hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today I got a tip for you on new
materials and what you can buy you guys have asked me for years Kirk I got a small job I really got
to go buy that 94 pound bag and I always say yes you do they don't make them smaller but
these days they do make them smaller there's a 25 pound boxes here they're not they're not
that heavy especially for you homeowner 25 pounds is pretty light and I have actually seen them
in cans too now granted folks, when I go buy my materials, I go to the professional yards like
Westside building materials, or Close or any of the big companies and I get 100-pound sacks
94-pound sacks and sand if you go to any of the hardware stores I mean any of them they all have
ten or fifteen different brands I just got a couple of these brands just show you something
now this says stucco patch what a stucco patch mean that means a base coat right here this is
a base coat that's one inch thick technically it could be an inch and a quarter it could be happen
now yeah give you another tip to guys again, it says stucco patch but mortar mix mortar is usually
you can call it for me I call this mortar I call grout mortar we called concrete mortar
mortar mix and this stucco patch are similar, very similar so if you get one and you say oh gee you
read the box, and it's don't panic guys you can use either one for the wall this one here stucco patch
let me see what these guys recommend you they say crack resistance nothing crack resistance guys so
it says water-resistant, well that's better than saying waterproof okay on this one here and by
the way these products here it's I mean it's all over it it says one coat these are you could you
could do one coat but what I do and what I did here is I put its first coat on then I put the
second coat on what happens if you try to put one fat inch don't do it guys it falls all over
the place and it cracks sometimes a lot more so double coated also I'm not pointing any particular
companies guys because I'm not nobody's rep but I just show you do it yourself fellows that if you
use any of the rapid set products and yeah this is rapid set there's, BMI, makes it, quikrete
makes it, and twenty other companies if you use any of these rapid set products don't overmix
you could use Portland cement and mix it for an hour but this stuff three to five minutes
usually almost with every rapid set product why because you will destroy the integrity they have
a tendency to become weak and become compromised if you over mix them so don't do it also two guys
while I'm at it let me mention one thing a lot of you guys are calling me and said, Kirk can I
use this product it's already pre-mixed the pre-mixed products whether it's for tile or
whether it's for stucco and I don't want to step on anybody's toes, I don't use them why because
they're not as strong they don't whether it's for stucco it's not as strong and that's my personal
opinion whether it's tile and you try to save your self some time by not putting all this right here
we got to take this open it put it in a bucket we got to add water powder goes everywhere you just
wear a mask it's kind of a drag but if you buy I'm not recommending the stuff that you buy in
the buckets already pre-mixed guys again it's not as strong so if you're gonna do it homeowners do
it with these bag stuff and mix it another tip to these things you don't have to add sand you
just add water to these and most of these products you see at the big companies that's all they are
just add water and read the instructions because I could be off on a product or two I'm not a whiz on
every single product by every single maker anyway guys I wanted to point out they sell them in 25
pound bags they sell them in ten pound little cartons and boxes too so no longer do you have
to buy 94-pound bag and that's my one of my main questions everybody asked me so hopefully this
this helps y'all guys go to the hardware store do a little bit of research and get these light bags
if you have this how many boxes do you use for something like this I use three anyway my name
is Kirk I'm with Kirk giordano plastering, Jason on their camera, as usual, we thank you for watching
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