hi guys kirk and jay and my brother new here today on this particular job we did lath of course we've
shown it enough times and we've shown the scratch of brown so we're not going to show that but i
want to address something that the homeowner called me and says hey Kirk you guys broke out
but when you broke out you messed up the rest of the wall and I said how so he says well there's
cracks everywhere now and I he explained it to me and I told him over the phone what I'm about
to explain to you folks right now all right he has an existing stucco house it's about 90 years
old now you can use muscle you could use these hammers here and use a lot of muscle and strength
and pound the the stucco out they had a saw cut here in I totally we cannot stucco to a saw cut
otherwise you get a perimeter crack we need to break it out so Jay came here and he broke this
out now what happens if you use hammers like these what you'll do is loosen the plaster your loosen
up the plaster inside the house I've done it many times and they'll call me and say look what you
did to the plaster inside so what we generally do is we'll use a pneumatic tool they make 30
different models from all the Hill teas which I have two air chisels to this particular Bosch
I'm fond of it because it's lightweight it'll hit the wall say several thousand times per minute and
it'll break it out gently so we don't destroy the interior however can you zero zoom in on
this crack here okay we got a crack here we got a crack here and underneath here we got a crack
that's typical this crack is simply following the line of this redwood board so I tell men don't
worry about that that's that's nothing to repair it says well you're going to stucco it well if I
put a bonding agent over this and I place stucco over that what will happen is as the house moves
and shifts that'll crack right off here's what I recommend guys you are going to get perimeter
cracks when you use any type of pneumatic tool at least sometimes anyway you just take some caulking
and notice the finish is - - finish so it's kind of sandy I've showed this particular product
that I'm using right now several times figure I'll show you guys again because the fella here
was pretty adamant that we did something cheesy like well how you're gonna repair it Kirk okay
I'm caulking that crack I'm gonna caulk the one underneath - actually this one is such a hairline
that paint will flood it you get a good quality paint and it'll flood it now what I'll do is I'll
take my glove and I'll just squish it in there now doesn't have to be pretty right now because
this particular caulking more flex is water clean up a bowl what does that mean well you don't need
thinner or do you natured alcohol you do that you just use your finger guys and squeeze it in there
once you've got that squeezed in there as best as possible then you use a float because again
it's water clean up above the float with water a little bit of water right here see that it
works really well you just cover that crack up and float it in I'm using the more flex because
it has sand in it and I could match this texture much better are we granted we're about the plaster
this today right now but you get an idea of how to fix a perimeter crack this was so minor that
had he I'm sure you will get a good quality primer and paint it would have flooded it anyway so you
folks whether or not it's me or somebody else and they do a breakout expect that don't panic
it's normal typical and you could get that out prior to painting or just paint it out anyway I
thought I'd show it because this fella had a real concern over he called me late at night about it
my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you for watching as usual we'll see you guys
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