hey everybody my name is sam and i'm angela and welcome to our channel welcome back to the next
video of our series of taking you through a complete start to finish installation
diy style by two non-professionals of a multi-zone mini split in a mobile home
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the subject matter of today's video that being said what is the subject matter of today's video
so we are going to pour a concrete slab for our mr cool outside unit let's go
she is in the chariot of fire john deere style angel's going down to the van to
meet me to get concrete i got to get the wheelbarrow the tripod out of the greenhouse
and the hoe off of the barn carry the camera not drop anything so i'll just see you guys
when we get down there because i'll just drop everything if i try and do it all at once
we are down here next to our house for a little bit of a reference if you see a little silver
thing right there at the corner that's the little freezer roof porch thing yeah alcove
that we built on the back door right at our home so this is the best spot for us to place the pad
for the compressor to sit outside which is the box that is outside with the mini split system
the box itself is a little bit under four feet by two feet so we're gonna make our concrete
pad four feet by two feet which is gonna be plenty big enough but also give us a buffer
so that grasses and weeds don't just try and overtake everything so i think that'll work out
good we chose this spot because number one it is a pretty hidden spot large part of the time this is
junksville this is where toys fall and go to die or things just get kind of wild and overgrown
so grow up to your hip yeah so it's a good spot to put the mini split so it's out of the way
but it's also a good thing because it'll kind of force us to maintain the area better with lawn and
grass down here i think yeah i think so too or we can just cover it all with ag fabric and mulch it
that was my idea i like that idea it's pretty good it'd be nice and be maintenance free all right so
as far as tools that we've amassed for this whole project basically what we're going to be doing is
building a frame then mixing some concrete and pouring it to give ourselves a rectangle i have
our cordless miter saw i have our brad nail gun some scrap wood that i literally drug out
of the weeds down at my workshop we've got things like a hammer a level wooden stakes tape measure
stuff like that for building the frame the concrete itself comes in 60 pound bags well that's
what we bought yeah and you just take that put in a wheelbarrow mix it up with a hoe add water
and pour it this will be fun this will be kind of the first time that we've really done
concrete stuff this will be our first time doing concrete on youtube
and our first time doing concrete in what 10 years at least yeah so hey what do we say let's go
it's probably worth 60 dollars nowadays using 60 wood for forms
keep filming it's going to go quick
i shaved a little bit off that way i don't have to measure to know you know both 24 inches or
whatever just cut them both the same length you're good it's concrete forms have all the pieces cut
now and what i'm going to be doing is assembling the frame with our brad nailer now i hear you
you're out there thinking brad nailer dude it's not going to hold nothing together you got to put
some screws in that thing and make it beefing well the frame has to come apart after the concrete is
cured and brad nails are good because things can come apart easily if you put a little bit of force
or elbow grease with them in addition to that when we get to the part where we're attaching
the frame to the stakes the brad nails will probably go through the stake and the frame
into the concrete and leaving a little pin hole in the concrete is less noticeable than a screw in
addition to that the concrete would bite under the screw and not let out as easily so that's the why
behind the guy using a brad nail for a concrete form just wanted to explain that before i do it
beer me no i'm sure nail gun beer you you don't drink beer
oh boy do i get tested sure you get to shoot them with my fingers
wait make sure your edge lines up i can't see it
when you're good wait a second okay get my
go oh that just shot out and blew it apart can't have nothing it's in this fast do some more
wait i want to get out i want to get in my safe zone here okay go to it
let's see how many we have
first one now i'm gonna break it
we wanted to space it off the house about six inches or so just so it's not on the side of
the house and i did that's it yeah you're supposed to talk for 10 minutes like sam
does is this six inches no it looks like it just a wiggly foot swift yep that'll work all right
okay this side hang on like i can't let this go without measuring i'm sorry
we're just like busting the wood apart
okay
about 600 gallons
we are done building the frame attaching the frame we didn't square the frame we didn't level the
frame but we like to live dangerous and just go rogue on something that really doesn't matter if
it's square nobody's really gonna see it just a couple thousand people out there on youtube
people who come and visit all right if you're coming to visit you're gonna have to overlook it
if you're gonna find it don't look at it so everything is put together our form is together
we got the supports and everything we did not level it but since we're not going to be filling
up the whole thing we'll it doesn't really matter yeah we're going to be using a trowel i believe
that's the correct terminology of the tool to smooth it and float it maybe it's a float now
that i said that whatever we're using that and we'll just eyeball it good enough for state work
like you said earlier if it's not level that's fine we'll say it's positive drainage so it
doesn't collect rain water there you go smart up next we're gonna start mixing concrete
i guess one bag at a time we'll do two okay uh-oh we're gonna go crazy two bags of concrete at once
we have four total four 60-pound bags so probably up using all four but i think
two is probably the most will fit the wheelbarrow probably so yeah all right
let's go get our stuff and see you guys at the concrete bag willow bro mixing station
thanks you're so supportive of my grammatical faux pas and inability to speak good on camera
all right don't get this dust you don't want to breathe it in okay it has silica in it
there we go good the wind's blowing that way
here comes
get mommy oh this is the one that's cracked that's why okay i was wondering how i'm getting sprayed
because i'm so hot so yeah we got ice packs oh my goodness yeah you know what daddy's
working on your ac as fast he can you'll be so cold you'll be wearing a coat in summertime
is
driveway
yeah one more
all right patty that cake on
the cake hardens like concrete
it's like it's a pond no this would be a yucky corn yeah swamps yay
why do you have to do it so much to get it smooth yeah just trying to get as smooth as
possible
there you go pretty easy that wasn't too bad at all i mean if we can do that in what maybe
an hour that didn't take long not bad at all using some scrap wood is always helpful for the concrete
forms um okay so the four bags were probably more than we really needed because that's slack being
like that thick she's thick but i mean maybe that's also a good thing it's higher up off the
ground i know it's beefing it is beefing i have to say doing like the trowel or whatever on top
it's very relaxing looking like something you'd watch on instagram or whatever where it's just
like huh and you can't quit like messing with it either just to get it totally perfect yeah because
there's a line there is a line but it is what it is i think it turned out really good considering
we are not concreteologists we don't have a degree in semitisms so so i guess in hindsight
we probably could have gotten away with just three 60-pound bags of cement or concrete mix
so if you're doing a similar size pad roughly four feet by two feet and your ground is fairly level
like ours was you can get away with three but there are less than five dollars a bag
so something cheap at the hardware store we did use a high strength mix that was not on purpose
or was not specifically sought out it was just what was available in our local hardware store
otherwise we would have used just your general purpose mixture like you know you sitting fence
posting the ground with you know nothing's fancy the unit itself that sits on the pad does not
weigh more than a hundred pounds i would estimate so you don't really need something high strength
well i am excited to get moving forward on this project um it was 85 degrees in the house
yesterday and probably very similar today it is much cooler under the trees here and the breeze
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who's talking i think the frame has to come apart
after the concrete is cured and so brad nails don't come a car see
no it's not seeing me i need you i need help i need your help please
it doesn't work my face shall not be covered up all right all right no you're supposed to say so
remember in the video do you not watch the youtube videos i do
flip honey flip hang on i'm trying to do this in a way that i won't break it
what are you doing you're dancing with it huh we need to put down a concrete pad to put the
handler on is it the handler what's it called the compressor say the outdoor unit okay
have you watched the latest one i don't know well in there there's a blooper because i'm like
i always say all right and you're like oh we say so and we did all right so all right so hey cool
that's because that's yeah that's me saying in my head all right so but then i say so