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How to apply a new Stucco Acrylic finish over existing stucco porous retaining wall
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Hello, in this video, we are going over an old tired, beat-up, stained cementitious color coat finish applied over a retaining wall.
In this video were are spreading a stucco acrylic finish.
So keep in mind the first necessary thing.
Pressure washing with at least 3500 PSI to remove all the dust, dirt, and grime.
Note: after the wall is immaculate, “this means absolutely, No dust, dirt, grime or moss.”
Then it’s time to roll or brush on the stucco acrylic primer that comes with your choice of Acrylic stucco.
After the wall or home is primed, you are ready to apply the stucco acrylic finish coat.
What is an Acrylic color finish that’s used for resurfacing stucco walls?
Good question. It’s sort of like rubber mixed with sand and color pigments.
Remember that acrylic stucco sticks to everything, so you must cover the ground well; however, no stucco acrylic stucco will adhere to a dusty surface, at least not forever. I mention this often as I get many calls saying, Kirk, the plastering company who applied my stucco finish less than a year ago, it’s now coming off, help…….
There is much prep work involved in acrylic refinishing over stucco walls. Allow this video to be your guild.
This video demonstrates and explains how to use acrylic stucco applied by hand. These are maintenance-free colored finishes over an existing stuccoed retaining wall.
In this video, we really do make it appear much easier than it actually is. Why?
We were going over a light dash that uses twice the Acrylic stucco.
Not only does this application require extreme troweling on pressure, but as I was floating, I had to push as hard as I could to fill all the void with this glue-like acrylic because the existing finish was a heavy dash finish.
At the end of this video, my own wrist and forearms were tight as a drum and a bit tired, which is indeed rare.
My daughter Madeline had to use both hands towards the end of this wall as the strength needed was a bit too much as she has been in Spain teaching English for the last year and lost some wrist strength.
Use it or lose it, we used to have fun here, plus the owner was a nice fella.
ACRYLIC STUCCO
Other Acrylic videos may interest you. Enjoy
https://youtu.be/d3sHR8KD16c/ Stucco Flex acrylic for retaining walls.
https://youtu.be/Xfe5d2vCWjg/ Acrylic stucco primer and finish applied explained.
https://youtu.be/vaykXWAsFCA/ How to apply acrylic stucco.
https://youtu.be/283DclFqDwk/ Acrylic stucco for duck pond stucco-flex.
https://youtu.be/NCP0gM2dQVY/ Acrylic stucco for flexible waterproofing walls.
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Acrylic stucco over homes or retaining walls.
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What kind of clear coat do put on brick?
Howdy Peter, we don't use any clear coats, we usually apply cementitious and or Acrylic stucco or render, these don't require clear coating.
Cheers my buddy,
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good job..looks great…i like your vids. 10 years ago my contractor used an acrylic (dryvit) around my new foundation. most is holding up pretty well above grade. but I have a basement stair that goes below grade. that area didn't last but a few years. it can't breathe and totally traps moisture behind and bubbles off.
Howdy Gibson, thank you, always nice to hear from me fellow contractors.
I take it there is no french drain system.
I have not used this system below grade so I'm no expert about it's success when buried.
I have been using it above grade and have not had a failure in over 30 plus years,
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Hey Kirk, your videos are very helpful thanks, i have a question abound rendering,
i'm rendering a smooth brick wall and sometimes at the bottom of the area i have rendered big blobs of render will drip down and come off the wall.
I thought it was too much water in the mix but even when i try a really stiff mix it can still happen, any advise why this is happening and how to avoid it would be greatly appreciated thanks Kirk
Howdy Skipper, sounds to me like dust or dirt, nothing adheres to a dusty surface.
Try wire brushing with a jet steam from a garden hose to remove any and all dirt.
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Mr. Giordano, I was just curious, did you learn how to do, what you do, from your father or grand-father? It is good to see that there are still real old-world craftsmen in this country. Thank you for sharing with us all.
Evening Larry, no, I learned when I answered an ad for a hod carrier paying 5 dollars an hour for this position, I was about 18.
After the first week i thought wow, I'm getting paid to work out, can't beat that!
Hod carrying got boring as I was young strong and too fast for the plasterers, so I plastered too.
I'd sound conceited if I said I plastered faster and better than most journeymen plasterers in as little as two weeks, but i'd be a liar if I said I didn't.
The rest you see, well a tiny bit anyways as my son Jason started videoing a few of our projects in the last 5 years.
Cheers and have a great day,
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@Kirk Giordano plastering Inc. , Thank you, sir. It is a joy to watch a true master craftsman do what they do.
Sponge float for acrylic finish? Ive been in the trade for 20 years working in Florida and Texas, and we use plastic floats to achieve a nice professional finish. Sponge floating is for cement finishes. If I pull up to an eifs job with a sponge float,I would definitely get run off the job. Please dont teach people to cut corners and do sloppy work mr Kirk
Evening Mr. Hugo, you my friend are entitled to your opinions thats whats makes this life great,
The fact is you can use a sponge float as I did in this video.
anther fact is you can also use a plastic or hard rubber float to but the results very quite a bit.
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reaspn being when you float acrylic stuccoe with the plastic float right after you apply sometimes you pull it off im assuming with the sponge float that doesnt happen because its damp at all times, with the plastic float u clean it and continue
with plastic float it’s double the work because once you have to bring out the aggraget and after you have to smoothed down very gentle people in trade knows what I am saying.
With sponge float I don’t know because in eifs stucco you can’t use spong float
that bucket of finish looked like parex material. if u ever need help out that way and pay good i could help you guys out. out this way in nc we use a plastic float to achieve that fine Sandy texture
Howdy Mate, I personally have used a plastic float a few times, I find the sponge to be my choice to bring the aggregate out.
thank you
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Hey Kirk and gang,
Question… if you already have the brown coat done with a rapidset product….. can you go over it with an acrylic finish after priming it of course?
Howdy 1001 Dude, absolutely,
Best wishes with your projects,
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who in their right mind would put acrylic stucco on a retaining wall that is constantly being hit by dirt and water, not you butt the owner is an adumbass lol sorry to say
Howdy iron Dude, perhaps the owner knew these acrylic last for many decades before the color startes to fade and never peal away if properly applied, where paint last between 7 to 12 years?
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You're supposed to use a plastic float for acrylic render not a sponge!
HowdyNial, rhanks for the tip,
Cheers, live long and plaster
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Sponge can also give a better finish on acrylic stucco i have tried both
Howdy Osas, thank you, I too have tried both and prefer the sponge as it bring more agegate to the surface with a better or perfect pattern.
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Really enjoy your videos. have tackled several project from building furniture, plumbing, electrical irrigation install just about anything around the house getting ready to do fascia and soffits. But, i think for stuccoing the house I will leave it to a professional at least now I will understand how, it is done, what kind of finish i like, and what questions to ask. thanks
Howdy Donna, no worries, happy to be of help,
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That acrylic render looks very interesting. However, do you think there are specialist people in Europe that would know how to apply it? In UK for instance.
Good evening Daniel, yes, in fact Lime plastering or stucco were originally from the UK, thousands of years ahead of the united states. Goole, UK plasterers, you will find many quality plastering companies
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Hmmm no drop sheets on the ground?
Good morning, Koko dude, watch it again, we magically inputted paper on the ground.
What would happen if anyone did an acrylic finish without the use of any type of tarp?
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Floating takes years of practice? With a sponge float? Lol. Okay
Totally depends on location
Good Afternoon Ansen dude, exzackory
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Good Afternoon Ansen, used to love Hawaii, until an attorney and his Judge uncle, stole our property there, a sad story.
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Aloha Kirk, sorry to hear about that. Our family are in a civil lawsuit with the courts over property as well, 3,500 acres. It's been a long process. As locals we can relate. We been dealing with it since the over throw of the Hawaiian kingdom.
Evening Ansen, sorry to hear that. BTW, what island/ e-mail me at kirkgiordano@gmail.com
as I'm far from giving up by those corrupt thieves, well be on 60 minutes telling our story and exposing the coruption, we'll let the cards fall where they will.
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Great video guys! Learning so much!
Question: if I want to redo my house that has currently a sand float finish stucco into a smooth finish (santa Barbara, etc), can I diamond grind/etch off the float finish and apply weldcrete and apply the new smooth finish? Or just go over the existing finish like u did in this video with the new finish? Is sandblasting the preferred method? Thx guys!
Howdy Dan Dude, sand blasting is no longer allowed in my area for at least the last 20 years, this is O.K.with me as I prefer the water blast myself.
If your going to change a heavy finish to smooth, you will need to apply two coats, depending on the existing finish, I sometimes will spread the first finish with a heavier sand such as 20/30, (medium) or even 16/20, (heavy) to fill in depths, then apply a finish coat with smooth stucco which is basically (30/30,) "very fine sand"
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Right on I'll test it on a smaller area before doing the whole house. Any brands/types for the best finish/crack resistance in your experience? Acrylic or cementitious? Thx
Howdy Dan, I prefer Dry-Vit, stucoFlex, BMI or Carson's
Cementitious are 5 times as easy to apply, clean up is 4 times as simple and less than half the cost as all acrylic's try Western, BMI or La Habra.
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Kirk Giordano plastering Inc. Awesome will start the researching and send u some before and after pics once completed. Your family run business is the best. Keep up the great work up in the Bay area!
Good Afternoon Dan Dude, cool beans daddio,
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Good job Mr… always successful.. thanks
Howdy Atino dude, thsnk you, cheers,
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Ottimo lavoro sig. Giordano. ..
Howdy Giuseppe, thank you my ffriend
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Impressive good video's mate
Evening Nicholas, thank you
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Jay looks better than Kirk at it. Lol
Evening LOrd Dude, Jason is better than me. I like that, it means less work for me.
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acrylic finish is supposed to be floated with a plastic float.
Evening Myk, foolish assumption, I can use my shoe if I wanted.
The sponge float gives the wall a float finish. A plastic float can also be used but the finish is quite different and would not cover the original finish.
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@Kirk Giordano plastering Inc. you are a genius with hard coat, but here in North Carolina your acrylic work is not acceptable. I do stucco repairs in Charlotte NC and it is about 90% acrylics. in 30 years we have never used a sponge float on acrylic finish. We sponge float our brown coat and Valencia finish.
@Myk Gidera agree his floating leaves alot to be desired
If a wall is sealed with a water repellent sealer how can it change color when wet?
Hi Kirk. Do you have a video which shows how to create rounded tops, such as those on these walls? Thanks for another great video!
jeeeeeeeeez l wish l was 20 years younger and working in your country l,d make a mint the way you do your plastering sooooooo easy, everything finished with a sponge.
So this is not dryvit right?
@Diamone Glass no worries, brother.
90 thousand views and only 700 likes if u watch this like it cost ya nothing nerds now get stuccoing
My 20 year old acrylic stucco finish on my house is in the same condition as this wall was. After you pressure washed, what was the name of the bonding agent.? Also, I would love the Santa Barbara type finish over my rougher finish. That means I would have my stucco company apply two coats of 30/30? Is there an acrylic I can have them use to get the Santa Barbara look?
@Kirk Giordano plastering Inc. Thank you Kirk, your info is empowering.
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