Pour Concrete Hearth Bench

ready to start doing the concrete my mold is looking perfect I got my little leveler out here just a 2x6 my shovel got all my stuff all set up in the back here so I got the first inch and a half done uh the reason why I'm pausing here is because I want to lay down steel reinforcement that way when this stuff expands or contracts this thing ain't gonna crack and it's going to be the strongest piece of concrete that I have probably ever made no that's false I made something thicker than this about three and a half inches anywho I'll cut it a size lay it down and then cover it with the rest of the concrete oh and by the way you like my shirt break something to learn something model of my day go pick one up in the description below [Music] I am sweating like a pig in a farmer's market now the biggest hurdle we need to overcome is getting the air bubbles out so important you can't overdo it because you're still gonna miss them and you have to patch them up with Portland cement or something like that a few ways to do it you can shake your table but the most efficient way efficient that's not a word efficient way is using a reciprocating saw without a blade on it will create a vibration towards the side or a sander but I find Sanders orbiting Sanders they don't make that many oscillations so we'll start getting these air bubbles out and uh see how she looks listen battery powered oscillating tools are are really helpful and they work a lot of times getting these air bubbles out but I'll tell you what call me old-fashioned but um sometimes manual stimulation works really really well for getting air bubbles out of concrete this puffy has been drying overnight we're officially one day it's looking beautiful this might be the best slab I've ever done it's nice and warm it's crazy to think but on a molecular basis happening over there science Rules science Rules I'm coming up with plastic because I don't want to get too dehydrated uh and in fact I skipped a step from not doing the sheeting on the two by fours because this is going to sit for four days we might as well get ahead of the schedule here so while this is curing we're going to start cheating today we have four sheets of OSB about 60 bucks we're gonna start covering the sucker up and it's going to start looking like like something I am extra excited about today because I get to wear pants finally in like two months it's no longer 100 degrees it's actually supposed to be 80 the entire week I think Falls here…