Howdy folks kirk and jason here with another tip of the day, how many of you guys have
installed your own sliding glass doors like this fella did? He did this one he did that one
he did a few around here what we're going to do is we're going to patch this up
i'm going to explain to you guys how to do it what material to buy from
HD, home depot or lowe's we're using Rapid Set Stucco, now this fella says he watched our videos
and he learned how to lath this, now you can do that guys you watch our videos
and it'll show you how to apply the first coat of or how to apply the lath and the lath, just means,
the paper and wire and many people can do the paper and wire in fact he did it himself.
So while putting this on i'll explain a few things now if you go to home depot say
or lowe's or any of the other hardware stores you could find Rapid Set Stucco, that's Rapid set stucco,
and with that Rapid Set Stucco, it comes in boxes of 10-pounds or it comes in boxes of 25-
pounds. You can buy bags 50-pound bags or even 94-pound bags, we use a 94-pound bag, why because
a 25-pound box or a 10-pound is for a little, little bitty project,
and obviously what we don't use we bring to the next job.
Here is a tip, too, guys, when you mix this stuff, you want to mix it about three to five minutes
no more. If you over mix any same-day material, say like they make,
every major company makes same-day materials now every one of them, from Quikrete to Rapid set,
to Sacrete, every one of them makes same-day materials anyway what you want to do guys is,
Is mix it, any way you're going to go
three to five minutes? What happens if you mix it for more than three to five minutes?
It explodes? No, it doesn't; guys, it compromises the mix; what does compromise in the mix mean?
That means it won't have as much strength as it should have, and how much strength should
a same-day material have? They're about twice as strong as Portland cement will have 1600,
and these same-day materials have about four thousand five thousand psi strength;
what does that mean? It just means they're strong. Okay, now the material i'm putting on right now
it's a bit sandy, but can we make it work absolutely.
if it's mixed, what we do is we take
we take the say the rapid set and you guys if you buy the rapid set in a 10 or 15 pound boxes
mix it in those mixes that in these buckets right here and just apply it do not add sand;
we buy the material that you add sand to, and it's usually three times the amount of sand to
every one part stucco
And if you mix it just right then, you're lucky. If you mix it where it's got a
little too much sand or not enough, you improvise. You just put it on.
and this fella here, He watched our video on how to lath, again and he did a great job so
learning how to do things yourself does have its benefits
way before when i started plastering 40 years ago anyway; this is my last scoop with this mud here,
uh, jay and dan, one of them is going to mix me up a little bit more, and i want to go ahead and
finish showing you and explaining how you guys can do this stuff yourself okay guys
moving on another bucket of rabbit's head here and what I've done oh this is much better mud
if the mud is a little bit stiffer or uh richer it, It hangs a little bit better
then you won't have that sound of what sounds like cows crapping on flat rocks this is what
they had on there it's it's rubber what we have here is a finish over a finish, and then they put
an elastomeric paint over it, and people always ask me kirk what is elastomeric paint it's rubber
i mean that's the way i look at it it's basically a rubber paint, and that's why that flexes so much
what i did here, to guys, is, i'm so close to the wall here, and i want the transition to be
tight or on the money, i'm going right to the wall so
boom
and just a little bit of elbow grease, guys, i'm using the equivalent of about
30 pounds of strength to really squeeze this on
first, tie in the stucco for the patchwork, then take it over the existing finish,
so what we're doing is take it here, take it here; one more should do it
all right
notice it hangs a lot better if it's mixed a little bit richer
Can you always mix it right the first time? Be real; no, nobody can do that.
so i'm going to take it up into this top; here's where we have the issues of falling down the top,
so we want to get that right now that I've got that spread out
we're going to take it to the wall
when we take it to the wall again
because i don't want a texture here to here and have a transition showing that is easily avoidable
all right, so what
i'm going to do here, guys, is allows us to set
how long am i going to allow this to set about 15 minutes
we let this set 15 minutes and by that time i'll be done with that over there
then i'll come back and i'll show you how we we feather this in and match this i'll show you the
stage wrap we put this on and while we're allowing it to set we went over here and we put the stucco
on that it's a little bit more complex but here's what you do after it sets and you guys control
the set time of this you can make it set five minutes or an hour actually so jay went ahead
and he floated everything that just means he compressed it and he made everything true and
plumb that that just means he's straightened the walls out now here's a tip guys your transition
that is what determines a good texture so you take it on the side here you don't have to look
you just use that float and that float just takes that edge off let the flow take the edge off and
now the transition from this skipped trial to here will be a little bit tighter will it be perfect
i notice every job i've ever done and anybody else's but you guys shouldn't while i'm on the
subject i'm going to show you something else now this windows trim plum that's straight a
straight wall this one is a wee bit different but is it a big deal no see if i were to
make this chewing plum then it would be cockeyed and so the top would be cockeyed so what we do
is we match the existing stucco and so that's even here so again over here we're true and plum
with the door frame here i don't have that i don't know if you call it a luxury or not it's just
i have to do whatever the wall dictates and what i generally do is i'll take my finger
here's a tip guys you put your finger right here and you just pull it up and that gives
you a straight clean line same thing on the top you put it where you want it and you just pull it
just like that, and that gives you an even straight line
And you pull it a little bit like that now that's true and plum,
and so when i do my texture, it matches here
i wanted to show you one more thing before i start texturing this guy because it reminds me of
a skit that Dave Chappelle did, you see you see these snacks right here, that is mighty
cool, the owner here, he brought all this stuff up for us and I thought man, that's a good host.
When i said that earlier it reminded me of this little skit that Dave Chappelle did
he was talking about, I won't go there because it's, anyway, who, who remembers that
he was talking about Michael Jackson? And he was he was comparing stuff and he says where i
come from i consider that a good host. i consider that a good host, anyway,
so what we're doing here is we're matching this texture here now; this is a heavy skip trowel
texture. Can i match this texture with straight mud? Yes, because it's already been matched twice;
a lot of the stucco here is an inch and a half because we have
two finishes over it so i'm gonna start at the bottom
i'm gonna skip it, and skipping just means i'm putting this, uh i'm laying the trowel on flat,
and i'm letting the wall pull it off, people say how do you do that man?
i don't do anything. All i'm doing is i'm setting this on here
and i'm letting the wall pull it off i'm not doing anything, guys, and neither should you.
You put it here now if I've got my texture between here and here. It'll skip itself.
See, that is skipping itself now. When i get to the top, that's gonna be a little bit
different i'm gonna put it i'm gonna follow the lip and go upwards. I'll flip
and go upward where i missed the spot here; that's okay.
and if i want to go over the existing, that's okay too because I've applied a bonding agent that blue
stuff that's a bonding agent that's weld creed uh you have to go to plastic material yards for well
creek guys, but you can go to home depot and buy this particular uh stucco rapid set stucco it's uh
again i explained that earlier but rapid says stucco has got 1620 fan in it
and rapid or home depot also sells quikrete quikrete is a bonding agent
those are for you to say man i looked everywhere can't find
Weld-Crete, you don't need Weld-Crete guys, i just use it
because I've been using it for 40 years. It's sold at the material yards where i buy my materials.
so anyway, you just close your eyes, guys match that stuff; the wall pulls it off,
and yeah, it does take a little bit of skill; the skill is looking at what you got,
and the transition, transitions are everything, see right here transition, that's it's called
feathering in the joint transition, you can call it whatever you want, but the idea is they
shouldn't be too proud of each other and close it see okay now here this is easy because i already
uh took it to the corner that way i'm not doing a little itty bitty six-inch pack so what we're
going to do is the same deal i'm going to start from the bottom because i like moving upward okay
And if any of you guys say, well, man, i got a texture, but it's really fine.
The finish i don't want to use is a 1620 or heavy finish at home depot buys; Green Core,
who makes green core, i believe it's, uh.
uh
Who are they? It is uh Quickrete q-u-i-c-k-r-e-t-e, Quickrete makes Green-Core,
and it, it's just a has a lot finer sand; in fact, if you type in how to apply
Green Core, our videos might come up. so there you have it, guys,
and right there, i could see a little bit that i could add, and so i am going to add
it real quick because i'm going to show you one last thing before i tear this stuff off
Okay, so again, all i'm doing is i'm putting a tiny bit on guy;
I see where it needs it i'm just putting it on there that way; it matches this,
and this is not a Spanish lace or a fine skip trowel, this is more of a pancakish
finish, and we can match them. It doesn't matter what it is.
We can match it, so there it is, and again, this bonding agent;
if you think the man i need to go further over, you could texture further over, for example.
That's going further over than my transition boom done i'm going to get on this other thing
i'll point out one last thing guys since i'm here and since i'm doing it uh
a lot of guys used to call me and say kirk uh turn your head when you pull the plastic
because it will go in your eye in fact while i was prepping this i had some go in my eye and it
is still in my eye i should title this one-eyed plastering because that's what i've been doing
so when you tear this off guys it was something i used to get a lot of calls on and people say kirk,
where is the expansion joint and i'd say what expansion joint
in some states they require a j trim right here and that's so the stucco and the windows contract
but last 15 years they make windows with this gap here and that gap is the expansion joint to
eliminate that ridiculous j trim and if you get any in there you just go ahead and pull it off
like say this little bit right here just pull it off boom it's done anyway my name is kirk, jason's
on the camera, we thank you folks for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one.
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