Big Garage Floor With Mat Of Rebar (Heavy Duty Concrete Floor)

[@georgestarling9367]

You realize how the drivers can be so important and it is evident with how you treat them.

[@muskerrytram6453]

Drivers are almost as important as your own work crew. They can make a job easy or hard. When pouring long drives off the chutes some drivers can drive forward just the right distance for each pass of the chutes that makes leveling so easy but others despite years of experience have what I call "pull-forwarditis" where they always pull forward a foot or two too much.

[@speedwayman100]

Mike,i know you don't do rebar that much but in the future you should stagger any splices you have,makes a stronger slab.Also,if you have room in the thickness of a slab you could bury a bar and then brick off that and that ensures you won't have any rebar on the ground due to clumsy fat ass finishers lol.I was a rodbuster for decades and would have tied up that slab in about an hour for ya!

[@Two-brothers-stacking]

The bricks under the rebar is weak point and makes the rebar useless.

[@jamestamu83]

Not true. What he did is standard practice, and it works well. Don't post ignorant comments.

[@jaimeortega4940]

Geat job! Hopefully mine will turn out as well on my new 3500m2 terreno in the Yucatan!

[@Matt-mq1ep]

I don't see very many drains on you pours? Is that an ordinance thing around your area or most people just choose not to install? I did a 12 foot trench drain down the middle of my garage. Can't imagine the mess of an 8 foot truck bed covered in snow with no drain.

[@leggysoft]

This is why I prefer composite concrete mixes, you don't know how to rebar perfectly and low quality rebar just causes the concrete to rot, high quality rebar is expensive like composites but takes more time. If needed I'll do post-tension to hold a slab together through some grade beams.

[@vicchiapetta4166]

I’ve been a concrete man for 50 years now. I always struck off all my work, the way you do it would never fly with me!! No Vibrator, No Strike off, How can you continue to achieve quality?!!

[@Walkercolt1]

I used rebar and re-mesh and 5000 PSI concrete in my driveway because I have a 80 year-old 120 foot pecan tree with roots under the drive and I didn't want the drive to break-up. So far, in 39 years, not a SINGLE hairline crack. "Do it right or do it again." -Words of my Great-Grandfather, a REAL carpenter

[@br549rdr]

You guys work in such great rhythm with each other. Skilled talent at its best.

[@muskerrytram6453]

Just being a bit picky but only the bottom bars should be resting on the support bricks.(We call them mars bars in Ireland) Maybe you didn't want the Matt too high for cover reasons. Love your work.

[@carl4323]

Just a laborer? It reminds me of my first job. My boss was looking for a responsible employee. Once I was hired, I found out that I was responsible all the time, but mostly when things went wrong.

[@JonathanTibbs]

Me too. Lol

[@MsKittykattyMc]

Watching you guys lay concrete is so satisfying to me.👍🏾

[@wolfe2118]

I just poured and finished a 10yd basketball court on Friday, your videos gave me the confidence to give it a go. I bought a secondhand Vibrastrike 2 only because you use it and made wet pads off of grade pins, the entire court turned out better than I could have imagined. Thanks.

[@NitroAuto77]

Now look at them yo-yo's, that's the way you do it. Place the concrete on the MTV.

[@mikewest712]

Love me some Robert Palmer.

[@muskerrytram6453]

That ain't working

[@timkrouse345]

You're a good Dad 😆

[@nbco55]

Lol, nice!

[@speedwayman100]

@@mikewest712 except for the fact that it ain't robert palmer,it's dire straits.

[@NB-cn9uk]

We call them rat tails the tying tool lol in Texas all we use is rebar no wire mesh at all not sure why back in the 90’s we just go use the wire roll

[@michaelolenick4078]

Great job Mike. What is the father's away you will do a job from a c o ncrete plant? Had a cousin here in central WV had 2 truck pour but the trip was two hours away. The pour looked great it was a inside garage pour 2 bays for a pickup and medium size SUV it was a heated floor.

[@MikeDayConcrete]

About the same, 2 hours.

[@user-gn1ic9ww8q]

i bet u 10 bucks tia doesnt even have to ask to take a plane out. wow, your so right again....

[@palettetools6461]

I'm having trouble understanding how a slab on grade that will be exposed to whether can be tied into the foundation. Wouldn't the slab heave up due to freezing while the foundation does not? Is it just too dry under the slap to worry about that? What am I missing? Thanks for videos.

[@bickabraham2397]

Working to hard for me. Poured hundreds of thousands of yard. Work it , don't let it work you!!!

[@douglasschmidt6873]

We need a 30” over lap here in south Florida for inspection looks like you don’t were you are ?

[@Gary-pogi]

Lapping length should be 24 inches.

[@user-gn1ic9ww8q]

memphis u have to do payroll. i am honey after the witsec and house arresters leave, i dont wanna be around them scumbags

[@salvadorsepulveda6415]

Job went smoothly 👍

[@j81851]

Wow that is a high slump loose mix but you and your boys know what to do.

[@user-gn1ic9ww8q]

i cleaned house in sports betting this weekend

[@mariomendina5099]

Hey Mike, I’m a concrete guy from the UP of Michigan and was wondering if you could get me the mix design you use for your flat work? The plants mix up here is terrible! We really don’t know what there using. Thanks

[@steved8563]

Great job as always Mike and gorgeous location of that property. Nice jobs to have and especially in nice weather.....

[@jimprovax6846]

Hi Mike. Enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for taking to time to film and edit. That is a beautiful home and huge garage for sure. Enjoy your Sunday!

[@oby-1607]

The owners must drive bulldozers or tanks to need 6 inches thick with all that rebar. With the foam underneath, that slab is never going to move.

[@jone8626]

Not really, in northern Europe it would be a normal garage floor. We don't use rebars like this, we use rebar mesh of around the same thickness. We also don't cut the concrete, it wont crack when it's reinforced with thick rebar mesh that's in the middle of the slab and not at the bottom like a lot concrete youtubers in USA have it. Despite them pulling it up, they just push it back down as one famous youtuber who just had to tear up a driveway he just did and all the mesh was at the bottom doing nothing. My own garage is almost as big as this one, poured the floor 13 years ago, still not a single crack. We get winters that last 4-5 months and it goes down to -30c several times each winter.

[@deadlata9767]

@@jone8626my garage in the US is 42 years old still no cracks, and it was never cut. You should make a video showing how you can push tied rebar through concrete with 3/4 inch stone in it. I would be amazed to see it.

[@willbass2869]

​@@jone8626stress on slabs is at the bottom, not in the middle. That's why mesh/rebar is set in the bottom quarter of the thickness. It's basic stress analysis.

[@rtboat7172]

Hey Mike, is there a place I can find a list of the video equipment you use in production, similar to the list of concrete equipment you use? Would be much obligated if you would point me in the right direction. Thanks, & keep up the great work!

[@jone8626]

Maybe the customers are from Europe or seen how we do Garage concrete floors over here. We use rebar mesh and not do what you did, cost a lot more, but it's a lot stronger as it's welded and no need to cut joints in it. Good thing u used blocks under and don't just pull it up and then push it back down like a certain youtuber does. When he had to tear up a driveway they just did, you could see that the wire mesh he used was all at the bottom doing nothing. One thing for sure, this garage floor is 100 times stronger than his shop floor.

[@donhancock7658]

Enjoy your videos. How do you keep the concrete from cracking when you tie it to foundation with re-bar. We have a shrinkage problem here in Illinois and never tie it where it can't move

[@AlmonteList]

Must be nice having all that experience working together

[@stuartpulvermacher6861]

Thats one thing you cant do is bend fiberglass rebar

[@rtheprizeisright7323]

Sir, will you have to pour the outside there leading up to the garage on the outside up to the front of the garage, or are they just doing stone out there?

[@MarkOstrowski-s5g]

What kind of rebar are you using

[@muskerrytram6453]

Half inch or 12mm in the civilized world. 😂

[@psidvicious]

@@muskerrytram6453 #4 bar in the informed world.

[@muskerrytram6453]

@@psidvicious 🤣

[@psidvicious]

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[@bcmineresearch]

Canada is metric, but we use half inch! 😆

[@Ifishmo]

Mike, why no power screed on this job?

[@timkrouse345]

20:50 Do those gloves come with a battery and charger? 😆

[@user-gn1ic9ww8q]

can we take your plane out afterwards? yea, after u do payroll

[@user-gn1ic9ww8q]

thats trey speaking for her witsec inmate

[@martingiesen9919]

this is the normal way in the netherlands

[@user-gn1ic9ww8q]

prank call

[@user-gn1ic9ww8q]

so actually no,i havent been wrong

[@robertnash2446]

It's a bit soupy.

[@psidvicious]

He talked about the use of plasticizer (water reducer) pretty extensively.

[@BobL84]

he always pours it like that

[@elbuggo]

It is the Water/Cement ratio that is crucial, but nobody knows what that is.

[@christopherhaak9824]

I think he talked about it once, it's less than 0.50 for sure.

[@psidvicious]

@@elbuggo There’s nothing mysterious about water/cement ratio. It’s exactly what it sounds like it is and how it affects ultimate strength. This is about using a plasticizer additive so that the concrete mix behaves like a lot of water has been added, making it easier to work.

[@michaelgoodwin5162]

Are you leaving it flush to the footer or edging a joint between?

[@willbass2869]

They installed (epoxied?)rebar into the footer and then bent it over 90° into the field....

[@user-gn1ic9ww8q]

have u ever beeen wrong in your life? once i thought, but i corrected myself of it.

[@guidocasero1178]

Two to three inches plus or minus that's what they would tell us, don't spend all week grading a 1500 sqft home the concrete guys want perfection let them buy sand and fill in those 2-to-3 niches by hand...of course it was never 2-to-3 inches it was always a bigger range more like 4-to-6 inches