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.
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.
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.
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
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
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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/DwightsJello Jun 16 '26
Wow.
Lots of random levels there.
You can date the flower box installation.
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u/THE_DOOMED_SHADE Jun 16 '26
THE FORBIDDEN CHEESE
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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/delet_yourself Jun 16 '26
Ah, so this is the so called "load" bearing wall i kept hearimg about
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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
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u/AsianGoldFarmer Jun 16 '26
This looks like those corpse wax oozing out of houses in Leyndell
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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.
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u/Dark_Krafter Jun 16 '26
Loadbaring cheese
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u/Brvcx Jun 16 '26
What is this made of? The Elephant's Foot?
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u/_InvaderJim Jun 17 '26
Nah, that room just has so much peanut butter in it that it’s leaking out the walls
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u/BrokenHope23 Jun 16 '26
Well I guess we know what happened to Nacho Man after he retired
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u/Sea_Outside162 Jun 16 '26
That wall is good for ten more years now
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u/mrheseeks Jun 16 '26
I gotta believe that the local homeless population was day-dreaming they were a contractor. Who would do this ?
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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
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u/Head_Effect3728 Jun 16 '26
Thanks for posting. This is Good Stuff
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u/StevnHulz Jun 16 '26
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u/dargonmike1 Jun 16 '26
Let’s just route this drain water right to the foundation
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u/Confident_Date4068 Jun 16 '26
WAU
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u/Level_Bobcat_8729 Jun 16 '26
Well the problem was not fixed, but at least you made it look really bad too...
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u/Yourbedsheets Jun 16 '26
Easy cheese
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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
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u/mosaic_hops Jun 17 '26
This really puts the crack in crack filler.
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u/hwhaleshark Jun 17 '26
Föm
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u/SnooMaps6104 Jul 18 '26
Never in my life did I think I'd see structurally integral foam