hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what I want to do is want to
point out some variations of color and I get asked this a lot in fact I get probably one a week where
people email me this and they say gee how can we fix it I'll give you an example now what we have
here is a cement Isha's wall and all that means is that it's maintenance-free number one like a brick
and it's cement Isha's meaning when it gets wet it darkens now I get a lot of folks they email me
a lot of pictures and they say gee every time it rains this part stays the same color and this part
darkens I'll give you guys an idea of why that happens okay say I hit this right here you see how
that stucco darkens now if I hit this area here it doesn't darken why because when they did the trim
here they've got some of the darker green on this tan color actually this is Miami peach they got
some of the green on it so they painted it this is a pretty good example because you could see that
even with the camera it's 10 tints off but usually it'll be about well you can't hardly see it and
unless it rains why do people do this of course because you've got some of the trim paint on the
stucco or like on a job we just did half the job leaked so they use the paint - well bridge all the
stucco and seal it now there's three ways to fix this guy's in a last job we did I was gonna show
it but there was too much staging in the way and it couldn't really get an accurate view of what
we wanted to express so three ways to fix this is number one go ahead and paint the whole wall
that's the least expensive and that's the fastest way however you lose your maintenance-free finish
and now you have a painted surface that every eight eight to ten years you have to repaint
where the cement issues finish that lasts for a hundred years after about 30 it starts to lighten
and darken and vary in color but but that's okay it still stays on another way to fix that is
like what we just did on a huge job we pressure wash the entire front of the house we applied
a bonding agent then we put a cement tshis finish over the entire house because now they have again
their cement Tisha's finish it's maintenance-free and when it rains the whole house will be uniform
in color won't dry real weird where you see the patches like this and lastly you could fix it too
with an acrylic finish we pressure wash it apply primer instead of a bonding agent and then use an
acrylic finish over the entire area and that that will be like a painted surface that won't darken
when it rains so there's a lot of ways to do that one a little quick story we did a wall in Oakland
four stories high about 200 feet long and they wrote a bunch of letters all over it big letters
the size of I mean six foot each letter was about six feet tall you could see it on the freeway this
guy spilled paint all over the entire wall it was pretty much an eyesore so what they did was he got
the exact color paint and he painted every paint splotched at he dripped and the funny thing was
well wasn't funny to him but it was to me where this was 20 years ago they painted all these
paint swatches then they tore all the scaffold down every time it rained the building you'd
see all that where he dripped paint it looked ridiculous but anyway that's what happens when
you paint and it hits a cement tshis finish so we're getting ready to start a project and I told
these folks gee I'll show you exactly what I'm referring to because I've been I was trying to
explain this this is a better illustration with the video anyhow guys my name is Kirk Jason on
the camera we thank you guys for watching this simple explanation video as usual we'll see you
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