Howdy folks, kirk, and jason here, with kirk giordano plastering, doing tech stuff today.
I want to show you guys is we got a house here. They call me for cracking intelligence stuck with
buckling, so I come and look at it. I determined within just looking at it that the concrete this
is stucco is more likely, and it's tied together here it's cracking at a structural area listen.
okay concrete but it to wood hollow it sound and how solid this sound okay I see fiber mesh tape
it's sticking out everywhere which means when they did the scratch and brown on this prior to
doing the color coat they put they put the fiber mesh tape or it belongs so they get everything
right but this kind of stress cracks happen and naturally occurring places maybe besides stucco
cracks what I'm gonna do is I want to break it out tonight what I want to do is score it because
sometimes you can break it out and take the whole wall off so we got to get an idea of where to stop
and start they wanted caulking in here I said ah you don't want to call them you wanna pull
it out and correct it so I'm gonna crack or caulk some of the cracks up here but this stuff right
here where it's really buckling I'm gonna remove it then I'm gonna put product called image amage
two coats to go over it because if you trial down to mosh one time you know it'll kind of
shrink up if you crawl it down the second time it'll be real smooth when you hit it the second
time to match this almost glass like finishing here's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna take the trout
what I'm gonna do is a lot of ways to correct this tear the whole wall off or redo it but we're not
going there what I'm gonna do is next thing is I'm going to take a wire brush of water and I'm
gonna scrape the crap out of this I'm gonna scrape the dust off it so that the fiber mesh tape will
adhere and then I can put my two coats of image on it and again when I Charlet tight it's gonna
correct that first what I'm gonna do it in this hole here is I'm gonna put up a second flexed
polyurethane coffee it even holds bricks together it's so tight well this cracked return absolutely
absolutely it's where concrete meets wood and it's at a critical area so I knew they had an
issue here I didn't know it was this bad anyhow I'm gonna take it right down to here and when
I get ready to do the lodge you'll see us doing that okay guys that didn't take too long what I
did was I feel that huge crack with polyurethane caulking I put more mesh tape over and after we
wire brushed it now I'm gonna put may use the Santa Barbara smooth Bishop finish which doesn't
have any flex to it the stuff I'm gonna put half some flex kind of like caulking it's an acrylic
base finish coat and it's designed mainly for cracks and you can go coatings over it we're
on a whole home so what I'm gonna do now is put my first coat this stuff is gonna suck it it's
got like some tapered mud some savory mud just the first couple coats or shrink up
and crack that's okay we know this is going to shrink up and crack I'm gonna fill this up
And I come back here now about 25 minutes it's a real hot day today in about 25 minutes because
it's about oh I'd say 75 degrees this is gonna shrink up I have others not other work I'm doing
on this place so that's just the prep work here it's the first coat again trying to give you an
idea what what you can relate this to caulking shrinks a lot of times take a mud shrinks and
they're there for it cracks so this gonna do the same thing when I come back here say in
an hour this is gonna be sucking in shrunken in and then I'm gonna put another coat use
some water and finish that up and I'll match this smooth finish as best as possible about
50 ways to do this this is the way I choose to do it if there were my house this is what
I would do on my own house so I'll come back and I'll show you guys in about an hour what
this looks like and what I'm gonna do next and how we resolve this okay guys there you have
it there's my second coat I just now put it on and what that does is it takes a really light
touch to keep it all the lines up this was done with full Charles so I'm doing the full
house - it's almost right on the money you look at it you can't even see the lines or anything
anyway this is Kirk giordano plastering. Thank you for watching. You folks have a
great day. Thank you, Jason, for the tech stuff. We'll see you at the next one.