Hello Folks, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering,
today I want to show you guys some common stucco stuff and when I say common it's common for stucco
to chip off at the bottom, it's typical in fact especially when you got the scenarios that we
have here on this side notice there's no weep screed. There doesn't have to be a weep screed, weep screeds weren't
code in 1975, and actually enforced until about in 1980. So the house is 100 years old now when they called
me out and they said how come this is separated as well you've got two coats of stucco on it
originally you see the porch there that's the finish that was on this whole house and by the
way folks a lot of people call me and say hey Kirk, I got a real rough finish can you make it
smooth like Santa Barbara? and I tell them sure we can do anything anybody wants out of stucco,
in order to make this wall smooth, you first have to put a half-inch to 7/8 of stucco over it means
you've got to pressure wash it, we've got to apply a bonding agent, then we got a skim coat. Then allow
that to set in color coated now notice over here this wall here it's 2 inches thick you've got an
inch here, and then you got another inch plus the the color coat could they have got this smooth like
Santa Barbara's smooth mission finish? Absolutely but they did a skip trowel instead. Now I was I'm
looking at this planter box this planter box is ready to fall, I didn't notice that until Jay
pointed that out to me and I said well I'm sure it doesn't have dirt in it. he said, dad, that's full
of dirt anyway you see my little buddy right here that's a black widow, ah what I was doing yesterday is
I was pulling this stuff out and I told her, I said gee if it were me, I mean granted I
normally talk cost, but I totally look a couple a hundred bucks I'll fix this side and a couple
hundred I'll fix the other but if you really want to do it right I'd advise you take it off of here
you know a couple hundred more and we see some wood that's damaged or beat up because they've
allowed this stuff here to grow in there and what happens is this grows in there and over 50 years
it pushed it stays wet it pushes the wood out a little bit each year make sure that spiders not
coming down on me each year this keeps the wood wet, you could have some wood rot there but it's
pushed it out quite a way so what we're going to do today is got my handy dandy gloves on, then and
pull some of this nasty stuff out here. Then we're going to scrape this we're going to pull back the
dirt about two inches I'm going to cut them clean this foundation is up a little bit better meaning I'm
gonna take a water hose wire brush and scrape all this and pull all this stuff out and then
put a bonding agent on here, and some wire and build this out five inches and kind of pyramid
it down and give it the same texture it's more cosmetic what I'm doing because they don't want
to get into opening the wall and all your folks who called me to come you didn't do this or that I
do what folks tell me to do I recommend things and whatever they say, Kirk, that's what I want that's
what we do anyway we're going to go ahead and prop a ladder there who knows, I don't plan on pounding
on this wall but at the same time I don't want to be unfortunate and have that thing fall on my head
and kill me. That's about 80 pounds of dirt right above me, that sure looks like it's coming off. oh
we're going to go ahead and turn that camera off and next time you see us will have this prepped
Oh well show you how to prep it and again guys I see this often, don't panic it's not that big
of a deal but don't allow plants to grow next to your wall and up and that's a big no-no, that's a
cardinal sin guys, you never want to have a planter boxes on your house you can see right here where
the planters the plants started to grow all over and even over there those are all falling off too
I just happen to notice that, because Jay pointed this one out when she gets home, I'll tell her how
are you I'd get rid of those forget it all they do is rot out the house. All right guys here's
where we're at now taking a wire brush and a wire brushing the mess out of this then I'm hitting it
with water because I got to put Weld-Crete on this to both and plus I would put some wire there and
I don't want it dust and that's what effect the adhering of the stuff of big-time stuff we don't
want that we got to have it so it adheres earlier I was doing this and Jay says dad don't move and
he says that's damn spiders on your neck I hit my head so hard on this I thought what are you
trying to do man, dude knock that shit off me, got me nervous now, but anyway back to playing around
here, do that and you can put the Weld-Creat on it this is going to have to set. Now for at least all
10 minutes 15 minutes because I want this Weld-Creat to dry plus it gives me time to put some
wire on here and hammer tack it or concrete nail it into this concrete that we have here and when
we get to that stage I'll show it to you. Alright guys now that we have all this prepped ah Okay, mix
me up some mud with a lot of accelerators in it we good this has got three scoops of luminite, what
is luminite? That is an accelerator to harden this up in five minutes and it's a good thing because it
is raining on us right now but by the time we only need about ten minutes and this coat
right here is going to set as what looks pretty wet right now which is good now I can use skill
rather than muscle, because if it was somewhat dry I'd be using muscle to put this on and it looks
like that's all we need right here but it's still five inches thick so what I'm going to do is use
this whole bucket I'm going to keep compressing it because I don't want air space in the back it's
going to take me a while to do this so rather than bore you guys with back and forth, which will take
about another 10 minutes I'm just going to keep pushing it in pushing it in pushing it in so this
starts to set up and when it starts to set up and it won't go back any further than it's touching
that wall and by that time maybe ten minutes this will be a set where I can do this quick texture
and show you that alright guys, change of plans it is pouring down rain supposed to rain till about
five six hours from now anyhow what I'm going to do is scratch this and that is already pretty hard
if I had another 15 minutes I could finish this up and the other side but no need, I'm in no hurry
for this stuff generally what I'm going to do it when I come back you'll see I'm going to round
this off here and finish it but again pouring down rain like this, it's dangerous and I don't
want that planter box to fall on my head, so I'll see you tomorrow okay guys. we are back over here
said about five-six days we're in California we're getting our winter in the springtime. it is what it
is. I looked at this expected to be washed out but it's not we had a little bubble down here where
the rain hit it so what we're going to do now is I'm going to put my so-called second coat on and
as soon as I get this second coat on I'm gonna give it about oh because the coat underneath
this will dry out this code I'm going to give it about 15 minutes, then I'm going to kill some
time on the other side and we'll show you how we do the texture to match this, we'll see guys
in about five more minutes alright guys we are putting a conclusion on this now and it's a week
later and I'm still worried about that planter box so I stuck that ladder back because all that dirt
in there is still wet now it's even heavier and all I did was put on a second coat I kind of like
to pyramid my bottoms down just a little bit not so it's very noticeable, but so it really holds if
you're going to go this route because it doesn't have the expansion screed, Okay we're actually four
inches thick too because of the two coats of stucco and two just because they never used a
screen they had a planner here so now I'm matching it with the texture similar to what they got here
and I say the texture the mud everything we just now used was pretty wet because of all the rain so
we had to improvise and while we improvised we had enough time to go ahead and caulk a whole bunch of
cracks around the house do the other side there and this side is finally ready guys one thing if
you're going to do this don't wait on the mud to dry you can be here all they even us experienced
guys if you're not certain do something else and just keep busy you've got a multitask all
the time that way you're not sort of waiting for painted your IR stuck on the drive anyhow
this tester here now is what we call a fine gift trowel finish that's what they used when they did
this about ten years ago so I've come here I'll put my finish on it to match theirs and I just I
just kind of look up at it and it's it was a skip trial and they just kind of drug it tight and made
it flattened just a pancake ish but that's okay we can match that and right here where the door
was I just rounded that right off round it right off give that bottom a little bit of a pyramid
so it gives it more stretch and there you have it guys anyhow my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano
plastering, Jason and I thank you for watching and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next quick fix.