other folks Kirk here with kirk giordano plastering, my son Jason giordanna doing the
video as usual he does the tech stuff today what we're going to do is I've been interested get
interesting things we have a stress crack here you can see here it's been patched many times it goes
all the way through the travertine tile and goes up the side of the wall here it's pretty deep here
it's been fixed a couple times but you can stick well I'd say it's about an eighth of an inch to
a quarter inch thick what the original want to do is just caulk it and fix it so that's not a
better idea would be to put a expansion joint in there this guy here again I dropped several
this is about a half-inch grout and then the typical ones are about 7/8 to 3/4 inch ground
which means I already know this because I've installed thousands of feet of this stuff the
stucco on here at the bottom roughly it should be seven eighths but it could be 3/4 the stucco on
this retaining wall more likely in the half-inch so I brought both that's just in case what we're
gonna do is I'm gonna break out pretty much where this line is I'm going to install this expansion
joint and the only thing you're going to see is the metal front right here the flanges so I can
nail it into the wood here and nail them into the concrete here what that will do is allow this wall
to attract separately from the retaining wall will it stop all the cracks no it's not gonna
stop all the cracks if they had engineered this walkway with rebar and concrete you wouldn't have
this but I'll spokes won't do that anyway it's one of those things I see often where houses are
connected to driveways or houses are connected to garages it's not accounted for as far as the
structural so we're gonna install this guy on here and as well as that side here the CJ if you can
show this crack down here it's pretty substantial what we got here is in this practice is huge and
again by installing the expansion George and I'm gonna follow the line here I want to try to make
it cosmetically as attractive as possible you can only do so much with this kind of work here
to fill this in with caulking that they wanted to do it will read returned within six months to
a year to put an expansion here oh that's more of a long-term thing where that should give the
building and the retaining wall a little bit of give so that's why they call it an expansion joint
so it can expand anyhow we're gonna go ahead and break this out right here and we're going
to install that I'll install it maybe show you a quick thing on how that's supposed to go and then
we're just going to go ahead and cement it up this is a two code system Santa Barbara smooth mission
finishes the style but I could tell it's only two coats here so what I installed it I'll go ahead
match the texture and get ready for these guys to paint because they've already hired a fella
to come here and paint the entire house so when I get to that stage I'll show you that okay folks my
suspicions were accurate this time I thought that was concrete so what I've done is I've nailed this
one side and I used tie wire with little nippers to tie it on the wire here I'm surprised they had
wire but it just shows this was dope really well okay now this expansion joint here we want it
straight want it to match here and of course I'm gonna level it just to be on the safe side that
guy is pretty straight then when we put our stucco we wanted also to come around and curve and come
right into this guy so this is done real well so now that it when I when I go ahead and stucco it
and feather it all in real well you're not going to notice it except for just the expansion right
where it's necessary the other side is the same thing all right guys we're at a stage now we're
both coats are done I put luminite in my cement to harden it quickly of course the other side is
in the shade it's nowhere near ready with this again because this is a finish and we're going
over we're using premium cement with a lot of sand you float it in like this float it you get
your joint real clean forget the drinks very clean and the final step so all of this is and
of course I embedded I embedded this guy so you're not going to be able to see the edges you just see
the center now last thing I'm gonna do is finish over it now this finish here it's it's cold Santa
Barbara it's it's a smooth mission finish it has very little aggregate aggregate it's just a fancy
name for sand so this has very little aggregate and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and
cover this and yeah I'm gonna fill that hole but I'll dig it out afterwards so I could trial this
down a lot tighter then I can do just a regular scratch and brown Highway when they paint this in
a plan a lot tighter like that even get a little bit on this bullnose edge and what I'm doing here
and of course where am I I miss it not a big deal if I've missed that bent over here I'll
just retrial so again this is this is almost complete here all I got to do is feather this
engine here feather that engine and go over a couple more times I'll show you that completely
when I'm when I'm done they were done with this guy okay guys there you have it they're usually
little cheap brushes to go ride along the inside of the air get a nice clean finish he's actually
gonna tear this up right here this crack channel in here so I didn't need to be that meat but
figured I'd better be anyway I use Santa Barbara which has got the least amount of aggregate as I
said and I don't know if the camera will shows but this is pretty smooth because it they originally
used Santa Barbara then they painted it a couple times so it smoothes it out just a bit more so I'm
gonna tell the painter when he does this to prime this twice and that way it'll you know smooth it
in like this but later I'm gonna come back to and trial it just a little tighter it's still wet here
anyway that's a proper way to do an expansion joint now granted it's always better to do it
before you do it but sometimes we don't always have that luxury anyway this is Kirk with Kirk
giordano plastering, thanks for watching thanks Jay for doing that video and we'll see on the next one.