Lunch for Aaron is a happy meal. Tell the truth Mike Aaron bullies the other kids out of the ball pit. Lol God bless

You level property, you build foundations, You repair earth dams, and make ponds, you clear property, you mow ditches, you make retaining walls, only thing I have not seen you do is move mountains. You guys are miracle workers. Thanks for sharing with us your expertise. I guess your next line of work is making tunnels through a mountain.

Thanks Mike, Matt, and Aaron. God Bless.

MBTS loves that camera. TV series, "Longer Wade, hacks men" in works. Where Aaron portrays tips and tricks to look larger than life. All while explaining how you get jobs done faster by taking longer lunch breaks and go boating. It'll be a HIT series!!!

Matt, love the explanation and instruction you always provide. It’s great to see the progress on the Castle project. But I do miss your work with DP. Your banter and fun ribbing always made the videos fun and enjoyable.

Great video, Having Aaron around always makes the jobs enjoyable, the sunglasses looked small on you but they seemed to fit Aaron perfect. Thanks for sharing. Kevin

Good video again the jobsite is looking good my friend y’all sure do get A long good that makes the day go better you sure are good good getting foundations ready for the house keep the good work up be safe my friend

Another good one.👍

Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Your free sharing of knowledge is appreciated.

Another great foundation!

Awesome Job!!

Thanks for the education Mike!

Good video. I always enjoy the foundation work jobs. Have a great day.

Nice to see a job come together. With team work.

Throughly enjoyable video as always 🇬🇧

Doing a great job DP, also loving the John Lennon sun glasses 😎😂

Finally a job mbts can oversee-or see over

Another Dirt Perfect job in the books!!!

That wall system is great. Nice being able to pour the slab right away. Keep up the good work guys 👍🏻

With those other glasses Aaron looks like Bernie from weekend at Bernie's.

👍 Thanks for the vid.

Great video hope you have a blessed week and take care and be careful

This is a great alternative view of the lake Captain Kleeman will be building......and the rest of the video with Aaron (MBTS could make a dog laugh🤣🤣🤣) and crew is hilarious.....great video....thanks for posting

Lots of work with some good weather and great crew! Can't help but notice, it's important to have the concrete truck operator working well with where to pour it on while pouring the floor. Helps lots to make the plan come together. Guess he's done this a bit. Nice job by all. (And, like I used to say in work, my biggest decision of the day was what to have for lunch!) Carry on and THANKS! Sonny (CT)

I like these nice little projects. The majority of my ICF projects are 48" frost walls for accessory buildings. When we dig it's as easy for me to make them ICF as it is to find a bricky.

Love how you and the man behind go at each other

Nice sun glasses , morning of second day , old school

Now thats a nice crawl space doing hvac for 25 years Ive seen a lot of them good job be safe Cya

Cool!

Now this is the best way to start the day with you and wade and captain kleeman all on at the same time.

Looking good 👍🇺🇸

Awesome job DP styling the sun glasses sorry MBTS you to short for those glasses 😂🤣 , great job guys

19:45 DP: Styling and profiling TMBTS: l make em look good! Good to see friends working with friends! Good job guys!

I know vertical rebar was not required by code due to wall not being over six foot BUT I think theres still value in putting them in. I've been on a couple of jobs where the rebar wasn't cast in but holes were drilled into the footer 6" and rebar was stood up. The reason was to prevent creep shifting down through the years which happens with the expansive soils we have here locally.

You have a good set of guys that work for you bud

Those icf blocks look a lot easier to deal with than the pans I am used to. Project is looking good.

Heck of a crawl space 😲 😳 🤨❗❗ It's Sunday ✝️. Interesting 💪👍🙏🏻as always 😎 I know I hate losing. Forgetting my sunglasses.

Great wk guys you all deserve a nice cold🍺👍

When I was a younger man I did foundation work. We would use a 4x4 post to put a V in the bottom footing for the wall to fill and give more of a connection to the footing.

Those shades, I knew you were a hippie at heart DP ! Nice one Aaron you exposed him ! Lol !

Makes me wish the house I grew up in had a concrete crawlspace. I was the unfortunate one that had to crawl around in the mud and other crap. It wasn't fun.

I wish I could have you guys build anything for me great job and you guys would be awesome to work with god bless you and your family

the glass's look realy good on you DirtPerfect

You make a lot of promises 😂🤣😂🤣 bless.

Nice

Great job, they are building an ICF home near me.

Yall got some real nice lean poles. That round bottom one looks better than than that there t bar lookin one. They sure looked like they could hold a feller up real good. I used em in my younger days but that big truck kept showin up and ruining everything.

good video

Those are John Lennon sun glasses back in the day😉

First time seeing crawlspace poured like that, I like the idea. Should help with pest too wouldn't it?

You guys are great, you make a good team, your corporation has a lot of departments I see, so who manages the Wardrobe Department? Curious, I noticed at 1:10 there was NO rebar coming up out of the footers. When I built my ICE house I helped lay the rebar and we had the rebar extend 36" above the concrete footers and placed little PVC "doughnuts" on them and when the ICF foam blocks were all set I went back at night with a flashlight and fished 10' sticks of rebar down the void in the wall and into the "doughnut" at the bottom. Could not do this in the bright sunlight of the day. Love living in my ICF Fortress, we just had a little visitor here on the Gulf Coast recently, Baldwin Co., AL, you may have heard about her, she went by the name of Sally, she unplugged our power for 5 days so we were on diesel generator power, love that diesel but I am getting too lazy for this silliness and will be having a propane 20 kW whole house standby system installed within a month. We are still cutting and dragging trees out to the roadway for the trucks to pick up and turn into much. I put 8 miles on my truck just today dragging trees, hilarious when I looked down at the odometer, I'm only on a 5-acre plot out in the country, lot's O'dragging. It felt nice in the house during the night with the winds howling outside, yes we have a metal roof so we were all good, no damage to the crib but the trees will recover like they always do. Living in paradise has its downside. So why do babies and hurricanes always come at night???????

Lol where oh where do I start??? First when I seen that mud I was like send it back ;-) yep yep an from your words?? That is a man with experience !! 9 foot walls + Campbell soup concrete = a real pain in the as_s blow out .. but ICF is easier to repair than a standard poured wall.... Like wise when we started out we braced like crazy following the company protocol. But we found a top 2x6 " L " brace an corners were all that was required... I cannot remember how many years ago it was we poured our first ICF wall but I know it was in the first year after they come out with them.... They were actually cheaper on our worker com rates due to the fact no backbreaking work compared to the old forms.. but yep yep you did a mighty fine job!! The only thing we do different on our crawl space floors?? We use a 16-ft wide Viber strike to float it down. Tends to put the milk on the footer easier blend in AN far less backbreaking ;-) ..... The one tool you got that turns me to jelly is the self-propelled packer 🤗 we still run the 4 Armstrong slower than cold frigid molasses gas powered viper Packers.. I so could fall in love with that roller 👍... Over all a most excellent job !! Edited fur a stupid spell boo boo....

DP, can you have!ou tell me why you didn't have rebar sticking up out of the foundation? Just curious. Great crew you have!

I kinda like the idea of concrete in crawl space

As a builder, I prefer concrete slabs, but this is a better way to do a crawlspace. Concrete block wick moisture and allow it to transfer to the inside of the crawlspace. Houses are not designed to take baths on the interior. The ICF system provides a water tight and well insulated wall for all foundation types. I have never used those particular forms but they look nice. I use Integra Spec panels and can pump in 10' lifts with zero blow outs.

Another great looking ICF. Mbts needs a step stool. Did you make the float you used on the footer. Stay safe

So good of you Mike to give Aaron a job that close to ground level, if he's going to continue working for you, you're going to have to bring the scissor lift out of retirement 😂😂 ..... Sorry Aaron just evening things out between you & Kleeman 😂😂

Awsome vid Mike. Can I come work for ya and join in the fun. The vid was informative too. Thanks for the vids you do. I really love watching them. Your an awesome guy Mike. Keep up the great work !!!

I liked the sunglasses

Crawl space or ground floor for Aaron ???? 🤭🤭 Would work for me, I'm a short arse too 🤣 Job coming along nicely Mike, and the full crew to boot!!

You and Aaron remind me of a couple of Submarine Sailors the way you guys rag one another. If you didn’t get ragged you weren’t part of the group.

Mikey... shoulda saved those aviator glasses for the drone shot! Gotta have the right tool for the job. Right? Looks like a couple of your guys forgot their rubbers... or, do they make them look like tennis shoes nowadays?? I was wondering how you were gonna brace the walls... I had imagined all sorts of complicated bracing and obstacles in the way of the pour. Your way was much simpler and efficient.

If you bought MBTS some Ariat pants with a 34" inseam he could step over those walls. Job is turning out nice. Stay safe DP.

Nice specs! I'm enjoying the videos and the way you and the crew interact. The work day is always better when adding in some fun (i.e. hair parting). I'm used to seeing verticals (rebar) coming into the stem walls from the footer. In fact, I don't recall seeing them in the last video (when you poured the footers) either. Did I miss that or did this job not require them? If no verticals what keeps the stem wall bonded to the footer? Based on the fact that you mentioned the crawl space might be used as a storm shelter I would think tying stem wall to footer would be important.

Are you going to get a letsdig 18 bucket and thumb on the Volvo ? 🤣

Tell Aaron he runs that chines front end loader pretty good the shovel lol he looks like his from Hollywood with those sunglasses on

Hi . Thank you for having your channel here, ag follows you all the time. I just wonder what you have in the concrete so that it does not settle half an inch in the base? I usually have to wait to even it out .... good job / Jorgen

it was my experience that a plastic tape left in the sun will stretch and give you wrong measurment i suggest you use a metal tape to be 100% mine was ok and after it was 2 inch out of square, took a while to understand why but finally we found you pull a it harder and will give you another measure so watch out ciao from Italy

I was wondering how the MBTS was getting in and out of the foundation wall since I didn’t see any ladder or step stool and then at 23:00 we see that he utilizes the duct work opening to compensate for his child like inseam. 🤣😂🤣😂

👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🙏🏻 Enjoyed!

Like the normal sunglasses better than the replacement ones Aaron found you. What brand are those safety glasses you normally wear?

Great vid!! Why don’t you use vapour barriers?

I hate to say it but MBTS did make those glasses look good.

Our ready-mix trucks run to the site dry, and mix on site, we can kind of guide them on the slump a little more I would guess. You ever have that one jerk of a driver who takes great pleasure in filling up the back of your boot when you aren't looking? There was one guy I knew who did that and everyone knew he would do it too!!!

Maybe I missed it. Were verticals installed or drilled into the footing?

Should link to the other video of the test holes... don't know that channel!

How did you tie the walls to the footer? Did you drill and epoxy rebar or were you just relying on the weight of the walls to keep them in place? Granted, my house was built with a full basement and I had a keyway formed into the footer to keep the walls from shifting at a later time. I only ask because yours is the first video I've watched using ICF walls. I like the concept.

So, you are just doing the outside of the slab for the foundation with ICF? What is the difference in that and just using concrete blocks? I am sure there are many.... a couple I can think of off the top of my head (pest and moisture control) but isn't it much more expensive??? Just wondering. BTW, the homeowner has a beautiful site for the house and really enjoyed your drone footage.

Lol Mike looks like Elton John with those glasses on.

Your. Selling me. ! Wow on the time factor. Plus poor floor right away dont have to strip nothing first

Man behind the scenes looks a little like Earnest T Bass with those glasses. ET Bass was caricature on the Andy Griffin Show. See if you can get him to say "It Me - It"s Me -- It Earnest T"

Question 1: Is it ever necessary or desirable to trim the lugs off the bottom course of the ICF forms when placing on the footers? Question 2: Is it better to have rebar dowels placed into the footers so as to better secure the crawl space walls to the footers? It looks like there will be a "cold joint" now between the crawl space walls and footer, n'est-pas?

OH WOW! HILARY AND KAMALA LET YOU USE THEIR TOY?! LOOKS ALOT SMALLER THAN I REMEMBER!

What state are you in guys? West Virginia? Love your content.

I'm no pro but from 12 years of concrete work ... I believe rain at the batch plant with sand being outside causes the meatballs when they start to dry mix ....

How did you tie to footing?

Wow did the material company charge you extra for boulders?

it looked like the 2 inch floor pour stopped short of the back wall at the footing edge

Footing verticals ?

22:55. 🙈 Thought it was supposed to be, man behind the scene... 🤷 not mans behind is the screenshot. Mbts, to the rescue. LOL 😆

When you bed the rebar on the top of the stem wall, how does it attach to the sill to hold it down?

Floor drains in crawl space ?? I worked with a mechanic in a power station that was "shorter" than most. Big man, big heart just shorter than most. While the rest of us were bumping and smashing our heads into the overhead pipes and conduit [thank heavens for hard hats ] he was laughing and running about. Can't judge a person by there stature. We know you all are joking. Always enjoy your videos. Take care all

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Hi mike why didn't u pour the pad when u poured the footer

How are the icf walls connected to the footers , I didnt see any rebar sticking out of the footers to tie in .

Also asking how come no J-Hooks to tie footer to walls. And will you get water seeping between footer and wall?

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Why no rebar in the crawlspace pour? Is it because it has the walls to hold it together?

The inseam mbts will have stepping over that corner is the kind that will make him a permanent soprano in the Mickey mouse club!!

mbts is really good with the vibrator isn't he...