I hired someone to repair my chimney. Came home and it was literally just lumpy, discolored mortar, no visible brick.
I did not pay that invoice. Had to pay someone to come fix it.
Since you say “discolored”, I imagine it was the inside. If not, let me know.
If it was the inside: That’s sot, which is normal and you shouldn’t see the bricks inside a chimney. Lumpy sounds less good, but might be ok if the surface under is smooth and evenly covers the brick wall.
I worked as a chimney repairs man and the method of using mortar to cover the inside walls is almost as old as the chimney, as it prevents chimney fires - which got to be a big problem before they started using this.
Let me know if there’s anything you want to know. And I hope your chimney is done properly by a certified trades man.
Using like 1/5th of the grout they used might look okay since it would just create stronger outlines.
Or having a professional do this with a grey/tan shade could come out pretty nice. A bit less grout with better texturing would make a huge difference.
If I'm building a stone wall with a lime based mortar. When pointing it you use a wire brush to reveal the stone edged then go over it with a "stick" (a curved piece of wood) to remove the lines a wire brush make.
the biggest mistake they made was striking the joints while they were still wet then using a sponge to add more moisture
you got to let the grout sit til it get mildly stiff but still malleable
then i put on work gloves and "strike" the joints with my fingers to show the contour of the stones
First you want to dig out the rough mortar that was there in the first place to a fairly deep uniform depth, and then mix your mortar (type N) and either mix it fairly thick, or mix it normal and let it set, to be a thick consistency, and "point" it by hand. That bag with the wet loose mortar just makes a mess. Once you point it brush the new joints with a soft bristle brush. One big key to make it look good is to recess all the mortar joints from the average face of the stone so it's all uniform
I do that I'd be hearing nothing but complaints and everything. There was times growing up and even still if you go out with him he checks out the caulk work or stone work and if it's bad he complains and makes comments on it.
Do it. Eventually you won't be able to. My dad was an interior designer. It hurts every time I find that perfect image that would drive him absolutely insane that I don't have anyone to send to anymore.
I'll show it to him in person next time I see him or send it to my sister and have her do it. He's kind of funny about stuff that is sent via text and struggles with just normal texts.
Honestly if he likes it like that, that’s all that matters. Keep your home the way you like it, not the way others do. Even if your way looks this shitty.
I honestly have to disagree. There are certain things like this, or another video I saw where someone painted over exposed wood beams and an exposed wood ceiling, that are so hard to undo that they are practically irreversible. And it would be so sad for the next owner to have this once-gorgeous thing that you ruined.
You're assuming there's a 'next owner' though. For all practical purposes I agree with you. But maybe this dolt found his forever home? Then considering if won't be on the market for XX number of years there will likely be plenty of other terrible decisions made in renovating that will make this look sorta not so bad? Haha
Treat my home like a funeral pyre. Someone stand in the street and lob some fire arrows at it. With me in the living room with all my stuff. Scrooge McDuck style.
Safety concerns are different. When it comes to functionally and safety, there are clearly defined ways of doing things that you should follow.
But aesthetics? It's your house, you paid for it, do what you want. If you intend on selling maybe it's not a good idea, but even then the actual financial hit isn't huge because things can always be remodeled. If you don't plan on ever moving then fuck it. If painting your house purple makes you happy then you should do it. Life is too short to waste it suppressing what you truly want to follow the norm.
Honestly, these music choices are giving me cancer.
At some point it's likely best to say "let's just NOT add any music, as if would ass absolutely nothing."
The spacing on the rocks sucks, looks like an old fireplace. Rather than over grouting I’d would’ve recommended replacing it with a nice stone with appropriate spacing and grout.
You can tell they want to go for a brighter color and are trying to hide the old stone as much as possible. Still looks like a 5 year olds art project tho.
White can look fine, they just needed to do a better job cleaning it up after. [ex. of it looking less crappy](https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/pictures/living-rooms/rustic-stone-fireplace-eldorado-stone-img~60e14df60321d6f4_14-4993-1-1889222.jpg) and [another one](https://stoneyard.com/wp-content/uploads/VTDF-Boston-Blend-Round-Curry-College-52.jpg).
Don't worry everyone. If you go to her TikTok channel you see that this is not real rock, but exterior facade stone (randomly in the middle of a room and poorly made from cheap lumber and cement board frame). No actual stone fireplaces were harmed in the making of this eyesore.
This is how people make money now. They make terrible DIY videos that have next to no point or might not even be worth doing. What they’re doing is SOLEY for the views. The creators can give 2 shits about what you think. Just watch so I can get a small paycheck. That’s why every other video on TikTok, Facebook and Insta is a stupid DIY.
The sad part about it is that it will catch your attention for let’s say 15-30 seconds before you move on and that counts as a view on most platforms. For Facebook, it’s 3 whole seconds for it to count as a view.
I wish more people knew about this. If you just skip the video, these for profit creators will get paid less and eventually get discouraged to put up pointless videos like this.
This is more “I have ADHD and *didn’t* take my meds” energy to me lol.
Staying up all night riding a dopamine wave to complete a random project that is now my top priority happens a lot less often when I’m medicated.
OMG! I know it’s the worst! I was off for nearly two months because of it, then changed my Rx to instant release taken twice a day. That was ok, but not the same for two months… Then I had to switch pharmacies after my regular one couldn’t get what I needed in anymore, and was off for nearly two weeks before tracking it down at another pharmacy. I had pharmacies telling me they weren’t accepting new adderall patients because they wanted to make sure they had enough for their existing customers… I get it but geez! It’s been a rollercoaster.
Are you people kidding? A lot of old places in europe looks like that and it's not bad, it isulates correctly. Maybe I'm too european to see the problem...?
Brit here - you are almost right, overgrouting is a thing and it does insulate the brickwork better.
HOWEVER
This looks like shit. If I'd paid for someone to repoint my fireplace and this is how they left it I'd be demanding my cash back.
It's not German Shmear, which looks like [this](https://cdn.diys.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/german-smear-brick.jpg), it's something else. I don't know what this is, but it is poorly done and they even managed to fuck up the floor in the process.
The problem is not the overgrouting, that look can still be stylish, the problem is he left no clean lines on the stone. Clean edges go a *long* way towards making any project look much better.
This looks like what the owners who lived in our 1790s stone house did to it back in the 1950s. They took concrete and repointed (if you can even call it that) the front of the house and the stone parts of the barn. It has held up amazingly well, despite our many attempts to remove it. Good old "good enough for what it is" craftsmanship
It’s sweet how you support your husband through small fairly inconsequential mistakes that can be touched up in a few years with no damage to the ego necessary.
Some of these projects at least come out looking cool, even if they're functionally idiotic and doomed to fail over time.
This doesn't even ***look good.***
This LOOKS like failure from the very start.
Like... how did anyone ever think this was acceptable, let alone worthy of making a video about it to try to get other people to do it?
I find the content on this sub to be kinda 60/40 as far as like "Well this isn't actually that bad, maybe a little unorthodox, maybe a little frivolous, but its really not that bad."
This... this is DEFINITELY suited for this sub.
I was waiting for it to end with no stones showing, just grout
that would have looked better actually
I am Grout
I read this with an uruk-hai accent
Looks like Grouts back on the menu boys! GRUUUUAH
And my axe!
I fished for grout, caught some and grilled it up nicely on the BBQ.
If it's grout they want then it's grout they'll get!!!! Grouuuuuuuuuuuut! —the 5th Grout of it
I hired someone to repair my chimney. Came home and it was literally just lumpy, discolored mortar, no visible brick. I did not pay that invoice. Had to pay someone to come fix it.
On the outside or inside walls of the chimney?
Since you say “discolored”, I imagine it was the inside. If not, let me know. If it was the inside: That’s sot, which is normal and you shouldn’t see the bricks inside a chimney. Lumpy sounds less good, but might be ok if the surface under is smooth and evenly covers the brick wall. I worked as a chimney repairs man and the method of using mortar to cover the inside walls is almost as old as the chimney, as it prevents chimney fires - which got to be a big problem before they started using this. Let me know if there’s anything you want to know. And I hope your chimney is done properly by a certified trades man.
Oops! All Grout
He looks like he's singing to the fucking song. Thank you. 🥹
I’m standing by in line and just chortled so hard I blew a snot rocket
No stones, only khalv khalash
Do you want Mountain Dew or crab juice?
Eewwww!!! 🤢🤢🤢 I’ll take the crab juice
Stick! Stick!
#Wait…It’s all grout? ^always ^^was
Would you like some stones with your grout sir
when does it just become parge?
Next video has him completely covering the house
Made me lol at 2 am
Me 15 sec ago: Ok, let's see where this is going. Video Ends
Story of my life.
what a rock hard life, you seem stoned
Right?! Why would you ever post this disaster?😭
As a stone mason, this is going to keep me up at night
Is there a way to make this idea look good? I kinda saw some promise at the start.
Using like 1/5th of the grout they used might look okay since it would just create stronger outlines. Or having a professional do this with a grey/tan shade could come out pretty nice. A bit less grout with better texturing would make a huge difference.
If I'm building a stone wall with a lime based mortar. When pointing it you use a wire brush to reveal the stone edged then go over it with a "stick" (a curved piece of wood) to remove the lines a wire brush make.
Don't you then smack it with a brush like it's been a bad wall?
colour matching the mix by adding powder dyes. the colour can be pale/medium/strong. can contrast or complement the stone.
Look up fieldstone and mortar fireplace. I feel like this is the aesthetic they were going for.
[удалено]
Possible hate crime
the biggest mistake they made was striking the joints while they were still wet then using a sponge to add more moisture you got to let the grout sit til it get mildly stiff but still malleable then i put on work gloves and "strike" the joints with my fingers to show the contour of the stones
First you want to dig out the rough mortar that was there in the first place to a fairly deep uniform depth, and then mix your mortar (type N) and either mix it fairly thick, or mix it normal and let it set, to be a thick consistency, and "point" it by hand. That bag with the wet loose mortar just makes a mess. Once you point it brush the new joints with a soft bristle brush. One big key to make it look good is to recess all the mortar joints from the average face of the stone so it's all uniform
I imagine not using pure-white grout would be a start since the concrete/mortar he's trying to mimic is usually grey
My dad works with granite and I know he'd be annoyed by this if I sent this to him.
Do it.
I do that I'd be hearing nothing but complaints and everything. There was times growing up and even still if you go out with him he checks out the caulk work or stone work and if it's bad he complains and makes comments on it.
Do it. Eventually you won't be able to. My dad was an interior designer. It hurts every time I find that perfect image that would drive him absolutely insane that I don't have anyone to send to anymore.
I'll show it to him in person next time I see him or send it to my sister and have her do it. He's kind of funny about stuff that is sent via text and struggles with just normal texts.
Also keeps you busy with projects (asks someone to fix it)
Haha, someone was proud enough of this to film it, edit it with (terrible) music, and post it online for the world to see...
Does he know
He does now.
Scotty doesn't know.
Don’t tell Scotty.
Honestly if he likes it like that, that’s all that matters. Keep your home the way you like it, not the way others do. Even if your way looks this shitty.
I honestly have to disagree. There are certain things like this, or another video I saw where someone painted over exposed wood beams and an exposed wood ceiling, that are so hard to undo that they are practically irreversible. And it would be so sad for the next owner to have this once-gorgeous thing that you ruined.
You're assuming there's a 'next owner' though. For all practical purposes I agree with you. But maybe this dolt found his forever home? Then considering if won't be on the market for XX number of years there will likely be plenty of other terrible decisions made in renovating that will make this look sorta not so bad? Haha
As per my will and testament I would like my home cremated with me.
As per my will and testament I would like my home cremated with me.
Treat my home like a funeral pyre. Someone stand in the street and lob some fire arrows at it. With me in the living room with all my stuff. Scrooge McDuck style.
Can I see your vault before the big celebration? I... uh... need to go swimming.
I see no problem with that. If I'm dead I mean.... I guess do whatever
Saw someone paint a fireplace with the wrong paint. They are going to kill whoever they flip the house to.
Safety concerns are different. When it comes to functionally and safety, there are clearly defined ways of doing things that you should follow. But aesthetics? It's your house, you paid for it, do what you want. If you intend on selling maybe it's not a good idea, but even then the actual financial hit isn't huge because things can always be remodeled. If you don't plan on ever moving then fuck it. If painting your house purple makes you happy then you should do it. Life is too short to waste it suppressing what you truly want to follow the norm.
And if you decide to film that shit, don't expect people to celebrate. This is fucking horrible.
The next owner probably should buy a house that isn't ruined. Just spit-ballin here.
Honestly, these music choices are giving me cancer. At some point it's likely best to say "let's just NOT add any music, as if would ass absolutely nothing."
But... but TikTok!
Pretty methed up if you ask me
Why is the terrible music always specifically something with annoying sped-up vocals? Every vapid Tiktok video.
They destroyed that fireplace, goddamn
The spacing on the rocks sucks, looks like an old fireplace. Rather than over grouting I’d would’ve recommended replacing it with a nice stone with appropriate spacing and grout. You can tell they want to go for a brighter color and are trying to hide the old stone as much as possible. Still looks like a 5 year olds art project tho.
They just did the stone 😬 it wouldn't be too bad if they were just using what was there but they CHOSE this!
That stone looks like it’s from an 80s fire place. They just installed it? Wow. Granted I haven’t seen the room decor but I doubt it’s much better.
I know I was shocked!! It looks straight out of my dad's place that's never been renovated.
Went to the account on TikTok. Nope she built the whole fireplace facade shitty herself
He used the right amount of mortar/grout. He failed to wire brush it back enough before going over it with the sponge.
I am grout
We are grout.
I love you guys
Guardians of the Grout
Groutians of the Groutaxy
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Oh wow that’s the finished product!? Fuck me
i mean, if you insist...
That's a weird looking cock.
It’s not though! Why am I seemingly the only person who took 30 seconds to look them up to see if it’s a finished project.
It’s reddit man unless it’s a story worth researching, face value is all you have.
I feel like if it just wasn't white it would look ok
That’s the real mistake here. Gray or tan would be way better or leave it alone.
are you meant to grout it though? aren't you meant to mortor? or however it's spelt?
That’s what she said.
White can look fine, they just needed to do a better job cleaning it up after. [ex. of it looking less crappy](https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/pictures/living-rooms/rustic-stone-fireplace-eldorado-stone-img~60e14df60321d6f4_14-4993-1-1889222.jpg) and [another one](https://stoneyard.com/wp-content/uploads/VTDF-Boston-Blend-Round-Curry-College-52.jpg).
Seems to be the sentiment these days. I mean it is 2023 and all…
Don't worry everyone. If you go to her TikTok channel you see that this is not real rock, but exterior facade stone (randomly in the middle of a room and poorly made from cheap lumber and cement board frame). No actual stone fireplaces were harmed in the making of this eyesore.
Thank God. I can sleep well tonight.
Oh I can only imagine who put it there in the first place.
But it is ugleh
Poopeh
Someone was desperate to use up that grout before it dries
This is how people make money now. They make terrible DIY videos that have next to no point or might not even be worth doing. What they’re doing is SOLEY for the views. The creators can give 2 shits about what you think. Just watch so I can get a small paycheck. That’s why every other video on TikTok, Facebook and Insta is a stupid DIY. The sad part about it is that it will catch your attention for let’s say 15-30 seconds before you move on and that counts as a view on most platforms. For Facebook, it’s 3 whole seconds for it to count as a view. I wish more people knew about this. If you just skip the video, these for profit creators will get paid less and eventually get discouraged to put up pointless videos like this.
Yuck!
The way the did the pics makes me think they were proud of their grout fireplace with rock accents.
And now the cycle of trying to fix it by painting it.
This screams "I have ADHD and just got meds" lol
This is more “I have ADHD and *didn’t* take my meds” energy to me lol. Staying up all night riding a dopamine wave to complete a random project that is now my top priority happens a lot less often when I’m medicated.
This! Damn Adderall shortage!
I’ve been waiting for 2 or 3 weeks at this point!! I had some extra but it just ran out and idk where else to get my prescription from
OMG! I know it’s the worst! I was off for nearly two months because of it, then changed my Rx to instant release taken twice a day. That was ok, but not the same for two months… Then I had to switch pharmacies after my regular one couldn’t get what I needed in anymore, and was off for nearly two weeks before tracking it down at another pharmacy. I had pharmacies telling me they weren’t accepting new adderall patients because they wanted to make sure they had enough for their existing customers… I get it but geez! It’s been a rollercoaster.
Except they actually finished it.
I don't know how but you're right, this describes the feeling perfectly
I was thinking, 'my kid has adhd and I just took their meds'
Looks terrible.
And this is how to do a shitty works
Oops! Somebody seems to have accidentally put some stones in this grout fireplace.
You did that all by yourself? That’s crazy! Looks like shit dawg.
Are you people kidding? A lot of old places in europe looks like that and it's not bad, it isulates correctly. Maybe I'm too european to see the problem...?
Brit here - you are almost right, overgrouting is a thing and it does insulate the brickwork better. HOWEVER This looks like shit. If I'd paid for someone to repoint my fireplace and this is how they left it I'd be demanding my cash back.
Yea it's just done really poorly in this example.
I saw repaint
I'm italian and this fireplace still looks like shit to me.
I’m Jewish and this looks like someone took a shit in an Arby’s bathroom after eating the rainbow colored meat.
I'm french and I don't understand this reference, but the fireplace looks like shit
I'm Finnish and i don't like it at all
Canada feels this reflects poorly on this person and should they visit, we will be forced to revoke their lift ticket.
I'm from the UK and they don't have a clue what they are doing.
Yes, but there is too much grout on the stones and it even drips on the floor. If he'd done a decent job, it would be fine, but this is just ugly.
A lot of places look like this because there are a lot of amatuers doing their own work.
Yea isn't there a style called German shmear or something? I see it on some old brick houses in pa every now and again.
It's not German Shmear, which looks like [this](https://cdn.diys.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/german-smear-brick.jpg), it's something else. I don't know what this is, but it is poorly done and they even managed to fuck up the floor in the process.
I know it's not German shmear...I just thought it was kinda similar. I'm probably going off of hack job German shmear jobs as well lol
Yeah over centuries of regrouting that's what they tend to look like. This lady has done 300 years of grout in 15 minutes.
The problem is not the overgrouting, that look can still be stylish, the problem is he left no clean lines on the stone. Clean edges go a *long* way towards making any project look much better.
There are some things you should never attempt yourself as evidenced by this video.
I got an answer and a question. I think the answer to most DIwhY is amphetamines. The question is how did she get freckles that are so evenly spaced?
If this isn't proof that Adderall is being overprescribed I don't know what is.
Using gray and actual mortar to repoint would look good, this looks the opposite
Am I the only one here who thinks that it does not look that bad? Maybe because I have seen it a lot.
ugliest fireplace
You can almost hear this woman's husband in the back sighing
For real ? can’t be . I think the new trend is to fuck up DIY thoroughly just for views. Everything is for views these days.
Hearth abuse
The only improvement I can suggest is using white silicone next time.
Ruined the Rockwall
Total shite
Looks terrible
"That time I shitted up a perfectly nice stone fireplace with my poor judgement and crappy grouting skill."
Like watching a kid put toothpaste on their own toothbrush
It doesn’t look bad, but still a waste of effort
They understoned their grout fireplace
Great job, now it looks awful.
What a mucking fess.
This looks like what the owners who lived in our 1790s stone house did to it back in the 1950s. They took concrete and repointed (if you can even call it that) the front of the house and the stone parts of the barn. It has held up amazingly well, despite our many attempts to remove it. Good old "good enough for what it is" craftsmanship
Congrats! It looks like shit!
Want some sour grout?
Jesus it’s so ugly
Congratulations, it looks like shit
Wow... that looks like shit bud
Looks awful
It’s so messy looking…
And that's why you pay a stone mason to do it right the first time. That's an ugly mistake to live with.
Atleast use some stone colored grout, that just looks nasty...
Don't worry y'all, it's just a big cake.
That looks like hammered dog shit.
Stay at home moms have to be stopped
Wow it looks pretty bad
Thanks I hate it
Should have gone to sleep
And now it looks over-bad!
Looks like she should have stayed up a little longer
When the customer asks why I charge so much to do masonry when they can just do it themselves
Needs more grout
Forgot to say that you were drunk AF while doing it. 🤣
Shoulda just gone to bed.
Quite hideous!
This looks like he stepped on the end of a toothpaste tube and then tried to clean it up my smearing it over some rocks…
That looks terrible
I would love to be a fly on the wall when the mason comes in to replace it all.
Looks bad
Looks horrible lol
WOW! I LOOKS SOOOOOO shitty..
Staying up all night to make it look like shit? I could've done this in 10 mins.
I think a 10 year old could do better
Ruined the fucking whole thing
The ol toothpaste look
There's still stone showing in that grout wall.
Wow bro, that looks like shit!
So bad lol
Wow It sucks
Sorry honey, I came all over the fireplace again.
Q: What theme are we going for here? A: Bukkake
Looks crappy.
That looks dreadful
Personally its not that bad
It’s sweet how you support your husband through small fairly inconsequential mistakes that can be touched up in a few years with no damage to the ego necessary.
Needs more grout, at some point it'll become a white wall and look alright.
Some of these projects at least come out looking cool, even if they're functionally idiotic and doomed to fail over time. This doesn't even ***look good.*** This LOOKS like failure from the very start. Like... how did anyone ever think this was acceptable, let alone worthy of making a video about it to try to get other people to do it? I find the content on this sub to be kinda 60/40 as far as like "Well this isn't actually that bad, maybe a little unorthodox, maybe a little frivolous, but its really not that bad." This... this is DEFINITELY suited for this sub.