How to Form, Pour and Finish a STAMPED CONCRETE Patio

hey what's up today we show you how we stamp the concrete in my new office [Music] [Music] this is from a few days ago when we were forming the patio it's pretty simple I didn't really look for much forming but the way this works is that we're gonna start the pad up here and we're gonna have it fall that way pretty obvious and that is 12 feet this distance is 12 feet and we're gonna do a quarter inch per foot which is three inches so since we have that wall that's level we actually just measured down three inches there to the top of the form and we're going to put that board in flat level first and then once that gets in level we're going to connect to this one from here to here and then it will have a quarter inch per foot fall on it we also formed a front porch and we're going to be pouring that as part of this project - everything's ready to go we've installed rebar and now all we're doing is getting our strike boards ready and what we do is just we make sure we have a board that spans the entire width of the project so that we can strike the concrete level your lap we allowed to do that a lot of the concrete plants actually will put color into the plant now but we like to bring our own color today we're gonna use Sam buff color Creek from increased systems these bags are actually made to where they would disintegrate in the truck as they're mixing but we're going to dump the color out of the bag today because it speeds up the mixing process once all our color was added I grabbed a water hose and rinsed all the extra color into the truck we're gonna let it mix for a few minutes and then we should be good to go now all we have to do is back the truck up and pour it out [Music] we talked a line on the wall on the left side of the screen and the first critical thing to do is to hand float the concrete right to that chalk line [Music] you're trying to rake the concrete so that it appears to be level and then once the concrete is poor we take the board and we strike the concrete off and what I'm doing here is I'm trying to hold the board on top of the concrete forms and then the left-hand side of screen I'm trying to keep the board floating on top of the concrete that I hand float it to the line that we talked on the left side [Music] [Music] we're also poor in the front porch today - at our new shop and this was a little bit easier than the back if you look on the left-hand side of the screen up against the house you can see that I nailed a treat it one by four to the house so this one's going to be as simple as just pouring the concrete out and then we run the strike board on top of that treat at one by four against the house and we let it ride on top of the forms out in the yard and we just strike the concrete off [Music] [Applause] [Music] and then we're going to run a bowl float over both pads this is a pretty simple process you literally just push the bull float backwards and forwards over the entire surface and the goal is to push gravel down and bring cream to the surface we like to run our edger pretty early in the process an edger is a tool that makes the edges of the concrete pad have a slight radius on them you can see here the Troy's running an edger around the perimeter of the pad and I'm following behind him with the hand float and all I'm trying to do is get any lines out that he leaves on the surface with the edger tool I know earlier in the video you saw us put color in the concrete and we actually colored the concrete we poured but I actually think this is the better way to color concrete you can do one or the other or you can do both this is called broadcasting color hardener and color hardener is a blend of sand Portland cement and pigment and you broadcast it on the surface and then you trowel into the service and that colors the concrete we did both on this job just because it makes the whole job a little bit easier it's hard to color the concrete perfectly evenly when you're throwing color hardener so it's nice to have color in the truck because it makes throwing color hardener a little bit easier but um you can do one of the other putting it in the truck that's obviously easier I just think that throwing color hardener on top makes for a better product concrete always tends to crack off of any outside corner so we're gonna install a control joint off of this corner which means we're going to try to control where the concrete is gonna crack I'm making this video about a week after we poured this and I went outside took a picture of it just now and it actually did crack it's only been a week you're not I cracked in the control joint so it worked this is called a Fresno or a trowel what we're going to do is just travel the entire surface and what this does is it works the color hardener into the surface and it also slicks the concrete down before we stand this power to run the edger around the perimeter one more time and once we're done edging we're gonna take a hand trowel and trial any rough spots smooth [Music] I wasn't able to get the porch as smooth as I like to you so I got a few pieces of wood and I went out on the slab and I hand trout all the rough spots there's definitely a better way to do this I left my idea boards or some people call them sliders back at our other shop so so I'm just gonna make do with wood today I'll leave a link in the description so you can see the knee boards and all the other tools that were using in this project Schafer's broadcasting gray release agent onto the pad this powder provides a secondary color to the finished product and also keeps our stamps from sticking to the concrete Choi's using a really thin stamp called a skin this skin has the texture of whatever pattern when using and he stamps the edges and any tight corners where it would be hard for a rigid stamp to flex and be able to reach the surface the pattern we're using today is increase systems large random flagstone when it's time to stamp along the walls we use what increased systems calls a liner stamp not really sure why they call it that but our guys renamed them floppies so they've been the floppy stamp and they get it as coastal as they can you can see here the shapers coming behind us with an S tool and he's just chiseling the lines so that the grout lines connect all the way to the wall [Music] we stand the back patio the same way we did the front porch only this time we're going to use wood plank stamps and the only real difference here is that the wood plank has a lot of detail in the stamp we wanted to be sure that the detail of the wood plank stamps is going to transfer through the concrete pad so we made sure that we tamped every single square inch of the pad after we put the stamps on [Music] [Music] the next day we're going to come back and strip the forms before we can clean and process the pads we have to stamp the sides of the concrete first we're gonna mix some of the color hardener with a 50/50 mix of polymer and water the specific products were using our increase brennick resin and color hardener we didn't weigh anything or measure anything we just made a mix that we knew was gonna be thick enough to stick to the sides of the concrete as a side note I got to use my new paddle cleaner the Col mix sent me you fill the bucket with water and then you just dip the paddle in the bucket and run it for a few seconds and it comes out perfectly clean there's a huge time saver and there's not a lot of technique to this I mean we literally just smeared the material on the side of the pad he's just trying to get it on there to be about 3/8 of an inch thick that's what we're shooting for at least because that's how deep these stamps are on the top of this pad once Joey gets the material on the side I just run a flat trial over it just to smooth it out you don't don't wait very long to stamp this material because it actually sets up pretty fast so as soon as we get a trowel smooth we're gonna firm release on it and then stamp it we're gonna use our stamp skins to stamp the sides this just puts a rock texture on the sides first and then once the sides our stamps we're going to take our s tool and draw the lines to match the top stamping the sides of the wood plank patio is a little more challenging we're actually gonna use the FOP a stamp this has the texture and the lines that go between the wood all on one stamp so when we do this we just have to make sure that the stamp matches perfectly with what's on the top after we let the sides cure overnight we're gonna come back a next day and wash the concrete to get it ready for sealer the first step is just to rinse off all the excess release agent some people do this part with the pressure washer but I think it's too much trouble to get it out so I just use a water hose once a release agent is washed off we're gonna make a mixture of muriatic acid in water I'm mixing this at about 6 parts water to one part acid we sprayed this mixture on the entire surface and then we agitate it with the brim the goal here is to remove as much of that dark color release off of the surface as we can this is probably the most overlooked step on most stamped concrete projects if you leave too much of that release on the surface it actually becomes a bond breaker and it keeps your sealer from being able to stick to the concrete after we asked it watch the concrete the first time we'll go back over it again and concentrate on all the dark spots [Music] [Applause] once we finish Asset washing the concrete if we rinse it off thoroughly and then we let it dry overnight we always seal the sides first so we don't have to worry about any drip marks rolling down the sides of the pad when we're sealing the top I always like to use a solvent based sealer when we seal stamped concrete set today reason increase systems solvent based clear seal [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] once we finish the first coat of sealer we're just gonna let it cure for about an hour and we're going to put the second coat on [Music] hey thanks for watching I've been working on some full-length tutorials so if you want to learn more about stamped concrete or epoxy or anything else you've seen on this channel there'll be a link in the description below where you can sign up for more information and also leave links in description for all the pots we use in this video all right I'll see you next time you

Channel: TimDCVA

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Length: 13min 31sec (811 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 14 2020