How To Quickly Pour a Concrete Slab By Hand

what's up everyone welcome back to the channel today I'm going to show you a fast way to mix concrete and make lay down a small concrete slab like this one this one is for this AC to sit on and I buy this 80 pound bags because they take 3.5 or this is a great tip so you don't mix too much water or too much concrete this takes three point five one gallon is three point seven or three point eight so just grab a few milk jugs fill them up dump this whole bag in the wheelbarrow and then dump the whole jug on so you don't mix too much or too little so you don't get so you didn't get the mix to be too thin or too solid so that's a great way to mix it very uniformly and it's gonna be all the uniform mix all around so quickly to prepare for this job you may have a flat floor ready to go you just pretty much screw four pieces of wood I had to do some adjustments forget about that it depends on your application and then I just throw some of these rocks that I had laying around in them underneath so I don't use too much concrete and then I had these these were for like the base for bed that we don't even use anymore so yeah I just use whatever you have around the house it's not gonna it's not gonna be you can buy special stuff to put inside the the concrete slab but you don't have to if you have some scrap metal you can use it like this this is very strong and solid so nothing is going to happen to it and after that you know you want to check your the frame you know make sure it's level all around like this like this so the main the main topic of this video is mixing the actual concrete so I'm going to set up the camera somewhere and we are going to mix the concrete with the water mix it up with a shovel inside the wheelbarrow and just dump it using a wheelbarrow is very useful instead of mixing it in a bucket or by hand because your back is gonna love you the next day so we're just gonna slice it like that and mix it with water mix it all with a shovel and just pour it in so let's get started - it came out perfect look how uniform this mix is just dump that jug water it makes it so much faster than a little bit of water you just add that required amount and you are good to go so I'm just gonna dump this over there and keep doing this until all these bags are done hey so you want to lift up the piece steel pieces so you make sure it doesn't sit way down at the bottom you want it to be wrapped right around the middle of this now that I am done laying down the concrete I can go around with my hand but if you're gonna do with your hand make sure you have gloves and you can go around and make it smooth like that or you can go around with a piece of wood and you know just make it smoother so we're gonna let it dry for half way kind of like halfway for about an hour or so and then we're gonna bring the special tool to smooth it out really good but I may not do this because especially that it's gonna be they use for it I may not need to do that because it's gonna have the AC unit sit on it so we're not gonna walk on it or anything like that so I may skip this step but in your case after an hour so this is the slow setting concrete you want to grab the special tool and just go and smooth it out really nice actually a straight edge works the kind of same way like this you know just smooth it out but yeah you may want to do that if you're gonna be like sitting on it in the backyard or front yard or you know any other use then they just the east unit it's gonna sit on top and I tried to make that the inside of it a little bit just a tiny bit higher than the outside so the water can drain underneath the AC and it just drains straight straight out so that would be helpful okay so this is the complete product this jug milk jug trick really helped me out so I just dumped the bag dumped the jug and I don't have to worry did I put too much water is it not enough stuff like that and just mix it in dump it smoothen it I'm gonna take it like that I'm gonna leave it to dry I'm gonna water it tomorrow morning and tomorrow after tomorrow morning and it's gonna be good to go for the new AC in it I hope this video was helpful if it was please give it a thumbs up comment tell me something tell me a tip and advice I'm not an expert I'm not a professional let me know what do you think and I will catch you guys in the next one

Channel: GK7 DIY

Views: 686,729

Keywords: concrete, slab, pour, lay, cement, home, house, foundation, backyard, frontyard, fast, diy, small, mix, bag, wheelbarrow, wood, shovel, April Wilkerson, GK7 TV, Pad, AC, unit, Cement, Slab, Concrete

Id: 5KAtK8KEiVI

Length: 9min 4sec (544 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 03 2019