Hi guys Kirk and Jayson here with Kirk Giordano plastering today something kind of interesting I
was here on this job about 25 years ago we did some work and homeowner says well you did some
work here do you remember who I am and I thought no she said do you remember the job and I know
but then I think my work and I thought okay I remember what we have here is we got some
concrete separation and we got someone will go up the stairs here we got some stucco that is
cracked big time and of course the twenty-five years ago when I was here or something like that
I was telling them I need to place the expansion joint right here because this is where the corner
ends and we're going to get a lot of movement we're on a hill we're at the top of Oakland I
don't want to mention streets but we're at the very top of a hill the stairs are slanted this
way they're kind of going in the house and anyway we've got a lot of movement we are very high up
cars going back and forth 2-story house a lot of movement anyway I'm using a concrete repair
actually this is a textured caulking and it can be used for stucco could be used for grout it's
right here it says let's see the old sills crack masonry concrete but we use it for stucco too
it actually says stuck on the back of it and of course this is for vertical on the walls things
things like this can't see that crack but here run a horizontal surface and I thought man I had
I had some of this stuff in my garage and I wanted to just prove a point because people always ask
me about concrete this stuff here is also made by quikrete who is quikrete guy and these guys
been making concrete products probably before I was born etholon time ago they make everything
concrete one coat concrete bags for posts you name it they're the leader in concrete industry anyway
I'm going to show you something which this is kind of cool you just pour this in guys and this has a
tendency to settle because it's uh it's kind of liquidy it's not like say the caulking is the
caulking czar more like say whipping cream this is uh pretty liquidy in fact you got to shake the
crap out of it figure they haven't used this in a long time we're going to shake it up shake it up
anyway this is for our concrete now say you got concrete that's really deep you could put sand
in it you can put sand in the in the gap there you could also put say for example backer rod
what is backer rod it's this stuff right here it's styrofoam it comes in like 1/8 to an inch that's
four expansion joints you could actually put some of that expanding foam to there's so many
different things you guys can do but this is this is a pretty good product right here it kind of
flexes and it's it really gets deep down into all the grooves now what happens is you put that down
if I come back in a half hour this is going to sink into all the cracks and crevices will I show
that no we're not going to be here that long but I'm just since I'm here I want to show you some of
the family of quikrete products because any and everything if it's stucco regards to concrete
this company knows all about it they've been in business before ever okay let's let's go up top
for a minute and by the way guys nothing adheres to death not paint not stucco not caulking not
car nothing in here's to dust I was already here so I used actually used a couple tubes of this
stuff the beauty about this stuff is you could um you could clean it with soap and water take
for example how do I know I couldn't remember this but I do remember this joint I put the expansion
joint because I told the folks I said we're going to get a crack right here because the house is
going to move here's where the house is and so you have all the weight and over here is just
a driveway so we put this in here man 25 years ago so I recall just that I don't remember any
of this other stuff but we did do this a long long time ago and for the sake of showing you what this
is here's a end result it's sandy just like this and again guys you can't go wrong if you're going
and with any of the quick Creek products just to show you guys I got like I've already spread
out a couple tubes all right here you could use backer rod 2 or expanding foam whatever you like
what I generally do is you see that's coming out thick here guys I'm filling this up I want it to
actually come past the surface of this and so what I'll do is I'll fill the crack up I'm building the
crack all the way because I want it to come past because I'm going to float this in a minute what
is floating that just means I'm going to get the sand out of this right here I won't do a whole
bunch much but just to give you an idea guys put in as much as you need with caulking always always
overfill stuff like this because the stairs here are going to keep moving guys every time it rains
and it's going to rain a lot it's going to lift the house then drop it that's just in nature when
you're you have a house on a hill you're talking 100 tons of house it is going to keep moving guys
and what I told the owner is take your take your water hose and spend an hour and use a jet stream
get all that dust out of the crack and what we'll do is we'll come back when we come there to do
the caulking repair we'll wire brush it - which we did and then we used a broom just to get all
the the crap out of there because if I use water this won't adhere well and I'm here just now all
right I'm almost at the end of this tube but for the sake of I mean you guys ever spent 30 bucks
for uh for a caulking gun first one I ever spent 30 bucks for because I use a lot of caulking and
some of the poly urethanes hardened and when they harden I use both hands and pop it and I break the
handles so I break the handle on this one that's it they were like grip anyway here's what we do
now that this is in we take a float and we want to match the existing finish and this is water
clean up a bowl which the beauty is is when we we float it like that because it's water clean up a
boat it'll float in with just water and float in just means we're going to bring the aggregate to
the surface what is aggregates and bring the sand in those tubes to the surface now there we go we
bring that sand to the surface that way when this is painted it will match what they already have so
I just thought since I was here I'd show you that that one product which that product settles the
for the horizontal surface this product here is for these you can you can use it for horizontal
but it it also works for these verticals the other stuff is sort of liquid so you put it in here just
going to come right out so you don't want to do that guys anyhow I'm uh I was here and I've
been happy with this quikrete product almost all their products I guess a lot of their quikrete for
stucco too so I thought I'd share that with you guys because I get a lot of calls and and people
say gee Kirk I can't find this I can't find that but I found it in quikrete you know why you found
it in quikrete because quikrete sells to Home Depot and Lowe's and it's a big change so it's all
over there but it's also in all our professional material yours anyway guys I just thought I'd
share that because I got to do this job anyhow my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you for
watching and as usual we'll see you on the next one hello again guys different day same job the
folks here called me back it's called I'll call back what they said to me is gee Kirk you know
those cracked that you patched oh one of them is chunk and let me point out something folks okay
we took this crack all the way up now it doesn't matter what caulking you use most of them even the
best of the best you can go about 3/8 maybe half inch max but the depth should be the same too if
you go too deep what happens well they shrink they stuck in and they shrink is it normal absolutely
what happens if it shrinks nothing you just put some more on so anyway she was telling me about
that I wanted to point out something else while I'm here you see this hole here there's this the
only thing holding up this area right here are the concrete steps which are falling into the house
here that's what's holding everything up anyway it's early morning it's about seven o'clock this
is our first little project of the day and so what I wanted to also tell you folks is ok can
you zoom in here Jay and you see this one area shrunken not a big deal we got a little bit of
rain last night and I told her let it dry up we'll come back so what I'm going to do is I'm going to
fill this up one more time and have I had this happen absolutely I had a real nightmare about
I'd say 20 something years ago for story work I was using a cherry picker and it was a middle of
the day and I went ahead and I thought I was doing something I patched some cracks the next day the
cherry picker was returned to the rental shop the guy called me said Kirk when you're going
to do those cracks I thought what do you mean when I already done him he says they're still
here well what happened was it was a warm day I went at 3 o'clock in the afternoon the wood
the Sun was on it about 80 degrees 90 the Sun hit the wall in after a few hours it expanded
the wood stucco were hardly expanding brick rock stucco they hardly ever expand and the other some
folks that say gee it does but it rarely does the wood behind this stucco wall that I patched
almost 45 feet up swelled and therefore I could the cracks were like this you couldn't hardly
see them so what I'm getting at is folks do it early in the morning because now everything's
settled and the cracks are at its largest so 7 o'clock in the morning here we just happen to
be in the neighborhood and so I am patching them now early morning and again guys if a caulking
shrinks that's not a big deal you just add some more it's certainly not worth the panicking over
and this is a really really good caulking it is not designed to go because I did know guys I put
it on twice as thick as what they recommended because I can and I know if it if it sucks in
just come back and add some more but this this particular caulking here again it's it's one of
the best there is and just because it's shrunk up I don't want you folks to think gee whiz that's a
crappy product just product no product is designed to go as thick as I went here so we patch that up
a little bit of rain also want to point out while I'm here because I get a lot of question you guys
are always asking me about bonding agent since I'm talking about this quikrete product guys if
you're going to say put a coat of stucco over cinder block brick a painted surface these are
the bonding agents and yes these guys are quick creeks to also make the bonding agents we're going
to do a little job by a little cork this one's half done right here because we use it often it
dries clear you can't see it ah you got to keep an eye on and it leaves a light sheen while we're on
it I did another video and I got about five people call me this the curt because I was skimming some
concrete and I was using another product that we use to attach styrofoam I said you can do this
you could add sand to it you could do this and that and I got about four of you guys who said
Kirk they already had that product it's made by quikrete and you're right I know all about this
product because I've used it also also part of the quikrete family quikrete makes everything if it's
got to do with stucco they make it I've got to do with concrete they make it they make they make one
coat stucco they make two coat stucco they make finished products these guys make it all this
particular concrete patch you put it on about a sixteenth of an inch thick it has its own adhesive
in here and you can skim it you can do a lot with it but anyway I thought because you guys asked me
about these products and I'm actually showing a couple of the other quick talking's especially for
this I thought I'd throw that in because they make it all anyway guys the moral to this is when I got
the call back I thought that's a great opportunity to go back and show people what they tell me often
they'll say Kirk I'd use this caulk in a Shrek what do I do just put some more not a big deal
anyway my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see
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