Mike needs to be sponsored by some of these concrete companies! Mike you're a blessing ♥️

I feel like years of experience are summed up in these brief videos. I'm very impressed with your skill and knowledge. Thank you for sharing. Much appreciated.

Mike is my idol. He needs a reality show..."doing it old school!"

Thanks Mike! Your channel is my go to for advice. Despite your decades of knowledge and experience, you keep it simple for the common folk. It's much appreciated sir!

A real legend, an artist , that enlight all DIYers community THANK YOU MAESTRO

Thank You Mike, your a life saver ! I mean sure any one can mix cement with water and it will harden BUT to do it right and last is another ! I appreciate these great video's. If I'm going to do that much work , I don't want to have to come back in about two years and do the work all over again. Thanks for the education and helping people do things the right. Your a big help to us common homeowners. I'm particularly working with rock/ stone in WV.

Thank you for the time you took to upload those great tips. I think your videos are great. Michael

Your videos are the best I have found. You have a way of explaining things so that us non pros can understand the what's and the why's. Thank you!

Mike - thank you for passing on your knowledge. I have been using bonding agent for years but never understood why. You have answered in these 3 videos many of my long outstanding questions. Thank you, Sir.

These are awesome videos that explain the basics of masonry work. Thanks for making them.

Thanks Mike, your sharing of knowledge is very appreciated!

Mike...great videos! Easy to follow and understand. Great attention to detail. Thanx for sharing your experiences with conc/mortar, from all over the world man!!

Anybody can teach, but not all teachers are great. You’re a GREAT teacher!

Outstanding presentation. Thank you. I wish everyone who does You tube videos was as good at presenting the material as you did. This makes a lot more sense now. Thank you Mike!

Mike, I feel like I was listening to my uncle Jimmy telling me the business! You sound like you’re from the Scranton/Carbondale area my friend just like my family members. Great video. Thanks for taking us to school. God bless you sir.

You taking time out of your schedule to teach us how to do a skill job is incredible and speaks volumns. I really appreciate you mike. I have learned a lot watching you.

I love your videos your passion and the amazing knowledge and skills you possess. The way you explain and teach us throughout the videos it's a privilege been able to learn techniques from someone like you. I'm sure your father was a great teacher and a passionate worker. Thank you for sharing your skills, passion, and knowledge with us. Much appreciated.

Thanks Mike. Looking forward to part 3. I really liked part 1 also.

great video as usual Mike! I hope you have a group of apprentices learning with you at least two semesters a year!

man, this stuff is so good! i love concrete work, its so much fun. if you screw up the project, you just smash it with a sledge, bury it, and start over :)

You're videos help a lot of people. I manage a masonry supply company and we're a block manufacturer also. I refer many of your videos, quite often, to the DIY brigades. Thank you Sir.

Your videos are amazing, thanks for all the great info.

I'm getting ready to 'fix' a stone wall. You've helped me figure out what to use and basically how to do it. And yes, I'm going to practice! I'm keeping your videos handy to help me along the way ...thank you

Kudos for another easy-to-understand and interesting video. Thank you.

Mike, Keep on Keeping on! Your experiential knowledge and wisdom is no doubt a facet of your passion. I think I speak for many when I say... Thank You. You've recognized a need to pass on information to future generations and you've chosen to do so in a truly "New School" fashion. We'll do our best to cary on and keep 'a' go'n! God Bless,

Thank you so much for your videos, very professional explained.

Currently attending a program for masonry. All your videos are doing so much for me. Day by day I’m gaining so much knowledge in the field of masonry because of you. I appreciate it!

God bless you Mike . You are a great person and teacher ! You have so many great videos !

I quit watching Netflix and I am binging on Mike's videos. Awesome stuff. Thanks so much Mike you made my summer.

Great info for someone like me that's starting this as a hobby. Thanks

Mike, Thank you. You really helped me. I can go with more confidence trying to fix my crumbling basement wall.

Mike.. Thank you for imparting your experience and knowledge... I am reminded of when Fino laied our stone patio years ago... i was intrigued with his process... and his story... He had immigrated here from Italy just in time to join the army for WWII. He was in his 70s when he did our patio and took me around to several stone yards to buy stone explaining what he was looking for and why.. i would hang out in the mornings when i could to watch and listen. He provided a wealth of knowledge about stone work and life... I provided Espresso and Figs... Now I'm retired and getting ready to point up that patio. Your videos are like refresher course of what Fino talked about years ago.. like mixing cement... the accent is a bit different but the craftsmanship is the same.. Thanks again

Thanks Mike. Great tips, I look forward to learning more :)

Thank You Mike for sharing!

I wish we would have found this video before attempting our concrete project. This video really helped us understand the what, when, and why's of cement types. Thanks for continuing to share your knowledge with us all. Next project will start with watching one of your videos...subscribed and very appreciative. Thanks

Yes I agree with the comment below. Its confusing all the different mixes you can buy so thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience - top show 10/10

You're a really good teacher and thanks for that.

Brilliant. The only and best description of what cement is actually made from :-]

Great job Mike ! I used the mason mix with sand mortar and Portland and it worked great for me , thanks to your video.

Super helpful, Mike. Thank you so much!

I had a pail of concrete patch that I was going to use for re-pointing. Thanks for explaining that mortar is for flexible work like brick. Concrete patch on chimney I'm assuming is bad. Thanks for cementing this knowledge into my brain and saving chimney Mike. You rock! Cementously!

Thanks for breaking it all down sir! 👍

Thank you Mike, that was perfectly explained!

Old School is good school. We always seem to be searching for the short cuts or easy way out. Some things are not always improved upon and basic real techniques are like money in the Mason Jar. Thanks Mike I just found your collection of videos tonight and subscribed. I have a bunch of old school learnin ahead of me. Nothing like learning from the experienced ones. These are really good instructional video's with great tips and techniques easily explained and understood. Thank you Mike Haduck.

Thanks Mike, another great video.

Thank you for sharing and teaching us. ❤️

Thanks man just started masonry 1 this will definitely help me when I start actually messing with brick tile stone

Wow, I had no idea there was so much diversity to cement work. Thanks Mike.

Thank you! This was so helpful! God Bless

thanks again for your time and talent.

Another phenomenal video

Awesome video, thanks for taking the time to make it.

Nicely done! Thanks.

Fantastic. Thank you. I intend to make the block colomn of my property higher. I am frightend to mess up but i really want to do it myself. that should help a great deal. I am half way done thanks to you.

very good examples and lessons thank you for your videos really like them they are very informative and helpful!! oh! and entertaining

Thanks Mike, great stuff.

Best information I have found

Hey Mike, fantastic explanations . From illinois where our seasons are drunk Donny

Buen video Mr Haduck. Aprendí mucho. Gracias.

Thanks so much. Awesome info.

Thank you. Very useful.

Love your videos

Very informative. Thanks

Ok well! This explains a lot! Now I know what the hell is going on with all these varieties and shit. Informative video. Thanks!!

Fantastic Mike ! Thanks so much. You are a great teacher . Perhaps you could compose and play "The Masonry Song" or "Concrete Blues" and use as an intro for your videos.

Man, watching you mix cement in a wheelbarrow takes me back when I was a teenager mixing mud for my Old Man when he laid block and did general stone work. I'm a grandpa now at 70.

Easy to understand thanks

Thank you. Good stuff.

Thank you so much for your videos. I'm more familiar with carpentry then I am with masonry and I was able to learn a lot out of your videos about cement, concrete and mortar. I decided to add a comment to supplement the information you included in this video. I looked online for additional information on mortar cement types and found a great article that described them in depth. Basically, type S mortar cement is 67% portland and 33% lime, and type N mortar cement is 50% portland and 50% lime. These are the two that are most widely used in masonry. There is also type M which is basically 100% portland. There are also type O (33 portland / 67 lime) and type K (100% lime). The types come from the phrase [MaSoN wOrK] they took every second letter M being the strongest and watertight and K being the weakest and most porous. When you mix any of the above mentioned cements with sand you get mortar. Cement is only one part of mortar (active ingredient) and the other part is sand(inactive). Hope that makes it clearer. Again thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and experience with us. I appreciate it.

HI MIKE GREAT TIP ON CREATING HOME MADE BONDING AGENT EXCELLENT !! PHIL IN ENGLAND

Fantastic .Thanks

Thanks Mike

Mike Portland cement was developed in England in the nineteenth century so that when mixed with local aggregates it dried grey to look like quarried stone from Portland on the south coast of England. Incidentally Portland stone is what St Pauls Cathedral is Built out of in the City of London. Portland cement is indeed made using crush lime stone clay and coal this mix is fed into a rotary kiln that fuses the ingredients together at high temperature. The ingredients come out as a hot clinker and is sent into a crusher and the finer the powder is crushed the quicker the setting reaction will be when the water is added to the cement an aggregate mix. It was used by Sir Joseph William Bazalgette as the main ingredient to bond the bricks together for the sewer system he designed for London during Victoria's reign so clearing what was known as the big stink.

Very interesting Mike

In St Louis most people use the type N to tuck point and relay loose bricks. Many of the houses are 75 to 200 year old brick construction. the walls are 3 bricks thick with plaster on the inside. The bricks were made in the area. If a person uses a stronger type like M or S to tuck point it pops the hard face off the brick during winter then the soft inside crumbles away.

Since your videos the Cement stuff in the big box stores now makes sense

Thank you!

Thank you!!!!

I liked the one with the water in top of it

Thank You :)

I would love your opinion on the aircrete and the mud bricks as well.

MIke, I have what appears to be white mortar between red brick on my steps. I am having trouble finding white mortar. Where is the best place to get white mortar?

Hi Mike; thank you so much for taking the time to educate us/ me on the uses of concrete. Background: I live in western PA, Clarion area. My patio is 4 old (1910) concrete slabs. Most of which have settled/ adjusted over the years. Especially as the earth moved and not cared for properly causing them to buckle up to 1" - 2" here and there. Question: Can I level them with Portland on top about 3 inches? Of course following your techniques and tips. Create forms and properly prepare with cleaning. thank you - frank

Thankful

What type of concrete material is placed on sideways that I have seen is flexible joint between conrete blccks or slabs. when pressed on the joint cement between two concrete slabs. It looks light grey joint compound and when you press on the middle of joint, it is flexible like a rubber.

Hi Mike. I am learning a lot from your cement videos. We live in Minneapolis and need to repoint our brick steps. Does the cold weather change what I should use? (Which from your videos appears to be mortar? right?) Thanks for your time! Carol

Thank U👍

excellent

i used slacked lime for heritage work. 100 years plus old all over eastern canada

master mason thank you mr mike

It's what the job spec's not like cooking spaghetti with your own recipes. The different products suit different applications. Depends on movements in masonry if they want to entrain air. What the PSI requirements are.

Mike have a cinder block wall that I want to cap with lime stone (4ft X 6inch lime stone) The wall is 6 inches thick. I bought Type S mortar. do you have a video on that procedure? Or maybe let me know how thick to spread the mortar on top of the wall before I lay the lime stone on it. Thanks.

Mike, I am wanting to install a natural rock fire wall behind a wood stove and have a lot of round to oval shape rocks that weigh 8-10 lbs and maybe more and they do not have a flat side on them. Would type S mixed with 2 parts sand hold something like this while drying.

I am in Alabama down here we use a three to one but the pre mix dose not yelled as much as if you mix it

Hey Mike, wanted to ask you a general question. A master stone mason in Philadelphia, whom I have been acquainted with, supposedly mixed local soil with his mortar to match the tones of his work to the surrounding area. Essentially, he took topsoil from around the home, and incorporated it into his mortar to match his work with the yard. Are you familiar with this technique, and if so, would you recommend it?

Hey Mike, last week I had the privilege to install concrete bases for a steel fence job. We dug holes for the two main entrance gate posts at 36" deep and 24" wide. At the bottom of those two holes I put a bag of gravel in each, then put the 4x4" pole in held with a few bricks at the base before adding concrete. We live in Midwest area where there is clay at about 30" +. For the fence posts we dug 24" deep 12" wide before adding the concrete. We made everything as level as possible , having to use plastic forms to add height to the holes so they could be even as the terrain was sloped. The fence posts were then drilled into the concrete bases (24"x12"). After watching your vids and other concrete channels, it helped a lot as the people I was working with didn't know to much. I was wondering if you had any insight on our project?

Mike, do you have any advice on how to handle the trowel correctly to reduce wrist injuries?

Happy belated 🎂🎈🎉

One other question Mike. Have you ever piped in mortar to your brick joints? I saw a video of someone using a cement piping bag...like frosting to repoint between the bricks. This would seem to be easier? Carol from Minneapolis

Hi Mike...Have a question on cinder block wall repair. I have a few blowouts where the face of the block is gone and on some I can see rebar. What would you recommend i use to reapair the blocks? One video recommended type s motor to resurface. Any help appreciated..Thanks jc..ps great videos