Hello folks, kirk here with kirk giordano plastering, today i want to show you folks
is how we repair these insulation holes first thing i want to do is tell you
how they did these they normally will take a drill drill through these and pump insulation
through all these now when these folks repair this what they're what they do is these are between the
studs obviously if you hit a stud you're not going to get any insulation in there so that between
studs now usually if this was solid backing what a person can do to water tight these is
make the whole round and bigger about an inch around bigger and then you you put your
polyurethane caulking on the back of the paper and then you kind of go right over the entire thing
like a bicycle tire many years as i've been in the trade i've never seen anybody do that
so generally most folks do this here they'll they'll drill a hole pump in their insulation
and then they'll put a cork with polyurethane caulking inside then they'll do the cement work
anyway uh what i'm going to do is i'm going to patch all these guys here there's a lot of ways
to patch this i can come up with 10 different ways to patches but for the sake of what we're doing is
i put weld feet on all of these holes well creep just gives me a little extra around the edges so
this will adhere i'm using a 20 30 la jabra cement because that's what their texture is this is 20
30 the texture it's just a skip trowel finish you bring it straight up so i'm going to use that too
if i use an acrylic where i didn't need where i wouldn't need to put the weld create on the
acrylic would suck up into some of these because they're concave so um i'd save a step with the
acrylic but then when the acrylic dries it become paved also so i'm just using regular lahabra 2030
to match this finish here what i generally did is i did the tops up there already so you just take
a little bit on the tip of your trough go over it each one it's real simple just a little tip
go over the entire hole. One thing about this, too, is this finish is very forgiving,
very forgiving; even if you're not a pro, I'll probably still get away with handling this
and now what i'm doing is i'm allowing this to dry too
okay, I'll start
if i put a lot on it, i can just come here and hit it like this,
but what i like to do is just put enough, and then I'll put a little skip on it now,
a little skip there, a little skip here just a little skip
a little bitty texture to match what they've got
And i just come up and down like that flat trout. If i scrape it like this, i'm going to take my
texture off now when this is painted. This is the same material they used when they painted this, so
they're probably going to go with a rhino shield or a kelly Moore elastomer primer over this, and
this has been painted 10 20 times in the last 70 years, so these will also
need to be primed twice you just take a brush go over them twice and what that'll do is it'll
mellow the roughness out once you mellow this roughness out it'll match this right here you got
any big clunkers you'll scrape them right off and use your whole crown use the whole jaw right there
that way when it's painted it'll blend right in we still have about 100 patches and little
holes to do on this, so we're going to continue with our project i thank you,
folks, for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one.