all right guys Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what I'm gonna do
is I'm going to show you some of the advantages of stucco number one a color coat stucco system
which we do color coats nowadays since 1926 it came out but they like these concrete steps here
this is a poured concrete rail now this is done with santa barbara smooth mission finish three
coach to get it this smooth this you never have to touch 100 years you never have to touch it's
kind of maintenance-free just like these the flagstone here anyhow wanted to point out what
we did we were been on five months hold while a door has been on order so we don't usually have
the opportunity to come back and show what we've done before this gives us a great opportunity you
want to show up here Jay and I'll show some other things that you can do of course we did this five
months ago they put the pillars on you notice they did some really really beautiful work here
then these guys are on the ball one thing that a lot of folks don't realize is you can do this
I don't know if you can get a good shot here Jay this is wonderboard wonderboard which is
the cement tshis background a smooth Santa Barbara mission finish has been placed over
here three coach to get at that smooth anyhow there's a lot of advantages to stucco say again
it's maintenance-free unlike wood vinyl siding or even brick it it's stuff fire resistant your
insurance goes down if you have stucco on the outside because of the r-value of insulation
your heating and cooling system goes costs go way down and that's just a tip of the iceberg
if you really interested a lot of other there's 20 different other top 10 tips Google the advantages
of stucco what we're going to do is going to be up on top of this deck will show you that pretty
quick all right guys we're up on a deck now this door has been on order for like five months and
what we're going to do is here's what I recommend it to the fellow homes house we're going to break
back we're I'm breaking back this is real dusty I don't want it to get on the lens so we're going
to keep going back going back until we can get some good paper granted this 100 year old stucco
so I'm surprised it's in this good condition what I recommend it to them is will take they're going
to pull the light off we're going to take it out and see the strip above the door we're going to
take that out also and this right here if it was talking about whoa whoa do three inches well we're
going to take this whole thing out that way we can take our paper into the key here and button
that up real well a lot of advantages to stucco even these hundred year old houses look how well
it's in it's in great condition so that's that's again one of the benefits and advantages of doing
stucco siding so anyhow I'm going to go ahead and turn this noisy beast on and we're going to break
out and we'll show you how we do a little bit of paper and wire here - okay guys where you got that
nasty unglued sob done of break out let's show you guys something that we take it for granted when we
do it a little bit of exploration like this and pull stuff apart we never know what the heck is
under there so take this for example we got some pretty fat gaps in here now you can do a number
of number of ways I've done it this way I'll take Sikaflex polyurethane caulking and I'll put a fat
beat of caulking here all the way around it then I'll put two layers of paper on it and fuse that
paper with the caulking against this again this is hundred-year-old stucco so we really want
it watertight we're up pretty high and it with Southwest facing and it does get 100 well probably
70 mile an hour winds here at most and then we call this side you got to know what to look for
and be prepared for stuff I told the homeowner you should take your trim off as a reply was well we
have it on a membrane well we pulled the stucco off on this side and that's typical the membrane
here they had the stucco here so they couldn't get it now if I were to try to squeeze my paper
in here what would happen it would leak it might take a year two or three but it will leak so I've
been doing this too many years and I've learned by mistakes some mind some other people where a
fella said hey just [ __ ] it like 20 years ago yeah he had to reset a whole law and tear it off
and do it the right way so again we got some gaps we got weird stuff going on and 100-year
old houses you would expect weird stuff so we're going to membrane all this I'm where I got some
gaps right here I'm going to caulk these first and I'm just going to use a membrane on all this stuff
you'll see it as we get to get doing it off I'll show you this peeling stick because I'm going to
get busy here and what I'll generally do is I've got a brush I'm going to brush all the dust off
of this too because it won't adhere very very well so that's the next stage of this stuff here so I'm
going to go ahead and get started okay guys where we're at now is I started the bottom off because
that's pretty time-consuming we're working in the hot Sun in this particular stuff use the roll put
the roll the knife on the rolling cut you can get a straight cut and when you're working with a hot
Sun with this stuff nasty stuff it it tends to want to stick to itself I like to do this early
morning if I have the opportunity but we don't always have that luxury anyhow what I'm going
to do now is I'm going to peel this stuff any of you have ever done this you know don't do
it in the Sun because it will stick to itself if you if the wind blows it in it it's nasty stuff
anyhow here's what I generally will do now we got a membrane right here this is a peel and stick so
we're putting the second peeling stick and what I wanted to go into that key because again this
is a real tricky wall we're in this we're on the southwest we're up high okay now that I've cleaned
this paper real well this will adhere this kind of melts on it's especially a hot day like this it'll
melt right on there and this way there is a seam here it's about an eighth of an inch we don't like
that so we put that on and generally I'll get my my membrane over this membrane and it will
adhere almost by my welds itself so we're tight here then I'll take a sharp brand new knife new
blade and I'll kind of outline this I'll just I live all it and come in because what I want
to do is I want to get this membrane over as much of this paper as possible now this takes a little
bit of time and takes a little bit of practice but I'll show you how I do it a whole bunch of
ways to do this stuff guys okay let me get this nasty stuff and since I got this strip here I'll
put it over this big gap right here as an extra precaution rather than throw it away okay so now
I'm gonna use my fingers here and squeeze this in here that's pretty much how we're going to do it
I'm getting ready to have the carpenter who's on this job after we membrane everything come
and put this wood trim back because it had about ten shims here to get it get it lined up I'm a
pretty good stucco guy but carpentry that's not my thing so you'll come and do that then we're
going to wire it and be out of here okay guys we're at right now just putting the last bit of
this nasty caulking on it what we did is we fused all the openings here of course we membrane to
everything here and here that stuck who goes about 8 inches up there so we put our grace membrane and
put a couple tubes of caulking here around the sides everywhere we are completely bulletproof
on this right here because it's old stucco it's funny my wife just came here and gave us brought
us lunch and she said man five months later and they did all this take a peek at this exterior
you guys got to see this let's see Jeff you uh can come down here these guys put in these Queen palms
he's like 30 foot Queens Hawaiian palms Mexican palms Jay corrected me on the flagstone that's
travertine tile in the swimming pool these guys got the best view of any I've seen so far and
I've done a lot of work in the last two years Tiburon Larkspur oh you name it positive take
my pick I'd say well I'd like something just like this anyhow my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk giordano
plastering, we thank you, folks, for watching and as usual Jay and I see you guys on the next one.