hi guys Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what I want to show you is how
to repair a structure crack what is a structural crack would take a hundred-year-old home like we
have here and the whole house is in excellent condition which means they framed it well they
did to stucco well everything is just perfect why do we have the structural crack here well and we'd
have to come on this side and there's a culprit see this chimney that's about five to seven eight
tons so the house hundred years old and over a hundred years what happens is settling like we
did a theater when I was Union thirty years ago and I went back actually last year and all the
ground settled so all the stucco we shot on with a gun left lips and then it it was a foot and a
half below that and that's natural settling guys it's normal don't you can't avoid that stuff it's
not something that is within human correctness and you can't engineer that stuff anyway so this
chimney here is what caused this to buckle here's a fast way to do it guys you take this piece here
and you glue it right back now I'm kidding you don't do that now what we have here is we have
this stucco actually separated from itself so we're off about three quarters of an inch how
do you do this properly guys now to do it properly you tear all this off right here and or you put a
new foundation you could even do tears how much would that cost ah ten grand what we're going to
do here for a few hundred bucks is we're going to break this out right here and I'm going to try to
straighten this up I'm going to try to align it how am I going to do that well I've got to pull
a rod out first and put it up there and feather it in but what I told the homeowner here I said
you you know that is beyond our scope to fix it permanently it can't be done I mean even if you
can try to engineer it and tear the whole thing on it can't be done. it's minor in here I see the paper,
real good paper and here I see paper there's it's a heavy felt so the stucco just tweaked
about an eighth of an inch to a quarter because of this chimney here, you can't see it but
they patched that chimney a few times where it's settled a little bit that's what threw this off
otherwise, the house is in excellent condition.
framed just super well so what we're going to do is I'm going to break this out right here and I'm going to use a hammer chisel it's going to
go put if I use muscle I take my strength and I hit this now I push this paper in too soft or
I push this stucco in too soft paper and that will compromise the membrane we don't want to
do that so we're going to we're going to break this out right here we're going to break this
out and this already you can see what's going on here it's in real bad condition somebody built it
up this much you know you can do that just not when the house moves as it will it can happen
again so we're going to break this out we're going to look and see the best way to repair
it is because technically I won't know that until I pull it off what I'm thinking is I may see a
little bit of torn paper we're going to put a polyurethane caulking on that we're going to
wire it we're going to use some cement plaster then we're going to put a finish over it that
matches this all right guys we've got it papered up what we did is we took the new paper and went
under the existing paper, we did both sides there's a lot going on here we showed the
owner and we're only as good as what we have to work with fortunately most of the paper was
intact it looked pretty good the wood look pretty good because I opened it now what this wide stuff
is is a polyurethane caulking it's a sealant because we were able to get underneath there
real well on top of here we didn't get much of a bite hey when you're doing structural cracks
like this you do the best you can with what you have to work with and right now it's becoming
hot and my mud is is setting so here's what we're doing guys we're putting this back together I've
got it I got this mud a little stiffer than I want it that's okay stiff because we're doing
a whole bunch of things here today and we can't always keep on every little thing now let's see
if that was stiff this next one's going to be even stiffer because it's in the middle of the bucket
one two three four that's pretty stiff might on guys alright I dig this pyramid and put it on
we're actually going about two inches thick so stiff mud is not the end of the world for me it
just means it's gonna set real fast and actually I wanted to set fast so I'm good with this one
more and that's about all the mud well actually let's see here ah a little bit more come on now
ah stiff sup guys alright what I'm gonna do here guys is after I put this on in about 15 minutes
I'm going to come back and I'm going to float this what does that mean it means I'm going to compress
it with a hard rubber look yeah I'm compressing in here well with the hard rubber float I could
actually open it and make it set even faster as well as smooth it out so I can get what I want by
the way we weren't able to straighten the corner out but I told the homeowner he says Kirk don't
even worry about trying to straighten it I said well let me open it see what we got and we'll
cross that bridge when we get to it because if we can I'd like to but we don't always have that
luxury guys we're we're as good as what we have to work with so what I'm gonna do guys is let
this set and five more minutes I'm going to come over here and show you how we hard rubber float it
and apply a color code okay guys back to where I was we must be really sidetracked because somebody
just got robbed across the street we got police and everybody across the street and they said did
you see what happened and I thought no sja did you get that the truck in when we did something
else anyway all right this is getting hard as a rock while I'm paying attention being sidetracked
elsewhere if it gets hard like that say this is a hard rubber float hard rubber float condense as it
compacts it the green sponge float brings it back to life brings aggregate out so I'm just going
here making sure it all sets in and making it go harder or build this out a little bit more right
here and we just used a green sponge float as well as a hard rubber float and compress it compress it
in about another hour we got a lot of other things we're doing here another hour I'm going to come
back to this and I'll show you how we really match the texture as well as the color okay guys that
is set that is hard hard as a rock now here's what I'm going to do guys I'm going to hit it
a little bit just a little bit now the fellow says Kirk don't worry about I'm going to paint it well
when you page something here's the original paint it shows right through and even this because this
has done well 50 years later of course it's going to show through but I'll show you a tip guys he
wanted me just to match the finish now up match the finish okay what do what I he wanted was okay
just give me a texture like this okay now I here's there's one better guys we take it we skim the
whole thing now notice of course fifty years later this is a different color that's okay because the
idea is I told them when this dries it'll be similar they're not going to match because it's
50 years later but what you can do is figure out if you want to paint it or leave it alone
any time you paint something guys now you you're on a maintenance thing so that's done here we go
this is done too and what I'll do is I'll take off a sponge float and feather this in say
what's a sponge float I'll show you all right now we take a sponge float I'm just going the
extra-mile here because I can now clean sponge float water in it so what we're going to do is
we're just going to feather it in now now here's the skill guys it's what we do again it's a lot
of it is application okay yeah application is I only consider that thirty percent of it the
knowledge is the other 70 because I've been doing this forever so I'm going to match the grit under
here that's a sandy grit so we're giving it a sandy grit and notice I'm feathering into the
existing feather into the existing for reason I mean if he chooses to paint this that's fine
but I'm thinking the pain is going to show just as much as as me texture in it and putting this
and you'll see it when it's dry because okay that sides is what classified is done for the
base coat this side ah okay get that built back up this side is now almost set now weathers a
factor guide whether it plays a big role in this stuff if it were say 50 degrees cold you can see
my breath well I'd be here forever right now it's about oh I'd say it's um we think about 80 about
80 so I got some warmth going on here give me the hot Sun any day over the cold all right so
this is done now I'm going to texture it and when we got other things we're doing here so when it's
dry we'll come back to it and I'll show you what it all looks like when it's dry because it it's
a better way to go with what we're doing with this color than to just say paint and what I'm
doing here this is hot day and stuck in them in the bucket so I'm just making it where I could
spread it now we look at their finish it's a gag piece of cake so we're gonna take it match
that finish guy had a heavy hand that's okay and he's taking it from the top that's okay I know
you guys see me do it I take it off the bottom so this fella he's taking it from the top so
we're going to take it from the top too it leaves a different sort of pattern pull up on the top no
big deal easy yep okay take it from the top come on down a little bit hard to see white on white
but what we actually got here is no color this is just the natural color of the product it's called
20/30 and it's a base 100 which is a white color a base 200 it's a grey color so okay what we're
going to do guys is I'm going to go ahead and click off here I'm going to do the other sides
can take me another five minutes we're going to come back in about a half-hour and show it to you
that way you could see how it looks when it's dry okay guys there it is I took some of this
cockeyed corner off because it was pretty pretty wavy this is a sample that he wants to keep to
get the paint but notice when you paint stucco you see how that darkens or if this the stucco
darkens this stays lighter so I says well you could do it whatever you feels right you didn't
hear this from me guys but the house has got a fifty-year-old color coat maintenance-free
finish that means you never have to paint it never should come off if you waited till summer you got
some dirt you sifted and you took a handful of this dirt in a form of a powder and you chucked
it just like that to simulate what you what might be a thousand lawn mowing jobs because the dust
goes in the air it settles this will be right on the money anyway but you didn't hear that
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