stucco removal wear a quality respiratory protect your lungs you might need them in the future
Hello, all our friendly subscriber in stucco removal wearing a quality respiratory for you lungs protection.
In this important video, we are not talking about applying any type of stucco; instead, when you remove stucco or plaster, wear quality respiratory for protecting your lungs from silica and lye.
Why? Silica is just as harmful, perhaps even worse, as asbestos.
Lye, all types of cement, eats skins and is absorbed transdermally into our bloodstream, so do we also want to inhale it?
Some facts about lye, stucco, and or concrete both have lye in them. Lye is mean to our skin or anything else it gets in contact with.
When I first got into this trade, I tried to be cool and not wear gloves. Unfortunately, it took less than a week for my fingers on both hands at all the joints to start bleeding and hurt like hell.
It got so bad I couldn’t open my hand, let alone use them. So I had to apply Vaseline to them at night and put them in sandwich bags with rubber bands so that the vaseline would get on the beddings.
After about 4 days, the pealing of the flesh stopped. I’ve been wearing gloves ever since.
Masks, lung, and health concerns are indeed extremely accurate.
One should always wear a mask or respirator and goggles when breaking out stucco or concrete,
or mixing cement plaster.
Have I always worn a mask and or Google? Unfortunately, I never have in all my years of removing, mixing, and applying. Raw ignorance in the purest form on my part.
One would think I should be dead by the stuff I inhaled.
Mix this with growing up to a chemical plant with forty, 8X4 large steel containers of acid. This small warehouse was a mere 15 feet from my bedroom window—the workers, chrome-plated metals, how I used to love that toxic chemical smell. Yes, we grew up in a ghetto/industrial for the first 18 years of my life.
Most normal folks locked their car doors while just driving through that area.
Moving on from my whiny life’s beginning.
These days I wear protective goggles and masks for most things as my son, Jason, gets pissed off and definitely encourages me to wear protective gear.
I realize It’s goofy after 40 years to start now, but better late than never.
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I am a hands-on 40-year applicator; my philosophy is to do it right or redo it for free.
Thanks for watching, and have a great day!
Great video Jason..good advice re; respirator,you only get one set of lungs!
Good luck with your other channel.
Thanks!
Nice one
Morning Adr1an110, thnak you, Jason prefers a top of the line respirator as he's smart and seen too often what happens to me the following days if I don't wear one when removing stucco.
Best wishes,
Kirk giordano Plastering
I appreciate the time you took to film and teach how its done this job right. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for watching Luis.
Beard vertigo all day!
Morning EJConrad, cool beans,
Jason is partial to that beard.
Best wishes,
Kirk giordano
thanks Kenney
Howdy chosen one, no worries,
Cheers,
Jason
Great Audio. Love your new mic.
Morning The chosen one,
Jason does have a top of the line mic, thanks for the bone,
Cheers,
Kirk giordano
I would definitely use a diamond blade on a grinder.
Howdy Anthony Romano, they are faster but we lose the time saved on dust clean up and have even been yelled at by neighbors and rightfully so,
for the dust created on their property also.
Cheers,
kirk giordano
It can be a dusty nasty job but some ones gotta do it thumbs up jay and family 🙂
Howdy macplastering, exzackory, nothing worse than removing stucco except setting up scaffolding.
I'll take applying mud any day.
Cheers,
Kirk giordano
@Kirk & Jason Giordano's plastering & stucco tips Thats true just putting on just seems far cleaner might be harder work but the dust we come across from time to time is just a pain haha 🙂
That danged dust has had the better of me many times in a fight, in fact it's kicked me arse way too often,
I'm finally getting even by Jason doing that nasty tear off.
Cheers,
Kirk giordano
@Kirk & Jason Giordano's plastering & stucco tips I hear you man the young lungs will be put t he test that been said that looks a great mask
definitely better than the useless ones sold at all the professional material yards and even big material stores.
Cheers,
Kirk giordano
Yo Kirk watch out that boy ain't camera shy . He 's not as good looking as his dad though .
Howdy jurassicbark2000, Jason is licensed for stucco also, and does not always have the time to work with old dad, so often I'm working with luuu, who like me does not know how to use that camera stuff.
Let alone film myself.
Cheers,
Kirk giordano
Can you stucco a 4×4 post supporting a lanai roof?
Howdy itsmenckgonzalez, sure you can, cheers,
kirk giordano Plastering
Nice Job Jay on video. sincerely, Peter
Evening Peter “Jdcap26” Agostini, cool beans daddio, just got back from holiday, so Jason had to hold the fortress,
Cheers,
kirk giordano
Ah much needed down time , good for you an J ..cheers
Hey peter I.n not so sure about that much needed down time, as I am a person who gets pleasure out of his work, but I also have to this odd feeling with love and respect for me wife who unlike me understands the need for relaxation mixed with down time to relax with quality folks who see life as a blessing full of conversations with regards to reflecting and expressing love.
Cheers,
kirk giordano plastering
That's nicely put Kirk 🙂 . cheers Peter
+Kirk & Jason Giordano's plastering & stucco tips . Nice reply
I've been wondering when you would start taking some of the spotlight, Jay. Good job. I did parts of a kitchen and living room walls and ceilings. Felt like an incompetent for having to hold the hawk under to catch the drips. Nice to see I wasn't so much. I had cut out bays for plumbing repair. I used expanded metal lathe to get a good overlap and ensure no trace lines. Did a lot on this old house. Also did a lot of 2-inch insulation holes where they couldn't access from outside. Took me a ton of cleaning to finally stop using a saw. I use a sharpened 5-in-1 now on plaster.
Wish I had seen you guys first! Would have been a LOT less stressful.
+BlackSwan912 Thats a lot of work! Glad you figured out its easier to prevent the dust than clean it up. And thanks for watching.
I've been wondering when you would start taking some of the spotlight, Jay. Good job. I did parts of a kitchen and living room walls and ceilings. Felt like an incompetent for having to hold the hawk under to catch the drips. Nice to see I wasn't so much. I had cut out bays for plumbing repair. I used expanded metal lathe to get a good overlap and ensure no trace lines. Did a lot on this old house. Also did a lot of 2-inch insulation holes where they couldn't access from outside. Took me a ton of cleaning to finally stop using a saw. I use a sharpened 5-in-1 now on plaster.
Wish I had seen you guys first! Would have been a LOT less stressful.
Howdy BlackSwan912, thank you,
happy Jason was able to show that it's not as easy as I make it look, I'm part of a team,
FYI, Jason used a heavy sand to save time at the end but we all lose time in applications as plaster sand such as felton or Oly, sticks much better than clean coarse washed, but on the flip side, he didn't have to dash, as the heavy sand which is difficult to spread against gravity, floats out better than a dash with felton or olimpia Plaster sand would have.
There is a bit of behind the scenes knowledge that both Jason and I forget to acknowledge as we take it for granted, these steps or learned tips are faster and give better results.
Cheers,
Kirk giordano
Good job but I miss your dads cool accent, Kirks Micheal, you Tito
Howdy Jason Cutts, interesting comment, in this case without Tito, there would be no Michael, or the well over 700 informative repair videos on our YouTube channel,
as I have no desire to learn how to film, edit or upload, let alone do it all myself.
I do fortunately know the answers to all the questions as unlike school tests, I cheat, as I know the answers, that's what makes my son Jason and I good team, without one there's no videos,
BTW, I'm haven't popped me clogs yet.
Cheers brother,
kirk giordano plastering
+Kirk & Jason Giordano's plastering & stucco tips only kidding mate, I know it's a team effort, my workmate is Spot to my Hong Kong Fooy, cheers
Too funny, and no worries my friend,
Best wishes, with all your projects,
Kirk giordano
Good job Jay
+Wayne Frazier Thanks!
Hola Jacson, I enjoy watching your skill with that ceiling,and your explanation very interesting, un saludo
Tolo
your self camera work is great
did you practice keeping yourself in frame?
+James Weaver Thanks James. I use a camera that has a flip around screen, the T3i, so it is definitely easier to keep myself in the frame than without it.
Hay jay nice work buddy not as good as the old man lol lov the vids keep up the good work! !
Howdy Jamie Connor, thank you, the old man has three times as many years in as the young buck, plus, "me, the old dude" would have reminded my brother lu's make the mix very rich as I'm dealing with gravity, I'm sure this thought never occurred to Jason as he feels my brother Lu's been told more than once so should know without being told. This rich mix, would be something lu's will not do unless told, Jason can apply as well as me, but watching the video, I can tell the mix is the same as what would be applied over a wall, a 3 to 1 mix, where it should have been a 2 to 1 mix, this is my stucco forensic mind at work. For this reason alone i'm glad I no longer have a crew of 10 to 15 guys, too much babysitting and or repeating similar instructions everyday. cheers,The old man
Hello Jay. Great advise on lung protection. You are going to stay healthy by taking good precaution. You have good communication skills.Thank You.
Good Evening thank you, I have to protect my lungs as I plan on using them awhile longer, funny thing my dad rarely uses them but won't allow any of us to break out without one. Jason
In the UK at the moment on certain jobs, if your unshaven you won't be allowed to work, your mask needs to survive a test and fit like a glove. There's nothing worst than realizing your breathing has altered and not for the better, alters things you took for granted like walking and sex.
Good morning 357dude, sounds like another goofy rule, i'm not happy unless I break such foolish rules a daily basis,cheers, kirk giordano rendering
Hey , One Question , Hows your neck ? Just kiddin.
Killer video ! Good Job !
What kind of Respirator is that ?
Thank You ,
KC
30 year Tile Installer ( Probly lathed , scratched and mudded over 500 showers )
Hello Ken, this is a respirator that I use for my welding,
Jason
Ok , got it . I like the slim profile .
Much thanks for the response .
Have a banner weekend !
Ken
Kirk Giordano plastering Inc. Hay kirk I'm a little worried I did a job on a home that's about 100years old I only used a paper mask and ended up breathing in a lot of the particles and dust that was in the air the insulation was some kind of shredded up newspaper with cotton like fibers in it and my question is to you brother do you think I opposed any health threatening risk to myself by breathing this stuff in I have been experiencing some pain in my right lung it's going on about two weeks I would greatly appreciate any direction or information on if I'm okay the safety of something like that thanks bro I really enjoy your videos very very helpful 🙂 Thanks a lot brother
16:41 very helpful tip for the edges – thanks Jay!