Howdy guys, Kirk and Jason, are here with Kirk Giordano plastering.
Today, we're going to show you guys how we correct this little kiss in the wall car hit it.
The fella here called me and said, " Hey, Kirk, man, what is this stuff here? And it's
sheetrock. So, they have studs, then they have sheetrock or gypsum board,
whatever you want to call it. It's pretty flimsy stuff, and he says, well, I took a hammer to it,
and it just beats up the whole thing when you hit it, and I said yes, it does because this gypsum
board really doesn't supply any real strength. But it does give the stucco something to stop it,
so anytime you see gypsum board, got to be real careful what I tend to do when I break out,
and here's a tip, by the way, we're gonna I put my hand in here okay
here's a stud there's a stud right here. Okay, so here's I'm going to break out to
this stud, and over here I put my hand in it, and here's another stud just like sheetrock
guys I'm going to break out to the stud from here to here. I'm probably going to put another piece
of sheetrock in there. There's some sheetrock right here. Do I need to put sheetrock? Not
really I can do what I need if I want to be able to break this out gently; I'll put this
shovel in here. Jay and I will break out gently with a pneumatic tool, and if you use a hammer,
you will just push the hard stucco into this very soft material; the fellow here is that.
Wilkerson guy said I can just put some paper in here and plaster it up. I said
you can do that actually; that's more or less for interiors, but if you do that with this,
what happens is if you just put paper here, then you plaster it up without putting the
new paper underneath this existing paper and coming over here in about five years the water
will hit this exterior wall. It will saturate all this insulation of this wood, and pretty soon,
you'll have ants and ants eating termites that died because the termites love wet wood, guys.
So the quick fix isn't always the best fixed best way to do this is we're going to show you how to
do it now remove the stucco to this stud and at least get your new paper under this existing paper
and over this paper here that the waterproofing is the most important here to match this finish.
Orr fellow like me, it's not an issue for you folks; it might be a little tough. Still,
it's just a simple float finish anywhere, Jay. I will bust this out real quick, and then we're
going to put a little piece of sheetrock because I have it in my garage anyhow. Yes,
I could use plywood, too, so if you guys wanted to use plywood, you could; the idea is to build
it back up. Otherwise, I got to put two inches of stucco on it. All right, guys,
what Jay does is he'll hold that shovel up; all I want to do is just expose a little bit of paper.
That's all I want, guys. It's better to use skill than muscle. If I take any of
these big manly hammers and pound it, all I'm going to do is push this hard stucco into that
soft gypsum board. I don't want to do that. I got to be able to go underneath this paper,
okay guys, Jake cut me a piece is of the nature measure twice cut once.
Where he's a better cutter than I am, and we're just going to slide this piece of sheetrock get
some board whatever you want to call it guys insulation board right here I marked my stud
I'm going to go ahead and put a couple nails in this guy here. It just gives me what they
had here and what I want to do again. I want to go underneath this paper here,
and I can see my stud because I've already marked it right there, so that's a plus.
anyhow we're going to go ahead and paper this now my new paper is going to go underneath this guy
and over this it's kind of cheesy the way it's tearing apart but with a stud or get some board
back and it's always tough and guys you if your first time doing this take it all the way to the
bottom it's a lot faster I can take a patch within a patch but were you folks it faster just to go
here and do a couple days to do this alright guys we've shimmied that piece of sheetrock in there
now what we do is cut some paper and you want to go underneath this one guys go all the way under
it I'm going to do is cut this one in half give me more workability okay going underneath this
one underneath that paper we want to go as high under it as possible and if you're going to tag
down it try to tag down in this field or the stud there's a stud right here so if like if I'm using
this hammer tacker I could break right through my own Justin boy we don't want to do that okay here
we just kind of look at it from underneath and the idea is again we're going through all this
work for this little bitty patch because we want to waterproof it so our new paper has got to go
on top of this paper okay there's that one section and here what I'll do is again I'm going to fish
this underneath here back and forth back and forth yes thank you back and forth it'll hit a
nail it'll hit something but when it hit something that's as far as you can go guys a couple staples
and then this piece here on the side is going to go over it this one's going to come down and we're
going to laugh it in a second here now now we're ready for the wire cut piece long what I want to
do is I'm going to pop it on here and notice again I'm going to nail on to where my stud is because
this the jism board it has its purposes for shear value and but I'll tell you strength isn't one of
them so once I got this wire where I need it I want to put staples in here and I'm going
to put staples in here and actually I'm not even going to set my compress I'm going to put a couple
nails here couple nails here and a couple nails in here and what I'm going to do is just follow
the outline of this hole so that's what we're do next time you see us I will be filling this
guy up with stucco okay guys we're ready to start some plastering there's another tip guys this wire
you don't want this wire past the wall so get it in there and push it in staple it in hammer
it and do whatever you got to do to get that wire below this surface now J just made me some hot mud
meaning it's got accelerators in it then you judge the mud by the weather it's about 95 to 100 right
now it is hot and so's this mud which is good so we take this mud here and we fill this guy up
Now here, guys, is, fill it up tight first coat. I'm doing back-to-back coats right now,
but where your folks are just trying to do this, I'd advise just one coat. You do your
scratch coat, let it cure a day or two, and come back and do your brown coat. If you're like us,
who do this for a living, you can do both coats in a day, but that takes a lot of practice. Guys,
you got to know your cement know when it's ready for the next coat, all kinds of little
details that you're not going to learn from this little bitty video but give you an idea.
to guys there's a lot of stuccos that they sell I'd say Home Depot or Lowe's if you guys we're
feeling brave and you said man I think I can do that in a day or do it like old Kirk does it I
would advise you to pick up some rapid set they got it at Home Depot but you got to know how to
mix that stuff guy Jay's been mixing with me for 10 years plus he's a licensed stucco contractor
you also knows how to spread as well as I do so you're going to use any of these new or products
that you can do both coats in a day like I am they do take a bit of learning how to use them guys now
the key to it is they're stronger than heck but you can't over mix them guys so okay this has
got the accelerators in it we buy our material from Westside now Westside they have the bag
and we mix it with sand if you buy products from say Home Depot you'll buy something like this a
rapidset or some of their other products all you do is add water but again guys it takes practice
to use those I'm going to let this set about Oh this kind of weather 100 degree I say we're going
to let this set about five minutes then I'll show you how I float it to match this texture okay guys
we are ready to do the finish work now what you do is you look at the weather you look at the mix
it all all depends that's still somewhat soft but that's okay I can work that now if I want to get
a lot of aggregate out or bring this hand out I use a lot of water the more water I use I can go
twice as heavy as this the less I can go half as much grain as this so say for example this is a
pretty dry float I haven't dipped it in the water yet if I were to personally fix my own littleness
fingermarks if I were to just go with this float with no water in it that's not thick enough but
then again I need water for my joints here's what happens when you try to get a joint dry damn it
I've been doing this so long I can do it dry but generally you wet it a little bit of water on
this float guys and you guys watching me do this oh I've done about thousand two thousand three
thousand patches so I don't have to do this with with quite ease you guys look at it think man can
I do that I'll say maybe possibly alright probably not because you might be able to laugh it up like
I just did but as far as to do the stucco work you need somebody to mix it just right and you
need to know all this little boring stuff that takes sometimes 20 30 years to learn guys far
as applications anyway that's that's pretty much a close match right there now what I'm going to
do it one last thing is I'm going to hit this it's not heavy enough my sand isn't going to match this
so I'm going to put a little bit of water on this float just a little bit guys I'm going to put just
the right amount actually and then now I'm going to look at their lines that kind of went up right
here I can see the float mark so I'm going to take mine right here and match theirs right there look
at the rest of it and what I like to do is try to match their finish as best as possible that
way you paint mine you prime it and then you paint it and it matches if anybody says ugh just do ten
coats of paint and it'll match well they weren't familiar with how to match the existing finish.
You shouldn't have to do ten coach-to-coach is fine. The primer and the paint, anyway,
guys, there it is that matches pretty well and again counts for weather and all that stuff;
my name is Kirk, Jason on the camera, and as regular folks, we thank you for watching.
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