Construct Concrete Hearth Bench Mold

no it's her it's like Earth but with an x-ray so the mold for our concrete bench it's gonna be made out of Melanie why because it delaminates a lot easier than plywood or anything like that I have four 80 pound bags of the crack resistance which means I think it's like fiber reinforced inside of it the hardest part is going to be making my mold because it's not a traditional rectangle in fact check this out we're looking at a lot of different variables on this one I'm gonna start cutting it cut a bunch of little strips on the sides to make a little fence around it and then I'll show you the prep process [Music] a couple of things I learned over the years about prepping is that the bottom part is your top part so once this is all molded up you flip it over and that's the part that everybody sees a pretty part uh you want to use some car wax this is Turtle Wax on the seams the most importantly but also I'll use it on the mold so it could release the concrete a lot easier when we do the next step which is taking our Brown caulk and going around the edges using the caulking tool to press and round over all the edges so they're not sharp the once it dries the wax is going to allow for it to release the caulking that we're already left with the middle part the cleanest part and it broke a glove okay it's just like me I never clean my tools and I'm done with them I just wait till the next time I have to use them we're going to press this in and then it'll create almost three lines two outer and one inner the inner part is our rounded over Edge the outer parts when they dry we'll peel them off it's actually really satisfying to watch we're just about ready to start doing the concrete my