hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering today I'll show you a shortcut to
stucco over a bread bent now my buddy Tyrone out in Baltimore he says you called me on the
phone asleep Kirk you know I watch a lot of your work because you show me a lot of quick tips and
without compromising the integrity of a house I appreciate it I'm calling you just on your home
phone to say hey I thought that was rather nice of them so take this vent for example and take
this wall a bread bent so what we do is we caulk the where the air goes in just in case this walls
framed in on the other side so it's useless now water generally you would think would go into a
vent however its Lou blur meaning the water hits it and it never goes in it's been here
for 70 years not a drop has gone in so what we can do is I tell the folks gee you break out the
studs break out stud to stud because this vent is on a stud you never know what you're gonna find
you can find wood raw you can find all kind of thing and start chasing it for days today they
said man can't you just go over it and I said yes I can especially since I'm doing it for nothing
I figured I'd show you folks now number one wire brush it because nothing adheres to dust not even
weld crete weld peat as a bonding agent that we use to adhere concrete the concrete or stucco to
a painted surface this is a painted surface say we already did a lot of work around here say for
example this we did this window now this stucco is dry if I was to take this cement here which we're
using it is stick right here because of the two are porous adjust but on a sealed surface it will
not adhere so we use the well Crete now we got the weld Crete around here we want that weld pit
to dry because this is metal the weld Crete here and when because it's metal it's taken forever to
suck in I mean this was done over an hour ago and what I did guys was just to make my life a little
bit easier this is called luminite l um i and ite something like that it's an accelerator now Jay's
got this mud right here which it's pretty good I mean it's it's gonna set quick but I'm going
to throw a little bit of this luminite we're gonna remix it and it's gonna set in two minutes so I'm
gonna have a minute to spread it a minute to float it out sure quick tip what I'm gonna do because
this is metal and because stucco on a painted surface especially metal has no suction so I could
be here all day waiting for it to adhere what I did is we generally use of 17 gauge wire this
guide inch and a half holes we also use eighteen gauge this has smaller holes so I just I measured
from say here to here just cut it straight down and bent it a little bit and I got this guy right
here now what I'll do is I'll take this extra bit of wire why because I can and it actually makes it
in here a little bit better I'm gonna put a nail in right by here tap it in and you might say well
gee Kirk did you just create a hole yes I did and I'm gonna take this one here and pop this one in
and yeah that's a hole right there not a big deal because what I do is I take caulking gun and seal
those little holes right there that's not a big deal now what Jay is gonna do he's gonna mix me
up this luminite and as soon as he mixes me up this loom and I I only need a big Hawk full in
here when he mixes that up I'll show you how we spread it out all right guys Jay put the
luminaid into the Portland cement this is gonna have a tendency to want to flip-flop both ways
so I want to get it as fast as I can I'll hold this with my hawk and put it on I'm gonna hold
it with my Hawk right here and put it on because if I don't that wire can pop unless I put a whole
bunch of nails in it which I don't want to do okay now we got this on every remember guys if
you're trying to do this with Portland's two men without accelerator you'll have to scratch it one
day come back another day and brown it because it will take two to three hours for each coat to
adhere and set now I noticed this a bumpy finish so I'll just put a bump here and there now we're
gonna give this a three a two four minutes which we won't bore you on that we've got a few other
little things we're doing around this house as you can see we've done a lot of work here so I'm gonna
give this three-point minutes I'm gonna come right back and show you how we float this right out all
right guys five minutes ago I put this on and what I'm doing take a green sponge flow this is
to bring the aggregate out and feather it in a hard rubber float is to compress it strengthen
it and really make it bond now again we're over metal so it takes a long time for stucco to set
because it's over metal there's no suction on it all right so we want to first do our outer edges
guys we want to pull pull it here and when this float gets full of stucco I'm gonna clean it we
don't want too much water because too much water in here will bring too much aggregate out plus it
could loosen this or wet the stucco too much now here I just put some caulking in with this wire
so we'll float the caulking because that caulking is better than stucco on here because with stucco
water can penetrate through the stucco eventually all right now all I'm doing now that now that I
got the edges where I want it and the drier the sponges the more of the aggregate is condensed
now I'm gonna just I'm using generally I use the whole side but here because of this finish here
I'm going to use the toe or the heel of the float and just to make it a little bumpy and notice two
guys I'm going in upward motions because if I go down this whole thing could still fall out it
looks like it's set hard as a rock but it's not another ten minutes it will be but we're about
ready to get out of here so I'm just gonna do it now and by the way guys if any of you say what
kind of stuck or did you guys use we use Portland cement which we buy in ninety four pound bag then
we add our own sand but you guys can go to Home Depot or Lowe's and they make a rapidset stucco
patch that is in 25 pound box that's ten pound boxes that's all you need for something like
this and when they says wrap it set that's the name of a company but it really does set fast
it sets about as fast as this stucco here with the added luminite anyway guys we're we're there
right here and one last thing notice it's a little sandier than this we're gonna throw all our stuff
in the truck I'm gonna get all the water out of this and then I hit it one more time knock the
loose sand off and it matches completely anyway Tyrone over there from Baltimore we appreciate
your comments on on our videos and any folks need to know how to do something I can show
you 20 different ways to do this patch but this is the fit the fastest the shortest and you keep
the integrity anyway my name is Curt Jason on the camera we're thank you for watching we'll
see you guys on the next one once again folks we thank you for watching and I really enjoy all your
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