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Well, I'm putting the drains in. I've already got the first one just set
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It's not exactly where I want it, but it's good enough. But I wanted to show you this particular system has got male and female interlocking parts
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and it also has arrows on it. You probably can't see it very well, but there's an arrow pointing to go down this way
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So you've got to put the things in right so that the seams butt up really well
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So you just put it in like this, just like that, and we're in really, really good shape
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Now all I have to do is make sure that I've got the distance from the side of form there
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I wanted five inches between here and here in the form, and I needed four inches down at that end
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So let's see where we're at. So you can see I'm at four inches
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So I need to come over a good inch. You know, we need to come over
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And then down here we got three inches so we need to go this way about an inch We getting close now
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So there's four and three quarter, so we just need to be over this way a little bit
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half, five, five. That's about where I want it. That's really pretty good right there
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And now all I have to do is just put on the two ends. And those, same thing. They're just little parts
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I'm going to squirt a little bit of cock on it to seal it. And then the concrete is going to hold them in place
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That's the beauty of this whole system. So it's going to work out really, really well here
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So I'll show you that as soon as we get those two done. We'll put the tops on
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and we're going to be ready to pour the rest of the concrete. I've got the drain all put together
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and we are ready to mix the final batch of concrete that's going to go around the two ends and the long edge
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Check it out. Look. So we went ahead and put in the end cap This particular end cap has got a 2 PVC pipe You can see the pipe right there and it going to stick out the form there And once the concrete hard and I pull the form out
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we'll be able to glue the piece and we'll make the piece go to 3 inch, you know, to get, you know, down to the
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down the hill. But now we've got the grates in and we're going to put in concrete now
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and we're going to finish this concrete between this edge here and up here
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And that's what it's going to be our screen line so that the water flows into this drain
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It's that simple. So we're ready to mix concrete. I'll tell you what we'll do
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We'll mix some up. We'll put some in and I'll show you exactly the process of what we're trying to do here
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And I think it'll make complete sense to you. The wind's picked up a little bit
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Sorry about that. But, you know, the weather changes. I want to show you where we're at right now
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started to put the concrete around the trench drain, and you can see it's pretty plastic
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It's a little thicker, I'm sorry, it's a little thinner than it was when we first put it down under the trench drain
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That's okay because I want it to be workable. One of the tricks is to make sure you kind of jiggle the concrete alongside the drain so that you fill up any boards You know you want to make sure that the concrete is nice and tight there
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and you want to do the same alongside the form board. Because when we take off the form board, I want the concrete there to be smooth
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not a bunch of honeycombs. A honeycomb concrete is when you see the rocks after you pull the
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form off. We don't want that, so we want to try to minimize that. Here's another thing I want to show you
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I wanted to show you a trick that in case You make a mistake and you run out of concrete like somehow you made a mistake
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You know and you don't have enough to finish the job You wouldn't want to do what I'm doing here and and then try to patch it in later because it's not going to look very good
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You would want to just keep the concrete lower like this and
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and then put in some nails at an angle that act like anchors
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so that when you put the concrete in the next day, it'll bond permanently to the concrete that you poured the day or two before, you know, when you ran out
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That's a quick little tip in case you make a mistake, and it can happen to anybody
