Why Is This House Moving?!

[Music] waiting to see this project okay we were uh today it was kind of questionable rain early this afternoon so we went over and poured a garage a front porch and a patio stopped and prepped the swimming pool on the way back and now for our final project here we are addressing this floor the perimeter looks good no cracks in the drywall everything looks good up here I'm looking for cracks nothing but everything is heaving like look at that ledge so the guys are getting some tools in here we'll set a laser up and we're trying to figure out why this has a big Crown in it it wasn't like this when they bought the house you can see it was patched once got a rotted corner back here kind of wet uh here I'll get a laser set up okay so we know we're 4 in in the middle 8 in we have a 4 in hump in the middle of this floor and we're even all the way around so 88 8 and2 but pretty close all the way around the perimeter so what is making this Center heave leaky down spout but You' think we'd have a crack here and my theory is we ran into this before expandable soils never fails so expandable soils once once they get moisture it's up Steve okay no I think we're good come on over all right uh once you get moisture in them now they expand and it creates a problem could it be the sewer line utility room powder room all come and exit this wall right here is that what's contaminating this with moisture or is it something else we're going to dive into this it sounds solid you don't hear that Echo sound so uh we're taking that door out we need 36 in trying to take care of the Dust for them we'll hang some plastic and we'll be underway shortly we need to get rid of this uh Manel or this Hearth we'll see if we can slide this out now that's pretty thin that's loose too okay we'll get that out of here [Music] there's our expandable material this is Old Mill slag it compacts real nice it smells like gas and it gets hard on top once you pack it it's almost like conrete and then once you fluff it up you can see right like that so once you put moisture to this it turns to like a slurry mess and it expands almost almost doubles in size so we have a 4 in hump in the middle maybe not doubles in size maybe like 50% it's about 8 in thick in there Tommy's going to stay here and dig a little bit more out and uh we all have to get going we'll be back here tomorrow and uh evaluate the system the area more what a day all right [Music] go [Music] okay we are just about done digging just scraping the last of the lag you can see over here I am down to dirt we're getting a little bit of water coming in underneath the footer right here oh boy so the sewer line looks good I think this is a little bit of top soil so we're just going to clean this debris back to the wall line and get it back as far as we can this hasn't heaved because it hasn't seen any moisture yet all the moisture is coming in on this back wall uh so we're going to drape plastic up that and hopefully if moisture does come back in here you know maybe there's a barrier there rather than getting to tearing out the bathroom that utility room area um the homeowners just want to stop right there and see what happens we can always come back and attack that from the garage side but deep into the house this will all be done uh so we're going to put in a radon pipe and fill this back up with Limestone and we're going to Target our original height which is just an inch or so above the footer so Stone needs to come up to body here now here is the million-dollar question we're not going to compact this stone that way if anything heaves maybe there'll be a little bit of a cushion everybody shaking their heads s at me my thought is maybe there'll be a little cushion that that stone will compress before it buckles the floor again if we can get a/4 inch before that happens it took 25 years for this to happen that's my thought good last little pile feed going around the edges we got all the material cleaned out now I want a lower layer of visqueen and we're going to roll it up here that way if any water gets in our Stone hopefully it doesn't leech into this you know just trying to think of what possibly could work so Stone and then plastic then concete great okay here's our Stone [Music] Truck we'll just run the wheelbarrows back and forth It's about 30° cooler out here there okay all right see inside okay hold this plastic up while they dump a couple barrels right here that's what we're looking for [Music] [Music] okay spread Stone we're going to put the concrete back to the original height bottom of paneling there we go uh we just made a little ramp we put our blocks right here now the buggies will come up and then down to a mat just to turn off how you want to do it right I'd say put it that way I that yep but tight to that one right right [Music] [Applause] little bit of cleanup mixer is on the way okay Showtime we'll be finishing this project up a day ahead of schedule so that's good no sense leaving and going starting another one there's still a thread of rain around and it's about 1:30 so time we get somewhere get the tools out it's 2:30 uh let's just stay here and get this done today so power buggying the concrete up just like we power bugged all this out for meate there's our blocking Matt's turn uh the guys hung plastic around thank you very much that's nice uh over here in this corner that's where we stubbed up our Ron pipe and we're just going to concrete right over the top of that and then if they ever want to tie it in they can tap a hole in the concrete and run a pipe up and out the wall that's the plan uh what else what am I missing guys guys we have a double Vapor Barrier sort of this is our Vapor Barrier we have the plastic underneath the aggregate as well F to the bottom of the drywall but then scre the walls in make sure they're nice and flat right yep exactly so over there we're going to be about an inch and a half below the ceramic tile our new floor is going to be level across the old floor has a hump in it they're going to do away with that wall if we ever come back and redo the rest of it now everything will be level remember about 2 years ago we were working in that factory and they had us fix all the humps now the the thing was a disaster but it was a similar thing the floor was Heaven and it was due to moisture in the under soils expanding the same thing here all that Ash uh Mill slag I'm sorry the mill slag expanded with all the moisture it wasn't the ground because the footer did not move the footer is nice and level all the way around here comes our first buggy let's go [Music] [Music] okay got that off there it is back to the original height can you get the water on Chris uh I'm looking for the valve okay all right outside here little bit of cleanup little bit of finish this Project's behind us so I hope every everybody finds it very interesting how that soil expanded and caused all this headache uh what do it due to well let me show you the footprint of the property got a hillside here getting a lot of runoff probably down against this wall water was coming in that back far back corner as well as where the sewer line was coming in we could see it seeping in there so water is fine its way into this you know it's it's uh it's the lowest point on this hill uh and like I said earlier I have to keep repeating myself but the soil is not expanding it's a material the Builder used to bring up the grade okay there it is concrete's all in almost ready to get on and finish I am going to hit the road I just mopped up this hallway a little bit put this door back in getting it all secured back up for them all right we'll be back in a year to do this one as always thanks for tuning in to concrete with the hoses sorry about that that back see you tomorrow getting it all cleaned up maybe we'll change the whole Fleet to Orange Mike Morgan would like that not going to happen but it was a nice machine I got it on rental from highway equipment and we'll talk to them maybe we'll add it to the fleet just got done work pouring concrete uh it's about 5:00 so I I have a little bit of time working back on my daughter-in-law's pantry door we got the lumber all Mill to inch and a quarter I drilled a/ in hole into the wood about every 10 to 12 in both sides so I'm going to pin this together with epoxy everything's clamped holding nicely firm I put U uh parchment paper underneath this for easy clean up that way if it sticks I can sand that right off uh but I was reading the instructions and and they suggested doing that so I'm all clamped down this is outside perimeter is the size of the door let's get mixing I'm excited here so I switched and I got a deep por epoxy I can go uh up to 4 in thick with this and it's not equal parts like my other epoxy resin is a and b uh this gets this gets two to one um which one is the activator so they marked two different ways base resin a curing Agent B one step further a black cap for the B white cap for the a so don't get those mixed up just in case these labels get peeled off you know black is the B agent white is the base resin so in my bucket I put a mark at 4 in and a mark at 2 in so B base and curing agent sorry liquid glass 2 to 4 in Pore that is Crystal Clear material and I'm going to color it black try to pour it without getting all the bubbles okay and 2 in oh [Music] figures we all knew that was going to [Music] [Music] happen Okay I just let's go for a slow mix we don't want to whip air into this touching the [Applause] [Applause] sides so it give us about a good 3 or 4 minute mix and I'll add my color [Applause] this is the most common mistake not giving it a thorough mix scraping the edges scraping the bottom and then have another container ready I'm going to dump this material into that container and then mix again and then do not scrape the edges when you're dumping the material in to the mold can really feel the material change in the consistency you start to see the swirls they looking pretty good think we start off with like three okay like come up and grab that [Applause] [Music] three scoops really turned it dark huh like I say with medicine a little is good more is better we'll go with four [Music] [Applause] okay so about another 3 or 4 minutes mixing and this gets poured right in here I used a p i used about a third of my kit and I bought two of them so I don't think I'm going to have enough epoxy this is about 10 in wide maybe 11 in wide um so if I I'll see how far this uh one bucket goes if I need to I can fill this up with some Aggregate and then pour on top of it I don't know if they'll like that I don't know if you'll even see it it's black let's see uh let's see what happens here [Music] two [Music] [Music] okay let that tighten up good grab some dinner round two okay so the poxy has been here for just a couple of minutes couple little air bubbles about 8 in away just letting the tip I'm not even melting the plastic on the paper instantly goes away [Music] okay once it sets up a little bit you can spray some alcohol on there to lose these Bubbles as well okay almost done fixing the wheelbarrow heading to dinner [Music]

Channel: Concrete with the Hauses

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Keywords: concrete, construction, driveway, cement, tshconcrete, TSH, work, finishing, decorative, rolled slate, sealing, excavating, prep work, border, patio, pool, garage floor, concrete pour, pouring, CAT, tear out, wood plank, gravel, xylene, color, demo, stamping, business, small business, DIY, How to

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Length: 26min 28sec (1588 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 12 2024