hi guys, Kirk and Jason here with another tip of the day, on cracking, oh we did the base coat
here about six-seven weeks ago, I told the fella to install all your sheetrock, well he just got it
done, it's quite a while, two months almost, but he had a question regarding these two cracks and I've been
telling them to hydrate the walls, what does that mean? That just means saturating the walls, mist
and wet them, hose them down, whatever terminology you want, but hydrate the walls, allow them to fill
with water expansion and contract, we're good. we want the crack there's another thing this is
a sliding glass door a lot of these doors and you see that or do you hear it when this door
hits this wall it's the vibration the vibration causes cracking anyway, I told her what we'll do us it's a
painted finish anyhow they are gonna paint this house all we're doing is putting a texture to
match this finish here and then they're gonna paint it I told a man that's not a big deal
most people think hairline cracking is a sign of water intrusion and that the wood is going to get
saturated, far far from the truth guys, cracking on every house is actually quite normal, let me
show you a couple other things here get myself out of the Sun because it's blinding me, we got
a few hairline cracks here here and we got one here I actually put a couple expansion joints
on the top of this simply because these doors are so incredibly heavy kind of like a wood door front
door mahogany or oak when you open and close it and windows they slam these are opening and
closing they slam and vibration causes that, well the fellow here had a story for me, and he goes
like this, he says well,l I knew a guy in he sued a GC because the house cracked and I said really, I
know a lot about cracking why do you think that is and he says well it turns out through litigation,
they open the walls up and that I love this story because I just heard five minutes ago he says the
walls that had stapled off every stud they stapled every stud off 16 on center, and I said yeah that's
the way you're supposed to do it, he says well they found out that the walls that they mist
the stud and only hit the field those didn't crack, and I thought well that's extremely odd
and not proper, because technically when we're stapling off we're supposed to hit every stud
every six inches, and we could put what in the field, where the wires overlap because sometimes
those protrude further than that inch of stucco. that holds per square inch, but I said man, now
that you're on the topic of cracking, let me do two things here what determines cracking, is I'll just
name a few because I can go on about cracking forever is say like trucks going by big garbage
trucks, a wind that moves the house believe it or not rain is the main culprit three months
of rain, let alone two months of rain, the house will lift and drop and that will cause stucco
to crack there are many other reasons such as settling the foundation will settle a roof you
put on your tile roof, that will settle a house that will cause cracking let's the studs okay
I've seen it where the Sun hits a wall now we're talking hotter climates than where we are now
right now we're in the Bay Area cool climates usually doesn't get past a hundred but I've
seen walls in certain areas that 100 degrees 105 year-round in the summertime that the Sun heats
the stucco to about 140-150 sometimes, takes the shear wall expands it when it contracts it cracks
the stucco I've even seen studs that are twisted because they were put in wet and then when the
Sun heats that up and twists them, expands this the stucco and cracks it ,so even the sunshine
on a hot wall for months on end will expand that wood and will expand the stucco and then it'll
shrink and these are just guys the tip of the iceberg, the windows of the doors frigerators
moving inside vibration stucco-like concrete you know it doesn't vibrate well glass will shatter
stucco and concrete will hairline crack is it a big deal not at all so I thought I'd point
it out because we're putting a little fibermesh tape over some of these cracks and I tell them
even if these cracks come back which they can which is not something that an applicator like
myself or a GC really is responsible because we can't control elements I thought I'd point that
out because he told me that bizarre story about the cracking walls and they missed a stud and
that wall didn't crack anyway guys hope that's not too confusing but there's a lot of there's so many -
more reasons why stucco cracks I can't even get into it otherwise I'll bore the crap out of you
guys. my name is Kirk Jason o the camera, we thank you for watching it, as usual, we'll see you guys
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