This was our house, they saved us from a total diaster. They were very professional, honest we are very glad Bondo was one who helped us. I'm not sure anyone else could of done what Bondo and his crew did in a very efficiant time. All we can say is Thank you so much.
Gopher needs a raise. I can't hardly find anyone to work, let alone dig like that. You and your crew deserve a big pat on the back for your hard work. Great work, crew!
Nice job! You essentially created about a 6' wide foundation compacting that material. I couldn't tell from the video if the blocks were Haydite, they didn't look like concrete. I was in the masonry business my whole life and we never ever buried them. I spent a summer when i was 16 doing nothing but replacing full 8' foundations. My dad bid a whole neighborhood of rental houses and nearly all the foundations were caving in. I was worked like a rented mule. Oh one thing you want to thing about. Never place a block on it's side and put weight on it. You were centered, but I have seen a few scaffolds crash down after guys used them to level the ground. Makes an eerie pop!
This is a great educational video for why foundation drains are needed. I never thougt about how much concrete blocks can deteriorate in that situation. A real eye opener. Bondo does some really good work on this.
Looks great. All these experts have unlimited resources and time. Nobody has expressed the importance of time and safety. You did the right thing for safety of the structure. You were hired for one job and ran into a land mine!!!
I am fixing to hit 69 and I can remember doing that kind of work for most of my life. I built houses, apartments and high rise buildings and Bridges THEN, I did home repair and improvement . I also did lots and lots of foundation work repairing bad work I also majored in floor repair for many years before I finally had to retire. I called myself the Floor Doctor. It was hard work but for a young man it was rewarding work and it paid better than working in some factory waiting for bells to ring. I miss doing it, I miss being able TO DO IT. SO Be happy in your work boys if you live as long as I do you will miss it to...Getting old means you can't get in gear like the old days especially for me two heart attacks a triple bypass and 7 stents later LOL. I do enjoy watching you work. I too used to run a bobcat and a jack hammer and a cherry picker and a dump truck and a front end loader and a forklift etc. etc. Yehaww the memories. ..Yeah those were the good old days for me. You guys do great work no doubt about it, YOU KEEP IT UP AND I WILL KEEP WATCHING YOU SWEAT LOL
What a great team. Excellent construction knowledge and no fancy marketing department full of wet behind the ears graduates! I'm from the UK and would hire you tomorrow but for the travel and hotel costs. Well done Bondo, Gofor, Biscuit and the concrete haulers.
Before you end your videos can you give us a 1 week post reconstruction picture? Would be nice to see a fully completed project. Maybe a before and after shot at the end. Would be satisfying. Compliments to your workers. Hopefully you pay them well.
Really enjoyed seeing your process. As a restoration carpenter i can appreciate figuring out how to "do it from the inside out" Great attention to details and doing it right. That's quality and looking out for your client. You've got a great demenor and seems like you and your crew work really well together.
from my experience on such cases I will not allow to use hollow concrete blocks as a foundation or wall below NGL instead I recommend stone masonry or concrete shear wall especially on submerged soil and I appreciate the use of drain pipe it will be more perfect if you make it perforated too to drain the surrounding water too and a geotextile wrap around the pipe to protect the backfilling from erosion/ or piping effect formation, water proofing the walls also protects from dampness and algae formation due to moisture.
This might be the most impressive build I have seen from you guys. No "one step forward, two steps back" approach. I'll bet that vinyl siding was "conveniently" hiding most the defects/sins. -Brian
I've subcrontred a few concrete jobs. At first I thought they were headed for a "world of screw up", BUT I watched carefully and they did pull off an AMAZING FINISH! I was concerned at the start of the pour that didn't specify exactly what "slump rate" they wanted.
That is one lucky homeowner to have you and your crew repair that garage. Well done sir! Oh, I did cringe a bit when I saw how that garage was supported by those 6x6's while you were working under it.
I loved your repair, fantastic work. I don't understand the original construction of the garage. Why dig down about four or five feet below grade to pour the footer (on an out building with no crawl space) just to build up to grade with four or five rows of block? Is it because of the freeze line? When they were originally building the thing wouldn't it have been better to have trench poured the footer (from whatever depth is required for the region/county) up to about four inches below grade, or even better 4 inches above grade?
done a lovely job, i know its a ball ache, and extra money you didnt think off, but its as good as new. nothing to worry about in the years ahead. Really nice to watch.
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen in long time, you guys did awesome job to save this garage. I’m amazed that place didn’t come down, you would think that it should’ve just started sinking into the ground, one morning the door handle be in the mud 😂. Great work by the guys , that had to be back breaking with all that hand digging. 👍👍
I hade to do this to a 3 full foundations in Woodbridge Ontario. The concrete company that supplied the concrete to the masons used road sand. And in Ontario they use salt mixed with the sand. Within a year the foundation could literally be kicked and to be busted open. Extremely good pay for even harder work.
In the uk we would use brick or block which is different for below ground, doesn’t absorb water like normal brick. Not saying it’ll never fail but it’s sure better than what the original builder used.
I watched every painful step. Good Job,Close call, the whole garage could have snapped off and cave in had yu not braced it so well. Thanks for sharing the procedure.
Excellent work, sorry to say there are a LOT of contractors that would have just ripped out the floor, re-pour, and be in the wind when it fell apart as the garage settled...
Nice save there, Bondo. Great crew you have there. That was a long video but worth watching. I crank it up to 2 x's speed on the video and still understand what you're saying. Thxs for the vids!
Fascinating that you can deconstruct the stem wall like that. So you went down to the concrete poured footer, and then dry stacked a new wall up? Than parged and core filled every 4 feet or so? How do you core fill since the top of the block wall isn't open? Amazing.
Killing it you’re murdering it you guys are amazing. This kind of video makes me kind of want a foundation problem. Way to go plaster, master tilt of the hat to the golfer that was amazing what a great crew you have. Good luck in your endeavors.
many thanks! Yet if it is just a detached garage I would like redo it. Could you tell me how wood post stands on, why wood frame would drop down when you remove the foundation?
What is the idea of the very thin rebar on the plastic below the concrete, as it is not raised into the concrete it is not going to add much to strength of the new slab?
🤔 how the heck that happened maybe the gutters are full and the water came in behind the walls idk anyway everything happens for a reason glad your fixing the results that's the way stuff happens thanks for sharing!
That's the 1st time I've ever seen a tamper used when doing a foundation and thats absolutely brilliant. You want the dirt around your foundation packed down just like undisturbed soil is
@@bondobuilt386 Yep. I think a big reason foundations fail is because the workers don't tamp down the dirt around it so it's always going to be looser than soil that's never been disturbed
Is it all from rainwater or plumbing leak? I am glad that you’re putting a perimeter drainage system. The owner have a recourse suing their builder. Mostly insurance don’t cover these typed of losses. What a mess! 😮
Cost was why we did not replace the posts. He did not want to spend the extra money and yes we poured wall cells solid with rebar every 4 feet into the footer.
They must not have needed a new footing because it was just a garage? Very nice work, I know how grueling these are. I like your dry stack method as well.
Concrete blocks are crap for foundation walls, we never use it for foundations where i live. When we use it for above grade walls we put a lot of horiz and vert rebar in it but we are in a very high seismic zone
Is it cost effective for the home owner if they need to deal with another failed block wall in a mud pit? Those blocks were rotten, thus something in the mud is eating away at the blocks. The failed wall was plastered and clearly it didn't work. That old drain pipe is likely plugged solid.
They were a bad block for the most part. We tested the old drain and it was pulling water and the old way the garage had all clay and no drain and now it is all stone and gravel and a drain with good blocks it will last 100 years.
At my CBS built house, I can see CBS outline cracks through my stucco at the corner where the shower is. The shower is leaking. Are my blocks going to disintegrate like the ones in this video?
Any reason the holes of the pipe facing down? they would face up. the rebar - too thin - has not raised up also an error I believe. Thanks for any feedback!
I never seen someone plastering block and saying that stronger then actually laying block with mortar do not understand that; I’d would never ever have someone do that to my house. How is that’s supposed to stand up to the outside pressure through the years no way no how; My God, you lay block like normal contractors
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This was our house, they saved us from a total diaster. They were very professional, honest we are very glad Bondo was one who helped us. I'm not sure anyone else could of done what Bondo and his crew did in a very efficiant time. All we can say is Thank you so much.
So what did he pay you to say this ? ( joke)
You are more than welcome Dave. Just glad we caught it in time before it got worse. 👍
@@scottb6098 LOL 🤣
That's what happens when you get the best in the business.
@@MrSprintcat Thanks
Gopher needs a raise. I can't hardly find anyone to work, let alone dig like that. You and your crew deserve a big pat on the back for your hard work. Great work, crew!
Thanks Ben and yes I keep raising him as he gets more skills. 👍
Nice job! You essentially created about a 6' wide foundation compacting that material. I couldn't tell from the video if the blocks were Haydite, they didn't look like concrete. I was in the masonry business my whole life and we never ever buried them. I spent a summer when i was 16 doing nothing but replacing full 8' foundations. My dad bid a whole neighborhood of rental houses and nearly all the foundations were caving in. I was worked like a rented mule. Oh one thing you want to thing about. Never place a block on it's side and put weight on it. You were centered, but I have seen a few scaffolds crash down after guys used them to level the ground. Makes an eerie pop!
This is a great educational video for why foundation drains are needed. I never thougt about how much concrete blocks can deteriorate in that situation. A real eye opener. Bondo does some really good work on this.
Looks great. All these experts have unlimited resources and time. Nobody has expressed the importance of time and safety. You did the right thing for safety of the structure. You were hired for one job and ran into a land mine!!!
Dry stack with surface bonding. That was a first for me. Very interesting.
Not good at All
@@SteveAndrew187 Is that your professional opinion?
I love these saves you guys do Bondo. Really heavy duty work but you saved the homeowner tons of grief down the road. Mission accomplished.
Thanks glad you like these videos. Hope to save people some grief by showing how things should be done.
I am fixing to hit 69 and I can remember doing that kind of work for most of my life. I built houses, apartments and high rise buildings and Bridges THEN, I did home repair and improvement . I also did lots and lots of foundation work repairing bad work I also majored in floor repair for many years before I finally had to retire. I called myself the Floor Doctor. It was hard work but for a young man it was rewarding work and it paid better than working in some factory waiting for bells to ring. I miss doing it, I miss being able TO DO IT. SO Be happy in your work boys if you live as long as I do you will miss it to...Getting old means you can't get in gear like the old days especially for me two heart attacks a triple bypass and 7 stents later LOL. I do enjoy watching you work. I too used to run a bobcat and a jack hammer and a cherry picker and a dump truck and a front end loader and a forklift etc. etc. Yehaww the memories. ..Yeah those were the good old days for me. You guys do great work no doubt about it, YOU KEEP IT UP AND I WILL KEEP WATCHING YOU SWEAT LOL
What a great team. Excellent construction knowledge and no fancy marketing department full of wet behind the ears graduates! I'm from the UK and would hire you tomorrow but for the travel and hotel costs. Well done Bondo, Gofor, Biscuit and the concrete haulers.
Thanks for that comment.
They are lucky you didn't walk away from this job. You are a good dude!!!
Very risky job, the result is AMAZING!!
thanks.
Before you end your videos can you give us a 1 week post reconstruction picture? Would be nice to see a fully completed project. Maybe a before and after shot at the end. Would be satisfying. Compliments to your workers. Hopefully you pay them well.
im sure they get minimum wage ;)
Awesome job. My back was killing me after watching those guys work.
Those finishers in the blue shirts.. You can tell right away they're elite and know what they're doing. Super fast and efficient. Amazing job.
Really enjoyed seeing your process. As a restoration carpenter i can appreciate figuring out how to "do it from the inside out" Great attention to details and doing it right. That's quality and looking out for your client. You've got a great demenor and seems like you and your crew work really well together.
Masterful. Nothing more satisfying than watching a professional do their work. I would hire you in a second after watching your vids.
from my experience on such cases I will not allow to use hollow concrete blocks as a foundation or wall below NGL instead I recommend stone masonry or concrete shear wall especially on submerged soil and I appreciate the use of drain pipe it will be more perfect if you make it perforated too to drain the surrounding water too and a geotextile wrap around the pipe to protect the backfilling from erosion/ or piping effect formation, water proofing the walls also protects from dampness and algae formation due to moisture.
This might be the most impressive build I have seen from you guys. No "one step forward, two steps back" approach. I'll bet that vinyl siding was "conveniently" hiding most the defects/sins. -Brian
I've subcrontred a few concrete jobs. At first I thought they were headed for a "world of screw up", BUT I watched carefully and they did pull off an AMAZING FINISH!
I was concerned at the start of the pour that didn't specify exactly what "slump rate" they wanted.
Thanks. I like to look at it and go from there. some of the drivers slumps are different if you ask for the same slump. LOL
Maybe my favorite video on youtube right now. Inspiring
Awesome thank you 😊
Wow. Many a contractor would have walked away. You are good people.
Thank you
Gopher a great laborer! This was an excellent foundation walls repair.A single story garage allowed you to forfeit a footing at lowest point.
That is one lucky homeowner to have you and your crew repair that garage. Well done sir!
Oh, I did cringe a bit when I saw how that garage was supported by those 6x6's while you were working under it.
Ya it was a bit scary. LOL
I loved your repair, fantastic work. I don't understand the original construction of the garage. Why dig down about four or five feet below grade to pour the footer (on an out building with no crawl space) just to build up to grade with four or five rows of block? Is it because of the freeze line? When they were originally building the thing wouldn't it have been better to have trench poured the footer (from whatever depth is required for the region/county) up to about four inches below grade, or even better 4 inches above grade?
done a lovely job, i know its a ball ache, and extra money you didnt think off, but its as good as new. nothing to worry about in the years ahead. Really nice to watch.
Very nice work. Dry stack with the surface bonding concrete plastered on both sides is strong. Prob a lot stronger than regular layed block.
Back for my Bondo fix...glad they picked ya and went all the way for the repair! Some people have good sense.
Thanks Marcos
Great job, what a task . Wish we had folks in ms with your expertise.
How do I judge your work? Not even a dust flew off this shelves inside the garage even with all that hammering and thing.😅 Godd job guys
Thanks 😀
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen in long time, you guys did awesome job to save this garage. I’m amazed that place didn’t come down, you would think that it should’ve just started sinking into the ground, one morning the door handle be in the mud 😂. Great work by the guys , that had to be back breaking with all that hand digging. 👍👍
In the Masonry business, you never know what you’ll run into
Happy to see Biscuit was there doing most of the work 👍👍👍
I like these long vids and I sometimes slow them down to .75 speed to take in detail. Great work. Thx.
Awesome. Some do not like them long but I wanted to show the entire fix on this one.
You guys do good clean work that’s gonna last forever. Great video!
Mezzanine.... your welcome...🤣😂😎🇦🇺👌 can't believe you never had to take the stuff off the shelves.. great job all round.
What a good job. Your gang is quick I thought it would take a few weeks 👏👏👏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Thanks Peter.
You should get a beak attachment for the skid loader for concrete demo. Works way better than forks!
Makes a mess and lots more work cleaning up. I love forks
I hade to do this to a 3 full foundations in Woodbridge Ontario. The concrete company that supplied the concrete to the masons used road sand. And in Ontario they use salt mixed with the sand. Within a year the foundation could literally be kicked and to be busted open. Extremely good pay for even harder work.
Tremendous job and the clients are lucky they found you
Ronny…. Sorry I’ve been unable to comment for awhile, but I’ve been watching. Keep ‘em coming Bud.
I wondered where my uncle Jim has been. Will do buddy.
I was 40yrs. construction, and that pharse you used "Less Difficult", used it all the time, I get it.
Was this an acidic soil combined with poor drainage issue. Great video, learned a lot here. Thanks!
Never seen a dry laid block foundation. Interesting!
Neither have I. What state are they in that this passes code?
Thats awesome this only took a few extra days. This guy saved this thing.
Thank you.
In the uk we would use brick or block which is different for below ground, doesn’t absorb water like normal brick. Not saying it’ll never fail but it’s sure better than what the original builder used.
I watched every painful step. Good Job,Close call, the whole garage could have snapped off and cave in had yu not braced it so well. Thanks for sharing the procedure.
real quality and value workmanship
Nice work. I dont understand the drainage system. The pipes dont go away from the house. How does it drain water away from the foundation?
Good question. The house had a drain that went to daylight that was working. We tied the NEW garage drain into that existing and Working drain.
Excellent work on a difficult job. The old wall was really a mess.
Educational! So what does a job like this cost? Ballpark estimate will do. $5K? $10K? $20K?
Wow! Good job to all of your team! You can be proud! 💪
My small company does this work. Nice job guys.
Thanks
Excellent work, sorry to say there are a LOT of contractors that would have just ripped out the floor, re-pour, and be in the wind when it fell apart as the garage settled...
Thanks and I couldn't sleep at night if I did that to somebody.
You are a True Professional
Mr. George.... how much for the guy.... give goffer a raise
I did. lol
I have a 2ft stump bucket with a grapple that i use for concrete removal. Works very good
Cool I need something for concrete removal.
You guys did an awesome job!
Thank you
Nice save there, Bondo. Great crew you have there. That was a long video but worth watching. I crank it up to 2 x's speed on the video and still understand what you're saying. Thxs for the vids!
Cool thanks for watching. Yes it was along one but I wanted to show the entire fix.
Strong work! And fast, impressive!
Thanks Phillip.
ya got a great team of guys there! good management too.
You are the MAN BROTHER. Awesome job.👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Your work is phenomenal-its craftsmanship.
Thank you
Fascinating that you can deconstruct the stem wall like that. So you went down to the concrete poured footer, and then dry stacked a new wall up? Than parged and core filled every 4 feet or so? How do you core fill since the top of the block wall isn't open? Amazing.
We cut the sill plate to expose the cell of the block.
@@bondobuilt386 Ahhh OK makes sense now.
He said it 2 or 3 times in the vid
@@mrmotofy sorry, missed that. that's why i asked the question. never saw them filling the cells through the sill plate either.
Killing it you’re murdering it you guys are amazing. This kind of video makes me kind of want a foundation problem. Way to go plaster, master tilt of the hat to the golfer that was amazing what a great crew you have. Good luck in your endeavors.
many thanks! Yet if it is just a detached garage I would like redo it. Could you tell me how wood post stands on, why wood frame would drop down when you remove the foundation?
It would drop because of gravity. No foundation under it and it would just fall.
Psssst hey Mr Guy there in the camera ... we're over here to your left and not over there to your right ;o) just kidding around :o)
LOL 😀
Looks good, but left the floor drain out. Some thing new I notice the re-enforced fiberglass parge coating on dry stacked cmu's.
WOW! That is pretty scary. I've seen bad but this takes the cake.
What is the idea of the very thin rebar on the plastic below the concrete, as it is not raised into the concrete it is not going to add much to strength of the new slab?
Real concrete! Not just a grey soup like a lot of jobs I´ve seen on RUclips!
🤔 how the heck that happened maybe the gutters are full and the water came in behind the walls idk anyway everything happens for a reason glad your fixing the results that's the way stuff happens thanks for sharing!
Great video, thanks for sharing.
Excellent work all the way around.
That's the 1st time I've ever seen a tamper used when doing a foundation and thats absolutely brilliant. You want the dirt around your foundation packed down just like undisturbed soil is
Yes sir we use it all the time.
@@bondobuilt386 Yep. I think a big reason foundations fail is because the workers don't tamp down the dirt around it so it's always going to be looser than soil that's never been disturbed
@@bend4852 Also the dirt should be free draining soils and not clay against the wall.
Great work almost unheard of these days.
how come the cinderblock is just exposed to the elements that not normal is it??
Yes its normal but drainage was missing and poor soils.
Digging that human counterweight!
You got the OSHA nerds freaking out on that one. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Repair under pinning the foundation and weeping tile
Oy vay
Great scott
Excellent work and video.
Thanks
i have never seen forks pull out concrete ,works real well.
Yes they came up nice.
Is it all from rainwater or plumbing leak? I am glad that you’re putting a perimeter drainage system. The owner have a recourse suing their builder. Mostly insurance don’t cover these typed of losses. What a mess! 😮
It’s amazing that didn’t fall down !!
Why didn’t you put steel post to get rid of those ugly wood ones Inside the garage? Did you put concrete inside the wall around back and the side?
Cost was why we did not replace the posts. He did not want to spend the extra money and yes we poured wall cells solid with rebar every 4 feet into the footer.
They must not have needed a new footing because it was just a garage? Very nice work, I know how grueling these are. I like your dry stack method as well.
Concrete blocks are crap for foundation walls, we never use it for foundations where i live. When we use it for above grade walls we put a lot of horiz and vert rebar in it but we are in a very high seismic zone
Wow brother what chit show to fix!
Yup for sure. LOL
How is that wall going to hold up like that I ant herd of anybody doing it like that that
What a mess ! But great job looks awesome!!!
Thanks Joe
very interesting, great job and video . 👍👍👍
Thank you
Great video. I also love how you didn't make this 40 videos, like a lot of people lol
Some people don't like the long videos but a lot to show here. LOL
This is a great video. You do some quality honest work!!
Is it cost effective for the home owner if they need to deal with another failed block wall in a mud pit? Those blocks were rotten, thus something in the mud is eating away at the blocks. The failed wall was plastered and clearly it didn't work. That old drain pipe is likely plugged solid.
They were a bad block for the most part. We tested the old drain and it was pulling water and the old way the garage had all clay and no drain and now it is all stone and gravel and a drain with good blocks it will last 100 years.
You guys are terrific. Stay safe...
At my CBS built house, I can see CBS outline cracks through my stucco at the corner where the shower is. The shower is leaking. Are my blocks going to disintegrate like the ones in this video?
don't think so. These were bad blocks and in the water for 30 years.
@@bondobuilt386 Thanks for the reply!
Any reason the holes of the pipe facing down? they would face up. the rebar - too thin - has not raised up also an error I believe. Thanks for any feedback!
45k later . Looks mint
Thanks
Great work Bondo & Crew!
You're the man, Bondo! I hate that somebody did this crappy work & Thank God you give a shit enough to do it right.
Thanks Phil. Yes very crappy work here from the first builder.
nice job boys! really nice!
I never seen someone plastering block and saying that stronger then actually laying block with mortar do not understand that; I’d would never ever have someone do that to my house. How is that’s supposed to stand up to the outside pressure through the years no way no how; My God, you lay block like normal contractors
I lay block all the time but in this case this was the better method and it has been tested for strength do some research.
do u have to follow a engineers detail(plan)or just fix it how u think best ?nice work ,not easy.
Thanks. You do not need an engineer to fix things around are area. I knew what it needed from years of seeing crazy stuff like this. LOL