Hi, guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering; just when you
think I've shown you everything there is to know about cracks, I got one more situation.
Even my wife says baby, you showed over 500 videos. Aren't you done yet showing how to do
things? Not yet it's like the tip of the iceberg. We always find things that even I don't catch;
for example, it says it's a master craftsman who built this house.
Master, but he's never done stucco. But we were talking about it we had a
few cracks because, well, they put the sheetrock afterward and few structural movements, and how
do I know its structure see this crack right here when you get a crack in a 10-inch foundation that
means the walls separating it's settling it is natural we're on a hill it's all thumbs cracking
in the foundation as well as the wall-normal guys doing a color coat anyway this right here
caught me off guard that well what is that a 6 by 10 header we were here all G 4 or 5 months
ago and I was telling dude I know you're gonna put a lot of beams inside the house you got sheetrock
you got to do it your floors you got to do all that stuff do it before we do the color coat.
Anyway, we did the color coat, and we got a few hairline cracks; now the majority of the
cracks are on this particular wall, and he said, well, how come I said well that beam the deck
here before we came this is just well they did this deck last month or this earlier this month.
They used to have a deck there, and it was 2 by tens going this way,
and I thought that was their original deck we were working off it, so when we just come up,
he said, well, we know we got a few more hairline cracks, and I thought, no kidding man.
That header right there, what's that weighs 700 pounds?
The header on both sides, you redid all the beams going across, and you put the decks on;
all this is movement, guys. Is it normal? Yes, don't panic. It's all normal. Can we
correct it? Yeah, it's a bit of a drag to come back to a job and have to redo little things,
but it's all fixable, guys; here's what I want to point out two fellows say, like a bathtub
if you want to caulk around it, fill it with water. give it its weight and then caulk it.
What we do with stucco on houses even 30 years ago when I was Union, we the tile guys would come, and they would
set all that tile on the roof, not in our way. And just so we can walk on it but at the same time
they it would give it to dead weight, and nowadays even my buddy Tom with Ironwood he's a structural
engineer 45-year man. He says Kirk, you know these days I tell people to put expansion joints even in
residential homes how come he says look. You're just a stucco guy; you don't know this stuff,
and I said what that means? He says what do you know
about wood I said it grows on trees. He says, sees, that's what I'm talking about,
wood, when you buy it like a lot of folks, will put a sheer wall on they won't gap it
1/4 inch and I said well why do you even have to gap it although I've heard the reasons.
He says Kirk, all the wood they're selling today is wet or green, and it'll shrink that wall. This
is a 60-foot span without an expansion; today, if the wood is wet with I don't know, I don't
buy it now; I don't install it'll shrink up all it needs to do is shrink about an eighth of an inch,
and you'll get some hairline cracks. Anyway guys I thought I'd point out a couple more things
because I've done enough crack videos on cement Isha's finishes. Still, I thought I'd do my last
one. Hopefully, that's my last one; okay, guys, I said we'd show you how we spread this, but we
have about 20 videos of how to spread it; what this video is really about is information, guys.
You've got to have all your weight on a house before you do a color coat;
we did the color coat eight months ago, and after that, he installed all the sheetrock,
and I sent him a bunch of literature. I told the dude no pounding anyway. So he got a little
gung ho, and pounded the shit out of it. In fact, this deck is absolutely amazing;
He just changed this three weeks ago; it was put off, and knowing no idea what solar panel
is the way, but there are solar panels on the roof there are all these beams inside there's
so many things that contributed to some hairline cracking and me Jason, yeah Karl,
Dan, we actually did this off-ladder Jacks. I wouldn't show anybody how to do stucco
off Ladderer Jack's because it's a lot of work; what's the point to this video, guys?
If you're going to do a stucco house, make certain you have everything done big, prior and
right, before doing the color coat, it took us two ten-hour days to straighten this little mess up.
Because it's a lifestyle color, and they're really hard to just do a crack,
you got to do a whole wall. So we have to do the whole walls.
And I'll tell you it wasn't fun, guys, especially when you come to a job, and somebody says what
causes cracks? Like dude, we've already been through this six months ago; you've been on
google for four hours a day; you know what causes cracks better than I know what causes cracks.
Quit building shit like this, after the color coats is done! Anyway, my name is Kirk. Jason on the camera,
as usual, we thank you guys for watching, and we'll see you guys on the next one.
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