BRICKLAYING.. "HOW TO" DO A 100 MM CONCRETE SLAB..EXTENSION PART 3 

Enjoyed seeing the process, thanks for the video! ....13

good job , great to see it all in progress, kinda mesmerising..

Rustic and original, brilliant keep it up, love the sounds

Good work , Steve and Alex

Always nice to watch :)

Great job again

Great job lads really enjoyed watching it. A proper way to put foundation. 👍

Another great video, you both work so well together and really neat and tidy and I noticed that you look after your tools , great work ☺👍👍

Well done , good to see the different ways of working in different countries .. very interesting ✌🏻🇧🇪👌🏻

Brilliant work lads, just recently subscribed, great videos

good work fellas!!!

Tidy job...bet you were fighting the seagulls off landing on the wet concrete :)...love your video..

Love these vids im a carpenter i done some block work the other day it should be on crime watch lol

Like a sheet of glass that slab!!! Well done men👍🏻

Recently subscribed to your channel and learning loads from it …thanks for sharing your skills! I’m planning on building an 8x4 m single storey extension and would like To do a lot of it myself ... job for next year I reckon 🙂

Nice job lads, hope your doing well 👍

Just a tip next time lap the dpm over the brickwork, stops concrete from splashing on the brickwork, can be trimmed flush when finished

Once*, two brickies were offsite on business when a late readimix lorry came to a house shell waiting for a floor. After negotiating with a strong, and happy-but-thick labourer, the devious lorry driver fired the whole lot down the narrow hallway, using the words "i'll give it a good wetting, it'll run full well, like a river, don't you worry...see you next time." Five long minutes later, Mick and me were amused by the sight of Darren paddling furiously with his shovel, still waiting for the stuff to turn into a river! We jumped in and helped him but we lost a lot of Friday evening waiting for a trowel-able surface to appear...I mean - you want some fines to rise up, just not most of them! *once - happening only one time........... Never, ever again! ;-D

Great job again boys.....we put Dpm down just before concrete so it doesn't fill up night before if it rains.....I'm guessing that's what happened looking at all the water on top mate. To be honest though probs did you favour made it nice and wet which is easier to tamp off 👍 look forward to rest of the build the brickwork was looking top notch.

Still looks good second time round. What was the music Steve it was lovely and relaxing while you two were slaving away ?

I’m amazed at how wet your concrete mix is and so much water rising to the surface. Does that help it level?

That's a nice old wheelbarrow

Loving these vids. How do you builders find out where service lines are before you dig, like plumbing, electrical, etc?

Drainage pipe under the slab..did it lay down on pea shingle or such? Moaned at in inspection here cos bed wasn't deep enough by 2cm..

Good job gents but why no barb?.... do you only have to use if its certain Sqm?

It's really interesting that your concrete slab is on top of a thick layer of styrofoam. Intuitively, it seems like it would need some kind of rebar to prevent it cracking. (Just a guy who knows nothing about concrete, lol.)

Excellent job Steve and Alex , really enjoyed the video , only thing ask you is my builder advised me to put insulation strips on the insides of the walls level with the brick course and floor and then put the rest in like normal like u did , is there any method in the madness ?👍

On small jobs, I would cast the slab before building off DPC, makes it a lot easier, but I guess you needed to get on with it while waiting for the delivery of concrete? Nice tidy job though lads👍🏻

Nice job lads, did you clean brickwork after that barrow load of very wet concrete spilled down the face,knowing you two you probably did your very tidy.

You did nt have your green shorts on, thought it was an impostor for a minute.

When you wish you hadn’t put the polythene in the night before ! , looks like a good flat slab tho 👍🏻

Prior to laying the first DPM and insulation boards, did the hardcore and sand have to perfectly flat? Or can it be slightly uneven

Great insight of how's it's done properly. Looked very professional. One thing I spotted you could improve on... where knee pads. Keep the videos coming great job guys.

Someone seems to be doing most of the work😎 Rather than getting a spark to remove that socket, can you incorporate it in the cavity? I'm a spark, giza job.

How did you know how deep you needed to dig? And what consistency is the concrete base? What materials

Aren’t you supposed to have insulation upstands around the perimeter to prevent cold bridging?

What was going on with that concrete mix Steve?

Concrete to wet.

Clean brickwork but concrete was way to wet soup comes to mind

The top layer of that concrete will spall due to the excess water! The customer should have refused payment for the expense they will have to do it right the second time.

Think I might have got some of the water out before putting the concrete in...!!

I prefer to work the concrete from one end to the other, whether it's front to back or side to side, rather than throw it all in and starting pushing it around with a rake. A lot easier to level and much cleaner job. No mesh reinforcing? Also let's hope there's no screed going on that slab, it won't key to that troweled finish.

What was the slump on that concrete? Anybody can make water look shiny.

Good job but some nasty wet concrete 😄

That’s the worst concrete mix I have ever seen to much water.

Shocking

That concrete is way to wet

Wetter than Debbie who did Dallas

Your forgot to put 25mm insulation around the perimeter to prevent bridging.

I'm sorry, any self respecting builder would definitely lay the slab first, regardless. Stick to bricking Steve!