hello folks kirkand jason here with kirk Giordano plastering, today what we're going to show you how
is to remove some stucco and replace it now the stucco here the fella emailed me this we're in
san francisco right now um pretty much right on the ocean we've got golden gate park over here
i'll tell you that old saying the coldest winter i ever spent with summer in san francisco it's true
because it's june it is cold anyhow what they have here is they have stucco where you can stick your
hand in in here and just off of the photographs of the sides here when they sent it to me i thought
in the early 1900s in 1930 up to 1930 they used to use a redwood that had a stucco keys in it
and they put this board on the house they put a felt behind it and then they put this redwood uh
i think it comes in two by eight sheets way before my time and so the stucco would adhere to that by
keys you you would just spread your scratch coat in your brown and it would key into it
that stuff is great and it lasts usually hundreds of years if it's maintained right here we're in
san francisco again close to the ocean where the salt water a lot of the carbs i'm looking at have
rust on them and the salt water just beats everything up so what i'm going to do is i'm
going to remove this section here now first thing you want to do if you're going to remove a section
like this is not to just pull it off because this piece here is about 300 pounds it's too heavy so
i'm going to score it i'm going to come here and and score it with a hammer or my bosch right under
here then i'm going to put some vertical scores in it about right here to right here because
once i scored underneath the soffit here and i scored about here that's about 60 pounds i can
manage that comfortably we're gonna just take this whole chunk off and about every 50 pounds
and once that's done then i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to paper it i'm going to fuse the
paper to this cell here and then we're going to wire it and we're going to re-stucco it so once we
get to the last stage i'll show you that part two but it's this is not what i consider common and
i'll show you one more prior to pulling it apart we can stick our hand inside here there's a good
four inches that's separated but that's sometimes what happens when you don't maintain that
that old redwood lap with the keys in it you gotta paint it every eight years if you want it to last
and done right stuff last hundreds of years so you'll see it when we get to the next stage
well folks there you have it with the laugh we're going to get out of here start to drizzle
an example we'll see when you're ready to stretch it okay folks back in san francisco what we did
here is we've applied two scratch coats and we did the brown coat now notice this if you if the
camera can catch this a little clearer the finish they have is this house is about 80 years old so
the finish has been painted about 10 times so what i've done is we floated it and the float left it
a little heavier so i took my trowel and went back over it this way the transitions here here
the transitions when it's painted will blend in as accurate as possible with this 80 year
old finish in the new stucco i actually took it all the way to this expansion joint under here
can you see that we were planning on breaking it here but ah we took it to the expansion joint
actually it's a continuous two-inch vent to allow air in so um that's the problem sometimes we're
at the we're kind of by the pacific ocean uh in san francisco and the fog out here
it really beats stuff up so you've really got to maintain it well thank you jay for doing the video
thank you folks for watching this is kirk giordano plastering, we'll see on the next one.