hello there folks Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what we're going to do
is we're going to show you how to repair this buckling at the lower portion of this house
obviously if you're going to repair something you should have a pretty good idea why it's
even happened what we have is that's a 75 year old house it's on a slope it's on a busy area so I'll
show you something can you show the the rear of this home alright this house is about 75 years old
give or take now I mean if I'm going to rate the stucco on this house a lot of things you have to
factor in like the engineering of the foundation and all that I'd rate this house about say a nine
and a half or ten and you might say man you got a buckle there how could you rate it so high well
you got to take into account a lot of things like the age of the house the slope the traffic the
moisture that the water when it rains the ground expands contracts so and here's another thing too
while I'm on contraction the stucco is butted into the foundation most of the homes in the country
are like this because they didn't start doing weep screens which serve as an expansion also
until about 1975 and most people didn't use them until 80 anyhow then you got the flagstone it's
crowded and but it up to it so it's all locked in so when you get movement such as a month of
rain it will move the house anyhow what we're prepared to do today is I'm going to break this
out I assume that here's a foundation foundation we'll go about right here so this is going to be
tight now this area here it'll probably come about right here right to the vent and if I remove this
guy here that'll release a lot of the tension on this will it come back maybe in 75 years but
I won't be around anyhow what I'm prepared to do today is I want to just take my hammer this is so
little I don't want to hook up all my pneumatic tools I'm going to take my hammer and break it
out right about here I'll break this out right here and then once I break that out there'll be
wire behind here because this is probably would I would imagine it's one by eight horizontal
this is foundation so the wire should be over the foundation technically I don't think I'm going to
have any dry rot here because this is a stress crack so I looked at the house you sent me some
photographs online and online I could see this and that and I thought it's just stress it has
nothing to do with leaking if you leave it like this it will have something to do with leaking
and rotting so I'm going to break this out and then of course the wire is going to be attaching
this and it'll be like a sock and a clothes dryer so what I'll have to do then is take my snips and
what I'll once I break this out right here with just the point of my hammer the head of it I'm
going to snip these wires and then I'm just going to put my hammer here pull this piece out take it
down about here remove it and Jay is going to mix me up a bucket while I'm doing that I'm going to
paper and wire this part up because that will need to be redone depending on how it looks here we're
if we're in the southwest side I might expect some issues with dry rot but I don't think we're going
to have any here I think the paper wire is going to be in pretty good condition considering it's a
75 year old house so we're going to go ahead and do that all right guys I got that broken out now
what I did is I cut the bottom piece of wire right here if I cut the top right up here then
I lose my tie in so now that that's all cut the there should be a few furry nails holding this
in what I'm going to do is I'm going to gently pull it away and just drop it this should not
be tied in and why did I cut this side because a lot of times the red wood here is tied in it's
keyed so if you just yank it off you'll split the wood here so you always want to cut this side too
anyway let's see what we got I don't think it's a big deal here back I think it's pretty minor just
a normal stress crack very typical okay exactly what I thought it was okay papers in excellent
condition I kind of figured it would be because it's a stress crack it is not a leak so there's
a big difference now what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to ship shove a little bit
of paper underneath this because it's somewhat brittle would expect for 75 years rewire it and
put it back together I'm going to clean this up a little bit take a water hose and get all this
loose stuff because my new stucco won't adhere to dust like this anyhow you get the idea Jay's
already done with a bucket of mud so I'm going to wire this up real quick then you'll see us put
it back together alright guys we're at a stage now where a wire brush get all the dust off I'm
actually hitting it with weld Cree - it's just a bonding agent for this joint that way when I go to
put my two coats on which is Jay already mixed it right here it will adhere to everything it
will adhere anyhow to stucco concrete for porous but since I didn't wet the wall cuz I got to work
right here you know what I don't have to cover all this stuff because this same mess that I'm
going to clean up it's going to catch this anyhow what I'm going to do now is switch gloves get rid
of these guys here because I lie from this scratch and Brown will tear your skin up yeah I've known
guys lost their fingernails they spread this stuff for so many years with no gloves big tough guys I
don't want to be that guy anyhow Jay mix this up a little while ago and this is God accelerators
in it you can see as I as I'm putting this on you see how that how high I can build this out
that means it has accelerators on it are so what I'm going to do first is the thick part take that
there okay that's a fat part next I'm going to hit this point the joint is over an inch
Normally if I didn't have the stucco accelerator in here already, that would be fallen out
already. You got to know how to fix this when using accelerators. If you're going to try to
do anything like this, your folks if you've been thinking about doing this and you don't have the
time in, simply scratch it that just means put your first coat on, wait a couple days,
come back and do your next coat all right there we go we just called it all right this time figured
about a bucket of mud looks like that's about what we're gonna use here get up there okay
we actually got to let this set about I can feel it that's how long I've been doing this I could
feel this mud we're using here it's going to take about 10 minutes to set so we're not going to put
this all on make a long video but you get the idea we're going to turn it off and I'll let
this set we're going to relax then I'll come back and put my next coat on all right guys
we're doing here is just putting on the second coat now we're going to let this set for about
15 minutes and then we'll show you the finish coat finish coat is a knockdown brush now what
I'm doing is simply floating it hard rubber float sponge float if I use a sponge float I
bring the aggregate out see how it's very very sandy here but I'm going to - this anyway so I
don't really need to bring the aggregate out sponge float also helps you get your joints
really tight hard rubber float compresses it so I'm compressing it and it's I'm just
straightening it all out because we actually got a lot of mud on here last thing I'm gonna
do this is called a knockdown - what's a - well like that old saying - assault back in the early
1900's we're doing it with a brush we're just going to we put soupy mud the mud I used here
we added a lot of water drilled it up so we call that soupy mud anyhow what I'll do is I'll dip my
brush into the soupy mud and all I want to do is flick it look a little bit on just like that just
flick a little bit on and that's what they have they have a very very light knock down - it was
more prominent at one time however this has been painted maybe eight times so it's taken away a
lot of the effect of the heavy knock down - so now that I've got that I'm just going to take
my trial and hit it very very lightly just very lightly that way when these guys paint it they
don't have to use a whole lot of coats of paint primer and a paint two coats as recommended should
match this right here into this so anyway that's how you repair it my name is Kirk and Jason on
the camera, folks as usual I appreciate you watching, and we'll see on the next one.