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LOL your ending is absolute comedy gold. You’re wild for tackling a concrete DIY project in your garage. Great fricken job, man! I look forward to your next epic project!
I LOVE your channel! I have watched your past few videos and have always watched the whole video, not sped up. I love watching you try new things, and showing your struggles. Keep up the great work man!
I have watched all those channels you mentioned and 100% agree Essential Craftsman is the best motivator! Great to see someone else putting into practice what they have learned just like I try to.
Great job one thing I would recommend you do is seal between your old and new asphalt with asphalt joint tap to prevent water ingress and subsequent frost damage.
I watched your backyard gazebo video and it was great! This video was also great! I have a new garage floor already but I would try this after watching your video! Keep up the great video content!
@@adama837 lollll my bad man. Trying to work on the next one. Takes long. 😅 help me. Give me ideas for next steps. Next videos. What do you want to see
Great job. Man, this video was educational but also stressful! I can relate to a lot of this. I'm a lot like you, do lots of DIY after learning from RUclips but sometimes I wonder what I got myself into. I also get the wife telling me to be quiet later in the evening! You're lucky to have some experienced people guiding you on this one. Glad it worked out.
@@briansegall1084 awesome! Glad you found the channel. This channel’s for you. Stay tuned for more similar videos! Glad you got the educational part I tried to include. Which day out of the 8 was your favorite and which one was the least favorite?
I am glad you get help with the pour itself - very stressful, requires experience to get it right, and it’s not something you want to go wrong. Still majority DIY
Haha lol. Why do you say it will crack? Just because we’re in QC? Or because simply its concrete? I dont mind if it cracks a little the previous one was just dusty, crumbling and really terrible level surface to start building out the shop. Would be nice to own down south as well to leave our winters!
Don't bury a rubber fernco! They have step down ABS reducers for like half as much as you spent on that. The ones they bury are all metal on the exterior. You use this on existing stuff, not new plumbing. You should be using hard fittings. Everything else seems fine. Just pointing this out for anyone else that might read this.
@@mateostabio Not sure about that one. It will probably last for ages and not cause any issues. I just wouldn't want to put anything under concrete like that. It is probably some old standard. There are plumbing supply shops that the pros go to to get parts. A lot of them will say not open to the public, but go in there any let them know you can't find the part anywhere else and they will help you. They really just don't want to be the first place people go and then spend all day explaining plumbing lol. Also, they need to charge tax on retail, vs when they sell it to a company, it is wholesale.
i got rid of my lower back pain by working on my stomach muscles. might seem counterintuitive, but it worked. at first, i couldn't do sit-ups bc of the back pain, so i used an electric muscle stimulator (you see them advertised online, and mine really worked). As long as i continue working on my abs, my lower back pain stays in check. i'm 65. a chiropractor fixed my cervical and thorasic spine pain, even though several MDs told me i needed surgery. turns out the MDs were full of bs.
@@BradHoover-m1i love love love this! Thank you. I did notice that when I do big projects like these the first week it hurts because, like you said, im missing core muscles from being sitting for a decade and not working out. But after a week of hard core diy projects my lower back feels amazing again! Thanks for sharing
someone might have informed you already, but you should use concrete chairs with ties in them to lift up rebar. A because they wont break, and B because you wont have bits of plastic in your concrete.
@@slowrvr 💯💯💯. I really hesitated, but I figured even just to pay him and sit there waiting to save the day would have been well spent haha. Thanks for watching
Sometimes egos get in the way of a job well done. I can't imagine you'd expect Ben to create and edit your videos starting tomorrow. It seems you think you'll be on his level the FIRST time you try concrete. All for DIY but recognize that money pays for experience and expertise you can't earn in an afternoon
So your driveway slopes towards the garage, you left the linear drain 1" lower for heavy rain but it drains to the box inside the garage? You have channeled the water direct in your house? Hopefully the rain is not to heavy and your sewage system inside your house can handle it.
@@thomasoo5726 yea, i feel like allthe houses around here were designed to do this back in the 70s. Thanks for watching! Im already seeing a lot of comments about draining towards the garage door. Must be a usa/canada difference? Perhaps because we have basements?
@@weekendhomeprojects thanks! You can see in some scenes the driveway is downslope towards the house. The street is higher, so when it used to rain heavy there would sometimes be a puddle cause the previous drain was just old and filthy
i am wondering why the floor can’t have a very mild pitch from front to back, no drain needed? might be a simple issue i’m not seeing (melting snow?), most of the (few) garages where i live in nyc have no drain just a pitch to the front. thanks!!
1st off, come pour wus next spring, I'll have u learning the other way, mag float screed, u can screed w a Bull float. But not preferred. U would been in trouble w out Ben, I honestly trust him w that bull float on that, my dad does a thing called an idiot stick! Basically same idea! Ben did his thing that's why I said other way not right way
@mateostabio were from Indianapolis, I was jk, I heard u r in Canada. But I did like it, I have a question when u were putting in the drain was that a mix between like hyperlapse and time lapse or was that just fast forward? I'm still using phones and a couple action cameras . I saw your camera in just a few clips. And u weren't wearing a go pro so I was curious how u got that shot
@@mateostabio the very 1st shot when u start troweling on knee boards! It's no biggy! It was like a pov shot, then you went back to the wide shot of both of u , the shot looked like a pov shot of u trowling concrete. No biggy I was jc!
do you have to put the drain in the middle of the garage floor by code or something? seems that you'd just make it slope to the front of the garage and be done with it.
@@fbingha1 i kinda put that as an extra. But really I didn’t need it. I figured if i really need to in the future i could put it from inside the drain. Whats a bulkhead?
Haha probably. I’m glad a pro is watching this! 300k subs. Nice dude. Let me know what you think! To answer your question, I Borrowed that from my buddy with his truck to try it out cuz so many comments on my previous video said the skid steer would be better for the driveway build. But he’s a tree guy and didn’t have anything else but a bucket. The excavator was a nice added bonus, but Not needed, I think someone can do all this by hand, but figured for the youtube video, the more the merrier!
@mateostabio ohh I see! And yeah I'm about half way through i will let u know at the end! That mt 100 is a beast! I follow a few ppl that have breakers on them, that's why I said that. I get it! How did u like it
Took a little getting used to. I didnt like the turn control inverts when backing up, But is normal when going forward. Only have about 15h experience on the mini-excavator from previous video projects. I really like that one. But the skid steer is crazy fast at moving big quantities.
Maybe I missed this in the video, but why didn't you cut joints in the concrete? Feel like if you have a moisture issue, joints would be a good idea so the new concrete will only crack in those joints? (Not a concrete expert, just curious)
@@CodieAlexanderr yea, moisture issue should be solved now thats theres proper drainage that works and is scealed. And the fact that we finally have a vapour barrier. I did forget to include a statement about the joint cuts. Its not mandatory, its a (maybe when it cracks it might crack at your cuts). Its not guaranteed that it will cut at those cracks, never too late tho! I might do it right before the epoxy. Thanks for watching!
Ayy! After every video, you seem more local. Turns out we have friends in common 😂😂 BTW doing it yourself will always be better. Just paid 30k for a shit job (according my observation) at a foundation waterproofing job at my place. Im never letting a contractor touch my property again.
After doing my analysis on all the big youtubers or older channels, I tend to see the same trend, i think the algorithm has changed a lot. I just started my channel a year ago. But yea, pretty crazy changes im sure.
@@muthagoose00 because the footing was all wavy, it was higher in some areas then in others. I will be trimming it down flush with the concrete, and we wont see it when we make the walls and epoxy floors.
One thing I don't understand is why such a large drain like this is needed? Why not just slope the whole thing slightly out to teh front with no drain, or a put a smaller 4-5" drain? Does this drain have a more specific purpose?
I’m realizing that a lot of the comments are from the US I guess? A lot of people are saying the same thing. I guess in Canada its different?? Or its because my garage is a basement garage with a downslope driveway into it? When it rains, the house would be flooded without it.
then you only need to knock up the asphalt and concrete again, in order to carry out the sewer connections correctly!!! so that waste water, other liquids, possibly oil into our groundwater. once you're up and running, there's a lot of other things that aren't super good either, but you'll probably figure that out one day
@mateostabio i wasn't able to finish my comment all the way, you have a great channel, videos of good quality!. Just to name 2, NileRed and Viny B. Really cool to see that
@@lenardgor thanks man. But i think I’ll keep rocking adidas shoes on my feet and I’ll be that guy on youtube, until Adidas wants to collab and make nice work shoes 😂
@@rjcam I know what you mean, but I never plan on driving into the garage. Itll just be foot traffic. So far so good. It has solidified. I was scared it was going to shred to pieces. I really should have looked into companies that could deliver it though. Didn’t do much research.
@@mateostabio atleast put down a sealer in between the concrete and asphalt to avoid ice from destroying your work this winter, a thick bead of Non-Sag should do
You are all missing my point, $500 for half a days work is a really good living, especially when he has no worries about warranty repairs. I bet he wishes he could do this job every day for the rest of his working life.
@@julio3421 it was late at night. Cant make noise too late. Neighbours probably would have called the cops. Also not sure how long you’d have to run that little motor in a garage until you die from carbon monoxide poisoning. Anyways, I did what I could, i put a fan at the window (you can see it in some shots) blowing air out + There was a 6” gap at the bottom of the garage door to pull fresh air in. All in all, if I could choose,I would never close the door. But in this situation, I couldn’t wait til the next day. Thanks for watching!
@@tonyp9179 LOLLL, I wear my old shitty jeans for this kind of work. I definitely don’t want to be wearing my new Lululemon pants for this. Know what I mean? 😂
@@Local0utlaw no, i dont know where you live but my vacation weeks are paid vacation days you accumulate throughout the year. Not days off like unpaid days
@mateostabio that's what I'm saying. Lol If you didn't know, you should have been in the other side of the grinder. And lower to the ground. Not hating, just saying. Lol
@@mateostabio Everyone always has something to say, but seriously holding it from that off angle on that side of the grinder is sketchy. You always want it pulling away, never pushing towards you. One little jump and it could have ran towards or possibly up your leg.
Let me tell you son... I don't want to sound mean ....your neighbour sucks a finishing concrete first of all you should have had a chalk line all around to bring your concrete level when you pour it ... also the drain you have out in the driveway in front of the garage door ... drains to where ...another thing right end corner in thr garage it's LOW then coming towrds tgr garage door right hand side it is low... Even Stevie Wonder could see that
All good. Thanks for watching. Looks low because the black thing (thermal break) isn’t level. It was sitting on a bit of concrete and the footing, so I also thought that it was low. But the black thing wasn’t level. The drains all connect to the sewer, the drive is down slope towards the house. So no other option. Up here in Canada we have basements, and this garage goes right into it. I guess theres things that are different than in the 🇺🇸. Cheers!🍻
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LOL your ending is absolute comedy gold. You’re wild for tackling a concrete DIY project in your garage. Great fricken job, man! I look forward to your next epic project!
@@MakerMentor thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers!
This was so good. Getting in an actual expert to explain it to you, a normie, is so much more helpful then most "pros" on the RUclipss.
@@christianrichert5197 glad you liked it! Thanks for watching
33:20 an all too common conversation between my wife and I 🤣🤣🤣. Awesome job Mateo!
Hahah thanks!
i wasnt expecting to watch the entire thing at once but it was so interesting i did. definitely looking forward to the next one
@@nothingtoseehere93 awesome! Good to hear!
That Ben guy is an artist.
man, your music choice is top tier
I LOVE your channel! I have watched your past few videos and have always watched the whole video, not sped up. I love watching you try new things, and showing your struggles. Keep up the great work man!
@@Monkey_Devin2yt thanks!
Same as drywall you can do the prep work but I like to call in a finisher to work with me for pro results
I’ll just call @vancouvercarpenter for this one 😂.
You can learn tho give it a try
I have watched all those channels you mentioned and 100% agree Essential Craftsman is the best motivator! Great to see someone else putting into practice what they have learned just like I try to.
Couldn't agree more!
Great job one thing I would recommend you do is seal between your old and new asphalt with asphalt joint tap to prevent water ingress and subsequent frost damage.
Sweet! Thanks! I’ll look into this!
I watched your backyard gazebo video and it was great! This video was also great! I have a new garage floor already but I would try this after watching your video! Keep up the great video content!
@@channingrhodes6756 thanks for following along! Cheers
I love these videos , its been 5 days mateo i swear to god if you dont post again by next weekend, im digging that concrete up
@@adama837 lollll my bad man. Trying to work on the next one. Takes long. 😅 help me. Give me ideas for next steps. Next videos. What do you want to see
Great job. Man, this video was educational but also stressful! I can relate to a lot of this. I'm a lot like you, do lots of DIY after learning from RUclips but sometimes I wonder what I got myself into. I also get the wife telling me to be quiet later in the evening!
You're lucky to have some experienced people guiding you on this one. Glad it worked out.
@@briansegall1084 awesome! Glad you found the channel. This channel’s for you. Stay tuned for more similar videos! Glad you got the educational part I tried to include. Which day out of the 8 was your favorite and which one was the least favorite?
What a nice job and so interesting! Vivement les gars de bureaux qui savent travailler de leurs mains !! Nice editing and voice-over too ! New sub.
@@SOfilmable amazing. Merci! If you liked this one, you might like my paver driveway video in 7 days! Enjoy!
@mateostabio already in my watch later men !
I am glad you get help with the pour itself - very stressful, requires experience to get it right, and it’s not something you want to go wrong. Still majority DIY
Thanks for watching. I really hesitated but figured id learn the process and perhaps for my shed build ill be comfortable now to do it alone
I lived in Quebec, that concrete will crack within 5 yrs, but awesome job man. Next step, move from Qc to USA lol
Haha lol. Why do you say it will crack? Just because we’re in QC? Or because simply its concrete? I dont mind if it cracks a little the previous one was just dusty, crumbling and really terrible level surface to start building out the shop. Would be nice to own down south as well to leave our winters!
I'm really enjoyed watching this whole journey.
Excited for this one
Don't bury a rubber fernco! They have step down ABS reducers for like half as much as you spent on that. The ones they bury are all metal on the exterior. You use this on existing stuff, not new plumbing. You should be using hard fittings. Everything else seems fine. Just pointing this out for anyone else that might read this.
Thanks, I had no idea. I definitly looked at options at my local store and they had no step down for this weird 3 1/4 to 3 1/2 (outer diameter)
@@mateostabio Not sure about that one. It will probably last for ages and not cause any issues. I just wouldn't want to put anything under concrete like that. It is probably some old standard. There are plumbing supply shops that the pros go to to get parts. A lot of them will say not open to the public, but go in there any let them know you can't find the part anywhere else and they will help you. They really just don't want to be the first place people go and then spend all day explaining plumbing lol. Also, they need to charge tax on retail, vs when they sell it to a company, it is wholesale.
I’m a software engineer as well and can only aspire to get the confidence to tackle some of the stuff you do. Keep it up!
@@andrewjleonard you can do it!
Great work i have the same garage with nasty uneven unlevel mess. You made it look easy im like damm that os another project for another year....😅
@@carloslugo6928 thanks, I’d be comfortable I think doing it now by myself lol
i got rid of my lower back pain by working on my stomach muscles. might seem counterintuitive, but it worked. at first, i couldn't do sit-ups bc of the back pain, so i used an electric muscle stimulator (you see them advertised online, and mine really worked). As long as i continue working on my abs, my lower back pain stays in check. i'm 65. a chiropractor fixed my cervical and thorasic spine pain, even though several MDs told me i needed surgery. turns out the MDs were full of bs.
@@BradHoover-m1i love love love this! Thank you. I did notice that when I do big projects like these the first week it hurts because, like you said, im missing core muscles from being sitting for a decade and not working out. But after a week of hard core diy projects my lower back feels amazing again! Thanks for sharing
Great job sir. Very satisfying.
Great job dude, that must be so satisfying! 😊
@@Lou-Lou. thank you! Feels good
They use a concrete sander/grinder to smooth the finish before the epoxy.
Yes exactly. They sand it down, so the finish doesn’t need to be perfect perfect. Might leave it as is tho, turned out great
someone might have informed you already, but you should use concrete chairs with ties in them to lift up rebar. A because they wont break, and B because you wont have bits of plastic in your concrete.
Love your vids man, well done!
love the content! keep up the excellent work Mateo
Hiring Ben was money well spent. Finding someone willing to teach and work with you is rare, he seems like a stand up guy.
@@slowrvr 💯💯💯. I really hesitated, but I figured even just to pay him and sit there waiting to save the day would have been well spent haha. Thanks for watching
Great job! We’ve watched it 3 times !
@@LisaR-eq6oz haha thanks for watching 3 times! 😉
Ben is a legend
Came here to like and listen while I’m working on a DIY patio paver project your videos inspired me to tackle😅😂
That is awesome! Keep it up! Thanks for watching
This guy always takes off for a short project that takes much longer
@@jasonfournier absolutely always
Wow there again with an absolute banger video!! Thanks
Editing/transition god right here
@@andyknappenberger7512 🙌 thanks man! Appreciate the appreciation of the long 2 weeks of work into this video! 😉😂 cheers
Man! Just Man! Waiting for others projects! Good luck!
It's nice to DIY, but watching a pro with their know-how... invaluable!
@@all_the_moga 💯💯
first time watching the channel, really nice vid. Love the editing, and the result is awesome! :D keep it up!! greets from Belgium
@@BreadbakeryRS awesome! Thanks for the message and welcome! Enjoy my other videos!
23:20 we are just a 3 man outfit most the time! Shout out concrete RUclipsrs
I don't even have a house and I like your videos man!!!
If you ever need an extra set of hands for something, I'm not living that far, just ask! :)
@@MaximeBrochu thanks man!
I’m guessing you have a degree possibly, good to see you intrigued in the manual labor and motivation to learn. Not many people have that trait.
@@joejohn5398 thanks for watching!degreee in what exactly? If you mean in Construction or university. I actually dont have either or.
I LOVE IT!
Thanks!! Im glad you love it as much as I do! Cheers bud 🍻
Looking good man
Nice work, you definitely busted butt for days on end! The finished product is something that you can be proud of.
Your newest subscriber,
DC
Thank you sir! Cheers 🍻
great work. Excavating is not easy.
@@fastj1962 thanks!
😂😂 how did I know “my buddies truck” was going to be on the tool list.
@@wookie7017 of course! You still need some sort of truck or trailer! Not everyone has access to the same things
Great Job!
@@RhondaVDion-qf4is thx!
great job
Great video. Good job
@@bibeaubuilds2869 thanks!
''tu le veux en français ou en anglais?'' Classique Montréal
@@DelugeQuebec c’eat sa!
Sometimes egos get in the way of a job well done. I can't imagine you'd expect Ben to create and edit your videos starting tomorrow. It seems you think you'll be on his level the FIRST time you try concrete.
All for DIY but recognize that money pays for experience and expertise you can't earn in an afternoon
💯💯💯. I wasn’t expecting perfection. But was hoping to have a nice finish.
Thanks for watching!
ca fait du bien d'avoir entendu du français avec ce magnifique accent québécois :-)
Chest toujours suprennant qu'un Quebecois comme Ben parle l'anglais presque sans accent.
Great Job both the concrete and the video/production. Sorry bit confused though where does the water go once it enters the outside drain?
@@k671070 to the sewer
@@k671070 thanks for watching!
We want to see the rest, u putting all the thing back inside the garage and organizing!
@@amiltonscjunior hahah thatll be the next couple of videos! Designing, Building wiring, everything!
@@amiltonscjunior you’ll have to subscribe for that tho 😉
So your driveway slopes towards the garage, you left the linear drain 1" lower for heavy rain but it drains to the box inside the garage? You have channeled the water direct in your house? Hopefully the rain is not to heavy and your sewage system inside your house can handle it.
@@thomasoo5726 yea, i feel like allthe houses around here were designed to do this back in the 70s. Thanks for watching! Im already seeing a lot of comments about draining towards the garage door. Must be a usa/canada difference? Perhaps because we have basements?
What editing software are you using? Thanks! Love the vids
@@tristanwright im using final cut pro. Not sure if id recommend it. I think the popular move now adays is davinci resolve
@@mateostabio thank you. wishing you all the best. and, wear a mask!
Where does the linear drain, drain to? Or does water just sit in it?
It drains to the center pit in the garage, Which is also connected to the sewer to the city
@ Oh, ok…thought it was draining the other way. That makes sense. Nice install!
@@weekendhomeprojects thanks! You can see in some scenes the driveway is downslope towards the house. The street is higher, so when it used to rain heavy there would sometimes be a puddle cause the previous drain was just old and filthy
i am wondering why the floor can’t have a very mild pitch from front to back, no drain needed? might be a simple issue i’m not seeing (melting snow?), most of the (few) garages where i live in nyc have no drain just a pitch to the front. thanks!!
@@chillpillology thats a good question! Not sure. But my house has a pitch towards the house and not towards the street
Should have just bought a plate compactor with the first project. Would have paid for it 3x by now
Tell me about it hahaha! I forsure spent more then 800bucks
I love your DIY Videos. Nice Video filming and cutting.
For foreign viewers it would be nice when you show the Inches converted in Meter 😬😃
@@EP_172 thanks for the feedback. Definitely something I have to get used to.
@@EP_172 just remember that 1” is around 25mm 😉
1st off, come pour wus next spring, I'll have u learning the other way, mag float screed, u can screed w a Bull float. But not preferred. U would been in trouble w out Ben, I honestly trust him w that bull float on that, my dad does a thing called an idiot stick! Basically same idea! Ben did his thing that's why I said other way not right way
Hahaha yea for sure. Where you from?
@mateostabio were from Indianapolis, I was jk, I heard u r in Canada. But I did like it, I have a question when u were putting in the drain was that a mix between like hyperlapse and time lapse or was that just fast forward? I'm still using phones and a couple action cameras . I saw your camera in just a few clips. And u weren't wearing a go pro so I was curious how u got that shot
I'm glad I ran across your content I def subscribed
Which shot exactly? Send me the time stamp. Ill try and explain.
@@mateostabio the very 1st shot when u start troweling on knee boards! It's no biggy! It was like a pov shot, then you went back to the wide shot of both of u , the shot looked like a pov shot of u trowling concrete. No biggy I was jc!
Look at it! Would ya look at that
@@I3rEaChLA just look AT IT!
Let me know if you plan on doing a french drain replacement/excavation video in the near future, mine is due next year haha!
@@TheBeginner22 😂😉. Contact SolageSolide!
do you have to put the drain in the middle of the garage floor by code or something? seems that you'd just make it slope to the front of the garage and be done with it.
@@madchillerofficial my driveway leans towards the house. Not slanted to towards the street
HAH! The ending! :D
Knowing nothing, but I would have used a bulkhead to connect the ABS to the large drain. That caulk is going to break up and fall apart.
@@fbingha1 i kinda put that as an extra. But really I didn’t need it. I figured if i really need to in the future i could put it from inside the drain. Whats a bulkhead?
STABIOOOOO!!! :D Awww yiisss!!!!
Hey dude, you using earpro? Cheap to protecting hearing now rather than trying to add it back later.
@@stanleynickarz yea. Noise cancelling headphones saved the day
@@mateostabio Love to hear it.👌
They got breakers for mt 100s 🤔 2 machines, 1 operator 😕
Haha probably. I’m glad a pro is watching this! 300k subs. Nice dude. Let me know what you think!
To answer your question, I Borrowed that from my buddy with his truck to try it out cuz so many comments on my previous video said the skid steer would be better for the driveway build. But he’s a tree guy and didn’t have anything else but a bucket. The excavator was a nice added bonus, but Not needed, I think someone can do all this by hand, but figured for the youtube video, the more the merrier!
@mateostabio ohh I see! And yeah I'm about half way through i will let u know at the end! That mt 100 is a beast! I follow a few ppl that have breakers on them, that's why I said that. I get it! How did u like it
Took a little getting used to. I didnt like the turn control inverts when backing up, But is normal when going forward. Only have about 15h experience on the mini-excavator from previous video projects. I really like that one. But the skid steer is crazy fast at moving big quantities.
Maybe I missed this in the video, but why didn't you cut joints in the concrete? Feel like if you have a moisture issue, joints would be a good idea so the new concrete will only crack in those joints? (Not a concrete expert, just curious)
@@CodieAlexanderr yea, moisture issue should be solved now thats theres proper drainage that works and is scealed. And the fact that we finally have a vapour barrier. I did forget to include a statement about the joint cuts. Its not mandatory, its a (maybe when it cracks it might crack at your cuts). Its not guaranteed that it will cut at those cracks, never too late tho! I might do it right before the epoxy. Thanks for watching!
Ayy! After every video, you seem more local. Turns out we have friends in common 😂😂 BTW doing it yourself will always be better. Just paid 30k for a shit job (according my observation) at a foundation waterproofing job at my place. Im never letting a contractor touch my property again.
@@BootSequence 👍 thats the spirit!
I would hire u, do u have a CORE Audience every video? Jw you do better than me, my stuff is so hit and miss, but I got evergreen shorts luckily
@@GRUBB-MUDD i dont think so. Maybe 5000 people view all my videos, but other than that. I think I know what my audience wants now. I think 😅
After doing my analysis on all the big youtubers or older channels, I tend to see the same trend, i think the algorithm has changed a lot. I just started my channel a year ago. But yea, pretty crazy changes im sure.
why didnt you just set the height of the expansion joint to make it easy to level on the edges?
@@muthagoose00 because the footing was all wavy, it was higher in some areas then in others. I will be trimming it down flush with the concrete, and we wont see it when we make the walls and epoxy floors.
One thing I don't understand is why such a large drain like this is needed? Why not just slope the whole thing slightly out to teh front with no drain, or a put a smaller 4-5" drain? Does this drain have a more specific purpose?
I’m realizing that a lot of the comments are from the US I guess? A lot of people are saying the same thing. I guess in Canada its different?? Or its because my garage is a basement garage with a downslope driveway into it? When it rains, the house would be flooded without it.
Where does the water from the drain go?
@@Lars-d7g it goes to the sewer as the driveway is in a downslope towards the house. The street is higher
@@mateostabio Ah ok! Thanks!
This task here will
Make a person want to get back to his regular job.
@@MrCbell57 lol not really in my opinion. I’m kind of getting sick of sitting at a desk all day. Not gonna lie
then you only need to knock up the asphalt and concrete again, in order to carry out the sewer connections correctly!!!
so that waste water, other liquids, possibly oil into our groundwater.
once you're up and running, there's a lot of other things that aren't super good either, but you'll probably figure that out one day
@@amdiammundsen9469 what do you mean? This is how its been connected for 50 years. Into the sewer
1:16:09 Pick up the dog poop, neighbor dude!
Lolll
The last few videos with the comedic ended is the best. LOVING Mateo even though he's Canadian (gag). :D jk jk
Thanks bud! Will try to keep them coming.
dang so many youtuber from Quebec lol
@@Blast357 thanks for watching! Who else from quebec?
@mateostabio i wasn't able to finish my comment all the way, you have a great channel, videos of good quality!. Just to name 2, NileRed and Viny B. Really cool to see that
Hey man, please get some steel toe work boots. Speaking from experience. 😅
@@lenardgor thanks man. But i think I’ll keep rocking adidas shoes on my feet and I’ll be that guy on youtube, until Adidas wants to collab and make nice work shoes 😂
Get a laser for your space!
cold patch is the worst, not worth it. 1 ton of asphalt is about 90$. You could have had your asphalt delivered even for
@@rjcam I know what you mean, but I never plan on driving into the garage. Itll just be foot traffic. So far so good. It has solidified. I was scared it was going to shred to pieces. I really should have looked into companies that could deliver it though. Didn’t do much research.
@@mateostabio atleast put down a sealer in between the concrete and asphalt to avoid ice from destroying your work this winter, a thick bead of Non-Sag should do
What will that do to protect? and what will it protect? Send me a link please. and thanks!
Say asphalt, however you wanna say it, bro bro
can I borrow your neighbor ? :-) Great job man
450kg of asphalt on the rear axle of the Car 💀😆
@@EP_172 my model 3 has transported more in weight than lots of pickup truck owners. Trust me 😂
can confirm it gets hard on its own
😂😂
Epoxy, concrete, I feel like humans have forgotten that stone lasts virtually forever.
Maybe, but when your trying to build a clean shop, that concrete was so cracked, i wasn’t going to start putting epoxy on that
$500 for the concrete finisher labour, maybe half days work? no warranties, no hassle, no wonder he was smiling!
Lol, if we wanted warranties, we wouldn’t be DIYing at all now would we!
Nobody works by hour in this trade
Its by the job
You are all missing my point, $500 for half a days work is a really good living, especially when he has no worries about warranty repairs. I bet he wishes he could do this job every day for the rest of his working life.
I love your videos but why would you close the door and operate machinery trying to die from carbon monoxide
@@julio3421 it was late at night. Cant make noise too late. Neighbours probably would have called the cops. Also not sure how long you’d have to run that little motor in a garage until you die from carbon monoxide poisoning. Anyways, I did what I could, i put a fan at the window (you can see it in some shots) blowing air out + There was a 6” gap at the bottom of the garage door to pull fresh air in. All in all, if I could choose,I would never close the door. But in this situation, I couldn’t wait til the next day. Thanks for watching!
Do you wear ur kids jeans?
@@tonyp9179 LOLLL, I wear my old shitty jeans for this kind of work. I definitely don’t want to be wearing my new Lululemon pants for this. Know what I mean? 😂
I come here for the comments.
@@thor_ welcome to the comments
Also got to account for the time you took off work from your money saved , cause you also lost money by taking off
@@Local0utlaw no, i dont know where you live but my vacation weeks are paid vacation days you accumulate throughout the year. Not days off like unpaid days
16:45 holy fuck someone take that thing from him..
@@SirSmokesAlott take it
@mateostabio that's what I'm saying. Lol
If you didn't know, you should have been in the other side of the grinder.
And lower to the ground.
Not hating, just saying. Lol
Thats a better comment. Thanks for sharing some knowledge. Makes sense now looking at it
@@mateostabio Everyone always has something to say, but seriously holding it from that off angle on that side of the grinder is sketchy. You always want it pulling away, never pushing towards you. One little jump and it could have ran towards or possibly up your leg.
Interesting Canadian thing..... My house was built in 1956..... No drain in the garage....... horrible design.
@@fastj1962 i guess it depends? Not sure if it has too but my garage is lower than the road and the driveway has a slope towards the garage.
Thank goodness for the ghay AF music. Next.
Thanks you-are-the-problem
Let me tell you son... I don't want to sound mean ....your neighbour sucks a finishing concrete first of all you should have had a chalk line all around to bring your concrete level when you pour it ... also the drain you have out in the driveway in front of the garage door ... drains to where ...another thing right end corner in thr garage it's LOW then coming towrds tgr garage door right hand side it is low... Even Stevie Wonder could see that
All good. Thanks for watching. Looks low because the black thing (thermal break) isn’t level. It was sitting on a bit of concrete and the footing, so I also thought that it was low. But the black thing wasn’t level. The drains all connect to the sewer, the drive is down slope towards the house. So no other option. Up here in Canada we have basements, and this garage goes right into it. I guess theres things that are different than in the 🇺🇸. Cheers!🍻
I like u
Dude is worse at time management than Tavarish. Maybe you shouldn't set time goals and maybe just build stuff?
Lol. The youtube folks show me otherwise. DIY’ers like to see time frames and show real days and time spent. Thanks for watching
@@mateostabio You know what, fair enough. At least you get projects done.