Hello guys Kirk and Jay and family and friends here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today first of
all happy holidays guys, today what we're going do is we're going to reinforce this cinderblock chimney
why because it's deteriorating here and there it's cracking and it's doing a whole bunch of stuff
that the homeowners don't like they contracted with an engineer who come out he said Kirk, what
would you do I said well I go with a deep furred wire I'd go with an inch of stucco he says well
we're gonna do one better than that and I thought okay don't listen to ole Kirk, so this is what they
come up with they put this wire this generally for concrete they've screwed it into the grout then
they placed the corners here at an odd angle why did they compress the corners what they did was
they took a corner aid and squished it flat like that to come up with two inches why do they want
two inches for the extra strength I I personally thought an inch was fine anyway so two inches this
is two inches their screeds or two inches on the side there now what does that mean guys to take a
look at this all right that corner this corner have to line up with this now normally this is
it's all lined up here now you might think man how many coats you got to do to go two inches thick,
well technically three-eighths a coat figure figure it out but Jason and I, we're gonna
start at the bottom generally, we start at the top because we're putting so much mud but when
you hit this rebar it's going to have a tendency to want to fall so I'll start from the top we'll
work our way right up and what I'll do is say like I'll start here my first coat is gonna be on here
now I'm gonna go real thick I'm gonna fill this out because my first coat right here is going to
come this way and then we're going to start in the middle I'm probably going to go about a half inch
to 3/4 possibly for my first coat, we're going to do that anywhere between three and four times to
bring this out to two inches thick and everything again has to align so we're gonna get busy we're
getting mud all over the place we're gonna set a board here when we get to that stage Jen I'll
show you what I'm referring to and then we'll show you how to do those scratch marks which are pretty
important again you see this is blue that's weld create a bonding agent even the wire is coated
because we want the stucco to adhere to the wire real well so anyway these fellas did a great job
with this so-called looks like rebar type of laughs to me anyway we're gonna get started
we'll show you when we get to that stage okay guys we're gonna get started here I'll show you
what I think best way to do this is now granted you see this corner this corner somewhat weird so
I'm holding it in place because it has a tendency to flex why is it flexing because it's 2 inches
thick it's bent so the first thing I want to do guys get some mud in it and now because we're
doing two inches thick I'm going much thicker then I would normally do obviously now when I
get that part done Jays handling that's nice I'm handling this side and notice I'm starting at the
bottom we're gonna work our way up why because we start at the top we will lose all kinds of mud and
it's gonna lose all kinds anyway this is an odd thing we're doing but I thought it'd be kind of
interesting to show you folks anyway we are out of mud Lou is gonna give us some more mud we're
gonna get started to notice how this is coming out it's coming out because it can that's why
we're starting from the bottom when we get this whole thing the first coat I'm gonna scratch
it and I'll show you explain a little bit more about what the heck we're doing all right first
time I actually ever went over this and it's a bit of a drag but anyway we got it done now
what we want to do is we want to put some deep scratch marks in it because in an hour actually
in about 40 minutes this is going to be hardware if I took a hammer it won't come off I doubt any
of you guys will have to go this route because this isn't typical of what we do but there's a
lot of improvising I've done fish ponds we've stuck old mountains we've done retaining walls
we've done swimming pools, you name it we have done it and can do it it just takes a little
bit of knowing what you're doing, and how to do it okay guys we are hustling doing some weird stuff
like this what we do is we adjust our mud because first we found out it's a little too soupy so we
stiffened it up a little bit more cement to make it so this first fat coat goes in there because
what happens is it's falling out this is fun it's quite this challenge so and these bars right here
I just had to suggest hey let's remove the bars hey let's not remove the bars look how high up
we are I'll rather have them bars in the way and work around them then remove them bars because
let's take these bars off get scary did I mention guys that we're high up and it's misting on us
this myth feels real good because if it were a hot day man we'd be struggling I just went and
talked to my brother Lou no you're going to the gym after this because he's done about a
truckload already he had to laugh anyway guys going up then what are we doing we're coming
right back down starting it again another three a stand doing the same thing we'll spare you that
second time but we'll show you a little bit more as we get to that stage all right guys this is our
third coat guys what we're doing is we're allowing each coat with that which gives us
the opportunity to put the next one what we do here is close we got this where we want it and
the base coats, both of those other coats are set we rod it with a Darby, we take this guy here and makes it
all true and plumb and level me holidays just put it on there there's like snow that's gonna
give us a wall chew and plumb when we get to that stage where we are almost like a couple
holidays here and here drew it out with a Darby or rod you could have a rod to do this but
Darby got handles a lot easier all right guys this after lunch I'm doing the fun stuff now we
are getting two inches chew and plumbing making it pretty and given the cap a way to roll off
we don't want water sitting up here so anybody guess we were added by looking at the location
we got San Fransisco Bay on that side and we got tennis courts we got all kinds of good stuff up
here, but anyhow we are doing the fun stuff oh I do love to do this part takes a little
bit of skill let's try to do this round it all off and make it pretty we want it so that the
water sheds off, we don't want this to hold water so I'm finishing up this little piece here
and as soon as we're done we're gonna go down and play tennis right down there I'm kidding
there we go and Nick next thing is the floating okay guys not the real easy part once you get get
that mud on there and let it set for a while it's just a matter of flow to everything out
and what I generally do is put a slope on here so water doesn't set on the top we clean this
flashing make it pretty it doesn't matter if water runs on to the stucco it's good for the
stucco in fact it's supposed to rain tonight that's also good for the stucco so we do it
like so again there's my favorite part doing radiuses tho doesn't look good the pigeons
won't sit on it anyway we are about to go down we're almost to the end of this and good thing
because running out of daylight we'll see you when we get to the bottom and show you the ending
okay guys we are done with this chimney that is three truckloads of sand and cement at the end
of the day we're tired we're gonna go home as close to Christmas yeah we just wanted to say
Merry Christmas Happy Holidays when we started doing this four years ago we didn't know where
we'd end up and now we've got this will be our about our five Million views, we've got
about ten thousand subscribers we got people emailing us calling us every day saying they
love what we do since you guys like it and we like doing it we're gonna keep doing it thanks
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