good morning folks Kirk here with Kirk giordano plastering, my son Jason giordano doing the
videotaping as usual today what we're gonna do is we're gonna repair all these bolts that got
damaged over the years yeah few things going on is trying to find a color I was that not
building materials yesterday formerly known as out we went through about six or seven of their
charts and I brought us a chip-in unfortunately we couldn't find the exact color so I have a color
that I think will work and we're just going to show you how to mix it and come up with a color
that's gonna be later on first I'm gonna show you how to prep these guys here I've installed
thousands of feet of this stuff and there's a lot of ways to correct this and mind you this is just
styrofoam it's styrofoam they put a mesh over this is the mesh that they generally use it's
just a fiber mesh tape so it's not real strong is to stop itself so it's a fiber mesh tape then
they paint the product cost but poly bond or any other numbers of products they have then they code
it was stucco so these are not very strong the kids bicycle skateboards things like that will
damage them and so then I'm showing you this one but we have them throughout the house that we're
going to repair as to simplify it first thing we're gonna do is I'm gonna paint some weld Crete
blog Crete is a bonding agent and of course you get that at Westside also we put it on this guy
here especially around the styrofoam because the cement is product won't adhere to styrofoam and
after we fix this then I'm gonna put some more of the fiber mesh tape then we're going to mix
up the color I'll show you how to do that that's a tough thing you really got to have time in to
do that now we're just gonna Reese pred this out and what it dries it should be as close to this
as possible now granted the house is about 14 years old so we're gonna do the best we can to
this color I think it's gonna come out real well all right guys we're at a stage now
where we determine the color is El Dorado so that's how you get those proper colors first
thing you have to do is let the wall notice this ten times darker now because this is porous it's
maintenance-free it's a la habra finish their maintenance-free meaning like a brick the brick
never loses its color if it's painted when you wet it it won't change colors but you have to
keep painting every ten years so the benefit of a color code is its forever I'd last 90 years
longer either it does start to fade though when the weather hits it like this house here a lot
of different colors because the Sun hits it beige some of the area's rain hits it the moss okay now
we got down I take the colors Silverado that's back here and we mix up a half a bucket you add
a little bit out of time a little bit out of time until we get some color and while the wall is wet
our color is wet when it matches you've got the cold and usually it all even for guys like me
who are pretty experienced it's gonna dry either a tint light or a tint are good because it's old
but even if I had did this a year ago it still wouldn't match on the money so Westside actually
sells color packs too but I'm using quite a bit and color pack comes about like this so that was
that's not gonna help much so we're your eyeball in it and a little bit out of time a little bit
out of time next we're gonna drill this bucket right here a little bit out of time until we
got that in color then we're gonna go ahead to the front of the house and do the moles all right guys
now what I'm doing is I got some cement here and I put a product called luminite lemonade
is an accelerator because when I feel this huge here I want it to set in five minutes I like fix
all it sets real quick well prior to re skimming all of these I have to fix this stuff first and
so this is what we do all right guys we are at the stage where I'm gonna go ahead and stuff a
list but uh do all of them but I'm gonna show you from start to finish you get two to three
minutes you can watch me do it put it texture all this or spread it all then use these little
brushes and brush it now I'm going to show you how I've been texture to all in one thing and oh
yeah before I forget that's probably got my name off a service magic they typed in stucco and I
guess service magic come up in service magic they actually pre-screen fellows like me make
sure our licenses and insurances are up to date they check a bunch of references and guys like
me on it anyhow here we go out of here put it on the hawk this little guys can you scoop okay
Nothing to it, but it does take practice like anything else. First, I'll show you why the
brush in the photo is so handy. My son may edit this later and take out some of this stuff;
I guess you get the general idea of what I'm doing here spreading these out, and of course,
it's a good idea to put the red tape that way you're not making a mess of the rest of the stuff.
This site doesn't have to be perfect because this is a skipping child finish. It's pretty forgiving,
meaning if this was just a smooth finish with no skip child texture,
I'd have to be. I have to spend a little more time with it perfect,
but I'm still going to float this in and brush it in see that, okay now that we got that, I can
use two things you guys these new things float lotus pose big stuff. We just go back and forth.
we're giving it a texture this is called a flood finish because the fellas who did
this job here spread it out, and then they floated, and then they did the texture,
so I noticed this because I got a pretty keen eye, so that's what I'm doing I'm floated right
now I'm gonna brush in a couple other corners and of course - I could see I could spread this
out generally I'll wet the whole thing be before spreading it out but for Seiko simplifying it for
you guys I don't want to wet this because then it becomes a bit more in depth in my
confusion more at anything alright so there we have it look finish over the moles because you
can see through the texture it has a float finish and of course as I explained earlier
this is gonna dry a lot lighter it should dry pretty close if I get a tent ladder
or a tent darker we're doing well because the texture is where the color was put on over ten
years ago just use the same bud pull it off just a little bit I mean just a slight hand
this takes a lot of finesse because they're molds and it's tire and styrofoam,
and we have the radius is it's a there's a straight wall again I just slam it out and
put a texture on pretty quick but go around a little multi gotta take your time, yeah,
unfortunately, we won't be here when it completely dry I'd like to show you guys
the texture how it matches with this and the color, but you get the idea no
texture here there than last a little bit as for the texture on this radius
There you have it. I'm actually gonna protect you on the sides here. The last thing I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna take this little brush here and just go right in there now to get it right when
I remove the tape so give a pretty straight line as straight as you can get with stucco that's me
paint you can get pretty straight. Still, stucco it's not as tight, so anyway, there you have it,
guys hope you learned something, and if not, you could always call a fellow like me. This again
is Kirk with kirk giordano plastering. Thank You, Jay, for doing the video as usual because
I don't know how to do that stuff. Oh, we'll see you at the next one. Thanks for watching.