Ignore all of the idiots that give out negative comments. It's YOUR job. You do it how you want. I appreciate your taking the time to make these videos. The youtube "experts" are sitting on there ass at home and proably have never touched wet concrete or even published a youtube video. Please keep up the good work !!!
I 1000000 percent agree with you too bro… if it wasn’t for people like you taking precious time out yo day to film stuff like this it would’ve been plenty projects I would’ve failed at cuz I use RUclips creators for a lil direction In my own endeavors! Fuck what a hater gotta say!!🤷🏾♂️
In all seriousness, good job. A couple little comments. You poured a 28 cubic foot, just a bump over 1 cubic yard pad. You used a little less than 6 bags. At a minimum for durability you should be at least 6 bags for one yard. However, I like to be closer to 7 bags per yard. What I like to do is 3 stone, 2 and a half sand and 1 and a half cement. Makes a nice finishable mix. Another pointer that takes some time but will save a lot of time is to meter your water in a bucket and adjust until you get the slump you want. Then you dont have to guess the water and you can put all the water in upfront and not have to worry about it anymore.
Really appreciate it. I’ve gotten it to 6 bags now. I’ve gotten the mix I want now. I just go a little heavy on the sand and Portland as you said. And for the water, I don’t guess. There’s a line in the mixer. I fill the mixer first with water until it hits that line. Then every mix has the same amount of water. Thank you for the tips and the well thought out comment 💪🏻👍🏻
Great video. I can't believe people would criticize a man out there working hard. Whether it's how you would do, or not do it, isn't the point. My 17 year old son and I are building a home with walk out basement from the ground up. Home design, excavation, block laying, framing, plumbing, etc is all brand new to us, and I'm sure we're making mistakes. But, we're building our family a home. Good job brother. Keep it up!
@jeffdeshong Thanks Jeff, it's definitely more than I bargained for. 🙏 I just noticed your University of Pittsburgh shirt. My wife actually worked at UPMC back in the day. 👍
Good job on the first pad square. I found that using a reciprocating saw without a blade on the forms help remove the voids. Not such a big deal on the inside edges that will have another pad poured up against it, but on the outside it would be a good idea. It costs a lot for a contractor do do the job because its a lot of manual labour. If you are willing to do it, you can save a lot of money.
When I was young we never had a mixer. We mixed in a wheel barrel with a hoe. The sand/gravel came from shoveling at the creek into our pickup. Now we’ve gotten to the point where we watch tv and have somebody else come and do it for us. You did a good job.
I'm able to get a larger mixer, but damn, it's still a lot of work. I'mpouring a cement pad that will eventually be a garage floor. Steady by jerks gets the job done!
Same here. I'm older now. Yesterday, I ordered a new 12 cubic feet concrete mixer with a Honda 13 hp motor. I should have it by mid month. It's too hot here for me to be outside. However, I will be stockpiling concrete supplies until then.
I've been using my HF crment mixer for around 5 years now, just small things 2x2x3 pads, 10x12 shed slabs, when I need to do over 25 fence post holes. It's been holding up just fine, even built it a ramp that hangs on that solid bar below the drum so I don't have to empty the contents into a wheel barrow. Solid $189 purchase
We just did the same thing this weekend. A 4m (13') x 3m (10') x 10 cm (4") slab broken into 4 equal parts of 1m (3.3') x 3m (10'), with inter-connecting 1/2" rebar (by way of notches in the form that will "slide" into the next quarter as we get to pour it). The rebar was sitting on 3" dobies, some of which toppled over. The entire form is on builders plastic. For the first quarter (which was in most areas closer to 6" deep) we went through 10 mixers-full, each consisting of * 1 bag of 25kg 42.N portland cement * 22 shovels of 0-32 mm ballast (rock/sand mix) I think we got approximately the same result in similar weather conditions. Key difference maybe is that we used a vibrator (which aids in moving the mud around inside the form and reducing honeycombing, but I think also brings bleed water to the top maybe a bit too early). Used an aluminium screed bar. Used magnesium floats. I didn't get to the broom since we needed to get a move on as it was getting late, and also the available brooms in the EU are a bit crappy. For the 2nd quarter this weekend, I will try to run a wooden bullfloat that I made in between the screeding and floating. Hopefully I can get to the broom. Dunno how to post a pic anywhere on utube to show my results, but would like to. Good to see some other poor bastard giving this a go. Shout out to @AJDIYNetwork who also posted a nice vid on the same method.
I have the same mixer. It was cheap but works good for the past 2 years. I find it easier to to pour directly into form and I also leave running when I pour it out.
Nice work! As a matter of personal preference, I would not broom finish a garage floor, it will make it very hard to sweep. Also, I would leave the edges square. Easier to roll around a creeper and or tool boxes.
Good job man... I can speak with a little authority on this subject. I'm retired from the swimming pool construction business 500 pools. About 20% of those pools worth vinyl liner inground pools that required 25 yds. Of concrete to construct. We built those pools with one gas powered Stone brand mixer. The only thing I would suggest that would help you would be to get anything to hold water next to the mixer such as a garbage can and keep it containing water just to bucket into the mixer. Count the scoops of water out of the water container and put the same amount every mix. As an added bonus the water container is a great place to dunk the spent bags to make them waterlogged and you can stack them neatly to be disposed of... Like I say great job it can be done that's the way they did it in the old days and it works.
To raise the PSI with the concrete you can add more cement, as for the slump start out with adding a little water at a time to the consistency you think you’ll need so that it’s not too watery and it won’t take long to dry and harden.
Not gonna come here and pretend I'm a concrete pourer hall of famer but the only thing is that everything should be measured from the buckets of sand, stone, liters or gallons of water and bags of cement. You can shut all the haters by doing a 1 year and 2 year post pour video... Good job.
Thank you for taking the time to film this . I want you to know that people like me and I'm sure many others really appreciate the help you have provided in spreading knowledge on how to do projects like this : )
You saved yourself a ton of money. A contractor would have been 2 - 2 1/2 times or more in cost. I know, I've done this. You get a nice product done in a short time frame, but it is not cheap. Keep up the good work.
Amazing! Thank you for posting this project. Shows you what you can do if you set your mind to it. I have some concrete experience, but not tons. I’m gonna definitely use what I learned here on my own project! Thank again Bro! Cheers!
I've poured several of these through the years, I did an 8X10 x 4" using sakrete concrete bags and by myself, hell of days workout and it was much warmer, can't remember the amount of bags but it was like over 40 I think, one thing to note if you didn't is oil those forms so they come off super easy. I did another 10 x 12 one time and hired a cement truck to come pour it all. My sides had lots spots like yours where the concrete didn't settle properly, if you can find a concrete vibrator that would eliminate that just by running it around the sides. Over all nice job on mixing it yourself and it turned out great, good luck with the rest of them.
Both types of comments are really good for your channel. Crybabies will want to feed their egos and get attention and more mature audience members will love and appreciate your excellent work. It doesn't matter which type they are because the RUclips algorithm interprets both as being interest in your content and will give you better exposure either way. Well done, amigo! I'll be watching more of your videos.
Great job. By the time you’re all done you will have worked out all the kinks. You could keep the mixer going while pouring your mix in the wheelbarrow, comes out easier.
Wow! I think I could do that. For now, I'm starting out doing a Flag Pole with Quickset Cement, but I might be looking at putting down a slab sometime next year and your video really was very helpful. You did a great job. I imagine that a guy can save some money DIY. Thanks for the great video!
Good job. I would not have hand mixed at all, because when I do the math, here I can buy a yard of Readymix 3000 PS with Fibermesh ( no need for rebar! ) in it, plus extra for small load 154 + 70 = 224 plus tax. Now if I choose 400 PSI Readymix the price would be more, yet still removes the labor of mixing. If I mixed my own it would be real close to your costs, 240 for a yard and a bit. Otherwise your work is very impressive. Too for a Garage your design is state of the art! Great grading of the base/gravel, that needs be stomped real well for a longer lasting floor!
You do you, I’ve done the same thing with my inexpensive Princess Auto mixer here in Canada and it has worked out fine. Did a 12x20 workshop floor for my shed and everything is fine, small expected cracks after putting my cj5 in and jacking but over all, great.
Good concrete work, Jeff! However, if you plan to put any type of weight bearing structure on these slabs, you would really need some footers in place. Otherwise, it's gonna be a troublesome experience. Generally, weight bearing load structures require a footing to be placed 12" below the frost line in your area. As @wisdomtrek1 mentioned, a monolithic slab would be the way to go with proper footers incorporated. A few cement trucks and a properly prepared base could be done in a day. Then, you could build whatever you want on top of it. Still, love your grit and tenacity as well as your videos! :)
Thanks Mike! Yup already have everything planned out. For the metal garage I’m buying, this is actually extreme overkill. One of the main reasons I’m not using a cement truck is because they would have to drive over a septic tank so I can’t get one close.
@@jeffdeshong I should have know you had already thought a lot of this through. Carry on - looking forward to more! Thanks, Jeff! Always love the content! :)
@@MikeBMW you’re the man Mike! I did originally plan on going the footer route. But I decided that it was going to be crazy expensive and a crazy amount of work. I really need a garage and I’m pleased with how my shed turned out so I decided to give a metal garage a go.
@@jeffdeshong I would expect nothing less than you already figuring the options. As a bonus, we now get to see a way to get this done which could be beneficial to many others. As for me, putting a small slab for a cover over my generator with the upcoming Florida Hurricane season. One never knows where the experiences you present could lead. :)
Just stumbled over this video and had an idea while watching. Could you use a section of rain gutter and bypass the wheelbarrow all together like a cement truck. I don't know, would the rain gutter be wide enough for the idea to work, or something similar shape.
Nice man! Anytime you can save money. People don’t realize we do these thing not because we want to (well some do) but because of the economy and money we have no choice but to choose the cheapest path. Bravo 👏 we cant afford a million $ house but who’s stopping you from trying to build one 👌🏻
Bro, honestly you are on the right path. But please read Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures. I was trained by a PhD in concrete. You're really understanding it, but you can be so much better. Concrete is no joke, seriously. You're pouring big slabs, it's not just 2'x2' square
Dude nice job man! That pad looks great! I’m gonna be doing this in my carport soon. They wanted 8000 to do 4 inches in my 30x16 car port. No thanks lol
How exactly could he do it any other way? Get 1000 pound bags of concrete? Too bad, 80 pounds is standard. This is what it takes to do the job, try it some day
@@BoatPatrol What's your problem? I've done lots of this kind of work. It's exactly as I described...endless repetition and hard physical labor...for me it was either a hot desert day or a freezing cold winter day. BTW 60 pound bags are also standard and as I've aged I've come to prefer them. It always amazes me when someone takes umbrage at one of my innocent remarks.
@@choimdachoim9491 Sorry, I mistook your comment for sarcasm. This channel has gotten a lot trolling type comments, and I enjoy the videos here and want the guy to keep uploading. My mistake sir, have a nice night.
@@derpherpp3 the rebar grid is called a "mat". It's like a skeleton to hold concrete together. In a monolithic pour. "All done at the same time" all the rebar runs throughout. In a segmented pour your rebar stops inside the forum boards. There is nothing holding the slabs together. So you have to drill into the existing slab and epoxy rebar that connects the next slab. My suggestion was to run the rebar through the forum boards, preventing the need for the extra steps.
Nice work. In rural areas, that's still how it's done. People have forgotten that not all pocket depths are equal, however, the job still has to be done.
I've owned the same mixer for over 8 years. Only 2 complaints. First and most aggravating is the cheap chinese steel rusts under the paint causing billions of orange paint chips on your slab. I've ran a load of gravel in it for a half hour to try and get all of the paint out of the drum. The other thing that happened was it smoked the starting capacitor for the motor. You could flip the switch and then manually turn the drum to get it started. I bought 2 replacement capacitors on eBay for $7. and replaced it. Been really a great machine
Hats off to you for making it happen! Bummed that you forgot the vapor barrier, once enclosed your floor will sweat bad on humid days. But hey, you’re making it happen and that’s a really huge deal! Keep up the good work.
Sweet! I wasn’t sure of your overall usage. I bought some property with a shop and if they had done that my floor would be nice and smooth, but they didn’t and it’s a real pain in the a!!
Very nice. I'm looking to do a pad and we found a mixer for like 100 bucks that is oddly enough the same mixer you are using. I think we have a plan now!
I’m not a know it all and not in any way criticizing I drove a mixer for twenty eight years and can’t tell you how many times home owners put mesh in and leave it on the bottom of the concrete. That won’t do one bit of good. You have to pull it up as you go so it’s in the middle of the concrete. It looks really good also I hope all of those small slabs don’t heave differently and leave you with an un even floor. Looks like your gonna have a ton of water flow off that hill and under the slab. Again good job and good luck!
I'm an amateur so please excuse me if this is a dumb question: Why did you choose to mix the gravel/sand/cement yourself instead of buying bagged concrete mix? I just looked and it looks like it would be 42x80lb bags of high strength which is about $282 at HD. I guess plus the wire you said was $44 or something so you are saving ~$75 per section here. Is that the only reason you mix it yourself or are you going for some specific ratio or something else? Just trying to weigh the savings versus the trouble. Thanks for making such an informative video.
Thanks for the question. Yeah mostly the cost savings. If you buy bags you still have to mix it. I would never do a dry pour personally. Getting the materials for me really isn’t that bad and I find it easier than moving 80lb bags around. Thanks for watching!
Nice looking work. You placed one cubic yard basically, so you’re at $250 per cyd on material. You are doing it at your own pace at a one man scale. Even though you could buy ready-mix for half that rate, you could not get just one yard delivered. You’ve made a sound choice and your cost is about as low as one could achieve.
FYI to the concrete monkeys. We just got quoted 300 bucks per yard ready mix. At that price, you’re pricing yourself out of the market. I have to give credit to this kid for thinking outside the box.
Early spring I paid $180/yard, with hot water and light calcium. It would be harder, because you would have to know how to manage a couple labors to help, but pouring 4 yards with a truck, might be slightly cheaper than you cost, and faster. You are humping for 20 minutes or so placing it. But yes, your approach is excellent, ... you did good. Have a good hot summer, ..... Mike
With this size of a project I would pay the delivery fee and pour it in a couple of hours. Great job doing what you are doing. Mucking with boots and a rake may help the voids.
@@BoatPatrol that's where your wife and kids come. Honestly. I simply go to local corner where there are plenty of men looking for work that will wheelbarrow the mix. There is no way this slab would cost $10,000. Two to three men at most.
Nice looks good , I always hand pour my slabs as well in my area premix concrete is $2800 for 10 yards delivered which is horrible. But a few tips if you doing a garage you really should consider rebar #4 or #5 to tie all together so if it settles it will do so together and also have you priced out using 80lbs bags of sacrete? My last one I did was 12 x 16 it took 50 bags just dump straight into mixer and add water most home depots if you get over 40 bags give a nice discount I think my last delivery was $212 for the concrete and $75 for delivery. I think the tensile strength is like 3000 psi ?
Congrats dude. You wasted an extra 2 hours of your miserable 65 years on this earth, where this guy bought a concrete mixer and put his time where it's needed. Keep wasting your own time, and eventually, you'll be taking a permanent dirt nap.
We want proof. Anyone can say anything. I did a 10x12 ft 4 inches thick in 1.5 hours by just thinking it up in my head. And there it was. As if God himself created it for me.
What would have been helpful is to have added some chamfer strips to make keyways on the inside of the form on two sides to allow counter lock pouring as you go along.
Me and my husband used the cement mixer from Harbor Frieght, and it did a good job. We put in a whole bunch of cement posts under the house for a new foundation for a pier and beam home. I shoveled and mixed the concrete while he ran the cement to the posts. And he said I didn’t love him.
Well done! I'm doing a mini version of your project(shed) and have never worked with concrete before, so I'm surfing youtube looking for tips and also real world experience with the HF mixer. 2 or 3 of these mixers going at the same time and you could really crank projects out.
When i was fortunate enough to live in the country, my driveway sucked. Especially when it rained hard and thats frequent, it washed away a lot of gravel. It needed drainage by the road really but i was thinking about doing a concrete driveway in sections just to improve things. Also, so i could play basketball with the kids.
Not sure what your using the platforms for but if your not driving on it I would just do 3”-4” thick and use premix bags. Would save a lot of time and effort? I like the sharp edge look! Any reason though why you didn’t round them?
Definitely going to be driving on it. Premix bags is a lot more work in my opinion. Didn’t round them just to save some work and time. I don’t really need them rounded. Just going to be a garage floor. Thanks for watching!
I enjoyed your previous video and have told the story to several people of this guy who was a big enough beast to take on a large pad by himself and do a decent job on it.
My pops was the best concrete finisher in town. No matter how many times he got in a fight with his foreman, they always brought him back because he was that good. Couldn’t stay out of trouble tho. I tried to go work with him when I was a teenager but he wouldn’t let me because he thought I’d quit school. I always wish he’d have let me. However, I ended up in the military then thru college and now in the finance world. So who really knows…
@@jeffdeshong thank you! My pops was a career criminal and was scared I’d follow in his path, which was likely given how I was living life. Military prob saved me tbh.
Great video. I'm going to pour my own footers so this was very helpful. I have a small channel and as others have said, I just ignore the haters. Actually, I thank them for watching. :) We (non-professionals) watch these videos to learn how to do things. As I said before, this is going to be very helpful. Thanks for taking the time.
Oh, and yes, I hit the subscribe button. Thanks again!
Ignore all of the idiots that give out negative comments. It's YOUR job. You do it how you want. I appreciate your taking the time to make these videos. The youtube "experts" are sitting on there ass at home and proably have never touched wet concrete or even published a youtube video. Please keep up the good work !!!
Thank you 👍🏻
I 1000000 percent agree with you too bro… if it wasn’t for people like you taking precious time out yo day to film stuff like this it would’ve been plenty projects I would’ve failed at cuz I use RUclips creators for a lil direction In my own endeavors! Fuck what a hater gotta say!!🤷🏾♂️
Couldn't agree more.
@@smackmurph7414 appreciate you 💪🏻
Good try boosting him up.
In all seriousness, good job. A couple little comments. You poured a 28 cubic foot, just a bump over 1 cubic yard pad. You used a little less than 6 bags. At a minimum for durability you should be at least 6 bags for one yard. However, I like to be closer to 7 bags per yard. What I like to do is 3 stone, 2 and a half sand and 1 and a half cement. Makes a nice finishable mix. Another pointer that takes some time but will save a lot of time is to meter your water in a bucket and adjust until you get the slump you want. Then you dont have to guess the water and you can put all the water in upfront and not have to worry about it anymore.
Really appreciate it. I’ve gotten it to 6 bags now. I’ve gotten the mix I want now. I just go a little heavy on the sand and Portland as you said. And for the water, I don’t guess. There’s a line in the mixer. I fill the mixer first with water until it hits that line. Then every mix has the same amount of water. Thank you for the tips and the well thought out comment 💪🏻👍🏻
Great video. I can't believe people would criticize a man out there working hard. Whether it's how you would do, or not do it, isn't the point. My 17 year old son and I are building a home with walk out basement from the ground up. Home design, excavation, block laying, framing, plumbing, etc is all brand new to us, and I'm sure we're making mistakes. But, we're building our family a home. Good job brother. Keep it up!
@@michaelw7249 thank you 💪🏻 good luck on your home
@jeffdeshong Thanks Jeff, it's definitely more than I bargained for. 🙏 I just noticed your University of Pittsburgh shirt. My wife actually worked at UPMC back in the day. 👍
Good job on the first pad square. I found that using a reciprocating saw without a blade on the forms help remove the voids. Not such a big deal on the inside edges that will have another pad poured up against it, but on the outside it would be a good idea. It costs a lot for a contractor do do the job because its a lot of manual labour. If you are willing to do it, you can save a lot of money.
There will always be armchair critics. I just bought that same mixer. Instructions sucked but I’m ready to start several projects. Good job.
Me to after I spent 18k on a driveway. I said never again... I'm doing it myself
When I was young we never had a mixer. We mixed in a wheel barrel with a hoe. The sand/gravel came from shoveling at the creek into our pickup.
Now we’ve gotten to the point where we watch tv and have somebody else come and do it for us.
You did a good job.
Thank you!
I'm able to get a larger mixer, but damn, it's still a lot of work. I'mpouring a cement pad that will eventually be a garage floor. Steady by jerks gets the job done!
Same here. I'm older now. Yesterday, I ordered a new 12 cubic feet concrete mixer with a Honda 13 hp motor. I should have it by mid month. It's too hot here for me to be outside. However, I will be stockpiling concrete supplies until then.
Watch how they do it in the Philippines!
You forgot about being barefooted in the snow when you were doing it. 😅😅😅
I would conciser repositioning the mixer and dump directly in the form to save some hauling
It's already done...nothing to "reconsider" 🙄🙄🙄
@@strjourneys7919 Guess you aren't paying attention. There are still 11 more slabs to pour... Stay focused...
@@bullpuppy7455 already done...
@@strjourneys7919it’s far from done genius
@@bullpuppy7455 stay focused more like pay attention lol
You did a damn fine job for 1 man, and the video was well done. Your grandpa is proud I'm sure, and rightly so.
I've been using my HF crment mixer for around 5 years now, just small things 2x2x3 pads, 10x12 shed slabs, when I need to do over 25 fence post holes. It's been holding up just fine, even built it a ramp that hangs on that solid bar below the drum so I don't have to empty the contents into a wheel barrow. Solid $189 purchase
If someone gives negative comments invite them over to help! Great job my friend.
@@vart7767 thank you very much and thanks for watching!
I appreciate your time and effort to explain the process, its a great Slab. Screw the haters.
Pls keep us updated on this project would love to keep seeing the progress!
We just did the same thing this weekend.
A 4m (13') x 3m (10') x 10 cm (4") slab broken into 4 equal parts of 1m (3.3') x 3m (10'), with inter-connecting 1/2" rebar (by way of notches in the form that will "slide" into the next quarter as we get to pour it). The rebar was sitting on 3" dobies, some of which toppled over. The entire form is on builders plastic.
For the first quarter (which was in most areas closer to 6" deep) we went through 10 mixers-full, each consisting of
* 1 bag of 25kg 42.N portland cement
* 22 shovels of 0-32 mm ballast (rock/sand mix)
I think we got approximately the same result in similar weather conditions.
Key difference maybe is that we used a vibrator (which aids in moving the mud around inside the form and reducing honeycombing, but I think also brings bleed water to the top maybe a bit too early).
Used an aluminium screed bar.
Used magnesium floats.
I didn't get to the broom since we needed to get a move on as it was getting late, and also the available brooms in the EU are a bit crappy.
For the 2nd quarter this weekend, I will try to run a wooden bullfloat that I made in between the screeding and floating.
Hopefully I can get to the broom.
Dunno how to post a pic anywhere on utube to show my results, but would like to.
Good to see some other poor bastard giving this a go.
Shout out to @AJDIYNetwork who also posted a nice vid on the same method.
Thanks for watching and the comment! Definitely a lot of work but worth it if willing.
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I have the same mixer. It was cheap but works good for the past 2 years. I find it easier to to pour directly into form and I also leave running when I pour it out.
Nice work! As a matter of personal preference, I would not broom finish a garage floor, it will make it very hard to sweep. Also, I would leave the edges square. Easier to roll around a creeper and or tool boxes.
@@Shedhunter2 thank you, and agreed
"He who Dares, Wins." Keep going!
That’s a day’s work man. Appreciate you posting. Great job!
@@stretchmfe4913 thank you!
Good job man... I can speak with a little authority on this subject. I'm retired from the swimming pool construction business 500 pools. About 20% of those pools worth vinyl liner inground pools that required 25 yds. Of concrete to construct. We built those pools with one gas powered Stone brand mixer. The only thing I would suggest that would help you would be to get anything to hold water next to the mixer such as a garbage can and keep it containing water just to bucket into the mixer. Count the scoops of water out of the water container and put the same amount every mix. As an added bonus the water container is a great place to dunk the spent bags to make them waterlogged and you can stack them neatly to be disposed of... Like I say great job it can be done that's the way they did it in the old days and it works.
Awesome job dude. A full crew could not have done better. Concrete work is an art form that takes patience and fortitude. Great video brother.
Appreciate it!
To raise the PSI with the concrete you can add more cement, as for the slump start out with adding a little water at a time to the consistency you think you’ll need so that it’s not too watery and it won’t take long to dry and harden.
Not gonna come here and pretend I'm a concrete pourer hall of famer but the only thing is that everything should be measured from the buckets of sand, stone, liters or gallons of water and bags of cement. You can shut all the haters by doing a 1 year and 2 year post pour video... Good job.
Thank you for taking the time to film this . I want you to know that people like me and I'm sure many others really appreciate the help you have provided in spreading knowledge on how to do projects like this : )
You saved yourself a ton of money. A contractor would have been 2 - 2 1/2 times or more in cost. I know, I've done this. You get a nice product done in a short time frame, but it is not cheap. Keep up the good work.
Amazing! Thank you for posting this project. Shows you what you can do if you set your mind to it. I have some concrete experience, but not tons. I’m gonna definitely use what I learned here on my own project!
Thank again Bro! Cheers!
I've poured several of these through the years, I did an 8X10 x 4" using sakrete concrete bags and by myself, hell of days workout and it was much warmer, can't remember the amount of bags but it was like over 40 I think, one thing to note if you didn't is oil those forms so they come off super easy. I did another 10 x 12 one time and hired a cement truck to come pour it all. My sides had lots spots like yours where the concrete didn't settle properly, if you can find a concrete vibrator that would eliminate that just by running it around the sides. Over all nice job on mixing it yourself and it turned out great, good luck with the rest of them.
Both types of comments are really good for your channel. Crybabies will want to feed their egos and get attention and more mature audience members will love and appreciate your excellent work. It doesn't matter which type they are because the RUclips algorithm interprets both as being interest in your content and will give you better exposure either way. Well done, amigo! I'll be watching more of your videos.
Really appreciate it 👍🏻
Great job. By the time you’re all done you will have worked out all the kinks. You could keep the mixer going while pouring your mix in the wheelbarrow, comes out easier.
Wow! I think I could do that. For now, I'm starting out doing a Flag Pole with Quickset Cement, but I might be looking at putting down a slab sometime next year and your video really was very helpful. You did a great job. I imagine that a guy can save some money DIY. Thanks for the great video!
Thanks for sharing the details like 3-2-1 and ordered vs consumed materials. Project turned out great sir.
Concrete cures it doesn't "dry" because it's a chemical reaction. Thanks for showing how to use the mixer.
@@dan-n-sararisdon3356 well first it dries, then it cures. Thanks for watching.
Good job. I would not have hand mixed at all, because when I do the math, here I can buy a yard of Readymix 3000 PS with Fibermesh ( no need for rebar! ) in it, plus extra for small load 154 + 70 = 224 plus tax. Now if I choose 400 PSI Readymix the price would be more, yet still removes the labor of mixing. If I mixed my own it would be real close to your costs, 240 for a yard and a bit. Otherwise your work is very impressive. Too for a Garage your design is state of the art! Great grading of the base/gravel, that needs be stomped real well for a longer lasting floor!
You do you, I’ve done the same thing with my inexpensive Princess Auto mixer here in Canada and it has worked out fine. Did a 12x20 workshop floor for my shed and everything is fine, small expected cracks after putting my cj5 in and jacking but over all, great.
Looks good Jeff I’m going to keep watching Thanks one man can do it if he wants to 👍
Build a chute and set up closer to your form. That way, u can eliminate the wheelbarrow and the hauling. Don't pay attention to the ex-squirts. 😂
My orange freight mixer is 5 years old. And still works great. Slab haha I'm doing while driveway 13 x 20 1 slab at a time. Good job buddy. I hear you
Good concrete work, Jeff!
However, if you plan to put any type of weight bearing structure on these slabs, you would really need some footers in place.
Otherwise, it's gonna be a troublesome experience.
Generally, weight bearing load structures require a footing to be placed 12" below the frost line in your area.
As @wisdomtrek1 mentioned, a monolithic slab would be the way to go with proper footers incorporated.
A few cement trucks and a properly prepared base could be done in a day. Then, you could build whatever you want on top of it.
Still, love your grit and tenacity as well as your videos! :)
Thanks Mike! Yup already have everything planned out. For the metal garage I’m buying, this is actually extreme overkill. One of the main reasons I’m not using a cement truck is because they would have to drive over a septic tank so I can’t get one close.
@@jeffdeshong I should have know you had already thought a lot of this through.
Carry on - looking forward to more!
Thanks, Jeff! Always love the content! :)
@@MikeBMW you’re the man Mike! I did originally plan on going the footer route. But I decided that it was going to be crazy expensive and a crazy amount of work. I really need a garage and I’m pleased with how my shed turned out so I decided to give a metal garage a go.
@@jeffdeshong I would expect nothing less than you already figuring the options.
As a bonus, we now get to see a way to get this done which could be beneficial to many others.
As for me, putting a small slab for a cover over my generator with the upcoming Florida Hurricane season. One never knows where the experiences you present could lead. :)
Just stumbled over this video and had an idea while watching. Could you use a section of rain gutter and bypass the wheelbarrow all together like a cement truck. I don't know, would the rain gutter be wide enough for the idea to work, or something similar shape.
I think what you’re talking about is possible
Looks like it turned out good! You save a lot of money when you're willing to learn and put in some work.
Nice man! Anytime you can save money. People don’t realize we do these thing not because we want to (well some do) but because of the economy and money we have no choice but to choose the cheapest path. Bravo 👏 we cant afford a million $ house but who’s stopping you from trying to build one 👌🏻
Bro, honestly you are on the right path. But please read Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures. I was trained by a PhD in concrete. You're really understanding it, but you can be so much better. Concrete is no joke, seriously. You're pouring big slabs, it's not just 2'x2' square
Regardless, well done. Looks great !
Dude nice job man! That pad looks great! I’m gonna be doing this in my carport soon. They wanted 8000 to do 4 inches in my 30x16 car port. No thanks lol
It must have felt like you were trying to fill in the Grand Canyon using a teaspoon.
How exactly could he do it any other way? Get 1000 pound bags of concrete? Too bad, 80 pounds is standard. This is what it takes to do the job, try it some day
@@BoatPatrol What's your problem? I've done lots of this kind of work. It's exactly as I described...endless repetition and hard physical labor...for me it was either a hot desert day or a freezing cold winter day. BTW 60 pound bags are also standard and as I've aged I've come to prefer them. It always amazes me when someone takes umbrage at one of my innocent remarks.
@@choimdachoim9491 Sorry, I mistook your comment for sarcasm. This channel has gotten a lot trolling type comments, and I enjoy the videos here and want the guy to keep uploading. My mistake sir, have a nice night.
Running your mat wild by 16" would prevent the need to drill for tie in. Put holes in the form bards so the mat can run past. Just a thought.
It’s a good thought
@@jeffdeshongwe always drill slightly oversized hole and stick rebar halfway through, harder strip the form but it's a good connection
Can u explains what you talking about.
@@derpherpp3 the rebar grid is called a "mat". It's like a skeleton to hold concrete together. In a monolithic pour. "All done at the same time" all the rebar runs throughout. In a segmented pour your rebar stops inside the forum boards. There is nothing holding the slabs together. So you have to drill into the existing slab and epoxy rebar that connects the next slab. My suggestion was to run the rebar through the forum boards, preventing the need for the extra steps.
Really nice job mate. This makes it actually affordable haha. Getting guys in to do it costs an absolute fortune
Nice work. In rural areas, that's still how it's done. People have forgotten that not all pocket depths are equal, however, the job still has to be done.
I've owned the same mixer for over 8 years. Only 2 complaints. First and most aggravating is the cheap chinese steel rusts under the paint causing billions of orange paint chips on your slab. I've ran a load of gravel in it for a half hour to try and get all of the paint out of the drum.
The other thing that happened was it smoked the starting capacitor for the motor. You could flip the switch and then manually turn the drum to get it started. I bought 2 replacement capacitors on eBay for $7. and replaced it.
Been really a great machine
Awesome looks good brother i got that kind from Lowe’s pretty cool mixers💪❤️🙏
Thats what us old concrete guys call a potato rake finish when you broom it WAY to early😅
Fantastic results sir...👍
Try using 5 gallon buckets for your materials.. very fast and accurate
Just subscribed man. Well done on breaking the video down for average folks.
Hats off to you for making it happen! Bummed that you forgot the vapor barrier, once enclosed your floor will sweat bad on humid days. But hey, you’re making it happen and that’s a really huge deal! Keep up the good work.
Thanks for watching. Definitely didn’t forget. Not needed.
Sweet! I wasn’t sure of your overall usage. I bought some property with a shop and if they had done that my floor would be nice and smooth, but they didn’t and it’s a real pain in the a!!
I love the socket extension as a pin!!! Get er done!!!!!!!
Very nice. I'm looking to do a pad and we found a mixer for like 100 bucks that is oddly enough the same mixer you are using. I think we have a plan now!
Spraying kerosene or diesel on the forms before you start pouring will make them peel off real nice like at the end.
I’m not a know it all and not in any way criticizing I drove a mixer for twenty eight years and can’t tell you how many times home owners put mesh in and leave it on the bottom of the concrete. That won’t do one bit of good. You have to pull it up as you go so it’s in the middle of the concrete. It looks really good also I hope all of those small slabs don’t heave differently and leave you with an un even floor. Looks like your gonna have a ton of water flow off that hill and under the slab. Again good job and good luck!
Should be in upper third not middle.
He was moving it as he poured
@@lunchlady2023lower third
I'm an amateur so please excuse me if this is a dumb question: Why did you choose to mix the gravel/sand/cement yourself instead of buying bagged concrete mix? I just looked and it looks like it would be 42x80lb bags of high strength which is about $282 at HD. I guess plus the wire you said was $44 or something so you are saving ~$75 per section here. Is that the only reason you mix it yourself or are you going for some specific ratio or something else? Just trying to weigh the savings versus the trouble. Thanks for making such an informative video.
Thanks for the question. Yeah mostly the cost savings. If you buy bags you still have to mix it. I would never do a dry pour personally. Getting the materials for me really isn’t that bad and I find it easier than moving 80lb bags around. Thanks for watching!
Great video man.
Nice job, I never thought about screeding as you go. That looks like a good idea.
You never thought about doing it? That’s what you’re supposed to do.
Nice looking work. You placed one cubic yard basically, so you’re at $250 per cyd on material. You are doing it at your own pace at a one man scale. Even though you could buy ready-mix for half that rate, you could not get just one yard delivered. You’ve made a sound choice and your cost is about as low as one could achieve.
$250 for all materials. Not just the material to make concrete
You have no vapor barrier under your slab. You can get water under the slab even with proper drainage.
FYI to the concrete monkeys. We just got quoted 300 bucks per yard ready mix. At that price, you’re pricing yourself out of the market. I have to give credit to this kid for thinking outside the box.
Fine job, my man! Keep doing your best and you’ll be a pro in no time.
Nice job looks like me and my son should be able to do it. Thanks
That's a nice looking slab right there.
Early spring I paid $180/yard, with hot water and light calcium. It would be harder, because you would have to know how to manage a couple labors to help, but pouring 4 yards with a truck, might be slightly cheaper than you cost, and faster. You are humping for 20 minutes or so placing it. But yes, your approach is excellent, ... you did good. Have a good hot summer, ..... Mike
A set of car ramps would have been handy for pouring the center. One on each side of the form closest to the mixer, to drive the wheelbarrow over.
With this size of a project I would pay the delivery fee and pour it in a couple of hours. Great job doing what you are doing. Mucking with boots and a rake may help the voids.
Except he would need a team of 10 men to do it in one go with a truck. And that would be $10000 minimum, he's doing the whole thing for $3k
@@BoatPatrol that's where your wife and kids come. Honestly. I simply go to local corner where there are plenty of men looking for work that will wheelbarrow the mix. There is no way this slab would cost $10,000. Two to three men at most.
Nice looks good , I always hand pour my slabs as well in my area premix concrete is $2800 for 10 yards delivered which is horrible. But a few tips if you doing a garage you really should consider rebar #4 or #5 to tie all together so if it settles it will do so together and also have you priced out using 80lbs bags of sacrete? My last one I did was 12 x 16 it took 50 bags just dump straight into mixer and add water most home depots if you get over 40 bags give a nice discount I think my last delivery was $212 for the concrete and $75 for delivery. I think the tensile strength is like 3000 psi ?
@@alcapon-o3f hate working with bags and a lot more money.
Dang. I figured material would be less than that. Pricey
Did a 10'x11' 3" thickpad by my self mixing in wheelbarrows...at age 65. Didn't need no stinking mixer.. done in 3 hours..
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wow
Congrats dude. You wasted an extra 2 hours of your miserable 65 years on this earth, where this guy bought a concrete mixer and put his time where it's needed. Keep wasting your own time, and eventually, you'll be taking a permanent dirt nap.
We want proof. Anyone can say anything. I did a 10x12 ft 4 inches thick in 1.5 hours by just thinking it up in my head. And there it was. As if God himself created it for me.
What would have been helpful is to have added some chamfer strips to make keyways on the inside of the form on two sides to allow counter lock pouring as you go along.
I'm with you. We have to do what we can since we are working alone.
Very nice. I would have gone with a very smooth floor for a garage floor to make it easy to sweep
Check out part 2. Thanks for watching
Yeah man, nailed it! 😁👍
Love your video! Thank you for it!!! It has all the questions I have for a do it yourself guy!!!
Thanks for watching! Glad I could help 👍🏻
Thanks for watching! Glad I could help 👍🏻
Wow that’s a huge job to do yourself. If it were me I’d buy one of those mudmixer machines and then sell it after the job is done. Good work!
It would be cheaper and a lot easier to order the load from a concrete company.
Me and my husband used the cement mixer from Harbor Frieght, and it did a good job. We put in a whole bunch of cement posts under the house for a new foundation for a pier and beam home. I shoveled and mixed the concrete while he ran the cement to the posts. And he said I didn’t love him.
awesome brother! Im encouraged to try with a helper ! lol
Looks good for a diy concrete pad
Appreciate it
Well done! I'm doing a mini version of your project(shed) and have never worked with concrete before, so I'm surfing youtube looking for tips and also real world experience with the HF mixer. 2 or 3 of these mixers going at the same time and you could really crank projects out.
I actually thought about buying another one just for this project. Thanks for watching! Good luck on your shed!
Good job keep up the good work.Thank you 👏👏👍
nice one man looks good steve uk putting in a shed base thanks for your vide0
When i was fortunate enough to live in the country, my driveway sucked. Especially when it rained hard and thats frequent, it washed away a lot of gravel. It needed drainage by the road really but i was thinking about doing a concrete driveway in sections just to improve things. Also, so i could play basketball with the kids.
Not sure what your using the platforms for but if your not driving on it I would just do 3”-4” thick and use premix bags. Would save a lot of time and effort? I like the sharp edge look! Any reason though why you didn’t round them?
Definitely going to be driving on it. Premix bags is a lot more work in my opinion. Didn’t round them just to save some work and time. I don’t really need them rounded. Just going to be a garage floor. Thanks for watching!
You shouldve rented 3 of them things.
Wondering why you don't need any footer around the edge ?
It looks fine bro
I enjoyed your previous video and have told the story to several people of this guy who was a big enough beast to take on a large pad by himself and do a decent job on it.
Hey really appreciate that 💪🏻 thanks for watching
My pops was the best concrete finisher in town. No matter how many times he got in a fight with his foreman, they always brought him back because he was that good. Couldn’t stay out of trouble tho. I tried to go work with him when I was a teenager but he wouldn’t let me because he thought I’d quit school. I always wish he’d have let me. However, I ended up in the military then thru college and now in the finance world. So who really knows…
@@tjtruth4793 did this work to get me through school. Ended up loving it so the degree gets unused. Thank you for your service.
@@jeffdeshong thank you! My pops was a career criminal and was scared I’d follow in his path, which was likely given how I was living life. Military prob saved me tbh.
Very nice job, and very well explained.
Great video. I'm going to pour my own footers so this was very helpful. I have a small channel and as others have said, I just ignore the haters. Actually, I thank them for watching. :) We (non-professionals) watch these videos to learn how to do things. As I said before, this is going to be very helpful. Thanks for taking the time.
Thank you! And some comments are so outa line, they’re hard to ignore 😂 but thanks for watching and I’m glad I could help 👍🏻
Good job, I would have been lazier and placed the mixer so that I could simply dump into the form. But again that would just me being lazy !
@@Poppy_love59 this mixer isn’t meant for that. About 2x the work that way. Thanks for watching.
Good video man, starting my concrete project soon and this is a ton of help, keep it up. Fuck internet the pros DIY is where it’s at
Nice work.🎉
Same Harbor Freight mixer broke in 6 hours of use good luck
I think you did well and saved money great job!
Good job Jeff. Are you going to drill holes and put rebar in between each pad to tie them all together? Going to be a nice floor for your building!
Thank you and yes sir! They’ll all be tied together. Can’t wait for it to be done 👍🏻
I got no problem with doing the forms and the work yourself but you can call and have a truck delivered and it'll go a lot quicker
@@MudflyWatersman no I can not have a truck delivered. Thanks for watching