How to pour a Concrete Driveway Addition For Beginners DIY

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hi this is David Odell with a dell complete concrete what we're gonna do here today is add on to this driveway the existing driveway is pretty standard it's about eight feet wide in other words you can't exit the vehicle on either side and then get out on concrete so adding concrete to something like this is real popular so you can get out of the vehicle on concrete and walk into the front door we're gonna add an additional eight feet here so our total now is gonna be 16 feet not quite big enough for two cars to exit on both sides under concrete but you can definitely get out of one side or the other depending how you park it in this particular add-on the person I'm working for here was a retired inspector for the city of La I believe it was and he's calling out he designed his own specs on this one he's calling out for a six inch deep concrete with he's going with a 30 to 50 psi straight cement and also he's gonna go with wire mesh typically I don't really put wire mesh and stuff you go with rebar but he likes the wire mesh and then also we're not gonna dowel into the existing driveway we're just gonna go six inches deep this is this a little different design than what I usually do but I have done these and normally where you do this particular scenario but without the wire would be probably an apron approach which is public works area you go six inches and then you go the big rock and you go 225 or you go thirty two fifty one of the others some cities it's each one specs a different psi I have no idea why soil conditions most likely very City City a little bit here and there so we had this all dug out and about and informed we had it all set up and ready to pouring it out for hours just the three of us the existing driveway was sloping to the street pretty good so we're gonna slightly slope this addition towards the existing driveway and then the water should run out the approach the reason we're stopping the concrete at this point it's because we on this point is Public Works in other words I would go pour out there we probably have to get a permit and then it may or may not be then they may not let us do it so we're gonna stop the concrete there and then in the future they're gonna do some work over there they can without it disrupting the concrete this particular dirt was pretty hard you can see we're using the electric jackhammer in here with a clay Spade on it and that breaks it up pretty nicely we're taking this dirt out and chunks kind of breaking breaking kind of like concrete would break nice pieces you could actually pick up by hand and throw them in the wheelbarrow so we have our line stakes out and our eight feet off of the concrete on either end and you're set to the inside of the farm that way when my lines pulled it doesn't interfere with the stakes and also my 2x4 can run past the line stakes without interrupting those as well you can see some pretty good-sized dirt clods in there that didn't quite break up during the removal so what we'll do is we'll run a plate compactor over everything it'll smash all those dirt clods into the ground and be a nice flat surface there's the plate compactor there in the background here's the wire mesh we're gonna be using it there's six inch squares and they're ten gauge wire when you roll these wire mesh rolls out it's crucial that you do it with two people because if you don't have someone holding the other end down it could spring up and roll up on you and prong you the prongs could jab you because they roll up pretty quickly then we got a good six inches I'm six and a half inches right around that neighborhood of depth and the compactor is dropping it probably another half inch with that so we got eight feet wide in this wire mesh is five feet so we're gonna have a nice overlap in the middle with this wire also this retired inspector wanted Dobies so we put some Dobies in there we got we got the big Dobies because it didn't matter in this case because we're six inches deep so I knew we had the space and the first thing I noticed the inspector did he check the ticket on the concrete truck which is a good sign that he's done that before a few times we wanted to make sure that the mix design was right the batch time was right the different batch plant how long it was load things of that nature make sure you had the right psi he was shocked when he did look at the ticket though because I beefed it up to 45 so he went wow this is a this is unusual so I had no more complaints and no more worries and no more inspections at that point whence I beefed it to 45 from the 30 to 50 it requested well here's your jointer I already went through that with my cutter tool that goes down about two and a half inches which is definitely deep enough for a 6-inch slab course because you really only need to go 25% depth and that what that cutter does is it breaks the aggregate it separates the aggregate from one another so they're not overlapping anymore then we follow it up with just a 3/4 deep half-inch radius you could potentially just trowel over these joints after you run that two and a half er and it'll still crack on that straight line because the aggregate is separated at that point and that's what you call a weakened plane joint you can do those inverted as well in other words from the underneath but that's a whole different story a lot of people do those inverted weekend playing joints underneath by accident and that could be dependent upon a grade or other obstructions underneath so what we've done is we've both floated with the magnesium three and a half footer we hit it with big blue we hit it with the funny trowel walking edged it may be a little hand touch-ups here and there and then we brimmed it with 50% horsehair fifty percent nylon broom that's what it's looks like when you're done magnificent our cleaning up the excess dirt on the driveway so in nineteen ninety-four caddy I believe that was the convertible here's the nice looking joint broke it up real nice and evenly we're on a cold joint we're not dialed in to the other driveway so I didn't really have to match up thank you for watching the video if you liked it subscribe if you want to get the latest and greatest as I roll them out hit the bell next to the subscribe button you'll get updates as I upload thank you have a nice day

Channel: Odell Complete Concrete

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Keywords: DIY driveway addition, how to pour a concrete driveway, how to pour a driveway, driveway addition, how to pour a concrete slab, how to pour a patio, how to pour concrete, how to finish concrete, how to prep a concrete driveway pour, how to form a driveway, how to rod a concrete driveway, how to pour a backyard patio, how to pour a concrete patio

Id: enUJb9rs_78

Length: 11min 36sec (696 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 07 2017