howdy folks Kurt and Kirk with Kirk giordano plastering, today let me show you how to repair
a patch job now this patch is a little proud from the wall what you do is you take a 2x4 you put it
on here to here and it'll show you how proud it is it's actually about almost an inch proud
here I'd rather fun if I'm doing the repair which I am now I'd rather have it thin then to
proud this is about an inch and inch now first thing you got to do is we got to brush some of
this out and what I say bust some of it out what happens if you use a grinder like most people use
a grinder well you have every neighbor in the neighborhood hating you because you'll be dust
all over their furniture all over the house if they got a window open it's going in the living
room so don't use a grinder guys don't do that, I've tried it like once and had enough of that,
if you use strength, okay you say, oh man I'm a strong guy, I'll just bust it all off you can do
that it'll better take you forever and one of the things about busting it out like this guys
what's under here there's two layers of paper so if you hit it hard enough you'll break the
two layers of paper so don't do that either, the easiest way you get yourself a bulldog now
I generally I have this to break out stucco but I put a scraper in and now granted we're a mass
if you do this I've been inhaling this stuff for over 35 years so I only have a day left to live
anyhow, kidding, okay here's what you do with a scraper and a bulldog put it on hammer chisel
you see where that's going I like that that's taking the top coat off and I could see that
this was thrown on and by the way guys this is a thrown on finish, a dash finish that's
it. Remember that all, like saying, like a dash of salt?
Well, this is a dash brush, and what you do is you dip this in a five-gallon bucket, and you throw it, that's a dash finish, can I match
this finish here with a dash? yeah, but there's an easier way because this is an older house
and it's been painted about I don't know 20 30 times it's softened everything so we're
gonna remove this I'll show you how we repair it without having to dash it.
Okay guys we're gonna show you a couple techniques of reasons why on this perimeter let me have another one baby, on
the perimeter okay you use a trowel rod or anything and you see the difference right
here we're pretty proud so I'm gonna put a thin coat here and I'm gonna double up here
here's it there are a tip guys okay depending on how bad your perimeter patch is you could fill
this one inch you you fill here this hollow spot you see that guy okay it's hollow so I
fill here one inch and I feather into nothing, then here I hit tight I'll show you what I'm
talking about okay guy right here I'm gonna hit tight all right all right tight hit it real tight
what's that piece of crap, all right we hit this tight get out of there and then here where the
perimeter is I'm gonna go bit heavier okay now this is gonna be loose because I want to get
to the perimeter correct so that it's all right I got a better angle for you guys in a minute I see
okay so one more time right here because I want a lot of mud and I want to feather into nothing
I like doing carbody okay so I'm feathering in here to the existing then I'm leaving this full
right where these patches and in-between here going tight up here I'm feathered out a little
bit more because it's a little bit hollow here nothing we can't handle fill it out fill it out
so that it's level okay so now that we got that top right remember this is the key right here so
this is about a quarter-inch thick because we're already proud then here is one inch here and it
feathers from nothing to itself now underneath it is the same deal guys I'll show you you get
off this ladder right here where it's proud real similar so where there's a big difference here
so what we're gonna do is fill this and that's why this blue stuff this weld Creek this blue
stuff here that's a bonding agent because stucco will not stick to a painted surface
and depending again how bad the
feathering is the transition you can go thicker right here put it thick that gives me a lot of
play to bring it out to where it's supposed to be and it's saying the same thing as a sign get
this part tight where it's it's already proud leave a big leave a lot of stucco right there
where you need it so that you feather into the existing and you leave some stucco there all
right guys let me switch from this area to over here another patch all right and basically guys
the same deal as over there this patch right here is real thin so I hit this with a float and what
I'm doing with this float up so I'm bringing out the aggregate so I floated this about ten minutes
ago now in about another you judge it by about another fifteen minutes I would float the edge
in you get your perimeter because this right here is not setting as fast as this because this is
about an inch thick while this is about a quarter inch and this is called feathering in guys you're
feathering in and you use your whole flow this feathers in this side into nothing feather it
into nothing and then I'm pushing this down and keeping this one up that way the transition is
tight I'm gonna finish spreading this out because J needs to mix a little bit mud that I'm gonna
come here this is not quite ready yet obviously that's not quite ready but when I get to that
stage I'll go ahead and show you a little bit more about the transitions and how you achieve them let
me show you where we're at right now so a lot of this takes knowledge of the materials were using
the stucco because here on thin here I'm thick now I'm using the sponge float to bring out some
of the aggregate right here what is it fancy word for sand okay so we're floating into it
what I'm doing is I'm bringing out a little bit of sand and you look at it you say hey that's a
good match but that would be incorrect because it looks a lot better because it's not full of huge
mountains but the fact is it won't match either the other one was too proud too heavy too too
much going on here it's too fine so if he painted this he'd call me sick Kirk you know what I bet
you did looks better but it is not exact it's too fine so what i'm doing here is green sponge
float i take it and i feather into the existing i'll take it from the top and feather into the
existing the transition is everything guys but now by wetting the the part here which is about
it inch because we feather into something like this i feather into either six to twelve inches
so we feathered about right to here so we hit that now if i get it too wet what happened when
i dash it see this is this original - and if i - it wow this is too wet there's not gonna give
a - finish the - finishes like mountains all mountains what if this is too wet it'll give
it a crater look it'll look like moon and the craters because the - finish here there's just
water watery mud what I did is I took the mud that we use here Portland cement we mix three
two one three parts and one part Portland cement and that gives you your mud then when we're done
with that mud now we soup it up just put a lot of water and drill it up and because this texture so
so light now because of all the years of paint now it takes a real steady hand guys what I did
is I dropped off a lot of stucco okay I'll show you one more time fill the brushes up see how
thick that is but then I end up with a texture like the last guy so I'm gonna just put a light
hand on it light and all I want are little tiny bits of of stucco okay I just dip that in once
I've done jobs where I have to dip it in like 40 50 times just to get this I mean to get it where
I want it real heavy here I want it real light and remember right here it's not completely dry
so you have to use a lighter hand because it'll give an indentation the sand hittin wet mud will
give it an indentation like craters we don't want a crater look right so I'm gonna get a
lot of this mud off here otherwise I'm gonna be too thick so a light light hand guys like hand
super light over here where the downspout is I don't want to cover something we're gonna go
straight this way and all we're doing is just putting a little stipple look a little sniffle
guys and if you get it too heavy at one spot if you know what you're doing and you got a float you
could actually float it out I'll show you you take us sponge flow get all that water off of there get
it all off put it back on the wall right here and you can do this don't pattycake treatment this the
wall because you'll you'll crack it but just tap it touch it lightly and it'll give like a painted
look it'll be a lot smoother say for example right here it looks a little heavier just hit
it with a sponge pull it out hit it pull it out real lightly don't go doing this stuff guys that
patty-cake treatment don't work I noticed when guys do this because it's all cracked up and it
separates just a little little loose like that if if you want it to be even tighter than that
this guy is all right he says Kirk you want a beer I said man it says we're working he says
that's Friday what kind of Irishman are you and I thought you put me on the spot, so Cheers Dan,
the fellow I'm doing this for, anyway guys that's how you do a dash finish and the transition again
is everything. We thank you for watching and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one.
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