Hello folks kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastron today I want to show you
guys something kind of unusual this infinity ball Ramada ball what they have here they
asked me Kirk we're doing a lot of work over here they asked me Kirk can you fix this and
I said well technically no and so what what can you do to help out I said well here's
what you have going on guys you have to know a bit about spalling what is falling falling
is when you get concrete and this concrete this ball is an infinity type where when it's filled
up the water cascades over here in a sheet of like glass it's it's gorgeous it's really cool
I've seen it about 20 or 30 years ago I was here and I was looking at it thinking wow that's cool,
today we're here to fix it you see can you get a close-up of this crack Jay is this this crack
right here folks this is a huge crack and then this part had a crack and that's why it popped
off and there's a crack over here and it's it's pretty significant what does that mean guys right
now you could see the breath coming out of my mouth it's cold and I mean this is it the Sun
is just starting to come up over the horizon so when it gets about 30 degrees 33 is freezing so
what happens is over this bowls been here like 33 35 years what happens is the water goes in
this crack here and it goes in this crack here and when it freezes it expands so he goes through the
freeze thaw and when the water expands in here it pops concrete apart and sometimes exposes
rebar and things like that we actually did a video about five years ago explain something like that
on a concrete building so I told the fellow here I said well gee if I hit this with a pressure washer
I will disturb this guy here and possibly pop it off if I take my hammer chisel drill and anchor
some in here I'll chip more off so what we're gonna do is lightly hit it with a wire brush
I'm gonna put a poly bond here poly bond is the cement estimate irreal that attaches styrofoam
as a scratch coat and then we're gonna come back and match this by eye I told him gee whiz we can't
get the color here if you go on the we go on the top you'll see it's beautiful and what-what I when
I say beautiful it's 30 years of water running over the surface here which exposes the rocks
the aggregate the rock is just a fancy word for for aggregates in stucco it's sand and concrete
it's rocks so it exposes all of these the glitter which is sand it it's gorgeous on top I total or
we can just glue these back on and just a joke anyway I want to go up top and show you what
what it looks like and why nobody could really match this once it's 30 years old well we got a
perfect opportunity to show you the top of this infinity pull now these Ducks they don't mind us
I used to have a fish pond that a three-level fish spawn and we had a lot of ducks and I'll
tell you they're really cool to look at but man those ducks they eat every fish in sight and they
make a big mess here I'm at a shopping center so there's thousands of these ducks and geese
and I think that looks cool but I hate to clean up behind them because I used to do that when I
had mine but Jay come on over here I want to show you show something point out something all right
guy you see how you see all these stones right here and you can see a lot it looks like glitter
it's not glitter it's just sand looks like glass like sand and glass from the original aggregate so
all of this sand that's exposed how's a fella gonna match something like that where it took
30-something years of this water cascading over here to erode it all we can do is the best we
can when we get to that stage I'll show you how we do it but notice again this is why I told the
fella when he says well what's what's the best you can do a says gee you got to know your limitations
and I do this for a living I know what we can do and I know what we cannot do and this really can't
be salvaged you see this crack here and guess what two guys right now it's around 6:30 in
the morning maybe 7:00 so and it's kind of cold if it were 3:00 in the afternoon and if it ever
heats up today which we're in winter doubtful this crack will disappear why because when the Sun hits
it it expands so you won't see this crack anymore but I've been doing this well over 30 years sorry
you know what I'm I know what to look for it I know what we're capable of correcting and what
we're simply not capable of correcting anyhow I wanted to point that out because part of fixing
something is you got to know why it's broken the first place all right guys back to how we
repair this right here naturally we can't match a finish here with exposed aggregate that water
cascades over for 30 years however he says Kirk just do the best you can and so I told well we'll
do the best we can what we did is we wire brush this and then once we wire brush all the dust
off because nothing adheres to dust we used a poly bond poly bond is a cement tshis adhesive
and that's about the strongest adhesive that I'm aware of it's what they hang styrofoam molds on
all the buildings around the country with and so what I did was we put a poly bond on here we just
brushed it on then I took a corner aid and cut my piece of corner aid and this piece of metal
is on here now that's probably bonded on there now that just had a chance to set up and dry so
that if anything is going to adhere this is going to adhere if it doesn't it doesn't because these
are some of the things you can do and cannot do water comes over here and when we get to 30
degrees water goes into the cracks and expands that's how ice is formed freezing it freezes
and pop and pops it off so I total my hey what do the best we can with what we have to work
with so right now what I'm using right here this soda brown color it's isin wall eyes and wall is
a white cement and the brown is just this color of the sand so we're using the color of the sand
the natural sand and we're using the color of the Eisen wall which is white and that's what
gives it this tan appearance okay so I'm gonna finish putting this on and then I actually put
a few stones in this that's why it's not adhering there's some pebbles on the ground and I thought
well gee whiz we'll give it a best shot to match these pebbles so what I'm gonna do is put this on
and then I'm gonna try to expose the aggregate and when I say expose the aggregate how do you
do that you apply water I'll tell you expose it so okay a little bit more right here just to fur it
out a little bit and then now what I'm gonna do is take a float bring these tools down set them down
here boom and I'm gonna bring up a float what is a slow a green sponge float this brings out
the aggregate it's just water now I don't want too much water at first because I put too much
water it's just gonna wash right off so getting us much water off of here as I can and then I'm gonna
pull up first if I pull down the whole corner can come off so I'm gonna pull up and get my corner
get that off then I'm gonna put a little bit more water on here now to try to get underneath and
this is just going flat going flat like that and where it's a little Humpty turn that float around
and here you can see my own rocks that I put in here which makes it a little tougher for me to
try to get this right but I'm trying to expose the aggregate like what they have for thirty years of
the water cascading down it that's how we get exposed aggregate on cement also guys okay now
I'm gonna take it here I'm gonna take it here and when this dries is it gonna be the same color no
but you got to know your limitations guys and I definitely know my limitations we're pretty good
at stucco and matching finishes but there are some things you just cannot do and this is one
of them but I did tell the fella well we do the best we can so when this dries it's gonna be a
lot lighter than this but he says Kirk no worries the waters gonna cascade over it as in an infinite
pool so I'll show just do the best you can that's the best we can anyway my name is Kirk I'm with
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