hello ladies and gentlemen Kirk and Jason Giordano here today well I'm gonna show you
how to repair something that is extremely common what is extremely difficult is knowing the right
material to do it with now this is a weird finish it's steel trowel when you still chow something
you close it and it can't breathe so it's gonna have some hairline cracks this was done a couple
of weeks ago the hard part was feathering it or the transition we call this feathering it
in transition okay can you see this excess grit this excess grip they had quite a few people here
excess grit it's real difficult too bad roots not in the sunshine but anyway we're gonna make
do with what we got I came over here yesterday and until the guy like I can't fix that that's not a
problem and it won't take me but a half hour to do the whole house I've been here about an hour now
because of the ladder work anyhow I tried to get the material but the materials not sold at any of
the hardware stores now I know them all guys I was looking for a smooth stucco a smooth stucco finish
preferably in acrylic because if I use a smooth stucco finished coat that is cement tshis I would
have to weld Crete all this it's a lot of work anyway this is Jay and I had a video we did about
seven eight years ago and I was asking what's that what's that material we use what's that material
and Jason was like pictures oh no it was image and I said Amash okay this is what we use guys this
is mi smooth so that it's by perixx and what does that mean you have three types of sand with stucco
you got your fine and medium in your course so right now what you're seeing is regular scratching
Brown and this is the thigh or the medium sand it's plastering or old Olympia sand but how are
you going to get the finish from here to blend in here where you don't see the transition a couple
ways to do it is you sacrifice your key or you just do it like this and come back and I'll show
you what we're gonna do guys and yeah we're we're under quarantine also buddy of mine Eric from
Westside was kind enough to say Kirk hey we're shut down but for you I'll meet you at the gate
with the pail of that image just so I can show you guys how to do this now image this is for smooth
coats on the exterior of your house guys you have to do two coats why because there's nothing in it
it's like tape and mud there's hardly any sand so the less sand you can't go thick otherwise
if you go thick a crack now you can see what they already did here they used an elastomeric
product look like glue but it still didn't work because it's not it doesn't have the sandy if it
doesn't have the same you're not gonna match that guys okay I'm gonna start from here here and work
around now the idea is want to get the transition out I'm just all I'm doing guys is steel trailing
it with a lot of muscle and by the way too with this particular product they ask or recommend that
you use stainless steel trowel I'm using a carbon trowel that's I could use my shoe guys it really
doesn't matter but for a whole house if I was gonna do a whole house which I've done and I've
done this on whole houses before many times but still a steel trowel is good but whatever trowel
you want to use that's all fine and dandy the idea is to know your materials and I've said this a lot
of times guys plastering is about 30 percent of a good plaster the other the other 70 is just
material knowledge I mean it took Jay and I about an hour just to locate that video because I didn't
keyword it right I should have said smooth finish for stucco repairs instead I said crack repairs so
I'm gonna change that anyway you see where I'm going here are now that's this finish can set
about like right now it's cold it's cold and windy so this will set about ten minutes but I'm gonna
accelerate it right now guys because we don't want to wait here and be here 10 more minutes
all right so I'm gonna take this float this this one's seen better days but Oh Kurt can use it and
you got to wet your child guys with this product you always want a wet trial wet both sides get
all those clinkers off wet both sides and this is made specifically for exterior skies it's
an acrylic stucco now what I'm doing here is I'm just getting the joint guys and that's what they
did before they just got the joint but if you get two joint and you're using only sand or let's see
you got only you know limpia is your two main sand you're still going to pull out the aggregate this
is pulling out the aggregate but because there's hardly any sand in this it's not much aggregate
to pull now you just come back hit it hit it and if it goes too thick what do you do guys you let
it dry and you put another coat because this is a to coach system but for the sake of trying to get
it right with one and we can do that we'll just put that on and I'm going to dry the float out
why am i driving this float out draw and float out because I don't want to be here all day and
I'm hitting it like this not trying to bend it a different way that dries it out takes all the
moisture out and as I dry it out now I can hit it one last time without having to do it two coats
and what I'm doing is putting my trial on edge I'm putting it on edge say like if I put it on edge
here I could almost pull off the XL difficult finish difficult tie in but with the right
material guys you can do it and by the way we're not supposed to be well we're self quarantined
Jason has so much time at the house he did these hats right here I think they're kind of cool
that's how much time we have on our hands guys so coming here and doing this it's fun for us anyhow
my name is Kirk J's and on the camera we thank you guys for watching and as usual we'll see you on
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