Hello folks, Kirk here with Kirk giordano Plastering today, well we're gonna show you today I got
a call the other day from a Jimmy Lee in that call that's Washington and he said Kirk I put
a fiber mesh tape over the brown coat and we used welt Crete over the to adhere the tape I when it
rained you can see all this lovely you didn't get that from me Jimmy can I'll show you why
all right this is a sealed surface and I had a big crack here where the J trim and the stucco meet so
what I'll generally do is I'm going to apply some fiber mesh tape over this this is what you see me
doing over a painted surface because I do this often now once I apply this fiber mesh tape over
this huge crack here like so I'm gonna come back to what you were referring to Jimmy in a minute
because again you didn't see me doing what you're saying I'll explain it right here okay now we have
say we had a crack here we had a gap actually say you had a crack I could use a bonding agent
put the fiber mesh tape and then go over the tape like that and that will adherence to the wall for
a color coat we're gonna put them cement Isha's color coat finish over this painted surface piece
of metal crack I can do this this will work and as soon as this wall dries then I come back and
I do my color coat over here and here is great now here's what you did now I already started
these I put fiber mesh tape over these cracks on a cement Tisha's walnut cement Isha's meaning we
scratch this we allowed this to set about a week and then we hosed it down hydrated the
wall then we did the second coat the second coat was on about three weeks maybe four because of
a shooting with these fellows for the homeowners okay we had a pretty good crack right here and
we had a couple cracks they're normal in fact I thought I'm trying to induce the cracking with
hydration hose the wall down a lot hose it down a whole bunch and make it crack so okay we got some
cracks which we expect they're natural so after we do the tape now no I take of this stuff in
here this is just boiling cement that's all it is there's no sand to it there's no nothing it's just
watery Portland cement and so I take this watery Portland cement and I go over this fiber mesh tank
and why am I going over this with Portland cement tshis finished because thanks for example if
I were to hit this with well Creek now okay this would be sealed it would be like a painted surface
right here and although this is porous so when the color coat comes on when the rains start you'll
see the area right here so that's why we don't Mick sealed surfaces with porous finishes this
is for suction here anyway Jimmy now you've never seen me do what you said I did because we don't
do that that's maybe a 10 a 15 year apprentice mistake and yes I have done that once and that's
how I know about this stuff but I've done it was about 20 years ago anyhow if you're gonna go with
a brown coat and you get your hairline cracks which you will the structure determines how much
and the wait time determines how much and how much you hydrate a wall you will get cracks in a brown
coat this is my recommendation and when I say I recommend this 8 out of 10 stucco guys do not do
this they just say okay I've waited my cure time now I'm gonna apply the color coat I always put
a fiber mesh tape over my cracks because five 10 years from now when I send somebody here to look
at this so I can get another job I don't want them to see a bunch of cracks and these cracks
if you don't put this fiber mesh tape can they come back not but if you don't put the fiber
mesh tape more than likely they will reappear within two three years so that's why we do the
tape anyhow my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk giordano plastering I just had to put this on film because
I was answering a fellas question and not sure he understood what I was saying so Jason will
email you this one thank you folks for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one.