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How to Frame and Pour a Small Concrete Slab | DIY - YouTube
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okay I am moving forward with my dust
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collection I want to house it outside of
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my shop in a like a little lean-to
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building so the first thing that I'm
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going to be doing is pouring a concrete
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small little foundation for it I've
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never done anything like this before but
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I have try to gather as much information
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on the subject as possible so now not
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the point where I'm just going to jump
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in and take it on so let's get going
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this is the area that I'll be working
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with so I started by cutting down the
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tree that was in my way and then
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removing the existing slab I made some
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steaks from scraps and then marked off
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the area that I wanted to slap to be I
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ended up making mine sixty by four feet
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I tried to excavate using a shovel
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quickly realized it wasn't going to work
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so then I moved to a grubbing hoe and
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what I would do is just rough up the
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surface a little bit then come back with
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the shovel and remove all of the dirt I
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loosened up then repeat the process soon
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a ledge is formed and then it's really
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easy to come back and just chip away
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with a grubbing hoe a buddy stopped by
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wanting to drink a beer and I asked him
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how he felt about digging a hole instead
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this definitely went a lot faster with
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two people overall I was aiming for six
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inches the next morning I grabbed some
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two by fours and cut them to size using
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my circular saw then I put them in place
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and screwed them together definitely
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making sure that they were level before
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moving forward now I didn't see the
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sense on buying stakes so I just made my
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own with subscripts and cutting a
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45-degree angle I would set them about
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every two feet and then just hammer them
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in about two inches into the ground
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checking for level several times along
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the way I used a total of five bags of
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all purpose sand I would cut open all
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the bags and then pour them out and then
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just use my hands really to spread it
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all around trying to make it as level as
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possible
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next I grabbed a water hose and what the
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whole thing down before moving on to the
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rebar I chose to purchase links of rebar
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so that I wouldn't have to cut any so
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I'm using two pieces to overlap to make
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up the length needed then I just grabbed
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some baling wire and tied all six joints
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together I first formed a loop and then
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put that loop underneath the joint then
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I would feed the loosen through the loop
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grab it with my pliers at the very base
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and form a twist about two or three I
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cut the loose ends off with the side
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cutters and hammered the ends down I
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sent it the rebar where I wanted it and
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then use some rebar highchairs to
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elevate it these hold up the rebar so
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that it'll actually be in the center of
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the slab instead of that at the very
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bottom and now to add concrete
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I got a system down where I would add
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roughly two gallons of water then add
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two bags of concrete I'd let that mix
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just for a few seconds and I didn't a
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few more cups of water and then a third
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bag of concrete I would watch the
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mixture to make sure that the ratio was
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good while I was refilling my bucket for
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the next round now I'm not that strong
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and these bags are heavy so it split it
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down the middle on the top side of the
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bag then just hold it in place while
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it's slowly poured out the cement would
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kind of stick to the bottom of the mixer
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so I grabbed his scrap and just kind of
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scraped it off every once in a while
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after a few minutes of letting it mix I
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would just pour it into place it would
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have been easier if I would have put
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plywood around the perimeter so I could
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pour it from multiple points but I
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didn't so I always poured it from over
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here and then I just grabbed a hoe or
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rake and shoved it around I was close to
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the end when my husband and buddy showed
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up and they were pretty impressed it
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took 20 sacks of concrete total and I
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would be mixing three bags in each batch
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it's a very fast-moving process and once
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you get started it's just kind of a
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go-go-go sort of thing
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I should have done this earlier but I
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grabbed a sawzall and cut off all of
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those pegs flush so that we could come
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back and screed it which is moving a 2x4
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across the top and a sawing motion and
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the still send all of the voids as well
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as smoothes out the surface he did
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either three or four passes total while
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everything I read said wait until the
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surface lost its Sheen before you come
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back and trial however I waited a little
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bit too long and if there wasn't enough
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moisture to make the surface smooth any
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longer but I still did it and I also
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came back with a hand edger to round
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over the edges after letting it sit for
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a day I came back and removed the forms
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you can use a hammer to kind of loosen
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them up so I definitely waited too long
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to come back and trawl the surface so
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the surface of this is not nice and
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smooth like I wish it was but women
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learn for my first experience with
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concrete I think that it went alright
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and the slab is definitely going to do
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exactly what I needed to do now check
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details on the
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and also in the description of the video
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I have left you links to the different
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items that I use during this project so
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check that out as well and that's it I'm
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gonna rest up and hopefully in a few
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days go ahead and get started on my
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lean-to that will go on this on this
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slob so stay tuned and I will see you
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soon
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well how you doing dad everything's dead
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it hurts to just push this oh yeah
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