I was wheelbarrow man, told our boss it was gonna rain and it did,he was adamant that it wasn’t. Chute was 7.5 foot above the ground and couldn’t be scraped. We were soaked and i swear i wore 3 yards slopping when it blooped in the wheelbarrow and dumping from above. Rained all day, the next day was spent throwing Portland and burning up 2 sets of bird blades getting yelled at by the boss (like it was our fault) , took 6 hours to bring it back but we saved it. 40x 60 basement. Blessings.
We were pouring footings for a house and couldn’t get concrete till 3pm. I decided to use a power buggy since it wasn’t a very big house. The house is in the city and had little access so we couldn’t get the mixers close to the foundation hole and it was so muddy the wheel barrows would hardly go threw the mud. The house had a crawlspace and we were dumping from over the bank into the footing. We poured about 100’ of footing no problems. Then when we got around to an inside corner the bank caved in and the buggy flipped down into the hole and threw me up in the air and down in the mud. We got the buggy back up out of the hole and started cleaning up the mess. I had the new guy run the buggy for a minute while the rest of us cleaned up the mess and while we weren’t paying attention he filled about 40’ of footing at least 12 - 16 inches above the pins around the garage that had dirt all the way up to ground level. We went to start shoveling the concrete and it was up to my knee caps… It felt like we shoveled a whole mixer full out of those footings trying to level it back out. I had already sent part of the crew home because “it was an easy pour and we wouldn’t need them for that quick afternoon job” boy was I wrong. I put out a mayday call to a good friend that’s a contractor and he rushed over to help us and we finally finished about 8:30 that night two hands on the trowel trying to make it look somewhat presentable. Two of the guys got concrete poisoning on their ankles from it being over there boots, one of which has to be one of the all time worse cases ever. Surely the worst I’ve ever seen. Surprisingly the block layers only had to trim 6 or 8 block… Also Jim is the man!
We had about a 5 yd pour, patio where we were trying to match up a previous stenciled pad. Weather in N.W PA is so perfect (sarcasm) and always predictable. There was NO rain in the forecast. We were wheel barrowing all the concrete so after we started, we just got the first part of it screeded off when we heard the thunder. 5 minutes later, there was a 10 minute downpour where we had standing water on the pad. We were standing in the customers house, looking at the pour, knowing it was destroyed but trying to reassure them it was fine. We got the water off / out as much as possible and started pushing again. We get to the last foot of the pour and the driver said we were out of concrete. We had to send a guy to the local Lowes to buy 15 bags of quickrete, mix those along with the product on the ground tp try and match it as much as possible. We finished it and to this day....it looks amazing; no issues. Our saving grace with the short load was the customers relative prepped the pad. We learned very fast not to trust someone when they say they lasered it and it's "perfectly" 4"......
To each his own, me? I figure I'd want cement to roll trash cans to the road, kids bicycling, less mowing, more increased value to property - but that's just me. I guess that was a good save to the joist under house at back door, the rot was minor, it won't grow? Owners should have definitely waterproofed it the first time. The patio is beautiful even wout color! Y'all did a fantastic job and barely left any tracks! One mowing will erase anything left, great job guys! I'm amazed w every video. The time laps of the stamp was sort of neat, seeing the change happen quickly like that. I liked that! Vacation time nearing! Yay! Thanks Tom, loved every second of today's video! 👍👌❤🇺🇸
I immediately hit that like button even before watching the video. I know I'm gonna like it. Love watching the family work together! No fighting between you & your guys. Love the content!!
Pouring a bridge deck on a major interchange reconstruction. 12 men on the deck with a big 8” pump working and a 40 foot Bidwell paver. The temporary joist hangers between the beams rotated and dropped a 12x12 area of the formwork to the ground 16 feet down. The only thing keeping the crew in place was the dense rebar mat (12x12 pattern, upper and lower). Nobody hurt. But a hell of a mess trying to wash the green concrete off the forms and rebar to salvage as much as we could and setting a header until the incident could be investigated and corrected. We retro-fitted a couple hundred hangers so it would never happen again. The pour continued the next day as if nothing happened… 120,000 cars a day use that bridge and there isn’t even a bump to remember it by.
I'm just amazed with the professionalism you and your crew have! So consistent with your decisions. Your one of those channels that should have over 100k subscribers. Keep up the quality videos. I don't know what I'd do without you guys. Thank you so much to all that it takes to make this happen! I don't comment all the time but I watch every episode!👊🔨🦅✝️✌
I really like that natural concrete finish, after the sealer you can see some subtle variation in tones which is a really nice look with that stamp. Well done!
Landscaper from Melbourne, Australia 21 at the time also. Love your channel! About 12 months ago, we had this job, 30-35m2 of exposed aggregate for a client. We poured on a Saturday morning, went pretty smoothly a little bit hot but nothing crazy. The next day we came and washed it off, look perfect very happy result. About a month later, the client called me and I came back, the entire surface of the concrete had started crumbling, the 7mm stone just falling out of the mix as you ran your hand over it. It looked horrible. Called the concrete company and they wanted nothing to do with it. Ended up sending 4 of the boys, 4 jack hammers (no access), a 10m3 skip bin and 2 days of nothing but noise. Ripped the whole thing out, I had to go to another site because I couldn't watch haha. Solid loss for the business, but it is what it is. Re-poured it with a different mix and company, same steps.. came out perfect! Keen to hear if any else has any horror stories like that hahah didn't sleep for months until it was fixed!
That sounds horrible I would love to send you a T-shirt I am checking on the cost of mailing it I have a feeling it’s going to be outrageous but thanks for sharing your story
Very easy to see you are the master at what you do when someone can watch this and Think to there self I can do that. All because how smooth and professional you make it look. When in reality it’s the total opposite and could turn out to be a complete mess to try and do what you do and make it look so easy anyone could do it.
Got a call from a home owner to come out and pour the rear deck on his home it was about 12 ft off the ground all 12 inch block with a stone wall about 3ft6in high on top of the block all around !! He had install the steel decking himself and swore it was done right and would hold the weight of the concrete ,,,,it was 16x16 about 5 inches thick ! I wanted to see the bracing underneath but didnt have time before hand to check it out { lesson learned } !! Poured and finished the deck ,,exposed aggregate ,standing admiring our work we felt a little vibration and within 2 seconds the deck caved into the hole !! Talk about disheartening !! We ended up cleaning out the debris and repoured the deck . I brace it myself the second time using 2 8 inch beams just in case !! He had used a lot of used lumber to brace underneath ! That was the last time i ever did a job without checking it out before hand !
My last concrete job was actually my first concrete job. So about 2 days ago I made a 16"x16" concrete cube thingy to hold my flag pole that my kids got for my birthday. This pole came with the pvc sleeve to slide the flag pole into to display the flag. I didn't want to bury this tube all the way in the ground because I was wanting to put a raised flower bed around the flag pole so I wanted about 8" of pipe above ground level. So anyways, on Sunday I dug the hole, made the form and then mixed the concrete, I ended up coming up like a bag and half short. We're rural so this would have to carry over into Monday. So Monday after work I bought more concrete mixed it and poured it on top of the cured stuff. I also noticed my form was uneven, so now I dont know if I will ever try this again or not.
I enjoy watching your channel. Another outstanding example as though you were living there. Professionally prepared, this customer is blessed having Concrete with the Hauses do this job. Adapt and over come, with the throttle string 😀.
You know I watch all of your videos and all others also and you are the best I‘ ve seen I’m still waiting to see the video where you install the counter top i watched you build
I like the driveway runners. It's an old style driveway look. The pads, patio & steps look real nice. A job well done. I like how you left the concrete it's natural color. Like you said Tom it looks better with the house. Stay safe.
Good pour Tom and Crew …. Looks good personally if mine I would have poured the corner under AC and next to the porch by driveway .. but we all have our own likes … 👊🏼👊🏼🔨🪚✌🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸
I worked for Sunward Materials here in Az back in 1996 we pumped over a 100 yards at a water treatment plant. The batch man screwed up and it was all fly ash and next to no cement. the walls crumbled.
I am not in the concrete business but when I was a teenager I was helping my friend Dad pour his house basement walls when the driver of the truck was pouring to fast when one one of the forms broke apart and all the concrete came pouring out and we shovelled for hours and to this day there is a small grassed hill in front of that house.
Another beautiful patio! Always love the attention to detail and your explanation of what you are doing and why you do it! Great craftsman and great teacher!
TOM, I'm just a home owner 67years old now but 40 years ago, poured my garage on a Saturday 28x36 .had friends supposed to show up with all the tools needed, concrete was on site 7am mixing, driver needed the concrete off the truck only had a 16ft 2x4 and my father in law!
My nightmare of a pore, I did it myself not know anything about doing concrete I regretted every moment and it looked like it. Did a sidewalk around the house. You make it look easy, and I have learn so much watching your videos. Thank you.
We always enjoy watching the great jobs you all do. My hubby says if you need a vibrator on your gavel truck he has a good way of accomplishing that. He and the guy's where he worked set one up on one of their trucks at work.
Wow that really looks nice .great job yall. They have got to be ecstatic about that driveway and that back patio, just amazing looking Oh my poor Steve I can't believe the bosses son has to work for free 😢 😁😂 mean daddy haha
You do realise Tom and Crew if Melissa Morgan is watching your videos she'll be on Mike's case about getting you an your Crew to build a "SWIMMING POOL" 🤣🤣 another brilliant job done,I look forward to your videos, having been in building and property maintenance before I retired. regards Peter wolf.
We poured a basement floor in a bathroom that had to be excavated and have rotted out cast iron pipes replaced. We realized the morning of the pour that the radius into the hallway was too tight for a wheelbarrow so we spent 4 hours carrying concrete in 5 gallon buckets. Then the 4,000 psi concrete took forever to set up and we were using towels to get the bleed water off. We ended up saving it / not having to tear it out but what a mess.
Nice job guys. A joy to watch. Tom, you'd make a good Marine, "Improvise Adapt Overcome" with a string, no less. Lives have been saved with thinking like this. Greetings from the Old Jarhead in WNC
I just did a driveway like that a couple of weeks ago. I actually like the look, but twice as much work. Definitely will bid it like it's 2 separate drives.
Awesome job. That patio really sets off the house. I cant tell you how much I wish I was 30 years younger, and 1,000 miles closer so that I could work with you guys,
3 of us were pouring a side walk about 5ft X 100 ft long in November temp was to be a high of 60 6 sack mix with fiber and mesh , my lead Forman order the concrete as I was at a meeting . Concrete came everything was going had about 5 ft left and one of us went back to start bull floating and I hear “Oh No “ ! The concrete had set hard , Fred ordered it with calcium because he heard a weather advertisement and it said that it was going to be a high of 32 thinking it was real and I didn’t know it . It was totally unworkable and had to tear it all out and re do the next day ! Fun fun fun !
All 3 of us were all novice concrete pourers. We were pouring a friends rather large basement two of us wheeled 2 wheelbarrows of concrete to the far corner of the basement on the other side of a center wall and started to level it out. When we returned to refill our wheelbarrows we found our helper had instructed the driver to dump the entire remaining truck load in one large pile in the basement when we ask why he said I thought it would be easier to handle this way. Needless to say we worked our a-s off that day. We canceled the second load and poured it on a different day.
We poured a very large footing for a basement. 2 rows of rebar throughout. Can’t remember the slump but it was right on the money for what was required. A few days later got a call about the footings being cracked in several areas . Went out to the job to see what had happened. Turns out in a few areas the cream on top showed some cracks mind you it was just the surface where some of the water came to the surface. The integrity of the concrete was not compromised in any way. Long story short. The customer flipped out and the builder caved and we had to pull it all up and Hull it away and re pour the footing all at our expense. We never worked for that builder again 🤷♂️ 🌴👍👍😎🌴
I replaced a 4 foot railroad tie end wall with a concrete wall. The best advice. Use plywood not MDF and brace, brace and brace. My wall has a curve to it.
Can’t get over how good of work you do you do such a good job on everything and I know very little about concrete I’d like to work at the ethics you have a super good crew I started watching you through outdoor with the Morgans very good people very good family I’ve said it already but you have a really good crew I like the way you guys work together and I like the way that you work with your crew if you were closer if I ever needed any work done I would definitely definitely have you do it but it’s kind of hard when you’re living over 2000 miles away or so I’m not sure how many miles keep up the good work you’re awesome
GOOOOOOOD MAAAAAAAAWNIN EVERYONE!! Strange that the homeowner didn’t want a complete concrete driveway Would’ve made moving snow easier…regardless, Tom & crew… another fine job thanks for sharing Have a day
I seen in another video, maybe one of his, the historic association wouldn’t allow them to do any changes to take away from the original look. It was in a historic district tho. This may not be the case at all, but I’ve seen it
Beautiful looking job. I would have liked to see how you actually cut and hid those wires on the back stairs leading onto the patio though.... very curious :)
Good question we do this quite often. It’s in several videos . I took tin snips and cut the wire about a quarter inch into the concrete and float over. You never see them or rust mark again.
Mag finishing a driveway half was done was finishing the other half literally poured only on us. Had to broom the water off and finish with sponge floats
In pittsburgh helping a guy over 20 yrs ago. I dug the footer for the garage. He used formadrain to form the footer. Real tight quarters couldnt get to 1/2 of it. He decides to water it up and let it run. All the formadrain floated not 1 part of the elevation was useable.
When I poured the footer for my garage we lost track of our grade heights in one corner and overfilled it by several inches. There was a lot of diamond sawing blocks to chop down their height for the first course but it’s not visible so now it’s no big deal. When I went to do the garage floor I called you because I wanted a professional result and your crew certainly delivered that. Great work on those back patio steps and the municipal water steps last video, your experience really shows with how straightforward you make these complex forms seem.
There used to be a lot of those driveways in the LA County area in older cities. Not too many were replaced the same way. Hey tell Elliot that a prepared boss would have had extra blades, because they break all of the time.
We were building a Seed Plant in Michigan. 9-1/2 days on 4-1/2 off. Last pour of the week before going home (500miles away) We were pouring a 12-inch x12' foot tall wall x 100' long. Down to the last truck coming around a corner-----THEN SHE BLEW!!!!! The concrete just kept running out-----GRRRRRR that happened around 10 am-We didn't leave until 8 that night. Should have been done@ 11:30 am. Went to the Bar and stayed another night :):)
Hey Derek we all talked about it we’re going to go ahead and award you the winner that sounds horrible I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy email Donna she’ll get your information send you a shirt thanks for watching
@@Concretewiththehauses OMG :) Thank You!! It was Totally Miserable. Something I will never forget. And thank you and your workers. I love your videos!! At 61 I can only pour a couple of yards by myself LOL Thanks again!!!!
Horror story from Luzerne Co. PA. 1989-90 pouring a basement floor and attached garage. Basement has a walk-out side and all other walls are CMU already in place. Using a conveyor truck to hit far side (walk-out side). Truck is parked on the front, non walk-out side. Me and my buddy are doing the straight edging (“screeding here in North East PA). It’s going okay until we get to a point where we have to make a turn. We look behind us and dip-crap labor on the conveyor (tremmy ?) end has a pile waist high. He was shielded from the driver by the CMU wall. He said he tried to get him to stop but he wasn’t getting his attention. He wasn’t very emphatic because even my coworker and I were unaware of the mess he had started. By the time we got the pile placed properly it was setting up on the truck(s). Boss man ( also a moron) insisted on getting on with the power trowel even though it wasn’t near ready yet. If I remember it was in the 30-40 yard size. Wasn’t long before we couldn’t move it with a rake and had to use a pick axe and a lot of water to get it somewhat in place. Worked 11 hours straight that day. Still don’t mind doing concrete work. ( we did soup to nuts on the bosses spec homes) you just need good help and a boss who doesn’t have crap for brains.
1980's my dad had a 1978 Bronco. The same line broke. He used dynamite wire he had from a construction site. Tied it up to the gas pedal everything worked like that for 20 more years, never fixed the dang thing the "right" way
A long time ago I owned an Audi 4000 Quattro with a manual and had the throttle cable detach from the pedal so I ran a string from under the hood and through the passenger window. All because of a dry rotten bushing that cost a few bucks.
Tom, one quick question how did that 12” Fresno Tool get it’s name. I live in Fresno California. A few years ago my wife and I were on a trip to Yellow Stone National Park, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Monument and Buffalo Bill Cody Museum in Wyoming. In the Buffalo Bill we saw a Fresno Scraper, also know as a slip scrapers or drag scrapers used to move dirt and stone when excavating earth. I believe the Fresno Scraper was made Fresno in 1883 to construct ditches and canals pulled by horses and named after the town which it was first built.
Tom, you and your team not only are skilled artisans but pure athletes! As a teen I worked for a general contractor and then the multiple projects I took on as a homeowner proved how hard this work is! You do beautiful work and you are a great instructor!
Beautiful job. My only question is why not finish around the a/c unit, in front of the basement steps an tie into the pad where the side door/drive is?
Good job, my worst concrete pour was only placing wooden stakes 12''' in the ground to hold a footing form and it blew out on the pour. total nightmare.
The young guy who worked for the builder built the forms for all the concrete. He had never did that before and therefore didn't understand how the forms came off. He built it to last! The concrete guys were not happy. He was educated by them. That young guy was me!
@@Concretewiththehauses I learned a lot that summer before going to college. Enough that the boss said if what I was studying didn'twork out to come see him. There are times I wish I had done that. Enjoy your posts and can thank Mike Morgan for telling the Morgans about you.
Tom I worked one summer helping my buddy doing carpentry work and some small concrete jobs. He called me on a Saturday telling me he needed me on big pour and to hurry and get there. When I got there he said the concrete was on the way. As I was looking around the site I saw no forms in the two garage doors and nothing setting the floor drains height. When I ask about them he said a new guy said he did not need them. Well when the pour was done it was bad. The floor was full of waves and it was rough in big spots never troweled and the doors tapered to about a inch thick. The CONCRETE GOT HARD AND WE LOST A BIG PART OF IT. (There was a lawsuit)
Thanks for posting amazing videos. You are one of the best I’ve seen. I’m a small business owner with 20 yrs experience and somehow keep learning from your videos. 🤙🏻 I’m having trouble finding step face form liners. I typically use 2” x 6” for face forms. Would you mind posting a link to the company you order from? I would greatly appreciate it. Sincerely, your friend from Ohio. 🤘🏻💯
We made a large pour years ago and then the boss asked us to go pour two yards at a four-story building, come to find out the concrete had to be lifted up with a pet a bone to the roof of the second floor, then put into a wheelbarrow, then shoveled into buckets, then up two flights of stairs into the attic that felt like 150°, then dumped it into a curb in the attic! If I remember correctly it took us 6 hours😳
I watched a short video on concrete forms and as they were pumping the concrete in their forms started collapsing and it wasn't holding at all. So I'm sure that was an expensive fail.
Tom and crew are ALWAYS going the extra mile for the customer. A true rarity today!!!!
I was wheelbarrow man, told our boss it was gonna rain and it did,he was adamant that it wasn’t. Chute was 7.5 foot above the ground and couldn’t be scraped. We were soaked and i swear i wore 3 yards slopping when it blooped in the wheelbarrow and dumping from above. Rained all day, the next day was spent throwing Portland and burning up 2 sets of bird blades getting yelled at by the boss (like it was our fault) , took 6 hours to bring it back but we saved it. 40x 60 basement. Blessings.
Does not sound fun
We were pouring footings for a house and couldn’t get concrete till 3pm. I decided to use a power buggy since it wasn’t a very big house. The house is in the city and had little access so we couldn’t get the mixers close to the foundation hole and it was so muddy the wheel barrows would hardly go threw the mud. The house had a crawlspace and we were dumping from over the bank into the footing. We poured about 100’ of footing no problems. Then when we got around to an inside corner the bank caved in and the buggy flipped down into the hole and threw me up in the air and down in the mud. We got the buggy back up out of the hole and started cleaning up the mess. I had the new guy run the buggy for a minute while the rest of us cleaned up the mess and while we weren’t paying attention he filled about 40’ of footing at least 12 - 16 inches above the pins around the garage that had dirt all the way up to ground level. We went to start shoveling the concrete and it was up to my knee caps… It felt like we shoveled a whole mixer full out of those footings trying to level it back out. I had already sent part of the crew home because “it was an easy pour and we wouldn’t need them for that quick afternoon job” boy was I wrong. I put out a mayday call to a good friend that’s a contractor and he rushed over to help us and we finally finished about 8:30 that night two hands on the trowel trying to make it look somewhat presentable. Two of the guys got concrete poisoning on their ankles from it being over there boots, one of which has to be one of the all time worse cases ever. Surely the worst I’ve ever seen. Surprisingly the block layers only had to trim 6 or 8 block…
Also Jim is the man!
We had about a 5 yd pour, patio where we were trying to match up a previous stenciled pad. Weather in N.W PA is so perfect (sarcasm) and always predictable. There was NO rain in the forecast. We were wheel barrowing all the concrete so after we started, we just got the first part of it screeded off when we heard the thunder. 5 minutes later, there was a 10 minute downpour where we had standing water on the pad. We were standing in the customers house, looking at the pour, knowing it was destroyed but trying to reassure them it was fine. We got the water off / out as much as possible and started pushing again. We get to the last foot of the pour and the driver said we were out of concrete. We had to send a guy to the local Lowes to buy 15 bags of quickrete, mix those along with the product on the ground tp try and match it as much as possible. We finished it and to this day....it looks amazing; no issues. Our saving grace with the short load was the customers relative prepped the pad. We learned very fast not to trust someone when they say they lasered it and it's "perfectly" 4"......
To each his own, me? I figure I'd want cement to roll trash cans to the road, kids bicycling, less mowing, more increased value to property - but that's just me. I guess that was a good save to the joist under house at back door, the rot was minor, it won't grow? Owners should have definitely waterproofed it the first time. The patio is beautiful even wout color! Y'all did a fantastic job and barely left any tracks! One mowing will erase anything left, great job guys! I'm amazed w every video. The time laps of the stamp was sort of neat, seeing the change happen quickly like that. I liked that! Vacation time nearing! Yay! Thanks Tom, loved every second of today's video! 👍👌❤🇺🇸
I immediately hit that like button even before watching the video. I know I'm gonna like it. Love watching the family work together! No fighting between you & your guys. Love the content!!
Yeah me too !
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I am the same way.
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Thank you! Appreciate Tom there for input into this. Yes I came from the other channel 8 months ago lol.
Pouring a bridge deck on a major interchange reconstruction. 12 men on the deck with a big 8” pump working and a 40 foot Bidwell paver. The temporary joist hangers between the beams rotated and dropped a 12x12 area of the formwork to the ground 16 feet down. The only thing keeping the crew in place was the dense rebar mat (12x12 pattern, upper and lower). Nobody hurt. But a hell of a mess trying to wash the green concrete off the forms and rebar to salvage as much as we could and setting a header until the incident could be investigated and corrected. We retro-fitted a couple hundred hangers so it would never happen again. The pour continued the next day as if nothing happened… 120,000 cars a day use that bridge and there isn’t even a bump to remember it by.
I'm just amazed with the professionalism you and your crew have! So consistent with your decisions. Your one of those channels that should have over 100k subscribers. Keep up the quality videos. I don't know what I'd do without you guys. Thank you so much to all that it takes to make this happen! I don't comment all the time but I watch every episode!👊🔨🦅✝️✌
Thank you very much
I really like that natural concrete finish, after the sealer you can see some subtle variation in tones which is a really nice look with that stamp. Well done!
Landscaper from Melbourne, Australia 21 at the time also. Love your channel! About 12 months ago, we had this job, 30-35m2 of exposed aggregate for a client. We poured on a Saturday morning, went pretty smoothly a little bit hot but nothing crazy. The next day we came and washed it off, look perfect very happy result.
About a month later, the client called me and I came back, the entire surface of the concrete had started crumbling, the 7mm stone just falling out of the mix as you ran your hand over it. It looked horrible. Called the concrete company and they wanted nothing to do with it.
Ended up sending 4 of the boys, 4 jack hammers (no access), a 10m3 skip bin and 2 days of nothing but noise. Ripped the whole thing out, I had to go to another site because I couldn't watch haha. Solid loss for the business, but it is what it is.
Re-poured it with a different mix and company, same steps.. came out perfect! Keen to hear if any else has any horror stories like that hahah didn't sleep for months until it was fixed!
That sounds horrible I would love to send you a T-shirt I am checking on the cost of mailing it I have a feeling it’s going to be outrageous but thanks for sharing your story
@@Concretewiththehauses not a problem at all mate, appreciate the thought regardless ! Send it on to someone closer to home for you !
My dad in OH back in the early 60 had to use a 9" wide pick to smooth out the concert for the garage. I was in the Coast Guard in FL at the time.
You are definitely a master of your trade sir.
Very easy to see you are the master at what you do when someone can watch this and
Think to there self I can do that. All because how smooth and professional you make it look. When in reality it’s the total opposite and could turn out to be a complete mess to try and do what you do and make it look so easy anyone could do it.
Got a call from a home owner to come out and pour the rear deck on his home it was about 12 ft off the ground all 12 inch block with a stone wall about 3ft6in high on top of the block all around !! He had install the steel decking himself and swore it was done right and would hold the weight of the concrete ,,,,it was 16x16 about 5 inches thick ! I wanted to see the bracing underneath but didnt have time before hand to check it out { lesson learned } !! Poured and finished the deck ,,exposed aggregate ,standing admiring our work we felt a little vibration and within 2 seconds the deck caved into the hole !! Talk about disheartening !! We ended up cleaning out the debris and repoured the deck . I brace it myself the second time using 2 8 inch beams just in case !! He had used a lot of used lumber to brace underneath ! That was the last time i ever did a job without checking it out before hand !
My last concrete job was actually my first concrete job. So about 2 days ago I made a 16"x16" concrete cube thingy to hold my flag pole that my kids got for my birthday. This pole came with the pvc sleeve to slide the flag pole into to display the flag. I didn't want to bury this tube all the way in the ground because I was wanting to put a raised flower bed around the flag pole so I wanted about 8" of pipe above ground level. So anyways, on Sunday I dug the hole, made the form and then mixed the concrete, I ended up coming up like a bag and half short. We're rural so this would have to carry over into Monday. So Monday after work I bought more concrete mixed it and poured it on top of the cured stuff. I also noticed my form was uneven, so now I dont know if I will ever try this again or not.
I enjoy watching your channel.
Another outstanding example as though you were living there. Professionally prepared, this customer is blessed having Concrete with the Hauses do this job. Adapt and over come, with the throttle string 😀.
You know I watch all of your videos and all others also and you are the best I‘ ve seen I’m still waiting to see the video where you install the counter top i watched you build
Coming soon
Nice video. The only thing can be a problem with this type of driveway is it snows then it is a issue with snow removal .
A complicated project well done!!
I like the driveway runners. It's an old style driveway look. The pads, patio & steps look real nice. A job well done. I like how you left the concrete it's natural color. Like you said Tom it looks better with the house. Stay safe.
We had that kind of driveway growing up in a post WW2 track housing home. It was easier to sholve than a conventional driveway!
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Good pour Tom and Crew …. Looks good personally if mine I would have poured the corner under AC and next to the porch by driveway .. but we all have our own likes … 👊🏼👊🏼🔨🪚✌🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸
I worked for Sunward Materials here in Az back in 1996 we pumped over a 100 yards at a water treatment plant. The batch man screwed up and it was all fly ash and next to no cement. the walls crumbled.
That’s a tough redo
And there's another fine job by Tom and Crew!! Thanks for sharing!!
Haven't seen that style of driveway since I was a kid and was 70 years ago
I am not in the concrete business but when I was a teenager I was helping my friend Dad pour his house basement walls when the driver of the truck was pouring to fast when one one of the forms broke apart and all the concrete came pouring out and we shovelled for hours and to this day there is a small grassed hill in front of that house.
Good one
Another beautiful patio! Always love the attention to detail and your explanation of what you are doing and why you do it! Great craftsman and great teacher!
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I thought the home owner would have linked the concrete patio to the other pad at the garage and the cellar entrance!
TOM, I'm just a home owner 67years old now but 40 years ago, poured my garage on a Saturday 28x36 .had friends supposed to show up with all the tools needed, concrete was on site 7am mixing, driver needed the concrete off the truck only had a 16ft 2x4 and my father in law!
Good friends are hard to find
Looks fantastic guys. Great work 👌😎🇦🇺
Your attention to detail is amazing.
Looks great Tom.
Love the drive. Used to see that a lot as a kid.
I really enjoy watching you craftmanship. You and your team are an asset to the field.
Thank you very much
This driveway is like my own driveway, it definitely needs replacement, this new build will definitely make a difference indeed, 👍.
Nice job as usual great crew , we need concrete with the Hauses hear in central Pa.
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My nightmare of a pore, I did it myself not know anything about doing concrete I regretted every moment and it looked like it. Did a sidewalk around the house. You make it look easy, and I have learn so much watching your videos. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing
We always enjoy watching the great jobs you all do. My hubby says if you need a vibrator on your gavel truck he has a good way of accomplishing that. He and the guy's where he worked set one up on one of their trucks at work.
That’s a great idea
Wow that really looks nice .great job yall. They have got to be ecstatic about that driveway and that back patio, just amazing looking
Oh my poor Steve I can't believe the bosses son has to work for free 😢 😁😂 mean daddy haha
You do realise Tom and Crew if Melissa Morgan is watching your videos she'll be on Mike's case about getting you an your Crew to build a "SWIMMING POOL" 🤣🤣 another brilliant job done,I look forward to your videos, having been in building and property maintenance before I retired. regards Peter wolf.
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love to watch your crew work.. How about an update on Tom's house.
Coming soon
My dad taught me that method of tying string line 50 years ago. Like you said “simple”.
We poured a basement floor in a bathroom that had to be excavated and have rotted out cast iron pipes replaced. We realized the morning of the pour that the radius into the hallway was too tight for a wheelbarrow so we spent 4 hours carrying concrete in 5 gallon buckets. Then the 4,000 psi concrete took forever to set up and we were using towels to get the bleed water off. We ended up saving it / not having to tear it out but what a mess.
Nice save
@@Concretewiththehauses Thanks always learned to have extra tools and buckets.
Nice job your crew sure does a nice job cleaning up. Great work
Nice job guys. A joy to watch. Tom, you'd make a good Marine, "Improvise Adapt Overcome" with a string, no less. Lives have been saved with thinking like this. Greetings from the Old Jarhead in WNC
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Alot going on on this home 🏡 but yall made it all real nice as usual !!
I just did a driveway like that a couple of weeks ago. I actually like the look, but twice as much work. Definitely will bid it like it's 2 separate drives.
I agree
enjoyed the video. Nice to see a crew that does things right! Good job and nice looking end product. Keep up the good work.
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Very nice work as always... I like the look with no antiquing color added.
You are so skilled. A true craftsman. Great workers and beautiful job well done. I would definitely hire you and your team.
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your videos keep getting better, Great work you and your crew are so cool
That's a beutiful house and the drive way is old school. Do you know when the house was build? It's also great to see the owner maintaing it.
75 years ago
As I've said before you guys do good work
Awesome job. That patio really sets off the house. I cant tell you how much I wish I was 30 years younger, and 1,000 miles closer so that I could work with you guys,
Me too
ANOTHER GREAT VID TOM! YOU HAVE SUCH A GREAT INTERACTIVE CREW!! GOD BLESS!!
Hey now you tweaked that saw zaw blade a bit yourself there!! Take it easy on the help
He knows I was just kidding
We had a cotton strip driveway just like that in Michigan, great job and video Tom
3 of us were pouring a side walk about 5ft X 100 ft long in November temp was to be a high of 60 6 sack mix with fiber and mesh , my lead Forman order the concrete as I was at a meeting . Concrete came everything was going had about 5 ft left and one of us went back to start bull floating and I hear “Oh No “ ! The concrete had set hard , Fred ordered it with calcium because he heard a weather advertisement and it said that it was going to be a high of 32 thinking it was real and I didn’t know it . It was totally unworkable and had to tear it all out and re do the next day ! Fun fun fun !
Oh boy that hurts
Very nice work you all do a great job!!
All 3 of us were all novice concrete pourers. We were pouring a friends rather large basement two of us wheeled
2 wheelbarrows of concrete to the far corner of the basement on the other side of a center wall and started to level it out. When we returned to refill our wheelbarrows we found our helper had instructed the driver to dump the entire remaining truck load in one large pile in the basement when we ask why he said I thought it would be easier to handle this way. Needless to say we worked our a-s off that day. We canceled the second load and poured it on a different day.
Oh my gosh that sounds like a lot of work
We poured a very large footing for a basement. 2 rows of rebar throughout. Can’t remember the slump but it was right on the money for what was required. A few days later got a call about the footings being cracked in several areas . Went out to the job to see what had happened. Turns out in a few areas the cream on top showed some cracks mind you it was just the surface where some of the water came to the surface. The integrity of the concrete was not compromised in any way. Long story short. The customer flipped out and the builder caved and we had to pull it all up and Hull it away and re pour the footing all at our expense. We never worked for that builder again 🤷♂️ 🌴👍👍😎🌴
That hurts
@@Concretewiththehauses it hurt a lot lol I can laugh about it now. Not so much then .
Another beautiful job I really enjoy your videos 👍
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I replaced a 4 foot railroad tie end wall with a concrete wall. The best advice. Use plywood not MDF and brace, brace and brace. My wall has a curve to it.
Can’t get over how good of work you do you do such a good job on everything and I know very little about concrete I’d like to work at the ethics you have a super good crew I started watching you through outdoor with the Morgans very good people very good family I’ve said it already but you have a really good crew I like the way you guys work together and I like the way that you work with your crew if you were closer if I ever needed any work done I would definitely definitely have you do it but it’s kind of hard when you’re living over 2000 miles away or so I’m not sure how many miles keep up the good work you’re awesome
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GOOOOOOOD
MAAAAAAAAWNIN
EVERYONE!!
Strange that the homeowner didn’t want a complete concrete driveway
Would’ve made moving snow easier…regardless, Tom & crew… another fine job
thanks for sharing
Have a day
I seen in another video, maybe one of his, the historic association wouldn’t allow them to do any changes to take away from the original look. It was in a historic district tho. This may not be the case at all, but I’ve seen it
Thank You for always making these videos a teaching moment. I have been a subscriber since your first video.
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Another awesome job you and your crew are super
Tom you did a MacGyver on your power buggy when in doubt impervise that's what i used when my wipers blades stopped working on my car good old string
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Beautiful looking job. I would have liked to see how you actually cut and hid those wires on the back stairs leading onto the patio though.... very curious :)
Good question we do this quite often. It’s in several videos . I took tin snips and cut the wire about a quarter inch into the concrete and float over. You never see them or rust mark again.
Why do you run the screed board?
Mag finishing a driveway half was done was finishing the other half literally poured only on us. Had to broom the water off and finish with sponge floats
In pittsburgh helping a guy over 20 yrs ago. I dug the footer for the garage. He used formadrain to form the footer. Real tight quarters couldnt get to 1/2 of it. He decides to water it up and let it run. All the formadrain floated not 1 part of the elevation was useable.
What a mess
Yep lotsa block chipping on that one
When I poured the footer for my garage we lost track of our grade heights in one corner and overfilled it by several inches. There was a lot of diamond sawing blocks to chop down their height for the first course but it’s not visible so now it’s no big deal. When I went to do the garage floor I called you because I wanted a professional result and your crew certainly delivered that.
Great work on those back patio steps and the municipal water steps last video, your experience really shows with how straightforward you make these complex forms seem.
Thanks Chris
You guys sure earn your money
There used to be a lot of those driveways in the LA County area in older cities. Not too many were replaced the same way. Hey tell Elliot that a prepared boss would have had extra blades, because they break all of the time.
Good one
Good morning Hauses☕️
Good morning
We were building a Seed Plant in Michigan. 9-1/2 days on 4-1/2 off. Last pour of the week before going home (500miles away)
We were pouring a 12-inch x12' foot tall wall x 100' long. Down to the last truck coming around a corner-----THEN SHE BLEW!!!!! The concrete just kept running out-----GRRRRRR that happened around 10 am-We didn't leave until 8 that night. Should have been done@ 11:30 am.
Went to the Bar and stayed another night :):)
Hey Derek we all talked about it we’re going to go ahead and award you the winner that sounds horrible I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy email Donna she’ll get your information send you a shirt thanks for watching
@@Concretewiththehauses OMG :) Thank You!! It was Totally Miserable. Something I will never forget.
And thank you and your workers. I love your videos!! At 61 I can only pour a couple of yards by myself LOL
Thanks again!!!!
@@Concretewiththehauses Hello, I think Donna received an e-mail from me, not sure. And Thank You!!
That looks awesome
Horror story from Luzerne Co. PA. 1989-90 pouring a basement floor and attached garage. Basement has a walk-out side and all other walls are CMU already in place. Using a conveyor truck to hit far side (walk-out side). Truck is parked on the front, non walk-out side. Me and my buddy are doing the straight edging (“screeding here in North East PA). It’s going okay until we get to a point where we have to make a turn. We look behind us and dip-crap labor on the conveyor (tremmy ?) end has a pile waist high. He was shielded from the driver by the CMU wall. He said he tried to get him to stop but he wasn’t getting his attention. He wasn’t very emphatic because even my coworker and I were unaware of the mess he had started.
By the time we got the pile placed properly it was setting up on the truck(s). Boss man ( also a moron) insisted on getting on with the power trowel even though it wasn’t near ready yet. If I remember it was in the 30-40 yard size. Wasn’t long before we couldn’t move it with a rake and had to use a pick axe and a lot of water to get it somewhat in place. Worked 11 hours straight that day. Still don’t mind doing concrete work. ( we did soup to nuts on the bosses spec homes) you just need good help and a boss who doesn’t have crap for brains.
That’s a tough one
1980's my dad had a 1978 Bronco. The same line broke. He used dynamite wire he had from a construction site. Tied it up to the gas pedal everything worked like that for 20 more years, never fixed the dang thing the "right" way
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A long time ago I owned an Audi 4000 Quattro with a manual and had the throttle cable detach from the pedal so I ran a string from under the hood and through the passenger window. All because of a dry rotten bushing that cost a few bucks.
Nice
Tom, one quick question how did that 12” Fresno Tool get it’s name. I live in Fresno California. A few years ago my wife and I were on a trip to Yellow Stone National Park, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Monument and Buffalo Bill Cody Museum in Wyoming. In the Buffalo Bill we saw a Fresno Scraper, also know as a slip scrapers or drag scrapers used to move dirt and stone when excavating earth. I believe the Fresno Scraper was made Fresno in 1883 to construct ditches and canals pulled by horses and named after the town which it was first built.
That’s interesting but I’m not sure
Another awesome job!!
Tom, you and your team not only are skilled artisans but pure athletes! As a teen I worked for a general contractor and then the multiple projects I took on as a homeowner proved how hard this work is! You do beautiful work and you are a great instructor!
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Beautiful job. My only question is why not finish around the a/c unit, in front of the basement steps an tie into the pad where the side door/drive is?
Not sure
Good job, my worst concrete pour was only placing wooden stakes 12''' in the ground to hold a footing form and it blew out on the pour. total nightmare.
Ouch
How deep are the cuts you’re making? Another great video, very informative!
1”
The young guy who worked for the builder built the forms for all the concrete. He had never did that before and therefore didn't understand how the forms came off. He built it to last! The concrete guys were not happy. He was educated by them. That young guy was me!
Funny
@@Concretewiththehauses I learned a lot that summer before going to college. Enough that the boss said if what I was studying didn'twork out to come see him. There are times I wish I had done that. Enjoy your posts and can thank Mike Morgan for telling the Morgans about you.
Tom I worked one summer helping my buddy doing carpentry work and some small concrete jobs. He called me on a Saturday telling me he needed me on big pour and to hurry and get there. When I got there he said the concrete was on the way. As I was looking around the site I saw no forms in the two garage doors and nothing setting the floor drains height. When I ask about them he said a new guy said he did not need them. Well when the pour was done it was bad. The floor was full of waves and it was rough in big spots never troweled and the doors tapered to about a inch thick. The CONCRETE GOT HARD AND WE LOST A BIG PART OF IT. (There was a lawsuit)
Easy Saturday right
don't let the sun go down on work that can be done today!
Thanks for posting amazing videos. You are one of the best I’ve seen. I’m a small business owner with 20 yrs experience and somehow keep learning from your videos. 🤙🏻 I’m having trouble finding step face form liners. I typically use 2” x 6” for face forms. Would you mind posting a link to the company you order from? I would greatly appreciate it. Sincerely, your friend from Ohio. 🤘🏻💯
Bon tool
Excelente y muy hermoso trabajo felicidades 💯 👌🏻 👊
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looks great, man.
Excellence!
We made a large pour years ago and then the boss asked us to go pour two yards at a four-story building, come to find out the concrete had to be lifted up with a pet a bone to the roof of the second floor, then put into a wheelbarrow, then shoveled into buckets, then up two flights of stairs into the attic that felt like 150°, then dumped it into a curb in the attic! If I remember correctly it took us 6 hours😳
Not fun at all
Nice job
Great video but is it possible to see it when the dry
I try and do that sometimes it’s hard to get back to these later on
Extemporisation... . it's the way innovation and inventions are made.
What’s your opinion on the power screets ?
I like it I use them occasionally
I watched a short video on concrete forms and as they were pumping the concrete in their forms started collapsing and it wasn't holding at all. So I'm sure that was an expensive fail.
There are several driveways like that in the south.