In the west we build swimming pools using Shotcrete/ Gunite method. Cement mix is pumped dry through a pressurized 4 -6 inch hose under high pressure and shot out of the hose. There is a water sprayer on the top end of the nozzle. that sprays water on the dry mix in the air as it is shot against the rebar and wall of the pool. once complete the curing stage is to wait a day and water it 4 times a day for 7 days. This makes a concrete that is 10 times stronger than mixed concrete. The Gunite mix does have a higher concentration of cement in it. But what gives it the most strength is the fact that you are not diluting the cement with so much water and you are only giving it as much water as it absorbs during curing this results in a tighter stronger compaction of cement. this is very much similar to your method and explains the strength and lack of cracking you get with your method.

I am a 66 year old woman and I am building a pad for our trash cans! I will hire some friend’s muscles to get the bags here and to dig out the base. I am not stupid! LOL. Your video is fantastic! This method solves my issues!! I have watched all your videos!!

Y'all have started a full on revolution in the DIY concrete world!! Kudos

I have always dry poured my fence posts. It works great. Dig the hole, plumb up the post to desired height, usually place gravel in the bottom so the post is not wicking up water, pour in your concrete, water and cover with dirt. Works great.

Yes delamination between pours is a major problem that most lay people wouldnt have knowledge of, man thats got to be an expensive way of doing it, when compared to using raw materials and mixing them, but its always fun watching y'all.

I hired someone to pour concrete in my backyard for my hot tub, and it's not level. I wanted to level it myself, but I've been afraid to, and wondered if I could redo the concrete this way. I"M GOING TO DO IT! Thank you guys! I'm excited to see your next video!

I was going to attempt this at work to fix a broken sidewalk. The bleach sets me at ease with adhesion! Thanks guys

Looks amazing guys. Thank you so much for sharing. This is a game changer for me. Can’t wait to get started. Most importantly, I love how the two of you work together as a team! You rock!

I'm watching all your videos, currently on #33. I really appreciate you guys showing the product labels that you use, your great attention to detail and common-sense explanations. I'll be using these techniques to repair my walkway in the front yard.

I cant wait for this stamping technique! I'll be able to get my super patio project going once I learn this. 🤠

so pleased to see captain crocks had his rubber shoes on when applying that bleach solution😉

Love the way ya'll explain how you do these things and why. Most people leave out the reason why, which is the most important thing in any instruction. Keep doing what you are doing. GREAT VIDEOS!

Love watching you two work together! Thank you for showing us what is possible!

Once again you guys are so great with educational advice . Nice job Captain crocks and the princess at the dry pour games !!! Love it have a great week .

Awesome job as always!! Y'all keep raising the bar and finding new ways to keep this dry pour relevant. Thanx again for teaching us your specifics and congratulations on the explosion of followers, y'all deserve it. Be Safe!!

I did my first dry pour last week. It was my test for an area where my trash cans and firewood holder sitls by my shed. I came out better than expected. I'm in north west Florida and we had rain. Kept it covered for most of the week. Now that I kinda figured it out on to redoing my patio. Thank You'll for posting these videos.

Thank you! Love your videos... fun, positive, and educational! We've got a sidewalk that needs some repair but haven't been able to do it because of the cost, but now we can finally get it done on our own!

Love what you are teaching all of us. Dry poor rules. ❤️🦋👍🇦🇺

Y’all are saving my bacon! Starting a renovation on an old house stuck in the 70’s (literally) trying to do as much myself and save some money while also a learning experience

You guys blow my mind!!! This is sooo cool!

This is so cool. I had no idea you could pour concrete like this. I learned something new. Awesome, thank you sharing this.

Thanks so much for your videos! Very helpful

Great job! Thanks for editing in the Information on watering and times based in concrete thickness! Awesome Possums!

Well done Thanks for the clarification on the concrete mix that you use

Thanks for the info, I am using this method to pave my BBQ area,. I'm having fun with it. greetings from down under.

Great video Captain Croc & Lydia I was so impressed with the chemistry lesson at the start of the video. It was nerd worthy Big Jim lol I like to pick and carry on with folks. God bless y'all I learn something new every episode. I really like this dry pour method thanks for sharing the do's and don'ts.

Great job guys. Me and the wife tried it for a slanted slab outside the shed and it came out better than we thought.

Thank you guys I am wet pouring a 200 square ft slab and it’s kicking my rear 😣 it’s so much work. But I have 3 more projects so I’ll follow your advice for the rest of my projects, God bless you.

You guys are the best thank you❤

Thank you both so much for doing this video. I have learned a lot from all of your dry pour concrete tutorials..

I just built a 20'x8' shed on a dry poured reinforced slab 2 expansion joints 4" thick with 6" footings. 9'x8' high shed roof, 2 skylights, lp smart side, fully insulate, 36" steel door, standing seam roof. On one exterior wall is a wood accent wall, with tv for our jacuzzi installed on battons over pressure treated plywood. 5 rows of shelving inside, camping gear, tools, 2 dirtbikes parked in it right now, just withstood the CO storms that came through. No issues. Entire shed is built out of leftover material from job sites, i only purchased $250 in wood and the $600 in concrete. Metal supplier hooked up the metal panels for a 6 pack of beer. (I'm a sheet metal roofer) Yall made this project possible. Withstood some freezing temperatures also 👍

Y'all. Y'all! We just moved my 30 years of running a shop into three 20ft shipping containers. We're going to do 8x12 foot dry pours to make our pad! It looks like y'all's dry pour is less than 1-800-top-fill wants to bring us gravel! When we kick it off, we'll mention y'all for sure, and we'll document our progress. At very least, I'll keep notes and make a wrap up with it all. We bought our Billie Jean rollback truck so we could pack my 30 years of running a shop into containers. Nothing is "easy" hence why I named our channel. Thank you so much for showing pure neck-red engineering for other normal folk to learn from. 🤩😘

Great tutorial this gives me a solution to my old crack patio that everyone wanted to charge me thousands of dollars to make new again. I’ll just pay someone to make me the forms and I’ll try doing it the dry pour way you show here. Thanks you might have just saved me a bunch of money.

You two are awesome!! Exactly what I was looking to do and the first vid I found on YT is your vid!! Thank you!!

Another great with a lot more information, nice work guys👍

We've been watching and amazed. Y'all are awesome

Hey Professor Chox, thanks for the chemistry lesson. Nice toss, L. Good catch JW. Good tip using palm sander. I like it!

Fantastic information, thanks.

Yay! Stamped concrete is what I've been waiting for. Thanks!

Very good point on the PH. I work in the Oilfield Cementing wells. We prefer the water to be closer to 7 and lower because downhole temperature and pressure already has an impact on drying or set up time of Cement. We don't use an aggregate such as gravel or sand so it can't set up fast. Chlorinated water from a city water system can accelerate the drying process, so making sure it's not really high on the alkaline side is probably a good thing for concrete pour as well.

Very well explained and illustrated video! Your professionalism in Concrete is Nothing compared to the talent you have in Video production, and your talent in construction is Boss!

I love this I am planning on doing this next month and wondered if I could go over the existing concrete. I’ve been looking for info on this I’m so happy you guys did this video!!

Just did my first 4x5 dry pour yesterday it looks great I'm waiting a couple days to remove the forms thank you Cajun

You two are amazing... What a blessing that you work so well together. I like hearing your reasoning process. I love that you are working to free us from concrete mixers. You are excellent teachers. AND you are cute as can be! I'm going to seal my chicken coop floor - slanted slightly to the east for drainage - to save my chickens (& their eggs) from snakes. Since I'll be working in very cramped quarters, wish me luck. :)

Looks great!! Yall have inspired me! I have done a few dry pour slabs myself! Live in WA state. Planning to do my garage 20x19 slab dry pour eventually but wanted to try out a few small ones first.

We are about ready to do our dry pour thanks for doing another video on the subject. Jill and I will be reviewing your videos on dry pour. We have finished the drywall taping in the garage looks pretty good. Even though we are fairly old we are still learning new ways of doing things, thanks to your KZfaq channel, looking forward to Wednesday 😊.

A sawzall ,less the blade, against the form boards makes a great vibrating motion as well !!

You guys are amazing…thank you so much !!!! Subscribed and shared :)

You do justice to do it yourselfers. Watching and hearing your process will make my decision to concrete projects `s i have around my home. Great lookin couple with a bright future wish you all the best.

Absolutely lov'n these videos... I'm looking forward to the updates as I'm learning so much b4 I do my own!!

Great job! Very helpful for us DIYers

Thanks for the thorough information

glad i stumbled to this video, now i am go try to do this on my driveway. Cheerssss

Thankyou for the extra information & how well you explain everything

Thank you for all your clear info. I will try a dry pour around my fire pit and then redo my back porch. It's small but can't wait to try it. Thanks again

God bless y'all, folks. I gotta say, y'all really helped me out big time. I sure do appreciate it.

I really needed to know this. ❤❤

Getting ready to do exactly what you did. Glad you did it first 😊

Thanks for all the information you've provided, I still haven't seen anyone pouring concrete over existing pavers which I thought about trying because I didn't want to pull them up not to mention having to throw them away

I have always dry poured fence posts, but never tried it on slabs, but I saw one of your videos and that's how I found your channel. I am going to have to pour a sidewalk that will need to be handicapped compliant before the arthritis takes over my body and will definitely be dry poured. Btw I spent many years as a concrete finisher. Also btw, I saw your video about your dad's pizza restaurant and I will try it next time I get to Springfield, but how did a girl from central IL end up in southwest Louisiana. Y'all are too funny and get along so good working together.

Nothing better than working and learning🎉

You just can't repeat this often enough! I see so many videos of folks who say they're following your recipe, then totally not doing so. Sure, the comments they get are harsh, but it would be better if the recipe became "idiot proof", which you are doing more of every time. This video convinced me to add a layer to an existing broken patio slab rather than demolishing it as part of my mostly-DIY remodel. My plan is to chip open all the cracks, chip off the high parts, then do the new dry-pour layer with steel wire mesh added. I figure the parts of the broken slab have settled well enough to form a good base, perhaps a better base than demolishing it and starting over! Question: What if I have to stop before the screeding is done, but dew or rain is expected? Would it be enough to cover everything with a plastic sheet (going out well beyond the forms), then removing it when I'm ready to continue? Thanks!

This is something I've pondered recently as we want to raise the walk from the porch to the driveway that been ponding. The adhesion question info was very helpful. But the "honeycomb" prevention had eluded me in the past. Wonderful job ya'll.

Have never seen such clean bags of ready mix

First time watching you guys and I can't wait to try this out😂

You guys are the best!

I have a small project for a landing, will definitely do this method. Thanks so much, love this channel. Oh, total respect for Lydia lifting those 80 lb bags. 💪 Way to go.

I had things come up and couldn't get to this week's videos until today. That's probably why I was bummed earlier in the week. I've decided from now on if Jim and Lydia can do it I can. You explain it in such simple terms. I like when someone steps outside the box and says let's see if there's another way to do this. Many people don't have the resources whether it man power, equipment, and the finances to do it the way we're told it should be done. To know that I can make a concrete slab by myself with just buying the concrete and using tools I already have. That blows my mind. The fact that you could do a new top over the old slab. How cool is that. Well I've got to get over to the next video to see the end of this project As always wishing you the best Stay safe Love you guys

U guys make such great video 👍

Loce yr dry pour vids and yr reason stories and history stories... keep it up

Hi Cajun family. After seeing your video for the 5 by 5 dry pour slab, I tried it out in our shed where I laid some electricity, to cover it up. Seemed like a good opportunity to try it out. I actually figured that using a tube like the ones you used for the vent lines (a little wider diameter perhaps) gives a nice and easy finish without having to shake back and forth like with the board. Always so nice to see your video's. Have a great day!

Thank you both , you got a fan here in 🇬🇧 who’s going to give this a try. I am envious of the land you guys have in the USA and Good luck with the house building, I’ll be watching 👍🏻

love your video's, can't wait to do my project .Thanks

Team work! Hell yes!

Lady, you are really strong!!! I wish I could pick up the 80bl concrete like that

you guys are so awesome at the dry concrete pour you make it look easy and the weather looks great there thanks for sharing watching from canada Eh

Nice work cheers from Tasmania

this straight up has to be one of the best kept secrets...but now the secret's out. and we all thank you. VIVA LA DRY POUR!!

Love the channel ! Thank you !

This is so cool. Another advantage,... the top of this fresh new dry pour, is that its farther away from the wet ground.

Thanks for the great tips and the music was awesome

Great video. Gave me confidence to do my pad.

👋🏽 I really enjoy this channel!!!

Well done!! Not only did ya'll do a great job with the slab, but you also did a great job explaining the process. I will admit, when I started watching this video, I had no idea we would take a trip to the rockies.😁🥰

Looks great good to see y'all

Thank you both so much I have learned so much. you are both adorable.

You guys are so awesome. I love how well you explain things and demo everything. I have watched a ton of dry pour videos (more seem to be popping up every day since you guys started this amazing trend) and in one of them the guy rolls a piece of pipe (forward and back) over the surface for the skreeting process, which looks like it's less work than moving a board back and forth, and also may allow for skreeting if you have obstructions along side of where you are pouring that would make it difficult to impossible to do the back and forth motion of the board. (The same guy also did a video where he took a large glass bowl and filled it with concrete, then added water over time to show how the water gradually fully penetrated the concrete, which I found very instructional.) Maybe you could give that a try and see how it works. Would love to see your take on that method.

Great Videos! I've always wondered about dry-pouring concrete since it gets hard in the bag if left in high humidity long enough. I didn't know dry-pouring is a "Thing" until I saw your video. I am 71 years old, and I have a few projects that I thought were too large for me to do by myself. I was going to hire someone experienced in concrete work, who recommended I get a cement truck to pour them. This was going to cost several thousand dollars. The first project was pouring a 12-foot by 12-foot slab for a shed. It will be made of concrete & rebar-reinforced walls. I live in South Florida and it has to withstand a Cat 5 Hurricane. The second project...I have an enclosed 10' X 14' back porch with a concrete floor. But the floor is 4 inches lower than the floor inside the house, so I wanted to pour 4 inches of concrete in there to make them level. I was going to ask you how do you screed a floor when there are walls? But I found the answer on the internet. You make a frame along two parallel walls an inch or two from the walls. Then you can screed. After the concrete has set you can fill in the two gaps. So now my question is.. I have many 20 in. x 20 in. Concrete Step Stones, can I use them as fill? I don't need 4 inches of solid concrete on top of an existing concrete floor. I can lay the stones like floor tile with an inch gap around them. And fill between them with dry concrete. I would put 1 to 2 inches of dry concrete above them. I don't think it will crack. What do you think? It doesn't freeze in South Florida. It can't move since the side walls are concrete. And the floor will be covered with a lamenet.

Y'all are very inspiring and helpful. Bravo. We love your videos, spirit, and abilities. 👍👍🥃🥃

Instead of a palm sander, you could use a massage gun and put on the hard point head. It'll be cordless and you can adjust how fast/ hard you're hitting the board. Thoughts?

Ive learned something new today. Did not know you could dry pour concrete. In Cajun spelling. Thanx

I enjoy watching your videos. I am waiting to see y'all dry pour cement over asphalt

Good going 👍.

dats a lot of screeding. I really like this process, I only heard of it for the first time last year. Now I am sold as it being one of the only ways to do this for house size projects. Great info on the prep process. - Many thanks - cheers.

Thanks for sharing, that was another great video...I'm thinking I could use that dry pour method for some stepping stones.... Love & Peace Cajun Family

Thank you and kudos to both of you for all the cheerful and great videos👏👏👏. After seeing this particular video I am ready to repair and extend an existing slab using your techniques. I will really appreciate it if you can advise (1) what should be the minimum thickness of additional layer of concrete on existing slab and (2) are rebars needed to make the extended portion stick better with the old slab? Many thanks in advance🙏🏾

Great info as always, now all I have to do is wait for the standing water to leave. Suppose to have dry sunny weather for the next 7 days, so maybe I will get my slab for side-by-side put in, just have to wait and see. Have a great week y'all. 👍👍

You sir, are the luckiest guy on earth. Well done folks

Great Content! You have a new subscriber from New Mexico!

I like the sander tip. The pros use a vibrating probe to do the same thing on thick wet poured concrete. Fills any voids. I would seal the slab so it doesn’t stain and stays clean 😊Thanks for sharing.