at the bottom which happens a lot of times and the nice thing about this fiberglass and i just realized that that normally would take two people to hold this up so you could get the debris out from under it i can do it by myself in this case i can lift this whole thing up take it out do whatever i want with it that's the beauty of that deal now the concrete's going in here we've already shot the primer into the wheelbarrow which is about five seven gallons of water shoot that into the wheelbarrow rather than into the job and you get it it dries more consistently if you try to spread the water over the dirt concrete over that wet spot will dry a lot slower and then your stamp's not going to be that uniform when you hit those wet spots because we're using a pattern stamp here the aster slate it's important on your formwork that you um have us you have to plan your form work so a starting point on our outside form we made that perfectly square and parallel to the garage floor and house so we can start right here on the outside edge with our mats line up with that we know when we hit the house it will still be straight it looks really dark right here but you'll see at the end when we put the sealer on a month after this cures out how much lighter it got a really nice color and the difference between no sealer and having sealer on it we actually have two loads here and i threw some fiber mesh in the load when they arrived which i happen to have on my storefront and what i do is about a half a pound to a pound per yard but you can go up to three pounds because we're doing two loads here i had both trucks here simultaneously i just ordered the whole package in one shot because i didn't want to wait around for a potential cold joint or a big waiting time in between because when we start stamping and because it's pattern i don't want to have to jump around on this slab i just want to start at one end and go right on through that's your four foot wide wood bowl float hitting it from every direction possible because we have all this open space out here in the front it makes it so much easier here's a five foot wide fresno with a rocker arm on it which is nice because it goes right over the top of those cars you can adjust the angle on the move now we got some funny floats going out funny trowels really when you're getting ready to stamp something like this the astro slate stamp you don't really have to do a lot of knee boarding you can really just get away with a funny trial and then just go for it we're not going to be using a two-tone here we're just going to be using a liquid clear release to release our mats from the concrete so they don't stick and i believe i'm just using some mineral spirits on this particular job here's the step getting faced and stripped we won't have to stamp that step because it's going to get covered anyway but it did have a sag in that corner i noticed from the street so i brought in some concrete and rebuilt that corner up a little bit now we noticed that we started right here in the corner happens to be the hardest point of the job also so you kind of always have to start there but fortunately this forms parallel with the garage and house so we can measure off those little um offsets in the mat and make sure that they're perfectly straight before we start which we did we have a roller there just cleaning up the joints here and there as we go the nice thing about when you're doing a liquid clear release you can actually see a lot of times you can use a powder release and you can't really see what's going on until the next day when you rinse so with the clear liquid you can actually see what's happening every time you lift the mat you can really detail all your joints out so you got clean no doubles nothing now if you really want to do a two-tone you could still go through this procedure here and then you could pick yourself up some liquid water-based stain uh you could brush that on there let it set overnight wash the excess off because the pigments is carried by the water it settles in all the nooks and crannies and you rinse off the excess now you have a two-tone then you're ready to seal but we're not we're not going to deal with all that we're just going to go with a integral let it patina out and cure for a month lay some sealer on top of this and uh we're gonna use a clear lacquer base wet look and it really actually modeled out pretty nicely we do have a little two-tone effect you'll see that when we seal it now from where we started to where we ended we came up here into the shade so it worked out really nicely the first load got stamped last this particular mix is a 3 8 rock and it's a 3250 straight cement mix here's what you're looking at same we just got off of this with the mats turned out real beautiful now we're back out here the very next day early in the morning we're gonna put some control lines in it for cracking purposes we're gonna saw cut it because whenever i do a pattern concrete the last thing you want to see is big joints in it breaking up your pattern because the show piece here is the actual pattern of the copy so we're using a small width control joint here that kind of disappear because it's smaller width than the actual joints of the pattern and you'll see when we get the sealer on here and all rinsed up that the control joints don't really take away from the pattern nice thing about it also is we lined up the cuts you know straight with the pattern and we hit a few edges of the stones that we stamped in here and there we went about these are about eight foot squares that's how we broke it up into now that we saw cut it and i used the cordless vacuum in the medusa there wasn't very little dust left over no mass needed a really clean operation so now that we're all rinsed up now you can't really see the saw cuts that's what i like about saw cutting on a pattern especially there's really no other way to do it now if you really want to get tricky on your control joints for your cracking you could actually follow this stamp pattern exactly and turn it with every stone and then you'd never know they're there not quite as effective as a straight line but it can still work this porch is a little bit of a on an angle so it's not perfectly parallel with um the joints here's what i'm going to be doing this is a month later and they have been using this driveway you know with the vehicle so i put a degreaser on it just in case i don't know what happened in that month but i definitely don't want like an armor all oils things like that in the driveway when i'm getting ready to seal so i've throw a degreaser on it and and brushed it around and then and then pressure washed it now that we've pressure washed it scrubbed it with a degreaser now i'm going to go over it with just a with the water hose so i want to make sure i get any residue of the soap off now that'll dry overnight let that dry overnight to make sure it's 100 dry before we throw the sealer on it [Music] so now we're just blowing off any leaves that accumulated overnight and now she's ready to seal using a glaze and seal here and it's a wet look lacquer base i did use seven gallons of the sealer and i diluted it with two gallons of acetone so we did a total of seven gallons on this driveway we did three coats on it each coat we waited about 15 minutes in between the acetone helps kick it off a little bit so you can get out there and put your second coats on there right away also helps it spray more uniformly now you can see the modeling even though this isn't really a two-tone you can see the different colors in it just because the way the mats and texture hits it so that's what you want to look like when it's all said and done now this sealer with the three coats probably seven years in between resealing on this and then if you drip some oil on it with a car or whatever it should wipe right off and by the way the winner for the dewalt pressure washer is marcos guterres anyway thank you for watching make sure you like share and subscribe hit the notification button so you're notified when the next video goes up thank you have a good one [Music] you

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Length: 26min 3sec (1563 seconds)

Published: Tue May 11 2021