How Can A Muddy Mess Turn Into This?

[Music] well we wrapped up that patio prep and there's still quite a bit of day left i think it's only like 10 30 11 o'clock so we came back over here to our swimming pool project that we did uh i don't know a couple weeks ago it's looking pretty good a little muddy but it's looking pretty good uh we're gonna add a set of steps coming right off of this corner down the hillside we're going to give them a nice big landing right here so that you can come down the steps and head down to the playground area or keep coming around to a walkway slash set of steps right through this tight area to this lower pad so we're going to go ahead and get digging that out decent amount of steps good size landing and it's kind of hard to get done in here so we'll start digging here and see how much we get done with this crummy weather we're having [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] there [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] once i get the shape of the steps just a nice slight curve to it we put some pins in and set our height so i just came off of the top of the pool deck with my level gave it a quarter bubble fall this way two percent down seven and a quarter two percent fall at this intersection and what i do it's it's pretty pretty fast way to lay out steps i measure from point to point that's 18 and a half inches so then i do my parallel uh plumb down seven and a quarter inches eighteen and a half inches and this line in this line should match they should both have two percent once i know i have that then i'm at the right pitch of the board so i just continue that process the whole way down as long as it's working out each step i know i'm good once i got halfway down i started losing my fall here's my 18 and a half but here's my two percent you can see that's very minor so i just keep the same fall i let the step grow a quarter of an inch now i'm a half an inch big now i'm three quarter big but i'm at the bottom of my steps nobody's ever going to complain about a quarter inch growing on the tread of a step when they're 18 19 inches long so luckily i came down to my final step this doesn't happen often but it happened today top of my step was right in line with our sidewalk so i got that lucky had this not have been in line i have some wiggle room here i can finagle this step uh higher or lower i can move the walk up or down in a rod so we could we could have made it work we could have done whatever we needed to do but for whatever reason it worked out perfectly to this line so we're done so i'll go ahead and put the steps in just wanted to give you a rundown of how i do that so we started putting our stringer down the other side putting in our four foot risers these on curves you just sort of put them in all on your lines and then you make them look good i put a frame in a quick square in here and of course you see they're out but you just try and keep that the same that's one way to gauge it get them roughed in these are still one screw over here so we'll get this whole side in and then we'll sight down them and tweak them a little bit but the one side's all laid out to the line we are wrapping up here for today we have one step to go right here across to this that'll get us down onto the landing we got a nice curved walk coming out of here sort of just climbs then we put a little bump on over here and they can come down the steps and exit that way to the play area rather than just ending it right here at the steps uh the steps will wind up the hill so this is as far as we made it up top we have all these conduit lines we tried digging underneath them we got them down a little bit we should have four inches on top of them i'd like a little bit more so we're going to mess with that next time we come here and see if we can't get them down a little bit these last three steps are going to grow they wanted it to flare as it gets up to the pool deck so that's gonna be it here for today thanks we are on site today trying to get these steps poured and it is a muddy mess it's rained all week uh actually we were here yesterday getting stoned in in the last couple risers and it didn't seem nearly this bad this is and it didn't rain um so we're pretty much all ready to go we just got to figure out how we're going to get concrete down this bottom part i might jump in the skid loader and peel some of this out of here but it can barely walk on it yeah going down going down so if we can get a truck down through that we can wheelbarrow across the top here to the uh upper portion but we don't have much of a berm here to run on so i'm gonna see what i can do and cut us in a little road and see what happens so we started cutting in a bench it's working pretty good it's just really soft up there [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] trying to get something for some traction [Music] hold on back up [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay [Applause] going good [Music] we'll see how the hilltop is pushing we'll just bring in half loads keep some of the weight down i'm gonna go ahead and start carving in down there we need to get a path to the lower section as well as over there over there no problem here yeah a little problem okay made it down no problem those trucks are amazing so we peeled that mud off of there he gets on the level we should be okay and the plan is we're just gonna run power buggies right through here right across our little highway one shovel dump shovel into those steps the hard part is the hopper so wide as we dump it it's gonna want to get behind those liners so we just have to hold them tight with our hands it's going to be a mess if we could put the cement truck chute in each one as we go much easier but that day is not today okay here comes buggy number one [Music] so what we'd like to do is tuck little chunks of broken stone on the edges concrete's rolling down the hill real nice almost halfway poured didn't flip a power buggy yet [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] those pop steps came together real nice working our way down and we just float from riser to riser giving a little shake you got to find that bottom of the riser right there a lot of guys will cut that on a 45 i like to see that edge right there and i'll show you why in a little bit [Music] this concrete's probably like about a five inch slump and that works out real nice for steps you saw how it just flowed down there pretty nice and then once it's full how it just holds its shape so i'm going to go ahead and work on these the guys are filling in the bottom steps [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] home stretch a little bit there not straight edging right up it like a champ [Music] hope there's not too much swearing going on in this video today [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] okay that was fun everything went good could have been a lot worse a lot of shoveling a lot of dragon those steps are almost ready to hit we poured them about 10 minutes ago 15 minutes to go once you put color in the truck and give it those 100 revs it really heats up the concrete but everybody's slipping right in this spot it's really muddy and slippery down here but steep set of steps we're gonna go ahead and uh start hitting it that's a real nice look though all right stay tuned [Applause] [Music] [Applause] okay the guys were making their way down the steps what do you think of those huh i'll try and get over there and get some close up jimmy taking care of me right here woohoo don't fall in that so that's all ready steve's dealing with those two steps down there you okay steve you need a hand concrete's been on the grind for 45 minutes nope i'm in your way [Applause] you just peel those off and you spray them first nothing sticks to them that's how it comes off okay we started using these uh star bed screws torx heads whatever you want to call them much nicer than a phillips screw we reuse them probably five or six times before they get stripped out almost ready to spray and start rolling [Music] okay that actually went really well i'll give you some final of that we're just getting everything gathered up in the buggies we had to park all the way up there so we'll just use that to transport all of our material tools a couple of trips and we'll be all done so a little bit of cleanup on this pillar a couple splashes nothing major but you just hate to leave stuff like that behind so we're catching that right now clean this little bit up it's just some mud and that's to be expected but i think it turned out really well nice little curve to them going down there though of mulch bed in here grass here i even see them adding a mulch bed here since we leveled that off so but coming down to a walkway where you think pep good so i mean they could even put a little end table and chair right here in this spot it's i mean look look at the view they have yeah uh a little walkway going to here again surrounded by low voltage lighting low voltage lighting landscaping actually turned out to be a nice little sidewalk i didn't want to do it at first just because of the headache of it all but it feels good when you're done you know all right that's probably it for today we're going to finish getting cleaned up sorry i'm so dirty but that goes with the job thanks again for tuning in to concrete with the hosses if you like what you saw hit that subscribe tell everybody you know let's grow that channel and have a good time [Music] you

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Length: 23min 37sec (1417 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 24 2021