the next thing I'm gonna do is put a chimney crown sealer which is this stuff
brushable chimney repair it's kind of like a thick cement like paint and
that's gonna seal up our chimney cap right you know that's all broken and you
can see bricks are crumbling out because they're Michigan water gets in there and
then it freezes and the bricks pop out so hopefully this will prevent any more
damage to the chimney from water getting it to the top so there's three steps
that it asks for on here I'm gonna be doing two of those three
steps the first one they say is to take a wire brush clean the crown off I'm
gonna do that the second thing they do say is to wet it down with some spritz
of water I'm gonna do that the third thing they say is for a nice
clean edge put some taper on the edge I'm not doing that it's too high up I
can't get to the backside I can barely reach it with the brush let alone get to
the edge so I'm just gonna be brushing it on two coats waiting an hour in
between so first thing is to get up there with a wire brush the other thing
I'd point out is I bought a harness and a rope from Amazon to the harness was
under 20 bucks the rope was 20 or 30 bucks and that's because our roof at the
gutter is 20 feet up and activity is about 30 and I really don't want to fall
off if you're where I'm climbing the ladder climbing another ladder but if I
do I want this harness so hopefully it'll stop me from falling off the edge
so you can see how big the some of the cracks are in here and some of these are
are pretty loose okay it's all clean up with the wire brush the next step I will
be doing is wetting it down this is just a spritz bottle and they say kind of wet
it down so that it doesn't all get absorbed into the stones
well I could see why they say wet it down our cement really just absorb
sucked all that moisture right in and you can see right here it's pretty dry
spot if I spray it a couple seconds later it just sucks it right all in so I
was really letting some of this down and it was getting absorbed right in there
as you can see that's almost starting to dry up right in here okay that's all I'm
going to do for prep now time to brush this stuff on real thick and felt like a
runny peanut butter my method is just get a big three inch brush slop it on
fill in the crack and then kind of smooth it out that's all I've been doing
really she's getting a big glop of this stuff filling in the cracks because
that's where the water is getting in and then just smoothing out the edge well
one thing I noticed this thing sitting on here it was really loose I just
lifted it off and that gave me a lot more access to tape so you want to seal
up all the cracks so if you have to lift something off like this seal it up I'm
almost done with the first coat and I have to say I'm really liking this stuff
I thought I was gonna have to caulk all of these bad joints but this stuff is
seems like it's doing a good job there was a joint I just kind of slathered and
filled in so here's a pretty big crack in here and just kind of smearing this
stuff in there you can see it just fills it right in so I thought I was going to
have to go through and talk everything but I'm glad I didn't the other thing is
yeah you might say that it's a little messy and I should have taped it I
really don't care at this point I'm just making sure I get it right up to the
edge
and anywhere water could get in and then really getting these cracks well I'm
just waiting for the first coat to dry it's drying pretty quickly up there and
I used about half of the container so that's nice chimney I think that that
size is pretty good well it's been an hour and I've come back just slightly
wet everything down again just quick spray all the thin coat is dry but where
I put it on really thick in the cracks it's still a little tacky but it's of
course they dry and just for reference this camp is about three by five maybe a
two and a half by five and I used half the container but again I put it on
really thick so if you have a three by five cap this container should be fine
now I'm just going to do the rest of it I'll take this bag off and start doing
the second coat
well I'm finished with the second coat and I used almost the entire bucket so
two coats a two and a half by five or a three by five cap is perfect
I'm now taking all the rest of it and just slobbing it on and filling in all
the cracks in case those cracks ever do expand I want to really seal those yeah
I'm just getting all that's left here really globbing up this brush and just
filling in all these cracks and smoothing everything out but I'm really
happy with it it's gone on really well it's covered I've used a brush and so
far it looks great this is the end of step two step three is going to be
waterproofing well I hope you liked the video you just watched if you did feel
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