hi guys Kirk and Jay here with another tip of the day talking Jay and I did this job we actually
did it on video and I showed how many coats we put right here we put about four coats because
it was about two inches thick but even if it was a half inch thick or standard 7h thick or 3/4 thick
it could still hairline now the contractor who did this work he called me says hey Kirk I went by but
I didn't see any cracking but the homeowner said it was cracked so I don't know what to tell you
and I said when did you go look at it he said I wouldn't looked at it yes it has and yesterday it
was like 75 degrees what time he said after work I said well what happened was you went looked at
it the Sun was on it it heated up the plywood underneath or the wood whatever type of wood it
is and it expanded and so you can't see cracks if the walls say a hundred degrees let alone
140 the walls the wood expands and it pushes the stucco expands it so the cracks disappear
you can only see crack guys early morning or if it's on a cold day when the walls not expanded
it's about 7:00 in the morning right now son I haven't even hardly come up so I decided to come
by here and caulk these now notice this is the - finish and I spent about a half hour on the phone
with a guy the other day and he said I had some cracks Newhouse that came out that caulk it and
the caulking looked bad so they textured it and when I painted it it was a nightmare and I said
you guys screwed up you shouldn't have had to do that okay number one guys this is a gritty
finish so what am I going to use I'm going to use a caulking with sand in it now I personally like
more flex more flex FLE xx this is beige this is the same color of stucco but if you can't find
more flex sometimes tile caulking works because it has sand in it my favorite caulking of the circle
flux from sicka man I've done a lot of videos using this stuff here and explain what it's about
if I use that here it'll leave a smooth line and then when it's painted I'll look like an amateur
so I don't want to look like an amateur I know what I'm doing I'm going to show you how we get
this one crack right here now that's a hairline crack if you have quality paint a quality primer
and paint will flood this crack and it'll be gone however this is my work so I told them I'll come
by and I'll caulk it now I'm going to show you how to caulk this and you don't want the caulking on
the outside you want the caulking in the crack early morning so let's clean this tip and what
I'll do guys is I'll I'll put it in thick and there's a number of ways to match this finish
now I'm putting it on thick and yeah it's going all over the edges I'll show you how to feather
the edges in there's two different ways to do it actually it's quite a few you can get a brush you
can use your gloves you can use a float I'll just show you a couple ways all right now if somebody
were to paint that every an eyesore guys and this does have the sand in it so sandy here here's what
I'll generally I'll take my glove and I'll squish it in those holes in that crack I want to push it
in even deeper than what I started out with you notice how because this coffee has the sand in
it is blending right in right in if you go with a say a 35-year latex or acrylic it's not going
to look good guys because there's no sand in that there's a lot of ways to fix cracks guys this is
only one just this way works well okay you get that in there now personally me I'm roughing
it up a little bit that'll match if you guys say man I can't do that you could also do this
too guys now notice I'm wearing a glove and you here's a float here's a big difference between
the more more flex and most talking's other than silicones or these polyurethanes are user friendly
I can take water and hit this and just make it a little bit prettier now boom that's done guys
if I were to use say an acrylic or I'm sorry if I was you use a silicone or this this polyurethane
it's not water cleanup you need thinner denatured alcohol so I prefer the more flex here anyway if
you want it rougher Pat it or you can go back to the glove it was about it's about two or three
cracks guys and it doesn't matter if you go one inch two three four stucco can crack especially
when you're opening and closing doors movement stuff like that stucco technically does crack
anyhow anyway guys I thought I'd point that out because I was just talking to a fella he says
Willy they caulk it and he went everywhere so they retexture dit and when they painted it they it's
such an eyesore what do I do now and I side total well tell the guys to come back scrape it all off
and redo it but this time tell them to watch this video anyway my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk
Giordano plastering Jason on the camera we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see you guys
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