hi, guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering. This is actually Jay's job I'm just here
helping he's also a licensed stucco contractor too anyway we're gonna show you how we do this wall
and probably less than ten minutes we're gonna laugh this we're going to put screeds on brand
new vents we're gonna pull the trim off and just show you how the stages of it being completed if
you want to say how laugh or see how to laugh just go to our Channel and type in how to laugh we have
some great detailed videos but for the sake of trying to show you laugh scratch brown and color
on this wall we're just gonna do it and flash do it flash to it flash to it alright guys we got our
screens on drip screen sweep squeeze we've got our new vents in we're about to pull this wood
here and I see the arc of this it's going inward and I'm thinking I'll we'll see what we come to
when we pull this off whatever it is we will deal with it and we've got spew bows here and there but
if it were easy they wouldn't be hiring Jay to do this anyhow next time you see us we're gonna have
all this off we're gonna have the paper and wired okay guys that's the last two layers of paper and
it does matter which direction the wire goes on its self Birds so that the stucco will in bed
make certain you got that on staple off straight lines try to get into your studs caulk all the
wood caulk all the windows and use some good stuff any polyurethane caulking anyhow that's that's
for the last we have a lath inspection we're not done with the house but we got a lap inspection
tomorrow well you're ready to do the scratch brown in color we'll show you just a quick phase of each
okay guys we're gonna do this scratch coat now our inspection for the laughs has been signed
off a couple tips guys when you do on the scratch coat you want to go about 3/8 of an inch thick per
per coat so technically 3/8 for this 3/8 for the brown coat and then your final 1/8 for the color
coat which gives you seven eight seven eighths is the technical death for all traditional three
coats stucco systems and now what I'm doing is I'm putting the first coat on I'm embedding the
stucco into the mesh wire and you don't get a lot of long strokes with this particular finish
or this this application on color code we get long strokes and here we just want to go 3/8 of an inch
thick so whatever it is it is important thing is try to embed the wire if you don't embed the wire
completely no big deal you got another code after this this is 3/8 the next one is 3/8 then your
final 1/8 of an inch for color anyway that's how we scratch coat guys okay guys I saved a little
spot for the end of the video now Dan over here it's going to put some mud on for us we actually
stuck with the first coat on the whole house I wanted to save something because I wanted to show
you guys something important that Ben I just got off the phone with somebody who said I got a fella
who put fibers in cement I thought it's overrated as far as fibers let me show you guys something
as far as a scratch coat goes well after you do a scratch coat this has been on for about a 2
hours you hose it down that's the most important thing you hydrate the wall the scratch coat is
going to set a minimum of 2 days with hydration somebody's going to be out here hydrating this
wall both days then for the brown coat we hydrate that 2 weeks and that is the best you can do as
far as avoiding cracks mallet and I are going to just finish applying this right here and J also
is going to help us and Dan go ahead grab your tools and we got just this little spot left here
for you folks I wanted to point it out some some common-sense things as far as do you need fibers
in a scratching brown coat not really fibers are not going to stop it ten ten or a hundred funhaus
from cracking it's kind of a myth that I just got off the phone with somebody she says well they
didn't put the fire you don't have to put fibers in a scratch coat they started out with fires
about 30 years ago because some of the materials same day materials in 1980 they would crack so
they added fiber so fibers really isn't all that important guys what is important do your first
coat 3/8 of an inch thick apply it well do your mechanical bond scratch well then you're all set
and hydration is a key key important thing guys so until we meet again which will be the brown
coat and will actually suckle this or Brown it in a day to will show you that part when we get to it
also okay guys we're getting ready to do the brown coat we scratched it Monday it's Friday I've had
the homeowner saturating this house just like I'm doing now most people think that the most of one
of the important things is the type of material you use the cements fiber mesh all that stuff it
matters a little bit this right here is the most important aspect to a three coat stucco system the
absolute most important thing is hydration between coats we've we've done this 3-4 days ago and I've
had the homeowners just hydrating this and I tell them hydrate it to where you just keep hosing it
down and after the first hydration is done do it again and when it's dripping wet where it doesn't
absorb anymore that hydration is done you do this two days minimum after the scratch coat we allowed
for because they had some weird stuff going on underneath that t 111 that being said when we
brown it today then we do the exact same thing right here the homeowners are going to saturate
that Brown coat or hydrate it for two solid weeks and that'll how the stuff will expand and contract
that is the most important and guess what guys it's as simple as to do much simpler than any
aspect you just hosing down the wall and you see how I'm hosing this down I'm gonna keep doing this
until the 3/8 of an inch thick stucco here goes all the way to the paper and then when we put
our next 3/8 on it the homeowners are gonna do it until it saturates and hits the paper
very important guy again much more important than fibers or different types of cement anyway when we
get to that stage of the brown and we'll show you that too okay guys how I like to do it is I have a
couple guys spreading it and I'll Darby everything I'll clean all my windows and then I'll come back
at hard rubber flux I'll tell you why because this darbian keeps me in pretty good shape so I ain't
never been in good shape I've been in good shape before anyway I'll show you how I like to do it
guys I have two guys putting mud on and then what I do is I come back and I just Darby a bad number
guys gotten ugly Tim actually used to have the cream of the crop still does its when he would
I say fat ugly guys that Doug Lee means give me a lot of mud on the wall that Natalie that way
I can Garbi it when I worked Union we'd shoot it all with a pump when we shoot it on with a pump
we'd always say fat and ugly that way there's enough mud to move around if there's not a lot
of mud to move around oh it makes it makes the stick guy me have a hard time the more money I
have easier it is for me to spread it out guys so anyway we're going to take it all the way
to the fence over here where we're right to that fence I'm gonna drop back I'm a star hard rubber
floating take a green sponge flow clean all my window clean all the trim and that's how we do
this brown coat all right guys I'm hard rubber floating it now and the fellow who asked me to
do last Scotch bound in the color and explained the thing there's no way I could explain it ten
minutes what takes 20 years to learn but I'll I'll show you some tips I clean the tape not because
I like pretty I mean we're clean but when I do my color code if I have mud all over here and I pull
my tape it pulls my color coat off then I have to touch it all up which can screw it up anyway what
we want when we're doing this now this wall is just right if I allow it to set another hour now
instead of using skill I'll be using muscle man I don't want to use muscle I just want to use skill
and what I'm doing is I'm compressing the brown coat and yes I can go all day as far as if we're
gonna do a Santa Barbara smooth mission finish the type of brown you're gonna have we're doing
in a float finish an elegant float finish looks like sand paper goes well with everything if I
were doing a skip child finish I can close my eyes and do this it doesn't have to be perfect
because the skip hides everything anyway this takes practice guys and I'm talking about the
kind of practice when I was Union working with Danny Smith plastering Fred Smith who taught me
more than anybody he would ask the guys when they come in straight from the hall how much time you
got in Braille and they'd say 10 years and after about 2 hours he'd walk back up and say I've had
10 years how much actual time do you have it I'm not talking about sitting home watching cartoons
because it's obvious some guys only have a year and even if they've been doing a 10 year so this
does take to learn the scratch brown and color it takes a minimum of about 10 solid years eight-hour
days 5 days a week 52 weeks a year to learn how to do this so again there's no way I'm going to show
you exactly how all these little techniques we use but you're getting an idea all right guys we told
you we'd show you every phase J is we're trying to get this joint out right now it's all warm
day what's getting warm this walls been hydrated the scratching abroad have been hydrated fully
for at least two weeks now what we're doing is J spread I actually have another fellow spreading
to and I'm floating everything that's what this is it's called bringing out the aggregate this
is called I'll float finish it's a twenty thirty mix and it gives a pretty elegant look it goes
with everything J is spread in here so we're trying to keep this joint out I don't advise
anybody to try to video a hot wall on a joint because there's a lot you can lose anyway this
is a special order color called a float finish we'll show you the results when we're completely
done with everything okay guys we are wrapping it up today the moral to all of this stuff is this
is a custom color will it be solid like paint no way when this completely dries it's going to have
light and dark variations all over it because it's a equivalent to three packs instead of one
pack custom colors do that also we've taken every precaution known to man or known the stucco guys
in order to hydrate this with the scratch in the brown even did mesh tape can it still crack
absolutely anybody says it can't run from that guy and hire another fella stucco can crack however
that being said brand-new construction will crack a lot more than this existing house has been here
for 50 years will it I doubt it but it can crack guys anyhow that's that's our walkthrough of t
111 siding as a base as a sheathing the left the scratch the brown and finally the color coat and
by the way again guys this is a float finish its mighty elegant anyhow my name is Kirk Jason on
the camera and as usual folks we thank you for watching and we'll see you guys on the next one
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