Howdy folks Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today I want to show you folks is how
to stucco with a door sill. The fella here we did some work for him before. he says hey Kirk, this
door sill is pretty rotten. so I came and I looked at it I said yeah that's a goner man it's easy to
fix though just put yourself some polyurethane caulk and put another piece of door trim. He said
well, can you stucco it? I said absolutely, so what I've done folks is, I've taken my hammer and wear
some glasses if you're going to do this guys. I've chipped everything, chipped all the stucco
here you see how it's popping up. Get all that loose stuff off. I've already been doing this
for about 15 minutes, then I won't bore you with it and then what we do after we do that is, we
wire brush it. Now what I do is I want to score this because if you put the wood trim in here
that's easy you just pop it in there but if I put stucco in here. The stucco has got to adhere and
stucco will not adhere to dust so we've got to get all this dust out of here. Here's the tip guys, if
you're ever going to apply a bonding agent like what I'm going to use, and I'm using Larson's by
"Weld Crete," this this blue stuff, is, we buy this at the professional material yards like, "Close,"
"Westside building materials" in Oakland. There's "Close" in Hayward there's, "Stucco Supply" in San Jose, there they all have this Weld Crete, stuff. If you go to Home Depot or Lowe's you can buy
a bonding agent it's usually white, and what I'm what I'm doing is I'm going full strength with
this bonding agent because I wanted to adhere. Plus this removes any excess residue of dust and stuff
like that so, we put it on full strength. We let it set. Then Jays, going to mix up some
stucco and I'm going to fill this up. But you guys don't have to wait because we're going to click to
that in a minute here's another tip guys, what I was talking about earlier if you ever put a
bonding agent on your brush dip it in a bucket of water and clean it off. See this really nice
brush somebody dipped it in bonding agent, didn't clean it all off they use the water hose instead
of doing what I'm doing you put it in a brush and you go back and forth, this guy is a kind of
a goner but, throw it in gasoline that'll fix that. Anyhow now I'm going to give this about
ten minutes and then we're going to go ahead and push fill this up with stucco. I'll show you how
simple this stuff is guys. And it will last forever, you never have to change it like a piece of wood. Now
that we got that bonding agent on there I take a little trial here, Jay mixed me up some pretty good
mud I'm just going to throw it on there. You guys an idea didn't have to be pretty because I'm going
to trowel it on in a second and after I trowel this on, what I'm doing I'm just coming up underneath
that door remember guys that doors got it open. And do you need to do this? no, you can use wood.
But the fella asked me to do it, so I'm going to do it. One thing about doing this guys is
you never have to change that threshold again. I'm what I'm doing is I'm giving it a little
bit of a curve, that way when someone steps out on it, they won't trip, we don't want anybody
to trip on this. All right let's see here make it uniform make it a consistent, my little bitty trowel here,
yeah just where we wanted it, and that's about, it's about right and then what I'm going
to do now is just put a little float on it, but I just leave it like this with a trowel finish,
and not float it, i'll crack when it dries, which is not a big deal but at least they don't have
this problem here this, you heard the expression, "Break like a rotten stick," anyway now what I'm
going to do is just give it a float finish. A float finish is just bringing the sand out, that way when
you walk on it, it's not too slippery. I take this guy here and just come here there and pretty
it up a little bit give it a little bit of a slope, with that door in the way it makes it
a little bit rougher. If they were home, I'd say man, open the door that way I can take my float
just go up it. But, nothing we can't handle. We come here, float it out like so, and now guys you have
a permanent fix, where water is not going to bother it water can set on this forever and again they're
going to paint this too. anyway, there it is guys permanent water slopes off it when you step out,
you still have a little bullnose type of ridge. Anyhow guys that's pretty simple you need a lot
of different tools to do such a simple fix it took me more time to get the tools ready
then do the actual job, but sometimes that's what it is on little bitty things like this
anyhow guys my name is Kirk, Jason on the camera and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next fix.