Stamped Concrete Wasn't good enough for Home Owner! Part 3

welcome back to this build Series this is Tim Odell with Odell complete concrete and this is part three of this field series and the last part you did see us build the planter wall in the back it's actually there I'm not there right now because we were doing a little bit of the concrete patio setup while we're also doing the block wall build but in this part of the video series what we're going to be focusing on is this concrete patio it's going to be a stamped concrete finish with a paver bordered actually but the paper border will be in part five so stay tuned for that all right so as we're building out the wall caps over here I got my brother Tyler and Shane working on the concrete section right now we're just uh doing some forming for the pavers because we're gonna have like a big paper patio over there we're going to integrate some of the pavers into the concrete so what we're doing is every post we're gonna have a paver band going through the concrete right here and since I do need slope to these rings I got like a half percent going down and then another half percent going down to the drains this way oh it's about one percent actually so even better so that's what we're gonna do though for every single one of these uh posts now like I've been saying throughout this build series there was a couple of things that the homeowner kept changing on the design and these paver uh borders being integrated within the concrete slab was one of them she didn't decide this until after I already had all the drains in so what I had to do was I had to re-dig up all the drains and re-center them all and I had to re-center all these drains because once the 12-inch borders went in on the patio slab it basically threw off the center location of all the uh slabs and I don't mind doing the extra work to make sure that the finished product comes out perfect and nice for the homeowner the only thing I don't like is when it seems that the homework just seemed ungrateful for me putting in extra work and I'm not even up charging them even though we did all of these small little changes to appease the homeowner in the end she still decided that she didn't like the changes that she personally made and basically stuff like this just kept happening small little changes to the design that she ultimately just didn't like and was the main reason of why we just couldn't complete this job but at the end of this video you guys check out the final product let me know what your thoughts were and let me know if this is something that you would have loved in your backyard and if you're at all confused about what I'm talking about right now this is a build series guys there's multiple parts to it in part one I do explain pretty much why this is one of the worst backyard remodels I've ever done and that we just never got to complete so make sure to go back and check out the other parts so you're caught up and on board with the story but as you can see what we're doing right now is we're just compacting all of the concrete slabs putting in all the rebar we're putting all the rebar at two foot centers and then we're just tying all the rebar up so that when we start pulling it up during the concrete pour it doesn't all uh come loose and it stays at two foot on Center so here's the concrete patio all set up and ready for concrete we got a rebar running through you can see the paver right there making sure that our forms were exactly 12 inches so that we can get our paver Border in between all the concrete slabs we have our uh Simpson strong type Post in and drains all set so this job was uh ready to pour out all right here we are poor day we're about to pour out this uh backyard it's about uh 10 yards we're going to be doing a 12 inch border all the way around each one of these little squares um and then we're also are going to be doing a stamped concrete in the middle it's a Roman slate textured we're going to try to keep that uh stamping texture pretty light uh per homeowner's request and uh no color though we may add two-tone later on with some color dye but the homeowner is still deciding on that [Music] [Music] so we got the full crew out here today my brother Tyler Juan my main Concrete Finisher uh Shane Jimmy and also one of Juan's uh guys and like I was saying so we're gonna be trying to keep this stamped pattern very light because the homeowner just wanted it that way and you know what that was actually another thing she didn't like in the end she thought the stamping came out a little too a little too rough I guess and I even did try smoothing it out in some areas as we were finishing to try to keep it as light as possible and then you know what she even kind of got mad that we didn't integrate a two-tone color because she decided after the concrete was curing that it needed something more to pop and I did tell her we can always add that later on but uh I guess um you know she kind of took that out on me for not insisting to put a two-tone in but right now we're just pouring out the concrete it's a 3000 psi mix there I am right now bull floating the slabs and I got one and his guy rotting out the concrete and uh I definitely wanted to add in shots where you can see us lifting up the rebar so uh the rebar police don't get all over me I know you guys love commenting about Dobies and chairs but um I made a specialty little rebar tool uh just to be able to pull up rebar kind of ironic huh it's got a little hook that pulls up the rebar and you can see the way that one and this guy are rotting the concrete and a nice circular fashion around all the drains so that everything slows very nicely to the drains there's the fourthful Milwaukee level that thing was great when I first got it um to Rod concrete because you can see the levels and believe me that's important when you're rotting because if you don't got good finishers and they don't know how to Rod they're going to leave you bird baths or even worse sloping Concrete in the wrong ways where your drains aren't so that thing was great when I could see the levels but now I've used that thing for so many years I can't see the levels on it anymore so now that the job is all poured out we're just gonna start uh with the very first process in any concrete pour just going over the service with a nice wooden Bowl float we're also if you as you can see he's kind of jiggling the concrete a little bit trying to make sure that there's no high points and then moving the concrete around as he's uh shaking the bowl float that helps kind of even out the surface brings the cream up a little better as well and you can see as the finisher he's throwing a little bit of concrete on the edges he must have seen a a low point on those edges that's why here we are with some hand flow action smoothing out the edges with the hand float and uh we actually are filling up that little block wall right there with some concrete since we already had concrete today just made sense and then we're actually using a DeWalt vibrator to vibrate the concrete to the bottom of that wall and it's actually really good too when you're both loading to go um two ways vertically and horizontally as you're bull floating because that'll cross reference any low points or even high points in your concrete slab so if you have the space to do that it's always best to you can see now we're going down with the edges hitting all the edges on this concrete slab here's some nice little close-ups of the edger and process we like to clean our edges on the forms first so you can see your Edge that'll help you get a nice clean Edge some of the edges aren't the cleanest we definitely like to try to hit those like this one right here we cleaned up and push the cream up and then edged it in the next step in the process of your concrete finishing is breaking out some steel trowels on the surface this basically seals the concrete and that's a Fresno next thing we're doing right now is we are marking in the 12 inch borders that we're going to be wrapping around on the concrete slabs itself this was uh another request the homeowner wanted she wanted 12 inch borders all the way around the concrete slabs so you can see we're just marking out the ends of the slabs using the Streamline to run all the way and then snapping it into the concrete so that we can cut in straight joints here's our joint cutter it's a six foot joint cutter and it helps get your joints real nice and straight we actually snapped the of our string lights on the 12 inch borders though so you can see uh what to follow after you do cut all your joints in here's our walking Joiner and this just helps smooth out those joints cleans them up now here's a little close-up of us going around this area it's a little bit of a trickier area when we're putting our 12 inch borders in so you see Todd is actually marking it out with his margin trowel then he's making sure that his hand Joiner is uh perfectly aligned on each side before he presses down into the concrete to cut in the joint and he's using the Milwaukee level do that because that thing is nice and straight so you can see we basically have all of our joints in the last one we got to do is the one closest to the house that we're going to be doing next oh and the one that goes across all the drains but that one we actually almost forgot to put in it was a little bit harder to get in because the concrete was stiffening up but one does bring a little uh metal rod for basically cutting in late joints which helped tremendously all right so we forgot one crucial joint joint down the middle to cut the pads in half so our scramble right now get this in one luckily has a sweet cutter that can break up the concrete even though it's already kind of hard [Music] so you can see now that we put that joint across all the slabs down the drains that one was pretty necessary to put in because these slabs were pretty long they were about 14 feet and we wanted to break that up into at least seven so you can see I'm using the aluminum rodden right now to get uh my joint in and it's funny really because the joint that I put down the middle of all these slabs the homeowner didn't like that either but I tried to explain to her how important that was because it'll help prevent any cracks from um coming up later on but uh that was another mistake and I would say there was a the perfect amount of finishers on this job basically one finisher for each slab maybe Overkill but makes it easy when you have more guys from 100 to 20. yeah I work out three thousand yeah you've got a like a concrete rollout [Music] concrete rollout right there all right so here are our textured mats like I said this is a Roman slate finish for our stamp stamping mats and we want to keep these to a very light finish or that's what we're hoping to do you guys let me know if this was a pretty clean uh stamping finished or not I thought it came out really nice but the Homer thought I was a little uh too heavy stamped and then what you see a spring on the slab was a liquid release so that the mats don't stick to the concrete and try to pull up the cream [Music] oh [Music] all right what we're doing right here is the home where I thought the sprayer was a little too rough of a stamp so all we're going to do is Glide over with our trowels to smoothen out the steps you can see I'm literally stepping on the concrete that's how hard this concrete is right now so I don't know even if you heard one of uh my guys Juan was actually talking to the homeowner trying to make the case of why we had to put the joints down the middle of the slabs and then also I did end up smoothing out some of the stamp to try to reduce the texture then the last thing we're doing is just putting a nice light broom finish on the bordered pieces of the concrete slab she actually wanted a smooth finish but I told her it'd be better if we did a light broom finish because it gets very slippery and it could be dangerous when when the concrete's wet and there's no texture on it you could slip and fall but that is basically the finished product let me know what you guys think about this finish or if you would have liked this for your house I think it came out very nice and clean homeowner it was questionable but anyways um I hope you guys did enjoy part three of this build series make sure to comment any questions uh you have about the job don't forget to like share subscribe I really do appreciate that uh it keeps us motivated to keep making content for you all of you and make sure to stay tuned for the next part of this build series it's gonna be uh the patio cover build [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] thank you [Music]

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Length: 19min 2sec (1142 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 13 2023