Hello Folks, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering.
got some advice for you folks on how to tell if your chimney is separating from the rest of
the house me I can tell because I did a little 10 minute tap sound' I'm going to show you what that
is but also some things about chimneys after all the years I've been in business we learned
that okay this chimney here what's about 10-15 tons the foundation is built but it may not be
built to handle the 1015 tons over say a period of thirty years much less a hundred years this
100 year old house we are on an extremely busy how street cars going big trucks there's about 20
high-rises right in this neighborhood so a lot of stuff going on and what happens is over the years
say say just say 10 for example although it's a hundred-year-old house the rain saturates the
ground it expands it contracts it then it shrinks so a chimney being 10 15 tons all it has to do is
think about an eighth of an inch 16th and it'll separate from a house is it the end of the world
not really it's actually pretty typical because foundations they usually don't engineer them for
all the extra weight I'll show you a quick tip that I came over here it took me 10 minutes the
other day to figure out what was wrong and how to fix it you guys can do this too okay the homeowner
said gee we had like 10 people look at it and I said don't tell me what they said let me look at
it first then I'll tell you and then you can tell me what they said anyway a lot of people said tear
it all down and one fella kind of agreed with what I what I said he actually crawled under the house
he was a structural engineer and he he said that walls a goner but I had already given my opinion
notice this okay listen listen I've got the mic right here listen to this sound what was that
that's brick a solid brick was stucco over it now we go to this wall that's pretty solid and stucco
over wood that's pretty solid now we go right into the crack your house that you can tell us loose
that's not such a big deal what we're prepared to do today is we're gonna just dig it out like
so and I expect to see what we got here I expect Oh 1/8 to 1/4 inch possibly up to 1/2 inch what
we're gonna do after we remove the loose stucco from here to the shoulder is we're going to put
a polyurethane caulking in here it's a non-sag caulking the best money can buy it stretches
flexes waterproofs and it adheres then we're going to put a little bit of stucco over that so it's
cosmetically pretty let me show you on this other side too and this is how I mean this is a pretty
big chimney guys Jay brought out the Bulldogs but we're not even gonna need that we're just
gonna use hammer here's what you're going to need a hammer possibly a cat's paw putty knife now this
side same thing applies now listen to the sound guys solid solid now here's the kicker that wall
is hollow it doesn't sound like the other wall very hollow why well they had a pipe here and
obviously this this water got in here 100 year old house we don't know we don't have any clue
of what they did 50 60 70 years ago but I have an idea they coughed it and they put some stucco over
it and now just like our bodies they're aging this rust gets on steel everything deteriorate
so it's deteriorated it's passed its life cycle what we're gonna do is renew it they know this
walls a goner can you hear that loose so I told her if it were me I'd replace the wall she says
Kirk we already know that the structural engineer told us that what we want is a temporary fix to
get us through for a couple years so that's what we're doing this big app right here we're going to
take the claw and we're going to knock it loose you hear that hollow sound I have to look just
listen for it once we remove that again what we're gonna do is that we're gonna Jason and I are gonna
clean this up we're gonna remove it and I'll show you how we apply a polyurethane caulking in there
which is pretty good stuff and then we're just going to put a bonding agent over this and put a
little bit of stucco over it to cover it well that fix it no if I put fibermesh tape in here or wire
will that fix it no it's not gonna stop a 15-ton chimney from moving it is still gonna flex even
with the best polyurethane caulking or the best call that epoxies they don't they simply won't
they're not made to adhere a chimney to a house so anyway we're going to get started break this
out and by the way we got two more of these we're going to today it's just they're very common guys
but it's not the end of the world I'll show you how we fix them alright guys simple stuff brick
is under here we just want to loosen up the stuff that is already live sometimes a cap Paul works
the best you just take it we actually want it out of there take it and just work your way out see
how that walls moving that uh that shows that the walls kind of a goner I don't worry about
this kind of stuff on my house cuz I don't have a chimney but anyhow what we want to do is open
this up another thing guys - I have a can I have a can of what's that nasty stuff expanding foam
this is this crack is so big right here that I think what I'll do is put some expanding foam in
here and then we'll caulk it - because caulking it won't bridge this big gap right here but the
expanding foam will and then the stucco will go on top and this is time-consuming stuff guys take
your time relax have a couple Coffee because this is gonna take us about an hour all right
guys nothing to it we're doing the caulking by the way this is a polyurethane it's not water
cleanup a bull it's a drag you got he is denatured alcohol gasoline whatever you want what I did is I
poked a stick in here heavy I want the biggest hole because this stuff is hard to squeeze out
if you put a little tiny tip and what you want to do is just fill that sucker put that tip way
in there and get it as full as possible and this won't expand by the way and yeah three tubes for
this one little side that's nothing and this is one of the better caulking that I've ever used
it's a good polyurethane caulking and it will stretch flex and waterproof over here I found
this to be interesting Jay asked me dead I've never seen a can of that on the truck I picked
this up yesterday because I kind of thought this might happen what we have here is the
black paper this black paper is intact guys it's still good it's great for a wall that's
deteriorated I didn't expect to see any paper and all I'm gonna do is spray this nasty stuff
in here this too is not water clean up a bowl but it'll do the job say some from right here
where the polyurethane caulking is just not enough we put this nasty stuff in here and
guys nothing adheres to dust we took a wire brush and wire brush to piss out of this wall
and say all we're doing guys just filling this up in this this particular stuff it's pretty
good stuff it will expand big-time and what does that mean when I'm done with this if I didn't use
accelerators in my stucco it would push the stucco right out tomorrow so we just fill that guy up
like that and the rest I can use a polyurethane caulking it's not that bad now what we're gonna
do is I'm gonna use a caulking for that and caulk that little bottom piece we're just gonna put a
bonding agent on it Jay's gonna mix me up some hot mud and that hot mud with the bonding agent
I'm gonna match this texture I'm pretty good at matching textures with caulking but this is too
large to match even with a more flex which has sand in it you can't couldn't do it so give us
a few more minutes we'll apply the bonding agent Jade's gonna mix me up some hot mud which as fast
as I put it on will harden otherwise tomorrow this will be coming out to here in a mushroom
it'll just look like fungus it'll come out to about here so we already know about that kind
of stuff okay guys no accelerators and this not necessary it didn't bulge but that's the finished
product I'll show you how we did it see this brown stuff on this Portland cement that is called human
ID and what does that mean that means it's an accelerator it will accelerate this so that it
hardens up in a matter of a minute instead of two hours or depending on how much I want to put in it
now here's a tip guys all right you see how that's coming out right there that's expanding foam for
you we've been messing around here for an hour or so so that's normal what you do is cut it off
nasty stuff to get on you guys that don't get it on you this darker stuff is well decree no
plaster adheres to painted surfaces so now I taste this right here which is hot mud it's
got luminite in it and I just fill this up now I had a fella he mailed me about a month ago he
says Kirk or all of those chemicals compatible and I said yes then I had a question for him I
said dude are you that kind of guy who goes to a barbecue or a pool party and notices only the
rocks instead of the girls in the bikini lighten up anyway now what we do is because this has got
luminite in it luminite that's this is gonna be hard in two to three minutes it won't be able
to pop through this stuff and all it takes is a coat of weld Crete which I'm using this bonding
agent do you need to use weld creed that's a lot of bonding agent guys I just happen to like it
because it's never failed me anyhow so we hit it here and what we're doing is we're just floating
it out now guys and just by the time I'm done here say in five minutes this will be hard as concrete
is supposed to be cement plaster anyhow there you have a guy I actually just did this video
to show you guys don't panic if you happen up if you have I found a chimney that's separating
it's usually not that big of a deal I've only told one person in 35 years tear the whole thing down
nest because it was tilting it and was about to fall on something anyway guys there you have it
my name is Kirk Jason on the camera as usual we thank you for watching I'm gonna see you guys on
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