Howdy folks, kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano Plastering.
today we show you guys a crack simple way to correct crack now note okay I already finished
those and did the bottom that way i'm just working right here where I have to bend or climb stuff but
note first you got to kind of understand in order to fix it why it happened this is stucco it's all
stucco it's concrete here this concrete and stucco are but it in everything is locked
it and we're in San Francisco every house is touching the other house so it's all locked in
what I'll generally do is ezreal noisy here a lot of cars and trucks big trucks and trains going by
it all adds to vibration they told me Jay we just caught these a couple years ago I thought well
that's the nature of it these are stress cracks they're going to continually come back in fact
what I'm fixing right now we're going to come back to give you guys an idea this one I've already
I've already cut it out basically I'll you as an all-in-one tool this guy here it does everything
probably even open a can of beer right there anyway you dig it you go sideways you kind of open
it up yeah I'm taking out somebody else's talking to a couple years from now they might be taking
mine out but the idea is open it up guys open it up you can use a trial you don't have kind of one
of those three and one tools it does everything you could use it Oh try a putty knife whatever
you want the idea is to open it up a little bit once you got that opened up a little bit what
I've done is stuck a wire brush in the rest but if you don't have a wire brush that's okay too
whatever you do don't put water in here otherwise the talking wounded here you get it out of there
rather than grab my wire brush I had done that now generally what I'll use is of caulking with
us and more flex makes a good one about a year ago I was telling jay man i'll bet if
there's going to be 10 other caulking companies that put sand in their caulking so what I'll do
is I'm putting it extra full I'm filling that crack up not only my fill in the crack up but
I'm leaving a lot of fat because what I'm going to do is take a trial and I'm going to use it
okay we're going to do that now guys you could use this three in one tool and you can go up it
I find a trial actually gets it in tighter now squeeze that stuff in there so it's not only
packing the hole but you give them some on the side to squeeze it squeeze it pack that hole
and the extra really want to squeeze it in there because if it's not filling the entire
crack meaning all the way in on the edge then you'll have to do it twice how many times has
old Kirk done it twice a lot of times now this particular caulking you could it's paintable
and its water clean up a lot of caulking that i use the polyurethanes are not water cleanup plus
they don't have the sand and it would match this so I'm using the more flex now what I'll do is
once it sitting out a little bit of water guys not too much and just feather it in now just a
little bit of water if it's if it's overflowing with water then it's all going to just rip it
right out and too much water will sync it to it'll it'll submerge this meaning it'll suck it right in
so you don't want to use too much water if you don't have enough it'll just drag it so won't
do anything anyway that's about the right amount of of water right there give you an example right
here I dug it out a little bit so if you dig it dig it out a little bit you can see it I can see
it I don't know if the camera can so I'm gonna put a little bit more right there and try this
one more time come on guy get in there alright just that one and squish it in there get it in
there tight you want it to go all the way to the bottom guys then we take that I use a little too
much water last time so I'm going to float this in now and will this crack come back sure gonna come
back it's it's a matter of a couple years and they do come back and they start off real slow and then
they come back and after a few years they open up a little bit more because the roads are constantly
given and taken with all the trains and our cars going by whether a lot of different things anyway
we've done a lot of crack work on this I figured I'd show you a little bit about it and if you're
going to do this guy's and you happen to have a real sandy finish this is real sandy this has
been painted a lot more than this right here so this is rougher but this stuff is the more flex
it has San and got a lot of different colors too but this one looks about like regular stuff anyhow
my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering Jay and I hope that helps you guys do your little
simple cracks because it is pretty simple and as usual folks we'll see you on the next one
you