Pouring a ~900 sq ft Concrete Pad (basketball court)

deezler · Jul 15, 2025

Not much new to report on the concrete pad. It got nailed by a young lady driving one of those heavy delivery vans for amazon that are made by rivian. She pulled a hard u-turn around my driveway island and didn't care one bit not to hit the concrete on her way. No issues noted though, thankfully. Edit: just realized that is the rivian van tire front tread in the picture below, haha.

My daughter and her friends are using it more than anyone else so far, for their chalk adventures. The broom finish really grinds up chalk sticks quickly!

RjCorazza · Jul 15, 2025

deezler said:
Not much new to report on the concrete pad. It got nailed by a young lady driving one of those heavy delivery vans for amazon that are made by rivian. She pulled a hard u-turn around my driveway island and didn't care one bit not to hit the concrete on her way. No issues noted though, thankfully. Edit: just realized that is the rivian van tire front tread in the picture below, haha.

My daughter and her friends are using it more than anyone else so far, for their chalk adventures. The broom finish really grinds up chalk sticks quickly!

Plenty of uses for a concrete slab!
Chalk art was about the only use my 25x30 basketball court slab ever got... Until I built a pole barn over it 25 years later.

Nice work btw.

EddieWalker · Jul 16, 2025

I'm guilty having fun with chalk on the concrete too!!!!

MossRoad · Jul 16, 2025

Kids bugging you? Give them a bucket of chalk and send them out to the driveway. They'll always come up with some great stuff!

I have a sister that can do stuff like this... I just shake my head.

dougtrr2 · Jul 16, 2025

Had all 6 grandkids here and they were playing with chalk on the driveway. Somehow they decided to lay down and get their outlines traced. Great fun, but when they left it looked like a horrible crime scene.

Doug in SW IA

deezler · Jul 16, 2025

Haha yep. We are definitely beating some summer boredom with chalk time lately. It's been hot and steamy most days but thankfully the biting bugs are not bad at all.

deezler · Feb 12, 2026

Thanks to the notifications here, somebody liked a post. I had forgot to finish this thread with the final update. I bought a basketball court line stencil kit. Kind of a piece of crap and hard to lay out, but I think free-handing it might have been even worse.

Winter snow plowing (more this winter than previous several combined) meant I've done a lot of hard scraping on this concrete slab, and much of my line paint is now missing! Will have to touch it up again.