hi guys Kirk and jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today we're going to show you stucco
101 what does that mean going to show you how to do a soffit a lid a ceiling whatever you want to
call it means the same thing what we've got here is we've got paper to ply paper under on the on
the sheathing and because this is sheathed I've done a lot of videos where it wasn't sheathed and
it was just the rafters or studs coming out this way and we put this rib lath on it red black under
1/8 or 3/8 and that's for rigid e so it could be sturdy goes on this way so if there's 16
inch centers you put this 1/8 but if it's 24 inch centers you're better to use 3/8 rib anyway that's
another story well we got here this is called 3.4 mesh dimpled 3.4 mesh or self a bird 3.4 mesh used
to have dimples like button board but this one just has the dimples here why well because this
plywood here and it's solid backing and when we apply stucco to something that's solid back and it
still has to mushroom like say we're plaster and interior we're going over say the theater would
laugh it adheres by mushrooming over the surface so we're going to do that here too I'm going to
get back started because I'm almost done with this and explain it while I actually did work this way
I can keep moving and we can get the job done what I'm doing here is I'm putting the first coat of
cement off whether or not it's a wall or a ceiling still gets two coats so it's just we're working
against gravity we're going to get to drop out sort of drop out me that means it's going to fall
ah technically what I'm doing ceilings I'm holding my hawk underneath the work and I'm preparing for
drop outs because we're defying gravity now you defy gravity you bound to get some dropouts watch
long enough and hopefully we get lucky drops out on my head that's happened many times when you're
this is our fourth feeling today fourth stop it so even if it dropped on me up at the point where I
could care less because we're just trying to get done now and and this Friday been a long week for
us what I generally tend to do guys is say for example we laughed this and I put my laugh this
way now I'm going crisscross because it hangs better and if you guys decide to do this on a
wall the same same procedure what I try to do when I do a ceiling is never work underneath your own
work right now I'm under my own work but this I'd done about ten minutes ago the mud we're using is
a 15 minute mud what is 15 minute mud mean we've got 15 minutes to apply that's going to get hard
do I need more time than that not really you folks you're ever going to do something like
this go to straight Portland cement and mix your Portland cement two to one that means that means
two times as much sand as cement plaster I'm using cement plaster you can call Shotgun you can call
it mud UK to call it muck you call it a lot of names but it's shuffle and why do I use only
twice the amount of sand as opposed to when I'm doing walls what I'm doing walls I'm going three
two one because when you're doing stop it again you're defying gravity and when you define gravity
you got to push hard the butters got a set and it can't be too sandy you've got to have more cement
than actual well above almost equal amounts but I don't want to confuse you guys and say too many
things like that two to one and you'll be okay for a soffit for a scratch coat what are we doing here
today we're doing a scratch a brown and we're going to do a color finish can you do less or
scratch Brown and a color critics in a day on this our fourth soffit you can is Oh Kirk advise it no
I don't advise it because you should allow your scratch of brown to cure say say as a rule you've
done your your scratch coat you let that scratch set 48 hours then you come back you brown it you
look at brown coat or the second coat and no it ain't brown it's just called a brown coat you let
that coat set for a minimum of two weeks then you come and do a color coat but can I get away with
doing a color code today - sure I can why good question because our job is to do is scratch and
brown and match this texture but I told the fella here since we work so often for method okay what
I'm gonna do now go ahead and color it for you - and he says well you can do that that's it sure
make rack may hairline but what can do it for you and as a rule guys a lot of these products
will you say they're crack free now that's kind of nonsense and the reason why it is say you
suspend this stucco right here in midair yeah it's going to be crack free when you put it on a wall
this wall moves say like this sliding glass door somebody gets pissed off they walk outside and
slam that door vibration vibration and movement caused hairline cracking in stucco and it's like
kryptonite to Superman so guys if you got any bags and they say it's crack free disregard it because
you will get some cracks when you have movement say like you get thirty days of rain that's going
to lift the house and that's called movement and when the drier conditions occur you'll get some
hairline crack is it a big deal not really what is the big deal is I'm out of mud hey don't make this
more mud okay guys well J mix I took a breather give that shoulder a chance to come back to life
it's funny how many of you guys do this stuff and the first the first soffit or two your arm feels
like it's going to fall off and start burning and as you keep doing it that burn just goes away it's
like whoa second wind so I got my second wind back quite a few times and this is a cinch now again it
feels like this morning when I first started the first office nothing but stress how much strength
does it take guys would you assume to put each stroke on say like from here that I'm pulling
I would say it's the equivalent of lifting a 25 pound dumbbell over your head not so much strength
I'm pushing because if I don't push it's gonna fall off so if I just do something like that I
fall right off so we got to push guys you got to push it hard push it real hard to get it up there
now let's see if I could explain a few more things as I'm going we are using a product that is same
day same day scratch same day brow but you always do two coats notice that I cannot put this on one
solid coat especially on a ceiling nobody can do that because if it could be done Oh Kirk will be a
lot of good but that cannot be done anyhow you go back-to-back you do your scratch coat you do your
brown coat and I'm playing a juggling act on these planes what I do guys is I wet everything before I
start this yeah we cover the ground because how good you are you're going to drop some stucco
especially when you're doing this often anyway the fact that we're done now I'll show you something
else you take a scratcher well it's the scratcher I just scratch your scar fire is a technical name
for it and you start off and you put some scratch marks on it this what we're going to do is to
allow this to dry out but more importantly the second coat or the Browncoats adheres to disk and
I like to waffle myself it's like that you put it one way and put it the other way and if you
get any dropouts by the time I'm done waffling the whole thing then I'll patch those in and when we
get ready to do the second coat will show you that too all right guys we have given that all about 20
minutes now we're putting the final coat on now with a soffit sealing really have to go half-inch
guys we don't have to go a full inch unless it's commercial or shopping centers you got to go to
a full leg that's funny me and Jay were mixing and I was classroom and a fella comes by just a minute
ago he says you know I used to be a plaster and a hot care and we were talking and he says you ever
you have a high caste it man I was a hot care of applause the plaster you got a you got a before
you learn to run it says what part of hot care was the worst thing and I said haha dude that's
too easy we had the hot ladder hot ladder was wood and it had wood wrongs that were every six inches
and it was thirty feet long and it weighed about 200 pounds I said the hardest part was sharing
that hard ladder and then find an electrical line because then you're carrying a 30-foot hard ladder
worried about 200 pounds waiting more than I did and you electric line you'd have to bend down and
sometimes you just dropped that ladder he said oh yeah you were a hot carrier fellows about 87 years
old and I well that's what he told us anyway I said did you don't look a day over like 70 that's
the beauty of working hard guys all your folks who sit in office chair all day all you can have that
kind of work I'd rather do this any day and when I get home I love say hey babe you want to go to
gym hey baby no I just come from the gym the only difference is I got paid so anyway guys I'm going
to leave you with this we're going to allow this to cure a little also let me come back and show
you how we color code it and put this texture can i texture this just the way it is and match
that absolutely but again like like the saw fit up there that was our third one we've done this
our fourth one today and becoming a long day so we're going to allow this to set up then we'll
just show you that last phase of it all right guys we're on the last phase of this J mix me
up some color coat in a bucket I don't need a board for this these scoops work fine and dandy
so what we're doing here yeah I left a little bit I want to texture to everything around here
and what happens guys when you wet a color coat maintenance-free integrated finish mouthful and
it darkens so like the whole building was done about 75 years ago and it was done with this
blue so my favorite tool is $1 brush I went ahead and I put the blue everywhere I take this dollar
brush clean up all the edges all the way around the whole perimeter take that brush now chuck
it because it is no longer good but I'll show you what we were doing now so we'll take this
blue and we'll tie in two hours I didn't want to bore you with the whole Oh 20 minutes of texture
and spreading and all we're doing now guys it's just some cover color coverage to cover up the
base coat base coat is scratching the Broncos now we'll take this guy here finish it up and
just do the text you tie in text you tie in pretty simple I expect for the fella who hired me which
I do a lot of work for to say cool beans Kirk glad you put some color in there although we're
leaving it as a surprise to them because what's worse to have a color coat this color coat 70
years old never comes off never have to paint it that's the beauty of a color code maintenance-free
integrated finish this color coat is not going to match this color but if he were a prime minister
that would be even worse because when it gets wet this would be the same color and this would
be darker it would look real funky so we just happen to have some blue on the truck and we
use some la habra a base coat or the finish coat finish coat can be Santa Barbara twenty thirty
sixteen twenty it doesn't matter because it's on a soffit and if you know what you're doing you
can match either one of them got a holiday here so we cover that holiday and we just make sure
tie it all in try not to kink it back
and there you have it guys a three coat system all in the same day and yeah I've
done a whole house like this before but that was for experimental reason I don't advise
anybody to do scratch Brown and a color on a house the same day we did it because while
we were getting paid to do it and that's what they wanted so sometimes folks are in a hurry
but you guys who watch what we do take your time do a scratch coat come back another day do brown
and then do a final finish as usual guys live long and plaster Kirk out by the way folks my
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