howdy folks Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today let's show you what causes this
kind of buckling I'll show you a lot of buckling on the lower portions of houses and how to repair
them anybody got an idea why this happened I mean a lot of how do you guys watch what we do and many
of you have a clue at this stage we've done so many videos I haven't done this one yet anyway
what we got here is this is a base coat and then it has an acrylic stucco finish on it and acrylic
stucco finishes basically water resistant finish we can't say waterproof in our industry but it's
a water resistant finish and what's happening is you see all these inset windows these are
a real drag to water proof we've got to use a straight flash you put it down there fan it out
put the windows in it's pretty complicated to do this so I actually seen these guys building this
about 30 years ago so anyway what what they have doing is they've got water coming in right there
why right here maybe even right here we're doing some exploration right now I looked at it earlier
and I said well let me do some exploration and see what the heck is going on so what we did
is we broke this out right here and what they have is is what's here now notice if water is
getting behind an acrylic finish or a painted surface you'll usually have bubbles right here
where the paint bubble but this is an acrylic so it's it's a it won't bubble out it'll just it'll
just buckle like this guy right here is doing what we're doing is now we've got to remove
this because we're going to put a weak screed here now a weak screed is this now notice these
holes right here these holes are for those water to weep out or drip out that's why it's called
a drip or a weak screen now technically you put a weep screed right here it goes underneath the
existing paper on on any job and what we're going to do is after we finish breaking this
whole thing out Jason and I are going to get up here we're going to put the weep screed here
it's take the stucco flush to it and take this side flush to it and now water is getting behind
here and they told me Kirk look we don't want to tear this whole wall off so don't go there
with us we just want you to put a weave screed here and I thought cool beans we could handle
that we will not tear the whole wall off so I'll show you something else too guys if it doesn't
matter if this is on the front of your house in our apartment building if you have this kind of
stuff going on use use this guide here this is a Bosch bulldog why because if I were to get gung-ho
and use strength and just start pounding this what I would do is I'd pound this deteriorated
wire into this beat-up paper that is paper seen better days it's a 20 gauge wire you're actually
supposed to use 18 or 17 but anyone has built 30 years ago so this guy here I'll show you a
little bit about it because it's dusty and dirty and loud and I don't like to get dust on Jason's
camera okay this is how easy this is right here this is the bosch bulldog and you can buy these
tips to the tips actually the self sharpener and they're just they're worth the 10 bucks for it
now notice instead of using a lot of strength and muscle you just let them let the tool do the work
little less dusty now normally I have my mask on because you guys don't want to inhale any of
this stuff when you're doing your own house interior exterior don't inhale it wear some
glasses wear some gloves and of course a good respirator now what Jay and I are going to do
is because he's got a corner here we're going to go ahead and take all of this just like that right
there we're going to place that one weep screed so nobody wants to see - weeps Creed's touching
so put one solid weep screen and that we've screed is going to go underneath this expansion joint but
more importantly it's going to go underneath this paper so now what happens water is going through
somewhere they haven't determined and they don't want to mess with it any longer so water is going
through the stucco when it goes through the stuck what's going on top of this paper now it's going
to go on top of the flashing and weep or drip out of these holes harmlessly so Jay and I are going
to get busy and finish yanking this guy off and when we get to the stage where we're installing
this weep screed we'll show you a little bit more about how to put that on and how to match
this finish here close my eyes and match this one alright guys I'll show you the next stage now this
stuff yeah the patience of a monk you're going to have no patience guys don't try this part all the
paper here is not in perfect condition because it's over 30 years old what we try to do is we
slide our paper underneath the existing and yeah you've got to lift it up real gentle I kind of
lift it up with my utility knife I put the blade in there lift a little bit out of time a little
bit out of time and get it in there it's a real time-consuming in fact it took Jay and I about an
hour just to get this this weep on we've screen by the way guys this is Jay trim or it's called
J channel don't use these this will not let the water out they use it all around the perimeter
wrong wrong stuff that's why they have these issues okay now we're going to a little bit of
wire here because there's is not long enough okay now I'm gonna take me as a plaster five minutes
to do this front and this probably even floated to J's going to go ahead and get a mix and we'll show
you how to how we do that part two okay guys the fun part here this stucco is almost the same color
as the wall itself it dries a lot lighter too now I'm just putting one coat guys if you watch what
we do I always tell you guys scratch it and then brown it play this is this is pretty thin get out
of my own way it's pretty thin so there's just absolutely no reason to mess around here and do
it twice and by the way guys when you use caulking use something good like this polyurethane Kaka we
have here it's sick of product good stuff okay and some of you guys might be saying well why
why does some product or some people put on weep screens and then what's the advantage of them good
question guys when you're doing a maintenance-free stucco finish that means a color coded integrated
color you put these weep screed and now that house is like a brick meaning when it rains it gets wet
and darkens and when drier conditions occur and they will as soon as it stops raining it just
goes and lightens back up so there's basically maintenance-free you never have to touch it so
that's why these weep screens are used the suckle goes water goes through the stucco and out those
holes and if you were to google should my walls should my stucco walls breathe and you got 20
people you'll get 20 different answers to that question should my walls breathe because some
people say I do is you're not supposed to have no stucco breathing and some people say you're
not supposed to seal it I say if it's your house you can do whatever the heck you want with it for
example I put zip lines in my house when Jay and everybody was young from my living room to the
dining room that's the beauty of owning your own house but on a serious note if you paint stucco
you're waterproofing it nothing wrong with that guy a lot of folks ask me hey should should I
paint and it's like well if your house is leaking or so you just don't like the color anymore oh go
ahead paint it it's not going to hurt anything if you have a maintenance-free finish it will hurt it
because now you're going to be stuck painting all the time okay now that that is done in this cement
in five minutes cement that's how much time I have to work with Votto kirgo need about five minutes
okay now we go with a green sponge flow now notice I tapped the sponge flow inside the bucket not
slam it here otherwise it will tweak down and I mess up my own work sometimes I even pull these
back just so they don't make lines all right now what we're doing is I'm just going straight up and
what this is called a float finish I'm bringing out the aggregate yeah this wire oh that's always
a drag to get a loose wire and we'll come back to that guy all right so notice I'm pulling upward
guys I pulled down the whole thing is going to come off now this float is full it's full of
stucco so I shake it out shake it out get it out of there now I want to use a lot of water too guys
they're going to paint this one at all dries why we're on the subject of painting how long
do you got to wait before you paint guys another one of those questions anybody know anybody care
twenty-eight days because right now the pH level of this is about 14 and we want it to drop down to
about 10 or below why good question if you paint too soon the paint can blister it could bleed
because too much alkalinity in the stucco that's boring technical stuff but I thought I'd throw it
in there alright so we are taking this down and coming up here and notice again I'm just pulling
into the existing you guys might say wow that color is right on the money that was an accident
we didn't plan on getting that color right on the money we're just it's this particular stucco this
particular one coat stucco is applied where you don't want to overmix it it's like 31 coat stucco
and guys they're nothing new they've been around for [ __ ] longer than Oh Kirk I've been around
forever ever since I've been in the trade but most people or organizations say scratch first
they can come back and Brown because to do the scratch em Brown takes a little bit of practice
guys a little bit of practice now here well I'm a little hollow I made my own holiday fix that
up and lastly over here where I caulk it because they have a tan building I don't want that caulk
in the show so I put some met over the caulking now I just float that guy in it and yeah as I said
earlier they're going to paint it anyhow but we'll make it pretty just for the heck of it rid of this
cable pull this in again pull up pull up pull up guys always pull up because you can go down it's
going to go down with you alright so finishing it and this stuff here is a rubber it's rubbery how
to pull a piece off and and bend it it'll flex it's just a rubber membrane acrylic stuccos are
sand acrylic color where paint is like pain is the acrylics and water mainly you pay a lot for
water guys alright so there you have it that it's going to match it and of course we can't
forget the expansion joint and I can't forget my little bitty holiday over here a tap in my
holiday was a little bit more mud a loose wire will Jack this slowed up them using right here
these things you want as good condition as you can keep them in all right now expansion joint
gotta come down and dig it out I normally use a utility knife but because I don't have it on me
I use a child and we just match that here we just met it to come one way come the other just like a
V guys and it'll pop right out will be boom and say anything you miss like me sometimes I'll do
the video and I'll get the camera turned off and I'll see something else okay let's put that back
together too alright so lastly a little bit right here and right here and where somebody
else somebody else did a patch I can see the the thing right here so what we're going to do
is go ahead and fix that just because I can see it and it looks bad I didn't see that earlier
okay so again here we're matching this expansion in a V shape to get it out without over trial in
it last thing I'm going to do right here is pull this up because I got to pull out that previous
joint from another fella anyway guys all these tools you see we use they're on our description
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to call this video quiz because Jay said, the battery is dying, dad anyway as I say comes this
last little wire right here one little tad bit all right guys remember, live long and plaster.
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