hi guys kirk and jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering today I'm gonna give you guys some tips
I mean this is what we do for 11 stucco for over 30 years a common issue that most folks have with
stucco that's on the wood laughs especially the old home like this is about 90 year old house when
you open and close this door that's a big solid door it causes vibration and you get hairline
cracks here in there if you have a leaky roof the old man that'll take it down here's what they had
now a fella said how much should I break out I said well break out stud to stud and just get the
area that's necessary remember if you hit an area like say let's see where you are with the camera
like here here's a stud here's a stud here's a stud every 16 inches I said stay on the studs well
he didn't want to go into the radius and I don't blame him so what he did is he broke out right to
here now this is spongy because here's the stud I marked it every 16 inches I marked it right here
stud so because he didn't go into the stud that's okay what what this is is real spongy so if you
pound on this what it'll do is the vibration will loosen up all these keys what is the key for a lap
ceiling that means the stucco goes through these grooves here and mushrooms on top that's called a
key now because he had a big hole here this big hole right here we put this last here they put
some lath hero last week and they use the wrong laughs they use paper back with the big holes
17 gauge and when you try to plaster that stuff there's nothing for it to adhere so it just falls
all over your head in fact most of this is gonna fall on clothes maybe not me but when you're when
you're putting mud on a soffit you get it real rich forget that 3 2 1 stuff go 2 to 1 that means
2 shovels for every shovel of cement normally we go 3 to 1 because I want it super rich otherwise
it's gonna end up all over me and we're going to scratch this and because this is all cut now dad
that's another issue okay its stall cut so what we do is we use a bonding agent you guys see me using
weld cretan get a lot of calls people say man I can't find weld Crete there's sick uh they're
sick of latex I think at Home Depot or Lowe's and then there's the quick reads Home Depot or Lowe's
or not certain guys but it doesn't matter what Bonnie an agent you use one day when they broke
this out I said guys take a water hose and spray it down they said how come because I want all the
dust off I don't want to be here stapling a piece of mesh and have all this dust come on me so fall
on me well they did a pretty good job so what we do now is I use this this bonding agent here again
this quikrete and I get so many calls pip said hey what's up with a well Crete where do you get
it guys you can buy this any bonding agent why am i put in a bonding agent right here because
it's saw cut now if I were to start pounding on this I know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna do more
damage than good it to achieve what I want it's not worth it so I'm gonna leave it alone but I'm
hitting this with a bonding agent I've hidden it with the bonding agent actually I already did all
this guys but I'm just trying to prove a point I'm hitting this with a bonding agent even though they
took a water hose and they hit it well when I got here I thought well at least they did that pretty
nice I'm hitting it with a bonding agent also why because when I go to put my first coat on this if
there's any death that they missed my first coat is not going to adhere nothing guys sticks to dust
not paint not not anything so we're at a stage now where all of this this perimeter is hit with
a bonding agent and all of the wood underneath even under here it's hit with the bonding agent
why because it gives it an extra grip and if there was any dust left it gets it off because when I go
to put my first coat on here if it hits dust just gonna fall right in my face so anyway one last
thing guys you see me using a bonding products that have color I used those because I can see
if the an area was missed the sickle of sickle a text or the quick read it's when it dries you
can't really see it there's our little spike Sheen to it but you can't see it that's why I prefer the
world cream because it's colored come on you guys like quick read and suka start adding some color
to that bonding agent anyway when this dries right here I'm gonna go ahead and apply that first coat
we've got a ways to go so I'm gonna cut it short here and then we'll come back to it okay guys
we are getting ready to do the scratch coat the scratch coat I told my brother lose give me some
rich mud and I think I could work this they're not as rich as I wanted again guys when I scratch I go
three two one when I Brown sometimes I go for two one with a sealing I go to two one I'm just
getting the feel of his mud right now I put it here and I drop it to see if it's the consistency
I want a little richer would have been better but for your guys's entertainment the soup here it is
the better because it'll fall all over me okay now what I want to do is I want to squeeze let's see
where you're at I want to squeeze it inside these keys it's kind of go up in here and mushroom on
top so just pull it shake up start let me see what this bud does that's not too bad that guy and then
what I'll do is I'm gonna push it in here to the to the finish that was all cut I push it in to
the finish out with soft cut so that it can really get in there and here's a tip guy this can fall at
any time I got my board right here to follow them ahead no big deal on that work what I generally do
is all I'll go at arm's length I won't go right above my head because at the end of the day I'll
be full of stucco so that's not what I want so now that I'm getting a feel of what this mud will
do some people do call this hey man I can't spread ceilings guys feelings take a lot of no extra work
for extra knowledge because ceilings are defying gravity when you're defying gravity I don't know
what you're doing and yeah it takes a little bit of practice you see how well this is going on this
is gonna take me about Oh 25 minutes maybe 20 to stretch this entire ceiling why because I don't
want it to fall all over my hips I'll show you how it works above the wire guys now why
are you generally holds a little bit better and again I put it right here okay we cover the door
not because I'm worried too much about cement and getting on it because this is a - finish and when
I go to hose this down these doors have a tendency water to go through the threshold and warp out a
floor so I don't want these guys yelling at me so what we're doing is the same exact thing here
now this size has the wire of course we put the wire because it had a big hole in here and two
guys this is doing this where you have a big hole it tends to lift it'll it'll fluctuate so
when I put the mud here it's going to go up and then it's going to pop back down with sometimes
you lose some wire because there's a hole there guys don't be discouraged if that happens it's
not a big deal it's the nature of the beast so see what I'm doing here I'm gonna do the whole thing
just like this then I'm gonna scratch it what does the scratch mean that means one of these
guys right here and generally you wet this it's dry which might pull some of this off but what
I'll do is I'll pancake it meaning I'll hit it this way yeah I'll hit it this way and in about
that's pretty crooked in about two hours I got a feller aiders in this that's another story guys in
about two hours it's gonna be ready for the second coat which the second coat is way easier than the
first first coat is going to go all of you guys you're gonna be covered in it if you don't know
what you're doing in the second coat when that goes on that's twice as easy as the first coat
I'll show you that what we get to that stage all right guys brush it off yeah it gets all over you
this is not a job for somebody who wants to stay clean if you want to stay clean hire somebody to
do this you guys who watch what we do show you another tip - okay I use this scratcher and I
get a waffle technique both ways then I floated the edges I float the edges because I don't want
this surface past this surface otherwise when I go to spread it and float it it'll when it's painted
you'll see the lip we don't want that lip to show all right Lew has brought me some mud and what I'm
gonna do now is spread it I tell you something too I forget the way the lath was running let's
see this okay this does we're running this way so lath is running this way when I was Union actually
before that I work for a guide he said Janet Kirk I don't want you spreading within a direction of
the lap but once you spread against it and that's why hey looked at me it's like well it's better
why why is it better he says well the key better and I thought can I made my opinion I said I don't
think it's better back I don't know any difference just as well if you do it the other way it falls
out more falling out more what I do it anyway guys tomorrow to that little thing is do whatever which
way you like that was a former boss of mine and I almost got fired for voicing my opinion but things
like that doesn't really matter oh like my son Dan years ago when he was doing it was really good
at tennis it's a dad I need some ping-pong yes otherwise I need some ping-pong shoes I thought
why well they make you they grip the floor better and you can play ping-pong better and he was in
tournaments it was really good and I said dude you think if Michael Jordan the basketball player was
the playing against me and I had real cool shoes and he was barefoot who do you think would win he
would he knows what he's doing not the shoes and if not the direction you go on last guys it's the
applicator anyway my boy Dan sure was good in ping-pong remember one time I was playing him
talking system busy showing you guys how to do this I played my down my son Dan one time and he
and I said dude I can't even see the ball he says oh just think think you wouldn't really see him if
I was using if I had those shoes I've ever seen man that bothered you didn't it what against is
not it's not so much the way you spread guys it's the applicator and me this gotta take me about oh
what's about 10 minutes to spread it well while I'm doing that notice how easy this is going on
now because we have our first coat on now granted that first coast only about oh I'd say an hour on
there I would I'd recommend you guys if you're gonna do this put that first coat on and let it
sit overnight then come back with your follow-up coat like what I'm doing here this is my follow-up
coat my brown coat my second coat whatever you want to call the guys it means the same thing
for those who emailed man say what I mean by a brown coat it looks great just terminology
stucco is great as a rule anyway so I'm putting on the second coat here the first coat adhered by
two things one of them which is Qian and the other was the fact that it was the wood was dry and so
the woods soaked the moisture right out of that coat that's why I'm able to put this on so soon
this you can tell by looking at it it's still a little bit wet and that's okay and what happens
if you get something that falls out well that's just like if you fall down in life get back up
I had a couple dropouts and right prior to doing this I just went back and put it put it back up
so it's not a big deal guys if you do your first coat and come back an hour later and see some drop
out that just means hey you're working against gravity now and gravity does have a tendency to
want to pull it right off let's see - another thing guys you're gonna be doing ceilings like
this just best to have a big trough if you use a square say 5 by 12 not too good this one's about
16 inches it gives me the ability to cover a wider area and go a little flatter just the area where
I had a drop out earlier hopefully it won't drop out now but if it does not a big deal we just put
it right back in okay now what I'm doing is I'm looking at it making everything true and plump
I won't bore you with the rest of this but I'm gonna go ahead and spread it and I'll show you
how we do the last part and that is the low finish okay guys we are back I had to let that set for
about a half hour to an hour everything a lot of a lot of circumstances that make a difference like
how soon it sucks up the weather right now it's about eighty degrees outside it's pretty warm we
are ready so now it's time to float and god I spare you guys a lot of my Yammer in a minute
ago and finish this right now otherwise I talk about a whole bunch of you pushed craps it don't
amount to nothing J turns the radio off so I got nothing better to do I can't stayin on on here
anyway guys what I'm doing now is I'm using a green sponge float and this is a bucket right
here this bucket has water now this is a tip guys you know some people if you don't know what I'm
doing notice I'm putting the flat surface here and I'm floating it I'm using a lot of water because I
want to bring the sand or an aggregate out of this so if you do this guys where you take a sponge
float and you put it like this because you think it'll leave a line good what we do especially
with a ceiling here is I'll take it and I'll lay the flat surface on just like snowboarding guys
kind of like one more tip on here on application because I get so many people think Kurt how the
heck do you do those feelings man I tried it and I can't do it it's it keeps falling off and each
time I go to reapply it comes off I'll show you guys something one last thing before I end this
video okay but say for example I take the mud off of my my hawk and I spread it what I do is
I get it all off and put more on it you might have noticed that earlier and you know you don't try it
and leave the mud on here and then try to do it again and go all over you guys each time you take
a trout full tap that mud off start with new mud Charlie on tap the rock always start with new mud
when you're doing a ceiling otherwise you'll be wearing it anyway guys impossible to show all the
little ins and outs when you're doing something like this but hopefully you get the drift of how
to repair it my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you for watching as usual we'll see you
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