hi guys kirk here kirk giordano plastering, with my sons jason and dan, we're doing today
is showing you how to water tight a chimney as best as possible with what we got to work with
what we got down here is we had just the brick so what we did is we put a couple tubes of
uh caulking in here then we put up a a tyvek membrane then we put some more caulking then
we did two layers of paper and what i'm doing here is i'm taking this piece of rebar and go
all the way in back of this chimney and coming out the other side and if i can we've been doing this
for quite a while now because getting all the little scraps out of there now we got it to the
stage after about an hour or two of the the new paper is gonna go straight all the way through
and jason's gonna pull it out on the other side and we're gonna shift it down as far as we can
uh we're working with the contractors here they're removing these and putting the paper
flashing underneath uh but that's a that's another bridge we're crossing right now we're doing a few
things at one time so i'll show you how we take it here and then how we seal this area here too
a lot of ways to do a chimney i'm showing you guys this because i've been asked how to do
chimneys about 30 times and we've done about 30. anyhow there's metal that goes here and
goes inside here with a z channel but that's time consuming and i didn't recommend it on this one
there's also j channels to put here but because it goes all the way through
it's a different scenario they tore all the stucco off this house because all of the caps failed
but this chimney is in great condition it didn't fail so we're coming up with a different solution
every chimney comes up with a different solution anyway when we get to that stage we'll show you
okay guys now if you notice on this particular i just used a piece of rebar taped it to this you
got it on your side jay yeah we're good you see how jay and i are pulling this through that's
all the way through that's gonna watertight it when i get down in here i'm going to show
you another technique as soon as we get to that point we're actually working with the contractors
here they're uh a little bit behind us we're just too fast for them so anyway
we're putting it all together and as we get to the next stage we'll show you that too
a lot of ways to do this okay guys we are still waiting on a z flashing for
here the contractor uh it's getting late in the day he's supposed to have that out for us
um actually he's supposed to install that a long time ago but anyway now that we've got tyvek all
the way between here we are going to repeat that exact same process with two more layers of paper
and hopefully he'll be back so i can show you the whole thing here and then i'll show you how we're
going to seal between here and no we're not going to put plaster in there because i won't be able to
squeeze we're going to pull the wire through but i won't be able to squeeze the plaster all the way
in back especially on the bottom where we have a four foot piece but i do have a solution for that
all right guys i'm going to show you how we do that chimney in a second here the contractors here
i'm always hustling on my jobs but these guys got me working on this particular one
we all work together, and if somebody's not quite sure what they're doing, then we give them a hand,
especially if we have the time anyway, i show you, folks, what we generally do we
get a piece of z flashing we cut the edges off we're going to miter those bends it down
attack that guy in there but that's not what we are doing we're always multitasking every time i
do a job i'm multitasking i'm doing a whole bunch of stuff working with these contractors they got
me uh triple multitasking anyway this stuff here it's good it seals gaps most products we use say
they're water resistant this also says water resistant because if you say waterproof you're
getting a lot of trouble anyhow we were doing this stuff a buddy of mine had a bunch of wasps nests
and he tried veronica acid rotic acid gasoline he tried all kinds of weird things and um
i was telling a man aren't there more humane ways to get rid of the wasps and he said well he tried
this but it didn't work i said did you get a tube and so all i did was i got a tube and i put it on
this rebar i'm going to connect this tube in this tube and i'm going to go down to the very bottom
and i'm going to squeeze this in here and get this at the very bottom here where it really matters
because i want this to foam out and no i can't use cement i've and and plus we don't want to use a um
a channel here anyway this worked once i mean this works great you got this stuff that triple
expands you got this which expands about an inch i'll show you how we how i'm going to do this now
you folks don't have to do this i'm just there's a lot of ways to do this this is just the way i
i'm doing it now as i hit this can here it's going to spray and it's going to by tomorrow
it's going to come out all these seams and it's going to give me a watertight
seal in here so i start i start inside here with my rebar then i just squeeze this in and there it
goes it's going inside and i can actually see it filling that up so i'm going to keep on filling it
and anyway this is a tedious slow process but it does work um
my buddy when i told him about the wasps he ended up putting so many uh cans of this and he
said here kirk you do it and i said why me he said well you're not allergic to bees when i told them
hey why don't you go with a humane way of filling those holes up for the wasp to get killed
he said man you ever go to the hospital with both eyes swollen where you had to
have your family member drive you and i said no he said that's why i'm filling these holes
so this way i'll pull it out a little bit you can see what's what it's doing it's it's filling it up
and this is just my my way of doing this because i want to leave the best seal i can get on this
there's a lot of different ways to do this guys some guys will pour concrete or cement in there
it's not watertight okay guys different day what we had here is this foam was everywhere what i
did was i took my trowel i cut it here and then i gently cut it here we don't want to rip that paper
i got all this foam it was sticking out way to here and the idea again is this chimney i could
only get my stucco behind it about six inches this chimney is two and a half feet here it's
four here so what we don't want is i don't want a big air cavity behind this because
the mice will move in you'll get mice in there bugs all kinds of stuff so after this sets up
now we have a solid surface back there and usually when i when we were doing this we're multitasking
we're doing a tyvic stucco wrap here and if you don't start from the bottom and work your way up
we end up using a lot of this tape here to tape all the joints so that's why i was a little uppity
over there doing too many things at once but this this this particular system works well what i was
getting about earlier with those wasps and my buddy when he put that extra tube on that can
he sprayed it in there the next day looked like something out of a horror movie um science fiction
because the wasp hole was here and foam was coming out of 10 different spots meaning they had a whole
bunch of different ways to go in that's why i was thinking it's a good system for this
anyhow guys it's not about killing wasps i was just using that as an example it's about
getting rid of the cavity behind here because we really don't want an open spot for the mice
or so to move in i thank you folks for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one.