alright guys this is material I'm using this is La Habra it's a polybond it is specifically
engineered for attaching styrofoam molds to Browncoats because it has a bonding agent in
it what I did is I mixed some then you wait a few minutes and you you remix it's called slacking the
same thing you do with tile so I add a little bit of sand here now this is just my way guys
I'm not telling you to do this because all the materials we generally show in all of our videos
are designed for specific use and we use them for exactly what they're designed for but since this
is unconventional and it's not designed for this purpose you guys don't do this I'm just showing
you what I do and I'll show you why alright now this I put poly bond on it and I added sand and
I filled up craters and this is what it looks like 29 years later I did it in 1990 over here now if
my driveway look this good I met my neighbor's house I wouldn't touch it because that's fine
they just added some tar so that it doesn't bottom up when you climb when you cross it
keep in mind my driveway I Drive a 8 6 ton truck over it that's empty just daily for 30 years it
looks good alright this is what my driveway used to look like it had four inches of tar above the
concrete and it had deep holes like that and so I pressure washed it well because not even poly
bond will adhere to a surface that dusty or dirty a grimy or slimy so the put that what I'm going
to use this product for is it's for the cracks and it works great in certain sick circumstances
because caulking it would be a three trip caulking adventure or some of the products made by a lot of
the friendly companies where you pour it in and you allow it to slack or set in these cracks I'll
be up and down for like four or five trips but this the product that I'm going to use I've used
it on my own residences for many many times for different things what I'm getting at is this is
so what I'm going to do and you guys can look and watch it but you won't find poly bond at any of
the stores it's a product that's usually sold at Westside or any of the large plastering building
material shops so anyway we're going to get busy and show you what we're going to do with it hi
guys Kurt Carl and family here let's show you how to repair some massive structure cracks the
difference between structural cracks and hairline cracking are that the buildings moving actually
in this case the building is quite stable the porch is settling 100 year old house we're way
up high enough in the mountains where I can see two bridges that way but we won't go there show
you that anyway you see the the porch is settling and actually for a ninety-year-old house it's not
that uncommon we got trees growing all next to us could be worse it could have redwood trees
the branches of redwood trees become like there's trunks I've seen them like this big and they just
get bigger and bigger each year and they lift the whole house I've seen houses like this worse it's
just the branches of raising them so we got a big tree right here we're on a hill we have a lot of
seasons of rain rain will lift a house drop it after 90 seasons you get this kind of stuff it's
actually quite typical um usually anyway these cracks right here they're so large caulking won't
work not even any of the caulking zyv showed in the past five six hundred videos because they're
made specifically for say 3/8 of an inch 3/8 of an inch wide and possibly deep these are almost
to happen that's why I went to the poly bond the poly bond with a little bit of sand it sticks to
everything I tell the fella here use your jet stream on your water hose and get all the dust
dirt and grime because even the stuff I'm going to bring won't adhere to it we got here we used
about an hour of elbow grease to clean up a little bit better because we want this stuff to adhere we
want to push it in so here's what I'll show you guys we take like this is the poly bond
we brought with sand in it I push it in - three times - three times I want it to go as far back
as possible so we just over Oh or over each time I push it I am getting into that crack I wanted to
go all the way to the foundation I could see the foundation in here so this is great for this kind
of stuff here again you see me going over and over and over it I'm pushing it all the way to the back
to the back of that wall now this stuff it's not like big foam or caulking where the flex but it
will adhere and it'll it'll give you a little bit of movement but that's not there's nothing else he
can do cuz he was gonna tear all the stairs down I said you can still do that but like say right here
this is a humungous gap we could fill it like this and when we we fill it like this we're gonna have
to float it floating it just means we're going to texture it to match the stairs but notice
I'm going over it and over it it's over I'll go over it until it pops out when it pops out that
means that's all it's going to take and it's full so I'm using a lot of elbow grease to - guys I'm
pushing with a lot of pressure this is pretty loose this step now can this correct that not
really guys nothing is going to hold a hundred ton house up this house and the stairs are dropping a
little bit so it's about a hundred tons this is a cosmetic fix right here we're here to do the
crack but I saw this kind of loose so I thought well I put a little bit here just to brace us
until he decides what he really wants to do with this because a bonding agent or caulking is not
going to stop a house from moving especially when it's a 100-ton house it's just not the nature of
it so we come down here and by the way guys we're we've got about thirty stairs to do so I'm going
to make this quick I'm not going to show all the stairs but I'm just trying to show you what you
can do with certain materials I'm going to fill this guy up here pushing it in and push it it
in right here push it in and because this has a bonding agent already in it you lose one of
the better products for attaching styrofoam mold I don't have to worry about it adhering to the sides
either and when I say the sides I mean the sides right here I've taken my trial and I beat it up a
little bit by getting the paint out like this I left this one piece right here to show you guys
use the heel don't go pounding it like a hammer otherwise you destroy a tool these are 40 bucks
you don't want to destroy use the heel see that I left this one right here to prove a point because
we've already done the rest so that remember nothing adheres to dust get that stuff out of
there okay so we continue on our merry way and this again this is uh about the consistency that
I want it any looser I'll be here forever if it's any tighter I can't spread it and I want it to be
able to push to the very back we get it all the way to the very back that's what we want okay
I'm pushing it again this is a humongous crack here I could see that concrete you can see the
concrete that's a pretty big crack it's almost an inch and it's obviously an inch deep because
stucco is generally 7/8 of an inch in this case a two coat finish it's one inch in a lot of areas
so I'll just hit this last one then I'm gonna grab a float and show you how we float it and
make it pretty again fill that crack fill it up deep as you can own don't be afraid to use the
material that's what it's for here I'm going to feather this is meaning I want to get this hump
out because not much you can do for it guys fact that he says gee I need new cement possibly but
this allows him a little bit of time you know it's more of a an ugly cosmetic issue he's got going
on right now again guys I want to make it clear this is not what this material is designed for I'm
just using it for this because talking it's past it's way past the stage of talking you'd have to
[ __ ] it maybe ten times ten different days this is what I would do for my own place and again I'm
putting more put more put more filling this up Diesel's possible because we want to fill it all
the way there are I've got a lot of videos guys I shared polyurethane talking's for this I showed
a lot of products showed putting a bendy board in back there it's it's like a little styrofoam
you push this backer rod in it that's the word I'm looking for you push backer rod down so you
don't use a lot of cement but a little petty thing here it really doesn't matter anyway I'm
going to go ahead I don't grab another bucket with a float and I'll show you how we float it alright
guys this is what you need to do next after you've squished that stuff in there you float everything
and this actually when it dries is this it's kind of like the the color of this concrete here which
we're trying to match so right here for example I'm going to this float has got water on it now
what I want to do is blend it in to the existing and this concrete has got aggregate in it which
is rocks so it's got a float finish so what we want to do is color the whole top I want to color
this in this whole step down so that it blends in because the color difference is going to be
painted on the wall there but that's okay that's going to be painted so we do this now I need a
little bit more water on this float otherwise when I go to feather this piece in it won't feather in
because there's too much aggregate or sand on this okay now I have a clean float now what I
want to do is I want to take it up first up up why up because now it will stay we take it this way
more water if I keep running a a dry float over this it fall right off and so again I'm going to
float this in I'm gonna spin it around get more water on that he doesn't know I'm trying to fix
this piece up for him but because it's really not it's not what I'm here for but since I'm
here I figure what the heck man let's let's make it all a little prettier okay now put that back
together and you notice I'm going up I go down what happens I draw it all down and it falls off
so I'm going to cover this whole step right here just to try to blend it in so when it dries it's
not as noticeable here we're cleaning that flow it again notice guys I always tap this float on
the inner bucket like so what happens if you tap it like this well you bend the trial the hot the
float inward it doesn't work well okay this one right here it's going to take a little bit more
skill we want to go up we want to pull straight up here and go to the corner we want to go up
here because I filled this up in order to create the illusion that this ain't broke it is broken so
it's just an illusion now again nothing no amount of stucco or even the best concrete is going to
fix this this is the temporary thing on the stairs you cannot put a put a concrete or a cement tshis
material over broken country concrete and expect that to fix it it doesn't work that way you have
to tear it all off and redo it but just for the sake of since I'm doing this crack repair I want
to pretty this up a little bit more for the folks okay we come in here and remember I'm just pretty
in it up this any of you guys know that's a fix it is not a fix guys it is a temporary solution
on something until they figure out what they want to do for the concrete we're here for the cracks
and here also we're here just to make it a little bit prettier he didn't even know I was going to do
this I'm only here to do this crack here but we will make it pretty okay good all done with all
that stuff right there in fact you can't see it but I got a hole right there but I'll get that in
a minute now what I'm going to do is pull this up why at the house I said I'm going to add a little
bit of fan because there's the poly bond that we use they have some sanded ones and some that are
just no sand this finish I could tell because he sent me a photograph of it haven't been here
before this is just all online stuff he sent me a photograph so can you fix the crack and I
said sure so I see now he's got other issues so I added a little bit of sand to give this texture I
did I was able to see on the photograph online that that I always on my side it says if you
have questions email me pictures show me so he's showing me hey there's this now what we do is we
just keep going along guys we keep we clean that float we go along flip it around take the other
side where it's clean feather it in brother it in guys make it pretty clean the float again because
the float accumulates sand and then it will drag the finish off that we want to achieve so anyway
you see where we're going with this guy we've got about well you got a lot of stairs so I'm
by the way this part sunk in this is just the last tip before I get out of here it's sunk in
is at the end of the world heck no it's like caulking if you caught something and the next
day it's shrunk in because it got sucked in big deal just add more so I just added some
more just now because what we want to do is get it all the way to the back of that foundation I
want it to touch the foundation all right guys as usual that's my tip of the day for really
large structural cracks Carl on the camera Kirk here we thank you for watching and usual we'll
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