good morning folks Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, and Happy New Year seeing that it's
New Years Eve today what I'm going to do is show you guys how to do these cracks here I get a lot
of calls especially in the third year of recession now not for large jumps but for small jobs oh I
tell folks all the time that best thing to use on cracks here is just this simple stuff it's acrylic
latex and it got a little bit of a silicone in it what I generally use for my stucco trades are
this Sikaflex and this np-1 both of them are poly urethanes but poly urethanes you can't
really paint they're better than this right here but you can't paint it so it's kind of useless
for what we're doing here silicones don't use a silicone either because the silicone will fill
this and won't shrink as much as this but if you use the silicone you can't paint that either it's
silicones great for a fish tank but it's not real great for this now what I did is I cut my
tip just shy of a sharp that way what I want to do is I want to go in the craft not just on the
surface I want to go inside the crack and I'll show you how to match this texture by the way
this texture is a float finish and somebody came around and did a text coat over that with acrylic
sand because obviously the house was leaking and this is a pretty large crack here but this large
crack is going to continue to come back and that's only because we're on a huge Hill if
we were to shoot down you can see we're on a huge Hill we got tree roots everywhere so I'm going to
temporarily fix this crack and it'll probably last five to ten years but it will come back
anyhow and if I use stucco to fix this crack it's just going to pop back off and it's a matter of
a six months so here's what we're going to do guys we're going to fill the crack now what I
want to do is get inside the crack of when I feel completely full not just on the outside
get it just right. It takes a little bit of time. Just squeeze it in there. Don't worry
about the excess coming off and going to the sides because we're going to deal with that a
few minutes when we go to do the texture a lot of ways to do the texture also but
I'll show you the simplest way okay we're just squeezing this caulking right inside that track
Many people call me and say, hey, come and do it, and I tell them, you don't need me. Here's
how to do it majority of people still say I'd prefer you to do it, so I thought if I showed
folks get an idea, it's not that complicated, and some of these larger ones like this got it here
remember we go in the crack I'm holding the tube ride next to it and filling it
next I'll use my finger just to make sure I get it in there pretty tight again like that you
can tear your fingers up doing this but try and make a point here just use my finger and I had
a luxury up if I like to throw a little bit of sand on that but I'm not going to do that this
is a very heavy sand finish I'm going to take the sponge float just kind of DAB it now just
like that let's let this latex here it does tend to shrink up just a hair that's why I
squished it inside the joint a lot of people will put it on the outside not get it real
deep in the joint get it deep in the joint that way when it dries it doesn't shrivel up too much
and you'll have to redo it this is not the best caulking in the world for this but it's the one
I prefer they actually have a 25-year caulking but it's usually for interiors this stuff here
is like three dollars or two this stuff here is about five to eight dollars or two but again you
can't paint it so this this is what I prefer and you just the sponge kind of brings the aggregate
out or bring you just kind of DAB it like that and when this is painted you never even know we
have clear they have white the hell of all different colors but they're going to paint
this anyhow so don't need using a clear never can figure out why why do you clear there you have it
guys it's it's pretty simple stuff I'm here to do a little bit of stuck at work so I told the folks
off fix those cracks me for nothing hopefully you can do this too again I hope everybody has
a Happy New Year and we'll see you on the next one again this is Kirk Giordano plastering for
those you want to do it but simply don't know how don't get any easier than this.