Giant Concrete Slab Pour

We are building a workshop! This week we form up and build a concrete slab.

[@abigailg8249]

I’m 19, a college student. Will probably never build a house or anything... And yet I’ve been watching you guys for well over a year!

[@TerraFirmaX]

never say never. At 54 I've just started to build mine

[@rayrizzo4685]

Aren't any expansion joints needed

[@gig777]

I cut my teeth in construction placing and finishing concrete. I know how much work that is. Nice job on the prep work too. It pays to take your time and pay attention to the details when doing the prep. Great video!

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Great job on the slab Jacob & Ana! Thanks for sharing the video with us. 👍👌😎JP

[@KatieReadsKoziesAndMore]

Thanks for explaining the process. Excellent result.

[@GrayHouseStudio]

We're excited to follow along with your workshop build! We are hoping to build our own workshop in the future.

[@fynbo1007]

Looking amazing, thank you for sharing your story. God bless you and your family

[@johnm2482]

Really liked your commentary during this video. Well done and easy to understand... Thank you...

[@suenorton873]

Wow! That's going to be one big shop. Cant wait to watch it go up.

[@maryblaylock6545]

Weather being what it is, you need a place where your projects don't get wreaked. With a big workshop you can also do bigger projects. You have needed this for a long time. It will probably feel strange to put your cars in the garage!

[@raymondkarkoff1257]

As soon as I seen you cutting wire mesh with pliers I knew you guys didn't know what you were doing

[@DonB.-Mulefivefive]

Work with what you have and be happy about it.

[@augustreil]

Great video, concrete is one tough sport.

[@marnilaughman6615]

Like the voice over with the time lapse. Easy to follow!

[@apr2110]

What a great space! Will you all have garage doors at the front and a higher up back entrance so you don't have to walk all the way around when you come from the house?

[@keithbilz7738]

Allot of Work on pouring this slab, no need for2"x4" and steaks just set grade pin with double head 16 for grade. LOL

[@redwoodsorel5173]

Overwhelming job done at high speed; You two are in great shape. Check out Anna swinging that sledge hammer...!

[@truenorthliving9557]

Dream shop ... you’ve worked hard for it and deserve every square foot.

[@StefanoBrogo]

I am impressed but I have a question.. why didn't you cut expansion joints? Confused 🤔

[@mmanut]

Hard Work, Solid Job‼️👍👍 Vinny 🇺🇸

[@davem3789]

Just a suggestion for people looking to do a slab. Try form a key or some call screed key for a screed board you don’t have to remove. Check some Mike Hadduck videos and concrete it in prior to pouring.

[@cmiller6352]

Wow. I’ve never seen anyone insert j-bolts into the bottom plate and lay the entire thing on the top of the wet stem wall. No more pounding the plate into the top of the bolts. Amazing.

[@nancysnider5348]

This had great results. Concrete is truly a project that shows every single step is important.

[@acappellahymns]

If you have a moment, can you explain how you pulled out the screed boards (with stakes attached)? Thanks for the video!

[@woozy607]

Steaks are screwed to board and if u get towards the end unscrew some steaks and start lifting up on board the rest of the steaks and boards should come out all at once, it’s a weird way to do things I don’t do it that way, I put rebar at the height of the top of the concrete and I spray them bright orange, so nobody steps on them, I have the concrete pour around those spots smack the rebar down, just float to where the top of the rebar used to be that’s called my float pads and I screed off those areas

[@goldensmamma]

I don't even know how to build a thing but have been following along with y'all since you started the house. I love watching it all come together. Great job !

[@AnaWhiteDIY]

Thank you!!

[@lisam1809]

Concrete is one tough job for anyman that knows what there doing. If you don't know about concrete you are in no position to be in that field. My husband has been doing it for over 30+ years. Were a construction type of family here.

[@garynagle3093]

That sure does look like a lot of work. Glad you have a good crew.

[@LanceSheppard]

Thats gonna be an awesome shop!

[@darrindedman2053]

Thank you for the thorough explanation for guys like me that don’t do concrete

[@susiestokely3811]

Mad skills + Great design + Power tools + Talented team = Amazing job!

[@MrRICHARDGOMEZ]

Thanks for sharing. It helped me a lot.

[@AnaWhiteDIY]

Sweet!

[@hollyslaughter5505]

Wow what a job . . . . great narration

[@vigerminaberrios4116]

Very interesting video. Thanks

[@danny6247]

Great video bud!!! I do mines similar to you guys, Im about to build a shop and wanted to see if anybody has a new trick I can learn. Thanks

[@petergrant9259]

you are the best !

[@Tsiri09]

That is a huge slab!

[@TerraFirmaX]

looks great, the guys running the rakes are working pretty darn hard too.

[@stilcrazychris]

I love watching concrete being poured & worked. I hate doing it bc it's hard work. It's nice when it's all done & it comes out looking great. Like someone spit polishing your boots. My favor thing to do, when Dad let me do it, as a kid was writing my name in the almost set up on the concrete. Do you let your kids put there names & date it was poured into the finished corners? Chris from Missouri

[@ecodesignccinc]

Have you guys ever tried pulling the screws boards out before you pour the next section ? Might save ya some time and effort

[@garyolsen3409]

I've never seen anyone pour concrete that way. Leave in the 2 x 4's and go back and remove them?

[@dnngskn62]

Now that will be a great work space. Congrats.

[@alaniz1992]

Looks so good! Was so satisfying to watch!

[@lindak8664]

Power trowel hey. I suspected they had a proper name, here in Australia i’ve only ever heard the concreters call them a helicopter. Thats a fabulous big workshop, with all the stuff you guys do, i bet you’ll have it full up in no time. Do you still do the tiny houses?

[@AnaWhiteDIY]

A shop is never big enough right? We haven’t done tiny houses in a few years... ever since any came along!

[@lenellamaxwell6934]

Nice job! I know you are excited to get to working on your workshop. It has been a long time coming. :-) Blessings to your family!

[@AnaWhiteDIY]

Thank you! We are all excited about having some work space someday!

[@PoeFood]

What a project, congratulations my man!! It came out beautifully.

[@AnaWhiteDIY]

Thanks a bunch!

[@heroknaderi]

Good job 👍 I enjoyed it I’m building one too 😎😉👍 20x24

[@ryanchaffee7243]

My Grandpa and uncle when they were building and pouring concrete pads they used a pipe on grade staes with two nails to keep the pipe from rolling off. Then just slid the pipe down as they went and drove the stakes down or pulled them. Then filled the depression in with more mud

[@ethanchapman381]

What are you going to do about the space from the 2x4 and the holes from the pins

[@SteveDavisCarGuy]

Nice, how soon after the pour can you use the power trowel?

[@Happybidr]

That was really interesting. You answered a lot of questions I had about the process.

[@davidgenson8935]

The place is gigantic

[@leonelrayo8698]

doesnt this need to have a control joint somewhere?

[@70sstreetracergal61]

Good grief, yall are AMAZING! 👍🏻🤘🏻👍🏻 Now thats what i call....TEAMWORK!!! Very impressed as always!!!! 👍🏻❤️

[@raeperonneau4941]

I am so excited for you!

[@jaws8817]

If you can cut it with pliers it's not heavy enough.

[@tomsdreamshopworx]

Nice and big! No radiant floor heat?

[@melvina628]

Oooh, that sounds nice. Warm floors.

[@fionayaas9113]

Was it raining as you were pouring the concrete?

[@melvina628]

This is how you know you've seen too many webinars. I thought he meant that he was teaching a workshop. LOL.

[@belizeguy]

Very Excited for you all!

[@mjb12141963]

I always wanted a shop like this with floor drains. Too late for that now.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Front discharge trucks save a LOT of work. I've driven fronts and rears and fronts are WAY better.

[@s10_4_life6]

Can anyone help me ?? I'm needing to pour a 20' X 10' Slab ( 4" Thick ), How much Concrete would I need to order ???

[@Cwa030]

About 2.5 yards. I'd order 3 yards just to be same. Good luck on the project.

[@jcrd71]

3 yards

[@cheshstyles]

((10×20)÷3)÷27 =~2.5 yards The other gentlemen are correct; you should order 3 yards.

[@DonB.-Mulefivefive]

Always order up a tad more than what you think, you'll need. Better to have to much than not enough

[@AlexRodriguez-tp1zr]

Hi, don't the footings and slab need to be under the Frost line?

[@margeryk000]

Looking great. Keep up the great work. ATB : )

[@actorzone856]

concrete ninja is the channel you should watch from Australia to see how a slab is constructed from the ground up, I cannot understand that in the US you do have such a low standard when it comes to concreting slabs.

[@cheshstyles]

These guys are amatuers bud

[@raymondkarkoff1257]

This doesn't represent how we do it in the US these guys are amateurs and didn't know what they were doing this video should no way be a tutorial on how to work is done

[@chrisbrann7733]

Ya agreed with both of them, these guys have no idea what they are doing from start to finish, they we’re bull floating bleed water, so the floor will peel in less than two years,their useless mesh is at the bottom of the pour, the guy using the jitterbug just put a bunch of valleys in the floor, and that’s why the power trowel was bouncing all over the floor, not to mention his blades were too high, and he was running too fast for that stage of finishing, and the 2x4 screed rails were unnecessary, they either should’ve used grade stakes and wet pads, then pull the stakes after they made the wet pads, or used chairs and screed pipe and pulled them as they went, but then you have to fill the hole the pipe left, but a do it yourselfer that wanted to save money could do it like that, it would just peel, be wavy and over finished. I guess after troweling for 35 years I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if I were involved with that, but hey they got the ambition to do it, so hats off to them, gotta learn somehow.

[@skitzochik]

Do you cut crack joints into your slab? Or broom it?

[@unclemilton815]

How thick is the wire (reinforcement) for the concrete slab?

[@willclark5691]

How many meters qube was this

[@dillonmoreland2357]

Dude.....buy a laser for flat pours.....could saved u a lot of forming

[@akbmunsell]

No under slab insulation?

[@colinblankenship2401]

nice beginning.

[@cherylhenson2720]

Absolutely fabulous!

[@av1204]

how many sq feet is that slab?

[@debdottir]

Looks good.

[@chrissteffey5114]

A wood trench drain?

[@mattmoschkau2831]

Dream shop for a dream house..

[@jimcooney9019]

thanks for sharing the video

[@jmonge1]

no expansion joints

[@lollandz]

Not vibrate concrete? How large are the stones in the concrete?

[@chrisbrann7733]

ACI says you don’t have to vibrate unreinforced slabs under 8” thick

[@aidanbermingham7793]

Coulda done that floor a lot easier an with less people, don’t see the point in using a 4x2 as a screed 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@DonB.-Mulefivefive]

Really? Less people you say?.....and just how long do you THINK you have before that mud goes to hell on you? Pull your head out and do the math. 2 x 4 works fine. Damn glad you don't work with me on any of this. I'd shove you in to it.

[@mikekleven8130]

Never heard of a "wet" screed? 😜😉😉 lol

[@carpetwizard8311]

Thanks bud

[@AnaWhiteDIY]

No problem 👍

[@justinburns7073]

you do know what a screed board is right? You kept calling you forms screed boards lol

[@erik4205420]

ive never seen anyone pour a floor like that . ive poured tens of thousands or yards and never needed a "screed board". so much extra work removing them then tamping out the whole floor for no reason. thats what a bullfloat is for.

[@gregstcyr]

Where are your saw cuts? Gonna crack all over the place.

[@williamroberts5898]

Pros!!

[@kaycox5555]

Awesome

[@AA-mx9os]

Diy mailbox? :)

[@duffman1241]

I’ve done concrete for 10 + years and never seen screed boards like that seems like a waste of time

[@gregorhay123]

4

[@Fiberglasser03]

1:48 screws on the wrong side. Did you slope the floor at all to go towards the drain?

[@firemanj35]

The trowling machine flattens, and seals holes but you should still wipe the slab out so it looks nice.

[@Beecozz7]

WOW!!!

[@RawiriG69]

I mean look at your machine trowel bouncing around in such a small area dam thats not evn flat yo, go to australia let them show you how its done

[@peterfitzwell1689]

He dont need to go to Australia to learn how to do concrete!! Just stay in the state's and learn from a real concrete finisher!!!I personally watched him making several ROOKIE moves not quite sure what he was doing? I guess if he's happy with the floor. He probably wanted to save money .

[@bubba9482]

All I can say is WOW! You should leave concrete to the professionals, it is the least DYI friendly thing a person can do. It’s heavy, expensive, permanent and it has a very short self life. 30 years in the business.

[@nickwebster8427]

So much extra work leaving in that 2x4. Why not pull it and pull a wet screed

[@RawiriG69]

Man you guys do shit the hardway 🤭🤭🤫

[@alejandrocontrerasacuna2580]

You dont need no god damn straight edge bords you need someone to teach you what your doing thats what you need i have straight edge ugue concrete slabs for a company and we have never use screed board to level out concrete not even wit concrete contractors

[@johnwaters5216]

Butchers usually cut slabs

[@nclotteryscratcher5868]

Called the wire rebar & called forms screed boards

[@danhumble2763]

I hope your not a concrete contractor. Very sad video to watch as a professional. Home owners beware.

[@anthonyahola7278]

Killin the top with all that bleed water.