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38:02 as someone that works in crawl spaces frequently, i can confidently say that when you are sore and tired, laying on pea gravel with a vapor barrier on top is surprisingly cozy.
@@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
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 grew up pouring concrete every summer. Basement walls, floors, garage floors, shop floors, retaining walls. All the fun stuff. Props for taking this on with no experience.
@@coltonkruse2313 appreciate that. Yea I could see myself doing this at least once a year. Every summer I’ll try and get some concrete work done. Thanks for watching
Dude keep it up, your videos are really well done, instructional, entertaining and well paced. Almost feature film length but went by quick because of how engaged i was in the process and you pay it off with completed work.
Hey Mateo, I just discovered your channel because I want to do a similar project in my garage. Great job! OFFTOPIC: Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but your garage door shouldn’t open or close on its own when it’s disengaged from the opener. It should stay in place and be easy to move up or down. You can adjust the tension using the springs, but be careful-it’s not without risks. I recommend watching some videos on this topic. Keep it up and all the best!
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!
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.
Its always the same when it comes to work like this and that’s the preparation, most of the work is always in the prep, you get the prep right and the end of the job should be good Another good job well done 👏 Oh and it’s always good to have helpful advice from good friends
For future reference, you can usually ask a paving company if they can swing the truck by with a yard of asphalt for DIY at the end of someone's shift.
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!
Very interesting. I've planned to do the same, but I've decided against even trying to pour the slab myself after watching your video. My garage is about 4 times the size, so it would be a lot more work. Thankfully I don't have any old concrete to remove, as the previous owner of the property never got around to pour it.
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 refinished my garage last summer I meant gutted to studs. Re run all electricals, wires in conduits, even OSB ed on top of the rafter joists for additional storage. I spent about 3500 in materials and 6 weeks after work time and weekends. it was 384 sqft, I got quoted on average of 130/ sqft so in total I saved myself over 46,000 CAD. Nicely done bro and if one day you want to share some experiences about wood working I'm willing to learn! Nice video and keep on the good work!
Thats awesome! currently speaking I’m ripping down the drywall from ceiling and doing exactly that. Just finished planning out all my wiring for my shop so this week I should be close to closing up a few things. Hopefully.
@ Remember always up size the wires cause you never know. I up sized all my wires and if I have bigger equipments I can simply swap the breaker and receptacles. At first I wondered where were you located when I saw that MTL on the truck, and finally saw the plate on the trailer which clearly is Quebec then I was like you are one of them rare people who speaks English without an actual quebec accents lol. Anyways, work safe and good luck on the reno!
I’m amazed the amount of English speakers in this video, being from the other side of Canada we hear the horror stories of people from Quebec 😂 good content brotha
Hahhaa. Quebec is very french, rarely anyone speaks english, BUT, in Montreal island, it’s english and french. Depends where and who you talk to! Some people are straight up english and dont speak french
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.
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.
Awesome work, man! I am in a similar project right now as well, in our kitchen. But because I'm a carpenter I have no clue on much of this concrete flooring, EPS insolation and so on. I feel the anxiety a little as well and really need to hear that I'm overthinking it as well. But everything is going good so far, so i don't know why I'm worrying so much. That land of the unknown, I guess.
@@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
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!
Not bad for a first time doing this. Like anything, you have to start somewhere. You can really see how much skill and effort goes into doing this for a living.
I have a drain similar to yours at the bottom of my driveway/entrance to the garage, the concrete is cracked and has heaved. Ive been stressing figuring id need to hire a contractor to bust it up and repour, but I ne ee thought about using cold patch. Seems like a nice little fix!
The asphalt thing is pretty neat. I would have just compacted the ground and set the gutter in a bed of concrete. A car driving over it puts some stress on the gutter so it better be rigidly set. Asphalt alone can't hold it since sunrays and hot temperatures in summer make it viscous again - like you did with the torch. Are you sure, that this gutter is fit for cars running over it? The lid doesn't look sturdy enough.
It might be too early to tell, but how is cold patch holding up? I never had good luck with cold patch unless it is like a small pot hole. When it is put to thick, it never hardens correctly. During summer, it might soften up and sink. I only think of it as a temporary patch.
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
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.
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 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
Combustion engine inside closed garage. Ugh… Anyways. Great video. Coincidentally pretty much exactly what I’m going to do with my garage build. Tempting to do as much DIY as possible.
@@DIYglenn nice! Good luck. I closed the garage door to keep noise down for the neighbours, i did put a fan at the window to vent and there was a very large gap at the bottom of the garage door. But yea, not the best of things to do.
@@mateostabio it sucked, it took weeks filling 8? 3m³ container. right now we are backfilling and compacting with sand and hopefully new concrete before winter hits us here in central europe. then it goes on to replace the old wooded doors to a similiar one you have there.
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?
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.
very interesting video, I definitely learned something. only criticism I have is that for a proper cost calculation, you shouldn't leave out things because "you know a guy". look up comparable rates for equipment and use that for the calculation, so the numbers are actually realistic.
@@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
@@honeybunny371 its okay. Im alive and well. Look at the window, i put a fan and under the garage door there was about 10” gap. I had to do that for 5-10min to not wake up or bother the neighbours. Thanks for watching!
@@mateostabio Glad you're ok! I thought I saw rhe window closed. Totally understandable if you're working late at night and want to make as little noise as possible. DIY'ers sometimes want to get it done at all costs (takes one to know one.... we've been all there 😉).
can you tell me about the purpose of putting a plastic box in the middle of garage that has a pipe to possible water source? Is the gutter going to lead to elsewhere?
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.
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.
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!
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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
38:02 as someone that works in crawl spaces frequently, i can confidently say that when you are sore and tired, laying on pea gravel with a vapor barrier on top is surprisingly cozy.
@@strafer1998 haha awesome
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!
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
That Ben guy is an artist.
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!
The wife was just concerned that this premium black caulk may be too much for the small crack he was trying to put it in. 😂
@@monczaopl don't touch it. it will get hard on its own ! 🤣
I grew up pouring concrete every summer. Basement walls, floors, garage floors, shop floors, retaining walls. All the fun stuff. Props for taking this on with no experience.
@@coltonkruse2313 appreciate that. Yea I could see myself doing this at least once a year. Every summer I’ll try and get some concrete work done. Thanks for watching
Dude keep it up, your videos are really well done, instructional, entertaining and well paced. Almost feature film length but went by quick because of how engaged i was in the process and you pay it off with completed work.
@@anthonysmz3 thanks man! Trying hard 😂
Hey Mateo, I just discovered your channel because I want to do a similar project in my garage. Great job! OFFTOPIC: Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but your garage door shouldn’t open or close on its own when it’s disengaged from the opener. It should stay in place and be easy to move up or down. You can adjust the tension using the springs, but be careful-it’s not without risks. I recommend watching some videos on this topic.
Keep it up and all the best!
Thanks for the advice, I’ll have to look into that.
33:20 an all too common conversation between my wife and I 🤣🤣🤣. Awesome job Mateo!
Hahah thanks!
I so enjoyed the continuous panic you go through haha i can see it in you how i always feel doing this sort of thing your REAL DIY
@@flanagon360 haha thanks bud!
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 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!
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!
Amazing video i see my cousin when you plane the ciment at the end well done job,,, Alain
Its always the same when it comes to work like this and that’s the preparation, most of the work is always in the prep, you get the prep right and the end of the job should be good
Another good job well done 👏
Oh and it’s always good to have helpful advice from good friends
💯 thanks for watching!
I subscribed to you, keep at it, I’m a bricklayer, joiner, also did concrete repairs for 25 years 😉
For future reference, you can usually ask a paving company if they can swing the truck by with a yard of asphalt for DIY at the end of someone's shift.
@@jwg9338 thanks! Thats good to know!
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
the best lesson here is the value of true friendship.
that guy charging you $500 was a gift from God. rarely happens.
This guy always takes off for a short project that takes much longer
@@jasonfournier absolutely always
Very interesting. I've planned to do the same, but I've decided against even trying to pour the slab myself after watching your video. My garage is about 4 times the size, so it would be a lot more work. Thankfully I don't have any old concrete to remove, as the previous owner of the property never got around to pour it.
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?
Very good effort, well done not as easy as we think.
@@nickjones6543 thanks!
I refinished my garage last summer I meant gutted to studs. Re run all electricals, wires in conduits, even OSB ed on top of the rafter joists for additional storage. I spent about 3500 in materials and 6 weeks after work time and weekends. it was 384 sqft, I got quoted on average of 130/ sqft so in total I saved myself over 46,000 CAD. Nicely done bro and if one day you want to share some experiences about wood working I'm willing to learn! Nice video and keep on the good work!
Thats awesome! currently speaking I’m ripping down the drywall from ceiling and doing exactly that. Just finished planning out all my wiring for my shop so this week I should be close to closing up a few things. Hopefully.
@ Remember always up size the wires cause you never know. I up sized all my wires and if I have bigger equipments I can simply swap the breaker and receptacles. At first I wondered where were you located when I saw that MTL on the truck, and finally saw the plate on the trailer which clearly is Quebec then I was like you are one of them rare people who speaks English without an actual quebec accents lol. Anyways, work safe and good luck on the reno!
Thanks! Great ideas
I'm really enjoyed watching this whole journey.
Saving to refer back to when the time is right. Thanks for sharing your insights
Thanks man, glad it could help!
I’m amazed the amount of English speakers in this video, being from the other side of Canada we hear the horror stories of people from Quebec 😂 good content brotha
Hahhaa. Quebec is very french, rarely anyone speaks english, BUT, in Montreal island, it’s english and french. Depends where and who you talk to! Some people are straight up english and dont speak french
Great job! We’ve watched it 3 times !
@@LisaR-eq6oz haha thanks for watching 3 times! 😉
Excited for this one
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!
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!
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 the content! keep up the excellent work Mateo
Awesome work, man!
I am in a similar project right now as well, in our kitchen.
But because I'm a carpenter I have no clue on much of this concrete flooring, EPS insolation and so on.
I feel the anxiety a little as well and really need to hear that I'm overthinking it as well.
But everything is going good so far, so i don't know why I'm worrying so much.
That land of the unknown, I guess.
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
Man! Just Man! Waiting for others projects! Good luck!
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
Great job dude, that must be so satisfying! 😊
@@Lou-Lou. thank you! Feels good
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
Wow there again with an absolute banger video!! Thanks
Nice work, you definitely busted butt for days on end! The finished product is something that you can be proud of.
Your newest subscriber,
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Thank you sir! Cheers 🍻
Great job sir. Very satisfying.
man, your music choice is top tier
Thanks. Appreciate that
23:20 we are just a 3 man outfit most the time! Shout out concrete RUclipsrs
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!
''tu le veux en français ou en anglais?'' Classique Montréal
@@DelugeQuebec c’eat sa!
Not bad for a first time doing this. Like anything, you have to start somewhere. You can really see how much skill and effort goes into doing this for a living.
💯
I have a drain similar to yours at the bottom of my driveway/entrance to the garage, the concrete is cracked and has heaved. Ive been stressing figuring id need to hire a contractor to bust it up and repour, but I ne ee thought about using cold patch. Seems like a nice little fix!
@@caseysmith1718 glad you got something from this video!
😂😂 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
A brilliant job young man !
Thanks!
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!
Editing/transition god right here
@@andyknappenberger7512 🙌 thanks man! Appreciate the appreciation of the long 2 weeks of work into this video! 😉😂 cheers
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
STABIOOOOO!!! :D Awww yiisss!!!!
Ben is a legend
I LOVE IT!
Thanks!! Im glad you love it as much as I do! Cheers bud 🍻
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!
nice camera work for one man much respect
Thanks!
The asphalt thing is pretty neat. I would have just compacted the ground and set the gutter in a bed of concrete. A car driving over it puts some stress on the gutter so it better be rigidly set. Asphalt alone can't hold it since sunrays and hot temperatures in summer make it viscous again - like you did with the torch.
Are you sure, that this gutter is fit for cars running over it? The lid doesn't look sturdy enough.
Yea. Its actually very very thick galvanized steel. This is a commercial grade linear drain
The ones at home depot are very weak compared to this and are mostly plastic construction
It might be too early to tell, but how is cold patch holding up? I never had good luck with cold patch unless it is like a small pot hole. When it is put to thick, it never hardens correctly. During summer, it might soften up and sink. I only think of it as a temporary patch.
@@lambition honestly its really cold now and it looks like it cured perfectly! But i was also worried about that! Message me in 6months 😉
Thank you, i learned so much
@@olafschermann1592 glad you enjoyed it!
It's nice to DIY, but watching a pro with their know-how... invaluable!
@@all_the_moga 💯💯
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!
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
Looking good man
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.
The rubber ones with the stainless bands are marked to meet the standard for underground use.
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!
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
HAH! The ending! :D
Combustion engine inside closed garage. Ugh…
Anyways. Great video. Coincidentally pretty much exactly what I’m going to do with my garage build. Tempting to do as much DIY as possible.
@@DIYglenn nice! Good luck. I closed the garage door to keep noise down for the neighbours, i did put a fan at the window to vent and there was a very large gap at the bottom of the garage door. But yea, not the best of things to do.
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 have removed the floor in an about double that garage, 13t all in all. but with a handdrill and buckets.
@@majstealth nice!!!
@@mateostabio it sucked, it took weeks filling 8? 3m³ container. right now we are backfilling and compacting with sand and hopefully new concrete before winter hits us here in central europe. then it goes on to replace the old wooded doors to a similiar one you have there.
What part of Montreal are you in? I'm mostly just curious since I'm in NDG and have some serious concrete work to do too. :D
@@gtheduke not too far from you! Call up Matt at solage solide and let him know how you found him! He’s a great resource to talk to
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?
great video 👍
Thanks for watching!
@@mateostabio looking forward to more videos, just watched your driveway paving video
@@user-hs7kh3do1n thanks ☺️
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
Great Job!
@@BearSoul65 thx!
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!
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.
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!
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.
@@madchillerdfw my driveway leans towards the house. Not slanted to towards the street
EAASSSYYYYYY Y MONE.... NO hold on for you it's just EASYYYY back pain lol ( GO VICTORY! lol )
Great video. Good job
@@bibeaubuilds2869 thanks!
very interesting video, I definitely learned something. only criticism I have is that for a proper cost calculation, you shouldn't leave out things because "you know a guy". look up comparable rates for equipment and use that for the calculation, so the numbers are actually realistic.
@@ElvianEmpire thanks for the feedback
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 😉
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.👌
wow. your video editing is very good
@@reedjacksonmaccom thank you!
👀 Will not have to worry about drainage in that garage!
@@Kebmoz nope! Not anymore
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
Exhaust in a closed-up space? (while compacting the gravel) Is this a good idea ? 🤔
@@honeybunny371 its okay. Im alive and well. Look at the window, i put a fan and under the garage door there was about 10” gap. I had to do that for 5-10min to not wake up or bother the neighbours. Thanks for watching!
@@mateostabio Glad you're ok! I thought I saw rhe window closed. Totally understandable if you're working late at night and want to make as little noise as possible. DIY'ers sometimes want to get it done at all costs (takes one to know one.... we've been all there 😉).
can you tell me about the purpose of putting a plastic box in the middle of garage that has a pipe to possible water source? Is the gutter going to lead to elsewhere?
@@devinify it goes to the city sewer. The driveway and garage is on a downslope towards the house. So when it rains, theres no other option.
@ it makes perfect sense. I just didnt see the part that it connects to the city sewer.
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
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.
great job
1:18:41 when they said burring the midnight oil didnt know thats what they ment XD
Tip 11: The better prepwork, the easier execution
@@dennisoestermann1880 💯💯💯. Words of wisdom
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!
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!