Hello folks, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering ,today what I'm going to
show you guys is a common-sense way and questions to ask if you're going to have insulation shot in
your house now on this particular house there they have a couple hundred holes you can see throughout
where they placed all the holes this is uh this is the side where there's not very many there's
actually two to three hundred holes on this one little itty bitty house come back over here just
please and I'll show you folks some things first that I've learned in thirty years of doing this
number one when a fella comes in and they drill the holes in it generally what they'll do guys is
they'll drill holes and they'll bust the membrane depending on what they start off with I can go on
for hours about what they start off with here they have a solid inch of stucco then they have
a solid inch of wood now when I got here a week or two ago they had some wood plugs here and the
wood plugs were the exact same size as the holes themselves and so they weren't that word jade tape
they weren't tapered now most folks still use a cork and the cork will be tapered that cork will
start off narrow and then it'll end up fatter at the end and they just pop that in and that seals
it pretty well well these folks had pieces of wood and they had three and four in one area where you
just push them and they all went through the wall so I explained to the homeowners I said here's my
advice to you folks number one wood the reason they don't use wood for four bottles is say like
wine bottles is the wood expands when it gets wet so they left us with something that we could not
repair I said here's my advice guys go back and tell them get your butts back over here fellows
and put some polyurethane caulking and we prefer Sikaflex but that's anybody's business what they
they want to use I said number one I can't I can't waterproof this pieces of wood and if I tried to
stucco the stucco would push him in my advice was to help him come back put some polyurethane around
the wood push him in there just right and then cover the wood up with a polyurethane caulking
is that the best way with what they have to work with it is because after 30 years I have yet to
find a company that will come drill the holes then break out around a little bit bigger put
polyurethane caulking put the paper and then the wire I've never seen that done probably never will
in my time but the idea is to waterproof this if you're going to go and create the holes you want
to at least do some good where you don't want to open 200 holes that are subject to get wet
anyhow so what we're doing today is now that those folks have come back and they have done what we
recommended what I tell the homeowner is now we'll just take a trowel and break around the edge get
some of these excess off I've already gone around and we're going to do eat every hole like this
and basically what that does is it opens up the loose paint and then we take a bonding agent now
let's see my brush my handy dandy brush we take a bonding agent and there's about 10 different
bonding agents guys and all we're going to do is we're going to fill these holes with this bonding
agent because we're going to plaster over here now again I've I've stuck with thousands upon
thousands of holes and I've given advice to folks if you're going to have this done and
you're going to pay a professional to come in and create the holes their job is to watertight it for
fellas like us to just come in and plaster it I said if you would like what we can do is we can
break around here and patch it a little bit better and of course 200 holes would take us five days
eight-hour days to do that they said Kirk just fix with the hat what we have here patch these in and
match the finish that's all we want and most of our every job I've ever done that's all anybody's
wanted so what we're going to do is we're going to show you how to prep it first so every one
of these holes is going to get this exact same treatment and reason I'm I'm breaking this out
here a little bit better is because they're going to pressure wash the house then they're going to
paint it so they could have done that first two by the way but since they didn't will do it this
way now what we're going to do is we're going to mix up a couple buckets of mud patch patch
this in and I'll show you how we patch it in and then this finish actually it looks difficult but
it's one of the simplest finishes to match so we got our day cut we're going to try to show
you in a ten-minute video or less what's going to take us about eight hours to do but we'll
just show you this one little area okay guys I'll show you how we do our patches generally jail do
all the top stuff off ladders and I do all the those stuff and what I'm using is it's a rapid
set because some of these patches are quarter-inch to two-and-a-half three inches thick so what I'm
doing is I'll generally put my hawk under every hole to guys like I'll fill it leave it I'll fill
it leave it and I've already done about Oh 75 of these we have a 100 left see that one is about a
quarter-inch where this one is two inches it's the entire length of the stucco as well as the wood
and this is again half the battle guys you got to know your cement and what I'll generally do is I'm
going to do another I'm going to finish all these and then I know exactly I know when this cement
here it's going to cure or set and when it's set I want to use skill to float them and not muscle
if this turns white or dry then I'm going to have some obvious patches we don't want that when we're
done we want it to match so give us about another half hour I'm going to go ahead and spread out the
rest of these hundred holes or so on the bottom then I'll show you how we float it in it's really
simple if you know how to do it and it does take a lot of time in to get to the stage we're at today
okay guys now that we've got a couple hundred of these holes patch this is the the part that
actually takes some time in for me this is the easy part for you guys you try to do this just
a damn how cursed do that what I'm doing guys is I'm leaving I'm feathering in the edges away from
it away from that patch and it's just the stucco is at the stage right now where it's just right
where if I wait another 15 minutes I'm going to lose these patches meaning they'll be too stiff
and I won't be able to bring the aggregate out and the aggregates fancy word for sand this is a heavy
float finish here so that's what I'm doing I'm floating it with with this sponge float and see
how I'm doing that guys if there's too much water I'll wash it out if there's not enough it'll drag
the idea is say for example I'm I'm going around the perimeters and that's that is so it'll adhere
very well can I just do this yeah I can do that but then I leave a drag mark here so I come down
I come around I just follow the perimeter of each hole nothing to it so if you have about
20 30 years experience behind you the idea is bring that bring the aggregate out and there's
a lot to this that 10-minute video is not going to show you such as I've got a little piece of glue
right there so we're going to have to handle that as far as making each one match just takes time
in I'm holding my bucket of water here guys only dipping a little bit in and again we feather into
the paint we feather into that texture we've got all about another four to five hours of messing
around here but I thought I'd show you folks a little bit about what we do and why and a couple
last tips guys you're going to hire a fellow to do all of your holes ask questions say hey you
guarantee the holes this bar is not leaking make certain that they do everything as far as put
their corks in caulk around it you don't want to be like this fella where I had to come out and he
had to call them back make sure that they're going to do what they say they're going to do and then
a fellow like me will come behind them and do the matching of the textures and I do work for about
eight or nine fellows who do the insulation they called me thicker Co match the texture
anyhow guys my name is Kirk I'm with kirt Road on a plastering Jason on the Camera also doing
all the top stuff for us we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one.