hi guys Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering,
Today we show you how to resurface this brick here now you might look at this chimney and say wow that chimneys is bad but, I look at this
chimney or what I see is on a scale of 1 to 10, a 10 being as good as it gets I'd say this chimney is
about a nine and a half what does that mean? Okay you take the out of the house itself this is maybe
a half a yard of cement what's happy yard about a thousand pounds I was just this chimney wait
guys this chimney weighs about 5 to 7 tons that's anywhere between ten to fourteen thousand pounds
it's double bricked for inside now design for heat it should last to 300 years why did this
little area fail well my guess was that the house is about 90 years old about maybe 30 40 years ago
somebody walked in here and created a little hole or they had a bush and they wanted that Bush and
with a crack it can go in and prevent or it it can happen where you get spalling water goes in there
freezes and pops it off and then it starts this chain reaction it could happen there's a lot of
different reasons but what we're doing we're using a 15-minute set so this is the stucco right here it
sets really quick and plus the brick is absorbing the moisture out what J&R I already did as we wet
this piece of wood here we put it right here as a template or a rod and I went ahead and rotted
applied the stucco here and we pulled it up and we made a rod meaning we got a clean edge here
this has been pressure washed it's been chipped out then pressure washed well with 3000 psi how
clean is that it's real clean plus I put a bonding agent on here I use weld creep but you guys always
call me so where do you find well Crete well Crete is found at the material yards plastering
material yard they do not sell well Crete at Home Depot or Lowe's so this concrete bonding adhesive
works too so anyway I've got ten minutes to put this stucco on before it gets hard as a rock and
I have a hard time floating notice we got here if you're loose with the grout no worries some
areas where deep I fished it in there really tight so now what we're doing is we're putting
this next codon and and all we're doing guys is just resurfacing it we're putting another layer
of cement on it this particular stucco J made about ten minutes ago and we have about I'd say
another ten minutes to use it before I get nervous and start struggling and saying oh man I'm going
to have to use a lot of muscle to get it on or floated what I want to do first of all is get
the bulk done while I have the board full I'll worry about my corners in a minute first thing
is get it all on there and notice I'm I'm pushing a hard guy push it harder okay we take the stucco
here and I'm looking at my bulk get the bulk on because if I run out of stucco that's on the
board there I want to be able to float it while J mixes up some more Oh got a hustle guys when
you're working with stiff mud nothing we can't handle you take it here and we feather into the
existing they right here call feathering into the existing say like right here I'll show
the spot here all right now keep in mind guys it's a pretty cold day but the brick is still
sucking the moisture right out of this cement how many different cements are there Oh about 20 right
now we're using a cement that dries extremely fast because it's got luminite in it and this
is the stuff that when dry that's about 4,700 psi you might say what the heck is that concrete
is usually about 25 so this stuff is really really strong the PSI strength of 4700 you'll
get in about 30 days when you first apply it stuff though is I'd say this about 2,000 psi what does
that mean to you guys boring stuff but I thought since I know it I'd share it with you means it's
very strong okay so what I'm doing here is getting out all of my own humps and straightening it all
out okay we are buds getting hard and it's about time to start floating this but I can give it a
little bit longer before I float because I want to use the rest of this up maybe you might even
have enough to finish this let's see here okay the same thing I did over there I rotted this
side over here you can't see it so all that rowdy means give it a clean edge we almost had enough
just a hair off but that's okay because what I'm gonna do guy is finish this little piece
here and Jay is going to mix this some more but before he does that I'm gonna float what little
bit we got because this mud is already getting hard so okay how much do I need I need one Hawk
right here but for the sake of showing you guys what to do next I'm going to leave that alone
and we're going to mix up that Hawk in a few minutes what I have here is a floating bucket I
like these green sponge floats with a handle buy these at Home Depot Lowe's usually get them at
the material yard buy box at a time about 100 because we go through them and now what we want
to do is this corner is tricky so we're going to take it straight up and go to the right what
happens if I take it this way well I'd pull my own corner off this float is full of stucco right now
which when it gets full you just take it off and start over again when I say take it off I mean
put it in the water cap it out flip it tap it what I'm doing guys if you don't see is I'll take my
hands and just flip this flip it like this flip it tap that water off now I'm going to go ahead
and get my joint again that way I'm gonna come this way and clean it now this is the hard part
for folks who just are learning but for me I'm close my eyes and do this I've done so much the
idea is I'm putting water on this I'm bringing the aggregate out wood is an aggregate fancy word for
sand Portland cement or Portland is the submit' we're using you add sand to Portland and it gives
you stucco you add rocks to Portland cement or the Portland cement you get concrete so anyway
you see where we're going with this I'm going to go ahead and show you this joint too because
now the joint is tricky the transition that's the hardest part for any of you do-it-yourselfers and
the more water I use the more aggregate I'm going to bring to the surface and yes I'm holding this
float flat too I'm not lifting the heel or the toe off it's completely flat like any of you guys who
do snowboarding that this is flat right here I'm not I don't have it on edge in other words so now
where I go to my joints right here sure how the joints work now what I'm doing is I want to match
that finish there and I want it to match where when I'm done the fella who's going to paint this
will apply one coat of primer top coat of paint and match it so I determine how much water to
use how much aggregate I want to expose down here I'm going to feather this into the existing now
that takes a clean bucket of water clean float and this float should be flat you put it flat in that
transition I'm pulling this here but I'm lifting at the bottom, you can't really see that motion
that's how it works guys I'll show you a little bit more then J's got to mix me up a little bit of
cement I'll show you the transition up here guys okay easier rather than all that bending down all
right climb on this guy here alright transition here new toe first I want to wet it bring it back
to life you don't you could you could wet this stucco and bring it back to life once you keep
bringing it back to life and you destroy the integrity of it alright you see that's how we
bring it back to life now I flipped that float just now because we're waters dripping I want to
keep that water that water is helping me bring me agar get out do that and this is the finish that
originally was dashed so ah because it was dashed I'm bringing a heavier float alright guys Jason is
indicating that that battery is going we're going to finish this little piece off and show you the
completion when we're done okay guys you see the finished product now this finish what is primed
and painted once should match this guy right here we kind of I look at it and I take some of the
sand off I put more hair in there and it's just got a match because of my buddy Rick here, Rick's been
painting forever Rick, knows all these little details like say do you paint this the next day no no no
why because it's uh it's got a high alkalinity right now it's like 14psi you gotta wait at least
a week guys on a whole house I tell everybody 28 days to dry out or cure before you paint otherwise
you have your paint or primer blistering ghosting or bleeding you don't want that guy so give it as
much time as you can prime it with a good quality primer and paint and you're ready to go my name
is Kirk, Jason on the camera my buddy Rick here a great painter we thank you for watching we'll
see you guys on the next one once again folks we thank you for watching and I really enjoy all your
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