Hello folks kirk and Jayson here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what I want to show
you guys is fix we're doing Jay's job right here we just got here and I looked at and I thought a
piece of cake they just got through explaining the homeowner exactly exactly what I come up with and
that is okay she got a failing text code how do you know at X code from a painted surface or a
stucco surface see these little moon craters what is a text coated text code is usually an acrylic
type of paint a bonding agent in color and they shoot that on a lot of houses will have perlite
in it - it kind of looks like cottage cheese but there's no perlite in this one and yes it sticks
to everything I asked the folks here how long have you had the house they said seven years
so this particular finish I look at it and I think gee it's probably probably been on for
about let's say 20 25 years and this part failed because although they put the bonding agent and
all that stuff in the material and they shot it on this wasn't prepped sometime in the last
30 years 40 they redid this corner and so when they redid this corner the fellows who applied
this should have put a bonding agent directly on this finish and wire brush did used water got all
the dust and dirt on it so the good news for the homeowners is it's just this corner I went around
the house and the majority of the text coat shot on the painted surface is holding up real
well so what Jay and I are going to do today is I pulled off a little piece to see where it's going
we're just gonna pull it off see how it's it's scraping off there and this is on tight guys a
lot of times what I'll do is I'll score it like this and stop it to a point but I want to get it
all off of this this work here so what Jay and I are gonna do is this is kind of nasty stuff so to
avoid getting it in the camera the dust we're gonna go ahead and scrape it all off the next
time you see us I'll show you how we prep it and we're gonna hit it with water and wire brushes
then we're going to put a bonding agent on it and I'm gonna skim it and I'll show you how we
match this tech coat okay guys now what I'm doing is I'm applying the bonding agent now the stucco
will adhere to this by suction but it will not adhere to this painted surface so we've got to
apply the bonding agent to that and I figure that since I'm here I'll go ahead and kill some of this
suction - and I really want our product to last so we're gonna go ahead and apply this bonding agent
and there are so many different kinds of bonding agents guys I like Larsen's by world creed never
failed me anyhow Jason's gonna go ahead and mix I'm gonna finish doing this and we'll show you
how we match this finish here in a few alright guys now we're spreading it out and generally
for you homeowners you could go to Home Depot you go to Lowe's I think they have a product there or
a few products this is a cement based product and kind of kind of old it seems because it's
not spread in real well doesn't have a whole lot of workability but we can make it work anyway the
idea is you go to Home Depot or Lowe's look for there they have rapidset products not sure who
makes them but they're fast set rapid where all you do is add water because we're adding we're
adding sand and water pretty windy day too so we finished my corner here and take it here a
little bit here take it this way lastly a little bit here like this and I'm about to float this
now and that is I'm going to bring I'm going to bring a little bit of sand to the surface this
here has been softened up quite a bit by the the text coat so I'm not going to be able to
match that perfectly but we're gonna get it real tight I'll show you a tip guys say now I'm gonna
float it I'm gonna take a green sponge float not too much water I'm gonna hit my joint first I'll
show you one section okay if I take my joint here use the water okay I want to float into this wall
into it another tip to guys is you float into it on the corner here we don't want to do this
I'll blow a corner out so I've used all the water out of that one I'm gonna put a little bit more
water in now and here's a tip four corners guys we want to we don't want to push out this way
or pull this way otherwise we blow the corner we can come up and end turn it and blow it starts to
get too much water just flip it around flip it around that way it's not dripping all over you
and just like one last thing here before we and this and that is there like I'm a little bittle
heavier still we take all the water out of a float now I'm gonna take the water out of the float by
tapping it on the wall now you're not gonna see this but I'm tapping that out now I got a drier
float so what I'll generally do if I want to make any finish a lot lighter I'll hit it with a trial
I'll hit it with the trial and then I'll hit it again with a drier float and that softens the
aggregate now it's very very soft and we're using a heavy fan because that's what's in the material
so anytime you see guys think Jim I got a wall and I I got the wrong sand you can fix the wrong
sand if you know how again right there is mighty heavy trowel it down power down and and with the
dryer float I got moisture on this float and where I slam this at I'm gonna hose off in a second now
with a dryer float it will make that heavy sand a lot lighter a lot finer little tricks guys we've
been doing this for years so we know all these little technique and now that area right there
matches this the only difference is this we've got moon craters this doesn't I've never had
a fella hora homeowner you had approached me and said hey Kirk how come this one's a little gritty
but that's that's the difference between stucco and actual text codes anyway guys my name is Kirk
Jason on the camera as usual and of course he was mixing and spreading this you guys want to
see anything click below this video and put it on comment hey Kirk show us how to do this or
that because sometimes I'll switch jobs just to show you guys what you want to see if you want
to see anything anyhow as usual we thank you for watching and we'll see you guys on the next one.