How to Pour a Concrete Driveway with Brick Bands Part 2 

Dave, I have to give you a big thank you for always lifting me up with your videos. I put 12 hour shifts in a chemical plant everyday in Houston and I watch your videos right after dinner when I’m relaxing. Your videos have become a form of therapy for me, God bless and I wish you much success.

Best concrete channel on RU-vid 👍

Viewer: You guys make it look so easy. Quality work. Odell Complete C. Crew : Tell that to my back and knees .

These videos are awesome, it never gets old watching concrete smooth out and dry.

Superb work - expect that the brick effect is going to look stunning. Looking forward to next vid.

Awesome job Dave, you guys do great work 💪

Love watching the skill and knowledge in action from all your crew 👍👍👍

Another beautiful job Dave. 👍👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Lucky Californians.

Looking superb Dave

Appreciate all your hard work and all the info you include in your videos. Best on RU-vid🤙🏻

Really nice work. Can't wait for Part 3.

All I use is green nylon now. Really love it in the winter time. You can brush sooner and it won’t over rough the finish. You can really brush a lot of area without having to clean the brush. I really like that about the greeny

Beautiful job Odell and Sons!

Anyone else watching Odell concrete videos to relax after work? Love the work guys.

As a thank you for putting up good videos, I want you to know I just suffered through an ad about a bear getting his bum cleaned with the use of a bidet. I took one for the team. It was worth it!

Great job....love the work yall do....nice and clean with straight lines....i lived in NC and wish i could get yall to do my driveways....

absolutely wonderful!!! great job guys

Great job!!

Looks amazing

Nice job guys, as always!!!

Great work crew!

Looks fabulous...well done

Love your channel, learning a lot

Lov3 the time lapse , lot of work,. I did one like that 30 years ago with one lane and every 10 had red pavers setting on footing, smash fit with little mortar, still looks. Good to this day,,we did with 3 people,,,.

Excellent job Timothy! Dave, you must be a proud dad with two sons that are following in your foot steps!

You already do a awesome job you and your crew💪💪👑👑

Love your work brother. Love from Australia

Nice job👍

Really professional job, thanks

Dave is at it again 👍

Yeah looking good, nice job. 👍

Quality work 👍

I've always wanted to learn concrete work. You guys are masters or your art.

Thanks for sharing, very nice video

We use expansion next to hard edges and self leveling limestone colored caulking materials , especially down by city sidewalk, expansion is so important,... another thing I do when time permits , cut my joints with plates, when I can’t I cut them the next day with a saw in the tooled joint,,,you have a good team , enjoy them while they are with you,..we also put expansion up at garage face,..

Great work! Sometime could u do video where u visit your previous work several years later to see how well it holds up?

SALUDOS ODELL NICE JOB WELL DONE ,ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO. G.B.Y.G..

I just came across your video u do amazing work

Nice Job💪👍🤠

this is really great greetings from germany, stay healthy and be safe

That dude is a master on that bullfloat!

Mr.Odell there is this saying thrown around the construction industry. "You're only as good as your finishers" I call BS on that. No matter the trade. Painting,Drywall,Carpentry etc etc. If the work done prior is substandard no amount of finishing is going to correct it. It might fool a novice. But a pro will see it a mile away. The finishers you use are top notch no doubt. Very experienced in doing it correctly. I don't think most of the folks realize that. This was not an easy job. Thanks for bringing us along.

I was waithing for this 9:13 , the world famous broom 😊👍👍😎

Awesome

flawless

Dave you sound a bit disappointed when they whip out the green nylon broom😂 . That 50% horse hair 50% nylon broom is truly your favorite

9:13 The "world famous" 50/50 brush. I got a kick out of that one. 😄

Very nice 👍

Would did be possible to run rebar over the whole area and still make it monolithic and instead of brick do a colored concrete by digging down say 6” below the inlays and do a 3” in that area and later pouring a 3” lift of colored concrete? Love your videos

I'm ready for part 3 lol

Buddy I tell you, I don’t know how it Is in your area, but I’m a finisher here in Kentucky, and there’s maybe 1 in 50 crews that could have done a job like that here. You have a great set of guys bud. Job looks flawless. Awesome work man

Hi, great video again. Just wondering, would it not have been easier lay the brick inserts first? When set they could be then used to screed off?

Your right about the cost of wood...I'm considering selling my house for scrap :)

This is a real deal

Where do you get the bow floats and funny trowels? I do a lot of self leveling for epoxy it looks handy

Hi David, great work as always Curious why the screeding came out so rough? Thus requiring several passes with the bull float. Is the goal to just screed as fast as possible and not worry about smoothing it? In New Zealand we usually have a single person on a 3.0m wide aluminium screed and the concrete comes out pretty smooth before a bullfloat even touches it. Maybe we are wasting too much time on the screeding

Great work! Do you service Downey? Looking for block wall to be installed. Thank you.

Best in the west

Hello Dave great videos question this is one of my pep peeves but if I saw what you were watching vice versa looking at Tim’s job is the the guy with the baby blue shirt is stepping on the rebar And I mean hey he’s really stepping on the rebar on purpose… Please let me know what you think

What concrete do you order for such finer aggregate... I did a DIY attempt and was shocked by how large the aggregates were... Not as loose, very hard to screed... Ended up hardening before we could use the bull float which left a lot of rough surface... Planning on renting a grinder and grinder the surface then render with sand/topping mix. Thanks

Looking good boy’s…….

I’m not sure what OCC does better; concrete or videos 🔥🔥

Hi Dave, I have a similar project in which we'll be pouring a large driveway in 2 separate sections. Half one day and half another. Since we have already laid #3 rebar all across, and in order to be able to lift the rebar, do I have to notch every 2x4 o simply cut them to be 3x3 instead? What would you recommend? We're shooting for 4" thick slabs. Thanks Ahead!!!

👌👌👌 in those gap bricks will be set??

How much for something like this Dave? Roughly

Where does the concrete crack with this method? I have a project coming up and I’m debating whether to leave gaps in concrete for pebbles because of the weeds.

beautiful work. why no fiberglass rebar???????????

yo Dave how much Portland do you ad d to an 80lb bag of premix to beef it up?

5th 👍 Just in time for lunch 👍

Alright, who got a new truck? lol

The low areas on the slab are caused by rotating the screed board; the screed leaves a "divite" when it's not held parallel to the concrete surface.

Monolithic pour or not, I want to see you guys get those forms out without busting up the brick’s concrete base.

Nice work. The bricks make it look nice but give more chance for weeds to grow when cracks form.

Why not use concrete wire dobies for the rebar? Save money, time?

do you need a contractors license in your area for flat concrete work

Wow

Bought 6x 60 pounders to do my ac pad this w/e, get my D OD on.

My Dad always said 'You pour water, concrete is placed.'

The guy grabbing the rebar with no gloves at the beginning 🤕

Hello

I dont understand why you don't use those standoffs for rebar

Bull Float should have been done after hand floating, that guy going around bull floating was a complete waste of time , knee boards and hand floats first ,then you should have lightly sprayed it , then hit it with the bull Float last , a small 110 volt vibrator would have made it even faster You guys did a great job though, I'm not knocking your style, I think if you guys use the hand floats first , it will help to push down the bigger rocks and let that water rise , then wait a few mins , when that water rises , push that bull Float out to knock the access water off ,then when you draw it back, twist the handle in and you should have a Flawless finish for the broom to handle

Homie with the mask obviously has warrants

I've been doing concrete for 35 years get a new Bull float guy he's leaving a lot of holes

Right from the start, one guy was lifting rebar, only to have the other stomp it right back down ?!? The dude was a bull in a china shop - made no attempt to avoid rebar. I'd be pissed.

Dad's not on the job and the newfangled technology creeps into the work site... A nylon broom!! What?! The kids these days.

What up with the home owner in front of camera 🙈🤣

Reuse that wood, it's damn expensive!

God I bet that boomer stood there the entire time

World famous 50% horse hair 50% nylon broom 🧹😂😂😂

👀🇷🇺👍

I asked my boss if he thought about you sing oil for the wood steaks he said it stains

Great watch, I hope ya man washes his hand after wearing no gloves ouch, " unless his skin his like a rhinos

And hope no animals walk on it

unnecessary too long

Looks like some of these guys need education on cement burns, you only get one set of skin!

Hi, great video again. Just wondering, would it not have been easier lay the brick inserts first? When set they could be then used to screed off?