Scott. Thanks for another OUTSTANDING video. I admire and RESPECT your honesty when you stated that certain techniques didn't quite work out as well as you had hoped. I wish other people were secure enough in themselves to admit that something fell short of expectations. PLEASE keep up the good work. I look forward to your next video. Thanks, sir.

@gergemall

10 ай бұрын

Ditto ❤❤❤. Thank you

I really love the humility in your videos. You don't come across as a know it all. I think most DIYers can relate to you better than, say, This Old House guys.

Fair enough. These videos where you go, “the plan was … however, …” are really useful.

I appreciate that you are willing to show us *lessons learned* and do not claim to be perfect or arrogant about any of it.

So glad you posted this. Anything can seem like it’ll work watching an initial video but you really won’t know without time passing. Thanks for providing your insight

@EverydayHomeRepairs

Жыл бұрын

For sure, yeah the updates really help to make a smart decision on what will stand the test of time 👍

Like your criticism of your own work, it’s a great way to assure a fair evaluation and discussion. Thanks.

I did it!!!!! You are awesome at explaining exactly how to do this. I always look at your show when I am ready to do something and take all your advice. Thank you

Love your honesty. We all do projects that don't turn out the way we thought

Best channel by far for DYI ers. Thanks friend for all you do for us doers.

Former Hoosier here, glad to be away from that humidity and heat. Thanks for giving me the courage I needed to tackle my driveway. Two weeks ago after viewing your (and other) videos, I used Sita Pro to seal cracks in my driveway and inside my garage. First, I used my drill with an abrasive nylon wheel to clean out the cracks. I used foam ropes and sand to fill the bottom of the cracks, leaving a 1/2" for the Sita sealant. Then I covered with sand. For the largest cracks/wholes up to 2" across I used Slab sealant. During the week I allowed for curing, the daily highs were 55-75 but dry. The driveway looks great today. (My neighbor did Sita fill a year ago. The Sita is still quite noticeable) The garage floor is another matter. There, most of the cracks were narrower. In an attempt to get a more level surface and fill the cracks, I used a putty knife to force the Sita into the cracks and tried to level it with the floor. I used a 2nd coat of Sita for the deeper cracks. The 2nd coat did not self-level - I used an tube opened the day before. The knife left a paper-thin layer of Sita on the floor so I had many wide stripes crisscrossing the floor. Ended up painting the floor to cover the stripes. The floor looks pretty good, much better than the unfilled cracks or the Sita stripes. If I did it again, I would consider using an angle grinder to smooth out the crack edges.

I like to use rigid foam insulation boards , 1/2 " thich, 4 x 8 sheets , cut in strips to fill the cracks before filling the crack with self leveling caulk .

Great video! Love these follow-ups! Thank you.

Good video! 👍🏼 Thank you for the updates.

I've got a couple I need to fill and this should help! Great video!

Awesome, thanks for the updates.

@EverydayHomeRepairs

Жыл бұрын

You bet 👍

Very helpful! Thank you!

its cool to be honest and make mistakes-so they can be corrected...we all make mistakes-and the good folks learn by mistakes and trail/error..congrads--keep pushing and i learned alot from you...d

👍🤗 THANKS FOR SHARING THIS WITH US SCOTT 🤷‍♂️ we live and learn 🤗😍😍😍

Thanks for sharing!

I've used Silka on many of the cracks in my driveway about 12 years ago. It's worked extremely well, and has held up perfectly over the last 12 years. Before this I had weeds growing everywhere. I've also used a similar product from Akona in expansion joints in a sidewalk. 2 years later, and it's also holding up well. I think any polyurethane based crack sealer will work relatively the same. They all cure into a rubber like consistency. I've never used any backer rod, I've just cleaned out the cracks with a power washer, and filled them with the product. It wasn't cheap at around $60 of product to fill these cracks/expansion joints, but given that it's held up for 10+ years, that's very cheap for the results you get.

The grime you have looks organic. Rather than power wash, which will etch the masonry, just use mold killing bleach based cleaner, firm nylon bruses, and a garden hose.

Brooo 😂 you love fixing concrete 🤣 great channel 🤘

@EverydayHomeRepairs

Жыл бұрын

😂

We’ll done, appreciate the follow up!

@EverydayHomeRepairs

10 ай бұрын

Happy to help!

Thank you

Great reporting

I used Sika SL to fill the deep expansion joints on my covered patio slab. The wife was tired of having to dig/vacuum leaves out of the joints. Four slabs, two joints. One was essentially perfectly level. The other had a slope of about 1/4 inch per foot. I took a chance and used the SL on the sloped joint and it worked without flowing, results were good. The only thing to be very careful about is getting the product on surfaces you don't want it on. Once it finds its way onto a surface, it is there for eternity.

@EverydayHomeRepairs

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback 👍

Thx Scott ❤

@EverydayHomeRepairs

10 ай бұрын

You bet!

Glad to see your update video. What will happen if you only use the sand and no Becker rod?

Thanks for sharing your experience. It's a vicious cycle, the "solution is always more chemicals 😢.

I just filled a big gap at a customer's garage entryway last week. I happened to run into the Sika rep at the store when I walked over to look the products. He was very helpful, informative, and recommended their 3/4" backer rod. Which gave me the confidence I needed to complete the job. Do you do the research for your videos online or spend time talking with representatives? Either way, thanks so much from a handyman operating in Cleveland/Akron suburbia.

You'reeqe right: followup ideos RE In sssshorrrt supply and very important. Thank you for this

After a very hot summer in Milwaukee, I finally got around to patching the cracks on my sidewalks and patio. I used the same method and Tremco sealer, but the sealer was not liquid consistency as video shows. It was more like a toothpaste consistency, which angered me. I ended up smoothing out with my rubber gloved finger. I purchased a few tubes from Amazon and I bought a few tubes from Home Depot months ago and waited for cooler weather that finally arrived today September 8th. Maybe this Tremco sealer was old? I had the tubes stored in my garage out of the sun, but maybe the summer heat in my garage hardened?? Maybe I should have stored in my cool basement. Not sure, but the job wasn't as easy with the Tremco toothpaste consistency.

Great content. Question, can you use that ssl to seal between blacktop driveway and concrete garage floor?

Lessons learned multiply the dollars earned…good info

I've watched all your videos on filling cracks in concrete and they are great. I have a split between a retaining wall and wall of the house. I was wondering if you had any ideas on doing the same but with a vertical crack?

@EverydayHomeRepairs

Жыл бұрын

I had good luck with both Tremco and Sika products. Looks like Sika has a sealant that could work on your vertical crack application and most likely in stock at your local Home Depot www.homedepot.com/p/Sika-10-1-fl-oz-Sikaflex-Concrete-Fix-No-Sag-Concrete-Crack-Repair-Polyurethane-Sealant-in-Limestone-7116100/300934560

Loctite has a much denser spray foam that may have resulted in less settling. The end result is more similar to what professionals use. Essentially, you get more foam and less air bubbles in the finished product.

@EverydayHomeRepairs

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, I will checkout the Loctite foam.

Great video! What do you recommend for hairline cracks?

Hey Scott 👋. What Do U Think Of Trim A Slab Fillers On Driveways?

What can I use on my garage floor to fix all of the spalling caused by too much ice melt used by the previous owner?

It's a little off topic, but can you do a video on how to connect a 4 inch dryer hose to a 4 inch dryer pipe coming out of the dryer? And how to do the same to the wall pipe?

Any ideas about how best to tint the Vulkem 45SSL? I’m looking to have it match a beige-ish “southwestern” color concrete. Thanks.

What item can i use to seal a gap between my draveway and house wall which leads to some leakage to my basement.

If you are going to redo the Sika self levelling section, how would you go about removing the old application and prepping the area for another application? I imagine if it did its job, it is well adhered to the side? Or maybe it will come out like the adhesive that new credit cards come attached to paper?

@JohnDoe-mp1zk

Жыл бұрын

power washer, wire brush and and propane torch

Great video! By the way, how do you like your F150?

Is Vulkem better to fill concrete cracks than Quickrete?

Yeah the great stuff, I commented on.. it’s notorious for collapsing over time.. and I don’t feel like that leveling was at all professional, or a lasting fix..temp sure.. but if I looked out and saw a contractor drilling holes and filling the holes..I’d 2nd guess my decision on hiring him…with that said though…time will tell if I’m wrong, and I’m excited to see if it holds.

@RCinginSC

Жыл бұрын

I really had high hopes for the great stuff working as a support base for the pad since there is a product for setting fence posts using a similar expanding foam which works very well.

@Jacob-ft3oz

Жыл бұрын

@@RCinginSC must be a closed cell type foam. The reason the great stuff collapses is because it is open cell. Great stuff (open cell foam) is a great insulator but has poor compression strength.

@RCinginSC

Жыл бұрын

@@Jacob-ft3oz sounds about right. Since I don't know any better, we'll go with that.

@AverageReviewsYT

Жыл бұрын

@@RCinginSC urban rescue ranch used the post foam.. he said it was terrible.. he ended up switching to concrete.. I believe it shrunk if I recall and the posts were loose.

I have a gap between my house and my concrete porch steps. It's about 2-3 feet high, and half an inch wide. Do you have any suggestions on how to fill that?

@2:14- No question your slab was going to go back down. The professional services do not use Great Stuff type foam. That stuff is open cell foam and very compressible (and will suck up water if/when the skin is damage).

How about concrete instead for the wide gaps?

I'm going to say it again - press wash / wire brush scrub out, clean it and let dry, use fine kiln dried sand to fill all the cracks, it will fall right into every little crevice filling up better than backer rod and you don't have to worry about different sizes, then quality self leveling product. I used Novalink SL and Sikaflex SL. 12 big tubes of Novalink then ran to HD for 2-3 tubes of Sika. I tried a small tube of the non self leveling Sika in a couple of spots on my sidewalk and it was garbage - didn't make it 1 year and just pulled up.

@stevesether

Жыл бұрын

This is good advice. This is largely what I did with my cracks as well. The Silka product works very well, but you DO have to clean out the crack/joint as you mention with a pressure washer.

@SilentEarthMovers

Жыл бұрын

I experienced a problem when I pressure washed or even hose-washed cracks. Even though the expanded area that I intended to caulk was only 1/4" or 1/2" deep, the cracks actually ran all the way through the slab. When I introduced water, dirt came up through the cracks, muddying everything up. How did you avoid this?

@whattheschmidt

Жыл бұрын

@David Siegal I probably had better drainage. I would try a leaf blower right after pressure washing and see if that's clean and gets the water and dirt out of the way. If it keeps coming up, I think there's a problem with grading. Water should be at the top though, not dirt / mud after power washing.

@SilentEarthMovers

Жыл бұрын

@@whattheschmidt Thanks, I’ll try that out

Do you think the sika or the vulkem is a better sealant? After watching you earlier video, I sealed several cracks on the top 1/3 of my driveway, after I had it professionally mud jacked. Prior to the mud jacking, I had a 2-4imch drop from garage floor to driveway. Now it's pretty level. I didn't want water getting back under those slabs so I sealed with the silka. It was actually quite a job and I went through a lot of product. After cleaning.the joints, I used fine sand below the silka. That seemed to work well. I do need to sal several remaining cracks this summer, so wanted to know if you preferred the sika or vulkem? Which do you think will last longer

@COVIDisA_HOAX

Жыл бұрын

I just leveled some cracks too I was wondering if you could just fill in the cracks with sand and then put the silka over the sand?

You are missing a link. A link to buy that sweet branded hat!!!!

You'd be better off using a hybrid silane polyether caulk like the one Rapid Set makes. It lasts much longer and will even adhere in wet conditions. Always give it sand after you caulk.

Vulkem 45 ssl is hard to find and is very expensive.

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The question you did not address is: how will these hold up in the face of the inevitable weeds? Will I be able to pull out a weed without destroying the seal?

@johnoberg5084

Жыл бұрын

The amount of weeds that grow in the cracks will be proportional to how much dirt is present for the weeds to take root. If you have a persistent weed growing through the seal, Pull the weed, remove that section of the seal, apply a herbicide, and reapply the seal using the techniques in this video series.

the 45ssl is like 60$ a tube! no thanks

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@2:14 "The results are a bit mixed here"? That whole sponsored project was an utter failure: costly, time-wasting, and ineffective. Mixed results? It failed THE DAY AFTER, I bet even before editing the footage! Yet, you decided it was better to just publish it and put a sponsored link. Shameless

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