Good morning folks Kirk Giordano with Kirk Giordano plastering, here we're going to do today
stucco repair we've got about 40 50 little patches around the entire home here's the main one this
guy here water is getting into the stucco and it's moving the stairs back and so what we're going to
do is they keep adding stucco they keep adding it we're inch past the wall inch and a half here
inch and quarter here and two inches here so what we're gonna do is we're gonna break the stucco out
here we're gonna try to get some paper and we're gonna take our new paper go into this existing
paper and go down as far as we can with the paper because the idea is to waterproof this and then re
stucco it but put the stairs back where it's not cosmetically ugly so we're gonna put our stucco
to the wall here instead of the stucco here that's the main thing here we have a lot of this cracks
like this for stress cracks because we're tied in the walls tied into the concrete it's also
tied into the foundation which is not a big deal it just tends to crack the walls so we're going
to get started here with the breakout and we all explain it as we do it there by a few folks
need to do something like this at least you'll have a pretty good understanding of how to do
okay, folks we're at a stage here where we've removed all the stucco and what we have is of
course the 1 by 8 slash and what I'm doing is many different types of membrane you can place
here grace membrane makes a good one goes all the way down but we're hitting wood and we're hitting
the concrete down here you write a properly watertight this is remove the stairs and then
take it to the floor but we don't have that luxury or option working homeowner afford it doesn't want
to do it I don't blame so we're doing the best we can with what we have the favor is in pretty
good condition so well I'm I'm using a window wrap it's a peeling skin and I'm placing that
down as far as we can go and then I'm going to put four more layers of paper under this paper
here and go down as far as I can I'm going to take this polyurethane caulking and cost this right in
here that way I'd bridge it so or chuckles for us the water will go through the stucco and go down
in here we don't want it to go down in here so that's what I'm going to fill this up right here
with tubes of six flex caulking we are going to talk some of these other cracks up here I'm gonna
call it these cracks right here we have hundreds of feet of tractor on this house this is what I'm
gonna use for the hairline cracks because that's the finish and they're gonna paint it a crack this
size here I will use this all your thing caulking it's a bit of a drag because it's all over your
fingers and you need thinner to get it off but it will bridge this and folks say well gee why don't
you put stucco in there because stucco when this building moves and we're up on the hill we'll cut
it into concrete but it into the foundation here with no weep Street this building will
move and when it does if I do stucco in there it's just going to wreak RAC it out at least
this polyurethane caulking will allow it to flex a little bit and besides 100-ton building decides to
move no amount of caulking is gonna stop it anyway that's where we're at right now soon enough we're
going to be doing the scratch coat and the brown coat and this is a - finish I do a lot
of these with the - we're almost at that stage alright guys we are at the final stage at the
lab and again what we do is we have the window wrap we have craft paper over that black paper
over that we got about five six layers now what I'm doing finally it is and put enough Sikaflex
polyurethane coffee really sticky nasty stuff but when we stuck on this I want the water to
come on top of here come on here and not go behind here it's going to protect it as much as possible
with what we have over here other than black you can come in gets it all colors the bluest up is
wealthy because we're gonna put a little skim coat of plaster over this so this this stuff here it
doesn't have to be pretty then have to be pretty at all because it's gonna get covered up in a few
minutes so the polyurethane caulking for these huge cracks it's not a quarter inch thick and I'm
just going to use the regular latex with a little silicon or the hairline cracks around the entire
property there you have it as far as the best you can do with what we're left with we're not
removing the concrete steps so if we do the best we can alright folks and there it is this is the
wrap-up of easy part the stucco work again this is for those of you who want to do it but don't know
how I hope I've explained it in a manner where at least if you give it your best shot you can
Get and watertight, alright, thank you again. This is Kirk giordano plastering, we thank you for watching, and we'll see you don't the next one.