Howdy folks, kirk and Jason, Carl and Dan, here today; we're getting ready to start a
day where we are going to color-coat a house. Let me, I figured, I've done something similar in the past, however, I get a lot of calls from people,
and some of them are just plain weird. I'm going to
read one of them to you in a second, But I'll show you what we're doing, guys.
We're getting ready to color coat this house; what does that mean?
if you get ready to paint your house first thing you have to do is,
hire somebody that will pressure wash your house, and that's what they'll do.
It's the same thing for us; you pressure wash your house, you pressure wash the walls.
Use 3,500 psi. That's just the strength, guys; the psi is the strength.
And if you do it with a proper gas, you're going to remove all the loose stuff. Is everything going
to come off for a color coat or paint? No, everything's not going to come off.
You get 90 off, you're doing good if you get 100 off, that means somebody just painted it,
that didn't even have a clue. Sometimes you get it all, too much off, like right there. Where
it's an area where the plants were and all that jazz, so a lot comes off.
But what you have to do guys, is what you have to remember before you do a color coat
maintenance-free finish, that means like a brick, and like a brick, it lasts forever.
These people won't have to paint their house every 10 years. They still have to paint the wood trim.
But this is what we're using, guys. It's a la Habra color collection.
It's a cementitious maintenance-free finish, they went with silver gray.
Anyway, I'll show you that in a minute too. but here's something to remember guys because this is
so important when you're doing windows, doors, foundations, rooftops,
that's what I'll generally do. and I've been doing this for like
40 years, guys I've never had a color coat maintenance-free finish fail.
So what you do is by hand, you use a brush and you put on
Weld-Crete or Quick-Crete, Weld-Crete is sold at the material yards, like plaster material yards.
Quikrete is sold at Home Depot and Lowe's and yeah, this is blue, because it's that
Weld-Crete stuff, it's hard to see it go on the wall because, the walls are a light
blue. But you can see it dripping right here; maybe it depends on the camera.
What I'll do is, we'll first go around all the windows and doors. After we cover those windows
and doors and everything has been pressure washed first, then we'll take a brush here, and we'll
I've been doing this already; it's already done, but i'm just trying to prove a point here now.
So I'll show you guys, we do that, then next what you're going to do what we're
prepared to do this morning is we're going to, there's five gallons right here, so we take the
fattest roller. Why the fattest roller guys? Because if you spend three or four bucks on a cheap roller,
You'll be here all day. Kind of like a brush if you use a little cheap brush you'll be here all day.
Use the fattest roller you can, and if you're going to apply, say Weld-Crete, the bonding agent or
Quikrete you want something, a fat nap roller. So we've just happened to use fat nap rollers and
that just means instead of me pushing this in here 50 times do one little square, I put it in one time.
Okay, and I got a little screen in there, all you want to do, guys is, you want to put It on
where, this is kind of critical. I've had, in this video, I'll include another video
in the description, where this fireman he put it on so heavy, I said man, we're going to get spider
cracking, and he said what's that? And I showed him. He wasn't happy, I said well, that's what
you get, because you wanted to do, save some money. Then I've had it the opposite where people
don't go thick enough, and if I can't see it, I say, man, I can't see that, so how am i supposed to know
our stucco is going to adhere forever? If I can't see it that means you don't have enough. So
what we're doing is we're showing you guys how to, how to apply a bonding agent. And again I'll put in,
The description a link on this particular bonding agent because 10 years ago, I did a video and i
explained a certain Weld-Crete and so rather than get too carried away in this video, you, if you're
interested in this you could watch that, but I want to read to you something over here, guys.
Here's another thing too, all right, you say what are you using we're using 94-pound sacks.
for every 94-pound sack, we end up putting a two-pound pack of color. now we did this about three
days ago, and this is curing why does it cure? Well, it's a really boring fact guys but when we first
apply stucco it's at a alkalinity of about 14. And if i paint this or apply a color right now,
it's not good, it won't last, i'm going to read to you something somebody sent me this morning,
August 24th, 2022.
I had some stucco repair, he did a few walls he recoated, he painted the same day.
he installed the cementitious stucco, no hydration or cussing, I think that meant curing?
No hydration or curing, you rub hard on the wall granules of stucco come with the paint.
You can literally pull the paint from the wall. Underneath the powdery residue in the stucco
appears to be about to flake off.
They sent me this but they didn't ask me a question, they just sent it to me, and I thought, I was almost gonna respond with, hey
thanks for sharing. What do you want? you're just telling me what, what happened to you.
I thought okay, they're frustrated leave it alone don't go pissing them off. Saying weird stuff, but
anyway this got to hydrate and the reason is, that boring stuff about hydration.
Waiting for the pH level to drop down to about a seven. I can go into further details of
the different cement you use, and if you want to stucco the next day, or paint the next day. but I
won't go there. Because this again that'll get this video too boring, We are going to show you,
The samples of what we're doing and why and this is when you pressure wash, you see it removes a lot
of stuff but it doesn't always take it all off. So people call me and say hey, we pressure washed but
it all didn't come off. Guess what guys? it all doesn't come off, and what we're doing here
again guys is now if you could zoom in here for a sec Jay, now this finish they don't like it the
the, the homeowner and it's a lot of women who say hey, I don't like the color well
folks, if you're annoyed with the color or the texture Jay, I, Carl, Dan, we know how to do this. I've
done about 100 of these Jay's done about 20-25, but if you want, if you're annoyed with the color
or texture it can be changed. It just you just have to know how to do it. It's similar to any of you
women who are annoyed by a loud noise in your car, what do you do? You open the door and kick him out.
Well it's a similar thing, you just call somebody like us, and we know what we're doing. Google
plastering contractors in your area. So, we're going to get started in a minute and we'll show you how
you could change the color and the texture of your house and again, what we're doing
is a maintenance-free cementitious color coat. They do have acrylic color coats, but that's not
what this video is about because it's already going to get long enough. Anyway, when we get to
applying that finish, we'll show you how to do it. We'll show you because we can.
Jason and Billlll, they actually did the top and what I'm doing, this is called floating, what kind
of finish is this? A sand finish, why they call it sand finish? Because i'm using a float to bring the
aggregate out, anyway bill is kind enough to help us, he is also a 40-year licensed stucco dude.
So he's helping us on this job because we got too many things going on, all of which you can't see.
Anyway when you come down here. Meet my little friend, you need troweles like this too guys.
THis helps me get to the bottom. you need people like me. Okay, here we go and what I'm doing, guys, is i'm
taking the new stucco that bill and jay just put on and i'm bringing it into my existing stucco.
This color hereis the french gray, is base 200 what does base 100 and bass 200 mean? Base 100 means it's
a white a white base, base 200 means it's a gray base. When you're dealing with a gray base
it's a little bit more difficult to keep that color uniform, What i'm doing is the magic.
Haveing, Jay and bill spread, what I what I tend to do is get all of the joints out, and fill the
holidays, holidays, what's that? no i'm not talking about Madonna's song, holiday. I'm talking about
areas that you could see, in the old days, they call them holidays, you might call them, boo-boos or
patches or just, we don't want the inside or the the base coat to show. We can't have
no blue showing because this is dove gray or silver-gray, and so i'm again i'm bringing the
new into the existing, iItake it from, the bottom or go sideways get some of that stuff
off. Because if it's if this float fills up with too much aggregate, or color coat.
then it leaves a nasty finish. Anyway we're going to keep doing this
I'll show you, well, since Bill already got that over there, we'll show you just that part.
and then we'll show you the end result, and while i'm here, I'll probably be rambling and so
is my nature what i'm doing now again, I'm looking at I had to take my glasses off.
Because what I'm trying to do is get out the majority of, of the holidays, underneath that
means, the finish underneath and of course, when I do finishes like this, I tell people, you're always
going to know possible, you, the homeowner, that there was another finish underneath. Because
the final finish, you could only cover so much. We went ahead, and we scraped everything down
already, but there's still going to be some high and low spots, and you, I don't care how
good a person is, you're not going to get every single high low spot off! That say, somebody with
nothing but time on their hands, you can't see an indentation here or a mountain there
any way you see how that's doing right there. Now where bill just spread, I want to keep this,
if i dip this in water now, I'll bleach that, I'll if i dip this in water guys,
here's what your apprentices should know. If i dip this in water and I hit this,
and I bring it into the existing, that's going to bleach. It's going to be like pouring, Clorox, on
blue jeans, so don't do that. What you can do is when this fills up, take some of it off like that,
and now take the new into the existing anyway guys, we show you all this stuff because.
We're workers we like to show how to we're the working class people, we show you working class
people, who are less fortunate or you don't want to hire somebody, say you don't have enough money to
put a pretty texture on your house, and you're just barely squeaking by, and you think, man, I'm
trying to keep food on the table, I don't care about a finish, we show all you guys so that way
you know how to do it. Don't be surprised, how many comments I get where people say hey kirk, we watched
your video we did indeed, do it. So that's who we basically, cater to the working man, the working
man in this world, because we're working men in this world. Anyway when we're done with the
majority of this we'll show you the final results. Okay, guys we are through, notice with the color
coat maintenance -free cementitious finish. When you put it on it's dark and when it dries it lightens,
up just like a brick you wet that brick it's going to wet and darken, but when drier conditions return
it's going to lighten up. That's how it lasts hundreds of years. You see in here and like
we did all the tough stuff first. You see these two guys are essential, a two dollar brush
And a little bitty margin trowel, without these guys, you're lost in space. Because
these get all your inner corners and your outer corners.
A float, and if you're, if you're a good float man, by the end of the day, it should look like this.
If you're a horrible float man it'll look like this. Another story anyway from Jay and I, Carl and
Dan my buddy Bill, we thank you for watching and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one.
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