How to Build a Storage Shed Slab Foundation 

I got to say personally that thing looks like more work than a wheelbarrow.

seeing these experts at work has convinced me to leave this to the pros lol

Thank you Dave to you and all your crew!!! I would like to try my hands at building my own personal storage shed ( potentially a 5 x 10 size); this video will help guide me to achieving my goal of building my own storage shed….please continue to do more of these types of videos Dave.

Thanks for making the effort to help someone seeking work. I've been hooked on your channel since I found it a week ago. There's allot of concrete videos, but your channel is different and that's because of you Sir. You're a problem solver, a man with vision, you're an artist and you are a great ambassador for the concrete industry. I really like how you take the big problems head-on and don't settle until your vision is accomplished. Great channel - God bless you Sir!

Love that you're always trying / using innovative, labour-saving tools and methods. Smart.

everything is perfect in this vid ... great results great editing and the sound is tight. Always educational too. Stellar vid guys

Nice work Odell and crew! Cool wheel barrow. When I’ve been part of concrete testing, I checked slump indirectly with a Kelly Ball and have seen others measure slump more directly with a cone but you Sir made the shortest work of that I’ve ever seen with just an eye ball.

Always happy to see hard-working tradesmen employed building the USA.

I love to watch his works. Good job. Very educational

I had to build a cement pad for my dog’s 8’ x 30’ ft kennel run. That was a lot of work for one guy, and the cost could have been hard to handle at that time in my life. SO, I used pop cans I had save up as fillers. I’d lay a few rows of cans with 2-3 inches of space in between, then cement between. Then finished off with a couple inches over the whole top. No cans showed (except for the little 8 inch square to prove I used the cans. That was 25-30 years ago, still good as new. I did fill one 4’ x 8’ section with gravel for poop n pee. A great little condo inside, and my spoiled doggers were in heaven (and safe).

Yeah! People Ready! Ive worked through them off and on for about 4 years👍...Good Job Odell keep up the awesome work🤙

Thanks for mentioning People Ready. As a small contractor business is good to know. When paying top buck to finishers you should have them tool in the control joints to minimize over night cracks Thanks Felix Zarate The Masonry Company

Great job done there by all. Thanks for sharing.

I wouldn’t mind learning from a pro like you

Nice job and I’m glad to see that you take pride in your work!

And to add icing on the cake, if you add a couple of ducts, (prior to concrete, )coming up vertical from outside to inside the base, you can thread up electric etc inside the shed without external wire showing ! Nice job.

Another fine job. It's fun watching you guys work, doesn't hurt my back in the least!...lol

This is EXACTLY what I am trying to have done in my yard for a tool shed kit. Been looking for over a year, and haven't found a single contractor who ever came out to see and give a quote, that ever called me back. Seeing, this, I believe I could do it myself. Thanks David!!

Nice job as always!!

Pros make everything look so easy 😌

I was a little disappointed not hearing you say 50% horsehair/50% nylon but then you totally redeemed yourself at the end 13:50 with, "Look at that wood grain finish, that's a masterpiece." Haha, you are the best, love you David :)

Another great video David! Thank you

That's a nice 'toy' saves a lot of back breaking work !, it even has a backup alarm !!!

Excelente trabajo 💯 👌🏻👌🏻👊👊

I didn't know how I love watching concrete videos until I saw this.

As usual, great job! 😎👍👍

vary nice well done Mr. odell

Wow nice finished product. 👌💪

Hi! George here, plaster master. I hope to learn enough and gain enough anti-procrastination juice to actually pour this. Lol nice! I definitely need a slab for tools I allow to be taken advantage of by the sun. Good job guys and thank you again

I’m literally addicted to your content !!! Quick question at my dad place it has a courtyard which drop over 10 cm in 15 years do you find there is something to worry about !!

watching these videos is so freakn cool

Thank you so much for the video !!

Hello from Europe, Romania. I love your videos, very instructive. Thank you

Very educational video, you can actually learn a lot.

thats what a toolmaker likes to see let the machine do all the work.

Hermosa loza, felicitaciones.

Great video! Thanks!❤❤❤

Thats a badass power buggy!

Hi, I really enjoy your videos and the work you and your guys do.

Great work!!

Appreciate the videos. Helpful. Please let us know when you do some pergola foundations /piers and slabs. I see more pergolas getting built for grilling and solar car ports.

Nice Job Chief .

Great lesson on how to

With fine wood grain finish concrete, all you need now is some rich Corinthian leather furniture on the pad and your customer will experience the affordable luxury of the Chrysler Cordoba.

Excellent ! 😀

Very thorough!

Magnífico ,parece mármol buen trabajo❤❤❤💪💪💪💪

I love this lol So smooth

Glad to see you invest in equipment that saves your back and your guys. Knowing how my peeps are, that would be a “no mames” on your buggie. Work smarter and work longer. Good job, love watching your channel, it takes me back to my short concrete career. Keep it up.

Nice to see a you using a vapor barrier, best and cheapest way to do it, it is so much more expensive if you have problems later.

Beautiful

Phenomenal grading

It's good to see you found some people to help that are doing the job no Americans want to do

Very good videos. Thanks

as always nice job.

David Odell. Nice to see another video

Must be doing good buying machines like those. My guys love old school wheelbarrows 😅😊

Good Job!

That is a top job. You could play pool on that surface👍

Смотрю и поражаюсь!

When u tie the reo tie diagonal and only tie every 2nd row , It’s very quick , try it that is how large slabs are tied,nice job.

Great video, super educational, as always! Just curious, why didn't you compact the soil? Or vibrate the concrete?

Great job! How far did you stay away from the existing wall?Where do you get the fiber mesh from? Is that a regular circular skill saw w/ a Diamond Blade on a special cart?

Looks great as always. You can also roller skate or skateboard on that new slab. :)

I want, what you're smoking dude, super chill 😁

Nice finish job! Have you tried covering slabs with visqueen plastic to slow curing instead of watering it down ?

I saw my house in that video! I thought it was you guys doing that job, mostly because I thought I saw your blue shirt. I meant to stop by and have you come by my house to check out the pavers, seating area, stucco and firepit that I learned mostly from your videos. I just never saw you guys there when I was coming and going. Maybe next time!

😍That concrete is better than the concrete floors in my house..........

Good job! I hope the city he lives in allows to build that close to property line. We’re I live it’s a 7 FT set back.

hmm nice and simple

Looking good! Would like to have you and crew in my backyard for a week or two.

Hi David, good to see you back as I have not seen one of your videos for sometime, hope all your family and workers are doing well in this crazy world, one question; what's with the beard? take acre and keep safe.

Tomahank machine is nice.👍👍👍

Very nice work and video, sir. What was the thickness of the new concrete you poured for the driveway extension? I need to do the same as the 30” wide section. My current driveway is 3.5” thick but I was told I should make the extension part 6” deep. Is that correct?

Such a nice looking slab! You guys did a great job! It's too bad it has all those water stains on the surface...Is there any way of removing those?

Vakmensen, mooi gedaan

Sweet 👍

Nice video! Some questions from the uninitiated: What does the fibre you added do to the concrete? The big cut you made, what's the purpose of that...expansion? Edit: That is one sweeeeeeet powered wheelbarrow!

I own those wheel barrows too, they're balanced on the front wheels, just pick up a little and turn with the front wheels. No need to push down so hard

This property owner is clearly a big shed fan.

Hello, that looks impressive, new yo this and I am just learning. Can I ask how did you stop the concrete/mix escaping or seeping out from the bottom of the shuttering, thanks for the advice

Thank you

4:42 - "I lost my Johnson" lmao... That cracked me up!

Damn Odell I used to work for people ready you can find good workers on there

Have you ever tried using high tensile steel reinforcement mixed in with the concrete it’s normally about 1 mm diameter with the ends folded like the head of a pin on the pieces of metal are approximately 1 1/4 1 1/2 inches long

Thinking of doing something similar; why didn't you use gravel and compact everything?

Loved the little dumped truck. Great job as always.

The work is insanely gorgeous. How much does a job like that go for per square foot?

"I lost my Johnson", is this some kind of true confessions episode? I love your videos and this wording just jumped out at me and made me laugh out loud.

Great work 💪🏾, thanks

Great how to video,I have a question,how wide do you cut the edges around the ground where you went a lil deeper before you form and pour??

Thank you, and you are right about "masterpiece", mine looking at the side has holes where the guys did not push out air bubbles. Question if I may, do you not need some kind of vertical studs to set the framing 2X's--or do you install that later? Thanks.

Does the fiber mesh show on finished dried concrete?

So the plastic sheeting is always necessary? When can it be skipped and replaced by compacted crushed rock?

I enjoy watching your videos, it's very therapeutic for me. LOL. I do have a question, if I'm building a 8x10ft shed, do you recommend I get the concrete pad the same size as well 8x10ft? Thanks in advance.

Id like more cuts into it myself as if it moves it will crack on a groove not a fine line across in any direction!

Wow, that is a hell of a shed pad!!! Going to last longer theb the shed... Footing, plastic vapor barrier, pink bar gridded... Most shed pads are just throw 2x4 on the ground and pour, no rebar or footing. Lol

Make a video of the couple of dips and trials a tribulations of getting something like this done!

How lokg was it before you could stand on it to float it smooth?

I’ve worked for labor ready now (people ready) here in California funny you hear about it in video haha