good morning folks Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today we are in beautiful San Jose
that's good drive for us but here's what we're doing this folks emailed me this crack here and
through the photograph I was able to come up with a price and tell him what was going on here now
what I I questioned him over the telephone as was spoken have you got any big redwood trees
over there because that looks like the roots are going under the concrete and causing this or it
could just be a failing foundation as I'm here now I see that there's a couple things that are
incorrect here and not a big deal a lot of houses houses but this kind of cracking is
structural they're way past the point of caulking here what they have is the stucco but it on the
foundation which doesn't it locks it in it won't give it in the expansion dream so that's kind of
typical hairline cracks but not these kind of big ones here but they also have this concrete which
is about four inches and it's all butted together it's all locked in there so something's going to
give this is pretty extreme so what we're gonna do today is I'm gonna take my Bulldog and we're
gonna just break it out here I could also use muscle and hammers and pound it out but give
us a cleaner finish if I use the build on so we're gonna use the Bulldog and break this out
then after I see what we have here more likely I'm gonna have the foundation we'll wire brush
it after we wire brush it we're gonna weld create it and then we're gonna restock wood
is that gonna be permanent no but it's going to the house is about 70 years old for this kind
of stuff to happen again probably take 20 years and I got it would be there like this it may just
get hairline cracks again anyway over on this side I think what we're gonna do is we're gonna
take I brought my drills so I'm gonna probably remove some of the clamps there and raise this
delicate pipe up about four inches so we can see what we're doing anyway once we break this
out I'll show you again and we'll show you how to fix these kind of structural cracks
all right guys we have we moved to stucco there's a tip for anybody who says ah gee whiz I want to
do something similar all of the dust has got to come off then we'll get a wire brushes then
we're going to apply weld cream a bonding agent to it over here this corner has seen better days
there's been a lot of fellows working on this the windows all have been replaced all this stuff has
been replaced three to four times we had some mud still showing here so I went ahead and put some a
grace membrane on top of that bug seal we're gonna reinforce the heck out of this with wire the fella
knows his foundation is shot at least on this side but he says well gee if the Foundation's
back and we just cosmetically correct it until I can save up enough money to redo that so that's
what we're doing today because looking at it with a little bit of exploration we've done foundation
may need to be replaced on this of course I'm no foundation guy but judging from the structural
cracks and from what I see here this this concrete should not have come off that easy even with all
my powerful tools all right guys Jay's already got a whole bucket of mud mix he's putting a couple
scoops into the other bucket we're gonna mix that individually because what I got on this corner
here it requires a lot of mud I mean there's six inches right there so I want it real hot and I
wanted to set within G five minutes so the rest of the wall is about an inch and a half to two inches
so we don't need it as much luminite in it notice J lifted just pretty nice to give us a lot of
room to work we're not worried about that on this foundation I've got the weld cream but unlike some
of my other videos where I'm doing color coats I went full strength I'm doing here is I'm pushing
the cement in I'm gonna push and push and push until I can't push it anymore that way this whole
thing I know is solid I'm gonna do about about ten of these right here and this is really hot run
it's setting fast that's what I want keep going I want to push it push it took those six inches
in the back okay guys couple more tip when you're doing something like this the bottom piece of the
stucco here I use a lot of cement I've gone over this one numerous times now to get that in there
and what I do is I just knock over I put a lot of stuff go in there and what do we want to do is
this the stucco coming down here and back I mean I want to key it in there and because it's about
two inches thick you have your little of and I illuminate hard is quick but if it's not keyed in
there well we won't be able to float it I started floating this and I'm gonna continue another thing
I should point out the folks in case not everybody has as much accumulated experience as myself
this is all we do there's stucco houses see this crack going here so let me explain it here I got
an expansion joint here an expansion joint here and one here but that didn't stop this you don't
want to put concrete in this crack let's see a lot of people like to eat in these folks prior to me
coming here so I'm going to put concrete in here what you want is if you're gonna seal this put a
polyurethane caulking that way the two can move like this and not buckle it would've been better
off when they did the actual concrete here put a piece of wood in here or polyurethane board that
way the two can move so if you folks are doing this at home and and you say all gee whiz they've
got a crack here that's ugly clocking in a really good caulking because of cheap caulking in one
year and just pull it right out a good caulking will last about 10-15 on the ground and it'll
flex with the house so you won't get this kind of combination where it's just don't know where to go
but crack okay guys that's the completion of it and notice my walls are turned plumb normally if
there was not a foundation here we're concrete I sometimes pyramid it to give it more strength
but of course my pyramid and look at the wall you say well that's kind of crooked anyways that's my
flow finish on top of there float finish they got new windows a lot of works been done on this house
my finish is better than the other fellas finish can I do this for a living anyhow my name is Kirk
I'm with Kirk giordano plastering, thank you folks for watching we'll see you guys on the next one.