Instructional concrete formwork construction videos and reviews of equipment, methods and tools relating to concrete construction. I am a formwork contractor specialising in concrete stairs, concrete walls, suspended concrete slabs and concrete curves.
G'day mate, thanks so much for the video, exactly what I'm looking for as a DIYer! Quick question, what is the purpose of the 30 degree bevel on the underside of the riser, and which way is the bevel facing?
@@bmformworkconcreteconstruc9783 im building only 1000 sq foot basement, i guess its better to form the whole thing at once then. I have lots of room, i was hoping to pour without a pumper.
If we want to do a wall in smaller sections i know you have to extend rebar and put holes in the form but does the new pour just bond to the edge of the section thats hardened?
Joints never look great. Hard to seal because so much pressure. Concrete leaks look bad. Also will never be the same colour. When they make the concrete all it takes is for the sand to come from a different part of the quarry or a different brand of cement of country of import ect ect and you have a different colour.
Holy Jesus!!! It is at least 20x harder than i expected. I was planning to build (kind of) a castle by myself ... I almost cried when I realized how hard it's gonna be. 🤯😥
Dude, this is such a good video. I'm an owner builder and none of the learning materials covered suspended slabs as thoroughly as this. I'm so glad I found this vid
Mate i am an aussie that lives in Costa Rica.. and if you came here you would clean up. Almost every construction job here uses standard pylewood for their casting. It never looks perfect.. and i swear they dont know how to mix concrete properly because there is always rocks in it
"This house is here forever" I like that attitude. Too many houses now are built for 50 years and it's expected they'll be torn down after that. It's wasteful to tear them down, but I've lived in houses that were past their best before and living in them is horrible too. We need to build houses for the 500 year span, not 50 years. There are plenty of houses in Eurasia that are more than 500 years old and still lived in, so we know it's possible - we just have to think a whole lot about how to make it possible for the houses we're building now. They should be lived in 500 years from now, and they should be pleasant and comfortable to live in 500 years from now.
Were these stairs wet finished or stripped the next day? Im guessing they wouldnt be able to be finished without the stringer being taken down, to get one side of the riser out. For a same day wet finish would you just cut the risers with a 17mm gap on either side?
Yeah but no one wet finishes here. I don’t really like the look of wet finished, yes it’s sealed up better but you don’t get crisp corners. I know it is possible and guys can do it but generally you guys bullnose it all and it’s never perfectly straight.
Hammering those bolts across the corner, you should have hearing protection. My rule of thumb on a build site is that when I turn 100, I want to be able to hear my great-grandchildren singing me Happy Birthday. That means looking after my hearing now!
We all have and wear hearing protection, I supply my guys with iso tunes aware pros so we can have ear protection and still communicate. if we aren’t wearing it it’s because we took them out to film some scenes.
Concrete is the way to go! I'm not a fan of the off-form finish. I want the outside of my house to be prettier than that .. and my kids have inherited the family history of fainting in hot weather, so I want the inside walls to be finished in plasterboard with an air gap behind it so if someone falls against it they break the plasterboard and not their skull. Behind the plasterboard and the air gap, though, I want something that is going to last, and the acoustic and thermal performance of concrete is pretty attractive too.
I’d like to do something similar, but it’s not so much the form work that phases me, but more the vibrating of the concrete so you get a great face and no voids. Any tips on this aspect?
Ultimate bracing, my 1st home was ICf Basement, soon building florida home poured concrete, board formed. No ICF because of insects. Thank you for sharing your impressive bracing techniques.
I think there would be a whole lot of ways to set that up, and I'm just figuring it. Maybe just start with a lot of steel I beams permanently installed first, then lay the sheeting on top of that with 4 to 6 inch aircrete for weight reduction, and primarily rely on steel strength for structure, but I'm just guessing.
Cranes are and haulage are expensive. Every region does things differently, and people try many methods here however this is the most popular way where we are so it must have its advantages!
A lot of waste and not very efficient materual use... Without a crane, NOE aluminium formwork types are ideal. A lot of his formwork is none-reusable, very expensive. And his work platforms are totally unsafe.
I explain it in the video briefly. We do jobs with lots of angles and rebates and use odd size materials. So the job I just did last month I used my angle gauge multiple times every day. It’s so small that I can always have it on me because it is something that you will use at very random times. The combo gauge I don’t use as often, mostly because I don’t have a great place for it in my belt, but when I do carry it I actually use it a lot.
Probably as long as they are strong enough. I’ve never seen them used. Wood clamps strong enough for the concrete pressures would cost far far more than the clamps I use in this video.
Interesting to see what tools formworkers in Australia use. In the USA occidental tool bags are the most popular and sometimes concrete carpenters will put a canvas bolt bag on the back to carry extra things. Enjoy your videos and hope you can find the time to make more in the future
I don’t know what the cost is per m2 for stud and plasterboard. If you provide that I can help. However I’m going to build my own house and it is cheaper and quicker for me to do concrete walls…
