hi guys Kirk here with Kurt Giordano plastering, today what I'm gonna show you folks is how we
repair I'm gonna show you one way of how we would repair this crack here now again this
house is it's kind of old I'd say 70 years old so it doesn't have a weep screed that's
one of the reasons why it's cracked like this another one is because they butted this solid
concrete against the stucco then they butted this beautiful stamped concrete against that also and
the stucco is butted to the foundation so it's got no wiggle room like glass it doesn't or what
will move around glass will break if you wiggle it too much chuckles the same thing so we got a big
crack here now if I just put stucco in there say I take this this new stucco and I put it in there
this is always going to vibrate when it rains it saturates the ground expands contracts this
will always vibrate we're on a corner here very busy street so traffic going by it's gonna make
this unstable it's always going to be unstable but what we're trying to do is a temporary fix
it's not really worth it to tear the whole thing off around the whole house I wouldn't do it if it
were my house not very practical to put a weep screed in and even if you have a weep screed it
can still hairline crack I'll show you what I'm gonna do this is a rough finish generally I like
sanded texture but because this crack is so deep and so large I'm gonna go with something else this
polyurethane is I'm kind of partial to it because it really works well and what I'm doing is I cut
the tip off deep so I a lot of caulking is coming out of here what I want to do is just spread that
caulking inside that I don't want it all over the edges because then it's a drag to paint it
sometimes so what I'm doing here is I'm squirting as much of this stuff as I can in here and what
we've already done is I put a little bit of a bonding agent around the actual stucco because
I'm gonna hit this with sand so I got a little bit of weld creating this black stuff all that
is is a wire brush so we take this and we fill the side here too now Phil that guy up all the
way until it kind of pops out you want it to go all the way into the back you don't really
so much again want it all over the edges on the outside because it becomes kind of an eyesore
when you paint it so what I'm doing is I'm filling this up this particular caulking unlike this it's
water clean up this is great caulking here it's water clean up but this crack is a little too big
for it so what I'll do now is I'll take some mud I'm just gonna squeeze those a little bit of mud
over it just like texture a little bit of mud they say why to use caulking why not straight
mud again straight mud will crack I'm only using this just for the surface so to get the texture
correct because that particular texture I just used doesn't have any sand in it so if I just
left it it won't match this because this is very gritty so now I take wet float and I just hit this
this float is wet so it's making the aggregate or the sand come out now these folks know I told
them well I said how long can we paint I said two weeks stucco actually you got to let set
for 28 days but this is just the surface just a tiny surface coat and what I'm trying to get is
just just the texture with this so between the two products generally I don't mix products but
on this I've done it I've done it before many many times with great results there you have it
it works better than just say the textured caulking alone because the textured caulking
alone can not go that thick would it would suck in, and by the way, guys, if you're gonna
do caulking, do it early morning right now. It's about 8 o'clock sun's out that's nice,
but if I were to wait until 5 o'clock in the afternoon while the Sun is on this the
wall expands contracts so to be smaller meaning I'll caulk it the next day it'll be right back
so always do your caulk repairs early morning if you can, or wintertime or when the walls are cool
anyhow guys that explains something as far as why we get these cracks it's not that big of a deal
it's just stress of the house and a lot of things that contribute to it my name is Kirk I am with
Kirk Giordano plastering we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one