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  1. I have a question.
    I have a 2000sq ft 28 X 72 mobile with wood siding.
    It's in AZ and I am wondering if I could hire someone to stucco over the siding and all the way to the ground? I think that would make it look just like a home.
    Is that possible to do on a manufactured home? Thank you.

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    • just posted without reading your explanation. I'll always listen to a pro! Cheers Kirk and gang. Love your vids and knowledge. As a bonus I grew up in Marin and worked in Alameda for years so I always try and figure where you guys are at in your vids..

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    • Howdy Jen, mobile homes are not built with the structural integrity to carry the extra 5 to 10 tons of additional stucco.
      Door and windows are not set accordingly to allow 7/8 of additional stucco.
      Often studs are 2×2 instead of 2×4 so each staple could rupture gas, water, and electrical lines.
      Roofs are not designed with overhans and so on and on……
      Live long and Plaster
      Plastering tips from your favorite stucco geeks

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    • Howdy Warty, having any home is a blessing, there are many homeless folks here in Alameda who sleep in front of the police department as it's safer than under bridges, where the poor young healthy homeless can be quite cruel, to the homeless whom the majority have serious illnesses.
      So once again, if you own anything, count your blessings.
      Best wishes,
      Kirk Giordano Plastering

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  3. Thanks for the "nitty gritty" on a grit finish. Kirk and Jason make that Tex- Coat look textbook. Nice job guys. I thought your finger holes added to the finish and never would have known it was a patch if you left them. hehe

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  5. Be careful up there, the insurance company would be happy to have such a video if you screw up. And to you viewers, please learn from Kirk only the tricks of the profession and not the carelessness, from my experience the difference between building a professional scaffold and shortcuts can be the difference between earning or losing in this project. Kirk, please put here a link to your video working on a standard scaffold (apologizing for spelling mistakes, I used google translation).

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    • Howdy, my friend, your translations are indeed the genius.
      The plank in this video is 27 feet long and legal, I have had it for 30 years and don't often find time to use it unless repairs are not far from the ground.
      I have witnessed a friend of mine have only two ladder jacks and a similar plank set of the ladder jacks , where his son stood on one side, and he walked 12 feet past where the end was on the ladder jack to fasten a gutter.
      When I looked up and said that dammed dangerous he just laughed.
      That said scaffolding is no joke, I have had scaffold fail working at a new Kaiser hospital hospital 30 years ago as it collapses my wrist was brooke in two places, as when I landed a plak fell perfectly like a mman choopping wood with an ask and snaped both bones like a twig.
      I was told I'd never plaster again,
      So your right, old kirk explains plastering, just don't work off buckets of the other things that old Kirk sometimes does.

      Live long and Plaster
      Plastering tips from your favorite stucco geeks

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    • Thank you for the answer, although I read excellent English, but unfortunately I do not write well at all so I'll just say thank you again for the positive approach and all the tips and methods you have presented, thanks to your videos on YouTube I knew very enjoyable trade and make a living from it.

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  6. The stucco around the newly upgraded windows here isn't perfectly flat with the walls. It's sticks out about a half inch around the window frame. I assume that's because the windows protrude from the walls a little bit too.

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    • Howdy Dude, the average new window installation is usually about 1/4 inch past the original stucco wall.
      That being said I have seen them where they stick out 1/8 to 4 inches and or inset of the wall, this is where we have to bull nose them to give a decent appearance.
      I have seen it all and found there is no incident that we could not handle no matter whow screwed up the installation.
      Best wishes,
      Plastering tips from your favorite stucco geeks

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    • Howdy Leo, it's good living, besides like "nickleback said,
      "Never made it as a wise man. I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing.
      Had to find a trade that can food on the table without me going back to prison.
      Best wishes,
      Professional answers on plastering projects with issues

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    • Howdy Conscious Transmutation, you must be plastering in the UK where they invented Lime.
      I have been doing this for so long my fountain of thought, "my conscious level," allows me to apply by feel, but on a "subconscious level," or my ocean of thought inform's me when the cement is going to set thus I can mess around and explain stuff.
      Best wishes,
      Professional answers on plastering projects with issues

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    • Namaste I'm from India and I sculpt using lime plaster on walls but have issues with it being water proof do u have and tips on how to keep it crack free and water proof .? I've been building for two years exp ..Your talent is evident in your work I've learnt a lot from your videos u make it look easy ,thank you for teaching 🙂

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  12. Hey Kirk ……. I don't know HOW you do it ….. How you can even LOOK!! at that rendering that was 'Slapped' on (not textured) ….. In the UK we'd have just assumed the local farmer had used his Muck-Spreader to apply 'that' finish …….. Respect to you though, for even TRYING to match up to that NIGHTMARE!! 🙂

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    • Howdy Peter, we do see some unusual textures out here the bummer in this video was that I failed in the film to use the corner of my trowel to make the goofy indentations in the new stucco, but fortunatly It was done before we left.
      Best wishes,
      Plastering tips from your favorite stucco geeks

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  13. Hey Kirk. Been watching for years now and I just wanted to say thanks for posting. I’ve learned a lot from watching your vids (and by trowel and error). I’ve put what I’ve learned to use in the real world and carved out a lil career. Thanks again for posting great videos!

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    • Atta boy Wood Rat Dude, that comment is quite amusing. Thus I gotta pin it.FYI, I have spent a lifetime learning about stucco and plastering, sometimes, by “Trowel and Error,” When one has to re-do a project on their time and cost, this stores the do's and don't's into our conscious and subconscious mind permanently. These videos provide all with proper wisdom so that you too don’t need to learn by “trowel and error,” cheers, the Plastering Giordano Best wishes,Plastering tips from your favorite stucco geeks

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  14. Thank you for your great work for us to see and learn from. Have you ever heard of "Hairy lime plaster"? There's a BBC video on YouTube about the reemergence of this lime and chalk-based stucco material which is very flexible and durable, and have been used on historic houses for centuries.

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    • Howdy John, yes I am familiar with original lime plasters, as I have a video where I do indeed explain the real lime plastering methods of years gone past, It's an hour long, shortened from 2 as it was getting too long.
      It takes awhile to explain 10,000 years of lime plastering.
      Best wishes,
      Plastering tips from your favorite stucco geeks

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  16. Thanks for the videos. Im just a laborer at my stucco job. Mixing up mud and hawking it to the plasters. Dont have alot of knowledge outside of what i see them doing. But this is great! Thanks for the videoa

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    • Howdy Casey Dude, you watch just a few of these and you will be explaining to the plasterer's stuff they may not already know, as old Kirk knows this trade very well, as I enjoy it more than most plasterers.
      Best wishes,
      Sound advice From your neighborhood stucco geeks

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  19. fast question; i need to match a finish in a old garage… it looks like sprayed on stucco 16/20 house built 1950 – had a in wall water leak i repaired… but it had what looks like a type of drywall, but it was made of sand with paper on both sides… now i replace it with drywall 40'' x 40'' small job… now would you use a type of bonding agent then bush it on then apply my 16/20 stucco ??? it should be fine ??? and stucco should stick on it just fine ??? also i live in san diego and i own this house i am working on . i do see that in the walls there is lots of holes on the walls with this plaster pushing through like ever 20''' or so … i guess that's is old school style ….

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