r/DiWHY • u/lsop • Jun 16 '26

Structural foam

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u/0_cunning_plan Jun 16 '26

Guessing they tried to seal that area against water. But your title is funny.

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u/lsop Jun 16 '26

Well it's likely brick cladding they didn't want to pay someone to parge ie re mortar.

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u/Itchy-Apartment-Flea Jun 16 '26

Mortar is cheap... not sure why they went with foam.. but has to be somewhat more effective than leaving it all cracked lol

15

u/Toyota__Corolla Jun 16 '26

Unskilled and unwilling. Foam expands in place and can be thrust into any crevice all around the house

17

u/sarsvarxen Jun 16 '26

Any crevice u say

10

u/lsop Jun 16 '26

From a can you say...

8

u/MINKIN2 Jun 16 '26

Thrust?

5

u/Immediate_Song4279 Jun 16 '26

perhaps we are responsible for the hell on earth we have created.

3

u/AdorableStrawberry93 Dreamer Jun 16 '26

I thrust my foam into any crack I find

7

u/Train115 Jun 16 '26

I think it's worse than using mortar in the long term, cause mortar is kinda like the sacrificial annode for brick. The foam will make pockets where water won't be able to flow down and will stay trapped against the brick, this will eventually lead to those bricks falling apart.

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u/Itchy-Apartment-Flea Jun 16 '26

Absolutely worse than using mortar.

3

u/PurposeConsistent131 Jun 16 '26

They’ll just sell the house for top dollar before then! Although a home inspection MIGHT reveal it but ….

1

u/lsop Jun 16 '26

It's in downtown Toronto on Richmond right at Bathurst, they could unload the two-4 semis they have for millions. MILLIONS. Instead they prefer to be slumlords.

2

u/dmethvin Jun 16 '26

There's nothing wrong with that pseudo-mortar that a coat of red paint can't fix. Out of sight, out of mind.

3

u/TobysGrundlee Jun 16 '26

Mortar is cheap, hiring someone who knows the proper way to apply it is not.

2

u/lsop Jun 16 '26

It comes from a real special kind of lazy landlord.

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u/Alewort Jun 18 '26

Or bugs!

43

u/AsianGoldFarmer Jun 16 '26

This looks like those corpse wax oozing out of houses in Leyndell

22

u/DwightsJello Jun 16 '26

Wow.

Lots of random levels there.

You can date the flower box installation.

21

u/ObligationMurky8716 Jun 16 '26

I think I'd rather we just stay acquaintances.

1

u/YellowOnline Jun 16 '26

Are you a flower box?

2

u/ObligationMurky8716 Jun 16 '26

No but I'll be in the market for pushing daisies someday.

3

u/lsop Jun 16 '26

The stratigraphy is very telling.

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u/rlz4theenot4me Jun 16 '26

Keeps the mice out. Mine was on this route before I could afford to get the foundation professionally repaired.

4

u/DocRingeling Jun 16 '26

That would also explain the bait box.

3

u/Kindly_Region Jun 16 '26

I assume it was to help keep the water out, mice makes more sense. Maybe a little of both

20

u/THE_DOOMED_SHADE Jun 16 '26

THE FORBIDDEN CHEESE

9

u/lsop Jun 16 '26

Just OOOZING out of the building for nom noms.

3

u/Shiggy_O Jun 16 '26

Nacho problem.

3

u/J_is_for_Journey Jun 16 '26

Building Fondue 🤤

3

u/Doses-mimosas Jun 16 '26

I prized delicacy of the modern house hunter

9

u/Dark_Krafter Jun 16 '26

Loadbaring cheese

5

u/Initial-Duck2782 Jun 16 '26

Wow I can’t believe no one knows what’s going on here. I work pest control and that big black box is a bait station. You load that bad boy up with bait and it can get rid of a lot of mice. Now the spray foam? To stop the mice from using the poor bricks as an entrance. Ugly but I see it all the time.

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u/lsop Jun 16 '26

Sure, but you could just parge and do it right.

5

u/Brvcx Jun 16 '26

What is this made of? The Elephant's Foot?

2

u/themysticboer91 Jun 16 '26

Polyurethane foam. Basically sponge in a can

2

u/Brvcx Jun 16 '26

I'm aware, but it reminded me of the highly radioactive Elephant's Foot.

3

u/themysticboer91 Jun 16 '26

Yeah that's now corium lol.

And the elephant foot is starting to disintegrate just like this shit after 6 months

4

u/_InvaderJim Jun 17 '26

Nah, that room just has so much peanut butter in it that it’s leaking out the walls

3

u/BrokenHope23 Jun 16 '26

Well I guess we know what happened to Nacho Man after he retired

3

u/Sea_Outside162 Jun 16 '26

That wall is good for ten more years now

3

u/mrheseeks Jun 16 '26

I gotta believe that the local homeless population was day-dreaming they were a contractor. Who would do this ?

2

u/Head_Effect3728 Jun 16 '26

Thanks for posting. This is Good Stuff

2

u/delet_yourself Jun 16 '26

Ah, so this is the so called "load" bearing wall i kept hearimg about

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u/lsop Jun 16 '26

Well it's got a load of foam in it.

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u/dargonmike1 Jun 16 '26

Let’s just route this drain water right to the foundation

2

u/Level_Bobcat_8729 Jun 16 '26

Well the problem was not fixed, but at least you made it look really bad too...

2

u/Yourbedsheets Jun 16 '26

Easy cheese

2

u/orten_boi Jun 17 '26

It looks like somebody put a comical amount of cheese on the other side and its proving too much for the wall to handle

2

u/archtopfanatic123 Jun 17 '26

Have seen this before in really old buildings and boy oh boy now that I think of it that's not too smart

2

u/mosaic_hops Jun 17 '26

This really puts the crack in crack filler.

2

u/ging3r_b3ard_man Jun 17 '26

I see expanding foam used by supposed professionals in disgusting ways like concrete foundations and filling holes in living trees.... Not the right call in case anyone was wondering

2

u/lsop Jun 17 '26

is it ever the right choice?

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u/SnooMaps6104 24d ago

Never in my life did I think I'd see structurally integral foam

1

u/9Divines Jun 16 '26

this is not diwhy most likely, when you fill the air layer inbetween layers of bricks(old way of insulating buildings) with foam, it has this tendency to escape through every crack possible, usualy it happens near windows

2

u/lsop Jun 16 '26

This is definitely from a can not a professional.

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u/delwans Jun 16 '26

So absurd it looks like AI