Good morning folks. Kirk Giordano plastering here, and my son Jason giordano, today were
doing the video we're gonna do today is a pretty simple job. Still, even with my utility truck,
I'm not prepared for this. We're coming to do some work in the rear of the house. It's definitely the
house about 15 years ago, about two or three years ago. This tree right here is saturated ground
over the phone, when I spoke with her, I said, gee, I'll fix it while I'm here,
no charge. I was just thinking this, but now looking at it, I thought gee took me about
three hours to wire brush all of this pay for expansion. This is a circumflex polyurethane
construction ceiling not only will this seal it, but it'll hold it together a wee bit
better than these other products, and of all the products on the market, that's the one I
put dewdrops on you cannot separate I did some bricks with these how about 12 years ago about 20
bricks whole sides about 10 bricks each we stick a flex it all in there those bricks today are still
set well for the product to be very very effective if you put new bricks with them both very porous
and they attach well for so many years it's a good product so anyhow what I'm gonna do is I'm just
gonna prep this today I'm gonna fill this huge crack with this Sikaflex the polyurethane kaki
then I'm gonna put fiber mesh tape over this one, and we're gonna pressure wash when I come back
we're gonna come back Thursday, weather permitting, rainy season,
and pressure wash all this get all the moss off, and you'll see it after well,
probably while we're pressure washing, and then we're going to apply a new maintenance-free Santa
barbara finish it's a five-pound box of color five-pound bag of color which they're pretty tough
to get solid in appearance, but that's not what they're looking for here they're looking to get
the color somewhat varied like an acid wash, so we're gonna be doing all of this here especially
tops here so see you guys Thursday right now when we do come back you'll see that filled up
all right guys gun pressure washing everything and what I do is set some pressure washing all
the moss and dirt off of these guys a pressure wash the stairs the sidewalk here because they're
walking in and out and there's so much mosh right now because we're in the dead of winter might as
well since I have a pressure washer available take care of it for them also by the way people
say we're detecting you get a pressure washer console for Sears the nest electric one useless
so go to Costco serious for that anyway enough of that and let me explain what we're doing here
they broke out the brick here and installed these lights so we have an area of top here
that needs to be repaired I can repair this in different ways because I'm here what I'm gonna
do is mix up a little bit of premium semantics and Tony is this product here its lumen I tell
you my NIV Lumina if I have a quarter [ __ ] cement I just add a handful of it mix it
within five minutes that stuff is set hard so areas like this guy right here where I'm gonna
put about three quarters of an inch a stucco and there's some other areas around say like
can you picture that over there we're the brick the stucco popped off of the brick not just these
trees are so thick that the roots are expanding that's pushing its brick here underneath so it's
gonna push the brick a little bit let's see also custom color dark custom color how do you make
sure a custom color is on the money well the best you can do is off the building supply located in
Oakland Mary Brown is the tech rep for matching all these colors she's been there for 25 years
anyhow she come up with a formula for me and when the walls wet and the stuccos wet because we just
mix these two buckets it should come out wide if you go to here it's not gonna look like the right
color because this is wet so you have to wet the wall in order to find out how close to that color
you actually are again colors not on a chart let's see what I'm gonna do is well the last thing to
I'll show you we got some real serious cracks here and we're gonna get some more because of the root
system I'm gonna put a fiber mesh tape over this I can't put it now because the walls wet and it
won't stick so when I get to that stage I will put the mesh tape on it the actual material now
I can do all this stuff here I've got a Chucky Rebecca Jason there now I see Atilla the truck
holds everything and all the boxes I've got 20 30 different trials Hawkes floats you name it I've
got all the little jobs looks like a little simple thing but there's technicalities to this kind of
stuff so we're about to get started and color code everything should take J&I Oh about half
a day to Reese pred all this and when we're done with one last final video and show you the results
all right folks there you have it they're complete with this recolor finish on these retaining walls
for about five or ten years when that tree really saturates in the roots get a little bit bigger
anyway this is a custom color it's gonna dry a lot lighter right now it's just completely saturated
with water in order for us to spread it easier but it'll dry about 10 shades lighter, were
trying to match the Socoffits we've done thereon the porch anyhow this is Kirk with Kirk Giordano
Plastering, thanks Jay for doing that video and helping me with this took us about four hours
this is for those of you who want to do it but simply don't know how this ain't gonna make you
an expert but it up to get you a little bit better thanks for watching we'll see you at the next one.