How to Pour a Concrete Driveway Complete Tear out! Clean Finish!

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hi David O'Dell here with O'Dell complete concrete this is the first day on the job site and we have a driveway we're gonna be widening this driveway and it has a lot of damage first thing I look I think when I see a driveway in this condition is no steel reinforcement [Music] that's why these cracks are so wide open and they be even lifted and they're uneven you can still get cracking with steel but what you won't get is a big large spaces in the cracks and you won't get trip hazards also there's no expansion no relief cuts for relief joints weekend playing joints there's none in this driveway just once one big piece of concrete that was another problem they had here the other thing I didn't like about it was actually in the middle of the garage floor was about an inch low where it meets the garage and that's never great when you're a mechanic rolling things around that are heavy going in and out of the garage so I want to make that flush as well here's the drain we put in with court threw the curve there went under the sidewalk they had an existing drain that came out about 20 feet out of the side yard that we had catched too and brought it all the way down the street they had a French drain system going that wasn't really French draining very well in other words it wasn't perking into the soil soil type wasn't taking the water so a lot of stagnant water issues with that you know here we are with the skid steer it's a New Holland now this particular skid steer has a breaker attachment on it and it has a point that's been broken off intentionally because now what it does is it hits more like a sledgehammer wood instead of just drilling holes through the concrete it actually shakes the concrete cracks if anybody else has ever tried that technique let me know what they think about using a broken bit versus a pointed one the broken one seems to be better in this case some cases it won't be like if you want to get in there and if you have wire and you want to snap in the pry and you'd want to full bit for sure but as I assumed there was no wiring or reinforcement in this concrete came out really easy because we have those pine trees in the front yard in the parkway there the roots are pretty much everywhere they're just below the surface here and we're gonna start getting into them a little bit as we start bringing this great back down to where it initially was before the trees raise the whole front yard [Music] we're widening the driveway on both sides we've widened it on both sides about six feet in both directions you can see all these routes were getting into now a lot of surface routes with these pines and they're just underneath the slab now what that does when you get that many routes is it displaces anything that might be in there like dirt and that forces the concrete to go up the long to go up basically anything so you can see how we've cut this on a nice fairly straight grade from the garage floor to the sidewalk there is a slight arch in it still but not nearly as severe as it was from the tree roots problem with it is now that the driveways gonna be where it should be the lawns actually high but it's better to put the concrete in right then match the lawn because the lawn will have to be reworked to match the concrete [Music] we're probably about six inches below topple on at this point so we can taper it back four or five feet in the lawn to cut it down and slope it back in a little into the driveway the new driveway grade or gonna remove the entire front yard and take it all down roots and all which is the best case scenario [Music] this was about a load a load Plus came out of this one we have a super 10 so we did a full load and a little bit left over we mixed with the dirt roots and left over concrete for the second load this ground is a surprisingly surprisingly hard very very hard it was difficult to drive the stakes and almost had to go to steel stakes now here's that French drain system I was talking about that came out of the backyard it dead-ended right here we were able to find the end of this pipe pretty quickly because it was kind of marshy in this area so we just assumed that's where it stopped and we started digging and we found the end of the pipe they have a four inch pipe coming from the backyard now the more we dug the more water came out of that pipe so we had to get a vacuum to suck it out all the water we didn't have a wet vac with us but the homeowner did so he used his we had we we had to get the water out of there quickly otherwise with the hole exposed all that water would have damaged the soil here and we wouldn't have made I who wouldn't have been an ideal place to pour on it would have had to dry out for a week or so so we got the water out quickly well we went all the way back to the gate to replace the pipe even though the pipe was out about 30 feet because what we found as we started cutting off sections of that four-inch we found a lot of debris built up in that pipe we found some cans and a lot of stuff that was in there so we took it all the way back so we know we got a clear line from the gate where it goes under the existing concrete to the street that's all clear we reduced it down to a three-inch because the three-inch is really all you're gonna get through a six-inch curb face under a sidewalk that's four inches deep that's only on 2% grade so you can see the dilemma or trying to get a six inch under sidewalk that's only 2% above curb height the curb height six inches you put a four inch you don't have much room for a concrete over the top of that that four inch going to the curb face which means it's gonna crack and break so use a three inch in other words [Music] so there's the water main break that we were repaired that's just a future sleeve there [Music] the old concrete was only about three maybe three and a half inches max depth but since we raised the grade at the garage because it was setting down about an inch below garage floor level which is nice well the water doesn't backflow into the garage but it's not that great if you're rolling things back and forth heavy things I got a dolly or something especially if you're a mechanic so since we brought it up that gave us the depth we needed without having to remove a lot of dirt now this is about the third day as we waited over the weekend so the soil is all dried out now we're running the compactor and we're not putting any water on this even though it creates some dust this particular kind of dirt if you put water on it it's just gonna stick to your plate and it's not gonna do a thing so you have to run them dry unfortunately that's just the way it is [Music] so we got it all compacted out it's nice and flat now it's time to set some screens the way I set screen pins is I like to try to make them even spaces so I can use one rod board for the whole package instead of having to cut different rod boards for different size bays I'll make them all the same and in order to do that what you have to do is you have to decide what sides are gonna pour from now that side that you start the pour from will be your smallest width of a bay that way when you start wet screeding you have the same rod board when now it's going to overlap so we've got some number three rebars here we're going to lay them out on two foot centers we're gonna use about eighteen inch to two 24-inch overlaps on this rebar and then I always like when I got an angle or a radius edge like we had here I just run one one bar on an angle now deling in to the garage here slab which I normally don't do but since we have those massive pine trees I don't want to take the chance of them getting back underneath this driveway and raising it above all the other surrounding concrete [Music] [Music] another thing you can do to try to stop the roots from going I mean the roots probably won't go underneath this slab for you know it's probably gonna be good for another 30 years but if you really want to go more of a permanent solution you put a root barrier a good two feet deep all the way down dig a trench drop a root barrier and then backfill that what that does is all your surface roots are traveling will hit that plastic barrier it'll force them down and once they start diving down they'll just keep going down that's the idea behind them anyway not sure that it'll work because inevitably they go to where the water is what doesn't matter which way they go who's there's water and it find it [Music] put a little expansion foam here down at the city sidewalks this is a pretty big area and this sidewalk here I have a feeling we'll be coming out a lot more times than the driveway because of the big pines so I wanted to give some nice cushion when they remove this sidewalk you know multiple times over the next few years or whatever then it won't affect the driveway so that's why I put that foam right there now this is a 3,000 psi pea gravel mix real nice consistency here also I added some fiber mesh into the load I do that on site that's a three and a half foot wide magnesium bull float there we've got all the rebar up on Dobies we were able to put it up on Dobies because this baby was running a little bit thick so we could actually use the Dobies without getting the rebar too close to the surface we were running average in about four and a half five inch thick on this entire driveway now we're running big blue waiting for our second load to arrive that's it that's nine yards right there what you see now what we did there real quickly was we ran a little bit of a swell out of the far corner of the garage just to make sure the water came out of that corner and didn't go into the garage [Music] so I would I did as I got there I used the rod bird and I put the level on top of the rod board to check that swell it's visibly you can't see this well coming out of the garage but if you put water on and watch it run that's when you can see it you can see a little bit of the slope off that lawn coming down to the driveway there so we did cheated a little bit to try to get close to the top of that lawn to minimize the work but there's still a lot of work to do on that lawn you as you can see this is what we have here we had 20 yard we had two ten yard loads so that first load was ten the second was ten as well and we didn't have much laughs we he says we had less than a half a yard so we got real lucky since the maximum they'll carry is 10 yards out here we maxed it out now we're gonna be sock cutting this particular job but we're getting one joint one a wet cut joint today off that main corner there off that brick column that's where it may crack overnight so we cut that in today also I'm using a power trial here and right now I've got a float pan underneath so I was able to get on it pretty early with this power trial 2 3 foot power trial it's got a Honda engine on it this is my second pass so I've already pulled that float pan off and my third final pass is the broom right behind me now this did dry a little unevenly well one reason was because we had that French drain that that kind of had the soil pretty wet so we had to wait on that area to broom so we kind of went around that and then we also had this shaded area up here by the garage and then we had the water main break break so we had water saturated water centuries from the water main break we had water saturation from the French drain system so we had a couple wet spots plus shade we just worked around it and that's the nice thing about the power trowel and this particular type of finish you can just bounce around anywhere you want and it's gonna neva tably look all the same [Music] so right now I've got this idle down about medium throttle it's very rare when I have to hit them at full throttle usually when I have it at full throttle that means I'm probably behind and once you get behind on concrete it's hard to catch up so I have a Pacific pattern I use to on on the power trial a lot of people may not know that but there is a pattern that you want to use to get concrete flat with the power trial [Music] and the way I do it is I go from right to left and that's the blades are spinning in in that direction as well and that pushes your mud and then you half overlap what of what you already did and you go left and that's your finish you do that through the whole thing that same technique in any direction but the half overlaps the crucial thing of each pass now we've got a good broom guy out here today and it's real clean and all the lines are perfectly straight it's not much of a Ridge left in the middle of where the broom stops the starts [Music] now we had to go back here because we had shade back in this area for quite a while so that we had to go back up into this corner and then work our way into the shade of the garage area [Music] nice thing about a power trial on this you can walk on the concrete - broom it that way you don't have to fight a lot of obstacles with your poles you can just walk around and then the power trial knock out the footprints and then you're ready to broom again that's kind of your finished product the day of the pour right now I'm showing the owner how to keep the concrete wet and this is about 20 minutes after I broom the concrete we're hitting it with water right away the nice thing about when you hit it with water like this right away it lets the owner know that yeah the water is draining or maybe let's oh no it's not draining but whatever the case may be it's good to keep them wet because that what that does it'll never ibly make the concrete harder and you're less likely to get shrinkage cracks so here's the next day after the pour laying out some chalk lines here all my chalk lines are laid off straight and square with the house they don't really take into consideration the city sidewalk the street everything kind of comes off the house [Music] you know what I've got here is I got a new mag 77 skill saw and I'm riding it on top of a little bit of a little quarter-inch bender board redwood that way my my plate of my scale saw doesn't scratch the concrete because it's so fresh right now anything you do to the Kombi right now will scratch it temporarily and this is not necessarily scratching it what it is doing is its opening up the pores of the car where you're touching it the water will come out of the comic quicker there and it'll look like a scratch because it's drying unevenly and as the car completely cures out it'll all be one color kind of deceiving that way here's the cuts and we've got a mat ten foot centers all these sections I think are 10 foot by 11 feet which is the perfect case scenario for crack control there's your finished product looks good and in three days are we ready to use did you know Connery reaches most of its strength in the first five days and then after that it's a very slow build-up process here's the water coming down and it's draining really good we're on a pretty good slope though only this is the breakpoint of the slope but to the front of the garage it's a fairly level as you would assume since the growth house is level the garage floor is level in that direction anyway thanks for watching my videos if you like these subscribe stay tuned for the next one [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 26min 8sec (1568 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 28 2018