Concrete Patio for Pergolas with Concrete Pavers DIY

[Music] hi david o'dell here with odell complete concrete this is our first day on the job site and what we have here is an area that has a lot of bark in it we've got some random stones laid out as a pathway over to that shed and then this main area was just some rocks set on plastic the plastic was a weed barrier basically they had a bunch of decomposed granite and some sand that they were initially going to fill that up with but we went ahead and used all the gravel they had the decomposed granite the sand we used it for the base we're going to pour concrete slab here instead instead of a decomposed granite base we're just going to do solid concrete the dimensions of this is going to be 15 by 15. also instead of those stone paths going to the shed we're going to do some three by three stepping stones we're gonna do about five inches in between and also between them between the other steps so we're gonna do about eight inches eight and five inches is the magic numbers that we're going to be working with to fit everything in some random stepping stones going from the existing patio to the new patio area and from the shed doors to the new patio area and i'm building two stepping stones at a time because i've got eight foot lumber and we put two two by fours in the middle and that'll be the gap in between them we put those about five inches apart so i build them all the same initially and then it's just a matter of laying them out and making them fit so we have even spacing in between them now we're just initially laying it out where we have to cut the plastic remove the bark so now we're just measuring the spacing here getting that about right painting it out cutting the plastic pushing the bark back because we're going to reuse that bark because you know bark decomposes and you always have to constantly fill with bark so we're just going to thicken the bark everywhere by saving the bark we're removing thus we have to go down a little bit into the dirt here because we don't want these stepping stones to be higher than everything else we still want everything flush so it's an easy surface to walk over we don't want trip hazards in other words like one stepping stone higher than another or higher than the patio we just want to keep everything on the same plane nice and flush everything in this backyard slopes to the back property because there's an alley behind this property there's the front street and then there's also an alley and you can see the uh there's a door back there for rv or whatever but everything drains to the alley so there's some of that decomposed granite actually this was the sand he had bags of sand and uh granite we just used it all this is our reinforcement going in this is 3 8 diameter fiberglass rods with a coating epoxy coating around that that actually bonds with the concrete this is poor day now we're just oiling up the forms that way they'll come free from the concrete without damaging the concrete when we go ahead and when we strip the forms that sprayer is not working real well about time to get a new one i would say so this little landing outside the shed we went ahead and dowelled in 3 8 inch holes 3 8 inch fiberglass rods that we just drove in there we're doing a thickened edge two by six so we have a thickened edge and then it thins out in the middle four inches in the middle and six inches on the edges [Music] this particular concrete mix is a 3250 psi and it's straight cement doesn't have any fly ash in it also i added some fiber mesh into the load when it arrived on the job site here's the first day for avery on the rod board he's giving it a try today he's working with juan on the other end and i was in the middle kind of uh watching and using the shovel and pulling up the fiberglass in the middle there but what i noticed about avery when he was rotting this is because he's real lengthy he's got the long arms and long legs that he really didn't you know how we're having to go back and forth with the uh the rod board because it's not quite long enough to go across well he didn't have to move his feet he was able just to reach with his arms in one direction with the board back and forth whereas juan actually had to take steps so i thought that was so interesting that i actually after we got done laying this down i started measuring his arm length and what i found out is his arm length is about 58 inches and then i measured mine and the other guys and they're they're only running about 54.55 so he's got quite a bit more reach which really came in handy here's a three foot wood bowl float and that's fitting in there really nicely so here's the purpose one of the purposes for that bowl float one thing it knocks your rocks down and brings the cream up but also because of the width of it it's four feet you can see where the low points are like when you ran it over you can see where the ball float didn't touch here so you know it's low there so that means you got to sprinkle some concrete back or try to find a high spot somewhere else to drag it into that hole so that's kind of the idea of bowl floating multiple times because the more times you do it the flatter it's going to get on our joint pattern for this crack control lines we're going to just do one each way so it's going to be we end up with four squares on that big section seven and a half foot squares one broke out the uh two foot wide walking edger which means when you edge this you're pretty much done because it covers the whole area as you edge all the way around you lift you're left uh with everything being hit some edges are much more narrow than this one so you you'd end up edging it then you would have to trowel the center with but with this one you just edge it and you keep doing that you know over and over and then you get to a point where it's ready to broom because we're going to be doing a non-slip broom finish on this now after everything got both float a couple times each way and we've ran the edger all the way around now we break out the fresno then we fresno it the difference between the fresno and the bowl float is one is wood and the other one is steel here's the lines where we're going to be putting the control joints in so we just snap a line with a dry line that makes a mark in the concrete that you can follow this is seven and a half feet apart well ended with four squares seven and a half feet the jointer that we'll be using initially we're going to use a two and a half inch deep three foot long cutter and then we're going to follow up on that with a three quarter deep half inch radius will be your final so when you have your joiner this long it's easy to keep it straight and then also because of the depth it separates the rock really deep in the slab that assures you that it's going to crack in that location even though when we our finished product will only be three quarter deep we broke the aggregate two and a half inches deep so that really assures you it's going to crack in that location rather than just randomly somewhere else besides on the line now we have the fiberglass funny float going on there kind of knocking out the edger marks the joiner marks flattening it out now we go around everything one more time with your joiner walking edgers then you go with the funny trowel knock out all the lines then after that you're about ready to go out on it with knee boards and do your final pass [Music] [Music] here [Music] [Music] after we uh kneeboarded it and trialed it all out we gave it about five ten minutes to breathe out dry up a little bit and then put the horse hair broom on it [Music] the nice thing about these stepping stones being separated they'll never crack because they have that freedom of movement [Music] so [Music] and there you have it the finished product really looks nice back here now actually really nice layout all the stepping stones actually line up with one another if you were to stand back and look at them one side or the other line up with the next one they're all parallel with each other well thank you for watching my video make sure you like share subscribe hit the notification button that way you'll get notified as soon as i upload the next video thanks for watching and have a good day

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Length: 14min 0sec (840 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 09 2021