Hi guys, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today, I'll show how to repair
a hole, a plumbing hole. The camera won't show but we, this fella here did a great job with his plumbing
repair, of course, he made it a little difficult for fellows like me who got to come in after
him, why? Can you see why? It'll make it a little tougher for me? Well I'll tell you why, in
case you can't see it, you fellows who watch what we do probably caught it immediately. There's wood
right here he cut through the wood and the stucco, made his job easy, however, he could have put he
could have cut back from stud to stud, then put back the wood and fellows like me, and he could
have actually did the insulation. The homeowner sent me this last night on an email and I said
well dude do you have any insulation there? and he says what's that? I said never mind man, I'll bring
my own insulation I'll do you a favor, and I'll cut this and put it in here, anyway the textures pretty
cool too, I looked at that not that piece of cake, but I looked at all the patchwork he had around
the house and I'm going to show you some of that because it's kind of interesting how people had an
idea, but they didn't do it right, so Jay is going to break this out. Then we're going to get started
I'm actually going to fish some of this insulation in. Yeah, this sort throat I got, hopefully you guys
could hear me, makes for a good impression of Sylvester Stallone so like in the movie Rocky,
"yo, Adrian, or that other movie first blood, "There one man dead, it's not my fault, I don't want any more
hurt. That's the only good thing about a scratchy throat, but anyway we're going to go ahead Jay is
going to first break this out, I'm going to stick this flat our insulation in there, it actually
goes this way give us a little bit more of a solid background, because we're not going to have
the wood to put here the stuck was going to have a tendency to want to push in so there's actually
give me a little bit more solid of a background. Anyway Jay is going to break this out and we'll
show you step-by-step how to do this in case you guys want to do it yourself, alright guys before
I finish out the break out here. I mustache you guys in question, why is breakout so important? why?
Well break out is important because without 2 to 3 inches of good existing paper we cannot waterproof
this patch, there are ways to try and put it together but you need paper to overlap our new paper to
make sure that that patch is waterproof, without that you can't guarantee it. We just don't do it so
anyway on these sides here I've got good paper you see I got this plastic here this is just to stop
anything from going in the house, is it a big deal? no, but why not do it if you can, so when you're
doing breakout, wear a mask, if you got it it's hard to talk through them though you got to go small if
you start with your Bulldog tip way up here you end up with these big chunks that you can't break
out. you can, but you end up damaging the paper more than you mean to so you start small little
like quarter inch intervals and pardon this thing is going to be real loud right on my microphone
but just like that, you're doing little bitty pieces, and it'll just knock it all out
Now, what do you do with you end up with all these little clunkers? You just change
how you're angled, or sometimes you can just pull them off with your fingers,
but if you can't do that and you need to get it off, just aim down pop it right off.
anyway, you see where I'm going with this - thankfully this paper is in pretty good condition
once you get up away from this edge here where it's you know there's no wood support it I'm going
to finish this up and then we'll show you where we're going from here all right guys J did the
nasty work of break out they've put out something oK we've got our two layers of paper here and can
you use a membrane of rubber yeah you could do that but the paper is fine, here's one thing to
consider, okay, you overlap your existing paper you go over the existing paper and here you go under
the existing paper the new paper has to go under the existing paper that way if water goes through
this painted surface which is unlikely, because the house is 90 years old it's been painted probably
30 times if it goes on and goes onto this paper it'll drip harmlessly here and harmlessly on here.
what I've done thus far is, I've cut this wire just to show you guys where we're going, I'm going to go
ahead and caulk it first, this stuff is a nice construction sealant, but if you get it on your
fingers it's a real nightmare, so I'm gonna go ahead and caulk that put this on I'm going to show you
how we do the coats we're going to get to that part of how we do the finish too. I was watching
Jay do this when he used one of my lines you're going to do dad's sit here and admire me break it
out? so I had to climb up 30 stairs and get the mud mix. Anyhow we're almost at that stage guys
all right guys now you weekend stucco warriors want to do like the professionals do like what
we do what Jay did is he mixed this whole bucket and he's got Portland cement see this stuff here
that's for the - we're going to throw on finish that's what that's for this won't harden for about
four hours. but this right here he took half of the bucket and he had a Luminite to it. What is Lluminite?
Well, something that accelerates the process. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead
and knock this out it's going to set within 10 minutes how long does it take to learn to master
Luminite? Try about 100 jobs guys, minimum. Of course the stuff it's like food goes bad by a 100-pound sack or at technically a 94-pound sack, it will go bad if you don't use it all up. and how many of
you guys would use a 94-pound bag? Nobody just for us stucco guys, another thing to, Jay showed you
breakout, why do I got a sore throat, I don't have a cold, two weeks ago or a week ago I was doing
a video and I was showing the stucco, I didn't have a mask on and because I have a somewhat of
a compromised immune system, that dust, gave me a sore throat. so guys you never know what's in
stucco, wear a mask if you're going to break out and how often do I break out? very rarely, not only
do I not like it, but it just don't work for me, it'll tear my system up, any way you see what we're
what we're gonna do, I told you guys I'd show you what they've done here and how to match it. I will
do just that, because I'm gonna let this set for about, Oh 10 minutes in that 10 minutes but take
you around the corner because right here is too tight a fit we're working between a retaining
wall that's uh that's tough to work right next to a retaining wall show what we do, how do I know know,
because we've done about 600 videos now and I'm getting the hang of what I'll show what won't, anyway I'm
gonna take you around the side I'm gonna show you folks something ok guys I'm going to show you why
or how to match this finish they have about three or four different guys on this 90-year-old house
who all gave it their best shot some of them aren't bad in fact, okay this is bad anyway what
they done first is the mix of soupy cement usually Portland with sand they make it real stupid put
the brush in it and throw it on it's called a Dash finish, okay they did the Dash finish here, where
it looks like moon craters, very heavy a lot of water makes moon craters like that the drier it
is makes mountains, then after they did that they floated their edge I can see the edge, is floated
but they should not have allowed it to stay there, then what they did was they took a trowel probably
a little-bitty trowel square trowel, and they just went up like this, they came here, now, that really isn't
how your match to finish it's close, but it's not on the money what I'm going to do is I'm going
to - it just like they did I'm going to put this as a template, and go around put it go around put
it and go around that'll match it on the money the garage is somebody's attempts, which kind of
interesting looking but I'm on some fellows house I'm not going to go showing everybody everybody's
attempts, I'll show you our attempt, when we get there all right guys soupy mud throwing
the Dash finish on here, all it is is Portland cement, now you got to count for what they've
got it's just a flick of the wrist guy, flick of the wrist, and what you want to do when dashing
is go over everything completely and don't just put it in one spot go over it give it a chance
to set, because if I go too heavy it's going to slide, that's how the dashes work, I'm going
to show you another example in a second so let me get their texture first then we'll figure out the
lines. no, I haven't figured out the lines yet, I have an idea. Not been wrong yet, well actually I
have they just some textures take me a lot longer to match than others and that's normal okay. now
that's got a set I'm going to do something over here's why I'm waiting for it. Dah finish guys, okay, too
much dash, give you an idea why we got to wait, I'm in no hurry, I'm killing time right now, because
I got to wait ten minutes for this so while I'm waiting when if you put it too thick, now watch
that's it's over a painted surface, so it got no suction so it's going to dry, now what happens
if I hit it more it's going to fall it's going to drag, see how it's starting to come down it's
crying, volcanoes. Okay, and Plus now the tool they used Oh say for example. I took a clean dash brush
a dash brush is about like this, say you're going with a rectangular circle if I were to hit this
right now what would happen? it's too wet, it'll just slide down. Or if I use a little-bitty trowel
it'd fall down, let me give you an example, and you can use a brush, I had a brush somewhere here you
can use a brush to make little patterns, what I'm prepared to do is take something hold it
here, and make some patterns first with the brush but I got to let this set but here's what happens
if you hit it too thin guys you take my little pattycake type trowel here, you hit it, you see
how it starts to slide so I've got to kill some time, and allow this to dry. You can't do anything
with it because it just slides, now if this fellow was home he'd say, "Kirk, what the heck you doing
messing up my wall?" So I'm going to go ahead and clean up his wall for him, and put it back into
the bucket when this is ready I'll show you how we do it, so you can just skip forward. okay, guys
let's try the old tic-tac-toe type finish. Everybody plays that game - this way - that way
Okay, come on now, see what I'm doing. Then what we can do is we want to tie into some existing
stuff. Maybe that's what these fellows did they said, gee whiz, let's play a game guy, tic-tack-toe.
alright, now I didn't get rid of those trowel lines well take afloat and just float them out, tap them
out, right around where the so-called squares are or rectangles that's one way to do it a lot
of ways to do this a lot of different finishes on this house. there get rid of that get rid of that.
And that is what is closer than what the other fellas got. It looks pretty good to me. Take it
and feather in the joints now feather in a little bit, and there you have it that's the so-called
tic-tac-toe finish. I like that, anyway, guys. My name is Kirk. I am with Kirk Giordano plastering.
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