Howdy folks, kirk and Jason here with kirk giordano plastering,
Today i want to show you guys how to save your brick concrete tile slate
on a 100-year-old house. Actually, it's almost three o'clock now in the afternoon. We started
this morning at about eight o'clock, and i did a video i was showing right here.
The video showed I'll put that video in the link, by the way, and the video showed this right here,
and the brick was even with the wall, and there was just a little bit of paper, just a tiny bit.
Now the city the codes and common sense says how you're going to waterproof
your concrete your brick you've got open windows here, the rain is going to come from the southwest
and go through these windows it's going to sit on this and now granted this 100-year-old house.
It hadn't beaten it up too much back when they did this brick. They used a heavy felt,
well that felt is disintegrated, so Jay and Dan, my other son, spent a few hours here.
What they did was they meticulously use this bolt Milwaukee, and they just kind of chiseled it out,
loud noise anyway they chiseled it out they vacuumed it and then what we do the city says,
well gee, i want at least four our weep screed. We have to put a weep screen,
so the city says i want some clearance there, and they will allow us to go between code, and
cosmetics usually call for an inch, possibly two for roofs. It's two for foundation perimeters from
the ground to these. They want six if you can get it. Sometimes we can't even get two inches
but anyway, what we have done here is these guys have broken all this out, and we've shoved the
metal in, and here are what we're doing, guys. Now you know i'm kind of fond of
this Sickaflex polyurethane 1a because it's an adhesive sealant, and you put it in there,
then you squeeze this in, and you tack it on, or you could use this black stuff so it really won't
show, but that's going to be regrouted anyhow i'm going to show you a little bit about uh
what we're doing first i'm going to squeeze this tube of caulking in here.
This stuff is uh nasty. Don't get it on you guys, but this is the best uh waterproofing
adhesive that i'm aware of nasty stuff. If it's in the heat, it'll come out of this tube real easy,
but it's a real cold day today, so i gotta squeeze it real hard to get it out now.
We squeeze that out, and all this is it acts as a moisture barrier.
That's what it is. It's a gasket. Hence, we always want a gasket
you squeeze that on there like that i advise we're going to do that to uh
cut a big hole in it what we do is we cut it big hole put a screwdriver in there and poke
it a whole bunch of times then next you get your flashing so to make this presentable for the city
and for us to pass the lath inspection. we had to have some kind of membrane there
a hundred years ago, that was okay. Still, it won't work today.
We need some kind of metal. Hence, what we did is, again,
they cut this out and cut this little piece of flashing, and we've already done this
pretty much all the way around the whole house. We're gonna get it in here nasty stuff once that
caulking gets on it. forget it liver alone, okay so we're about right and this way now
this is permanent uh we'll grout that right there and yeah they got a waterproof grout
waterproof stucco waterproof everything so what i'm gonna do is I'll put a couple staples in here
ah, right in my way, I know but
Okay, now for cosmetics guys you say man i don't want to see
two inches i'll usually use a two by four which is an inch in a half and i'll use that as a template
just a guide template same thing we'll put these here because they had said man just put it as slim
as possible so it doesn't look stupid, so anyway then we then take this and we shoot this we shoot
it on with a staple gun this is 17 gauge this hammer attacker is not going to go through that
and once we remove that that gives us an expansion it gives us something to stop to and allows the
house to flex so and more importantly it gives us something to stop to we we've got to have a stop
point guys okay over here this we already did so generally i used this piece of wood and i put one
here one over there it doesn't line up every time no because it's a hundred year old porch
and whoever did the bricks back then see right here it's it's perfect and over there is perfect
right here it's a little bit more play that's okay you're never going to see that kind of stuff
and again now this can be grouded with caulking or anything else but anyway that's what you
would want to do if you want to salvage your bricks there's a lot of ways to do this guys,
this is a time-consuming way, but it works, and you don't have to mess with, your bricks,
your membranes. You can sleep comfortably, not thinking, hey, i hear termites eating that
wet wood. All right, guys,
I'll show you what Jay has done already. Now we've been here for a couple weeks,
what he's done, is he's got such a deep gap in here where he had to slide the flashing down, and
if you use this, this is uh more flex you could use it for walls for bricks you see those bricks
for brick tucking right here you could use this he used about 10 tubes of this polyurethane caulking.
Because polyurethane caulkings the Sika or Siaka1a if you get something comparable to this, it won't
shrink, so he filled up all of these one days and now we're here to just show you how to do the
um the caulking, and this will tie everything in my son dan says well dad you know they make rather
than a tip here they make these with a square top, and i thought you mean like this you cut it,
and then you cut it here so now when if you put it in a caulking gun it just shoots on the bottom
old school, but i was telling my son okay so let's get back to this do i need that tip no,
and all i want to do guys is i want to fill this up uh i want to fill it up i want to fill
it a little more than it's needed because ah again jay he started all this and he was going
to finish this, but he can't film himself doing this so this is what you do you just fill it up
and remember to fill it up a little bit more than you need because with the
float bucket, you could pull off any excess so
And again, guys, that cool tip that's a gimmick you don't need. You just put it in tight,
use a trowel, scrape it down, and use a float. I'll show you how easy that is, and can you do
this with bricks on the wall? Sure you can anyway i'm adding a little extra, so i have to come back,
and if this particular caulking it's got sand in it, so it's kind of easy to use for matching
tile grout or brick grout or whatever kind of grout you have all right put my gloves on
because i'm going to be using the water bucket now again jay's done all of this i'm just
showing you lift up one side comes down and all you do guys is fill that hole fill it up you
can get any excess that's all right get rid of it like that get rid of the excess then I'll show you
one more thing because i don't want my float to pull too much off I'll take the excess off with my
Margin trowel. This way, i'm not making a big mess.
Too late, okay now that we got that like so and that's pretty,
will this match exactly the color? No, it can't. It's 100 years old. Will it eventually match?
Sure, in about a month, as soon as dirt, dust, and grime get on it,
i could take some dirt from the yard and put it on it. Anyhow now here's what you do, guys. This is
the simple part. It's just like stucco. There's no difference, all right? You take your sponge float,
and you go over here, and once that's going to, it's going to smear it everywhere,
but that's okay. You just take it like that now, flip it around, use the other side, and flip it
like that. All right now, you have residues. Still, now you clean your sponge float,
and all we're going to do now, guys, is clean the brick so that when all this dries, it's prettier.
You probably want to get a full
bucket of water right now. You just like stucco; guys, clean it okay.
clean it
not too much water, or it'll stain just enough
one more time, and that'll do it
Beautiful, and of course, if i want it to match, i can pull some dirt and throw it on it, but that's
pretty cheesy anyway; that's how it is. Jason's been doing all this i just thought I'd show it to
you because i can't hold the camera, nor can he on himself. My name is kirk, Jason. On the camera, we
thank you guys for watching. There are a whole lot of ways to skin cat guys. This is just another way
we thank you for watching, and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one.