hi guys Kirk and J ayhere with Kirk Giordano plaster and today I want to address a question
I get asked often what happens when your grout deteriorates in brick well it happens its age
this is about a 90 year old house and you can see all the grout that's gone here how do you fix that
well you can skin it you can tear it all off and redo it or you can skim it most people just skim
it and I'll show you what we've done on the other side I've got this board here cuz I don't want to
lay in cold mud it's early in the morning and it's about 40 degrees over here this was the same thing
we were here last week and we ran out of mud see this brick right here we're going about a
inch and a half two inches thick so what we're doing is I have my brother Lou he gave me some
Portland cement and this Portland cement we buy it in excuse me we buy it in bags we mix our own sand
with it then we put some accelerators in it so I can go this thick right here without having to
come back another day so this I did yeah last week - it was about two inches thick but you notice
this is raw concrete now the fellow I'm doing this job for he pressure wash this and he used about Oh
3,000 psi what does that mean that means that he got all of the remaining route that was coming off
house and he got all the dust dirt grime and crap out why did he do that because stucco or paint or
any thing will not adhere to a dusty surface so what I'm doing here is I'm just skimming this I'm
putting on about anywhere between a half inch to three quarters of an inch because what we want to
do is preserve that grout we also want to make it look pretty we gotta figure out cosmetics as well
as guidelines so when we're done we want everybody say hey it looks great alright so that's what we
do we apply it there like so then what I'll do is I'll take a float now let's see here for you
folks you say what's the float load is there's a hard rubber float there's a green sponge float
green sponge float just has water you use it with water what I want to do is when I get some of the
water out of here not all of it because I want to bring the aggregate of it or the sand out of
this to make it look good what we do is just back and forth like that clean it up start here clean
up that top where I intentionally got stuck oh we floated this way and the appearance is
a sandy finish will that protect the grout that's deteriorating absolutely how long will it protect
it Oh 100 years 200 I'm not an engineer but this this is a permanent fix I'll show you what we did
last week here so you get a better idea now it's really cold in the morning so it's still kind of
wet ish looking it's dark and light in some areas but anyway that is how you repair deteriorating
grout in bricks or even cinder block anyway guys we appreciate you watching and as usual we'll
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