I make them upside down. Putting the form on a plastic sheet, as you do, I put the glass beads in the bottom of the form and pour concrete over them. The next day, I flip the paver and expose the beads with a diamond cup in an angle grinder. It only takes about one minute, with lots of dust, but it cuts both the concrete AND the glass, exposing a larger cross-section of the beads. They are so firmly embedded, I have never had any beads come loose in over a year, with seasonal temperature extremes.
@@OdellCompleteConcretea low grit will dull the glass, absolutley. But you can go over it with like a 1000+ grit to polish them again. Good catch on the dulling :)
Always nice to see a man with huge experience, no need to prove smth... In comparison with the others. He just knows what he is doing, and he's doing it good
Just came upon your channel. You and your crew are very conscience and know your craft. I confess I'm a weird woman who likes to learn all sorts of things about construction, etc. I love working hard physically, it's rewarding, keeps you young and alive, (BTW I'm 59 YO, a Vet and retired LEO).You have something to show for your daily efforts., God's work. Love learning and how you explain materials and techniques. God bless you and your crew.
The OCD part of me is saying "STOP, JUST STOP", but the edging made up for it! LOL - I have to say, they turned out absolutely gorgeous! Thank you so much for the video!
I just made two more of these pavers today. I'm using 2 nested 2 mil 18 gallon trash compactor bags as a mixer - easy clean up - all the paper and extra concrete goes in the bag afterward. Walmart has bags of the glass beads for $1. Three bags is enough for a river on two pavers. I was using the sealer you show but when the quart went dry, I balked at paying $50 for a gallon at Home Depot so I picked up a can of Seal Krete Wet Look spray for $12 at Lowe's. Easy to apply! Looks good! Only covers 25 square feet, but no clean up is a plus and no roller needed.
This would be a great project for someone who wanted to do a small patio or a walkway but didn't want to spend the money to hire a crew to do it for them. With just a few forms, minimal tools and of course the concrete they could make all the pavers they needed at their own convenience and lay it themselves. Seems like a great project to get the kids involved with also.
Great way to add a little whimsy to your garden path or between raised beds I've just thought up several ideas while watching that I'd like to try myself. So thanks for the video!
Thank you for giving timelines. This helps tremendously, as I have no experience with concrete and this gives me an idea of how long to wait before adding glass, floating, spraying, etc. great video with lots of great info. Thanks 😊🌸
Made a walkway with this technique yrs ago... worked awesome. Had to return and double check on mold/release etc.... Seems I forgot none of this matters.... 2x4s and done =)) Thanks for the help both times! =)) Great way to avoid a permanent* fixture and a building permit for a larger pad as well! Enjoy and best wishes.
I really like these How to/DIY videos I’m a barber so I consider this your artwork I just can’t wait to get my house and do the stuff keep up the good work brother
What a beautiful job you did on these. Among my many 'weirdnesses' is that I love concrete. I can dream up so many things to make. These are inspiring, I must say. Thanks for sharing this project. I'm subscribing so I can see more.
Oh good! Then I am not too crazy. My paternal grandfather was a mason so my father taught us to add embellishments to concrete. Concrete is amazing and pretty much permanent.
I really enjoy your videos brother appreciate you sharing your skills. I ended up making 20 of these for my back yard fence line. The county does not allow me to pour concreate within 3 ft from my fence line so I decided to make these for all my vase base plants and it looks amazing. I literally have them all the way down my fence line with 1 vase on each holding a plant. So it looks great and does not effect me on county code because it's a removable structure.
nice stones, It remeinds me of the ones from this other job wher you used blue glass and they also looked really cool and gives a nice touch overall to the project 😀😀
Have her do it. It'll be a fun project. Just give her a 5 gal bucket & a big mixer, & tell her it's like mixing a cake, and to get it to thick pancake consistency. She'll love it..
David, you are a rock star with cement young man. I could watch you make pavers all day. Lol. Thank you for taking the time to share your expertise with us. Sherie Rodrigues from Australia, again.😮
I have thought about underlit stained glass on stepping stones for literally years. Just not sure how to keep the structural integrity of the stone to be able to use it AS a stepping stone....
Fun posting! Next, try various shells+colored rock and place just as you did with the glass beads. Then come back and grind/hone the surface to expose the shells. Incredible finished product when done. The more exotix the shells, the better!(AKA terrazzo)
Nice idea. I make smaller stones using candy boxes, especially heart shaped ones. Paper boxes are a one time use, but you can use metal tins if you coat the tin with petroleum jelly & waxed paper.
Your video answers all my questions . Looking forward to doing mine . Like the way you did the two samples less drying time and more just what I needed . Thanks a million
That's cool Dave. I like some of those Goodwill buys myself. I once bought a huge bag of swivel ball bearing casters for $5. I like the stepping stone idea!
Wow thanks for showing how to do that :) I've learned from working with clay that if you want even more shimmer from your glass beads, to put something reflective behind them, like foil. It would take a lot more time but if ur doing a small project it would be really cool. Im not sure how it would survive in concrete tho
Ha! Mapgie clients, the shiny staff lovers will want these. Good addition to your huge scope of tools. Later in episodes: This washed concrete surface is made of 20% marbles / 80% usual pebbles & processed with 50%/50% magic thing. )) Thanks for sharing interesting idea!
DUDE! you're use of voice over while the video is in quicktime... GENIUS! and this is such a rad idea. I'm going to do some cool arts and crafts pavers this weekend!! INSPIRING!
Hi, I have square blocks of concrete that I bought from Home Depot. Can I just put an additional layer of concrete on top adding stones to add some beautiful dimension?
Can you tell me what that tree is behind you? I am in love with plants. And that one is awesome. Great idea with the glass and stepping stones. Thanks for the help.
wow, you make this look very easy. I have a lot of stained glass so may try this on a small stepping stone and see what happens. Thanks for the video, I love stuff like this for the yard. Do you ever have to re seal the cement?
I make them upside down. Putting the form on a plastic sheet, as you do, I put the glass beads in the bottom of the form and pour concrete over them. The next day, I flip the paver and expose the beads with a diamond cup in an angle grinder. It only takes about one minute, with lots of dust, but it cuts both the concrete AND the glass, exposing a larger cross-section of the beads. They are so firmly embedded, I have never had any beads come loose in over a year, with seasonal temperature extremes.
Sounds like that may dull the glass
@@OdellCompleteConcretea low grit will dull the glass, absolutley. But you can go over it with like a 1000+ grit to polish them again. Good catch on the dulling :)
TY
AARON
Can you please make a video???
This would be so cool using glow-in-the-dark pebbles!
Love it!
Yes
GL
Wow!! What a great idea!! I have some too!! Probably not enough. But a great 💡 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
THERE ARE GLOW IN THE DARK PEBBLES 🤯😍💜
Always nice to see a man with huge experience, no need to prove smth... In comparison with the others. He just knows what he is doing, and he's doing it good
I concur
TY
Just came upon your channel. You and your crew are very conscience and know your craft. I confess I'm a weird woman who likes to learn all sorts of things about construction, etc. I love working hard physically, it's rewarding, keeps you young and alive, (BTW I'm 59 YO, a Vet and retired LEO).You have something to show for your daily efforts., God's work. Love learning and how you explain materials and techniques. God bless you and your crew.
Great
Thanks Carmen
What us LEO
The OCD part of me is saying "STOP, JUST STOP", but the edging made up for it! LOL - I have to say, they turned out absolutely gorgeous! Thank you so much for the video!
I just made two more of these pavers today. I'm using 2 nested 2 mil 18 gallon trash compactor bags as a mixer - easy clean up - all the paper and extra concrete goes in the bag afterward. Walmart has bags of the glass beads for $1. Three bags is enough for a river on two pavers. I was using the sealer you show but when the quart went dry, I balked at paying $50 for a gallon at Home Depot so I picked up a can of Seal Krete Wet Look spray for $12 at Lowe's. Easy to apply! Looks good! Only covers 25 square feet, but no clean up is a plus and no roller needed.
Nice system
My guy said "at the Goodwill"! 🤜🤛 ✌️🙌 Thrifters for life baby!
That's the key
Yes!
This would be a great project for someone who wanted to do a small patio or a walkway but didn't want to spend the money to hire a crew to do it for them. With just a few forms, minimal tools and of course the concrete they could make all the pavers they needed at their own convenience and lay it themselves. Seems like a great project to get the kids involved with also.
I think its a great project for that
My dad had us do a pebble concrete square footing around a large oval garden. I was about 10 yrs old.. it's still there & looking beautiful.
I like the cold open to the video. Nice change of pace.
Yeah we like to try new things out once in awhile
I like the river one best.
Me too
TY
Thanks. You are a good instructor.
Thank you for taking the time to teach us. I am grateful.
YW
TY
Great way to add a little whimsy to your garden path or between raised beds I've just thought up several ideas while watching that I'd like to try myself. So thanks for the video!
Beautiful and very creative. Thanks for sharing. I appreciate it very much. 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Lovin it ! Thank you for the inspiration. Best wishes to you& all watching. :)
Yt
Ty
This looks AWESOME!!!!
Ty
Thank you for giving timelines. This helps tremendously, as I have no experience with concrete and this gives me an idea of how long to wait before adding glass, floating, spraying, etc. great video with lots of great info. Thanks 😊🌸
YW
GL
What a wonderful man to be so clear and precise with information and ideas!
TY
Excellent step by step video and how to imbed the glass pieces plus the last step for protecting all that hard work with the clear coat!
TY
Nice find at Goodwill to get a whole bag of those glass stones for a dollar! Love them in the concrete!
Wow... Amazing! So beautiful!! Thank you for share! 🐉🐉🐉
YW
Another fine video project O’Dell. 💯
Ty
It's very beautiful!
Love the video, you are so easy and fun to watch. Thanks for helping us out - this is awesome!
Made a walkway with this technique yrs ago... worked awesome. Had to return and double check on mold/release etc.... Seems I forgot none of this matters.... 2x4s and done =)) Thanks for the help both times! =)) Great way to avoid a permanent* fixture and a building permit for a larger pad as well! Enjoy and best wishes.
I concur
TY
I really like these How to/DIY videos I’m a barber so I consider this your artwork I just can’t wait to get my house and do the stuff keep up the good work brother
GL
TY
What a beautiful job you did on these. Among my many 'weirdnesses' is that I love concrete. I can dream up so many things to make. These are inspiring, I must say. Thanks for sharing this project. I'm subscribing so I can see more.
Great
TY
GL
Oh good! Then I am not too crazy. My paternal grandfather was a mason so my father taught us to add embellishments to concrete. Concrete is amazing and pretty much permanent.
Will they be slippery when it rains?
Loving every minute of these videos Dave. Thank you so much man 👍👏
I really enjoy your videos brother appreciate you sharing your skills. I ended up making 20 of these for my back yard fence line. The county does not allow me to pour concreate within 3 ft from my fence line so I decided to make these for all my vase base plants and it looks amazing. I literally have them all the way down my fence line with 1 vase on each holding a plant. So it looks great and does not effect me on county code because it's a removable structure.
Way to go. Nice idea.
TY
For sharing
nice stones, It remeinds me of the ones from this other job wher you used blue glass and they also looked really cool and gives a nice touch overall to the project 😀😀
Thank you! Cheers!
It seems like blue is always a great shade for concrete. I wanna try ts
Looks great!!!!
Now my wife wants the same thing done in the back yard walk way😩
But thank you for the tips!!!🤙🏼💪🏼
You da man!!!!
😂🤣😅
🤣🤣
Have her do it. It'll be a fun project. Just give her a 5 gal bucket & a big mixer, & tell her it's like mixing a cake, and to get it to thick pancake consistency. She'll love it..
Very clever! So beautiful!
TY
David, you are a rock star with cement young man. I could watch you make pavers all day. Lol. Thank you for taking the time to share your expertise with us. Sherie Rodrigues from Australia, again.😮
I like this idea. I would love to see how it looks with coloured concrete or a LED light strip fitted under the glass pebbles.
Awesome idea
solar powered panel
I have thought about underlit stained glass on stepping stones for literally years. Just not sure how to keep the structural integrity of the stone to be able to use it AS a stepping stone....
Great idea! 👍
Oooohhhhh! Light strip! I love that idea ❤❤❤❤
These pavers are really pretty!
Ty
Fancy step there! Thanks for another great idea! I'll put that gem in the bag.💎
Get it on
With the jewels
THX A BUNCH!! Nice to have THE INFO from a professional. Love what u made. Angie-Ohio
You are so welcome!
Fun posting! Next, try various shells+colored rock and place just as you did with the glass beads. Then come back and grind/hone the surface to expose the shells. Incredible finished product when done. The more exotix the shells, the better!(AKA terrazzo)
Nice idea. I make smaller stones using candy boxes, especially heart shaped ones. Paper boxes are a one time use, but you can use metal tins if you coat the tin with petroleum jelly & waxed paper.
Awesome
You make concrete work in to a work of art.
ty
Beautiful
Thank you! Cheers!
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you for showing us how this is done!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks love your ideas and work .
TY
Very cool work!! If my wife saw this vid, "my honey-do" list would be huge...
I hear that
Your video answers all my questions .
Looking forward to doing mine .
Like the way you did the two samples less drying time and more just what I needed .
Thanks a million
yw
That's cool Dave. I like some of those Goodwill buys myself. I once bought a huge bag of swivel ball bearing casters for $5. I like the stepping stone idea!
Get lucky sometimes.
TY
Turned out really pretty.
TY
I LOVE finding things in thrift shops. Ive had some great finds. I like looking in skips too.
Awesome
Love the idea 😍♥️🙏🍀🌹🤗
TY
I love how this looks!
Me too
TY
This is so cute!🎉
Those are so nice and precise looking. Great job !!
Thanks
Wow thanks for showing how to do that :) I've learned from working with clay that if you want even more shimmer from your glass beads, to put something reflective behind them, like foil. It would take a lot more time but if ur doing a small project it would be really cool. Im not sure how it would survive in concrete tho
How about recessed lighting
@@OdellCompleteConcrete ohhh 😲 that would be so pretty...
Glass nuggets, my favorite! I used to incorporate them into stained glass lampshade and windows.
Nice
This was wonderful! I'm inspired!
TY
These are available at the local Dollar Tree, I wanted to try them. Glad to see this video!
GL
Great video. So easy to follow
Ha! Mapgie clients, the shiny staff lovers will want these. Good addition to your huge scope of tools.
Later in episodes: This washed concrete surface is made of 20% marbles / 80% usual pebbles & processed with 50%/50% magic thing. ))
Thanks for sharing interesting idea!
Really like how these turned out . . .
ty
Dave, you are special.
ty
DUDE! you're use of voice over while the video is in quicktime... GENIUS! and this is such a rad idea. I'm going to do some cool arts and crafts pavers this weekend!! INSPIRING!
Awesome good luck
That is stunning work🥳🤩
TY
You did an Awesome job.l love your work. Great idea !!! SO BEAUTIFUL !!!
TY
Looks great job
TY
What a great idea thanks for sharing
You are so welcome!
Arts and crafts with David, yayayyayayay!!!!
It looks cool👍
Ty
Great video thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Thank you so much 💓
YW
TY
Very cool looking !
Ty
You da man bro. Looks great. The fan with the built in tan
TY
You are an artist
awesome! thanks for sharing!!
Thanks for watching!
Looks awesome, thanks for sharing
That’s just beautiful.
Ty
Walking on, walking on broken glass? Looks really good 👍
TY
You remind me of my father. He was a very creative guy. Like you
Awesome
TY
They are beautiful...might have to try a few!
Please do!
Great idea thanks for sharing 😊
You are so welcome!
That looks great. A large 'wave' shape using the blue glass would look awesome, inspired by the famous painting.
Yes
TY
You are the best sir thaks keep going nice work man
YW
TY
❤🎉 beautiful great idea
Hi, I have square blocks of concrete that I bought from Home Depot. Can I just put an additional layer of concrete on top adding stones to add some beautiful dimension?
Awesome idea, thanks for sharing. I'm going to do a few with my daughter and one day she can take one for her place.
Good idea
Awesome job sir!! 👍
Thank you kindly!
I like the results a lot!
Me too
Ty
Can you tell me what that tree is behind you? I am in love with plants. And that one is awesome. Great idea with the glass and stepping stones. Thanks for the help.
Not sure.
TY
Good on ya mate. Good job.
I like this guy. Thanks man.
You're welcome
I really like this thank you so much!
wow, you make this look very easy. I have a lot of stained glass so may try this on a small stepping stone and see what happens. Thanks for the video, I love stuff like this for the yard. Do you ever have to re seal the cement?
small stepping stone would be awesome
I love this idea
TY
MUY BONITO LO FELICITO, ME ENCANTO
Odell I wish I could grow cactus in Oregon jejej. Awesome creative work as always.
I hear that.
TY
I love your channel! Thanks for teaching us!!
YW
TY
Creatively inspiring
TY
Goodwill I love it!
Me too!!
TY
Amazing I need to try this on small things!!! Wow!!!
Go for it
That was so pretty
TY