@@psidvicious I'm equally as excited about that! :) All jokes aside, you're right... I could watch this all day. I've gone back to the beginning and have been watching all the episodes I missed. I came in after the foundation was already built.
@@curtwhite876 We used to call that 2x4 Jack technique a “Kowalski stick”. I have no idea where the name came from other than some guy named Kowalski? I guess..? 🤷♂️
If the chair sitting pipe smoking dude ever quits I would like to be considered for the position. (Edit: this was a light hearted comment, just a joke).
When mixing a solution using concentrated acid and water, you should always add the acid to the water and never the reverse. Depending on the concentration, adding water to acid can cause the solution to boil and splatter.
That's good advice when dealing with any kind of solution, always add the stuff you want to dilute to whatever you're diluting it with. Put another way, if you start with an empty container and you're diluting something with water, you pour in the water first then whatever the stuff you want to dilute. Water first, then detergent if you're making up a bucket of soapy water to wash your car for example. Not only is it safer, but it also means you often don't have to mix things as much for them to become homogenized. Maybe you don't always need to do that (example brine and water, or salt and water), but if you do always do it you won't forget it when you do need to do it.
It's good practice, but the reality is that it doesn't happen. Cody from cody's lab tested it years ago. The bigger danger isn't the boiling, it's if there's any splashing.
Here's another safety recommendation about diluting muriatic acid from a chemist. You DID do this safely and correctly at 5:12 - 5:20, but I think it deserves mention. Whenever diluting an acid, ALWAYS add the acid to the water; NOT the water to the acid. When acid dissolves in water, the process creates heat (you can actually see steam coming off the concrete at 5:47) and if you add water to acid, the mixture may overheat and splash hot acid up at you. Great job and attention to detail on this project. Most builders just throw down a slab of white concrete that ages into a dingy gray after a few years.
The saddest part is, as you can see with this video, these extra steps are neither costly nor time consuming. The bare minimum is standard operating procedure today.
I'll chime in as a chemist in the audience. muriatic acid is a strong acid, I wouldn't classify it as "severely diluted" like Scott did here (maybe he was referring to the final concentration in his sprayer?). Muriatic acid is impure, relatively strong HCl at a ~15-35% concentration (depending on brand) in water. 30% might not sound like much, but 38% is as high as you can even get HCl in water. "Pure" HCl is actually a gas. Even at 15%, it's strong enough to take your skin off if you don't wash it properly. If you're mixing muriatic acid, wear some rubber/nitrile gloves if you have some and don't work in an area where a flung drop could get on someone's skin if you miss cleaning it up (like in your kitchen). When diluting, always add acid to water, not the other way around. This is both due to the physics of what's likely to splash out when you pour one fluid into another, but it's also to do with the thermodynamic nature of dilution. Feeding the water to the acid can lead to violent releases of heat. So, it's safer to add the acid to the bulk water. I understand it's not always practical to do it that way, but it's much safer. Note here that this is exactly what Scott did about 5:15 in the video; he filled his tank up with the hose, and then dumped the acid into the water afterwards. Last, please do not mix any other chemicals with muriatic acid unless you absolutely know what you are doing. Do not bring any kind of ammonia anywhere near muriatic acid. It's extremely dangerous, as combining the two causes release of hydrogen gas, which is explosive (and the violent reaction of the two releases a lot of heat, more than is necessary to ignite said hydrogen). To the safety equipment (which Scott mentions). You should wear gloves. You should wear some form of eye protection (preferably goggles). A respirator... would certainly be nice. If you're outside like he is here, you can probably get away without the respirator if you have airflow. If you're using the stuff indoors, you should have a respirator and find a way to get some air flow. That nasty/burning smell when you're in the vicinity of HCl is... HCl itself. Remember I said it was a gas? Yeah, breathing that will literally acid burn your lungs. Yes, I've done it, and it's horribly painful. You don't want that.
@@Lengsel7 This is surprisingly true. All dust masks and a lot of face shields have been selling out since it started here! Even ear protection stuff is hard to come by. Apparently the biggest distributors of safety products give priority to the orders of masks and face shields.
Scott never forgets his work boots, but often forgets PPE. Strive to make that safety equipment as habitual when starting work as putting on your boots! I'm proud to be making a generational change here - granddad has to search the barn for safety gear if something feels scary (even with some assistance from the mysterious safety fairy sprinkling earplugs and glasses in various toolboxes and drawers...), grandson hears we're doing a project and starts running to get his eye and ear protection. It takes me some conscious effort, hopefully it's easier for my son.
I always have a box of disposable gloves in every toolbox. You can still get those at Harbor Freight for a decent price..... Same with earplugs. Facemasks & shields are a different story but I already have a bunch of those...
'Been watching the whole Spec House series and I have to say that you make house building sound like poetry. A true craftsman indeed, padayon! ("of starting something, of moving on, and then on and on toward eternity ").
@@paulkolodner2445 LOL, but really what did they do. I learned improper fractions as part of my time as a school student (middle school I think, grade 5-8).
The content that can be learned from in your episodes is quite amazing. What is more amazing though is the music and how it fits so well with the content.
I have poured and finished thousands of yards of mud and done a lot of stamped and smooth finish slabs but never exposed aggregate, always wanted to but not done a lot here in central Wy. Thanks always enjoy your info you share with us !
Very well Done, most people can pick on something. I like the groove pattern the layout and the use of expansion. I also look for the crisp straight lines. No matter where you go someone else way is better. Bravo to you, your channel and amazing fans of this channel. This is by far one of my favorite sites
Another way (maybe quicker and easier) is putting the acid mix in watering can with a shower spout and dousing the slab good with it.. I'm getting ready to do just that in about 30 minutes after I eat my dinner.. You're the man Scott.
I was thinking throughout this whole video about how much better this looks than the stamped concrete which seems to be common in the USA. Glad to hear your comment at the end that you think that you prefer finishes that don't pose as another material. A well finished concrete can look great, as do these porches. Great work!
Superb! Real craft - simple clean look - beautiful finished! Also really really loved your post about 'coming of age'.....'the light bulb moment' with regards to self responsibility and becoming adult. I have forwarded it to many friends/family!!! Love all your stuff! Best wishes...... Tom. (42 yr carpenter; UK)
Just poured a sidewalk and large set of stairs out front of my house this fall. Actually it was this winter as we did it a week after the first big snow storm. I will have to wait til spring to get that sealer on, but it will look great. Good work.
I am constantly looking for new videos from EC and this is the first time I am in the first 1000 viewers. Love your work and wish I lived in OR so I could have bought this house.
I love your videos and learn a lot from them. Muriatic acid never fails to amaze me. I have had it on hand for years and use is mostly for cleaning corrosion off of steel. Another use is as a flux when soldering galvanized steel steel. I "kill" the acid some by adding some zinc; otherwise, it will be too strong and removed all the galvanize from the steel I will be soldering. I also learned to store it outside of my garage as it is so volatile that it will rust any bare iron or steel tools inside. It's in the original container, inside a five gallon plastic bucket with a snap-on lid, inside a plastic trash can. When I go to get some I can still detect a faint acid odor when lifting the trash can lid.
Great looking concrete. The exposed pea gravel look was popular here in Texas for a while and I had a neighbor with it on his driveway. Looked nice but it was a nuisance to roll anything on and walking on it barefoot was incredibly painful. Concrete when done well is as pretty as any other building material.
Watching your videos Scott is same pleasure like watching Larry Haun videos. You two have inspired me to build frame houses/homes. Now I build my third house and I love it more and more. It's tough here in Czech republic because not many people trust this type of house construction because people here dont know much about it, but its fun. All I wanted to say is thank you for your work Scott. Martin
The way you've diluted it, your solution is not super scary, but the stuff straight from the bottle is seriously nothing to mess around with, and deserves lots of respect and PPE. So I'm not freaking out. This is terrifically informative content, and the music is downright virtuosic; an absolute treat to listen to.
I have loved this short series on exposed aggregate. I did a stamped patio myself this summer and it turned out great; I did some videos on it, but I would be too chicken to try exposed.
A few years back I ran across your string line video ..as I'm watching it im thinking this old guy is pretty clever and a good teacher ..then the next video I watched I found out your only a year older than I am..In the words of Homer Simpson..Dooh..! keep up the good work..
Wow! So much thought, care and work into concrete. Can you imagine how well the rest of the house is built? Unless this guy has got an obsession with concrete. If I lived in the area I would love to see this house in person.
wow you did an awesome job prepping the concrete. I've been on jobs where other trades were walking mud on it the next day before it got sealed. really makes the concrete guys mad
Great comment, at the end, about appreciating the material for what it is. Another great video, thank you for making it. PS. Any ideas when the open house may take place?
Andrew Camarata literally broke the Berks Bar you sent him! 😆 He's very strong! But have no fear, he welded it, fixed it, good as new! "I can fix this!" All kidding aside, I can see the berks bar is a fine tool!
PPE is just a tool. If you don't have the right tool for the job, more than likely you will damage something, and with PPE, that will be you. Great video, as always, good lessons involved. Thanks.
It’s a good idea to have some additional help when doing this. If you don’t get to rinse the acid in a timely fashion you can run into trouble. Same also with applying the sealer. Don’t get too far ahead of yourself with either product or you will get a blotchy finish.
100% percent agree in letting a material be what it is and not to try to make it something that it is not. Just let the material be honest about what it is.
I could almost feel the catch of the acid in my throat as you were spraying it. I've cleaned a few bits of new brickwork and used masonry cleaner and I always remember the respirator just after I've started to work.
Eautiful job Scott! I watch your videos and in the back of my mind think, how many contractors could pull off this level of quality workmanship? Money aside, I don’t think most would be able to do it. Not for any amount of money, it’s just not in them.
Scott, I totally agree with "materials not posing with things they are not." New construction can look so cheap, like plastic instead of glass, stamps concrete (slabs and walls), vinyl siding, laminate counters, false "structural" beams, such a shame that quality of material is an afterthought.
love the job!! you know we used to play in and work around Asbestos in are younger days and now they tell us it is bad for our health. but when a lot of the older guys started out we didn't have ppe or safety equipment so raspberries on OSHA
Muriatic acid is a pretty mild acid; when I was a teenager, we sold cases and cases of it from the hardware store where I worked, for washing concrete basement and garage floors. Scott was using a very diluted mix; he poured the acid into the water (which is the proper way to mix it); he mixed it directly in a sprayer with a small top opening, so the danger of splashing was greatly reduced; and at the diluted strength at which he was using it, it's doubtful it would do any significant damage to his work boots or jeans as long as he kept it to a minimum and rinsed it off promptly, which he obviously did.
Muriatic Acid is not a pretty mild acid. It's hydrochloric acid, among the strongest. It's diluted significantly , and it's the dilution that makes it less dangerous, not the fact that hydrochloric acid isn't very strong.
Yup... I just watched a guy hosin' off the porch for 10 minutes, and enjoyed it! lol
Watching Scott doing his work is a treat.
as if you had anything better to do lol
That's how you know it's good content
Hahaha, exactly.
And the instructional narration, and the music that I never thought I'd like, it's an amazing experience and I appreciate it
Ive never been told to "Keep up the good work" while eating a pb&j
You know you've found one of the best channels on RUclips when they can make watching concrete cure interesting and engaging.
For some reason I'm really looking forward to the series on paint drying.
@@Grassy20 Huh, I would have figured you for watching the grass grow 🤔
@@psidvicious I'm equally as excited about that! :) All jokes aside, you're right... I could watch this all day. I've gone back to the beginning and have been watching all the episodes I missed. I came in after the foundation was already built.
@@Grassy20 you should find the video on using a 2x4 as a jack. That one went viral a few years ago, and that was when I subscribed.
@@curtwhite876 We used to call that 2x4 Jack technique a “Kowalski stick”. I have no idea where the name came from other than some guy named Kowalski? I guess..? 🤷♂️
Something about this series reminds me of 90s television in a good way.
The music and his voice both sound straight out of 90s PBS specials
Not with Jimmy savile or Rolf Harris I hope.
@@BrettSucks I don't remember specific people very much. I was born in 87. It's just a general feel.
@@ColeSpolaric those two ended up doing bad stuff so good you do not remember them
Honest (90s tv was mostly honest but EC is 100%)
If the chair sitting pipe smoking dude ever quits I would like to be considered for the position. (Edit: this was a light hearted comment, just a joke).
EC has a whole video on the chair sitting pipe smoking dude ruclips.net/video/q8LerObhzlE/видео.html
Get in the line!
Don’t judge a book by its cover brother. Go watch the above linked video.
@@joshuaricks7730 I know he is sick, he had a stroke and barely can move or talk. We envy him for being there with Scott on the spot.
you may fill his chair but his shoes are a pair that will be very difficult to fill!
When mixing a solution using concentrated acid and water, you should always add the acid to the water and never the reverse. Depending on the concentration, adding water to acid can cause the solution to boil and splatter.
That's true for some acid, for example sulfate acid. but this one is okay.
Good advice but I thought that's what he did the time I saw him do it.
@@MrEazyE357 I didn't intend to imply that he did anything wrong - I was just making a general comment about mixing acid and water.
That's good advice when dealing with any kind of solution, always add the stuff you want to dilute to whatever you're diluting it with.
Put another way, if you start with an empty container and you're diluting something with water, you pour in the water first then whatever the stuff you want to dilute. Water first, then detergent if you're making up a bucket of soapy water to wash your car for example.
Not only is it safer, but it also means you often don't have to mix things as much for them to become homogenized.
Maybe you don't always need to do that (example brine and water, or salt and water), but if you do always do it you won't forget it when you do need to do it.
It's good practice, but the reality is that it doesn't happen. Cody from cody's lab tested it years ago. The bigger danger isn't the boiling, it's if there's any splashing.
Here's another safety recommendation about diluting muriatic acid from a chemist. You DID do this safely and correctly at 5:12 - 5:20, but I think it deserves mention. Whenever diluting an acid, ALWAYS add the acid to the water; NOT the water to the acid. When acid dissolves in water, the process creates heat (you can actually see steam coming off the concrete at 5:47) and if you add water to acid, the mixture may overheat and splash hot acid up at you. Great job and attention to detail on this project. Most builders just throw down a slab of white concrete that ages into a dingy gray after a few years.
Every time I watch one of these, I see more things that our contractor DIDNT do.
haha right...
The saddest part is, as you can see with this video, these extra steps are neither costly nor time consuming. The bare minimum is standard operating procedure today.
Clip 6:21 "Think of me as a Doctor that smokes..." Your my kidda Doctor!!! I love your humor!
My Doctor told me to quit smoking, So I fired him....😂🤣👍...JK...lol
@@louielopez1638 Good choice!
Never put a man in charge of his own safety.
That cantilever overhang in the back really makes it beautiful. And the whole concrete job is exceptional.
2:10 There is a joke in there somewhere about only a Blacksmith thinking his concrete needs to be annealed to increase durability and toughness. :-)
This is essentially essential while locked down. Thanks Scott.
In Scott's defense, every time I have seen him he has had eye protection on. lol
The safety gear you can wear all the time is the best gear. Same with the safety tie.
I'll chime in as a chemist in the audience. muriatic acid is a strong acid, I wouldn't classify it as "severely diluted" like Scott did here (maybe he was referring to the final concentration in his sprayer?). Muriatic acid is impure, relatively strong HCl at a ~15-35% concentration (depending on brand) in water. 30% might not sound like much, but 38% is as high as you can even get HCl in water. "Pure" HCl is actually a gas. Even at 15%, it's strong enough to take your skin off if you don't wash it properly.
If you're mixing muriatic acid, wear some rubber/nitrile gloves if you have some and don't work in an area where a flung drop could get on someone's skin if you miss cleaning it up (like in your kitchen). When diluting, always add acid to water, not the other way around. This is both due to the physics of what's likely to splash out when you pour one fluid into another, but it's also to do with the thermodynamic nature of dilution. Feeding the water to the acid can lead to violent releases of heat. So, it's safer to add the acid to the bulk water. I understand it's not always practical to do it that way, but it's much safer. Note here that this is exactly what Scott did about 5:15 in the video; he filled his tank up with the hose, and then dumped the acid into the water afterwards.
Last, please do not mix any other chemicals with muriatic acid unless you absolutely know what you are doing. Do not bring any kind of ammonia anywhere near muriatic acid. It's extremely dangerous, as combining the two causes release of hydrogen gas, which is explosive (and the violent reaction of the two releases a lot of heat, more than is necessary to ignite said hydrogen).
To the safety equipment (which Scott mentions). You should wear gloves. You should wear some form of eye protection (preferably goggles). A respirator... would certainly be nice. If you're outside like he is here, you can probably get away without the respirator if you have airflow. If you're using the stuff indoors, you should have a respirator and find a way to get some air flow. That nasty/burning smell when you're in the vicinity of HCl is... HCl itself. Remember I said it was a gas? Yeah, breathing that will literally acid burn your lungs. Yes, I've done it, and it's horribly painful. You don't want that.
Thank you for this comment!
Hey essential craftsman I’m 13 and love your videos and you have made my interest in framing a lot bigger than you
Stay in school and don't get complacent, too many guys I work with leave the apprenticeship too soon
You know when a question arises or a brief refresher course your my go to, keep up the good work!
I'm a high school chemistry teacher and yes I was screaming at my screen..."Where's the PPE!?" Haha. I do wonder how your boots held up the the HCl.
Who can find PPE these days?
My only real concern was for Scott’s boots.
@@Lengsel7 This is surprisingly true. All dust masks and a lot of face shields have been selling out since it started here!
Even ear protection stuff is hard to come by. Apparently the biggest distributors of safety products give priority to the orders of masks and face shields.
Scott never forgets his work boots, but often forgets PPE. Strive to make that safety equipment as habitual when starting work as putting on your boots!
I'm proud to be making a generational change here - granddad has to search the barn for safety gear if something feels scary (even with some assistance from the mysterious safety fairy sprinkling earplugs and glasses in various toolboxes and drawers...), grandson hears we're doing a project and starts running to get his eye and ear protection. It takes me some conscious effort, hopefully it's easier for my son.
I always have a box of disposable gloves in every toolbox. You can still get those at Harbor Freight for a decent price..... Same with earplugs. Facemasks & shields are a different story but I already have a bunch of those...
You need a smoking doctor image to pop up when safety protocol isn’t being followed ;)
Great idea!
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@@essentialcraftsman Maybe you could just get your own version of Prudence the Safety Goat, and call that good.
@@paultennis9414
Ha ha ha! 👍😄😄😄🚬
'Been watching the whole Spec House series and I have to say that you make house building sound like poetry. A true craftsman indeed, padayon! ("of starting something, of moving on, and then on and on toward eternity
").
Best background music you've had yet Scott and Nate! Joy to watch
I own a Burke bar and most likely a much healthier back because of your teachings! THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
This is my favorite episode Exposed Aggregate,I like the way it looks!
Thank you for another excellent year of educating and inspiring us. I hope the new year finds you well. Stay safe.
You're the boss/uncle the world needs! Thanks for your videos!
Thanks so much for your Tutorials. I love the work and the commentary that goes with your videos
The Safety Police are dealing with Matthias Wandel right now. They'll be over to talk to you shortly.
If they finally found out about Matthias, I think we’re fine over here. They’re gonna be a while over there with him lol.
What did he do this time?
@@JW77 He was caught teaching improper fractions to children.
@@paulkolodner2445 LOL, but really what did they do. I learned improper fractions as part of my time as a school student (middle school I think, grade 5-8).
@@44R0Ndin Well, you're a pervert.
The content that can be learned from in your episodes is quite amazing. What is more amazing though is the music and how it fits so well with the content.
In other words "Do as I say, not as I do!". LOL. That's what I tell my son all the time. Nice job, great video.
Awesome Concrete Job and really enjoyed the Back Ground Music. Great Job Fellows!!!
I have poured and finished thousands of yards of mud and done a lot of stamped and smooth finish slabs but never exposed aggregate, always wanted to but not done a lot here in central Wy. Thanks always enjoy your info you share with us !
THIS STUFF IS SOOOOOOO FASCINATING! THANX MR. CRAFTS!
WEED BURNER. Absolutely brilliant. Thank you, thank you.
Love a nice sand finish too, for a more contemporary look. Its fun how versatile concrete can be in skilled hands.
Very well Done, most people can pick on something. I like the groove pattern the layout and the use of expansion. I also look for the crisp straight lines. No matter where you go someone else way is better. Bravo to you, your channel and amazing fans of this channel. This is by far one of my favorite sites
Another way (maybe quicker and easier) is putting the acid mix in watering can with a shower spout and dousing the slab good with it.. I'm getting ready to do just that in about 30 minutes after I eat my dinner.. You're the man Scott.
Love the exposed aggregate look!!!
I was thinking throughout this whole video about how much better this looks than the stamped concrete which seems to be common in the USA. Glad to hear your comment at the end that you think that you prefer finishes that don't pose as another material. A well finished concrete can look great, as do these porches. Great work!
This is turning out so beautiful!
I love your honesty...Doc😀
This is the best channel on youtube
Would you believe my 3 and 5 year old daughters watched this whole video, enthralled.
Superb! Real craft - simple clean look - beautiful finished!
Also really really loved your post about 'coming of age'.....'the light bulb moment' with regards to self responsibility and becoming adult. I have forwarded it to many friends/family!!!
Love all your stuff!
Best wishes......
Tom. (42 yr carpenter; UK)
Just poured a sidewalk and large set of stairs out front of my house this fall. Actually it was this winter as we did it a week after the first big snow storm. I will have to wait til spring to get that sealer on, but it will look great. Good work.
Thank you guys for another great video.
We really appreciate you sharing your knowledge!!!
I am constantly looking for new videos from EC and this is the first time I am in the first 1000 viewers. Love your work and wish I lived in OR so I could have bought this house.
I love your videos and learn a lot from them. Muriatic acid never fails to amaze me. I have had it on hand for years and use is mostly for cleaning corrosion off of steel. Another use is as a flux when soldering galvanized steel steel. I "kill" the acid some by adding some zinc; otherwise, it will be too strong and removed all the galvanize from the steel I will be soldering. I also learned to store it outside of my garage as it is so volatile that it will rust any bare iron or steel tools inside. It's in the original container, inside a five gallon plastic bucket with a snap-on lid, inside a plastic trash can. When I go to get some I can still detect a faint acid odor when lifting the trash can lid.
Enjoyed watching the process...thanks!
Love the work and the music 🎶, reminds me of doing square dancing in my younger days.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL
What a wonderful channel, the Grandpa I never had.
I'm a bricklayer I do mostly brick,stone,block not much concrete but that's awesome great job guys
Absolutely adore this channel and the podcast is ace too
Great looking concrete. The exposed pea gravel look was popular here in Texas for a while and I had a neighbor with it on his driveway. Looked nice but it was a nuisance to roll anything on and walking on it barefoot was incredibly painful. Concrete when done well is as pretty as any other building material.
i remember this type of finishes, lots of labor well done
It looks perfect, nice done!
Watching your videos Scott is same pleasure like watching Larry Haun videos. You two have inspired me to build frame houses/homes. Now I build my third house and I love it more and more. It's tough here in Czech republic because not many people trust this type of house construction because people here dont know much about it, but its fun. All I wanted to say is thank you for your work Scott. Martin
Thanks Martin!
Hello from the uk 🇬🇧,
Injoyed the flim keep up the great work and be safe 🙏 from colin and family from the uk 🇬🇧,
Good to see somebody doing work by the book
The way you've diluted it, your solution is not super scary, but the stuff straight from the bottle is seriously nothing to mess around with, and deserves lots of respect and PPE. So I'm not freaking out.
This is terrifically informative content, and the music is downright virtuosic; an absolute treat to listen to.
Great show..it would be nice to see more of the finished product👍
I agree completely. Nicely done!!!
Papa Craftsman learning us kids something new. ❤
Fancy slab my good man. Looks real good. Thanks for your great work.
You too Nathan!
Enjoy Elohim!
I also like honesty in building materials.
The safety aspect of this reminds me of that one Dirty Jobs episode where they were replacing a water tank in NYC and the motto was “safety third”.
A great process. The exposed aggregate is a kind of acquired taste. I’d say I’d looks best when polished before sealing.
Good morning Gentlemen love the show!
Very Nice work. Thanks for the video🇩🇰
I have loved this short series on exposed aggregate. I did a stamped patio myself this summer and it turned out great; I did some videos on it, but I would be too chicken to try exposed.
It looks great, I did not know a lot of things you talked about, all the chemical stuff that happens to the concrete.
A few years back I ran across your string line video ..as I'm watching it im thinking this old guy is pretty clever and a good teacher ..then the next video I watched I found out your only a year older than I am..In the words of Homer Simpson..Dooh..! keep up the good work..
Wow! So much thought, care and work into concrete. Can you imagine how well the rest of the house is built? Unless this guy has got an obsession with concrete. If I lived in the area I would love to see this house in person.
new video on my birthday Thanks
What a job looks like when done right.
wow you did an awesome job prepping the concrete. I've been on jobs where other trades were walking mud on it the next day before it got sealed. really makes the concrete guys mad
Great comment, at the end, about appreciating the material for what it is.
Another great video, thank you for making it.
PS. Any ideas when the open house may take place?
"Think of me as a doctor who smokes" Hahah. Favorite youtube channel hands down.
Thanks for another great video
No you keep up the good work sir
Love your videos
thank you so much mr Scott
Andrew Camarata literally broke the Berks Bar you sent him! 😆 He's very strong! But have no fear, he welded it, fixed it, good as new! "I can fix this!"
All kidding aside, I can see the berks bar is a fine tool!
burke ithink
@@Tehcarp lmao, whatever
PPE is just a tool. If you don't have the right tool for the job, more than likely you will damage something, and with PPE, that will be you. Great video, as always, good lessons involved. Thanks.
Great video as always
Bloody lovely job that !!! 👍👍👍
It’s a good idea to have some additional help when doing this. If you don’t get to rinse the acid in a timely fashion you can run into trouble. Same also with applying the sealer. Don’t get too far ahead of yourself with either product or you will get a blotchy finish.
I agree Exposed Concrete has a great Look
Another great video!
I enjoy and learn a lot from your videos, Thanks Get that safety gear
.
100% percent agree in letting a material be what it is and not to try to make it something that it is not. Just let the material be honest about what it is.
"The doctor who smokes" line got me! 🤣🤣👍✌
my eyes and nose are burning just watching this
mitty fine job looking good
I could almost feel the catch of the acid in my throat as you were spraying it. I've cleaned a few bits of new brickwork and used masonry cleaner and I always remember the respirator just after I've started to work.
Keep up the good work
a dry overcast day makes both of these jobs less of a rush. areas in the sun vs the shade will have dramatically different working times.
The shade is where construction dreams are made boys
Eautiful job Scott! I watch your videos and in the back of my mind think, how many contractors could pull off this level of quality workmanship? Money aside, I don’t think most would be able to do it. Not for any amount of money, it’s just not in them.
Scott, I totally agree with "materials not posing with things they are not." New construction can look so cheap, like plastic instead of glass, stamps concrete (slabs and walls), vinyl siding, laminate counters, false "structural" beams, such a shame that quality of material is an afterthought.
love the job!! you know we used to play in and work around Asbestos in are younger days and now they tell us it is bad for our health. but when a lot of the older guys started out we didn't have ppe or safety equipment so raspberries on OSHA
Muriatic acid is a pretty mild acid; when I was a teenager, we sold cases and cases of it from the hardware store where I worked, for washing concrete basement and garage floors. Scott was using a very diluted mix; he poured the acid into the water (which is the proper way to mix it); he mixed it directly in a sprayer with a small top opening, so the danger of splashing was greatly reduced; and at the diluted strength at which he was using it, it's doubtful it would do any significant damage to his work boots or jeans as long as he kept it to a minimum and rinsed it off promptly, which he obviously did.
Bless you
Muriatic Acid is not a pretty mild acid. It's hydrochloric acid, among the strongest. It's diluted significantly , and it's the dilution that makes it less dangerous, not the fact that hydrochloric acid isn't very strong.
I hate something that poses as something else, how wise and true.