other folks Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano Plstering, today where we're going to do is we're
going to call some cracks around this house brought a mountain right now and we're parked
on the back side of the house because we can walk right here to the truck before down below we've
got to walk up 30 40 stairs you can't see this in the video because of the slope the garage and
the house are separating so on a huge mountain when it rains it saturates with water and it'll
raisin when I first did was I came here with a job great guy now a lot of caulking you can
use on crack most folks think I'm going to use stucco but I don't new stucco on cracks I'll be
doing a house opposed to said hey I got this practice it put some stucco in it now always
tell well it better put in scuffled and I'll put some talking a lot of caulking to use to
won't bore you with 20 different products but I'll tell you polyurethanes super flex is what
I use when have your paper and wire and infuse this to all the joints a windows door opening
pipes electrical lights what good this right here stuff is nasty get it on your hands I'm
going to use gasoline to get it off and it's simply not necessary for what I'm going to do
here for what I'm going to do here if I'm just freezing off an acrylic latex if I use silicone
in here silicone you can't really paint it so the silicon in this I don't advise using any
of the volume enjoy the silica go is a simple stuff and this acrylic it's pretty good stuff
anyhow this is paintable too and it'll move and flex won the house loses flex myself we
want to use this rather than stuff it first thing i'm going to do is fill this guy here
let's fill it up I'm using this as an example because it's one of the largest cracks you can
encounter generally hairline cracks like the ones on when I say hairline hairline like that hair on
your head what I'm doing here is I'm quitting enough talking to fill up this crack here in
together in this Douglas I'll demonstrate how as we go below a smaller hairline that doesn't take
anywhere near as much steel are happy to do but maybe one learning wise old see the worst case
scenario this soft worst case scenarios you see on the house crack this guy here it's a bit larger
than better put some polyurethane and now mix it up a little bit father right here I'll show
you that last back to now I lose a finger and just come on up I'll start from the top fingers feather
it right now really cold I'd say Oh God 35 better do this one it warms up a bit you don't have that
luxury okay now that I got that I'm going to bring up a sponge the sponge float to do it detects
reward seminar I gotta go upper go upward like that spawns goes in the joint it's like yeah have
you go down and kind of poured coffee we're going to have to round it and feathers the existing
there it is that's this joint covered up, ready complete
that way, in the house chips again, and it will always continue to ship cuz we're on
the mountain here and then out to set the walls that were built at a different time,
so we do have a tendency to hairline
all right that's it and you're going to paint this anyhow so I'm just using the the white
we've got clear black we got all kinds of colors anyway that's a fact crack that's about a largest
package we're going to find on a house we could stick a credit card in it let's crack if it's
just barely when we go down you'll barely see that one that's what we call heroin you'll see
that in a minute alright guy same house what I want to show you is we had some cosmetic
battery and there's a couple up there which I already caught I don't want to explain but
a lot of folks think that these talks these cracks are really major and they're one is
going to get through in just gambling the whole amount sometimes not necessarily important nine
times out of ten they're not go back if you look up there you'll see the second story we're on a
huge Hill hammer is not going to show this huge hill to my right is the freeway you may hear it
we've got a lot of cars coming by we've got a huge hill and we don't have um a drip screen a
drip screed serves as an expansion joint also so this double could expand but even if we had it
just doesn't necessarily mean that there's more crap we just don't have a vehicle here so we got
stuck up run it into the concrete or the concrete foundation moves well and that slab was this one
inch is going to move and again these I'm not trying to downplay the importance of caulking
cracks but what I'm trying to stress is a lot of folks call beyond cracks they do is your stucco
guys we've got backs and stuff lintel of all it's called it is on an acrylic ball you can
paint it fixes the crack the laws of move you can't go wrong so hopefully us and share some
input so cracked does not necessarily mean once more during the two layers of paper saturating
world causing extensive damage sometimes it does but in this case absolutely remember
this is for those of you who want to do it but don't know how if this helped you great
if not you could always call us we'll see you on the next one thank you and have a nice day.