Howdy folks, kirk Jason here with kirk giordano plastering, today i'm going to
show you guys something that is uh kind of interesting, they've got a crack here and
somebody tried to repair it and they've tried to repair it a few times and i said actually
all the fixes on this are going to be temporary because this is an addition. i can see it
i can see it's an addition and if you have an addition, when you build the addition, you put
an expansion joint right there; that way, those two separate foundations can move independently,
so they didn't do that so what do they have here they have a wall that okay. If i put this here,
you can see it's about a half-inch different half inch up here we have
about a half-inch there's a difference there see that, and when you come down here,
it's almost flush. So i told him listen, man, i'm already doing stuff on your house,
so I'll throw this in for free because not even my expertise can fix this properly. So what we're
going to do is this blue stuff here; it's hard to see the blue stuff that's just a bonding agent,
and guys you can use Quickrete bonding agents sold at all home depot, or lowe's to do this
you don't need Weld-Creat i just get Weld-Crete because it's sold at the material yards where i go
the professional plastering yards. Now what i did is this blue stuff is from here
to here because i'm going to skim this with a color coat the exact same color or the exact same
sand grit as this color coat was applied i'm going to skim it from here to here
and go up to about here and it's only going to be a six-inch patch, so i covered it with the
bonding agent here and i covered it with the bonding agent here, because i wanted to adhere
then when that's done i'm going to hard rubber float that and what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna
feather this out. Then i'm gonna come and put a skip trowel; this is a light lace skip trowel,
or it could be a dash where you throw a dash, and you knock it down with a trowel and because i know
i already know this is not gonna last that's why i said dude I'll do it for free because
it doesn't matter how good you are guys we're only as good as what we have to work
with and if i'm dealing with two separate foundations and there's no expansion joint
of course it's gonna crack again but it'll look a lot better temporarily for like 10 or 15 years so
it will hairline crack again that's why i'm doing it for free but i thought I'd show you guys this
because there's no way to fix something like this with caulking lasts a lot longer,
but i can't put that thick of caulking there and do it because i couldn't match the sand
anyhow when we get to that stage we'll show you what i'm talking about what jay did is he
mixed me some of this exact same finish coat material it's 16 20. now 16/20 is made to go
an eighth of an inch thick at the absolute most at the most you're supposed to go about a 16th. but
we're going to go a little bit thicker and what i'm doing here i told him it'd be free because
it's not going to be perfect you guys, there's nobody who got the talent to make this perfect,
so what i'm going to do is i'm just going to fill up a little bit i'm going to fill up just
this little piece here i can see pretty clear where I need the mud and because this is so thick
right there all we're trying to do is get rid of this transition
and we can get rid of the transition so
all right,
that's it now,
the beauty of today is it's about 90 degrees,
and the sun is shining right on this wall, so what that means is the wall is going to suck
the moisture out the heat's going to suck the moisture out because the wall is already hot,
i want a quarter-inch that's a cardinal thin guy you're not supposed to do that
but when this is done i'm going to hard rubber float it i'm going to green float it and tie
in the sides, and I'll show you what i'm talking about when i say tie in the sides, and then we'll
Put this back together. Now we got this it's set
it's in the hot sun so we float it in now a lot of water and usually you don't get this to set
uh that fast unless it's a very hot day or you put accelerators in it so we're just floating
it into the existing and you say wow that looks horrible sure it does we still got to dash it
so i'm using a lot of water and i'm taking it into the float finish.
Now Jay's gonna mix me up some dash mud and I'll show you how we dash it all right guys i'm gonna
dash this area here, and that's just you mix up the same material we're using, we soup it up,
and we just dash it why am i dashing it because this is a vertical joint within.
two areas, i if i tried to match this with a skip trowel finish, I'd come close, but i wouldn't come
as close as if, uh i do it with a dash brush, and what i'm going to do is hit this twice, so you see
me do this first coat here, and then i'm gonna let this set I've got other things we're doing
here um I'll come back to it and do one more dash finish and i'm just simply gonna knock it down
that just means take my trial and knock it down so this is the first one I'll show you the second
one in a minute and then knock down okay guys where we're at is i hit it a second time now
comes feathering in with the trowel this here a light, light touch with this now we want to do is
kind of light get that edge come over here get this edge now come up dead center,
and just lightly hit it super long and i could see what we're trying to match
lightly hit it, and it always comes out prettier if you go in an upward motion so
And the reason again i say I'll do this for free is because this it might be a lot prettier than
what they had, but the wall's moving, so when this wall moves, and it will move again say in well
nobody can predict a foundation you're going to get a crack right here, but it won't be the bulge
where it's a half-inch anyway my name is kirk, Jason on the camera we thank you guys for watching
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