Concrete DIY: AVOID THESE PROBLEMS !!

[Music] [Music] thank you [Music] we're out here on the job site now we're here where the customer originally had a wood deck out here that has been removed and they're going to be replacing that with concrete which will last them three times longer no maintenance no upkeeps get to work let's have some fun doing it [Music] there's a few Piers left in the ground here from the original deck all got to come out so the concrete is going to go it's a DIY channel so I try to help out customers and have them do as much as they can to save them those money but as you can see customer didn't finish getting the deck out like that was part of their end of the deal so about another extra hour of work no big deal I'll get a little workout in the process course they all come out easy other than the last one [Music] what we did here was we ran a string this is going to mimic the edge of our concrete when it's all said and done but since our concrete forms are two by fours two by fours are actually only inch and a half thick not two inches thick will actually set our Stakes that will hold the concrete form in engine back from here or you could set your string inch and a half back and I just have a line to run for your Stakes once we find our fault which is our slope away from the house concrete always slopes away from the house but we also need to make sure that this line needs to be square off of this foundation so that this line isn't going concrete that way left or right so to get fined square off this Foundation you can do What's called the three four five method or for you a geometry Buffs the Pythagorean's Theorem but you go three feet out make a mark four feet this way on the foundation make a mark you connect those two dots to the tape measure that should be five feet that's five feet you got a square line come and square off your foundation and you can always do that in multiples of three four five for larger areas you could do six eight ten so on and so forth further out you go the more accurate you are [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] all screwed up it's not it's not attached so that we know our subgrade's all good all of our subgrade slopes away from the house called The Fall the fall that's away from the house like it needs to because that's going to mimic what our concrete is going to do now level is going to tell us where we're at we're looking for this concrete to fall away from the house so our level is going to tell us where our concrete sloping is doing this we're doing this it's hitting level it's important to know what's our concrete doing is this is it sitting level like this is it Falling Towards the house which we know is a big No-No because when water is traps against the house rots out siding Etc water gets trapped underneath the house or is it falling right now see we're looking pretty good that's roughly a quarter inch per foot I can tell by looking at the bubble from experience eighth inch per foot is okay but eighth inch bracelet would be on hard shroud concrete on finely broomed concrete on stamped and anywhere where your issue of drainage you always want a quarter inch per foot foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] concrete steps is a little more tricky ultimately what you're going to want is these concrete forms for the step itself to be floating so you think about the bottom of this concrete form it should finish about to the top of your exterior forms and that is so that your step is set up to where the bottom of this step when these forms are pulled the day of the pour when you're finished and concrete the bottom of this step will end up at the top of our big patio out here so we use steel Stakes instead of wood Stakes steel Stakes so that when we're stripping the form and finishing it while the concrete's setting up you just grab some channel locks screws out screw gun give this guy a spin Get It Free it'll slide right out you got a nice little hole here a little small hole to fill not a large hole from like a wood sticky so it looks like we're done for today all of our concrete forms are in subgrades all down until the level it should be we got slope on our form um quarter inch per foot of fall going out so we don't have water land up against the house steps in next time we'll be here explore the concrete [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign

Channel: RYAN BUILDS!

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Keywords: diy, concrete, construction, contractor, how to, masonry, concrete fail

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Length: 8min 3sec (483 seconds)

Published: Mon May 01 2023