Homeowner Ruins Fresh Poured Concrete Driveway!

hi david o'dell here with odell complete concrete this is part two of a two-part series so this is going to be the end of this one the first one we just showed the garage floor being replaced now we're going to do the entire driveway remove and replace widen it it's going to be a lot lot better area a lot better use of space here plus we did we found out in the first video that we have we only have two inches of slope from the garage floor to the city sidewalk which isn't enough in 65 feet so that's why the garage was flooding you know before we got here now what we're going to do is we're going to put some drains and we're going to drill through that curved face at the bottom of the flow line which picks up six inches of slope so now all of a sudden you got eight inches or so you can work with that's the difference with drains you pick up the curb face height now we're just breaking it out that was a separate part they did at some time that's a vermeer ctx 100 with the uh erskine breaker also in a previous video we did a curb beyond this wood fence back further and we're going to continue that curb on out so this is just going to be a raised curb and then it's a double-sided picket fence so he just took off the one side of the pickets and then they're going to drop back down on top of the curb so that's the idea behind that he'll have to cut them all of course but they're going to all be the same length because i'm going to put the curve in level so it's going to make it real easy now i got carlos out here which i always get when i have a full load to remove a super 10 i always bring him in so that initial pile he removed was actually from the garage floor i just stockpiled it over there with my mini tractor and now i'm just on the back end i'm gonna i went around the perimeter with the small tractor just so you wouldn't damage the house or get too close to the house so i could maneuver that little three footer in those tight areas and kind of clear the perimeter for them in advance now i'm just pushing into them with uh you know the small tractor also we're taking a little dirt at the same time because every scoop is going to have a little dirt in there there's no getting around that so what that means is because this kind of is coming out about three and a half four inches thick and the elevations aren't going to change a whole lot other than the cross slope to a drain in the planter bed but it means that i could either put base in here and get it back to three and a half four inches deep or i could go ahead and pour five and a half inches deep without base and my thinking is is that five and a half inches of coffee is better than three and a half inches with base so i'm just gonna pour it thick that's basically what it boils down to there is some sprinklers you can see how there's some broken lines that went across the old driveway because he had sprinklers down that strip of grass in between the two ribbons and then he also had sprinklers that drip line that went along these bushes so we've gotta abandon a lot of sprinklers and then just pull a new pvc across because that pvc that we hit was that uh really thin gauge where when you step on it it cracks that kind of stuff so we ended up going with the 40 schedule 40. yeah i can never figure out why they put the cheap pvc and you know because all the works in the trench digging the trench and putting it together and i mean you get the schedule 40 you're not saving much money by going skimping on the stuff underground so this new curb is going to encase those steel posts even though they have a one foot footing on them it'll get encased again with some new concrete and some reinforcement in there the way i dug this drain line in is actually i just used the laser and i went ahead and hit the bottom of that trench all the way through to make sure that because you know when you over dig a trench and then you put loose material under there to adjust your pipe well what happens in the future is that pipe drops because you got uncompacted soil underneath you know your pipe so you got to dig that pipe that underground perfect that way you got good solid undisturbed soil to set your drain line on that way in the future it don't drop and pull apart the seams because that's what happens there's the pipe there he cut through all that putting those posts in because he had a drain in the back initially so we're going to tie in right at the front to that old drain there's about five feet of the old left that hits goes through the curb face now since we're widening everything so we had to move all the sprinkler heads back and i used some funny pipe on those heads that way i could just kind of maneuver them around until i get the concrete poured and then i can put them into the position after that form comes out so we're higher than that old sidewalk at this point just a little bit so another word will happen probably in the future someone's gonna have to remove that sidewalk type back into the new driveway at the right height but there's a lot of concrete to do on this property the whole backyard needs concrete too so another day another pour and i'm just running 45s on this it's a little easier to snake when you got 45s or push a water hose through we did two drains in the planter about 10 feet apart down there on the low end by the garage the main problem is he has a chunk of concrete on that side yard that is really kind of too low we ideally you take all the on these kind of properties with a detached garage that was put in level with the cease out you just demo all the concrete around the whole backyard raise the garage floor up everything around it and just get some positive slope but it's costly you know the funny thing about these garages is i've actually jacked them off of the foundation with bottle jacks raised the stem while dropped them back down and i did a few of those actually here's the curb all set up i had to notch it up and over those uh footings for those fence posts just at one spot there so the new concrete will encase that and then i have one 3 8 inch uh owens corning it's called pink bar it's uh supposedly comparable to half inch steel according to their test they did there at the lab but um i like it really because it doesn't rust that's why i use it now the concrete in the in the garage which is in part one that's drying right now that's already been placed just sitting on that while while we uh set up the driveway there's carlos which helped finish you can see that part one in the garage now we're getting ready to strip this little curb and you know i had one percent accelerator in that curb and the garage floor so it went off really nicely i'm just using a half inch top tool and then a half inch radius edger because i put some see the plastic board i screwed that into the picket fence just to give me a nice elevation and that way it's not going to be touching that wood as well now i'm going to edge it along that existing curb where they meet that's another maneuver that i will do at some point oh here it is look like this that's a 5 inch wide 12 inch long trowel there so 5 inches covers that whole top just about especially once you have your edgers run so the whole setup on this is cross slope into the planter where the trees are and then that's where the drains are the pipe itself is actually running under the driveway and then it tees off into the planter bed so the beauty of that is if you ever wanted to plant something in this area and you started digging you're not going to get into the drain it's not going to be in the way in other words and it's protected because it's below the concrete right there where the gas meter is the concrete was wrapped around that gas line whenever i get into these old houses that you know 100 800 years old and original all original equipment i try to avoid getting their pipes because if you break one these situations you could potentially chase them all the way down the street to find a connection point you know that's how corroded they are [Music] we're setting these the reinforcement about 18 inch centers both directions also i'm going to add some fiber mesh into the load i add the fiber when the truck gets or i just climb up on the truck and dump it in mix it for about three to five minutes and you get a good mixture this is all ready to pour we've got it compacted see the space underneath the form that's how you know that it's over over four inches thick there's that gas line i just saw cut that also it lessens the likelihood of it cracking because i have that 45 there there's a nice overhead view with the drone this is a a ready mix also known as associated there's a valley off of this garage i just sloped it because that patio and the garage the garage is level the patio existing is pretty low so i had to create somewhat of a you know drainage pattern over to that side yard and you can't go a lot you know because we have a cross slope right that's going to be about two inches across so so now as far as soap from garage floor to end of pipe and street now we're down to about four inches right of slope so by time you get cross up and you get your drains above top of flow line in the street um you don't want to get too much crossover you lose all your soap to street pretty tricky situation here i got a nice hook what these hooks are that we're using to pull the bars up they're really designed for fifth wheels it's the tool you use to reach out over there to uh i guess disconnect your fifth wheel but it's beautiful because it has a hook on it and it's about three feet long we ran out of concrete now if i had this thing graded you know at three three and a half four inches i would have made it but you know since i didn't since i went thick instead of adding bass that's what you run into but thick concrete's better than thin carving on base i only i got a yard here you know you know what happens a lot of time when you get a yard from a plant uh the drivers you know they're used to just doing kind of a routine you know wash the top of the truck down clean the fins blah blah well when you do that with the yard you run into a problem with really wet concrete so that's why you always have to think about well how many yards do i got what should i do to get it there that you know it's within you know five inch or six inch long i had what i ended up doing because that's that last yard was pretty wet i ended up pushing all that wet stuff into my first load and remixing it with the stuff that was already on the ground a lot more work you know but um i just didn't like the looks of that so i had to do it we have juan here finishing on this drive and we have carlos then of course my son tyler he's out he's traveling we're gonna do a lot of saw cuts in this we're gonna do one joint off the corner of that step you know to get me overnight without cracking problem and then we'll do one there off of the sidewalk and then i'll come back and i'll cut this up wait a couple days because it is drying slow because uh we got cloud coverage we're only at about 70 degrees high overnight for about 50. so i actually had to wait two days to get a cut in here because it was that you know fresh it wasn't normally i can cut these the next day especially with the fiber mesh i add in there that holds that surface together so when that blade's cutting it doesn't spall it you know but uh didn't work this time so i had to wait two days rather than just go back that's a little mini fresno there which is nice you know if you don't want to get any missed spots because that's gonna conform to the slope that you've already got with the ball float so it's going to really hit every square inch of it notice we have a saw cut out of the garage which you can see in part one how we did that but that that cut in the middle of the garage is going to continue right through the driveway in the garage i went with 3000 psi one percent polar set out outside i just went with straight 3000 psi no accelerators and you could really tell the difference like the garage was about four hours you know beginning to end on the dry time and finish then out here we're there about a good six and a half hours we ended up brooming that along the house already because that's where it dried out first on the high side so we'll bring that and work our way to the planter bed my horse hair broom had a bunch of dingleberries in it so i had to uh use wands nylon my horsehair didn't get rinsed out so i had all those crunchies in it and i just wasn't gonna get the job done so i had to uh use this nylon which worked pretty darn good really add a nice texture to it but texture doesn't really matter because you're going to see what happened what the homeowner did to this concrete after i left he got on it a little early with the water hose and kind of uh he almost did a sand wash on it you know you see those little that's the fiber mesh you can see there balling up as you pull the broom across and that's really a good sign because if you can see the fiber you know that it's in there you didn't get shorted that fiber wears off pretty short order [Music] [Music] so this whole driveway that we did here was a was a trade out because bob the owner here he's a pilot which flies banners along the beach and that we swapped he flew the banner for a few weeks and now i did all this that was our trade-off but here's the next day we got back here to strip it out and saw cut it actually this is we waited two days before we came back because it was drying that slow which is a good sign because the longer it takes to cure out the stronger inevitably it's going to be there's brody that's his the male dog the female dog i forget her name but or looks real similar to my dog hi david o'dell here i'm with the homeowner bob i just arrived back on the job site the next day after the pour and right when i got a truck i went well what happened here bob anyway because i see footprints and it looks like you dragged the hose on it uh can you explain exactly what you were doing out here i walked on it and didn't know i wasn't supposed to walk on it was a little green and i drug water pressure so then it looks like it snowed out here this morning or overnight yeah right now it looks really bad well let's take a look at all the footprints these are my number size clothes so it looks like right here what you did is uh you had some footprints and then you tried to yeah i stuffed it a little bit you scuffed it up a little bit more yeah yeah that's my signature man well what else do we got yeah these are definitely your footprint what size is that ten ten or eleven those are twelves oh yeah that's a batch but i like the custom look look at that whoa what do we got here how did this that looks kind of interesting that's where i put a lot of the water pressure okay when i had it in the nozzle form how about this particular location i must have drug the hose through there well even as bad as it looks right now the good news is once this is all cured out white you're not going to see any of it another moment it's going to hold on it's going to all disappear good i appreciate that so that's the good news so if anybody ever sees this the next day after a pour unless it's really embossed in the concrete all this is gonna disappear so it's not as bad as it looks in other words i appreciate the great job to help it was a lesson learned yeah you're welcome yeah so i'm gonna go back on this job and i'm gonna catch it again you know once it's all carried out and we're gonna see if we can still see those marks and we can reference this video to the to a walk through in the future on this just to see if i'm right about all these marks that he put in there fading out so we've got you know a good four inch so we're gonna go one inch deep on the cuts need 25 of the depth that's why um saw cutting is better because it's real hard to do hand joints at one inch deep or if you're doing six inch concrete or anything thicker trying to run a joiner that deep to get that 20 is nearly impossible the moment of truth is when you break out the water to start cleaning that's when you find out is the water draining or isn't it and in this case it drained really well i was kind of surprised that it did as well as it did considering what we were working with here so those are all the tire marks from the tractor going in and out you know another option to get neat get these properties in this area to slope uh properly is to change the design on the apron approaches instead of ramping up you come up just that they're like at nine percent slow for seven feet come in there at about two percent and just ramp up the wings to where uh city sidewalk might be and you pick up all that soap that way too that's probably what i would do change the whole drawing on the schematics down at the building department for these approaches you know and drop them down anyway thank you for watching the video make sure you like share subscribe hit the notification button out that way you'll get notified as soon as we upload the next video because you never know when i'm going to do a giveaway have a good one

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Length: 26min 8sec (1568 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 02 2022