Hello folks, kirk here with kirk giordano plastering, today, I'm going to show
you the difference between a structural crack and cracks where we have peeling paint. Now,
this is a structural crack I'm going to repair. This is gonna fill this hole right here with
polyurethane caulking. Now this hole, I still see paper intact unbelievable. Still, it's intact,
so after I put a tube of polyurethane caulking in here to cosmetically make it look appealing,
now I'm going to put this Weld Crete, right here, Weld create, w e l d Weld Create, around
this area. Then I'm going to feather some new stucco onto this, and this is simply a cosmetic
fix what I'm doing because this is structural it's not gonna fix the structure
of the integrity of the stucco to properly do it they would have to tear all this stuff out.
If you were my house, I would not do it either, but anyway, this is acrylic paint right here,
and it's very, very thick. In fact, some of this is a text coat, so they have a text code
they have acrylic paint. I know the difference because it's rubber. Anyhow that's what we're
going to do right here. I will use this top of this tube right here to fill this gap up
so then what water penetrates it anyhow when I get ready to do the stucco and feather it,
I'll show you that okay guy, we're gonna get ready to complete the stucco work I used a
whole tube of caulking in this crack here, before they had the caulking on the outside you can't
repair something going through the outside of this stucco, you got to tear it off and go inside
now what I'm going to do is, there's a half-inch difference here cosmetically I'm
going to make it a feeling I'm using a rapid sense stucco, and I'm just gonna feather this guy it a
little wetter than I like it to be, but I'll make it work
just like so, just like that, take a chance here,I never do this guy's
all right now what this is doing it's filling it up but also bringing it out to the existing
stucco and once I'm out to the existing stucco, like so then next up I'll float this, is just how we
finish this guy up now I have that in there i floating it to match this finish here this is
uh what we call a heavy float finish or light dash pull it around here fill this gap up this is
a rapid set cement which means it sets fast plus I mixed it dry when I say dry gotta remember you
guys take a lot of things literally that just means I mix it stiff so it's not soupy and
running off the wall, because I just want to fix this up and be done with it. there we have it
guys that is how we correct a structural crack now again, we're locked in everywhere there's no
expansion on the bottom what it shows down there Jason down here with the concrete is locked into
the stucco the brick is locked into the stucco the porch is locked into the stucco so there's
no expansion joints anywhere on or there's no drip screens which act as an expansion so we're
locked in everywhere, so we are going to get some cracks like this, its structural, the
big difference again is this one is structural and these are painted crack so we're not touching
those paint cracks that's just the heavy elastomeric coming off. anyhow, my name is Kirk
with kirk giordano plastering, we thank you for watching and will see you folks on the next one.