Hello folks, Kirk and Sons here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what I want to
show you is we're going to fix a patch here now this patch it's so off on a scale of 1 to 10 if a
professional did this I'd give it a 2 you could notice it from 60 feet away if a homeowner did
this I'd give them about a 6 or 7 it's not that bad but here's what I told the homeowner I said
now what we can do is we can because this is built up right here and this is the perimeter
see how that is we have a half-inch here we have a half inch on this side I don't really want to
pound this out because if I do then I'm going to compromise the waterproofing that's in here
what I'll do is I'll pound this out right here it'll push the stucco into the paper and it'll
just destroy whatever integrity is here I don't know what's there and I don't want to open a can
of worms so what I've done is I've instructed Dan to go ahead and give me some weld creat
about six inches over here all right guys Jason and Dan here what Dan is doing now is applying
the weld Crete over this patch so that when we come to feather it out with a new skim coat of
stucco the stucco will adhere to it stucco won't adhere to a painted surface but when you apply a
bonding agent you can stucco right over any painted surface the world Crete now is kind
of tacky it's perfect for it so what I'm going to do is this is going to take about two full
buckets of mud in order to correct it so we've got this situation here and here now this just
it's kind of like an eyesore so what we're going to do is I'm going to spread this out and it's
not going to be perfect when I'm done with this it's still going to be noticeable because we are
so much we'd have to break it all out redo it and of course nobody wants to do all that work so what
I'm going to show you folks is I'm going to skim this out I'm going to skim right here even out
Okay, now that that part is skinned out, then I'll come inside. The idea is to make it as chu
and plum as possible with what we have to work with only as good as what we have to work with
again. Some of you folks might say, well gee whiz, why didn't you tear it all out? Well,
I'll tell you why I'm working on another project close by, and I thought, well, don't close by. I
just do it for 100 bucks since I'm already close by, which is next door. If I were to take all of
this out and redo it, you're looking at quite a bit more than that, so he says, hey gee,
go ahead and do it, skin it as long as it's better than what I did. He's happy, so he says you can
beat with what I did and do it for not a buck and you got yourself a job I thought not so much the
money that I'm working here for, but it's to show you, folks, how to fix it I'll show you guys how
to fix this kind of stuff another minute I will have it skimmed, and the floating is the easy part
okay, take this right here, take it right here
one more that will let it set it's a pretty cold day today however he's got the the heater on I can
feel the heat coming out of this little guy here in fact we're gonna clean it right so all right
I'm gonna go ahead and let this set about 15 20 minutes and I'll show you when we come back to
floated how it works okay guys what I'm doing is having jaywalk on this I want to show that Bo is
out here and it's out here this already floated I got both sides of the hump out and here's what
I'm doing a lot of water guys a lot of water and this is set for about oh it's about with
Suns on us Plus this heaters on even though it was a cold day it set about 45 minutes you got
to look at it when it starts to dry out down and then it's ready for the float and what I'm doing
is see this texture here is very heavy I could match that with a lot of water but when you use
a lot of water it takes a lot of skill so what I'm doing is I'm going upward motions because
I'm using so much water it tends to wanna fall so you do your edges first where I always do my
edges first a lot of water my son my son Dan said dad you should get a lot of work from
that one and I said why is that and he says well you told people you're doing it for 100 bucks so
everybody's going to call you with a patch for a hundred bucks but another thing too that's
intangible is I show you folks how to do this and that's worth far beyond the measurement and
money what I can make on jobs so I kind of enjoy showing you folks how to repair things like this
that's my payment enough anyhow you see I'm going small circles a lot of water because this used to
be well somebody - just the rest of the house they heart they floated it so I'm given the
best of both worlds don't you guys go standing up on a bucket like me there I'm just doing that
because I can anyhow you see I'm a lot of water and as soon as students my sponge starts to dry
out because the walls sucking the moisture right out I'm going to dip it in again I'm going to tap
it off here dip it in this side tap it off here spin it and a lot of water a lot of water guys
that way we bring out the aggregate aggregates a fancy word for sand so I'm bringing out the
aggregate right now now I'm almost done with this again I want to point out to you folks even if you
screw it up the first time it's not a big deal I just happen to be pretty good at stucco and
that is one of my talents allows the electrician plumber but I sure can do stucco all day long so
anyhow guys you see what I've done there that has taken out the transition here it's taking
out the whole inner transition it's about two five-gallon buckets to fix this it didn't take
me but oh gee ten minutes to spread I have to wait about an hour 45 minutes and then another
10 minutes to float it out so even you folks can do that anyhow my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk
Giordano plastering as usual folks we thank you for watching we'll see you guys on the next one