Hi there everybody Jason and family here with Kirk Giordano plastering, we've got
my dad in the back there, and Dan over there Carl's holding the camera.
Today what we're going to show you is how to fix bad texture patches on your stucco home.
Now these two homes, We're here because they had insulation blown in.
These are about 100 year old homes and they didn't used to build them with insulation
in between the stud bays, so what do you do, a company comes out and they take big drills
and they drill holes and then they use blowers and they blow insulation into the stud bays.
That helps with your thermal rating it helps with soundproofing, all of those reasons for that.
Then you got people who do the best they can to patch it, and they get close but
they didn't quite get it on the money. Now, these are a two coat systems,
this was a float finish that's been painted a bunch of times, in the hundred years.
You can see bits of where the peeling paint has softened things and bits where there's a little
bit more sandy texture visible, so what we're going to do is, you can see some of these other
holes, that we've already done and I'm going to show you exactly the process we use for that.
So first you take a garbage trowel, you don't want to use a good trowel for this,
you can use a three-in-one putty knife, you can use anything, anything, you got to scrape it,
so sorry for the noise but I'm going to show you. First, you scrape this stuff and use the
heel or the toe of your trowel to get everything off, because what you want
you don't want it sticking over the edge, there you see how this edge is very sharp
and over now if they had simply scraped this it might have been an acceptable match,
it still wouldn't have been on the money but it might have been close enough.
Anyway, we are going to finish scraping the rest of these.
I'll start with this one, so you scrape it down, to where you're below
flush that way when we put new material on it we don't end up with a huge hump.
You should wear a mask for this, you should wear eye protection, we were with the rest of
these patches, but we're not because that would make it real hard to show you guys.
So i've got these two, after you scrape it down you use a bonding agent we use Weld-Crete,
this will allow the new stucco to adhere to the painted surface.
Of course, the stucco will adhere to this patch they did, but the painted surface if you don't put
a bonding agent it'll come off in who knows three to six months maybe never, maybe faster than that?
All right so just to show you on this house, and then
afterward's I'll show you that house. I'm just going to do these two real quick
and so what we have done here is we've mixed up two different materials I have regular portland
cement stucco, and I have a 20/30 this is a color coat a more fine finished sand.
If you're looking at finish coats top coats 20-30 would be qualified as fine so first.
I'm going to use the portland cement and since we, I've already scraped it this is very very easy
you just get a little bit on your trowel and you fill it in there,
then I'll put this stuff back.
Next, just to show you guys the difference in these, now I already know
which one of these matches on the money. but since we can I'm going to show both
and there's the 20- 30. Now normally you might let
this set up a few minutes but since I'm not gonna do that, get your float
and we just take off the excess around our edges.
Then just hit it gently you want to use the whole thing, you don't want to hit it like this,
you want to just kind of use the whole body of the float, and that one's done.
Now with the 20-30, I'll do the same thing hit the edges and just kind of float
inward, downward we want to cover the patch and that's pretty close.
All right, so if Carl, if you can zoom in on these two you can see this one.
The sand is too fine, it doesn't match the existing because it was done with a portland
cement base coat with the heavy big sand. So if they paint this it's going to be
noticeably different because the sand particles are too small.
Now this one when they paint this it's going to blend in almost perfectly because it's using the
same size sand even though this has been softened many times with the layers of paint this is
still the way to patch and match this one. All right now I want to show you guys this
house now this house is extremely similar they were probably built at the same time
but it has a slightly different finish, this is more of a dash finish that's been painted,
and you don't have the same flat areas where the layers of peeling paint over the years is visible,
so we're going while we're going to do it very similarly, it needs to look a little different
they also used a different material. The patching was done by two different people
and so this house we've noticed is much harder to get this stuff off,
now the most important thing when we're trying to get these off is some of these are very proud
they're sticking out over the edge you can see here where I've started the most important thing
for us is to break these down, to where we're not going to have a big hump when it's patched.
All right there's one,
sorry for the noise. I know this is loud right in the microphone.
Okay, so we're good enough there and we apply
our glue we're just going to do the same thing here that we did there, we glue it.
I'm going to grab some material
then we spread it out.
Now you have to go over the circle a little bit so that we can feather the things in.
Then just like we did before, I like to hit my edges
then we just go over the body, now I had a little too much water on there
so you saw it all wash off, that's okay I can fix that in a minute.
All right,t so that was a little wet it dripped a little bit, but you can see the intent there.
Now when these are painted this has the correct sand which is going to match, what's on the wall
as opposed to this very fine color coat type finish sand which is not going to match it would
be very noticeable if they painted it. Paint enhances the flaws of stucco,
it helps it highlights, shadows and differences in light, so people often think oh you know I'm
gonna paint it and it'll blend right in. Now you have to get it right with the
stucco the paint is just your top layer, it's not gonna hide anything,
so we're gonna finish these up in the same method that I did and of course, I'm gonna fix that one.
Then when it's all done we'll walk you down this hallway and we'll show you
we're all done here you can see all of these different holes, we did on this house
we did a bunch on this house as well . it's on all four sides of both houses
we've completed them we've matched everyone to the best that we can on each wall.
Every wall can be a little different and so if you just follow me out this way you
can kind of see hopefully the camera will show what we've worked on, what we've done.
Then we're, we're finishing up today and we had somebody this is our friend Van, he saw our truck,
he saw us, my dad, Kirk, right here and he wanted to come to say hi, and be in a video.
I'm a huge fan, hey a pleasure man, we make them for you guys,
we're glad you're watching, and his sister, Tam, for your single guys, Hi Tam. I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Anyway, guys, I hope you learned something I hope you learned how
to fix some bad textures on stucco, and as usual, we'll see you on the next one.
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