This isn’t disaster at all. I was pouring 1300sf patio along the house last Saturday. Thought to save time and ordered ready mix concrete. 2 trucks of it.. 13 yards 😀 there were 2 of us I have a bull float but it dried before we could screed it well 😂 I’ll be top coating it in few weeks once it fully cures and then stamping it 🤓
Thank you for posting 📫 all of this ❤️. Your mistakes will help a lot of us. 😢 I, for one, greatly appreciate it. Also, for your 1st try and not knowing much, it didn't come out as bad as you stated. Again, thank you!
What I'm most impressed by your video and you is your humble spirit as evidenced by your willingness to share your mistakes and lessons learned with your audience. Impressive! You've inspired me to do it also. Thank you for sharing your experience. I know a lot of folks who could learn a thing or two from your humility.
I appreciate it Perez! When you jack up a project as bad as I did here, you have to be humble lol But I learned a ton and felt as though others could learn from some of my mistakes. Thanks for watching and for the kind words!
This is great, thanks for sharing! I found it really helpful to see your suggestions during the video on what you should’ve done (like drilling deeper rebar holes etc). It takes a much bigger man to share something they’re not happy with and be open themselves criticism than sharing something that’s perfect. Thanks again!!
Do not worry! It is perfect in the future you can install black or gray porcelain for patio’s floor!! 👍 … you and your brother did a great job 👏🏼!! !! Y’all are the men that this blessing country needs!!! God continue giving y’all wisdom!!
I appreciate your courage in sharing your video. I am considering fixing an ugly concrete slab and want to do it when my husband is away so I can surprise him. I really want to attempt to try it on my own and get creative with the stamping plus save money but still not so sure if I'm deluding myself in believing I can tackle the job alone. Watching a ton of diy videos with the hopes of getting some good advice. So great that you were so humble about your mistakes. You did a fine job by the way, would've preferred your work over the person who put in the ugly one we have in our yard.
I appreciate it! And yea, it was definitely a brutal project if I'm being honest. Tough on the back and knees. But it was a good learning process. I hope your project turned out great. Thanks for watching!
Andrew! Once again, your timing is spot on. I installed slate tiles on a front courtyard, and it is WAY more a disaster than what you did. Over the years the tiles have split like a buttery croissant and now half of it is in shards. Thanks to a painter who rolled over them with a cherry picker to paint the house. UGH! I was thinking of pouring leveler over it but I may have to rethink to fix. Thank you, again.
I'm extending and leveling my shed base by a metre either side and by 2" to 3" deep, a very similar project to this video... tks for putting the video up.
Great effort. Thanks for sharing. You might have wanted to use a Big Diamond Concrete Tamper to push the rocks in the concrete down a bit. That way you have more of the actual cement to more easily smooth out, and it may not have been so dry. Good luck on your next project. Also, I couldn't tell f you watered down the dirt before you poured the concrete. If the soil is dry, it sucks all of the water from the concrete, which makes it harder to work.
Great video. I am in the middle of my own 1st time full home renovation and I have been learning just like on the fly. I am planning on extending my shed slab by 4’ and this will be very helpful when I eventually tackle they later this summer or next spring. Thanks for the detailed video AND all the does and more importantly the don’ts. Those are equality as helpful!!
If it was a disaster, then I take it anytime and pay for it so same disaster would be on my yard. I think it looks great. I am huge fan of what you do. You inspired me to go to take woodworking classes. Thank you for sharing your ideas. Keep doing what you do. I and my husband like your videos very much. God’s speed to you.
I appreciate the continued support, Yulia! And I am really glad to hear that you are finding value! Hope the woodworking classes are going great!! Take Care! - Andrew
We have been doing concrete in small sections. Maybe you should have poured it in fours and had it a tad more soupy! Thanks for sharing. It’s much more affordable and rewarding to do these projects as a homeowner! But it is absolutely hard work!
That’s a good point Jennifer, appreciate you sharing! My hope is that can get a bunch of suggestions in the comments so people can learn and benefit from my many mistakes! Thanks for watching and the continued support!
I was wondering if the new concrete to existing slab joint cracked after a while or if the rebar worked. Thanks for sharing your project and lessons learned!
Thanks for the video. Regarding using the rebar to join the existing slab to the new concrete: Would an expansion joint be better? Is the rebar joining two concrete slabs better if the two slabs are both new concrete, not one old and one new?
He should have got ready mix and/or hired some goon with experience. Like he said, even a bull float would have been huge. Bag mix bleeds so much you should need a fan not con film etc.
That's a bitch of a project and you did pretty well, that's a hell of an improvement from what you started with. If patios aren't your profession, I think you can still be pretty proud of that result.
I have an ugly faux-inlaid stone tile front stoop that I want to both cover and enlarge with stamped, stained concrete. I found your video really encouraging. Knowing what you know now, would you do such a project again? Like you (prior to this), i’ve never worked with concrete…
I appreciate you sharing this. I want to extend my drive pad to install a shed. However in order to make it level I would need to come over the pad with about 2" of new concrete. The use of Weldcrete, and drilling in some rebar looks like a good way to handle it. So I'm curious how it held up for you since you posted this video.
Thank you for sharing People can still learn through others mistakes, so it's not a total loss and you were humble enough to share - so I'll say Thanks again! Would you be able to fix the surface using a concrete grinder (smoother) perhaps?
Similar to what we did to extend driveway but started with the steel mesh to undergird after digging up the dirt. Didn’t pour in gravel but had professional psi cement poured in. Yours is an interesting twist to the extension. Did use a liquid bond.
@@AndrewThronImprovements oh there are different ways to do it. What you don’t want is the gravel sinking into the dirt(heavy duty lawn paper under gravel). I had that problem on another project. I think the steel mesh wire helps with that. Kind we used: www.lowes.com/pd/Steel-Remesh-Common-3-5-ft-x-7-ft-Actual-3-4166-ft-x-6-93-ft/1001121408
The biggest lessons I’ve learned when doing diy is never skimp out on tools. Spend that extra 48 bucks for a concrete mixer. Your back, arms and mind will thank you for the rest of the month.
great video, thanks for being honest, definitely learning, I'm debating if I should attempt to do a slab myself or hire a pro. would you do it again yourself?
Seems like nobody doing concrete videos ever mentions their climate and soil conditions. Pouring concrete slabs,patios etc in Florida vs Arizona vs Alaska vs New Hampshire have different requirements. It seems like no one ever mentions their frost line in the winter. I'm always saying to myself it will look like an earthquake hit it next spring and I'll cry.
Looks like you needed more water brother. the mix was too dry.. Good job still tho. there are some ways youy can still level that and remove some texture and make it look better.
@@AndrewThronImprovements That'll work as long as the concrete underneath is poured to consistency and there are no air pockets, which is pretty tough with handmixing a lot of bags like you did. Considering your mix looked pretty dry and you didn't have a big float it doesn't look that bad.
All you had to do was brush it lol im building a walk way through my back yard and my first slab which is also the first one I ever poured looks like that my second I broomed up and down the finish came out better on the third I broomed it in a plus ➕ pattern and it looks like a slab from the side walk in front of my house
If you're talking about the existing slab before I poured the new slab, then I agree - it doesn't really matter. I just think it is best practice to rip out the previous slab (if it is in bad shape) and start from scratch when pouring a new slab. Thanks for watching!
Be sure to look into the camera when you're doing your green screen commentary stuff instead of looking at the monitor, otherwise we risk seeming like a self-satisfied diva 🤷♂very nice video tho!
