howdy folks, kirk and Jay here with another tip of the day for you guys putting indoor windows where
you had single pane windows now since I've shown this before, I want to uh explain something else,
okay the guy who watched our videos, and he put a new window in it with a flange I always
say don't put an insert unless you're using good caulking because those fail
anyway so he broke out the stucco can you see right here where he broke out the stucco you
can see the straight mark here, and you can see up there where his transition wasn't that great,
but for somebody just watching a video it wasn't that bad either I'll give you an idea of
of the transition because not that bad it's just you could see the line right there see right here
So there it is what he is he's too proud right here,
so what we're gonna do is I told him well because he sent me pictures of this, I said take a wire
brush and wire brush it really well. I then hit it with a water hose. We'll hit it with a water
hose first because you don't want to inhale the dust. Hence, you hit it with a water hose. You
wire brush it that's what all that scoring that black look is the blue stuff that's a bonding
agent well decreed that so our new finish that I'm going to put on right now could adhere to this
permanently and forever what we want to do is get this transition here correct now
um I just happen to see that just now how I'm going to do this is you look at the first
texture right there now that's a color coat finish that's been painted when they did that they used
a 20 30 what's 20 30 this is 20 30. 20 30 finish coat material is the medium sand so what i'm
going to do is i'm going to go around this here's what i want to do first i'm going to get my joint
and again uh since i've showed how to do this before i will tell you guys something else in
the description i will put uh how i will put a video that shows how to put the window in
another video of how to do the base coat which is what he did and then of course
this right here is the finished coat that way if you're just putting in the windows
you know how to do it all so that'll be in the description guys
and keep in mind if you're on our channel and you want to know anything anything about
stucco all you do is type that into our search engine you say show me how to attach laugh five or
ten videos will show different scenarios of how to attach lath if you say show me a texture that been
applied and painted that'll take you to a video that has been applied and painted we've got i
don't know 900 or so so we've keyworded them over the last 10 years taking me a few thousand hours
meaning whatever you want to know you type that in our channel there's way past any form you'll ever
see uh and that a video will come up and show you how to do that uh you figure or i figure
with close to 900 of these in 10 years you name it we've shown it we've not only shown
it but we've shown 10 different ways to do it because there's a lot of ways to skin a cat guys
Today just happens to be a really, really windy day. We're on our way here.
Some trees were falling over garbage cans all over the place, and I actually was going to do a
similar video on the rear but the wind is so strong back there i thought man i don't want
to have the hawk fly in my face again i was on a job oh many years back when i employed
a lot of people and i had my buddy lester and sonny they're on the job and they call me say
hey kirk we gotta leave man it's too windy and i said you were says you better finish that job
and they said okay it's too windy they were up on skyline we're in oakland hills so much wind
the planks were shaking it was about 90 miles an hour today is about 60 but we're right here
in the front where we're kind of covered up on the side of the house there we're blowing all over the
place anyway so i went out there to the job this about 15 years ago and i said look guys and it was
windy i thought wow and we were doing just what i'm doing right now except i was using acrylic
and acrylic finish so i got up on the scaffold and we were in a wind channel and the scaffold
were moving they were wiggling all over the place and i said all right guys this is how you do it
and i had the hawk and the wind caught it and it put it right in my face and this is acrylic
this is cementitious so this will come right off and they looked at me and i looked at them
all of a sudden all three of us started laughing i said guys let's get the hell out of here man
it's too windy that reminds me today today is a very windy day um i mean last night jay and i
we were talking about it on the way here how we were listening to the wind
and it was it was pretty strong we got up today and again tree is downed
that's what i call windy anyhow since i'm doing this and this is pretty easy for me
i'm talking about stuff that don't amount to nothing all right now
what i should do is allow this to set about 15 minutes but i'm gonna just for the sake of doing
this in one shot i'm drying out the float because i have to float the transition in
and i don't want to wet if this is wet then when i put it on here it's going to moisten that too
much so i don't want to do that all right so now i got a clean float what i'm gonna do is come right
under the window and and what i'm doing guys just to transition you see that's that's why he called
me and if you guys do your own uh stucco you say you get your windows installed by a company and
you say man uh i don't want to pay that much to have the stucco done i'll do it myself this is the
most important part that's a transition so that's the front of the house i told the guy uh well
where are these windows located he says well one's right in the front i said ooh
right in the front you don't want it right in the front of your house guys put in the backyard
backyard you know if you can't afford to pay somebody to do it or you don't want to learn
how to do it not such a big deal but right here in the front of the house you probably want to do it
correct or hire somebody who can do it correct or watch this video over and over and over
all right now the top here now we got a transition i just filled that up right there you can't see it
but this is tight that's tight and right here is a little thicker so we'll take that transition now
notice i'm taking the the new stucco the new color i just put on and i'm feathering it into
the existing this is the existing stucco this is the new stucco so we fell it right into there
yeah that is
I can feel the wind if I get a little higher. So that's some strong wind, guys all right
now again; I'm the transition that separates a good tie-in from a tie-in that, uh, is noticeable.
Now he had shutters. I said, well, you can put your shutters here, but that won't fix the top.
He says, well, man, I hate that shutter. Look, why do they even do that,
and I thought, for looks, we don't have hurricanes here. You don't need
shutters to protect a window. We have strong winds like today uh about 60 here which is
rare for our area anyway moving on okay that's done see how fast that is with the transition
all right now what we do is we take some of the same mud we just used
and what I'm going to do is I'm going to clean my hawk and trowel a little bit
because I've been we've done already quite a few windows. I thought, let's save one for video,
so this is the one we saved because it's right here, and there's not too much wind.
Watching a video, you know I keyword these videos. I go to youtube, and I was watching one in
as a joke uh i mean you guys old enough to remember the three stooges
where they would have mullery and curly and they would have all these goofy sounds the sounds
were really funny that's what made this three stooges so popular he'd go to poker guy guys and
they'd hear blink like he'd pull a string i was watching a video yesterday answering questions and
in a video about the president came up and he's in high winds like this
and they show his hair fly off and i thought and somebody did it to a cord where it made
a little noise like a violin and i thought man that's so funny uh anyway getting back
to this i'll ramble on guys because i can do this so easily now we look at the texture now
you guys want to do this after you do your base coat you can use the same base coat material
if you know how to do it i would advise if you're going to do a window here get the base coat it's
already pre-made it's uh green core by it's it's sold at home depot green core is a fine sand like
this and you can do the scratch coat the brown coat and match this finish coat if you try to get
stucco rapid set stucco that's cement you can do the scratch brown and finish but it's a very heavy
sand so the grit won't match this anyway i just thought i'd throw that out because you
guys might be thinking man i need to do that and and here's how you do it guys look at the texture
you can see they went up you can see they went up and sideways so i'm putting this on here and
what i'm doing i'll say hey how the heck is he matching that finish um well i'm actually
allowing the wall to pull this the texture off i'm not doing the texture the wall is doing the
texture sometimes people saw i don't see how you did that well all i'm doing is filling up see
i like to when i'm doing this i'll put it sideways on the hawk this way that way it goes from here to
here my trial can hold a lot little things like that that the average person might find useful
especially if you don't want to pay the price of a stucco guy like myself or somebody else to come
and do this this guy almost had it man he was he was really really close really close i told him
i said man you know you should have watched a few more videos of how to do it uh anyhow
um here's where it's a little bit off it's a little hollow that's okay and notice i'm leaving
this on i haven't knocked it down there's a reason for that if i knock it down right now said knock
this down it's not going to well i i can do that because i know how much pressure to put
again as i'm putting it on my my hawk there's a 14 inch hock i put it here this uh 18 inch trowel
and so i want to fill the the trowel with as much mud if i go sideways then i'm only
i'm not going to have the full 16 i only have the 14. so okay
that being said i'm going to take this now and and just feather this texture
and when you're doing textures, guys you want to on your uh when you're putting your bonding
agent on, and quikrete at lowe's or home depot they have it they don't sell this uh blue stuff
I'm using which is a bonding agent at lowe's or home depot so don't be afraid to buy some uh
quikrete quick reit quikrete sakri sounds like concrete,
doesn't it? So that's why they make it with the rest at the end, so you familiarize yourself with
uh I think that's the right stuff, okay now up here since I'm on a ladder.
I'm gonna knock it down because I don't want to reset up the ladder now right where it's thicker
I actually know where to put it a little bit thicker than I'm not letting the wall dictate
my move I'm kind of making that move, okay so I have a little bit of uh stucco here left
okay now that's done if I take it I can take it straight up, or I want to get this where it's a
little thicker, so I'm going to take it sideways right there now I'll pull it straight up because I
want that to flatten a little bit more okay now we're going to take that part to drop it down.
easy peasy lemon squeezy if you know how to do it
and this is where it takes a little bit of uh practice guys because you got to look at
it you got to look at the texture here, and if it's pancakes you want to make your pancakes,
that means you've got to put the flat surface on it and go over it because
what you could do wrong is leave it too rough but I this has been painted several times, so
I want when he paints my work to match so I'm going to go over a little bit more
and here is another tip guy you want to make it flatter
get myself in this wind channel for just a second clean your trowel you wet that
trowel that won't stick this way as it won't stick I go flattered now it's it looks painted
oh, keep that in mind, guys there are tricks techniques to everything, and you wet that trial,
it will flatten it out a lot more than say, if it's just dry, so I'm going to come right here,
I'll see that one little high spot right there boom get it to get that get this
here and clean that right underneath the window
you might notice too he said hey you got this square child in your pocket why aren't you using
that real plasterers using a rectangle child not not all the time guys i've been using a
pull trough for uh 30 30 something years okay you see where i'm going with that um i'm gonna
finish this last piece up and it's going to be nothing more than what i'm already doing guys
but since uh we're running out of time and how to film i'm going to leave it right there jason
i thank you for watching and as usual have a great new year and we'll see you guys on the next one
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