howdy, folks Kirk and jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering today, I want to show
you about caulking, so I'm doing this house for he says, well gee Kirk when you stuck with
this can you suckle this crack here and I said I could, but the house is lifting
and dropping it's perfectly normal you get the rain it lifts it when drier conditions
occur it settles this, by the way, is not stucco anyhow it's a tech coat text coats
for certain things I'll use a lot of polyurethane talking's but if you put a polyurethane caulking
in here it really you can't clean it up with water and it sticks to everything you can't really get
the finish they have here this is a pretty huge crack now it's a little bit beyond what this is
designed for as far as the depth and the width but what happens if it shrinks nothing just put
some more on the next day I'll show you these are very wide cracks I'll see how easy it is for this
to match either stucco or even a text coat where it's blown on okay for example this is a pretty
big big crack right here that's because the walls move in so we fill that crack and what you want to
do is squeeze it in that crack don't try to skimp on caulking because [ __ ] is cheap caulking for
a tube of more flex I don't know anywhere between five to seven eight bucks I buy stuff from Amazon
buy it it's kind of hard to find this at a Home Depot or Lowe's in fact they don't sell it so buy
it on Amazon anyhow I'm getting back to filling this crack and where are the areas where I really
can't get it in because it's just going on the top I'll show you a simple easy way to do this guy
okay what you want to do is put a lot and because this is water clean up a ball that just means is
really easy to use for example okay now this is done I'm going to take my glove and I'm just going
to go over it now because this has got so much sand in it notice it matches almost instantly
because it has sand if I use some of the other Caulkins that I use for lapping which are sealant
and adhesives that's not going to that's not going to match at all so this this is pretty simple to
do guys and any of you folks who think gee I need stucco for a crack you don't you don't need to
suckle for a crack in fact that's the worst thing to do for a crack because that crack will come
right back when the house moves again and if a house moves big deal it's it all houses move guys
depending on how much rain you get the house is just naturally lift and then settle in the
drier conditions occur if you guys say will do is I can't do that with a glove or my hand take thank
you there afloat or you're going to brush you take a brush and just brush it on there because
the idea is and you know I know you're going to look at this the idea is okay I'm a peak I'm a
peak a little bit the idea when this dries it's going to be sandy you just don't want to have a
finish where you put your finger on and then when you paint it it's a sore thumb so that right there
blends in just fine and again guys you could use a float too if you if you don't have a brush and
just float it out and when you float something you bring the aggregate out or the sand in this case
in the caulking anyway that's a quick tip a quick thick for either a stucco finish or even this text
coat so my name is Kirk Jason on the camera as usual we thank you guys for watching I will see
you guys on the next quick fix once again folks we thank you for watching and I really enjoy all your
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