Howdy Folks, Kirk, and Jay here with Kirk Giordano Plastering,
today what I'm going to show you guys is how to repair some cracks
in a color coat maintenance-free finish, that's a mouthful, but that's what this is.
It's like a brick, it's like this right here; you never have to paint it,
guys, and we do a lot of these color coats. By the way, we came here a couple weeks ago, and
we were doing some work, and I saw these cracks, and this job was going on a year now anyway,
I saw these cracks right here, and the homeowner said, hey Kirk, we got a couple cracks here.
I said yeah, I suspected that because of the tamping that was done here and
he says what do you mean tamping? I said well the tamping is,
um what they do, they get a machine, and what it's used for is to compress sand, dirt, concrete.
It's it's a big machine, and it hits the the ground, it vibrates it, just and it weighs about
100 pounds, anyway, it tamps the ground down, and what that does is it creates vibration,
vibration to Stucco is like Kryptonite to Superman.
It just cracks it every single time it breaks it, anyway I'm going to explain something, guys.
All right, this color here it's uh Crystal white LA Habra's Crystal white,
La Habra makes a lot of color coats, and these are maintenance-free color finishes, again, and
the beauty of it is you never have to paint it. No matter 100 -200 years, they last forever.
Okay, what happens? Let me show you this too right now because the owner asked me he says well,
Kirk, we got some cracking around the bricks, I said that's tamp; the tamping
did that; see like right here, Jay? I don't know if you could zoom in,
but we got a huge crack right here, and we were looking at that earlier and he says,
wow that's cracked right here, and it went up here, and it went up the side here,
I said, well, you know it's a brand new crack if there's no dust, dirt, moss, or anything in it,
and all the rest of the crack in here, it's typical it's 120-year-old house, but it's all
typical but the new one here, no dust, dirt or moss; that's how you know it's a brand new crack.
With tampering with tamping actually it's a big machine again it vibrates the ground and that
creates it, so if you're going to do any of this kind of stone, this was six pallets, possibly two
tons a pallet, they did that they set it here. I tell folks often do the roof put all the tile
roof on it, put the dead weight, but it didn't cross my mind this is about the third time, we've
dealt with a guy coming in and doing tamping. and then we look at it and we get some hairline
cracks but anyway there is it a fix guys now notice this crack here this is a big crack,
and we just did this up in December, and now we're in a May in a Jan, feb, March, April, so this crack right
here is only four months, but it was created because of this, here's how you fix it anyhow.
you take a water hose now you wet that and notice when you wet stucco it darkens when
you add bricks look at that it darkened when you wet Stones it darkens; why?
Because it's maintenance free you never have to paint these you never have to do
in a hundred years this should look just like this the bricks are already 120 years old,
but notice you don't have to paint them you don't have to do anything to them. Anyway
I learned this many years ago working with, Whitey, we're on a job I think I was about
oh, 20 and we went out to a job we were working in the city, we went out to a job,
and Whitey's job was to stop and look at a job and explain to the boss uh why it was cracking?
And he came out, and he says well you guys use a jitterbug here, and I was thinking what's
a jitterbug man? That song by George Michael came out, " you do the Jitterbug," and in my mind,
I was thinking, what's he know about that song? But what he was talking about was a Tamper and
said they call them a jitterbug in them days too. Anyhow you wet this wall right here this is wet,
and this is wet so while this is wet you've just skim it,
and you might say, well that'll show through. At the end of the day here, and granted
uh, it's been a cold, wet winter the last couple days have been record-breaking temperatures
of the rain, so it's like 40 degrees here, it's it's pretty bright we got lucky today.
but anyway, I'll show you this toward the end of the day, and we'll look at it and see if in
fact it did blend in now a couple guys called me said Kirk I'm going to do a color coat,
and we've got a bunch of cracks uh what's wrong I said nothing's wrong you're supposed
to have cracks in the brown coat uh you put it on it's that bar and stuff of a pH level
the pH is high like around 14 and then when it settles or dries and cures it goes down to about
an eight that's uh it's just natural drying okay right here we're going to get rid of this crack
oh I could do this
And remember, guy's so at the end of the day here, I'll come back,
and it'll be dry and we'll show you how it works. what you can do on some of these color coats like
we're doing, Crystal white, crystal white is very forgiving it's one color that we know
from experience that is easily Blended in. all the rest of the colors are way more difficult.
If this was say a base 200 which is a base gray, I couldn't do this, if it but it is base 100, and
base 100, it's white, and it's Crystal white too. So this one color is the one we can get away with,
and years ago I guess 30 years ago I was doing something, and the guy says,
Hey Kirk, can you fix touch this up? I said if I touch that up when it dries
it it's going to look horrible, and I did it anyway, it looked perfect,
and that's how I found out about I guess, 35 years ago that Crystal white is the only color you can
do and then retouch it up, and when it dries it'll come out the exact same color all the rest of them
on the La Haba chart which is about 40. There you don't have that luxury anyway,
I thought I'd point this out and towards the end of the day when all this is dry we'll come
back and we'll look at it and and see if I'm correct in what I'm saying end of the day.
Thank God. We finally finished
this house a year it took for doors and windows, Okay, that Blended in because I knew it would,
then Dan had a question and I thought that's a good question, he said, Dad what happened if you
don't wet the wall" and you apply just the mud? Here's what happens guys,
I would rather you see that's kind of bled, it's a different color that's why you always
have to wet the walls first; for me to fix this it's five minutes, but I'd rather spend the five
minutes and have anybody who's working with me do something so they can see their own result.
That way it's locked in, and they never forget it. My name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you,
guys, for watching, and as usual, we'll see you on the next one.
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