hello there folks, Kirk and Jason with Kirk Giordano plastering. last week we said because
we're all bored and Quarantine and we're in the same boat together who can't go to work we got
to stay home I said if you have some questions just go ahead and post them on that video I did
I didn't expect 400 questions but I answered them anyway and I answered them both in the description
and in the comment section because they seem like questions that needed to be answered immediately
so I did it it was like 400 that's like wow that's the most ever hope that doesn't happen again but
anyway I'm gonna answer a few of the the main questions because I promised we'd do that and
we got nothing better to do so anyway cracking cracking and I'm gonna show you guys something
you know with what we do for 40 years that's a lot of stuff that people do often then there's
a lot of detailed things that only hospitals schools or hotels want so I'm gonna avoid all
that tricky stuff and just go to the simple stuff all right guys since we're where you show you guys
how to do it yourself this stuff here well no I'm gonna enlarge this one right here you see
this guy's you see this down here okay this is a color coat over another finish coat war you
you could see it here where it's a color coat that's coming off of another one and there's no
weep screed and so because he has the dirt right next to the house he says water's getting inside
the house okay this is a typical question that a lot of people have I'll answer it try not to
get too crazy and too detailed but what he has is a color coat maintenance-free finish like a brick
when it gets wet it darkens so that lasts forever why is it coming off on the bottom well the ground
is sloped wrong because I I talked to him and he says it's sloped this way so the water all goes
toward the house that's a big no-no and he says well should I break out the stucco run the whole
perimeter of the house and put in what's called a weep screen a drip screen same thing and I said no
man I wouldn't do that I used to have a house and it was a stucco house and the stucco went all the
way to the ground here's why that happened back a little bit of history back when we were first
started plastering when I was just so no princess working for my buddy Sam Hoff 40-something years
ago we used to take the stuck all the way down to the ground but then a code came and the code said
guys from now on we're gonna use a weep screed or a drip screen that's a piece of metal that goes on
to the mud seal all the way around the perimeter of the house and it protects the plywood and
the mud sill and it also gives the benefit of expansion because a lot of houses expand then
restrict and that's what causes cracking so to get off of that and back on to what we have here no no
weep screed or drip screed same thing I told the guy I wouldn't worry about that man he says well
I've had people say tear all the stucco off and put another coat on and I thought really that's
a lot of overkill guy that's not necessary so my explanation to him was and this is in the comments
I put it in there I said for for you if you have a pressure washer take a pressure washer and go
around the whole perimeter of the house just paint the whole house it's it's simple it's that either
and he wrote me back he says well that's not what I've heard well you can call 10 people you'll hear
10 different things but that's all he's needed why because the color coat here this is a la
habra and it's called crystal white the color so if you remove some of the loose stuff you
have the same texture underneath so pretty much you can use a good quality paint like Sherwin
Williams and just prime and paint it and he says man that's a big relief because they told me and
you didn't tear all the stucco off and put a weep screed or a drip scrape no you don't need to do
that and the reason we get well he's got a lot of cracking guys I several videos about cracking now
on cracking I'll put in the comments I'll just put a video I did because I can talk for four
or five hours on just cracking alone guys I don't want to bore you too much with that kind of stuff
on so that'll be in the description anyway when it rains house lifts want to drier conditions occur
it settles and that causes cracking along with about a hundred other things remember this about
cracking guys vibration causes cracking that's sort of like kryptonite to Superman not good
so cracking is pretty usual it's it happens all the time to stucco and concrete that was one of
the main questions and it's one I'm asked the most often so I thought I'd share that with you another
guy he says uh Kirk what's your biggest mistake in all the years you've been flashing I thought you
want me to humiliate myself embarrass myself for your entertainment fine I can do that three things
happen well one of them was we got a flash flood we're plastering a big wall in the backyard the
guy had some beautiful tile and we had to walk up like 20 stairs and we we did this the first
coat the second coat we were almost done we were ready to float it flash flood the sky grows dark
and it started pouring down rain and the house had no eaves for protection it was parapet that
just means listen parapets there's nothing to protect it and it wouldn't you know it was on
the southwest side it washed all our stucco off about ten wheelbarrow so guys that's the biggest
thing you'll learn that if it's there's a chance of rain don't do particular things with stucco
if you're on the outside to other circumstances I have which were humongous mistakes were about 26
27 years ago we did a maintenance-free acrylic color and the guy said Kirk you don't paid a
fortune for this scalpel can you go ahead and apply the color finish I said no man it my reign
and an acrylic takes like two two days to drive it's like come on Kirk come it ain't gonna rain
and and I fell for it and we color coded it it took six guys maybe 11 10 hours I mean I mean
it was a long job and it rained two days later guess what happens downspouts weren't on so it
hit the plank surrounding this two-story house and it washed a lot of it all was that bad enough knew
back in 2010 I did the exact same thing I called down to a material yard and I said these people
want this but I don't want this material skirt that's new and improved that won't happen again
I said are you sure and sure enough I did it and these people said the same thing Kirk come on now
it's been a month now we need the scaffold out of here and being goofy it's one thing to make
a mistake one time but I made it twice with one material so I put this synthetic acrylic on same
thing synthetic acrylic it's just colored stucco with paint and sand anyhow a day and a half later
it did drizzle and it bleached the color now one thing I'll say about this guys is on that on the
first one that was my mistake on the second two that was mistake of believing in a company that
just because it's one of them has some products that some of the most famous in the world doesn't
mean they make great acrylic product while I'm on the subject of great acrylic product guys
because that's where I took my two biggest hips in business drive it BMI stucco flex Carson's
Stowe all of those make great acrylic products and the one product that I I used because they
wanted it because it was close by next time I would say like I did to these guys sign a
waiver because I'm not putting on that in fact I'm not putting on that product no matter what so the
acrylic products I just mentioned they're the best guys top of the you can't go wrong even if
it had rained that night it wouldn't bother these they're they're great product okay we had another
question by my friend Jerry puzzle Jerry Pozzo is a representative he worked for drive it for a lot
of years he worked for Cal ply or material yard located and in Hayward they do it all they got
it all that's Cal plan that it worked for BMI which we've done a lot of work and we've used
a lot of their product so Jerry says well Kirk seeing that we have all this down time too and
I'm retired how do you get that dual finish with say the Vanir Vanir is lime putty and they crush
the veneer and you apply it Venetian is the difference is marble crush marble with some
lime and different all the other thing well Jay and I did this in video quite a while ago and
while I was finishing this Jay says well del will put some red up on here just for the heck
of it and I said go for it do whatever you want so Jay put some red on there and what the ideas
this one was still drying so he just put some red here and took a flow closing his eyes and
made some design actually I looked at it the next day I thought dang I should have done that with
everything but it's still not too late but guys I don't want to go there it's done what we've done
here this is a veneer that's done I don't want to redo it and let's see another question let's see
oh yeah the old block and the brick now this is a question that is about as old as the hills and
me and some engineers disagree on this now okay if you're going over a lot of people call this
the Kirk I've got a cinder block wall and I want to wire it with stucco netting or put some metal
three-point-four mesh on it which one do you use I said none that's defeating the purpose putting
stucco netting on a cinderblock wall it's not stronger in fact it'll destroy your mechanical
bond what's the mechanical bond in people ask me this all the time mechanical bond say for example
you have your cinderblock for example what you want to do is you want a natural bonding agent
and what's the natural bonding agent we call it a mechanical bond in plastering terms and how
you achieve that is you take your garden hose you put a nozzle on it and you missed it depending on
the temperature if the temperature is 100 degrees well you're gonna be use a lot of water and you're
gonna go away in advance if it's 50 degrees where it's kind of cold you're not gonna use that much
water but you definitely need water to achieve this mechanical bond mechanical bond is stronger
than using 3.4 mesh wire or using any kind of stucco netting why because now you have your
cinderblock okay the cinderblock is naturally porous that means water will penetrate a little
bit so your stucco your new stucco is naturally porous so you get two porous materials you apply
it you put enough pressure put put it on there and they adhere by suction that's how they adhere guys
and that is the best mechanical bond you can get Bar None with any product anywhere where there to
cement tshis so again with brick cinderblock or concrete put enough on it and people say well how
do we know Kirk when we got a half-inch if you're not sure add more guys just make it a little bit
thicker what happens if you go less when it rains you see all the grout lines so go at least a half
inch and you don't have to put it on a half inch I could put on a solid an inch but that takes
me a lot put two coats on back-to-back 3/8 or 1/2 inch each but get it thick enough so that when it
rains it won't bleed through or ghost through and you'll see all of the the grout lines so that is
called a skim coat a skim coat is only designed for brick block concrete block you can call it
concrete block cinderblock same thing or or or bricks guys is not this is not good for say a
wood wood surface but anyway we're not talking about wood cuz that changes everything guys so
I'm gonna get off of that I shouldn't have started with concrete blocks or cinder block you do one
coat and people often say well I've got my scratch coat on when is a good time to do the brown coat
and I think whenever you want you should have just did one coat but with doing that one coat
you put it on thick enough and then you come right back and you either float it with a hard rubber or
a polyurethane float and you've got a fine finish or you can float it with a sponge float and it'll
bring the sand out the yard we're good out now that's that's answering the block question the
cinder block because that's probably one of the questions I get asked the most whether it's inside
or outside no matter guys put enough on there and the stucco netting is not necessary but three
point four flat mesh is not necessary you just it's just not necessary guys I've seen it done
a couple times and I've done it once myself but that was on a three-story brick wall the bricks
were falling apart so we use stucco netting for that and use like five boxes of roofing nails
with the big heads to go between the grout do it that's a very very rare very rare anyway I thought
I'd point just some of those questions out because they're asked of us a lot if you guys have other
questions put them on this video here that way put them on this video here where I I was answering
them this way I'm not answering questions on 900 videos but if you need it I can do it but I'm
running out of time because it takes a long time to do a lot of question work and I'd rather be out
like Jason on the streets and were so anyway guys that we thought would put a little completion of
it because we did say we're quarantined in bored here's a question guys you know quarantine and
this epidemic that's a scary thought that's you're thinking man that's that's horrible who wants
to think about that imagine say ten or fifteen twenty years from now how many babies were being
created by being quarantined because you got nothing better to do I think that's just cool
imagine someone saying well were you born well during this epidemic back in 2020 and
going from there so that's one one good thing about staying at home you got a lot of family
time guys anyhow my name is Kirk J'son is on the camera and as usual we thank you for
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