Solving a Flooding Crawlspace
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- We solve heavy crawlspace flooding with new concrete set properly. The previous concrete contractor tried to create a swale, but the foundation was still exposed with bare soil. Overflowing gutters and heavy rainfall quickly flooded the crawlspace.
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The rain footage is what sets you apart from the rest 💪
Thank you! It's awesome but exhausting to get it sometimes.
@TheFatman2436 Agreed, Having the work done by any others & showing it just goes so far, Showing it in actual 'action proves it as well as the quality of the work
@@GCFD I bet, but we know you are a rockstar Shawn.
@@westbccoast haha thank you!
Agree, it’s what makes you get those thumbs up 👍🏼
Nice job diverting the water away from the house. That yard is not a yard, it's a swamp!
It's definitely at the bottom!
"I'm a professional, i dont need hearing" in 20 years he will be saying to his grandson "what you say mijo, gotta talk louder, grandpa cant hear good" LOL... Took a few generations of workers to go from no resperatators and protections, even things like Fall protections on sky scrapers and stuff, and goggles and other PPE saying no man works with that stuff, to now, almost everyone does it... Born in 84 here and i'm on that cusp of Screw that junk and you need to protect yourself... lol... worked in manufacturing lines when i was younger and required saftey glasses and hearing and other thingsevery day and hated it.... but OSHA forced.. ugh...
now the older I get and use PPE and see things like if i'm grinding, all the crud and stuff inside the filters that I would have breathed into my lungs... holy crap thats eye opening... really makes you think... and you see the generations of Black Lung from coal mining and just breathing stuff all day and deaf from no plugs, and things like that...
I agree Mike. 1981 Here and I've always tried to protect myself. Even vacuuming can affect your hearing. Since I started wearing hearing protection years ago my hearing has improved. No job is worth your safety.
One of my all-time favorite channels on RUclips.
Thank you!!
Great video Shaun
The rainy footage at the end is your trademark and proves how well your installations really do work very well.
I agree it's just very difficult to get that rain footage. I love it though
Miguel is a funny guy. I'm willing to bet he's the life of the party. Good job with the pour!
Yes he's quite the character!
Nice guy…..deaf as a post if he carries on with that no ppe attitude tho!
Was sat here watching RUclips and thought hmmm let’s see if there’s anything new here and sure enough there was!. Great job!
Thank you!
It's a good day when there's a new Gate City video.
Thank you!
Happy Friday! Thanks for dropping the new vid. It's super satisfying to see long-term issues get resolved.
Thank you Joe!
I started watching your channel back in 2020. I have learned so many things by watching your videos. Over the summer I finally able to put what I learned into practice. I switched all the cheap plastic downspout extenders over to PVC. Since I live on a hill and the longest run was under a deck I did not have to dig at all.
The difference is crazy. I never use to see any rain out of the extenders unless it was a super heavy rain. Now we get a light shower and the water is pouring out. Thank you for you great educational videos!
Thanks for sharing your pipe upgrades! I’m glad you found my stuff valuable! - Shawn
From a UK viewer and a Liverpool FC supporter loved to see the LFC flag outside, good job
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Shawn, please keep up the great work! It was great to see the ole concrete boys...
Thank you! They're still around
30:40 I'd have used that green lidded utility box to cover the PVC cleanout you covered at 30:51 so it's easily fond and accessed if needed...
on the owner now to create the swale to remove the mess in the backyard !
Success!
Thank you Julie!
Yay! Been looking forward to another video...great way to finish off a friday evening! Thanks Sean and the Crew!😀
Thank you!!
My late night viewing selection(s) while eating dinner after work
Looks Good : )
Thank you!
Thanks Shawn. Good upload
Thank you!
Good to see Harvey, didn’t recognise him without his cane
Solved the problem completely in front and sides great! I still cringe when I see Miguel doing Crete work.
He is my go-to guy
Good job.
Another job well done, wish they could have had the piping run all the way to the back of the yard underground though!
I feel the same way Lee. If they had a better spot to send the water I likely would have done it.
I like the way you pack soil around the house. Because that sink's a lot.
Thank you! It really is such a simple but effective thing you can do to keep water away.
I’m liking the concrete look-simple and practical! Nice drone shots as usual!
Thank you! The homeowners really like the concrete too!
Yes, I think the concrete looks great. Although I get the "sea of concrete" issue some have, a couple planters of flowers and some patio chairs can improve that a bunch.
That was a really good solution.
Thank you Gerald!
You have excellent video .
In the end the prof is in the quality work a job well done.
Thank you!
No wire? No rebar in the new driveway concrete? Who’s the concrete operator ?! 😢 Love your content
Not required there due to the soil composition
Like John said above. When I lived in Colorado you can't add enough rebar, but they just don't use it here because of our climate (no real frost line), subsoils (no bentonite), and other local conditions (no subsurface water). It's Weird to not see rebar when you're used to it I know.
Great job Shawn. Definitely looked challenging, what a good team you have. Also great to see you a contractor who gets to end of job consistently, so many shady contractors, great to see honest ones who do what they say they going to do
Thank you! I don't think we've ever not finished a job. I would never think to do that.
That beautiful rain footage!
Haha I know!
As a brit i did not expect to see a liverpool supporter sign there 😁,great job 👍🇬🇧
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Pull pins before u leave especially if there buried in concrete. Saves the pin holes n save whoever gotta beat it out n most likely bend it. I pull nails n pins always every pour
I've done that before and I wish we had pulled these. We had a ton of concrete that we pulled over the forms while dialing in our fall.
Thank you, Shawn. Nicely done.
Thank you!
The Storm on the Sea of Concrete - Rembrandt
Harvey on scene, what a treat. I would like to see a short video with you explaining the display items behind you during this outtake. 👍👊
What do you mean display items John?
@@GCFD your collection of item items on the back wall. I was interested in what some items were and the story behind the items if there is one.
Great work. Looks better and now the water from the front is flowing away nicely. 👍
Thank you!
The two steps leading to the front door are now way different heights, increasing the chance someone will trip.
Did you consider ripping out the step to make it a single step up or at least ramping the concrete up to that lower step (so that it was just a single step up)?
Personally I would have ripped out the whole ramp and landing and re-poured a larger landing, but understand the homeowner probably didn’t want to spend that money.
That's a great point! Lots of considerations and compromises go into these drastic solutions. The flooding was so bad that they wanted to prioritize getting it solved.
Another success thank you Shaun.
Thank you!
You have to save the house first!👏👏👏
For sure! All other considerations come second.
Another job well done.
Thank you!
Keep up the great vids. Music fits them perfectly
Thank you! I always wonder about the music....I don't want it too overwhelming or distracting. It's very difficult to find music even though I pay for using it.
I am glad you solved the problem and you always do quality work. I just wish it was more aesthetically pleasing, like keep dirt and plants in front of the house, regrade this dirt, install a long channel drain 10 feet out in front of the house to catch water from the driveway and directed to a sump pump to pump the water to the street, rather than having a huge slab of concrete directly in front of the house. Just my two cents. Maybe my idea would not work.o
Those are extremely valid points to discuss. In this situation where the driveway is sloping down into the house I need a 100% solution that is fail proof. Concrete does deliver that, where a drain can clog, pumps can clog and fail, or the power can go out. Even considering all the looks and possible solutions, I go with the fool proof one. They can add potted plants or furniture to help improve the appearance if needed. Thanks Thomas for sharing your thoughts!
I love the long videos.
Thank you! I have a lot of videos in the works too.
Another great project!
Thank you Randall!
Good job results are what count!!!
Thank you Tony!
Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for commenting Alexei!
Thanks for posting, Shawn. Been a while.
You're welcome! I'm trying to get caught up on my videos
See, supervising the concrete job is how it's done right the first time. Keep up the good work. Good luck in the contest.
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Great job with the concrete and grading. Great idea to disperse the run-off since we know just how erosive running water can be. I like your approach to this job. The new gutters should help as well.
Thank you Steve!
Concrete solved our wetness/water same problem
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I really enjoy your videos!! I'm in Indiana and I'm having some similar work done to my property. I hope it turns out well. Thank you for your videos. Larry
Best of luck with your projects Larry!
Harvey and his crew? thought you were done with them. Good job and video as always.
I still work with them fairly often.
Superb job done Shaun, and excellent video and its all working really well 👌👌👍👍
Thank you Taylor! 👌
Great video
Thank you Rusty!
No doubt will save the home instead of just replacing a door for no reason
I noticed one thing while you were flying the drone around at the end. The houses on that side are set below the street grade causing the ground water to run towards the house.
Bucket right into the truck I loled hahaha
Another flood solution. Its sad that homes were not built to deal with water ingress from the design phase.
👍 For sure
Looks good great video..
Thank you Brent!
Great work!
Thank you!
They should look into a dry pond.
Great idea!
Shawn. Great video and work as usual.
I can't help but feel a drain basin at the lip of the concrete to channel water from the driveway inside pipe to the lower area where the gutter water drains out would stop erosion and looks better. I understand it's more complex and it's another thing to keep clean.
Maybe try suggesting to put stamp concrete if any of your masons have the ability nothing wrong with concrete🇺🇸👍
Great to see some concrete vids again Shaun! Why no Beak this time?
We just brought the mini skid and didn't really need the beak.
Another nice one, Working w whats there is the key, those angles are tough, Great to see Miguel again its been a while + 2 on the Pizza Qty. I do feel bad for the homeowner though w having the back yard in an almost swamp back there, would take a lot more to fix the grading on all of that
They were thrilled we solved the crawlspace issues and they really like the additional concrete in front. It turned out very well.
I cannot believe they do not have a channel in the back and drain away, like a french drain or something similar
Dry well at the end of it , out by them tree's. On the other side by the air-conditioning.
Another dry well. 👍🤷
When a "sea of concrete" is too much, why not add planter boxes?
That's a great idea! There are lots of ways to mitigate the looks.
No rebar pins to tie the new concrete to the existing slab? Really? The mix was soupy. No remesh?
Mesh is not used in our climate with our subsoils. We do use fiber.
Your concrete guy is good, he gets the end goal 👍🏻
I've been working with him for years.
I was wondering if you had been slow. I hadn’t seen many drainage videos
Not too slow. I've just been super busy lately!
Liverpool Football Club, yea so far from home, love it.
I saw that as well lol nice I am Canadian but I knew it seem a little out of place.
Looks like there is a large natural area behind the shed, why not run the drain pipes and discharge there?
We could have but the homeowners were on a budget for getting this solved.
Leaving the gutter dumping on the concrete when you're RIGHT there? I'll never understand or agree with that logic. But as always, love your videos.
Are they looking to fix the rest of the driveway? What about the beak! Love the concrete buggy!
They will do the remaining driveway when the budget allows. Since we used the mini bobcat we didn't bring the beak. They do make a beak for the mini though and I would love to have one!
I wonder if a curb would have blocked and redirected the water coming down the driveway. Possibly, the plantings could have been saved that way. Thanks.
It would have worked for sure. The problem was the rain landing in the natural area and the gutters overflowing (maybe due to maintenance). We chose to solve the issue 100% and the homeowners are very happy with the additional concrete.
Like your videos. But a question? When you put those half round galvanized shields in front of the foundation windows and then trap them in dirt or concrete where does the rainwater that falls inside them go, if not against the window and then seep inside the house somewhere? Love the rain footage. Thanks
Great transformation! Didn't want to take that front down spout under the concrete to a popout on the side? Any negatives to doing that?
I didn't want to discharge that much water since the homeowners were very concerned about that. I really went back and forth on that point though. I think I could have done it either way.
I like the drainage-motivation in the cement crew.
Drone-FYI: mine fell out of the sky at battery-cycle 190, those polymer batteries are only rated for 200 cycles. If yours loses signal & performs a RTH on an over 150-cycle battery then trash that battery.
I'm kinda wondering why there isn't a drainage-attorney on YT who can analyze law violations of developed-watersheds. Especially given the 4.5 flash-flood threats in my territory.
Great point! Thanks Bob!
Is anyone else watching this thinking…Miguel is hilarious!
Looks so much better... that house, the years of errosion and people moving dirt around not understanding it will accelerate the errosion of the house, all the yards around was sloping to the house! wow... yeah, after this work you and your guys did, no more issues i'd bet! that swell and valley of driveway turned out good to slope water away and follow the drieway.... Though, why not pipe uthe middle downspout before pourin the slab and then do a sanatary T to pick up the next corner and then kick that down? Just left to have the new driveway carry it away?
Personally i hate when sidewalks and stuff around my house shows errosion from water coming off the roof and stuff, where my old house built in 84, you can see the walkways, where teh water came off the roof, hit the sidwalks at the 1/2 mark and so from half over, it was rough, and the other side was smoother and not etched... lol. seeing the power of water! no gutters... we live in Phoenix where it rains like 10 days a year, haha.... so gutters for a 15 minute storm, not really a top priority here. But my new house i had built in 2019, we have paver driveway and paver walkways... the pavers going from my front door to my driveway, the roof has already etched the pavers pretty bad... but have a 3800sqft roof and the shape of the front, basically about 1/3 of the roof water all works it was above the front door, so when its a good monsoon massive storm with flash flooding, the ammount of water comming down ifront of my front door is absolutely insane... so its etching the softer pavers faster. So I do need to invest in some gutters... I want to find a company that will do seamless gutters where they roll and make them out of a single sheet onsite, but not a lot of gutter companys out here, lol.
Our gutter guys do the seamless. I have a video coming up where I showcase the gutter work quite a bit.
It would have been beneficial to pack sloping dirt, 360° around all four sides of the foundation. You can always quote the extra dirt necessary fill in dirt as needed, after warching a heavy rain so you know exactly where the fill dirt is needed.
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Nice work guys - (all the way over there and they support Liverpool !!)
Ha! I was wondering if anyone would notice!
Is the edge of the new concrete already broken
No that was all the excess concrete we pulled out while dialing in our fall.
I thought you were moving away from Miguel and his crew. They’re back now?
I still use them quite a bit.
No foam on the old to new concrete no rebar,
what's Miguel on? he's said more in this video than I've heard him say in all the previous videos he's been in 😂
I think it just got into this video! He never stops talking! haha
I think some of the issues you encounter or address don't have perfect solutions. You have to do what you can and work with what you have.
out here concrete trucks are twin steer and tandem or triple axle with a single drop axle off the back. three drop axles on that truck seems impossible to turn with. is it just for going straight up a driveway to reduce the ground pressure?
I really don't know. They are OshKosh and Phoenix trucks.
Where was Ronald?
Yeah Ronald, what the heck, probably watching telly at home playing hookie
He wasn't on the pour but he was there for the grading.
Curious to know why you used the shuttle instead of just having the mixer pull into the driveway and pour directly? Was the main driveway concrete too weak to support a heavy truck?
Where are the damp proof membranes in these houses as building up the dirt would appear to bridge it. Obviously you do this on every job so I’m sure it is fine. Just curious
I think the end of the swale, could have ended in a drain box (catch basin ?), and then piped to a lower part of the back yard ?
What happened to the beak?
The beak is for full sized skids. They do make a mini beak though! I would love to have it.
Everybody praising this buch of hacks is amazing, not only did they completely tear up the yard for NO reason, they did not use any mesh, that concrete's gonna Crack all over, and just like a sieve, water is gonna roll right in worse than before! On top of that that step is awkward and looks like crap!! What a bunch of Bozos!! Then you see all that excess concrete just spilled over the forms!!
HI Jack, I would disagree that we are hacks. Mesh is not needed or used in our climate with our subsoils. That concrete that "spilled" over the forms was in fact concrete from where we dialed in our fall (we needed to achieve fall in three directions) to make sure things flowed. Keep in mind this is not flatwork but in fact a drainage solution.
Been missing the videos are u saving them up for winter
No I've been really busy. This video literally took me 7 hours to edit. It's just a lot!
@@GCFD We appreciate it Shawn!
Leaves already gone in Carolinas ? wow, most of them are still Green in Ohio ?
No this job was from spring.
Why didnt u use any reinforcements ?
Rebar is not needed in our area with our climate and our subsoils.
Rebar is needed and you proved that by showing the concrete move up and down when the truck went on it. If there was rebar in it, it wouldn't have done that because it would be all connected.
Where does the water go, though? It winds up somewhere, on a neighbor's house, possibly. It's not legal to change the pattern of runoff if it affects a neighbor. Even if they don't sue, it's morally wrong and could damage another person's house. I'm facing this problem right know with an inconsiderate neighbor. It's also not great overall for the water shed and water quality.
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