howdy folks Kirk here with Kirk jordano plastering my son Jason and I are going to show you guys how
to fix a repair on front porch now in order to fix it you got to know what's happening here this is
about a seven year old house and it's got porches arches a lot of weight this is very very typical
even on a 30 year old house let alone 60 to 70 to 80 years it happens it just the water saturates
the ground it tends to flex I'll show you how we fix something like this extremely common guys what
will have underneath is probably some old wire and how it buckled here we just we just tap it all out
with a hammer what I'll generally do is the porch is a little bit beat up anyhow but that's nothing
that it just pops right out what we want to do is relieve some of the tension and what's the worst
case we can see well kind of rotten wood but what I expect to find here is deteriorated stucco it
just means it's been beat up for a while and what we do is now that that's done I'm going to fill
that up with sick of flex give me a few minutes we'll fill this up with sick of flex and I'll show
you guys how we just release some of the tension Andrey stucco it alright we put a little bit of
caulking where the paper broke is it necessary to tear this whole column out to repair this I
wouldn't now we take some stiff mud I could put a corner here which makes it easier for me but I can
build out that two inches also with this stiff mud I got right here so i'll show you how we do that
and put this there and because the mud is pretty stiff let's see I could even use my finger to get
it in this oh here's my margin trial would take it margin trowel come up I share a little technique
guys take your Hawk put it here you can't see this part take your Hawk put it here pull straight up
instinct corner put your Hawk here instinct corner guys now I'm just going to put a little bit more
here and notice this mud here is is just put on so it's somewhat loose and that's okay it's
this mud is designed to go pretty thick i can go coat after coat after coat if i choose to up to
six inches thick I'm just going to break out that pyramid it flares out this way now what I'm going
to do is take a hard rubber float or a sponge float I'm sorry and sponge it I'm going to come
up then I'm going to come here follow that pyramid pattern down there like so and right here where
I can't get it in there I'm just going to pull it upward pull it upward a little bit and that
gives us our finish guys pretty simple and in about oh I'd say a half hour this will be hard
they then be able to touch it and it won't damage it one bit so you see how that pyramids with that
bottom piece and that's all it is guys we're just releasing the tension from what they had
their will this last 100 years no but will it last for 10 or 15 possibly 20 absolutely anyway
it's a simple fix guys in it it's real common I get a lot of calls people say oh man you should
see the front of the house and ice it's typical natural it happens but it's a quick fix if you
know how to fix it anyway guys my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Joe Donald plastering Jason on
the camera as usual we thank you for watching and we'll see you guys on the next quick dick
you