howdy guys Kirk here with Kirk giordano plastering, today what Jason I are going
to show you is how to make this downspout line go away. Now what they did was they put the downspout
on and then they did the color coat while it was on so this part the stucco is raised up
a bit it's about an eighth of an inch here 16 to an eighth in some areas a quarter now what
we would generally do is you take a trowel you take a wire brush you can take a putty knife a
chisel and you want to get this edge off watch here see scrape it off scrape that off with
with again with it preferably I like to hit it with the tail end of a trowel and it comes off
but for the sake of showing you folks how to fix this I'll just use this and what I'll do is once
that's off you take the wire brush to and get all the dust and crap off but once that's done
you take some bonding agent I'm kind of partial to weld Crete and we take this weld Crete and
we paint this now it's going to be blue I'm going to actually paint from here to here to
allow the new cement to adhere to that give me about 15 minutes and I will finish scraping the
rest of this off and finish applying this world Crete to the surfaces about here then I'm just
going to mix up some mud and skim it and float this finish to this finish that actually is we
call floating or feather and in that determines how well this is going to blend in in about
five minutes I'll show you that when we get to that period okay guys now what I'm going
to show you is we're going to put some plaster here we just actually plastid it but Jay camera
wasn't on so we're going to try it again what I did was I scraped some of the stuff off and
I already did the top piece and floated that I didn't want you folks see me standing on doing
awkward stuff because somebody will try it and end up killing themselves and say you know Kurt
do that but anyway guys here's what we're doing we're going to take it from the bottom and all
we're doing guys is we're filling wiggly inside a bit this is an eighth of an inch these are that
much higher so all we're doing is fill in that little bit so here here and if you get a rock
just knock them right out sometimes we get cats in the neighborhood messing around with our sand so
ok so now I'm going to use this trout just like a straight edge a feather edge or rod now that
I've got this inside filled up I'm going to take the trial in it just like that I'll tell you the
whole trick and technique about doing something like this is the floating now this finish here is
uh it's a hand thrown on dash about 90 years old it's been painted about 20 years old so the dash
is softened if I dash it mix up some super mud and I dash it my dash will be heavier when they paint
it since this is softened I can match it with a simple sponge float finish and here's what I
do see that water coming out of the sponge green sponge float guys we take this green sponge float
we only use the hard rubber floats I get a lot of questions that's why I'm trying to be thorough
answering it the hard rubber float is to compact it for a scratching around but this one here is
to bring the sand out or the aggregate in this case so we don't want a big hump right here that
do more damage than good what we want is when this is painted the transition to be smooth so the only
one who noticed that it will be the homeowner I could spot a patch anywhere guys that's just what
I do for a living i'm a terrible electrician and plumber but man I can do stucco all day long you
said pulled that much off I'm going to take it out and again now what I'm going to do is the water
dictates how much sand is going to come out of here so I just want a little bit of sand because
this is softened 20 coats of paint probably in 90 years so it's softened up enough where I can match
it with this this float finish and as a matter of fact that's about it right there that that
didn't this took me in Jay about 20 minutes total but we know what we're doing and got that monster
truck right there that has all the materials and a fella could ever ask for anyway when they paint
this again he the homeowner might say gee whiz I can see that just a hair but the average person
walking by won't ever notice it anyhow my name is Kirk ,Jason, here my son Dan messing around
doing something I don't know what but anyhow guys as usual we'll see you on the next repair.