Howdy folks, Kirk family here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today I want to point out a particular product
a lot of you guys called me and say gee Kirk, what paint do you recommend? well, we're not painting
contractors, we're stucco contractors. We don't really use paints, we use products like
there's stucco flex here it's a renew coating but this is really a paint, it's there's uh it's about
15 pages of literature here, I thought what I'd do is write out a few things rather than stumble
and fumble through 15 pages of what this stuff is guys. Its stucco flexes Renew. It's an elastomeric
topcoat, it's designed for cementitious finishes or for buildings that are cracked, new buildings,
old buildings if you got a building with a lot of cracks, they, recommend two coats and this it
has a lot of flexibility and stretch-ability how much stretch-ability? I asked my buddy Dan
Johnson, to a, that's a loud street, I said hey do you have any samples? He said, yeah and this is the
stretch-ability it has, okay, it says three hundred percent meaning this building, if enough water, rain
for months lifts it and drops it, it won't affect it. and by the way this stucco flex whether or not
it's the acrylic elastomeric which you could roll on or blow on, it's different from the stucco flex
with the sand in it if you want to see the stucco- flex with the sand in it, in a link under the in
the description I'll put a video we did a huge shopping center we actually did a fish pond or
a duck pond about the size of a football field, and we used that product so I'll put it underneath the
answer that the the paint question folks keep asking me again we're not painters we're in the
stucco trade, that's a pretty good flex guys you figure, you figure you'd have to your
building would have to go through an earthquake, not to warrant that. Anyway, this is what it is
to guys, the stucco flex product. Again, Jay, and I did a video about three years ago now I was showing
another acrylic product and I went like this and it snapped in half, this particular product
here, this is how flexible it is you see how you could just bend this all the way in half, my
buddy, Dan Johnson, over at stucco-flex, he does a lot of videos he put it on a basketball and
was bouncing the basketball, then he used every other acrylic products known to man, sold
in the United States, hit it once and everything popped right off! He does a whole bunch of videos
and stuff so, I thought these little samples if you guys want, want to order the stucco flex with the
sand in it, these are great ideas and if you don't you don't find something you like, man they make
beer great beer coasters, just perfect size again I told y'all I'll leave Dan Johnson's, phone number in
case you want samples like these or you can call him. let's see alright let's just get up there and
I'll show you what we're doing, how far we are we wanted to we're in San Francisco we got to
get up at 4 o'clock just to beat the traffic on that bridge, I generally don't work here, but when you see
this building, you know said yeah now I know why you took that job because it is so beautiful, it's
gorgeous guys, we'll go up top now and I'll show you what I'm talking about. Okay, guys, we're gonna
explain what we've done here we're about five six stages high the wind here is crazy, we've had to
cover these windows every time we're out here because the wind is so strong just yanks it off.
anyway we're using this is a - finish and lastly if you want to see how we achieve this finish
there's another video I'll put in the link, because Madeleine and I did the finish here, and at the end of
the day we were both soaked and so full of stucco is one of my dirtiest days ever, but anyway getting
back to this Renew, you could use a small roller but they recommend a lambswool roller, and this
of course, is an inch and a half, they said to get an inch and a quarter the nap, nap right here because no
matter what you're doing guys, I always go minimum inch and a quarter anyway, because you dip this in
say you're painting inside of your house you get a little cheap $5.00 roller you'll be painting that
room for about two days, you get a roller like this, you spend a couple bucks more you put it
in one time you can do a whole wall it holds a lot. this particular finish, it is so incredibly thick
that I means, I've used five gallons just right here, five gallons guys, because it's as it's raw stucco
so it's porous, that means it sucks up the paint. It sucks it up so this has a waterproof membrane
on it, and we didn't need any sand, because you can look at that man, that's a ton of sand on
that stuff, anyhow this is kind of fun right here but I'm going to show you why, I accepted
this job to come to San Francisco. We generally don't come to the city because I because of the
traffic anyway we're gonna drop down a couple levels and I'm gonna show you some more things
like this because folks always say Kirk, I've got, all the years I've been in business I've had a
lot of people say well how you're gonna match that radius? I say I'm not gonna match the radius? you're
gonna install the detail the templates and we're just going to form right over that, we showed how
to do that - on down below that of course would be in the description. there are two or three videos in
the description when we get to that stage, let's come on down we're gonna go down a few levels
guys will show you level by level and then we're almost we're working on the bottom one. Okay, guys
this beautiful architecture, radius, arcs, they got you got everything here, but when we go down you
see how this comes up right here those are the details that it just makes doing stucco fun when
you get to you're doing stucco every single day when you get a house like this, with a radius every
which way, and how you tie in right here that right there is a lot of fun, plus we can pay for it can
beat that, plus we're gonna go down one more level. all right guys look at this architecture right here,
again we're gonna put into the description, how you do all this stuff. Its way easier than how you actually think,
all the radius is combined, then you even got this kind of stuff here makes my day. You see how you
you tie it all in, you tie it all in its so much fun. Madeleine here is putting the second coat on
this, I see baby, you using my, live long and plaster shirt, getting it all jacked up, Ah dad, look at your shirt. I did get a little bit dirty on this.
Toshay, baby, okay let's go downtown one more level and but, you see here guys what this is the operation for this particular stuff get yourself a paint screen screener and of course
some good brushes and roller and just roll it on I prefer to roll it on thick and then hit it again
because this is a heavy dash. If this was a smooth steel trowel finish, you could close your eyes and it would be done in no time.
We've been doing this now for about six hours because it's such a heavy finish alright guys as nobody was completing this we show some actual work instead of just yammering on. This is the actual product.
Now this product here is a quality product. Again you go anywhere in the world and you see these monster buildings five six ten stories high usually at beaches resorts and things like that.
They have either this stucco-flex coating with the sand in it, or depending on the finish you can do
the same coating without sand, just a common-sense question guys what do you think cost more? The
stucco flex with sand or the stucco flex without sand? Well that's a pretty easy question because
sand is cheap, this stuff here with no sand, you got to pay a little bit more but, how many of you guys
know products that are elastomeric and you don't have to paint again that's, that's pretty rare guys.
pretty rare, so what we're doing is we're putting it on like this, Madeleine is applying this
coat here, Jason's applying, and I'm applying, and Lu is downstairs cutting in. What's cutting in? He's
got a brush, he's just cutting in all these edges all the tops and then we're gonna go we're gonna
hit it twice, because it's new stucco and new stucco guys, is porous, that means, as fast as
you touch it with water, it just sucks the water right out, so this is gonna dry right here once
this dries it's a 5-10 minutes we're gonna double double it up just similar to spraying it with a
pump and then you back roll it, it's called back rolling basically and you just hit it again so
I'll show you one last thing because we got to get busy and get this done. We usually when working in
San Francisco will work till six, seven just so that we're not stranded in traffic. Anyhow, Lu, let me get down to here one more time.
All right guys last section as I was talking about this gorgeous architectural building here, and notice this to, these are again this was built in the 1800s,
a long time ago, all these rocks right here. they, they are being put back up see this stretch right here
these are like 90 pounds each fortunately I'm not doing that stuff they're putting the rocks
up on the side to go to the top here we're just gonna refinish it you might ask, one last question
why the heck did all this fail In the first place? Because if you were to Google this house here and
look at it last year that got Google's, Google Maps for all the years past you'll see all the stucco
popping off, it was bulging off because back when they did it and say 1890 to 1910 they used to use
a, a wood laughs and then they put the 15-pound felt in the back of it and then it was basically a
cedar lath, come in two by eight sheets, that stuff lasts forever, if you paint every 10 years every
10 years, but hey, sometimes who wants to set scaffold and spend the dough to paint the
front of your house? When you're looking at it thinking man, well let's see, a vacation or set
the front of the house? So big chunks started to fall off the contractor got started like took the
whole face off. That's where we come in and put it all back together. Anyway, guys, my name is Kirk, we thank
you for watching, and as usual guys, we'll see you on the next one.
Hey everybody, Jason here, and I get the fun part of showing you the completed project showing you everything that's done like most homes
when we finished our job a couple months ago there were still some things left for them to
take care of but now that everything's done and they tore the scaffolding down I get to show you
the final product so I don't I get my fat head out of the frame and turn it over there and show
you so once I adjust this, and to have it so you could see my face, now you can see the beautiful
picture our colors that these folks chose and all of these awesome intricate details, that we went
over in the other videos the cool architectural rounds and radiuses and various nice things and
those big rocks that the other fellas had the joy of hanging and painting. These details now
that you watch those videos hopefully you can see that they're not nearly as complicated as
you might think with a little knowledge and a little skill you can do them pretty easily and us
as the contractors and plasterers, we really enjoy it, it gives us a chance to flex our knowledge and
hone our skills on something a little out of the ordinary and we always like doing that sort of
stuff, so there you have it a beautiful finish beautiful color there is one other thing that I
wanted to talk to you folks about kind of hard to get myself in the frame and make it so you
could see me all at the same time by myself but that kind of touches on those of you who follow
us regularly know that there's some stuff going on in our personal life that's made it difficult
to keep up with these videos, I just wanted to say thank you for all the kind words and well
wishes everybody's sent to us I wanted to let you know that things are looking up and getting
better and hopefully with any luck soon we'll be able to get back to regularly uploading this
content for you guys to enjoy learning from and see how it is that we do what we do. So again thank you
for staying with us thank you for watching and until next time live long and plasterer by the
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