Replacing a sunken and flooded walkway with correct slope
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2024
- This sidewalk had dropped down over the years and was holding water terribly. We replace it with a properly sloping walk to kick water off the house.
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As a former logistics guy, i couldn't agree more. If you touch something twice while you could do the job by touching it only once, you are doing it wrong!
Here in the UK we call it double handling, first the foreman laughs then if repeated he gets mad, repeat then you're shown the door.
@b_lumenkraft agreed the concrete removal could be more efficient for sure
Same as with water. Once you’ve got it in a pipe, keep it in a pipe until you’re done with it! 👍
@@andrewrussack8647 Hah! :D
That little stream going off his lawn during the hard rain at the end would look perfect with a small dry creek bed incorporated into the landscaping
As an armchair expert 😂, I was thinking the first thing I would have done as a homeowner was to angle the downspout of the rain gutter away from the problem area.
It’s very easy to see the better contractors.
Thank you Cookies!
This is the 2nd new GCFD video on the same day. What a treat. 10/10. ✅✅✅
Yes by raised that sidewalk up it not only fix the water problem but it really help the look of the home nice job👍
Sean, your work is so good, lol. I recommend your channel to so many homeowners who have water issues around their property. The other crew next door helped show how much more you care about professionalism. Keep it up man!!!
Loved the flowers 😍😅
That concrete guy in the white boots seems very competent. I like the thinking behind what you've done here, inc the dry line up against the brickwork. You definitely do offer a better clean up service for the owner.
What a nice clean job. I’m glad those beautiful flowers weren’t disturbed. Lovely house and neighborhood. Great job Shaun and crew!
I think you should look into composite mats like Tank Masters uses to put down to protect the landscape when using the skid steers. This saves the landscape and less remediation.
Good idea but the Bobcat has rubber tracks and weights less so unless the ground is really soft seems ok without mats.
Get some plywood sheets down to protect your customers garden lawn.
Exactly! Be professional
It's great to see someone conscientious about their work! Too many people have no clue what they're doing.
I like when swales become part of the drainage solution. Great work as always
You're TRULY a respectable Contractor! Good job Sean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your work looks impeccable as usual! Too bad the homeowner painted that brick porch.
Good to see that Harvey is still kicking around!
He still out-works us all! 👍
@@GCFD Must be a mentor-like relationship you've got going with him! He has a bunch of experience I am sure.
@@GCFD Actually I was wondering if you're ever tempted to just bring your laser level out there and check if the water has a way out. I got a second hand one for a couple hundred bucks and it has really proved useful in the water-harvesting earthworks we've been creating (I got a playlist on my channel). Next autumn we'll be planting out our food forest!
Hello!!!!!!!! I love your videos. I like what u do alot!!!! I hope u dont stop and stay in bizness forever!!! Thank u for taking the time to do this.
Another excellent video Shaun!!! Absolutely enjoy the after shots of the finished project working to perfection!!
Great job !! - Super professional and looks fantastic !
Excellent job! I like the fact that you extended the landing to the corner of the house and raised it one full riser height. And with plenty of length you were able to zero out at the driveway. And the finish grading looks like it will give rainwater out of that corner downspout a better way to go. Thanks for sharing.
Man we're getting FLOODED with GCFD vids! Thanks again Shawn!
So long as it doesn't SEEP into your BASEMENT!
Beautiful home, nice work boys
Love your work.
Beautiful concrete job❤
Dude, you destroyed the guys lawn! Ruts will not go away when the grass grows.
I like how you immediately put the rubble of the old sidewalk in a truck to be taken away. I have never seen someone pile it at the end of the driveway like that other contractor. Perhaps their truck was out of commission or at another job but it was a weird look.
I had a similar thought. Dumping it right in the truck is obviously ideal. But life often creates unideal circumstances. Handling the concrete twice may have been a way to keep everyone busy and getting paid even though the truck wasn't immediately available.
Not if you don’t have a truck! Get real!
Great work once again Shawn! As funny as it was to have competition next door, and to spy on them, it certainly is night and day in process, and technique... while they were sledge hammering away, and piling concrete on the edge of the road, you guys were moving twice the speed, and doing it right! you create a much more efficient, cleaner, and safer work space, with less clean up in all your jobs. Looking forward to more videos.
Nice job.
Don does good work.
Good Job, watched this on the iPad in the garage, now here signed in, 👍👍👏👏
Great job done Shawn 👍
Thank you Taylor!
Love the camera shot of brooming! 🤌
Love the broom cam!
Great work!
At the beginning of the video as you started to break up the concrete, I said to myself that a mini-beak would work great here and then you added the text about a mini-beak 😂! The grade looks great to keep the pond off of the steps and foundation. Great job!Great job with the dry line.
I wish I had a mini Beak!
Nice work!
Looks Great Shawn!!! See on the next one.
See ya!
This is such a wonderful channel. Very informative but also entertaining. Thank you!
Thank you Kyle!
Another A++ job DONE.
Another great job!
Good job guys. It looks like his yard isn't flooding too bad after the raising the sidewalk up. I bet you guys could help with the yard drainage as well if the customer decided he needed that done.
Some more good stuff ! Love it.
Thank you Mac!
More great work, Shawn.
Thank you! 👍
I would leave the existing concrete pad if its going to be all cover by new concrete, However I would break it down into small pieces, and compact it to make sure there are not voids underneath, it will save time and money but its got to be done right.
Good work 👍👍
Thank you Chris! 👍
I was suprised to see that you put no expansion joint between the house and the new concrete
Very nice job
Thank you Drea!
Another great job there
Thank you!
Curious if you removed the last step of bricks or just left and covered over? If left wouldn't that be an area of concern for cracking when things settle?
So much better the way you do it, no dumping concrete for the time being and thereby perhaps damaging the lawn.
👍👍 I think so too.
But, they can mess up the lawn anyway since they didn’t put planks down. I would not be happy seeing them drive all over my lawn with no protection down. @GCFD
If this was my house I would have done it completely different. I would have ripped out all the plants next to the house and built a concrete front porch the length of the house at the height of the stoop in front of the door and then had steps up to the porch at the driveway. I would have then put a roof over that porch. A lot more money for sure but that house looks naked without any roof over the entry area. Just my opinion. That said, your solution does a good job of solving the problem!
That would have made a nice improvement on the house! 👍
Nice job… but I’m still amazed that there is no reo in the concrete. In Australia, I’ve always poured paths with at least 100mm x 100mm x 5m mesh. Love the videos.
Like seeing stiff concrete. Way stronger with less water😊
Very very good, 👍👍👍👍
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I love watching your work. I wish you where closer to Ohio b/c i have huge drainage issues around my house and i know you could fix it
same kinda. i dont feel like the guys here know what theyre doing that much
Good stuff! I kinda want to see the neighbors work lol
That's okay Shawn the neighbors will be calling you to come fix the "competition's" stuff next week.
Haha 👍
Great Job! I admire your work and service you're doming to the the community. If I were to look at this with a critical eye I would have considered the following:
Instead of making the walkway flush with the existing step, I would of removed the last step so it doesn't look like an after thought. Also, If the slab settles at a different rate than the existing step, it might cause a tripping hazard.
A little rebar or WWF in the slab for insurance ... not needed but cheap insurance.
Installing an expansion joint up against the house would be a good move.
Personal preference: Instead of sharp right angle corners, I would opt for a radius since it would be easier to follow continuously with a mower or edger. Nature seldom has straight right angles and this would make the landscape a bit softer.
Great points Nate!
brilliant.
Looks good, homeowner gets want they wanted.
Brilliant, as usual.
(cant compute why they would handle concrete twice except not having access to a truck, but why not - that is when you need it)
No issues with the weight of that skid steer on sprinkler heads and irrigation lines or the turf? It looks fine. Jack hammer and load to the driveway? I really enjoy your videos and admire your honesty. It’s a great way to run your life.
definitely need to think about another bucket for the skid steer one with the grabber attachment if ?? its available that would make concrete removal so much easier
I miss the NC azaleas.
What is going on, 2 vids in 2 days - I was just about ready to play a game on the computer - I suppose, I am going to HAVE to watch this now.
Love the videos. Does it hurt the transmission when you take dirt out of the bed of the truck and it rock back and forth?
I've seen those videos of leveling foam that gets injected under the concrete to lift it up. Could that of been an option here, lifting the parts that were sunken and negatively graded vs tearing all of that up and pouring new? I'm not saying you were wrong at all for what you did, you do great work, just thinking strictly as a homeowner and looking at cost of maybe that vs total replacement. Glad you popped back up on my RUclips Home Page, been a while man!
my guess it only delayed it and not solve it... the grading issue still remains...
I like removing the old stuff and getting new stuff correct. We can replace concrete for the price of foam lifting.
Err, no. You would just end up with the same old path just more cracked and rubbish looking. Generally speaking concrete is by far the cheapest material to use, hence its popularity..
Why not a drain to pick up the gutter and the low spot out to the curb or down slope spot on the lawn?Did they want a new sidewalk?
The property has a negative grade. The home is lower than the curb / street.
@@maxmanx1294 looks like it’s a hill you could trench thru.Other wise the house sewer would have to be pumped out.And my mistake it’s the Apple guy that prefers drains for ponding.
Depending on plumbing and stuff the hill may be to.thin for that
It makes no sense to run that tracking machine all over the yard. There are other ways to do that. There is no reason to put that truck on the yard just destroying shit for no reason.
The reason we pulled the truck up is the homeowner wanted to save the $$ by no using he concrete buggy. 👍👍
@@GCFDI think he might be talking about the truck with dirt?
It’s grass. It can be repaired with a little patience.
I agree, he can lay plywood. Concrete has no rebar, no wire mesh… gravel would have been a better base.
I noticed your company sign by the curb and driveway, advertising while you work. Cheers from Edmonton.
you guys do very good work.. imo.. I wonder if a french drain would solve that once 'poolin water' once and for all..as for the other company dumping concrete slabs in the roadway.. not a good look...
Such a good job. I have a similar problem. What is the cost of something like this?
See that vertical crack in the brick? Differential subsidence from, you guessed it, water moving through the soil.
Nice job!
How could I learn more about the vertical brick cracks? Its happening to my dad's property right where his uphill neighbor's gutters overflow with their water running down close to my dad's foundation.
@@maxmanx1294 Is it within a few feet of the corner of the home? Sometimes you might see stair step cracks which indicate where the problem is. However, you already said the neighbor is dumping water from their gutters toward the home. Either way you have to manage the surface water flowing there. The only fixes are proper drainage and maybe structural work to the foundation unless it's not that bad.
What about expansion joints?... Garden bed drainage?... Reinforcement mesh?
Budget budget budget. This one screamed ‘Fixed Income Homeowners’ to me, so I’m betting he’d already stretched their dollar as far as he could.
22:44 Потом в эту щель попадает земля, оттуда растет трава.Сомнительная красота.Then the earth gets into this gap, and grass grows from there.Dubious beauty.
Obviously someone hasn't watched "Concrete with the Haus's". There's no Rebar or steel mesh at all, the forming left a lot to be desired. Get the forming right first time, and you haven't got to bugger about with it after the pour. And there doesn't appear to be an expansion joint between the concrete and the brickwork of the house, so one or the other will fail in a short time.
Just my observations.
Also pouring over an existing step that is part brick is two different expansion contraction materials
@@SickinTv I would assume that there is a 5 minute warranty on the job then.
Rebar is not used or needed in our climate and with our subsoils. We just don't have the same climate that you have or the hauss's have.
There is the dry line🎉😊
You can't fake it!
Your job looks very nice Shawn. I'd be willing to bet though that the neighbor was pushing the contractor to get the job done before he was able to get all his equipment in place. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to get a job done. Far be it from me to defend a contractor, where I live contractors are the last people you want on your property.
That's a great point Paul. 👍
A better way would be to lay paving stones on the existing sidewalk. The cost of work is less, but the effect is the same
28:57 right where the formwork was adjusted we've got some cavities, other then that looks great
Would removing the mulch that dammed the water have been cheaper, or was the only solution reforming the sidewalk?
Great job.....either Don is a grumpy old man.or Don doesn't like being on camera...which one is it?
No felt against the house or brick wow
Curious about the machine choice. Did you use the small machine in lieu of “The Beak” to limit damage to the lawn? I was surprised to see the concrete truck parked on the lawn, although probably not with a full load.
Yes we didn't think the larger machine was needed. I would love to get a mini beak for the mini bobcat. The homeowner wanted to save the $$ by not using the concrete buggy on this one, so was fine with the truck in the yard. Plus it was very dry.
Nah, the pile of rubble was gone the next day when you showed up. Look back at your video. You've had logistics issues previously, I'm sure. Did you look at the quality of their work?
I wonder if the homeowner will paint the entire house next, to match his front steps?
Enjoy all your videos Sean! I'm wondering if you've ever considered having someone "raise" the concrete back up to it's original height instead of replacing it?
It's too expensive to raise concrete like that. I like getting it done right 👍
Those concrete guys don't seem too nice. I miss your regular crew. Great work as always and kudos for insisting on doing the job right with even added some concrete against the house to ensure proper grade.
I think these guys did a good job. They seems like these cared about quality.
I agree it's not very efficient to dump the broken concrete and then have to move it again but then I don't know the situation of the other contractor maybe he was having to share their truck with another job or it broke down. Only would know by asking.
Great points. Another possibility was that they were rushing to get it done. Who knows.
What's the old concrete scrap being recycled for?
As a home owner, dealing with that concrete would be a nightmare. Unless they own the tools or space, removal must be part of the job.
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26:08 Yeas. Gate City does a much better job of removal & site preservation.
(That Takeuchi Is a beast though).
Sean, I have to say you work those machines as if you have another arm lol. As soon as you got the old out those guys jumped in. Good to see Harvey. Why wouldn’t you handle the broken concrete TWICE. Work smarter not harder……
Good one, looks much better again, Cant believe they threw that off on the corner And over the curb to the street, 1 drive by w somebody hitting it by accident would be a mess & possible lawsuit
being uphill really not coming across with a GoPro/Fisheye lens but the evidence obviously speaks for itself.
I always say work smarter not harder easy peezy 😊
As a former NASA engineer it’s clear the house just needs a dome built over and around it…
Yeah a minibeak wouod have made ripping that old walkway out much easier. You got it done though.
What happened to the Beak? I'm surprised there wasn't a dumpster already there for the concrete. Best would have been to load it into a dump truck right away. I had one job where we had to load busted up concrete into drums from inside the building. It was a tremendous pain.
The beak is for a full size skid. They make a mini beak but I don't have one...
Sean...how much downgrade was there from the steps towards the grass in terms of fractional inches or degrees?