hello folks Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today I want to show you guys how to
repair a patch that was previously done now the fellow who done this patch right here he's a
painter and he's a real good painter he actually didn't do too bad of a job but when when the Sun
hits it you can see that it's a little heavier it's too coarse now you look at what they have
here that is mighty fine and that comes from about 80 years of paint jobs so it thins it
out what he has no matter how much paint you put on this you can go 20 coats it's not going
to soften it up like this what what I did is I came and looked at it and I said well that's uh
that's it's decent but it the folks don't like it he doesn't like it what I have down there
now granted guys there's a lot of ways to patch this that green right there is just happens to
be driving acrylic stucco and now the gray there is also driving acrylic stucco now I have about
70 80 pails of stucco acrylics at my house so let me see which one I have the texture because
you have fine texture medium texture and coarse so this is a medium so we can we're gonna apply
that now I told him dude you can do it because he said he'd fix it and I said you could do it
a couple ways you can put weld Crete weld Crete as a bonding agent then you can mix up some more
stucco a finish coat and put that on there and feather it in heck you could even use more flex
caulking and caulk the whole thing and trowel it down and then float it to bring out a little
bit of sand oh there's a lot of ways to do this guys what I have here is what I have in my mid
just excess excess stock so I told them I'll come out here with some 2030 acrylic stucco
acrylic stucco sticks to everything I mean everything your clothes your trials sometimes
you just throw the stuff away because it won't come off anyway we're those patches I know the
ladders in the way but I'm gonna show you how we just apply a little bit of finish over that and
smooth it out now what I did to guys is Jason wet everything prior like the bush down there
that bushes saturated with water because I know my my skill level and yeah I'll drop a
few crumbs but I'm not gonna drop a whole lot so a few crumbs will wash right in now what
i'm doing here is again i've already pulled the mud out of that bucket and then basically just
skimming it i'm i'm skimming the patch that he did in order to fill all these voids now
of course i put some red tape around that window frame because i'm pretty good but i still don't
want to have to clean all those frames okay so now we're gonna just pull this up or go like so
you guys can do this too if you have a patching and you want to correct it say they like the
sand I'm using again it's a it's called twenty thirty and that just means it's a medium grit
I'm I could use even the heavy grit or I could use the finer grit but there's ways to do it
when you improvise and use whatever grit you just have available say like the heavy grit
you let it sit a little bit longer and then you barely float it the fine grit you hit it quick
and it'll bring out a sin this right here is the correct grit because again I said I had a whole
bunch of these pails at the house so we're doing about fifteen windows today and so I thought I'd
get started with this one here just to show you guys if you have a contract or a painter or you
do it yourself and it's not perfect they're not the end of the world guys let's see take this
and J got me set up on the other side with plank and scaffold here I said don't bother it's take
take too much work to set it all up and besides I have a pretty long stretch okay I've got to get
a little bit more on my hawk now if I put too much on my heart guys what's gonna happen this
stuff is just gonna fall right off the edges and this acrylic nasty stuff it sticks to everything
but what I do is by using the acrylic I avoid having to mix up sand cement I avoid having to
put the weld Crete by Larsson's on here to have it adhere and besides all of that all he'll have
to do is paint it if I put raw stucco back on it and they got a prime pane a lot more work so this
is pretty simple thing to do here just use what you have and of course any of you folks who don't
have well most of you won't have these acrylics laying around you can go buy say like they sell
a probably product get the material yards you're not gonna find it at Lowe's or Home Depot called
image or image how they say it and it's it's a lighter lighter sand you could do this exact
same thing guys to soften it up he just it's an acrylic sticks to everything and you avoid that
mixing up the scratch and brown stuff the cement tshis finish this you know you have cement dis
Tisha's finish which is what he used then you have acrylic this is an acrylic or synthetic
stucco they both mean the same thing in acrylics or synthetic stucco is just sand mixed with an
elastomeric breathable paint so we put that here alright I'm done here now what I'm gonna do is
take a float bucket now this green float I'm going to clean this trial off too because I don't want a
bunch of slobbers falling all over the place clean that and this okay now if I have this float this
collects water if it's too saturated by the time I hit that joint it's just gonna fall right down
well the it's gonna drip all over the place so we don't really want that alright guys now what we do
is just float it we float the edges first let the edges a little bit more water on here no worries
and notice the sand is a little bit heavier because it's heavier, just Charlet down
guys like that, and now it kind of matches that I don't have enough water on my float,
so I've got to put more water on the float. Otherwise, I'm right here in the Sun, and this
wall has been hit for about two or three hours, so it's scorching. I misjudged it not the first time,
not gonna be the last time I misjudged how hot this wall was cuz we've got a whole lot
of things going on here there we go, and again where that joint is, we must hit
that we hit the rest and because this wall so hot it already dried up the acrylic sometimes
misjudged these acrylics thinking oh there they usually get hard in about an hour but because
this wall so hot it's absorbing it right out so I better get as much as this as I can all right
that's better that's another so many different things to consider guys when you're doing
plastering especially with working with acrylic products like the weather I mean if it's super
cold I can be here hours because it won't set now today is just happens to be about 85 degrees and
this wall has been getting hammered so now that this is a little heavier than that so what I'm
gonna do is just Charlet down a little bit more I just chollet down I mean you know you know have a
look just look at that Charlet down a little bit more the idea is that finish is far from perfect
so what we want is the joint the joint is number one where the transition the transition number
one get that just as clean as possible and and yeah I use a trowel that flexes it bends it's for
swimming pools than that that'll bend and flex where I want it to so we got that and here it's
too heavy so all I'm doing is spreading a little bit more flatten in an hour and presto magic it
is done now that right there matches a lot closer than what they had and now for the easy part you
just put that stuff away and pull your tape sharp for the top guys and just get a grip of it like a
sock in a dryer doesn't want to come off okay turn your hair cuz that stuff's gonna go everywhere and
if you get a little bit on the glass that's okay cuz I've got a rag right there and it's
only been on about Oh less than five minutes so stuff like this but kick off and get a rag and
clean it but anyway guys you see that's how you do it and if you say gee whiz I want a lighter
finish you can go with image or you can go with any of the finishes that are designed for smooth
finishing that's thirty thirty sand this is twenty thirty fans a little bit difference okay guys now
you notice the color is not green like I first applied it is gray and you buddy know why the
green I applied was twenty thirty the gray and that bucket right there just happens to be thirty
thirty that's a lot finer so as I was telling my painter buddy hey don't beat yourself up for
making a little mistake I made the same mistake you got to use these acrylics almost constantly
to keep on them which is it's hard to just look at the finish in the bucket and say okay that's
thirty thirty twenty thirty or sixteen twenty anyway I wasn't happy with this I took another
five minutes and thinned it out with thirty thirty must nicer finish to what they have it
happens guys to the best of us anyway we thank you for watching and as usual guys we'll see you on
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