Howdy folks, kirk and Jay here with kirk Giordano plastering, today, I want to show
you guys have something very, very, very common and how to fix it guys okay you got a parapet roof
parapet roofs last about 50 years uh they'll last a thousand, if you keep it prepped meaning you
painted every 10 years but as a rule, these parapet roofs, they have the stucco going here
and a membrane going here the sun bakes it we are at the southwest side here so all the rain comes
this way all the sunshine comes this way depending on the area you're at like Arizona hot, it'll bake
this in about 30 to 40 years, as a rule, they last about 60. anyway, what they have here is they have
a problem, so what they did is they put a flash in here a flashing cap will last a few hundred
years, guys but it didn't last that long because it cupped, and when they cup they hold water so they
put a new roof on here and then they took the new roof membrane and went over it. Okay. now that's a
good idea guys. They're pretty good here bro what somebody did was they kind of screwed up okay.
you take henry. Henry's roof and flashing henry is a good product, I've used it a lot of times
if my roof is leaking and it's raining and i'm up there thinking man, i gotta fix this, it's raining
Henry's will stick especially if it has the fibers in it put it on, trowel it down, boom, you
are fixed for a certain while so what they did is they put the henry's here, what we're gonna do is
it's not really designed for here so we're just going to pop that off we're going to just do like
so, guys and once we get this whole section off and granted it is not the entire roof guys, okay, yes
it is about 25 to 30 feet the length from here to here is about 75 feet here's what
we're going to do here's what you guys should do if you encounter this now granted
this right here, we're going to go ahead and use powerful caulking but what they don't see
what they don't know and how are you going to know theis guys? is you see this area here
okay now they put this roof membrane over here and they put a nail in it they put a few nails
well this area right here that's a humongous gap and they're all the way down humongous
gaps everywhere where you could stick your fingers in it you either put a nail and then
we're gonna pop a couple nails here and there but what we're gonna do is here's how you do this guys
you scrape it all off then you take a wire brush and you take the wire brush gets rid of all the
all the crap we need the dirt dust moss everything off then once you have all
that off what you're gonna do is you're gonna take a wet rag. i mean you're gonna take a rag
any rag any filthy rag and you're gonna take some
denatured alcohol or some mineral spirits or some acetone, you're gonna take gasoline if necessary
you're going to saturate that rag and then you're going to wear gloves guys, because all this stuff
is kind of toxic then you're going to wipe down the whole thing now that you got that cleaned
I've got my soldiers man, this is my that's my nav,y my air force, my marines, these guys right
here this is what we're gonna use. later on in this video i'm gonna show you how strong this stuff
is. but what i'm gonna do guys is after we clean all this stuff up i'm just gonna rather than me
caulk hang over the edge where my head is right here and look up i'm gonna caulk this right in my
glove and then i'm gonna push it in and pull it up into here now here's the thing guys you'll say man
kirk that's going to look like crap what's this look like this been on here for years
if they don't mind this look, and i told them well when i'm done it's going to be this color white
and right here you have a kind of a greenish beige i said when i'm done just get up here and just
roll this out. it'll take you about half-hour just to roll it out with some primer and you'll be done
so it doesn't have this eyesore of a look but more importantly guys what we're trying to do
is stop a leak we got to stop the rain from on a stormy day with the wind from going up in here
landing on this cupped flashing and going into it i've actually done videos where we show the
flashing it's cupped that just means it's been on there and they used crappy caulking we're
using the best stuff, keep watching you'll see how good this stuff really is any way we're going to
get started we're going to knock all this stuff off and the next time you see us I'll probably
have had all this scraped off cleaned with uh the denatured alcohol or one of those products
and then i'm just going to be popping the or using this caulking in my gloved hand and wiping
it in here because, with this particular finish, it doesn't show guys. we'll see in a minute all right
guys if you're gonna do this let me throw you some tips some bones this stuff here is nasty stuff you
don't want to get it on you you get it on you it's not coming off unless you use denatured alcohol or
something like that i'll show you something too iImean i use denatured alcohol to clean all this.
and i got about 10 rags like this because even though this stuff this caulking this Sykaflex
1A, it's an adhesive sealant, it's probably one of the strongest caulkings ever made. Nothing,
Nothing will adhere to a dusty, dirty, grimy, mossy, surface nothing, so you gotta clean it.
So we went through about eight rags and uh about a quart of denatured alcohol I'll show
you what we're gonna do too and i'm gonna point out a bunch of goofy little things just in case.
see these nails these are roofing nails now they put about 50 of these roofing nails in here
this is a brand new torch down, the torch down comes over and then where it didn't stick right
here they used a lot of nails. we used a bunch of nails, our nails have little threads so that
they don't wiggle out, but even if we didn't use the nails with threads it's not coming
out, because this is going to hold everything. I'll tell you I'll show you how we do this guys
Jay and my brother Lou, they just got done through doing one, it was seven stories high
and jay had to bend down about this far he had asked me, dad you want to help me, i said uh-uh
that's way too high for me i was looking down and i was scared we went to the trap door and
lou walked up and said i'm not working up here so all lou's job was to stand down and look ugly
and scary and mean and stop people from getting underneath because jay was chipping it all off
and it was falling all, over the place that was lou's job he was like loving it he was just at
the bottom telling people hey watch out man watch out there's stuff dropping and jay had the fun of
uh working way up there, bending way down but he's a professional rock climber
i'm not a professional rock climber, i'm just a stuck a dude and i'm no spring chicken, so i said
dude i am not hanging over seven stories this here i'll show you how we're gonna do this guys
so far I've used I've gone about 30 feet that way and about 30 feet that way I'll show you
how to do this guys and where do these gloves come in real handy because first of all, you don't want to
get any of that denatured alcohol or whatever you guys are going to use you could use gasoline and
you could use whatever you want but anyhow here's how you do this guys now what i'm doing is we
removed all of their that henry's they had here they had henries they had silicone what's silicone
really used for guys? it's used for aquariums, glass is really not used for this kind of stuff, and so
since i got it there now i'm going underneath where this torch down is why because i'm gonna
help that torch down stay down, and again ah any of you contractors who've used this
when i call it nasty stuff, it is nasty because it is not water-soluble you can't clean this stuff up
with water guys, no, no, no, no there's some caulking you can clean up with water but it'll last about
a tenth as long as this this will outlast me I'll be worm food, before this stuff goes bad
this stuff it definitely lasts forever at the end of this video you'll see a wall i did 25
years ago to my neighbors where his bricks fell apart where a forklift hit it and i
used this stuff because he was calling me he said hey, Kirk, can you fix or regrout this, I said, man
I'll be there all day, dude, how about I grab two tubes of Sikaflex and I'll fix it? and I
did and it worked and it's still the same 25 years later. All right guys how strong is this stuff here
this is a Sikaflex 1A polyurethane it's a construction adhesive sealant, this is what we're
using guys 25 years ago, the dude who owned this the house, my good buddy, Ted, his forklift hit this
and it just destroyed this wall and he said, Kirk, can you grout all this back and i thought damn,
yes, I can but do i want to? That's the question, No, I don't i don't, I put all these bricks back together there
was like 15, the whole thing fell apart in fact you could still see it's missing grout right here
you can see it's missing grout right here what you can't hardly see is see that white stuff in there
that's this stuff here i put like 10 chunks back together and that was 25 years ago,
I've been here for like 35 kids were walking on this forever that's how strong this stuff
is guys i'm gonna finish what i started here and guys, i'm gonna do this do not get this stuff on
your hands don't get it anywhere i mean I've got a glove I'm, i'm using but when i use that glove
i'm not trying to get this anywhere else other than on that glove and you could use a trowel
to uh push this in here but i got a better way i'm gonna show you that better way it works way better
okay so i'm done with this tube right here and for the sake of continuing to move.
i'm just going to have this other tube and any of you guys who've used Sikaflex, know that,
right now it's about 90 degrees it's hot so because it's so hot we
we make the hole as big as possible in here if it was cold this wouldn't be coming out I'd be using
all my strength and i'm pretty strong in my wrist but I still probably wouldn't be able to get this
stuff moving, so it's a hot day which is good, it keeps this stuff is free-flowing so again what we're doing
is we're filling the gap here where the flashing meets, and we're filling this torch down where
it didn't get sound or down very well, in two guys you rather use more than enough they're not enough,
and i'll also say guys any products that i've used in the past that is good we'll show you what they
are recommend them any products that suck that are garbage we wouldn't be showing them because
showing products that suck or are garbage it's foolish it'd make me look like a fool and the
last thing i want to do is show bad products and say oh this, is this, it sucks don't buy it because
that's like gossip. now you all know if somebody's gossiping and you're listening,
the next person they're talking about is you, to somebody else so we don't do those bad habits
as far as to show products that don't work all right now here's what i do guys. You guys could do it any
which way you want Jay was using a trowel he was pulling it up with a trowel, I'll just use my glove
I've already done about five, seven tubes with this so I'll use my glove and come upward and remember
this is going to get painted anyway. so i'm pulling it upward, I can with the feel of my glove,
i got more control I can push it in there without even looking guys, i know what i'm doing here
I've done this about 30 times and so what we want to do is we want to get it underneath here
and this caulking alone will adhere it, it'll anchor this better than nails guys.
and again at the end of this uh little tutorial, you'll see what i'm talking about because I put
together a brick wall that was 25 years ago that the brick wall still is intact and if any caulking
is strong enough to adhere porous materials that's strong stuff guys, porous materials are
bricks, tile glass uh stone and that stuff that is difficult as heck to actually adhere to anything.
so this stuff is good, and no, I'm not one of their spokesman, i just happen to,
we've been using this stuff for well over 40 years at westside building supply, they are a
plastering company. if you google west side building materials that's where you get all your
that's where we get all our materials , not home depot or lowes. but
they do have a lot of stuff at home depot or lowe's we go to the professional yards where
they kind of cater to a higher standard meaning if something doesn't work then
we're getting our butt back and fixing it for free, so we don't want to do that
anyway this you see how this is working here i'm taking my glove and i'm pulling upward
i want to fill this membrane uh this is a torch down i want to fill the torch down and i also
want to fill that gap that's in the stucco so you see how it's done guys it's not rocket science but
it is learned, you got to know-how to do this what materials to use
and if you're scared of heights guys put a harness on i mean i'm only up a story does this bother me
did jay's last job bother me i said man I am not about to hang 20 feet or what was it like
70 feet in the air it was, it was too tall for me and plus you had to hang
down about a foot and a half anyway guys you see how that works how long will this last
again I will be worm food, I'll be long gone dead, before this actually goes bad
anyhow guys my name is Kirk, there's Jason on the camera he does this stuff
you got anything higher than two or three stories you better call him because that stuff is kind
of scary for me, We thank you guys for watching and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one.
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