Installing stucco step-by-step Stucco Instructions.
This video explains how to install stucco yourself if you apply stucco and the brown coat to any newly installed windows or doors.
We make it look a little easier than it is, as I’ve been doing this for many years.
Get step-by-step instructions on the stucco application.
Applying the base coat of stucco saves time and makes for stronger stucco.
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do you guys do internal plastering? Im based in London uk nd you guys seem to tape more, where is internal plastering most popular in the US?
We have our share of interior plastering. Mostly it's plaster repair, loose plaster, or cracks in plaster.
I am guessing around 1960 this country switched to Sheetrock in the majority of homes being built, as opposed to plaster.
That being said,
I still get a few calls for newly built homes that the homeowner want plaster not Sheetrock in the home.
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Hi Singer, I have been doing this for the last 30 years. My son encouraged me a while ago to do what comes naturally and explain the process which also comes natural to me. If that help you, it's our pleasure. Thanks for the compliment and bet wishes with your project. All my projects will be posted here, some simple some complicated, but all simple to me, as I have done this my whole life, and welcome anything out of the ordinary.
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so was the mixer ruined or were u able to save it?
@ironlionkalo
Hey guy, yes I was able to fix the mixer. I can and have taken these apart and rebuilt them a few times, comes with the trade. We improvise all the time.
Thanks and have a great day!
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I really liked this video. Thank you for doing such a great job. It was a pleasure to learn from you. Do you have experience with granite block foundation work on interior basement walls? I am thinking about cleaning and sealing mine so that I can paint. I have no idea if this would be good or not.
@shwimmy11 Hey guy, the term granite bock is not one I am familiar with, but I have many videos about how to repair the interior as well as the exterior of many kinds of failing foundations. My son has placed all of our videos in a specific order that he feels is the easiest to find what your looking for. Best wishes with that search. I just do the stucco work, not the categorizing of these step by step explanation videos.
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Whats better stucco or plastering and whats the difference, what lasts longer?
@kimkrisrich Hi Kim, technically stucco is the word for exterior works and plaster usually means interior. But the technically meaning of the word has gotten lost over time. I am asked this question often. Stucco last longer as it’s used for exteriors and is has a cement base. Plaster has a hundred different methods of mixing depending where in the world you are mixing it.
Best wishes,
Kirk Giordano plastering
Thanks for the great video.
@celticslimjim Hey celtics, thank you! Have a great day!
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Hi Jim, I have done about 100 different projects with knockdown dash finishes. You basically throw on a dash finish and depending on what wall you are matching, press the trowel down either lightly or heavy to get what you’re after. I have changed a title for you on one of our videos so you can view, hope it helps. (How to do a knockdown finish) Copy and paste the words in parenthesis it in my channel.
Best wishes, and have a great day!
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Good morning neverh8en, glad to be of help.
Have a great rest of your day!
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Hey Kirk, great tutorials. May I ask if you are using pure rapid set? I have been working in lathing and plastering for the past 5 years and have never seen this! We usually use a mixture of sand and riverside plastic cement combined with rapid set for patch jobs like this then give it a thin layer of stucco, for the color / texture. Very interesting to see a different technique. If you are only using rapid set, do you always paint over it? Thanks for your time.
Hi bumking, if I am using rapid set I don't mix this material with anything besides sand and water. I believe you can buy rapid set at most hardware stores now already premixed. But I usually buy from plastering and stucco manufactures. Most rapid set materials have a 28 day wait period for paint although you can color cat same day as this material is cementitious, and will allow the rapid set to cure naturally.
Best wishes,
Kirk Giordano plastering
Great tutorial. Thanks!
Hi strumpeteer, those words make it worthwhile. Glad you are learning to do it yourself or learning you don't want to.
Best wishes and have a good evening.
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he didn't use a plaster stop so the plaster will crack at some point down the road
Howdy Riverhawk, I have never seen a plaster stop used in California.
However when I do commercial projects, if the prints call for J trim around any windows or doors I install them, also sort of rare.
Have a groovy day!
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Kirk, don't know how I got to your video, but I thoroughly enjoyed it as I used to do the same work 20 years ago. But I have 2 questions, What is about white long sleeve shirts, the guy I apprenticed under, when I was 16 y.o. used to where one as well as my father who was also a plaster man? Secondly, there's no question in my mind that your a master plaster mechanic, but if Pasquale, (the guy who I apprenticed under) or my father saw you using a pool trowel, (next box)
they would call you an amaeture. I don't mean to insult you, but you know old world Italian tradesmen, there kind of stuck in there ways. But my question, is how do you use the big 16" trowel to do patching? I used to use a 14" when I was doing big wall or ceilings (only occasionally), only for scratch and brown. Finish and all patching was a 12" trowel. Please don't be offended by my comment, just wondering how your wrists don't fall off at the end of the day?
Good evening giodazip Fair enough question easy answer, I am good with hand eye coordination.
I am good at stucco but I'm also a Nunchucks expert.
My wrists are seriously strong. I really wish my back was half as strong.
I even have a 20 inch trowel I use sometimes and often use a go devil which is 2 feet wide.
Thanks for watching and have a good evening
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Good evening giodazip, I have every trowel known I simply prefer these.
White shirts are a 30 year old habit of working behind plaster pumps for years in hot weather. Rubber boots to my knees, head scarf, glasses, gloves and shirts collars up sleeves down fully buttoned and still had stucco all over me at the end of the day, but no burns.
There’s no glory in working first man behind a tommy gun!
Thanks for watching and have a good evening
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Kirk Giordano plastering Inc. I have always used a collared polo shirt on estimates and on the job site . I like to look honest and approachable to my customers. I never let helpers or subs come on the job in tank tops or riotous looking messages on their tee shirts .
yeah But your 1St. off the wall
Great video. You truly are a MASTER. Please give me more details about the tools which you are using. Also you mentioned that you need a special license to us the mud that you applied. Please let me know thanks again !
Happy New years eve INDUSTRIALISt dude, thanks you for the kind words,
The material I used on this project was Eisenwall, which is now sold at Home Depot and Lowe's and probably all the big hardware stores, and of course nowadays you don't need a certification anymore. But it is a complex product to apply, main thing is don't over mix (3-5 minute max)
Most Portlands you can mix forever with no worries, but not Eisenwall and there are many similar product nowadays also, read the instructions carefully,
Best wishes and have a happy New Years.
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Thanks you so much ! Happy New Year to you as well. I will be in touch.
http://www.homehardware.ca/en/rec/index.htm/Building-Supplies/Building-Materials/Siding-Acc/Stucco/Lath-Mesh/2-x-48-x-50-Stucco-Wire/_/N-nti0j/R-I2756911
We use this kinda wire i just started into stucco some time ago (boss hasn't been able to find a mixer good enough to replace me for me to move up fully :S lol ) Is there any dif in the wire or is it just the new style?
Evening Mitchell Greatrix, the 17 gage wire I used on this home has been sold for as long as I can remember, it's sometimes called K-lath or Davis Wire, plus there are 10 other brand names available too that are basically the same wire.
Cheers and happy new years!
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Kirk, Great videos as I am watching as many as I can to learn. Question on this, How does the pulling away of the tape work on this project? It looked as though you plastered right over the tape. Can you pull it out or cut it or what? Does it leave a jagged edge? Thanks
Good morning tmish969, That's a great question, you must really be paying attention.
I will at the end of a project take my green sponge float and clean the mud around the edges, if I allow this mud to harden, absolutely it will remove some of the edge of the newly applied finish coat.
best wishes,
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@Santoku Blur Evening Santoku Blur dude, thank you,
just another day at the office.
best wishes,
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Nice Kirk!, a true plaster making it seem like it's easy , but let me tell you it's hard, patch work is hard to blend in , this guy feathers it in nicely . #1 fan here ,love the videos.
Evening David Zarracino, thank you brother,
have a groovy evening,
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Question for you: We have a wall that has one brown coat and the contractor left. It has been several years now – there are cracks in the brown coat and some wire is showing through. We are going to try to finish it ourselves – do we need another brown coat layer to cover the exposed wire? If so, how long does it need to dry? We plan to use premixed Elastomeric stucco to finish with. Janeen – Grand Junction, Colorado
Hi Janeen Tolman, good question, some finishes can cover wire that is showing trough a brown coat.
It depends on the sand grit in the stucco finish coat.
See wire showing through on a stud wall video below, where we applied 1 inch on the studs, however in the field (between the studs there is at least 1 1/2 inch two 2 inches that I applied same day, thus some sagging.
Because, when I applied stucco to this wall, It got dark before I could allow enough time to hard float in order to get the wire penetration marks out, this didn't bother me as I knew I was going to skim plus apply a texture, through my experience I knew the wire could not ghost or penetrate through the color texture.
Look close and you too will see the wire in this brown coat in the video below.
https://youtu.be/YCb0mOI136Y
Cheers,
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Mr. Kirk, you are one hard working man. Best wishes from Oakland ( Fruitvale) ex resident .
Howdy Mate, thank you
I remember Fruitvale when they had diamond bowl above Mac Arthur blvd.
Best wishes, and have a god evening
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very well my friend, extremely smart and talented hope you and family doing well✌
Evening Dorean Dude, thank you
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Well, i am finding all the extra supplies for keeping the jobs clean . I am not ready for a great big job l, where i need a mixer or a crew. I have been doing ok with patches . I get most of my work from other jobs i am doing .
Good afternoon Albert, it's stress free to stay small.
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It is hard to believe that that chicken wire is good for stucco to adhear to .
Good afternoon Al, technically it does not adhere to the wire, the stucco goes beneath the stucco netting then stucco covers the top, new stucco imbeds itself with the wire is more specific.
Live long and plaster
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Hey kirk what ever happened to javier?Havent seeing him on you videos anymore.happy holidays to you and yours
Good Morning John dude, Javier is now gardening about 200 miles from us, he got tired of applying plaster after 40 years. He was one hello f a plasterer and the strongest hod carrier I ever me., plus he was really funny to work with, I muiss that guy.
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Evening Joseph dude, thank you
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My 1st job on a plaster crew was 1st drag behind the Nozzle
Howdy Cattle dig dude, this is definitely a tough job, I did it often myself and even volunteered to be first darby man.
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Howdy Duck Dude, I like the sound of that.
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Great skills mate
Evening Maori Tane, thank you
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Thanks for posting, maybe give ol' hov-e-air his own mud board, you guys lost time with him walking, im not picking on you, i guilty myself losing time walking. Have a good one and wish you well with your business. Thanks, len
Good evening Len, Haviear, always takes what he wants.As he's the boss. Bringing peace, love, and harmony to plastering The complete plastering encyclopedia on video, by the plastering messengers of Youtube
This is like bodywork i can control dry time of fillers with amount of catalyst added i notice alot of home building is starting to use automotive technologies as i am experienced in both and in the beginning stages of starting a general construction business because the amount of work avsilable is at an all time high and the profits on home/commercial building is much higher than automotive and overhead is much lower.I enjoy your professionalism i am like you i explain what im doing not just do it.
How does it look finished and painted?
Super helpful and to the point. Was it the same rapid set cement used for the finishing coat as the base, just mixed thinner? Will def subscribe to learn more, good video! Thanks!
captain kirk, you da man
Can you talk about "FixALL"? Thanks.