Useless video.

Clean brick with acid! Dont clean with acid! Lightly sandblast! Dont sandblast! I'm about ready to just leave the f****** brick dirty!!

Cleaning an entire brick house this week due to old oxidation run off from some aluminum siding that was up in an eave Guess what, only Chem test that took paint transfer off was muriatic acid Kaaaaaaaaaboom

How do you do this for a horizontal movement joint. The kind called for by IRC 703.8.2

OK I learned what not to do. Didn't help me learn what to do

But you use muratic acid. Its the main ingredient in your product.

I seriously doubt that 4 bottles of MA in a case would be different concentrations. Would there be 4 separate MSDS's in the box? If one is 10 times as strong as the next you are buying junk from a non trusted foreign supplier. Acids are a bit more monitored than that in their labeling practices as well as there concentrations consistency to meet safety standards.

Typical American No Standards Shit splash job brickwork It’s even worse than when I was in the trade for 30 years way back I’ve had to Caulk bricklayers Absolutely horrible no standards shit like this many times. That joint is missing mortar where it meets the brick and is all over the place ranging from almost nothing to 3/4 inch and the bricklayers should have to come back and cut that sloppy shit straight but they don’t have to Just let the caulkers try to make a straight bead and neat seal while their shit brickwork won’t allow it. Brick joints are the absolute hardest things to caulk because of this type of No standards shit work and Where the F is there ever an inspector on a job in this No standards nation??

Use it all the time works better then anything they sell just dilute the shit out of it nothing cleans better🎉

thanks ..i am geting ready to do some remorter & paint my concrete brick building .. ( RAIN SOCKES THROUGH and then a nasty mold acumlates inside ) im defiantly not going to acid it now 🫡

You did not mention the tie expandable expansion joint tie bracket that holds the two parts of the wall together and allows for movement..

Thank you professor. I’ll keep searching for a cleaning product since you didn’t tell us what to use jackass

Till the end you didnt say whats to be done, you said only whats not to be done

You full of bull

Golly, this was a really good video. This guy knows his stuff, and his delivery is so clear, confident, and precise, that you know he's got to be spot on. I don't believe I have ever seen a man on KZbin so composed and clear and mature in relaying information as this man. Well done, and you have made me really think about abandoning muriatic acid.

25 yrs ago I dumped straight acid onto my stained garage floor in small sections then stood far back and hosed the garage out. I didn’t know younhave to mix it with water. There were no KZbin videos back then to learn from. Today I want to clean my brick pavers (power wash isn’t an option because I’ll blow the stones out) but I’m scared they’ll just fall apart while I’m sleeping.

Offers all the contrary opinions but offers no solutions.

Legit question: Why don’t we mortar these joints? Is there a reason why this is caulked?

Woodglut is a solid company with solid woodworking plans.

Almost common sense to me when I was told to use acid lol but nice to hear it from you

This should be ENGINEERED. Not left to a masons intuition.

That brickwork is Shockingly bad! In the uk we built in a brick width roll of foam that has a 10 mm strip that peels off after the brickwork is built ready to be sealed with a bead of mastic.

Hello Sir,,, my name is Md Asif Sayeed and I am a Civil Engineer Can you please show me in 3D views How to react building on the expansion joint

ive always used hydrochloric acid without issue

Good, hard fired brick is NOT porous at all. Junk brick is.

It's spelled muriatic acid, & is pronounced with four syllables.

In other words...hire someone to clean your bricks!

I don’t know this man. I don’t clean brick. But I am here and I know now to never use muriatic acid.

Bob, you're not correct when you say a weathered joint angled from top to bottom is not a good water repellent. This type of joint has been a standard in the UK for hundreds of years and does a better job of directing water to the outside of the brick than the rounded joint you're positing. It also depends on the type of mortar you're using. What you say may be acceptable for a Portland cement type mortar, but inadequate for an Historic quicklime, hot lime or NHL kind of joint. From my experience of American masonry the only reason a barrel joint is used is for speed. It's certainly not for aesthetics or weather repelling.

i use muratic acid and it cleans it just fine. All you need to do: wet the brick; use the right amount of muriatic acid and water; apply acid; brush with a soft plastic brush, and rinse immediately to avoid staining. That's it!!

I have deep black mold nothing is working.

just soak the brick and use a tester brick so you can tell. get the old Samon brick and test that. if you can keep that in good shape its safe for anything else too

0:48 if we're gONna suggest

What computer program was used to create those Parapet darwings?

Sooooo……the take away is only use water and brush like the old guys?

So don’t use this! But also don’t tell us what works well? Hmm!

"...Not a good idea..." I heard that coming, perhaps because I have studied this video more than once. Thank-You!

Just wanted to add. Where us blue skin on the under the flashing or coping cap? No matter what if there is no blue skin membrane sooner or later it will leak.

Oddly the title is "Cleaning Brick Work", but this guy tells you NOT to clean brick, because the only suggestion he gives is NOT to use muratic acid. Well, you can always do a paper test PH/acid and see how strong your acid is. SO WHAT DO you suggest to use? Only mentions commercial "cleaner". What is that??!!

Cool story. So what do you use instead..

Not how we do in UK.its styro foam strip and is built in as we build course by course.interesting how you do in USA.respect from UK.

Nice😄

B.S. :)

Geez the saw

I still learn from this video even though he didn't give me all the details so I take it as a positive

Do not listen to this guy. Yes you may use muriatic acid , buy klean strip. Works fine.

Buildings have been standing for decades with no expansion joints and zero problems, it's just more madness and I believe weakening the wall.

Go back & sit in the office mate your speaking shit

Expansion joints are just the most silly thing ever. To put a vertical line of weakness in brickwork. I have seen poorly constructed walls nearly falling down and were are they breaking? Along the expansion joint. They are a completely needless point of weakness in a wall and the proof of their needlessness can be seen in 200 year old walls which stretch for miles but which have not suffered for want of an expansion joint.

What's it matter if watter gets behind it if it's down low enough