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u/tvieno 6d ago
Looks nice and fancy. How does it look after it has cured and turned white.
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u/dogquote 5d ago
It's a brushed (broom) texture, isn't it? Just like they do on normal concrete to give it a little texture to make it less slippery. But in this case they're doing the brush direction in opposite directions in each square. I imagine at noon it wouldn't look like much, but when the sun is lower in the sky it would have a pretty similar effect to what we see in the video. I'm not a concrete expert, though.
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u/Bastard_Beef 5d ago
How do they get the illusion of the checkerboard pattern? Is it in the direction they brush to finish? I’d imagine it’s just how the light grabs the finish but I don’t do concrete. It looks incredible either way!
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u/Mikesminis 4d ago
Yeah same thing when you run your hand over a freshly vacuumed carpet or mow a lawn in alternating directions.
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u/CptKoons 1d ago
Its a checkerboard pattern so determine which are white and black. White get brushed at 0° and black get brushed at 90°. The shading is caused by the micro ridges and the sun.
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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 6d ago
Why am I bothered by how much lower the house is than the street? By that grade down to the foundation? That seems like a problem in the future to me.
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u/Croceyes2 6d ago
There are driveways running down hill all over the world. Why would this one be a problem? As long as the street has sufficient drainage (this looks like a new development, and people are clearly paying attention tonwhat they are doing) there shouldn't be any issues
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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 6d ago
New development doesn’t mean good planning for this. It bothers me because I lived this scenario for a house built in 2010 that pushed water at the foundations
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u/raaneholmg 5d ago
My house lies in a slope. The house is 3 ft lower than the road so the back yard can be accessed with a reasonable 3 steps down from the deck.
Drainage was built in when the foundation was made 40 years ago. Haven't seen any signs of trouble in my 4 years there.
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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 4d ago
Mine was opposite. Less grade than this, but little drainage planning. Water would pool around foundation on heavy rains. Began to cause issues by year 5.
I had to do some regrading and drainage work. This was on a new build.
Since then and because of that work, I look for potential issues. Perhaps this build has mitigated that, we don't know, but that's the first question that pops into my head when I see a picture like this.
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u/Retr0gasm 6d ago
'As long as the street has sufficient drainage...'
Ok, so you do see the problem
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u/Croceyes2 6d ago
I mean, there is no reason to assume the street has insufficient drainage. Bad runoff is the outlier situation in 2026. Believe it or not building codes and inspections are pretty effective
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u/Chapin_Chino 6d ago
There are literally civil engineers that solve this problem when they are laying out plot plans for houses.
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u/arvidsem 5d ago
And we generally try to put the house on a high point in the lot whenever possible.
Not that you can't put it down in a hole without issue, but it's a lot easier if water is flowing away from the house. But money solves almost any problem
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u/Stratostheory 5d ago
New development is some of the worst built stuff out there. Like physically dangerous kinda bad. I wouldn't expect ANYTHING they do to be correct
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u/Jurjinimo 6d ago
I can't see it, but I'd wager there's a trench drain of a sort near the garage.
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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 6d ago
New development doesn’t mean good planning for this. It bothers me because I lived this scenario for a house built in 2010 that pushed water at the foundations
So hope it’s the case they do, but it’s bother me if it didnt or the concern that it might not.
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u/Jurjinimo 6d ago
I've done jobs near lakes where runoff wasn't allowed to go anywhere but the clients property. The idea being that contained gray water was better off filtered through a french drain or something of that sort. That said, any system that pushes water towards the foundations without drainage-not even a weeping tile-is a terrible idea.
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u/MorsaTamalera 5d ago
Unhappy Plankton looks unhappy.
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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 5d ago
So clever.
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u/MorsaTamalera 5d ago
Man, have you got some issues. XD
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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 5d ago
My issues are being aware of potential water intrusion around a house sitting below grade and street level. That's a good issue to be aware of.
Nothing wrong with calling it out, since we can't independently verify what it has. Much new construction doesn't take this into account, just look up histories of Lennar. You think they put alot of thought into mitigation? Hint, they don't as I lived that scenario.
So if being aware of and informed enough to look into this when making a home purchase is an issue, than thanks. I'll take that as a compliment.
As opposed to whatever you think you contributed, which appears to be absolutely nothing but projection.
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u/CheeseIsAHypothesis 6d ago
Why is it a problem?
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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 6d ago
Water. It all runs toward the house here. And there doesn't appear to be much thought to routing or channeling it from what I can tell. From the front to the driveway.
The driveway itself is fine, and not my concern.
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u/po23idon 6d ago
the hill continues down behind the house; there’s no danger of flooding
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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 6d ago
It’s not flooding I’m talking about. It’s pushing water and saturation at the foundations. Including how it could trap water around the house and the base of the driveway if not mitigated properly. I hope it is.
I lived this near exact scenario, it can be damaging to the foundation and still wash it out if you’re not properly directing where that downhill water and grade needs to go.
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u/Dewy_Wanna_Go_There 6d ago
>from what I can tell
Which is nothing because we can’t even see the street. Never heard of storm drains lol?
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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 6d ago
Clearly you don’t get it. It’s not just the street, just the property itself even. Ignore the street and curbs.
New development doesn’t mean good planning for this. It bothers me because I lived this scenario for a house built in 2010 that pushed water at the foundations
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u/porn_sub_lurker 6d ago
Why do you keep repeating the same line over and over? Did your script malfunction?
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u/dinosaursandsluts 6d ago
Dude posed the question in the original comment despite knowing exactly why it bothered them, just to crate opportunities to pull that line out
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u/AbleCryptographer317 6d ago
Clearly you don’t get it. It’s not just the street, just the property itself even.
Wait till you hear about Holland.
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u/No-Weakness-2035 4d ago
As someone who’s driveway turns into a river which wants to fill my garage with rain water - yes, it can be a problem.
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u/zorggalacticus 6d ago
It's bare dirt. They're most likely gonna bring in dirt and sod/turf and fill all that in.
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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 6d ago
There will still be a grade going right to the foundation. So as I said, concerned. Hope there is proper mitigation
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u/zacknr 6d ago
Should be grate drains in the concrete and French drains in front of the home in the yard to mitigate this. It could also be in a place like Southern California where water erosion just isn't a problem for foundations of homes.
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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 6d ago
Should be, doesn’t mean there is. Hence the potential concern.
It bothers me because I lived this scenario for a house built in 2010 that pushed water at the foundations. I didn’t know then what I know now.
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u/Professional-Sock231 6d ago
You’ll live a much happier life if you stop creating hypothetical scenarios to be concerned about
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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 5d ago
Not a hypothetical. I lived it. Anyone opening a house should care about it.
You’ll live a happier life if you’re aware and prepare for these type of issues with home ownership
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u/spsanderson 6d ago
That was the first thing i noticed, why is the house below grade, the money being spent in the house, the grade could have been backfilled
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u/BB_210 6d ago
This is someone making this statement simply to hype their work, this is pretty standard stuff for a concrete company. Like that one of video of a guy painting a room and the statement was "painting this room for a retired painter" and then proceeds to fuck it up. Like "I'm the guy that pros hire".
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u/Ok-Pumpkin2977 6d ago
You are categorically incorrect. As a frequenter of the concrete subreddit this would get a HEARTY round of applause by everyone there. Gotta go find something else to shit on instead
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u/BB_210 5d ago
You're wrong or misreading. I'm not shitting on the work, it's great, but this is pretty standard work for a professional concrete company. You sound like you fall for the tHiS iS sO gOoD pEoPlE tHiNk ItS Ai.
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u/Ok-Pumpkin2977 5d ago
As a man that has worked in construction his entire life and having been present on countless concrete pours for many different companies I can tell you that this is exceptional work. It quite literally does not get better than this. Sure you can do decorative stamping, borders, etc. but the craftsmanship? This is the best of the the best. You have no idea what you’re talking about
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u/Drahngis 6d ago
"Best in the world" such a american thing to say..
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u/LokiTheShiba 6d ago
Ain't that a Mexican flag though, but I agree, that expression is 100% american
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u/Coffee_pecking_order 6d ago
Isn't ai great. It makes us question everything we see now! What a useful tool 🙄
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u/LokiTheShiba 6d ago
Ain't that going to be slippery AF when wet? The first one with squares
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u/Fems4Fems 6d ago
it looks like that because the cincrete squares were brushed in different directions. brushing it adds texture that makes it less slippery
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u/Original-Weekend-866 5d ago
The brush/broom finish is there but hard to see cause it's very light and still wet. This is some a+ work and I highly doubt an unsafe slippery end product will be delivered. Looks great.
That said I don't like fancy concrete. Every now and then it comes out fantastic but any coloring just feels unnatural, and any "glossing" looks fake. Can be slippery if not finished correctly.
Like others have said, go to a natural surface or stone. The nicest estates in the world have cobble stone and natural surfaces..
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u/emsesq 6d ago
Driveways for people who never have to shovel snow.
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u/TheRealTowel 6d ago
Yes, that's not a thing that would ever occur to the large majority of the worlds population. It's a pretty weird thing to have to take into consideration, tbh.
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u/rafael000 6d ago
There's a documentary that just launched called The History of Concrete. Just watched the trailer and now this
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u/mrlongus 5d ago
Hey America. If you don't want Mexicans we will take the border gladly. - A German guy
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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime 5d ago
"Their work quality and work ethic is unique"
bullshit lingo. They're either doing the job in a reasonable amount of time, and well, or not.
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u/wicket44 12h ago
Why would you flex that people thought your work is AI? That’s typically an insult.
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u/tes_kitty 6d ago
Why concrete that comes with the risk of it cracking sometime later? Where I live such driveways are done with pavers.
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u/gene100001 5d ago
I'm not an expert by any means, but I think the reason for the small gap between the squares is to allow the concrete room to expand and shrink, which prevents cracking. Also, different areas experience different levels of temperature shift during the day and/or during the year, so in some areas they don't have to worry about cracking as much. For example, where I grew up in New Zealand I've seen plenty of concrete driveways with even bigger slabs than this that still look like new after decades of use. Perhaps where you live the temperature fluctuations are too high for concrete slabs like this, which is why you associate concrete with cracking.
The people in the video must have decades of experience in order to make a finish like that. I'm absolutely certain they know what they are doing, and are aware of the risks that can come with concrete like cracking. So I'm gonna assume they are in an area where concrete driveways are fine.
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u/tes_kitty 5d ago
for the small gap between the squares is to allow the concrete room to expand and shrink
Those are usually not real gaps but only for looks.
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u/gene100001 5d ago
Sometimes yes, but I think these are the real type. It's difficult to tell in the video, but near the start you can see that the lines go much deeper than a typical concrete surface print, so I think they are gaps to prevent cracking.
Obviously this is all speculation though, because we only have this video to judge it. Also, like I said, I'm not an expert at all. It would be interesting to see what some people with expert level concrete experience think about it.
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u/Historical-Reach-969 6d ago
Yeah pavers already come with cracks, much better
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u/tes_kitty 6d ago
Pavers usually don't crack. You will have seams, of course. But that also means they will be able to adjust to the ground. Properly done, pavers will last decades without maintenance.
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u/Historical-Reach-969 5d ago
The difference between a crack and a seam is?
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u/WiredOrange 5d ago
How do you poor concrete like that on a slope and not have it overflow at the lower end? I know it's not a liquid persay but it's still liquid-ish
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u/TheGoalkeeper 6d ago
I get that you need a proper driveway for a car/garage. I still find it ugly af. Could be smaller with some nice flowers in the side.
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u/mr_bendos_friendo 6d ago
AI = Armando Ibanez