howdy guys Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today we're gonna show you guys today is we
got about ten of these windows we're gonna do what the fella did who owned the house is he actually
did this window here and he didn't tie the wire in you got to break the stucco out tie the paper
and then tie the wire in if you don't you'll get a perimeter crack well he had a huge perimeter crack
around here so we told him well I can fix that then I came and I noticed he grinded everything
down and I said what's that about he says well I heard I was online Google in and it said to grind
it down you don't have to do that guy I've been doing this over 30 years and that is not necessary
I've seen a lot of fellows do that and I've said it before it's not necessary what I did was the
other day we were here I was looking at it I put out polyurethane caulking in this crack now what
I also did is I created from here to here so that my I'm going to use a Santa Barbara smooth mission
finish to do this because you see the texture the texture is like a twenty thirty that just means
the grit but the walls are very flat in area so you've got to kind of look at the base and then
the texture in order to be able to match when this is painted so I'll show you what I'm gonna
do here first thing I'm gonna do is we have mixed up some Smith santabarbara smooth mission finish
for this particular fix now what I'll do is I'll take this and this got a very fine grip it's like
thirty grit so I'm gonna take this and I'm gonna go around this whole perimeter with the base coat
first before I apply a texture and again the reason I'm using the Santa Barbara is I want
this as smooth as possible prior to the texture if the base is too sandy and then the texture matches
you'll still see the base so I've got to match the base and the texture which took me about five
minutes to go around this window then I'm going to float this and after that sets do the texture okay
guys I've spread that out now what I did is I take a hard rubber float and I feather in the joint
feather in the joint just like that and you might say hey Kirk I always see you using those green
ones if I use a green one I'll bring the aggregate out sand and then my base coat will be too rough
so for the sake of showing you guys that's why I did that now that I've used my hard rubber float
to get my joint in I'm gonna take it and smooth it out a little bit more and then when I'm at that
stage I'll take off color code and I do my texture now I'm looking at their texture they're going
straight up and a couple to the right that's a nasty texture but I can match that here we go okay
they're kind of sporadic here and there and they're going upward when they barely knocked
it down so that's exactly what I'll do I'm looking at they left a couple clinkers here
in there so I'll leave a clinker on the window we'll take that straight up the idea is for the
average person not to notice that this is the newly installed window by the way the homeowner
says well I've watched your video I couldn't do it that's the best I can do what you seen
it I thought well I watched a whole bunch of videos how to do electricity and I couldn't
even figure it out so we're all good at stuff I end up hire an electric guy hopefully you guys
look at this and say man I can do that okay now I've matched this now I'm I take it for granted
I was just gonna hit it so I'm gonna just lightly hit a guy lightly hit it with just the edge film
there's no pressure there no pressure so I'm gonna finish this up right here and the ladder
I should be able to finish everything again I look at that and that's they didn't knock some
of it down so does they knock down what they did okay so I'll knocks him down and I'll leave some
rough now the side here they kind of pancaked it when you drag your trial straight flat it'll
pancake I'll give it that glue look so I want that wall to match what they've got and lastly
okay, lastly, I'll finish this up here just happened to have enough on here
We've got about ten windows to do, so we're gonna put that camera away, and I just thought I'd show
you a couple tips a rock in there see how that just knock it right off redo it. Sometimes we do
have rocks in the sand. We got all kinds of weird stuff in our sand. Sometimes, the cats in the
neighborhood come out to use it as a litter box. You got to watch your stuff. Anyhow there it is
when this is painted, you have to really look hard to see that patchwork. The owner might notice it,
but you folks or people having a barbecue, they shouldn't be able to look up and say, hey, so you
got new windows. Anyhow my name is Kirk giordano plastering with Jason. Of course, I also mixed
all these, and he can spread as well as me as usual, folks. We'll see you guys at the next one.