How to Make a Decorative Concrete Driveway

[Music] hi david o'dell here with odell complete concrete today's the first day on this job site and what we're going to do is remove and replace this concrete driveway here's a nice aerial and you can see from the arrow view that the top of the driveway is wider than the bottom it's really only about six inches but that aerial view really enhanced it the reason we're replacing is because you can see the trip hazard there how it lifted and most likely from that tree right over there but once we open this up we'll really know what's going on underneath the concrete and why it lifted and this car is breaking up really easily it's not that thick and it's not a high psi there's no reinforcement in it any steel whatsoever so all those contributing factors makes it easy to remove the ground is pretty soft to fortunately have this lightweight mini skid steer on a track so i'm not doing a lot of damage to this upgrade really not sinking in not getting stuck probably if it was a tire loader with solid tires you have some problem moving forward and scooping because the tires would want to spin and bury yourself but with this little unit you get full power forward in pretty much any terrain we did a two loader here the first two sections was one load about 3 500 pounds i would say a little more than that we also i'm have a sewer clean out on that one side you can see it's sticking up there we're gonna cut that down flush it out the top of concrete put an easy access brass cap on it and because once i open this baby up and i noticed the soil conditions i went ahead and got some road base crushed concrete basically is what that is so all the kind i'm removing now if i had a crusher on site i could have crushed what i removed and i'd have base my own base and no disposal which is a nice combination that's what you'd see on a big job site the car that comes out they make into the base to utilize it over again but in this case the size of it doesn't really warrant you know having a crusher out here to break your concrete and make base so we're just importing it but we did find out what the cause of that problem was you notice all the roots they were under the driveway we removed them all we dug it down about six eight inches i used a tooth bucket and grabbed all those roots and pulled them right out was soft it's a soft material it's a rubber tree actually it's a magnolia tree but pretty soft material though the way to compact this is uh by letting the water soak in after you spray it and then compacting but in a lot of cases on a big job site scenario what you would do is turn all your material with a large tractor while hitting it with a water truck and then spread it wet so it's all consistently wet all the way throughout then you can really do some get some good compaction but we're going a small lift here so this is going to be really adequate here we're only doing like about two inch lift of base in here now what we're going to do is just bring the forms down exactly where they were before and it was pretty easy to tell where they were that because the um apron approach is offset to the entrance of the driveway which happens in a lot of cases but we're going to go with the same pattern we want to hit the bottom of the wings on that apron approach because you have three foot angle on each side of the eight entrance and we're in three feet on each end with the actual driveway we are going to do a diamond grid saw cut with a full perimeter one foot border all saw cut pattern and this is going to make it kind of tricky to lay out because it's not a perfect rectangle it's like i said earlier it's smaller at the end towards the street than it is at the top so we have to visually make it look good and everything fit perfectly and that's when you got to kind of play with your lines a little bit and we'll show that in the end but here's that easy access brass cup for the sewer clean out i have a scree laying across from the top of the forms so i want to set that flush to the top of driveway had to do some little tricky modifications here to make it all work so we have a threaded female inside that four inch and then we're gonna go ahead and put this on top of it so you can drive over it and then you have access to that screw in that mill cap there and i'll just cover it with some tape to protect the surface while we're pouring now there's a lot of cracks in that driveway i think the roots are under or cracks in the garage floor a lot of cracks in there and i think the same tree roots are under that garage floor that were underneath the driveway here we have some nice deep and what i like to call earth teeth or uh it could be known as a keyway because i'm locking it in underneath the sidewalk so i don't want it to pop up or change elevations we got the big boy olin that's what we're gonna pump it in here with i can almost tailgate this the only problem is because of the elevation change with the truck sitting at the bottom of the street and all the shoots on to reach back here the car is not going to flow down the shoe it's going to all build up and shoot and come out on the street so i went with the pump to avoid that problem so as we pour this out you can see how stiff that is i mean this is going in at about four inch four and a half inch slot on a scale of one to twelve twelve being the wettest anything over six throw away of course also we dump some fiber mesh in here too on top of the steel reinforcement 3 8 bars at 2 foot center we have the fiber mesh additive in here have both of my sons here today this particular project this this isn't a straight slope either by the way it's actually crowned in the middle following the contour of the land which is nice because at the top where the sidewalk meets the driveway you want less slope over there otherwise your cross up on your sidewalk that it joins the driveway it's going to be really intense well that's what it looks like after you get her laid down that's just after the bull float pumps leaving the job site which is nice because now we can get full access to the driveway with all of our tools that have poles on it and both floated uphill so we already both floated crosswise now we're going the other direction which is optimal whenever you can both float your work in two directions you're gonna get a flatter surface [Applause] [Applause] we have some expansion foam there at the top and the main reasons because i don't want the cracks to reflect from that garage floor and i think that garage floor is going to be coming out fairly soon so we've isolated the two separately from each other here's a 12 inch wide half inch radius walking in edger now we've got the fiberglass funny float so at this point what we've done is both floated it two directions and now we've got the fiberglass funny float going on these are especially good when you have concrete in this kind of contour where you have a lot of um shape in it or it's it's not a straight sub it's not flat so the funny float really follows the contour of the land in this situation right behind that funny float you'll notice we have the funny trowel and they work beautifully together because what happens is that funny float brings up the cream and flattens then you get a nice a nice finish when you hit it with some steel right behind it because you're just pushing pure cream now what we're going to try to do is get away with just a funny trial and improvement we don't really want to get out there by hand if we don't have to if we can do it from all the pull tools you know it's always nicer it was a windy day today too you probably i don't know if you noticed that but we had a lot of leaves blowing out there a lot of uh un you know cut grass a lot of debris blowing out there and as we work the concrete we can see um stuff in the car so we just pluck it out of there because otherwise it'll work its way out in the future and then leave a hole it's not a structural problem but it's just not that nice visibly that's why that blower see that dewalt blower cordless at the bottom of driveway we use that to keep blowing the debris off the top of the concrete we've already pulled the tape off of the sewer clean out this particular brome is 50 percent nylon and 50 percent 50 horse hair really nice combination well i'm pretty much dry brooming this the only reason i'm using water is to clean it in between a few strokes and then i'll slap the water out of it drop it back down on the slab up here near the top it was a little wetter so we waited on that a little while before we put our final broom on it there it is this is two days later after the pour we're back on it snapping some lines out laying out a grid so what we did because we had that issue with it uh being on the sku this whole driveway is we we set it we established the center line measured the width of the top and bottom dropped the center line even though the measurements are different from the top to the bottom we're just going to work off the center line and then also what i did to make up for that difference is i shortened my bands like at the bottom the bands are about an inch narrower than at the top that way i made up for some of that um you know because the driveway was narrower at the bottom and now we can get some nice cuts in here where they'll all intersect exactly on the band we're cutting about three quarters of an inch deep this is the medusa by skill saw and we paired it with the dewalt cordless vacuum dual hepa filters in there it picks up pretty much about 90 percent of all the dust with this combination so you don't have to worry about when you wash this you don't have to worry about a slurry feel going down the street in other words now i have the right angle grinder four inch blade just doing touching up the corners intersecting it to the bands and if you notice every square hits exactly on the band line so it made it easy to continue the joints on through because i only had one points to pick up off of two lines so this really turned out beautiful well there it is the best driveway in the neighborhood let's get a nice aerial view here see what we're dealing with that's a little fly over with a drone this will all cure out even in probably uh 30 days anyway thank you for watching and have a good day you

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Length: 18min 27sec (1107 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 05 2021