How to Pour a Concrete Patio and Walkway that will Never Crack!

[Music] hi David O'Dell here with O'Dell complete concrete this is our first day on the job site we're gonna be adding a little walkway here from that brick front porch we're gonna do concrete and we're gonna wrap it around to the side yard right now we're just doing some exploratory work trying to figure out what these pipes mean and where they go and what we're finding out is we've got PVC adapted to some galvanized underground completely corroded so we assume that they are history now here in the backyard we're going to be adding a little raised landing to get in and out of that door there then we'll do a patio and walkway wrapping all the way around to this spot this trees got to come out too close to the house too close to the new walkway it's gonna cause a problem so we'll get it get it early well it's easy to get out we've got a lot of the roots out with that pole we're gonna hook up to chain one more time to a little residual we found in the dirt and see see if we can pour some more stuff pull some more stuff out of the dirt well without having to use a pick in doing an exploratory surgery underground here we are in the backyard and right now visually when I looked at this I'm thinking will this whole property drains to the backyard but I wanted to verify you know what I seen and what I can do because I'd rather have it sloped to the front to be honest with you since there's a block wall enclosing the backyard and waters not gonna go through it I would prefer to go to the street that's why I broke out the laser level here just to figure out what I can do and what I came up with is I can get about an inch slope from that back patio to this gate and that's about 60 feet but an inch is better than nothing basically what that means is that we have a low point or the water will flood over before it goes somewhere else right here we're gonna do a little rays landing and I stacked that broken concrete up just to retain the dirt so I cannot infill a little bit without putting 12 inches deep concrete when it's really not needed now after I shot it with a laser level and I came up with that one inch slope that allows for my seven inch step on that back patio because I went max height that I could which is gonna be seven seven and a quarter we're gonna have to put base in here so that's what this is or loading some base up I'm just scooping it off the street here and then dumping in the wheel barrel carting it into the backyard four foot walkway everything has been over excavated and that's how it was when I arrived you did a lot of demolition back here this whole yard I guess there was some flooding issues at one time so they they over acts to get the dirt below the damage line the flood line and that's why I was kind of particular running elevations and making sure I had slope to the front not much but it's better than nothing to start right here we have a two by six and then of course that's really five and a half inches but if I put a hand float under it you know we're close to six and a half maybe six somewhere in that vicinity just did some steel stakes these are half inch flats and I got some kickers and every upright the nice thing about putting the kickers at the uprights when you go to scrape the concrete off your jumpring basically one stake rather than sporadic kickers in between upright so you're double jumping everything and it gets to be real hectic so this way you keep everything grouped clean and simple I had to rummage up all the 2x4 as I had laying around my yard some of these were very difficult to work with because they're you know how we buy lumber it's not dried out to begin with that well so as it does dry naturally it curls up it twists it does all kinds of stuff very difficult to work with what I do in a lot of situations with my way when I come into stuff that's twisted bowed on I'll end up cutting I'll take my skill saw I'll take and set it at about a 3/4 depth and I'll just start ripping the back of 2x4 is every 12 inches all the way down so I can twist 2x4 to get where I want it this ground was pretty hard I came out here I did the estimate and I walked it Wow this ground is pretty hard I better bring my steel stakes and I'm glad I did because even driving these steel he's in wasn't easy I would have liked to take that chunk of concrete out there over the top of that vinyl and they just had this vinyl fence put in and typically what vinyl fence companies do is they drop their four by fours or five by 5's on top of existing they drill a hole put a 5-inch 5/8 inch diameter down then the that's inside that five by five column or post hollow then they fill it up with concrete so it's sitting on an existing card so I didn't want to just disturb that and have to rehang replumb get a new post vinyl post when this stuff was relatively new to begin with so I had to leave that little section there so we do low impact no over overages we drilled into the porch here with the 3/8 hole and then piledrive them so it's a tight fit basically there's 45 bars off the corner we just kind of spaced this could have got away with 3 in there and squeeze the man but a narrow walkway to is enough here we are on poor day and I'm really liking that seat 30 to 50 psi so I went with that again and this was the same company bender concrete but a different batch plant out of Gardena rather than their other plant in Santa Ana the mix the c32 50 was a little different here it was a lot richer it seemed to be more like a 50 500 PS I would say so I just double checked out with the six-foot Milwaukee level that way we cut a wedding off of the house parallel the house and then we just perpendicular double check again with that level it's a lot easier to check everything while it's wet then the next day the next day it's too late so you can see how well this stacked up in that raised area if this wasn't that 30 to 50 C which means no fly ash no cement substitute it really stacked up well you could probably stack this up I mean as high as you wanted really the way it's going off we're using a wood bowl float here and I believe this is a three foot wide you can see the top of that would both floats all oiled up that's just easier to keep clean no oil on the bottom of that ball float down because your first couple passes would leave some oil residuals on the concrete so you don't want to oil the bottom of them we got Big Al's concrete pumping out of Corona doing the pumping here and we're in gardena working that head cam again I don't know if I have a lot of shots in there with it but it is running so what we did here is we brought it half of that off both floated it because there's a wall right behind us also I added fiber mash on-site which is my personal mash fiber mesh that I am stock and happened to have on sale on my storefront what the fibermesh does really is um prevent shrinkage cracks it does that and it really holds it together so that when the next day you could saw cut it without getting any spalling on your cuts although we're not doing any cutting here but it does allow me to strip that step face a little bit earlier than you normally would because it's hanging together with with everything out throughout the concrete can the leavers it works well for as well this is a three foot two and a half inch deep cutter just kind of bounce it off the rebar and I'm just eyeballing these square you know we did do a layout for distance so you get accurate you know measurements on each section being equal but as far as square goes with the form what I found a lot of times is most tools are made square to begin with so if you just use the tool that you're using as a square then it's square like for instance say the plate of a Skilsaw well this plates are square with the blade you can use that to start off your cut with off of something to get it rolling in the right direction a lot of things are that way here's the front walkway we're doing the layout there for the joints there was really no down time from start to finish on this job no bleed water to speak of then that I could see so we went straight from the lay down and both load went right back on it with the follow-ups big blue funny float trowel but not necessarily in that order now we're back I'm back here just strip the face of this step in this concrete the actual mix design of it is so creamy that it really takes the work out of it there's your bottom Cove tool and that happens to be a quarter inch round at the bottom which is nice for low impact that means you don't really have to do a lot of work at the bottom or generate a lot of say you've got a bad mix or you got your standard twenty five hundred psi big rock there's not a lot of cream to work with well that quarter inch is ideal because you're not having to fill a big old void up in that corner there you could have been a bigger radius you want to go put a 3/4 Cove in there and it would have been no problem with this particular mix however so I don't know if you notice but we're using this year these are some head cam shots right here this is on top of my head even running that 2 inch cutter that was the head cam getting some close-ups on the actual happenings and what concrete looks like first person and let me know again what you think about the head cam so far I'm getting some positive feedback on this head cam setup this is our first pass over the concrete - this is just getting this getting it stripped getting it faced getting it shaped up then our second pass of course they'll be a lot easier concretely harder it'll just be a matter of a hit no some trials no more hand floating just a trowel work so I have the wood for Hana float Dara kind of worked up the cream spread around filled the voids and wiped it down with that 20 by 5 also the winner for that tomahawk power screed they have the name right here the name is Chris are according to his profile that on his comment Chris R wins the tongue tomahawk powder screed and now what we're doing here is we're getting ready to broom it you can leave it smooth but it does get a little slippery when wet although it is easier to keep clean when it's smooth this broom is 50 percent nylon 50 percent horsehair my favorite broom for residential this is head cam footage also even though we ran that two and a half deep straightedge three-foot-long cutter for those joints we followed it up with a three-quarter deep half-inch radius if you don't have the big tripperz on the face of that step we're just gonna leave it smooth no broom so you see that tomahawk sprayer this is a when we received in unboxing it taking a look at all the attachments it comes with the fan tip a cone spray would be nice to really get out those long long hard-to-reach areas so it can spray a constant 435 psi so it has the power to blow that thick stuff like maybe some top cast or some thick concrete curing compounds it'll put it out there and a nice thin broadcast so we're gonna fire this thing up see what it can do and do a little test run also you probably seen it in the last few videos I've used it on a few of my videos now seems they have the power to get it done and you're blowing a lot out there real quick so you're not you don't have to mess around you're going to get a lot of area covered and short amount of time so this is the tool I was talking about giving away in order to get into the contest to get this the key phrase will be I want the tomahawk concrete sprayer also you have to subscribe like and you have to comment of course the key phrase then you're automatically entered into the drawing that I randomly pick a person through the google randomizer then go from there tomahawk will mail it out direct here's some of the parts it comes with a few mechanical parts here to do a little odds and ends spark plug and some other tightening some of the fittings and stuff here's the sprayer itself and you can dial in that throttle depending on how hard you really want to spray out that's the fan tip with a cone nozzle you could probably shoot probably some good 40 feet out that with a cone tip so that's it I want the tomahawk concrete sprayer key phrase like subscribe and share to get into this drawing tomahawk we'll mail it out direct and if you don't happen to be the winner and you do want one of these I'm gonna have I'm gonna put a code within the description of the video and get you 10% off that code will be in there with a link to get to tomahawk site in case you do want to purchase one there's a joint pattern see the bottom of the face of that step see that joint how I continued that thrill what I had to do there is I chiseled it down instead of running the cove then I ran an actual edger on one side yeah because you know when the crack is gonna crack all the way through even if there was a cove unfinished joint you're gonna see a crack so when you get to those bottom of stairs cases bottom of faces you're gonna that's where it's gonna crack anyway so it's better just to put a joint there here's what it looks like when you're said and done anyway thank you for watching and hope you enjoyed this congratulation congratulations to the winners of that tomahawk power screed and stay tuned for the Power Sprayer giveaway and I got some more stuff I'm giving away after that because I just can't use it all I mean I'm one guy that's all I need is one of everything have a good one bye

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Id: 56tSoBXxx8w

Length: 22min 12sec (1332 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 09 2019