Hello folks, Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what we're going to do is we're
going to apply a bonding agent to this house here and generally, what I'll do is, I mean my choice
of bonding agent is, Weld Creat, what I generally do for an application of bonding agent prior to
a color coat finish is I'll dilute it, now I take a full 5 gallons give two and a half gallons on
this one then, I usually just add some water to it now then I make 5 gallons right here so this
this product has a lot of different reasons but we won't go into that you can put concrete on
concrete but for purposes of what we're doing today we're applying a bonding agent directly
to the surface of the house I'm explaining this because the fella here had about 10 guys who bid
the house to do color finishes on it and he's the Kirk how come I got so many different explanations
of how why and things of that nature and I said well how many did you get and he says well I
narrowed it down to you and another fella and the other fellow was going to apply a skim coat and I
said that's not necessary your house is in fine condition you don't need a skim coat I said the
only house I've seen so far as one that they did a ferrule system - they took pressure hose and shot
glass and and and fibers on it and just took all the lead paint off and it just cracked the house
like an egg that's the only time I refer to skim coat I said on the skim coat this other fella said
he was going to do why and he says well he says he's replaced a lot of color coats that failed
well we're going to go over that if you don't put the bonding agent directly on the house it
will fail some of the bonding agent says you can put it in the mix you cannot it will dilute it
unless you put this on the house it will come off eventually I guarantee my color coats for life so
after 30 years I haven't had to replace any of them because they don't come off I have had to
come back and do touch up lawn mowers barbecues hit'em tree branches things like that but they
don't come off if you do it right anyhow we're going to we're covering up all the windows I
got my daughter here great at covering windows Jay's helping me do the windows and we're going
to cover all the windows first then we're going to apply this bonding agent I'll show you some
other tips when we get to the other side oh well we dilute the bonding agent because if we put it
on full strength like concrete to concrete what will happen is the color coat will spider check
it'll crack every which way because the bonding agent is too strong for just a color coat over a
painted surface I've seen it done many times and that's why we prefer to do our own bonding agent
I did have a fella did his own bonding agent it was straight blue and I told him before we even
started I said it's going to crack like an egg you should not have done that you should have
let me do it but didn't listen to old Kirk anyhow good question we're going to get started on the
other side we got a lot of windows and once we get started I'll show you guys how we just
apply this stuff and a few other tips ok guys while we're on the topic of the bonding agent
for the application of a stucco color-code mache what we generally do okay I'll put the bottoms
on real thick I'll brush the bottom I don't even think about trying to roll the bottoms and I'll
put it I actually put it on very thick here now the fellow who owns the house here pretty on the
ball guy impression wash this house like three times obviously he wanted to make certain so I
told him pressure wash below the grade meaning go below the dirt level that way if you're going to
do something later on in two years it won't show so another tip to say what I generally
do is I'll keep I'll give a trial in my back pocket if say for example it doesn't matter
what bonding agent you use I mean I just happen to like swell tree but whatever bonding agent
you use it has water in it so when you apply in this on here the water will sometimes even if a
guy did a really super nice job like this guy did pressure washing I mean he was thorough you did a
really good job but sometimes what will happen is after this sets for about a half hours this
might loosen up if you have a trial in your back pocket when you're done hit it knock it
off and put another bonding agent right where that because the water and this will peel up
the stucco or the paint sometimes a thousand different kinds of paints over here here you
can see this wall is done you can you can barely see the blue as it's pretty light but you can
see the drip marks now if I'm using the clear or the white bonding agent nightmarish I can't even
see it all you have to look sideways and you can see a sheen so I always prefer a tinted bonding
agent why's that color on it we've been using it for years and it works if you apply the bonding
agent direct to the house like this it never fails never I've never seen how long it is to fail I'm
just adjusting this because of the concerns of the homeowner who who actually said well
this guy has reached redone a whole bunch that they put the bodied agent I have redone a whole
bunch of other folks work to that in 30 years I think I've redone three of them where we'll take
a trial and it'll just come right off because we didn't put the bonding agent on the house put it
on the house there's no worries anyhow my name is Kirk, Jason on the camera, my daughter is covering
and gluing today simple work and as usual guys I'll see you guys on the next one.