How to Pour a RED CONCRETE Garage Floor

[Music] hi david o'dell here with odell complete concrete this garage floor has seen better days it's going to all come out we're going to put concrete it back in we're going to do color concrete though so we want kind of a decorative type concrete floor finish but you can see there's a lot of movement in this floor lotto settling in the ground and this particular area has some expansive soils but a lot of this is just due to settling you know it wasn't compacted initially you know it's a new home so there's a lot of earth movement when they built this when they leveled the lot of course dug the foundation so you get settlement for the first 20 years usually after that it's pretty well settled in so typically you won't get that on the second time around when these house houses get to a certain age everything's kind of settled in as far as the ground goes but as we remove it here's another cause it was fairly thin it wasn't really consistent it varied from four inches to about two and a half inches in depth that was another issue and then another um problem was had no steel reinforcement so that allowed the concrete after it cracked it allowed the concrete to just do whatever it wanted to with a steel reinforcement or fiberglass reinforcement which is what i'm going to be using what happens is it can still crack but that reinforcement just holds those sections from shifting settling things like that also there's no control lines in here like control crack joints we're going to be putting some of those in also but we're going to be doing it with a saw we're going to be cutting it in these lines because we want to keep the lines as thin as possible because you know in garages especially you're going to be rolling around some heavy equipment possibly if you do any kind of mechanical then you don't want joints big you know half inch radius joints you just want to roll things over crack control joints that you know it doesn't get hung up in and that's the beauty of saw cutting really as you can see this little mini skid steer was perfect for this job in and out the garage door is really easy now over here you know actually as we demo this and you know you always run into this when you get into some properties that are over 40 years old conversions that have been done and initially this is this is actually a four-car garage and a single door actually went through on a drive-through on this far end they actually had a drive through at one point and they closed that up poured a stem well on top of the existing slab and then closed it up with a wall so that's why we had to bring in the mini jackhammer the makita there that you seen so we had to crack it right along that stem wall that was poured on top of this existing slab we didn't really want to pull the slab out from underneath that stem wall that the new wall setting on which is right underneath that window but we got a clean break there and the concrete the new concrete will just go right up under it and key it all in also we got a new tool we're going to be using on this job and it's uh from makita and it's their rebar tire battery-powered rebar tire makita is actually going to bring it out here and demo it for us give us some tips and pointers how to load them and you know go through the whole thing about the tool we've been using it quite often too since this job and it really cuts down with time for sure of tying still together so as i'm demoing i'm just using my tooth bucket i have a smooth bucket also and i use that just for my fine tuning on the grade so my tooth bucket i use for my prying lifting and then the smooth bucket i like to keep that nice and straight for uh when i'm doing my grating because you know these are tooth tooth buckets or any kind of bucket when you start prying on concrete or anything that's hard to get out they start to twist and they may get warped on you so you got to kind of save one straight edge because we had this existing slab poured underneath the new stem wall we're going to raise the elevation in the back of this garage probably about an inch inch and a half it'll give it a little more slope out the front doors but it also gives me some space we took out very little dirt with the concrete but we got enough out of there to allow to put this wash sand over a vapor barrier which is we're using a six mil of visquain plastic and we're going to drop this wash sand clean sand over the top of the plastic that was another issue with the previous garage floor didn't have the vapor barrier and the soils the chemicals salts and minerals all the different things that are in the soil that bleed up through the concrete was destroying the surface of the concrete disintegrating it basically slowly but surely this plastic will prevent that from happening so we got about an inch an inch depth of sand in here here's the 3 8 inch diameter fiberglass rods we're putting those in here at about two foot centers in both directions the nice thing about these fiberglass rods is they never rust you can leave them outside indefinitely and they'll never change hi we're on the job site and uh some of the representatives from makita just showed up and they brought a couple tools for us to try out we're gonna be trying this rebar tire and uh we've got some bunch of rebar here in the garage we're gonna tie up and let's open it up see what it looks like a little something here i need to cut all right this is for ty and rebar actually tie wires happen to have that in my back pocket but i don't think i'll be needing this anymore all right here's what we have here's your charger unit 18 volt battery all right now we're going to start loading some wire in this it's pretty simple we have to open the cover this cover is actually a dual purpose it prevents all the debris from getting in there and then jamming up your gears it also unlocks the spool if you had one in there when you drop it down it locks it in place here's the wire spool this is just your standard wire they do make a wire that has epoxy coating on it for in different types of environments drop this in notice i have the battery out now it's crucial when you're unwinding this is that you don't let it spin out freely because it could come unwound the wire and then you have a little you have a mess on your hand so now that we've got it unlocked from the spool itself we can unlock the jaws here slide it on through basically you want to you know you feel like it's going to bottom out at one point and that's where you want to stay with it right there now that we're all the way in we can drop this lock the spool in place unlock the jaws now it's crimped down on the wire so it can actually feed through and we also have another safety button here there's your safety button we're gonna have to unlock that for the switch to function click that we're ready to put a battery in here and get down to some action here's a fully charged battery pop that in notice i have my safety goggles i also have my sweat band here preventing moisture from getting into my safety glasses and impairing my vision so now i'm ready for business let's give it a shot right here let me do a just a quick pull see what we got oh yeah yeah there we go here we go power button's on safety's off and here's your spool that's what it did not wrapped around anything but you kind of just have to hold it up now and see that oh that's nice and tight let's try another one right here yeah that's not going anywhere nice tool that worked out beautifully what we're going to do since we have the new makita tying tool and then we've got the old school ties that we we normally use i've got 10 of these i'm going to run this tyler on this yeah and we're going to see i'm going to do 10 and we're going to count how many he got see what the difference is see who wins and who breaks the sweat first all right yep this is kind of like the axe against the chainsaw done ten okay we got ten here how many do you got one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. so it's almost double basically it's about two to one this gun does about two two to one of these plus you know if you're doing it all day long you're going to feel it you're going to it's the repetitive motion doing this all day long it's going to wear you down for sure so that's going to come in real handy for sure well that was interesting uh the tool definitely pays for itself i would say if you're going to be tying a lot of steel up or or fiberglass rods like what we we do typically um i mean so it's an investment but you know it frees up a guy to do other things if you have multiple people on a job or if you just want to accomplish more in a day then it's worth having that pin i just drove in the middle that's a for my screed board that's allows me to set a 2x4 into that slot and slide it along as we move the concrete pour out to the front and then i threw a little duct tape on on those uh pins on the stakes that way they won't slide down on me during the pour because they have a tendency to do that on steel stakes a lot of times see here's this chalk line going and you can see that we're higher than the old elevation and that's mostly just to conceal on that one end where we they had the slab on top of the stem wall now as we were in this garage we moved a lot of stuff out of this garage you know to to be able to remove the floor like the fridge a couple cabinets that were screwed to the wall and then uh when we got all done doing the demo i started looking around there's i noticed a lot of holes in the drywall so i just went ahead and patched them since i was here already anyway here's the dowels we're just using the same fiberglass rods drilling some 3 8 inch holes just hammering them in we're doing red concrete whenever you're doing a red or blacks those two colors really are those are the ones that really actually will stain a lot do a lot more staining than some of your earth tones so that's why we're going to be hanging some plastic all the way around this areas for the splatters of the concrete because we're doing a red color garage floor which is actually going to be better in the long run you know if you're ever thinking of doing epoxy coating on top of a bad concrete floor or something you might as well just tear the floor out and add the color to the corner because it's going to last a lot longer than an epoxy coating wall and in this case we're going to be integral red color and then we're going to put a sealer just a standard nice wet look sealer over the top of it and now you have a floor that's never going to change colors or or chip off the top the 16 through the wood stakes they never move so you don't have to duct tape those here's some fiber mesh i'm also going to add to the load here's a view looking down the barrel after i threw the fiber in this color is actually called sangria it's a davis color so it's not a brick red so it'll be a lighter tone of in the pinks you know somewhere in there when it's cured out but then when we hit it with the um you know the wet look sealer it's going to bring a lot of it's going to pretty much look like it is now with the sealer on it but without sealer after it cures out it's going to look a lot lighter but we will touch base on that you know maybe when we come back here to seal it in a month but you're gonna get a good look at this after we saw cut it and wash it down in this particular video but we will come back on here and do a seal on it you'll get to see the sealer going on at some point time we have to let it cure out to do that we're pouring this nice and stiff this is at about a four and a half inch slump and that's ideal for color the dryer you pour it um the more true that the color is going to match the color on the color chart is that more water that you add to concrete with the same amount of color going in as it's recommended on the chart like you get this one i think is two two pounds per sack of cement is what they recommend to get the sangria color based off their color chip on the chart now if you add a lot of excess water you're not really going to get that you're going to get a really washed out look it's not going to even be close to the color chart so that's why you don't really want to add a lot of water to color and especially if you broadcast water while you're traveling you're going to really change the color then of course when you're working the car your final pass when you get now down to the end of the finish because we're going to be doing a hard trial finish on this like in some areas if you were to hit this two times with the hard trowel in one area and you only hit another area one time with your trowel that color is going to be different than the area you hit with the two times on the trowel so everything's got to be hit the same amount of times with color concrete otherwise you get different colors all over the place so it's a few you know tricks you gotta make sure you're when you're dealing with integral color that you have to make make sure you stay on on target with hitting everything consistently on your final pass here's a half inch radius walking edger provided from rose burrows roseboro tool and orange here's a funny float and the funny flow you can see the lines that it's leaving that's be they're not they don't really come that way with those lines on the bottom those are all notched in with a right angle grinder just to draw a little more cream to the top so it's kind of a customized tool so here's our first time getting out here on the sliders i'm running the fiberglass sliders um the reason i like the fiberglass sliders is they're wider so you don't sink as much as with what you do with a steel slider also they have a little more traction so you're not sliding out of control a lot of times especially when you get on a slight incline not only that but i got fiber mesh in the concrete and fiberglass rod so pretty consistent this is a new trial i was testing out i got from a world of concrete that yellow handled one there made in mexico somewhere and i was just checking out the tool seemed pretty good so far but i'm going to test it a little bit more some more jobs and see how it holds up because i've never found a trial yet that really you know competes with the marshalltown stuff but i'm sure there's something out there i just you know haven't found it yet so when you have four guys out there on sliders you can knock them out pretty quick especially in a small area like this okay here's the very next day early in the morning we're laying out a saw cut pattern and i'm going to be using the medusa from skill saw it's a skill saw on wheels basically has a few modifications in there so the dust from the cutting doesn't get into the electrical components and set up with the vacuum as a handle a really nice tool for doing cutting and then i've got the dewalt cordless vacuum also i adapted to this picks up all the dust so you don't end up with a lot of dust at the end of the job site that you have to pick up or wash down it's getting about a good 95 of the dust in that vacuum here's some of the cabinets i was talking about we had to take down put those back up screw them back in roll the fridge back in here pressure wash everything this is a big paver driveway and we had you know the tractor skid steer out here tracks you know whenever you're operating on a dark uh concrete like pavers anything dark color really shows up tire tracks so we're gonna pressure wash all that there was a little bit of that but with the tracks it was really minimal so i like this double band cut off those entries of the doors because that's where those stem walls are so they're kind of inset into the garage floor so those are some crack points it's also a nice look so this even after this cures out when we put the wet look sealer on here this is how it will always look we left that little slab for the water heater that's why we have that other cut right along that wall off the corner of that existing slab we had to leave for the water heater there's your before look now here's your after and of course we will be doing another video with the sealer in about a month i would say it'll go up anyway thanks for watching the video make sure you like share subscribe have a good day

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Length: 25min 10sec (1510 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 25 2021