Hello folks, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano Plastering.
Today, my good pal Jerry L. Pozo and I are going to explain some procedures on what we're gonna do
to this custom built home here now the fella who's the actual builder on this is my pal I
don't know if you could see that Michael Feiner he is a realtor as well as a builder and I've known
Michael pining for 25 years I've done about five or six of these guys for him what we're gonna be
doing is we're gonna we're gonna use the product that Jerry is very familiar with because he's one
of the tech reps that goes around the country and tells folks the do's and don'ts about this
product it's a BMI it's the base coat with a silo and the acrylic finish you want to take the lead
on that Jerry I know you're better at it than I am well you know Kirk and I have been in the
business a long time and we've traditionally done field mix plaster the last 20 years the bus shirt
in the pre-mixed and engineered products and also the pre-mixed materials come in an environmental
friendly seidel which on a job site like we have here in a very heavy residential street with cars
up and down and trees it's hard to put 25 tons of sand bags and pallets of material
banding wrappers that would make a mess so an environmental-friendly silo here would be the
perfect means of delivery from its point of mixing to the point of application and we are
also going to do the acrylic finish coat you want to explain that because you're a better speaker
than I am well I think we wanted to achieve an overall uniformity look and prevent cracking
so whereas stucco finishes traditionally give you unlimited options there are some minor limitations
and hairline cracking is something that most homeowners dislike to see so the acrylic polymers
can bridge hairline cracking they can give you a uniform color they can also offer the owner
a family of warranties which you will not get for the standard set though finish also if you wanted
intense colors the acrylics would be the way to go that being said that's verses a cement Isha's
color finish which is porous we're talking about an acrylic finish which flexes and if you're going
to use an acrylic finish which the BMI he is referring to I've used about I've done it many
many times and you have to put a primer first you have your primer the whole house was like
painting then you apply that finish Jerry is in a hurry we were gonna have breakfast today because
he's in town to do a show somewhere else but I thought hey Jerry I'm about to show this house
anyway so pleasure I'm glad you we had that curt but maybe after this evening we have some dinner
or something man while you're here for a little while longer but anyway Jay and I gonna walk the
rest of this because I want to show a couple more things and explain settling issues and why it's
important to have your roof on why it's important to have all the sheetrock on and the roof is going
on tomorrow actually which is good because we want the dead weight before we definitely before we do
the color coat but it's always nice to have the dead weight of a house on before we do the base
coat otherwise the hammering can crack the base coat and I've had that happen on my last job which
we had about 10 fellows who couldn't speak English and I kept telling them guys you're knocking my
plaster off we're putting it on not be insulting to anybody who can't speak English because my
mother couldn't speak English well she spoke French and it died and in Portuguese but anyhow
we're gonna walk it I'm gonna show some tips that I recommend to any homeowners and actually to a
lot of professional general contractors because the last fella said Kirk I built twenty house but
never did one in stucco so I gave him advice which he conveniently forgot so I want to make sure that
you folks understand what we're talking about alright guys I'll show you the back wall too just
to prove a point this is the way Michael finer does everything he goes above and beyond what's
necessary notice he's got a nice membrane around all of these doors and windows he even leaves the
wraparound it's even got these plastic to protect it Michael finer does not mess around he runs a
very tight ship you got steel straps everywhere one of the things that Jerry Bozo recommended and
the fellow from the lath-and-plaster an institute at the last lecture I went of Jerry's Frank
newness expansion joints generally I use expansion joints only on commercial projects but as these
fellows point out and even my good buddy Tom with ironwood who's a 40 year engineer a general
contractor this wood can shrink when the Sun beats down on here the wood could expand and shrink
causing hairline cracks in the stucco so we are gonna place expansion joints systematically around
the place Michael fire and I'll look at it and say gee whiz it'll look good at these particular areas
and and whatnot that way when not if when this wood shrinks we don't want any hairline cracking
but as Jerry pointed out earlier you were using one of the best stucco systems available today for
this particular house okay lastly guys see these pair of pits now originally Michael wanted me to
do these para pits and I was very very hesitant I said all come on Mike I don't want to do this if
something happens with the roof they dragged me in for other reasons just because I did the pair of
pits why not have them flash it and cap these that lasts a lot longer check out the details on this
bottom one well fortunately he took my advice and so the roofers gonna bring his up here and
they're gonna put a flashing detail here will put wood or add a trim up here and do it then the cap
goes on can you see the church over there there's a synagogue a big church we did that 14 years ago
for Mike finer way over there on the corner but anyway that's I thought I'd point that out because
we're up here anyhow we're gonna get off of this roof and Jerry wanted to point out one more thing
about that product so we're gonna go down and talk with him before we end it lastly guys you might
ask why use the 690 BMI well Kirk I think it makes a lot of sense to use the BMI 690 because it's a
pre-mixed and it's an engineered product so unlike field mix plaster where you're constantly mixing
materials throughout the day you're shoveling sand you're adding bags of cement you're pouring
in water that's a lot to remember for one person and to try and have an even mix each and every
time is virtually impossible with a BMI 690 it is an ICC approved product which means it's an
alternative method of application we can provide the material in either a traditional scratch then
brown a double back method of application which is the preferred method by most contractors or
you can apply it one pass of the scratch in the brown up to three-quarters to seven eighths of
an inch in thickness this way it melds together better on the wall cures more evenly and there's
less potential for cracking absolutely I've used the product it's strong as hell it's hardly when
it cures it is strong we double it up we put the scratch in the brown on immediately darbie it and
guess what guys we don't mess with it and destroy the packs we leave it alone we just Darby it boom
we're done it's so much more convenient than the traditional having say on this job drop 20 tons
and 60 bags that's that's an it kind of I it's kind of outdated this newer system works very
well especially for guys like me it takes a lot of the stuffs off me sorry I sure do appreciate you
coming out of all this all right well we thank you folks for watching and as usual we'll see
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