How To Build a Garage: Concrete and Final Walkthrough

I got a call the other day the customer was like oh my god Concrete guys are coming they're gonna be here tomorrow and I couldn't get here while they were pouring the slab inside but they're just now running the power trial over and getting it finished so I'll take you in here and I'll show you kind of how that turned out and kind of explain to you you know give you that explanation as to how they did it and maybe it'll make sense now that it's all done so hopefully this looks familiar to you guys if not go check out the last build series these guys have done some concrete for us in the past do a pretty good job now first off I'll take you out here on the outside this is gonna be a little bit of a parking you know spot for the customer to park his trailer and what what my customer did was ran some rigid foam on the outside of the building and so that's what the concrete's gonna get poured up against they've dug down and put in this rigid foam insulation this is a one-inch foam and it's just gonna give you a little bit more r-value protection from the slab inside but as you know behind this is our grade board so we've got four inches of a treated grade board and then you've got this 1 inch foam that goes down about a foot now obviously our building is on a concrete pier so we're below the frost line anyway you know just trying to reduce the amount of frost that goes underneath that slab so what the customer has done is cut around the piers so that is an unfortunate side effect of the pier is unless you do a full concrete wall you're gonna have those breaks because you got the pier to deal with so you can't just pour your insulation all the way down but if you remember in the build there was all these gaps underneath here well now what they've done is they filled the gravel on the inside brought that up to grade and now the concrete has been poured you can definitely see that it's all sealed off your finished grade dirt whatever will get brought up against this that'll kind of finish it off so what we've got going on here is this customer went ahead and did a gradient flooring here which means they've got the the water lines not really water but a PEX tubing that goes underneath this concrete and that will be the source of heat so all of the tubes they zigzag back and forth I'll go ahead and throw a picture here that the customer sent me I did not like I said get back up here before the concrete guys made it up but there's a radiant tube that runs in a nice pattern and that's going to heat the floor it's really a nice source of heat because heat rises so when you're we've got this big concrete slab and in the middle of the winter you heat that slab up with that radiant heat it's super comfortable so if you're a type of guy that likes to work on their cars which this guy does or you're just gonna be in your shop and on the ground and you know just don't want air blowing around you've really only got two good options you've got radiant heat in the slab and then you've also got a radiant tube heater now a lot of my customers will typically go for a radiant tube heater because it's a lot less cost they work very well but all that heat has to come down from the ceiling which naturally heat wants to go up you'll feel a lot warmer when you're standing on a radiant slab versus being in a building with a radiant tube heater now I have a tube heater in my building I've built my building before I really learned a whole lot you know the other thing is money I didn't have the money at the time to do it I do think that my building heats very efficiently but I really wish that my heat was coming from the floor because whenever I'm out there you know you can feel the heat at your head a lot more than you can at your feet so it's just it's a very nice feeling to have a heated slab over a heated ceiling no a lot of people wanted to see this thing with concrete in it and I will try to get back here I'm actually working fairly close by so I wanted to get back here while I could and show a little bit of the process they started pouring this at about 6:00 or 7:00 this morning right now it's about 2 o'clock 1:30 so it's hard enough that they can work on it they can get it all trials up nice and man this this is going to be great one of the things that's really important is this slope right here and this is something that some guys don't take a lot of time to do but this looks like it's gonna be great when the door closes right here all that water is gonna come down and it's gonna run out so many times they see a flat concrete here and that's such a bad idea [Applause] so this is gonna get a couple saw cuts all the way across and then probably one down the middle pretty much a necessity one for that's always a good way to do it I'm not gonna be here for the rest of this I got to get back to the job site but they got a truck coming and they're gonna pour this slab outside next you got the GoPro setup so hopefully I'll get some footage for you I'm not a concrete guy I don't pretend to be I don't know a whole lot but one concrete guy once told me there's three things I'm gonna guarantee you about concrete one it's gonna get hard really hard to it's gonna crack and three it's gonna look good from ashton because that's where he lived so it'll always look good from his house I don't know if I agree with all that it should crack but you should never see it because it should be on those cut lines which they are gonna cut this so it should look really good just came back over to the job site here wanted to get over once this concrete was hard this tells me the customers are already enjoying this it's got his hot rod in here jobsite radio it's perfect so this is all going to get epoxied so they didn't make this a super smooth finish so remember here we went with our thermally broken jam and thermally broken slab door we've got our insulated windows trimmed out with some nice Australian New Zealand pine sorry put a nice coat of stain on those I've got the 3/4 plywood walls our 19 insulation in this thing let me go ahead and turn the radio down just a little now you guys can all see here on the building what we've got is surface mount electrical so this was all ran after the fact and it makes it a lot easier especially when the customer is looking to you know maybe do things as he goes so he can add on to the electrical service the will be surface mount conduit ran around the building for his outlets as well as his lights in the ceiling we've got our garage door here this is a CH I garage door and lift master jack shaft operator which means that's actually operating right on the jack on the shaft of the door where the springs are so that way it keeps everything clean when the door is closed I'll go ahead and close it you'll hear how quiet it is [Music] so you can see there's nothing up here no you know typically you're gonna have all of your spring mount and then your opener is gonna be on a track here there's no trolley there so that's nice look how bright it is in here even though there's no lights so now that the concrete is done you guys can see if you remember we did that base trim at the bottom of our plywood and that gave the concrete guys something to pour to they poured up against our grade board that was around the perimeter and that afforded them a nice form to pour too it keeps this slab floating and it does have the radiant tubes underneath we've got the r38 blown in in the ceiling and this shop is basically ready to go as soon as spring comes there's going to be an approach poured out here and that'll connect to this nice little walk over here where they can park some you know trailer stuff like that if you remember we did the verse set a stone you can really see that turned out really sharp big fan of that that's a cast concrete stone so it's panelized you can see here this is a boom moth this is a panel right there - there does a really good job kind of masking those panels we've got a Simonton window that's a low E glass and yeah it's really happy how this one turned out they did a whitewash on the walls they did a nice little stain on the windows and then they're gonna do an epoxy on the floor you know I don't know I don't want to keep bugging these guys they're awesome customers they've been really good and so if I can I will get back here I'll show you guys the epoxy but no promises I just wanted to show you really what this thing looks like when it's finished the way the concrete is done and it really is a great affordable option for anytime that you're looking to add some good storage you know to your property it's a good affordable way to have a nice solid efficient space so there you go there's some some good finished pictures concrete's in and customers are pretty darn happy now let's go ahead and get that drone in the air and let's get some pics from the air because just you know sometimes the scale is always a little bit nicer to see from the air just got this new medic - I think I've talked about it a little bit if you follow me on Instagram it is amazing hits the zoom and it's it's just phenomenal the quality of video the quality of pictures so much better than the original medic which was amazing you know it was amazing right up until this one came out I guess I'll go ahead and I'll throw a link down below if you guys are interested in upping your drone game so check it out that'd be awesome but let's get this thing in the air [Music] that's a good one that's a wrap catch you guys on the next one make sure you hit that subscribe button and hit the bell so you're notified next time we start a new series you [Music]

Channel: RR Buildings

Views: 917,103

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Keywords: concrete, post frame, garage, how to, diy, floor, finished, building a garage, mancave, storage, mavic

Id: mD_rANLsAXs

Length: 13min 34sec (814 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 06 2018