DIY Sunken Living Room Concrete Pour!

[@ourlifeinwyoming4654]

Time to modernize the 70's shag pad... It used to be the thing to have those sunken rooms - oh the memories. Just glad we didn't have cell phones back then. Great job guys!

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Haha right on. Sounds good thank you

[@CocoLobo_]

Digging the jazz 👍

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Thanks! Glad you like it

[@seephor]

I use steel rebar when I'm drilling into existing concrete. Nice thing about steel is you can easily grind it a tiny bit narrower using a angle grinder before hammering them in. Fiberglass is great for outdoor due to it not rusting.

[@sydneyshinshi]

Good soundtrack. Well shot also.

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Thanks!

[@roberta4989]

Hey Tyler, your on screen presences is really getting good and your narrating is flowing nicely. I enjoy the videos, much props! RE: rebar, as you know the holes have to be drilled parallel with the floor or below parallel. When watching, it looks like the anchor holes are being drilled upwards of parallel forcing the rebar to point up. Sup with that?

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

TY, I try to drill them parallel not upwards not sure why it appeared that way

[@Pallidus_Rider]

Sunken living rooms are not ADA friendly. Another win for Odell 🏁

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

For sure, they keep us busy

[@luckehandyman]

I dig the music, it sounds like Jeff Beck.

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

OSS

[@Kanooky_Jones]

We've done something similar--we took down a raised platform for a dining area which then needed a slab underneath to match with the rest of the slab in our great room. Intention was to lay new wood floor in the total combined space. We are in the Bay Area, we did in Feb, obviously a colder time of year. We waited a month to let that slab dry out to ensure non moisture seeped up. In the winter, indoors, even in a warmer area, you really got to wait to dry. And we did have to have ours ground, big ass diamond tooth grinder and that took a couple days on its own. It's a lot of post concrete work.

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Yes it takes time

[@davidfeldman7001]

Won’t the drywall the concrete is touching absorb moisture from the concrete and decay, breakdown and become moldy?

[@ВалераДобрый-е6з]

Будет

[@kevintotanes8760]

That’s what I was thinking. Or is that plastic enough of a barrier to prevent all that? 🤔

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

The moisture should be gone in a couple of days. plus we had plastic against the drywall

[@kookiethebear]

Try a spade bit on the impact next time you're removing grout and it will peel off like an orange skin. Nice fill-in...nailed it like a Jabberwocky!

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

That's a great tip!

[@riverdog8796]

Use 1/2 bit with 3/8 rebar dowels pack epoxy. Easy Peasy

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Great tip!

[@IntegraDIY]

5:22 slightly larger drill bit

[@Ur_girl_2024]

Oversize and epoxy

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

oversize and epoxy

[@mongosaqqara]

Ream out the holes with roto-hammer...until clean then use air...great work boys!

[@Ur_girl_2024]

Over size and epoxy

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Maybe oversize and epoxy

[@chichitex1252]

I remember when these sunken living rooms were in style. I have to say, I didn’t care much for them then, and now they’re just wrong! (I’m an old person!)❤❤❤

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

True but they keep us busy filling them in now!

[@bobkillion9681]

Being a metal guy, I’d use steel tube with a plug welded in about an inch up inside the tube.

[@jacobbuckley8232]

maybe use a slightly bigger drill bit for the dowls

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Yes I was thinking that too then use epoxy for bigger holes

[@sergioblanco4504]

The concrete can go against the drywall like that?

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Yes if you want to change it later np, we put plastic

[@clkgroup6367]

Couldn't tell but were the windows open? Also, would a couple of fans have helped the dry time?

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

yes both would have helped, but I opened every window I could

[@debradoucet8847]

❤❤

[@leonjbarela]

Great work

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@ringstinga]

Tidy as always !!

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Thanks!

[@tergar1]

Nice, no more tripping!! 😊

[@Ur_girl_2024]

yeah

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

That’s the goal!

[@doublemc2633]

Nice job! BTW music equals headache 😂 maybe engage with trivia or project questions etc esp when doing voice over which is nice.

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Sounds good TY

[@angelaarnett1406]

epoxy the fiber glass rebar in the holes

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Bigger holes with epoxy huh

[@cadet526]

What about rubber cane tips? They come in multiple sizes. You could put them on the end of the bar to hammer it in. One more thing to put on and take off, but should be quick. And hammering fiberglass like that with no mask on isn’t a great idea.

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

That could be a good idea, never thought of that. Yea I think you’re right

[@cadet526]

@ please comment back if you use it. I’m not in construction and don’t know much about it but I like your channel. Would be interesting to know if I came up with something feasible.

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

@@cadet526hahaha yea if I do something similar or that I will show it in video

[@TheSpud1129]

Are ya'll safe from the fires?

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Yes thankfully

[@spiritannamal]

Why concrete? Is it because the bottom is concrete?

[@tradermunky1998]

What else is there for a 4" drop?

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Concrete is best

[@PAHighlander24]

You don't want to build up the floor level with wood, which would leave voids under the finished floor. That could become a moisture trap and eventually grow moldy. Filling it with concrete prevents that.

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

@@PAHighlander24exactly, this is a 6” drop too

[@ВалераДобрый-е6з]

интересно насколько оно ровное?

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Very smooth

[@Weed8Gone]

I never understood sunken rooms. I always look at them and say, "Why?" And I used to have a house with a radically sunken living room. Hated that house.

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

It's a trip

[@rea8755]

Florida: sunken living rooms are considered basements according to insurance 😢😅!!

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Insane

[@drumtwo4seven]

3 👍

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

Close but in the running

[@yoooo6969]

First!!!

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

close but in the money

[@MarkOliver-p4i]

1

[@OdellCompleteConcrete]

You did it again

[@bodkinsbestphotography]

It won't be long now until you're awarded the "biggest dipshit" medal...