howdy folks kirk and Jason here with kirk giordano plastering, Question, how many of
you can see the difference between a blown on finish, with a hand hopper with stucco, versus
a tunnel dash that wall there is a tunnel dash finish a tunnel dash is done with it's by hand
and a hand hopper is done with a little hand hopper you hook it
up to a compressor there's the difference anyway what we're doing is we're going to
re-stucco in this window and I'll, i'll explain that while i'm stuck going in this window
now what we're using here is a same-day type of cement and of course, if you guys watch what we do
you'll know i don't like to scratch it then come back another day
and brown it I'd rather just do everything all at once and we can with uh most of the stuccos
today and in fact, this stucco has been around for about 40 years guys there's no secrets no shortage
what i'm doing here guys is i'm just doing the scratch
and the base coat or the brown coat at once why? because i can.
I want to point something else out before i forget to guys i don't know how many of you folks
have got leaks in your house because of say moved downspouts or moved windows, move vents,
moved anything, say your fireplace your chimney is cracked well when i got here yesterday, I was
looking at this and I asked the homeowner, I said can I ask you a question? a personal question,
it's like how personal? I said not that personal, man, so I said let me get it off of this window
here, but does this wall leak? He says as a matter of fact we have moisture coming in here.
I could notice the line here of uh what indicates a leak, and he says how did you know that?
so who sleeps in there he says my daughters i said well if you know if it were me i would take some
clorox or some white vinegar and wash the walls down, because what's happening guys you see that
right there okay there's a vent that's kind of twisted kind of in-kind of beat up and you
see these holes, this is where another system was of something I don't know what it was, but
when water comes here and leaked it funnels and if you get three solid days say 48 hours or 72 hours
of solid rain, it'll go in here and what happens when it goes in here it goes through the sheetrock
it in the insulation and wets everything and then you get kind of mold growing on the sheetrock,
and that's not good to inhale, so what i told them is when i come to do that I'll fix these
all this is it's a more flex it's caulking. Acrylic caulking with sand in it and what you
want to do guys is fill those up, fill it up and fill it squeeze it in there man and mushroom it
you see right there it's coming out well then that's full see right here doing two things at
once we're we are always multitasking and since this has sand in it you can just go like so
and match it, but the idea is to fill these up fill them up and because again, it has sand
it'll kind of match this finish, ah which is very sandy texture, I don't know who did this but I can
see that and i don't know who did this but i can see this anyway a nail hole can beat you up guys,
in fact, there was a job i did, uh oh gee, where a long time ago and a guy called my house
and says kirk you freaking, a-hole and he was just going to town yelling at me. oh that work
you did it leaked and the addition or it was a slider oh we got a lot of water in there and
it warped the guy's floor you this he called me all kinds of stuff and when i got home.
My daughter said, "dad, she was young at the time, she said somebody's gonna beat you up,"
and iI said really, and how do you come up with that? She says the phone listen to it,
so i was listening to it, and the guy who left that message
he's a nervous kind of guy, I've been working for him and his dad for years and years.
So i called him, I said you know man, that's really rude, my kids heard that message, and
if you ever leave a message like that again, you're gonna have to invest in straws, because
you're gonna have no more teeth. Anyway, I was pissed off, but i said what's the problem, man?
He told me the problem, he says well the little area that looked like a front of a garage and
they had the floor and all i did was a sliding glass door around there, but i'm gonna explain
how a nail hole like that is crucial. He says well because you lathed it wrong, it leaked,
I said, i don't think so, man. I didn't lath that wrong, so we went back over the pictures
back then, i was still taking pictures of stuff that, was like 25 years ago, and it turns out
the pictures showed, he had a blue tarp over this back area and he had a nail, a 16 penny nail in
it, well when we went to do the stucco the tarp was off, it was already lathed, so it had the
two-ply paper the wire caulking around the doors. So when i looked at that i said did you remove
that nail or pound it in he says i don't remember, so we took that piece off, that nail was removed,
and the water was going in one measly nail hole. It went through warped the guy's floor did some
other damage and sure i showed him, i said look, man, look here's the problem
and who did that? the other one that puts a tarp up and then when you took the tarp down you didn't
inform me, how am i supposed to know a tarp is down? because all i do is i see the wire i see
the paper and wire that kind of stuff is out of my hands. So he apologized and we're still buddies,
but i point that out because i see that kind of situation right there so guys if you have that
be aware a nail hole, can and will create a leak, now while i'm on that subject
in the past a lot of cements weren't really waterproof, they were water-resistant a lot
of cement today are waterproof, but we're talking about 25 years ago, to today anyway,
if you have holes guys in your in your walls caulk them, let me get back to this now i'm going
to float this and I'll show you how we do that and then i'm going to show you how we dash it.
now the question was as a fella said jay kirk can you match this and what is it i
said it's a tunnel dash finish and this is a dash finish done by a machine so i'm going
to match this one here because if i put this tunnel dash right here then it's going to be a
wrong texture in the middle of a wrong texture so it's just too, too many wrongs, anyhow look
for a float, i'm going to float this up here we go, okay, now me floating this up all that means
is i'm gonna bring out the sand or aggregate and almost could i match this almost, sure?
but it's not gonna be completely on the money, now i just got this part dirty so
now i flip the float or the sponge around and i do it again, clean that red tape, wow pretty,
okay, now i'm i'm floating this into here and because this color is blue
you can't see the "Weld-Crete," or a bonding agent that i like to use because they blend in
now, on the top on the top i have a lot of water in here, do i want to hit this top right now,
to go all over the window, so i'm going to hit this part i'm going to start from the bottom
clean the red tape at the same time i'm cleaning i'm floating this edge, now i'm going to take it
and feather into the existing what happens? if i do this i pull it away from the wall we'll get a
big gap there so now the tape is clean and now i'm feathering into the existing bottom, easy,
we're just going to take this hit it here go, back over once twice feather into the existing,
and now while this float is still kind of dry because all the water's on the wall. I'll hit
the top the only reason i don't want to hit this top with it full of water is it'll run down the
window, will it matter? Not really, but it's just a habit i got, a habit of doing things and
that's part of the habit. Now what i'm going to do is in order to match this what we call a tunnel
dash finish i'm about to set for about 15 minutes actually, uh do we have any dash made up jay?
no, well if i had dash made up I'd dash it right now but what we're gonna do is we're gonna take
this mud and look how tough it is guys that's called stiff mud, so if i throw this stiff mud
on it well i won't be able to match it. So we're going to mix this up, take us
a minute and then i'll show you how we dash this. all right guys jay mixed me up some soup. now this
is what we call soup, all he did was take that stiff mud added a little bit of water to it, and
mix it up. By the way, guys if you say well jay this is not heavy enough you could just do this
you know you put a little bit of excess sand on it and
with the excess sand yeah it matches a little bit tighter. Me and my buddy,
we've been pals ever since, i just told him, man, if you ever got a problem with me
don't call and leave messages on my phone where my family could hear.
That what kind of weird stuff is that anyway, here's what we do now guys we
take some of this soupy mud and this just takes practice like anything guys
this is called dashing like a dash of salt in the old day's dash and that's where it originally came
from we're going to dash it i'm going to match this finish here and this is done with a hand
hopper you hook it up to a compressor hand hopper costs you about 100 bucks. you could spray either
interior plaster or you could spray stucco. so here's what i'm doing now, in order to match
that um so-called tunnel dash, not really a tunnel dash, but i have to match what they matched. okay,
we put that on and we don't want too much mud on here just enough ah and we kind of want to just
dash it a little bit don't go too rough otherwise when it's painted, it'll show. just as bad, what
we want to do is kind of match it a little tiny bit heavier, so when they put say two coats of
a primer and a paint it softens this so it matches this, if i match this right on the
money then when they paint it's going to soften it so i want to i want this to be just a slight bit
heavier a slight bit coarser so it just takes a light hand guys a light hand,
and if you're doing this and you say, man, that's coming out heavy just uh get some mud off of your
uh dash brush and how do you get some mud off your dash brush? just throw it back in here
or dip it in water and get some out of there. okay now that we have that done the and it's
not a complicated process it's just a process, you grab your tape here and you peel it off
and if you've covered it kind of well as best you could it should be, it shouldn't bleed through
and there it is guys.
When you're doing this wear glasses because just like if you're plastering and you plaster a wire
down it'll flick that right back into your eyes, this is the same thing kind of turn your head
and pull it otherwise you get eyeball full of mud anyway guys that's how it is. If you see that,
clean it and sacrifice your pants to the stucco god, all right there we go.
that's right on the money. we clean it up a little bit more beautiful anyhow guys my
name is kirk Jason is on the camera, we thank you all for watching, and have a great day.
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