Hi folks Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering and today what I'm gonna show you is all the steps
that I'm gonna take to repair the stucco around this door first I'm gonna show you how I break it
out to expose 2 to 3 inches of good laughs that I can tie my laughs into in order to waterproof
it properly then I'm gonna show you how I laughs it paper and wire next I'm going to show you how
I mix and apply the two coats of stucco and finally I'm gonna show you how to apply the
skip trowel finish in order to match the existing texture on this house now bear with me as I'm here
by myself and the tripod is not a very good cameraman and it is difficult to compress a
half-day's work into a ten minute clip but I'm gonna do the best I can and hopefully you guys
will learn something along the way all right guys first things first I have to break this stucco out
to expose the existing paper underneath now I like to use a pneumatic tool for that could you
take a hammer a chisel a saw whatever you want to break that stuff out yeah but if you're using
a hammer you tend to disrupt or destroy the paper underneath whereas this vibrates the heck out of
the stucco and as we say all the time vibration causes cracking or in this case vibration just
destroys the stucco without destroying the paper underneath which is what we really want so you've
got your tool and you're gonna do little pieces at a time you're only going a half inch in if
I were to go here a big old chunk would form there and then I'd be forced to fight that chunk
to get it out so you start here at a quarter inch to a half inch away from where you want
and then the stucco just kind of disintegrates I wouldn't say this is easier or easy but it is
easier than using a hammer so I'm gonna do this all the way around the door and try to get two
inches of good paper you don't always get that depending on how old the home is what condition
the papers in but that's what I'm gonna try for after I don't know it'll probably take me a half
hour of doing this maybe an hour then I'll show you guys what I got and we'll move on to the next
step all right guys I'm done with that nasty breakout work and as you can see I've got two
to three inches of pretty good paper all the way around the door can you get more yes on this home
though it's a stud house meaning there's no shear wall if I was to break back any further than where
I did I would be in the field in between two studs and I would just destroy the paper and in order
to waterproof that then I would have to break out 16 inches to the next stud and they don't
want to pay me to do that and I don't want to do it either so now I'm starting to to pay for it
now you start all the way at the bottom and what you do on this particular home we're cutting big
sheets you know maybe a foot long all the way down using the roll as a guide and what you're
doing you can cut these in half too if you want to make it a little bit easier to work with so
next you're overlapping the paper you've already put in by three to four or six inches whatever
you want to get down there we're sliding it in under there and sometimes there's little rocks
in the way from when you broke out but we want to go in as far down slide up and down down you want
to go in as far as you can get before you hit a rock that you just can't get past this time
I didn't happen to so I'm gonna get it all the way in there and line it up with this door frame
just like that so I'm gonna go back and forth back and forth all the way up both sides then
I'm gonna do the top and I'll show you that when I get to it all right guys I'm done papering the
sides now it's worth it to note that on some parts of the sides I was able to get paper a
foot or two deep in there some parts there hitting a nail or a rock or something from
the breakout and you're not as deep as you can be the important thing is go as deep as you can on
both sides and when you're doing the sides it's okay to be on top of the paper when you come to
the top here it is not okay to be on top of the paper when you're at the top you have to go under
the existing paper in order to have the watershed properly and then there sure are a lot of bees up
here by these so what you do in order to make that the overlap is you're going to take this
existing paper and cut it right there and that way I've got my piece here and I can shimmy it
under the paper the existing old paper and then put it over the new paper I just installed on
these sides so now I'm going under and it's kind of tricky to do this sometimes without damaging
this paper either even more so you've got to be real ginger with it now I've got it up under the
existing paper and I've got my cut here and I have to shimmy it to the side in order to
be over the paper that I just installed let's make sure I get it all the way deep in there
there we go and now any water that goes through the stucco on to the existing paper will hit my
new paper and shed harmlessly onto the existing or the new paper that I've shed installed on
the sides I'm gonna do that all the way across here and then I'm gonna do the same thing here
making sure to overlap my new paper so that any water going through won't come down when
I do that I'll show you how I put new wire on all right guys moving right along I waterproofed that
top got the paper all done now we're moving on to the wire now I already took my hammer and I
pushed this wire all down so that it's down and I can go over it now you might luck out and that
this wire that exists will get all the way to your door frames sometimes it will depending on
your breakout sometimes it won't this time mine didn't so I had to cut a couple strips to fill
in that space now when you're doing this there are two things to keep in mind there is a right
and a wrong way to put this wire on I don't know if the camera will show but there are dimples in
the wire the way the wire is rolled you should roll it onto a wall these dimples are the first
that will keep the wire kind of up and off of the wall so that it will embed into the middle of your
stucco instead of your stucco just going right on top of it the other thing to keep in mind is
that you want to leave a little gap between your wire and your doorframe about a quarter-inch maybe
a half-inch depending because you need to caulk that joint there infuse the paper to the doorframe
now you want one of these staples every six inches you don't want to go too gung-ho and
get too many staples and some of you might have noticed that I didn't use my hammer tacker on the
paper when I was putting it in I had so much paper going in here and it was so tight that
the paper just held itself so I wasn't worried about that and I knew that I was going to come
back with these big staples and that was going to hold everything in place so that I didn't
have to worry about the tacks so now once I've got everything stapled down I'm just gonna caulk this
area just to show you guys I've got my caulking here and you want a small bead to fuse the paper
to the doorframe of course this caulking gun isn't working too well right now but there we
go now we're working and so once I get my wire all the way around the door I'm going to fuse
the paper all the way around the door onto the door frame and then your laugh is complete and
then we get to start the fun stuff putting mud on I'll show you that soon now we're under the
part that gets more questions it seems than any other parts all the other parts combined mixing
how do you mix what are the ratios what products do you use unfortunately I can't give you all
the answers all I can tell you is how I mix when using this particular product I'm using a premium
Portland cement blend I'm also using a luminite accelerator so that I can do both coats in a day
now what I do generally is I'll fill a bucket about half way with sand and I will put all of
my premium cement and my accelerator in there now our ratio is typically three to one that is very
versatile it can be used in many many different types of applications today that's what I need I
need three parts and for one part cement and so I have all that in here I'm gonna end up adding
more sand but I have all that in there now what I want to do is get my water now I want to make
this pretty soupy so that it mixes easily and evenly and I can add sand to it to dry it out
or I can always throw another scoop of cement in there if I need to now what you're gonna need to
do with whatever product you end up with from Lowe's or Home Depot or wherever you're getting
it you're gonna read the bag and do what they say on the bag don't listen to me just do what
they say on the bag if you happen to have the same stuff you can do it this way so now I'm
blending the top I'm blending all of the cement powder into the water first and it's still a
little dry so I want a lot of water in there I don't want to be struggling in this first part
now I'm sending it down to the bottom. I don't want to leave the bottom unmixed
there we go now everything is nice and mixed, but it's way too soupy. It would not go on a
wall. It would just fall off no matter what I tried to do with it, so now I'm gonna add
the rest of the sand into the mix to stiffen everything up and complete the right ratio
and this stuff isn't rocket science, guys. You don't have to be exactly precise. If
you're off a little bit a couple of percentage points in either direction,
it's not gonna kill it. It might make it take a little longer to dry, but it's not a big deal
now just like that I'm done it can be that quick if you know what you're doing so now I've got five
to ten minutes before this stuff starts getting really stiff because of my accelerator in there
so I'm gonna cut this and go get set up over at the door and I'll see you in a second hey
guys so unfortunately I ran into some technical difficulties with my camera while I was trying
to do the scratchin brown and float it while it was full of accelerator unfortunately I
couldn't make them both work I had to pick one and I picked finishing the wall and not worrying about
the video you know we have a ton of videos doing scratch and brown the same day with the illuminate
accelerator and if you like I can link one if you click here you can check one of those out and we
have a bunch more on the channel that basically just show you exactly what I just did again sorry
I couldn't have that in this video but what I can do is show you guys how to do the Skip trial
texture so I've got some mud mixed up here this is a cement ish 'us color coat finish and so this
guy he's got his strokes you can see here he's pulling them like that there's some trowel marks
there are some trowel marks so I want to kind of match his and you can see there's kind of some
here some here so I've got my material here and we just take some of it onto the trowel we don't
want a lot you can tap your trowel down and knock some of it off and we're just gonna skip along in
the same patterns that he did and sometimes you get big old pancakes like that you can just kind
of flatten them out or scrape it off if it's too much and I'm just gonna do that a bunch of times
now what I'm doing is holding the child at an angle on the wall, and that will allow just a
little bit of the material to come off without too much of it, and I'm gonna skip along the
entire perimeter of the door just to make it match they're gonna paint this and then they're gonna
put a big old door trim on so that most of this is gonna be hidden anyway but on the off-chance
to ever take that door trim off I want it to match so that they can do whatever it is they choose to
all right now this little part is pretty done I'm gonna pull the camera up and I'm gonna make
it zoom in on one spot so you guys can really see what it is that I'm doing so if this aim
worked out you can see just my hawk and my trowel I'm pulling some of the material up I'm tapping
my child out and then I'm just skimming skipping rather not skimming and we're just pulling it up
and when they paint that that's gonna match what the original guy did pretty dang well
and then there's a little bit knockdown where his mind's too rough actually need
a little bit more right near the door so then what you do is you take your towel,
and you knock it all down, and just like that's pretty dang close all right guys well there you
have it we're all done here sorry again about those technical difficulties and missing the
scratch brown and floating, but you can check out our other videos hopefully you
still got some good information out of this and enjoyed it I know Anna ended up kind of long,
but it's hard to cram all of these things and still be informative and make it kind of short,
so hopefully it wasn't too boring, and you guys enjoyed it, and we will see you on the next one
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