hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering end-of-the-day homeowner here asked
me about this from porch he says gee Kirk what do you recommend with this sunken porch I thought
well sunken treasure is always better than a sunken porch but since you have it and you ask
my opinion I'll tell you what I would do take the poor child redo it he says Kirk I knew you were
going to say that but I don't want to take the porch out I want to cosmetically fix this for the
longest period of time I have what cosmetically can I do to salvage this for the length of time
that I want I said well we can probably get you about six to ten years possibly I said
well number one the building is about 80 years old what happened is the walls aren't in bad condition
even though it has no weep screed the foundation is around here it's done well but the porch did
not have a foundation that was done well it had a foundation I'm sure but it's seen better days
eighty years old what they have is downspouts come in here downspouts coming here and they water this
often it's green it's look like something in Hawaii it's green I said well so much water is
here I divert that downspout that way I divert this one a different way and well you can't not
use water to keep the play screen anyway getting back to what what they asked me here I said well
since you don't want to pull it all off and redo it here's what I recommend pressure wash it with
3,000 psi all this dirt dust grime and muck has got to come out why because nothing adheres to
dust mold mildew nothing adheres to it so he says you know I did that once about 10 years ago and I
said well do it again but this time prep it better and I look here and I see some of this stuff here
I said you you were on the right path right track but here's something you didn't understand when
you pressure wash it pressure wash the stucco very well pressure wash it so where it's looks
brand-new pressure-wash the stairs and pressure watch this then once you pressure wash that then
you can go back with this great stuff fill all that up what's going to happen the next day it's
going to look like a mushroom what you do then you take a trial you take a child and you cut
it here here on the sides cut it and you get that mushroom effect off now it's sealed this
stuff will with this little nozzle will go way in there and you want it as far in there as possible
because you want to watertight whatever there I can't see what's there I don't know if there's
wood rot I assume there is but it looks like solid concrete also could be put on a piece of
flat wood and they formed it anyway go as thick as you can with this then cut it all off and here's
the last tip guys go with an acrylic product say like I mean this is BMI you can use stucco
flex you can use Carson's Stowe drive it perixx there's so many different types of acrylics so
okay once you've cleaned all that off then you use one of these products there use a Hawking
trial you spread this spread it here shred it here spread it here read it here then you take
a float now with the float and this does take a bit of practice you just feather everything in
right here where the wall is you feather that in feather it in feather it in and that will give you
a fix of about anywhere between 6 to 10 years if you're if you don't want to do it proper so anyway
since he asked me I was walking down I thought man I bet there's a lot of folks out there with
sunken porches who don't also want to tear it all up he told me gee whiz Kirk there's pipes there's
all kinds of stuff under here so that's my quick fix tip for today end of the day anyhow guys my
name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see you
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