hi guys Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, what I'm going to do today is that a hot water
heater here the vent went through the sheetrock and then through the ethos style stucco system
they have on the outside I'll show you the inside and I'll show you how we do the outside too now
you know they actually make patches by other mashing patches and you put this fiber mesh
patch over this and it comes in nylon as well as aluminum you put that patch right over it you mud
right over two coats and you kind of can match this a better way a more practical way is to mark
out your studs and these studs are these these are my centers right there and so I'm going to
do now that I mark it out is take a utility knife and score I'm going to go back and forth over it
now I'll use probably two new blades because I don't have my key hole saw to cut this way
but I'll put this here and I just score it and this piece will come right out I'll use that as
a template put it on another piece of sheetrock nail that back on and put some fiber mesh tape
over these cold joints and here then just mud it right back up it's a pretty simple thing the
hardest part here is trying to get coordinated in this tight little spot anyhow when I get to that
stage I'll show you okay guys real simple I went ahead and scored it and I'm just using my cats
Paul to pull out the last nail this guy should come out pretty yeah that's what I want I want
to take it out just like that now I got a template I got another piece of sheetrock I'm just going to
put this on top and measure it of course I can use a measuring tape but anyway that gives me a
template so I'm going to put the other piece on here this gives me something solid to nail onto
this is called solid this is in the field so I'm going to put the fiber mesh tape over it
pop the other one in put a little bonding agent I'm not going to use three coats to take them
out that's why I'm going to use bonding agent I'm going to use plaster that way by the time I put
the first coat I'm going to go on the outside and correct this then I come right back with my foot
classroom in here we're in and out in a day okay guys this is the outside it's an eephus system
I've got about ten homes in the past where we would put the paper and we put the styrofoam
and then the 20 gauge wire instead of instead of 17 gauge thing we use this 20 gauge and then a
thin coat of plaster than the texture but with this this is the other side of that patch what
I'm going to do is I'm getting this stuff out of here for me I've got to slide my paper under this
paper and on top of this paper there's no solid backing to work with so it just takes a little
time in to know how to do this I'm going to double and triple up my paper then I'm going to fuse it
together with a polyurethane caulking when I get when I get it all lapped up I'll show you how we
we match the I'm going to mud it up and I'll show you how we match this finish by the way this is a
knockdown - finish you throw it on with a brush and then you hit it down and knock it down I can
I can actually such a small patch I can use a texture and match it but the important part on
this is the waterproofing because we don't want to leave okay guys let's stuff like this what a
proofing is the most important I've got about half a tuba polyurethane caulking in him you
probably think wow why so much well this patch it's kind of like a good a bicycle tire I've got
it on this stud here now I'm going to work my way and I'm going to get it to where it's tough around
here and then I want to put a piece of wire from here on this stud right in here and floated but
I'm also going to put more Sikaflex polyurethane caulking around nasty stuff don't get it on you
but it's these kind of patches they're the most important thing is water tight if it doesn't match
cosmetically well it's not as bad as it weakened so of course they trusted my abilities to match
the finish also anyway I'll show you when we start to do the just a pinch coat on this we got to get
back inside - okay guys we're doing the first coat here as soon as I get down with this first cup to
go outside messing around with that exterior and oh this needs is pretty much ten minutes to drop
it's a fast set plaster I was using taping might I'd be here all day okay guys now floating this
little patch and of course I used an accelerator because I want to be here all day the accelerator
is giving me the inch and a half that I need it for this particular patch now you see there
that's they have a float finish they floated it then textured so what I'm doing is I'm giving
it a faux finish now I'm going to texture and of course I've put a little bit of polyurethane
caulking in those nail holes homeowner said what can you put some stucco in the holes that said of
course we can but stuff's not watertight so we use the other okay now that I've got that done
No texture on you, and again, it's a pretty simple structure to match it a little bitty
area like this I can - it a food texture like this either one okay then we're going to get
back on one side now we already have one coat of plaster on the inside kind of the sheetrock and
lets I mean messing around here I'm giving that time to cure the second form I think
anyway this is it for the outside I let this set. I'm gonna knock it out by knocking down
too soon tends to drag see that's how we do the other side. Center the inside, no okay, guys,
second coat. We are a couple of children pulls, and we're down to watch the second coat. We'll
have to cover all that fiber mesh tape and hit it a little bit anyhow. My name is Kirk;
I'm with Kirk giordano plastering.
We did this because the hot water heater didn't function well enough to heat this entire second-story house. Hence, they put the
original back in anyhow. Thank you, folks, for watching, and we'll see you at the next one.