hi guys Kirk and Jason here with Kirk giordano plastering, today what I want to show you is a
belly band fellas here had a belly band here and they wanted to remove it I had told him well if
you remove it because he was talking about cutting it and I said if you remove it would exposed but
if you take it out then you're gonna have a can of worms in here meaning you should take the whole
wall out of course nobody wants to do that when I tell people that they give me the worst looks so
anyhow he removed the belly band which is embedded in the stucco it always is what we have here are
a couple different things we have the top piece that is a whole inch different from the bottom
so I didn't even encounter this chill just now so what we're gonna do is we're gonna do the best we
can since they don't want to tear the whole wall off and there's a piece of metal right here then
there's studs here this is a stud house that's why it's so difficult to break it out properly
if it was solid shear wall we could break it out right here and actually get a better bite but it's
under a huge Eve so what we're prepared to do is we're gonna fish this paper under here and another
thing to guys is I fella says well gee can't we just cost us you can put say like a really good
caulking like this polyurethane caulking you can go a whole tube right in here and just fish it
in there and that oh that works real well but any time you have an opportunity where you have a lip
of something and this time we do have a lip of that metal it's better to use the lip and just
kind of fish your way in it and then do the caulking so we're fishing that in there and
had I not mark these studs I wouldn't be able to find him so what I'm doing is I'm fishing this in
here fishing it in there now that actually didn't take me too long to do once I took my hammer and I
put it under here and lifted the whole wall to get under this metal right here see that okay
that being said that being done now we take our utility knife and cut it here we just kind of
look at the bottom and cut it out and once it's out now we're gonna do the old talking I'm gonna
pretend like this papers not even here because you can never use enough waterproof membrane
okay here's a whole tube of caulking let's fuse this whole thing together meaning underneath this
flashing where our paper is we're gonna fuse it together and this polyurethane caulking is a real
drag to work with because it's not water cleanup but it does the job it's so powerful as far as a
cocking it fuses the paper to whatever we want it to in this case the stucco I put two bricks
together with three drops as an experiment years ago and couldn't even get them apart
this is great stuff and again there's almost a whole tube it doesn't hurt to use a lot we want
this that's watertight as you can get it it's we have again a huge eve and the folks here are
aware that old kirk recommends taking it all off but most the time i tell people that they give me
the dirtiest looks and say oh we are not planning on taking all this off okay hold two per caulk in
there then we just i got a little bit of mashing you can use there's 20 different wires you could
use the idea is just get it in there fish it in there tap it in there and that's gonna be our
mesh for the stucco we got to have some kind of a wire to make the stucco ed here okay you
just tap it in there tap it in there and this wire will cut you like razor so you got to be
real careful with it fact I'm usually wearing gloves when I'm doing this goofy stuff okay
next thing we're gonna do guys is we're gonna apply a bonding agent why are we gonna apply
a bonding agent well because I've got to feather this in and make it right so I'm using a bonding
agent here and I'm going way above this because I'm gonna have to do a little bit of feathering
in here okay now below is really what's gonna take the ability to feather a wall in because
I just cut it here too here we are a half-inch difference here which is typical because usually
fella comes out they put that belly band in it and if I'm a plaster from a union shop or just
any anybody it doesn't have to be a union shop but I'm working for somebody this is done it's
plastered and then the next guy above it he just does his thing even if it's the same guy
I just pretty common anyhow Jay's gonna mix me up some cement and I'll show you how we feather
this guy in ok guys J mix me up some hot mud got celery toes in it meaning as soon as we put it
on he's got it to where I've got five minutes to use it which five minutes is all I need so
Remember earlier when I said this wall it's got a half-inch, so I'm gonna feather in a little
bit? This wouldn't adhere to just regular paint, so that's why I have to use the bonding agent
come in here one more little scoop out of this bucket, and this is really just how I wanted it
okay that goes on there. We have to feather down a certain for a certain way. Okay, that's there.
that's about right in 10 minutes this is going to be pretty hard guys and then what I can do is
loaded hard rubber float it and float it into this and then it's just a matter of using our skills to
feather in this section to the exception which is about an inch difference but when we get to that
stage we'll show you that too okay guys our base coat is set up and keep in mind what I'm doing now
is I'm a hard rubber float in it meaning I got to get this trim plumb get all the rocks out in here
where I where I floated if I get a grain of sand that's heavier than this at all it'll drag once
I got it to where I need it now this is called hard rubber floating and yes I use a hard rubber
float not a cork float not a fiberglass float but hard rubber that's my choice of doing this and I
feather everything in first then I'll come to a bunch float and I use these guys all day long I
don't want too much water in here but what I want to do is feathered it in just a little bit better
just feather it in so that my skip trial will be a little bit easier a little tighter because this
makes it like tape and mud yeah you go with tape and mothers nothing to it there's no aggregate or
sand what I'm trying to do is soften this up so when I place my texture over here that it won't
show as much see now my joint here is much softer and when the texture is done that appearance will
make a difference grab my mud okay this color coat material because of the same material have
here I can't use this to do the texture otherwise it won't match okay I always look at the fellow
who did this he's he's right-handed like most of us are and he's just going straight up you could
always tell where if he's going up or down by if he's going down the pattern would be fullest
on the top if he's going up the pattern would be fullest on the bottom pretty simple stuff okay now
it's just a matter of feathering it in we come here we stagger our joints stagger those guys
There we go, and somebody might say, man, that wall ain't chew and pluck.
I would say you're right to stop trying plump, take a rod to stick two by four,
just put it on there pretty damn close though pretty close closer than I thought it was it's
on the money anyhow that's how you do this guy. Then you just let after you get your Charlie
your uh skip Chow on it you look at what they got and then you're kind of just match them just like
that anyway guys if you're going to pull off a belly band the most important thing is how you
gonna watertight that guy if you mess up on the texture that's not a big deal. Still, if it leaks,
that is a big deal. Anyhow, guys, my name is Kirk. I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering my son
Jason on the camera. As usual, we thank you for watching, and we will see you on the next fix.