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Stucco styrofoam, San Francisco plastering prevent stucco walls from leaking

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Stucco styrofoam, San Francisco plastering prevent stucco walls from leaking
Stucco styrofoam molding prevents your walls from leaking; leave the nails in.

Stucco leak and water intrusion can be caused by a removed or a missing nail.
Prevent your stucco walls from leaking by pounding the nails in or removing, caulking the holes before applying stucco.

Hello all, in this video, we’re explain do’s and fonts when considering punching stucco Styrofoam.
Such as buy them predated, Use a saw with a masonry blade to cut them
How to attach them and why.
And a few other tips, such as applying an acrylic color finish over the newly installed foam molds and walls.

My stories are simply past facts from my career as a lifelong plastering contractor.
99% are positive. However, in this video, I tell of a past job encounter.
I’m directing that story to all the newly licensed plastering contractors who are eager to earn a living that sometimes you have to use your judgment to “decline” certain people.
This I say, as I’m talking to a newly licensed man who says, “the fella who hired him or owner won’t pay,” upon completion of his work, he googled the man’s name who hired him and found multiple judgments against him for this very reason.
Things and people that make you go hmmm.

See how we lathed this area in this video, https://youtu.be/Pn1YbiTZ5SI/
Stucco patching around windows or holes in your stucco walls, https://youtu.be/rn8oDXls2VU/

Now kick back, relax, and enjoy the show! 🍿
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https://www.StuccoPlastering.com/ My website and contact information
https://www.GiordanoPlastering.com/ Jason’s Website

Feel free to check out our recommended tools on our website below.
https://www.stuccoplastering.com/tools/
Kirk Giordano Plastering Inc.
Kirk & Jason Giordano’s how-to show and tell videos.

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Stucco Patching or repairing holes in your walls

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Stucco Patching or repairing holes in your walls, DIY patchwork.

How to finish stucco on a small DIY patch job.
Howdy, all, the homeowner who tried to patch this would have been able to if he understood the main principle behind applying stucco.
The stucco netting should be in the center middle of the closed stucco hole!
Keep in mind, we are seasoned plastering contractors, and this one main and most crucial factor has beaten us up more times than any other while plastering.
Thus we were not surprised to see it yet again.
We were 5 feet from the Patch when Jason, my son, said his wire was too flat, thus almost useless.
Little wonder the stucco would not stay, stick or adhere.

FYI, there are too many wires or stucco netting one can use to mention here, the idea is to not attach it too flat, but in the center of the depth, this way the stucco can go behind and the stucco netting also holds the excess weight from failing.

Also, when I say, “take the trowel on edge,” this is done to make the stucco sandy, the air or oxygen penetrates it faster, thus the newly applied stucco drys faster.
If I or anyone, steel trowels it, the new stucco is, sort of sealed, this does not allow air/oxygen into the stucco, this make it so the stucco takes twice as long to dry.

Also, if there is a basecoat already applied, this basecoat will suck the moisture from the new stucco causing the new stucco to dry out faster too.

You can say, the basecoat is always thirsty.

Now you know.

Below are a few more stucco patching videos, we thought you might enjoy
https://youtu.be/Ehjtf2CyB10/ stucco knockdown dash finish or texture.
https://youtu.be/WkUaA_EHErg/ is repairing a lousy texture, stucco patch.
https://youtu.be/2eIkdeIBbMs/ Stucco large cracking, easy to fix.
https://youtu.be/t9FbRK1VuPQ/ Plastering professionals weekend warriors

Now kick back, relax, and enjoy the show! 🍿
Oh yeah, don’t forget to save the world, like and subscribe. It’s not only good karma, but It also makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over.

https://www.StuccoPlastering.com/ My website and contact information
https://www.GiordanoPlastering.com/ Jason’s Website

Feel free to check out our recommended tools on our website below.
https://www.stuccoplastering.com/tools/
Kirk Giordano Plastering Inc.
Kirk & Jason Giordano’s how-to show and tell videos.

Thanks for watching, and have a great day!

Stucco patching around windows or holes in your stucco walls

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Stucco patching around windows or holes in your stucco walls

Plaster patching around newly installed windows using Kemset plaster
Kemset plaster application on walls, plaster patching around newly installed windows

See how we lathed this area in this video, https://youtu.be/Pn1YbiTZ5SI/.

Hello, my friends, Welcome to another introduction to Kemsets Lightweight plaster.
Jason and I are applying a lightweight application in this video.

Applying plaster to a wall is too easy for me at this stage of my career. I can almost close my eyes and use it.
Thus, the Wheres Waldo question. In case any are wondering what that means, In the first video,
https://youtu.be/Pn1YbiTZ5SI/, I said we were coming back another day to plaster this area. However, I’m still wearing the tool belt. So I give away, it’s the same day.
As no permits are necessary when changing windows unless also changing headers.

The phone for sales of Kemset products is 562-285-2790.

More kemset plaster is used in these videos with full applications
https://youtu.be/k-ZuqT5eFi8/Kem Set Lightweight plaster free of silica and Lye,
fire and soundproof eco-friendly stucco.
https://youtu.be/LQXJPqlSXbk/plastering secrets kemset lime is healthy,
with no lye to burn your skin or clothes.
https://youtu.be/2IWpqF2eUcIModern plastering, Kemset plaster can
be used for interiors and exteriors.

Kemet ecoplast50 plaster will set you free from Lye and silica.
For the many out there who wish an environmentally safe and sound plaster second to none, you have reached your research destiny.
Ole Kirk predicts this kemset ecoplast50 will soon dominate all the Home Depot and Lowes large hardware stores and many professional plastering yards who also wish their share of the lion’s wealth through homeowners.
Why Is Kirk physic? Of course not, but he knows a great product when he’s used it.

I don’t like picking up bags of plaster or stucco. As soon as you grab it and squish it together to get a good grip, all the excess, Lye, and silica becomes air-born.
What’s that mean? Excellent question. You’re inhaling this toxic shit.
What happens when you inhale silica, it goes in your lungs, and you keep that stuff in there forever, or until your lungs have gathered so much you can no longer breathe; instead, you gasp for oxygen.
This is what happens when you grab all bags of plasters and or stuccos. You inhale Lye. Let me see which would I prefer to inhale, Lye, silica, or covid? This is a rated g channel. Thus, I won’t say what happens when you inhale Lye or get it on your skin, but you can google it. That way, I keep my rated G listing.

This way of life is becoming increasingly important, as we need to protect our planet from man-made damage. It is possible to be eco-friendly in different areas of our lives. Wikipedia

https://www.StuccoPlastering.com/ My website and contact information
https://www.GiordanoPlastering.com/ Jason’s Website

Feel free to check out our recommended tools on our website below.
https://www.stuccoplastering.com/tools/
Kirk Giordano Plastering Inc.
Kirk & Jason Giordano’s how-to show and tell videos.

Thanks for watching, and have a great day!

Stucco window installers, waterproofing leaking windows correctly

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Stucco window installers, waterproofing leaking windows correctly

See how we plastered this wall with Kemset plaster, https://youtu.be/rn8oDXls2VU/

Hello ladies and gents, I had to use restraint to keep butchers out of the title as that would have been negative. However, Jason and I do prefer to stay positive if possible.
However, both Jason and I have recently seen many windows installed or “butchered” in the last 6 months.
I’m wondering, why? Are so many in such a hurry, they are unable or unwilling to install flashings and or break-out correctly?
Things that make you go hmmm…

Okay, back to reality, this video repair went better than expected as we found no wood rot.
I’m going to include a couple of videos that show how to install windows properly and another of why it’s best to use skill rather than muscle when breaking out the edges to allow, if possible, at least 3 inches of existing paper and stucco netting. And a third as to saw cutting the stucco, to install. The window.

BTW, the reason you or any window installer leaves three inches of paper is for proper waterproofing.
The reason for leaving an inch to three of existing stucco netting is to ovoid stucco cracking from the new to existing stucco.

I will also include a window that was simply saw cut as it was easier to install. However, it was done by a homeowner, not a professional.
A homeowner might do this, as they don’t know. Still, when a professional window installer does it, most stucco contractors will double their price if fixing another man’s inability to install correctly.
If they are unable or unwilling, the homeowner pays the price for them saw-cutting the stucco, installing a window, and running to their truck to beat the traffic home.
However, if they informed you ahead of time they plan to just saw-cut the stucco and install new windows, you know ahead of time.

Here’s a couple of videos of correct installations and one that was saw-cut. We made it work for the education of your viewers.🤔
https://youtu.be/CePtl8O8nNQ/nstall and lath a newly installed window, Marvin window.
https://youtu.be/G4eDDx-ZUfk/ it’s an old video, but the correct break-out for windows still applies.
https://youtu.be/pLa8O9npjVs/ Saw-cutting stucco to install windows, don’t do that.

https://www.StuccoPlastering.com/ My website and contact information
https://www.GiordanoPlastering.com/ Jason’s Website

Feel free to check out our recommended tools on our website below.
https://www.stuccoplastering.com/tools/
Kirk Giordano Plastering Inc.
Kirk & Jason Giordano’s how-to show and tell videos.

Thanks for watching, and have a great day!

Smooth stucco over block wall and stairs

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Smooth stucco over block wall and stairs,
Match a 100-year-old chimney

Hello our faithful subscribers, In this video, we were asked if we could match a chimnies color and finish, which was about 100 years old?

I looked at it and said we could come as close as the next guy, if not closer.
I explained the chimney’s age and finish and why it looks as it does after close to 100 seasons of sun and rain.

That’s genuine old-school plastering that was applied on the chimney.

I explained there are a few stuccoes manufactures that make white stucco such as, “Hansons Lehigh, white stucco,”
I wanted stucco stronger than that. So I chose “Eisenwall hydraulic stucco,” which is about three times stronger than the other white stucco mix.
Naturally, it costs about 4 times more per bag. FYI, “Eisenwall cement plaster” is only sold at professional plastering yards, such as “Westside building material” in Oakland and surrounding cities.
If interested, Google, “plastering yards near me.”

Whats happens when you mix a white stucco then add brown sand?
You get a tan color. Does this stucco finish need to be painted? No.
Why not? It’s cementitious, like a brick.
However, a person can paint it if they want.

If you do decide to paint, welcome painting maintenance, which is usually needed every ten years.

For example, the chimney in this video was close to 100 years old and was never painted, nor does it now need painting, nor will it in 50 to hundreds of more years. Unless one gets tired of the color.

However, if you choose to paint a colored cementitious finish like a brick, be aware most homes, walls, fences, decks, whatever, usually require maintenance every ten years.
Meaning you have to paint again. Surly that time and cost can be used for a holiday instead of maintenance.🥂

Lastly, no metal mesh or stucco netting is necessary for the stucco to adhere to the concrete blocks. In fact, attaching stucco netting would be counterproductive.
Nor is a bonding agent like “Weld Crete or Quikrete” necessary as the wall was pressure washed or micro scored or etched by me with more than 3,500 PSI water pressure to allow for the suction required to adhere the new stucco permanently to the blocks.
Just like the stucco was applied to the block chimney.

Now you know.

I have more videos in the description on going over concrete, bricks, or block walls.
It’s all the same, clean the wall well, with what I term micro etching or scoring with a powerful pressure washer.
Then if at least a half-inch of any stucco is applied, the grout lines won’t show when it gets rained or wet.
However, if that newly stucco wall is to be painted no matter how thin a coat when wet and painted, the grout lines cant show anyway as that once porous wall is now a painted, thus sealed wall.
https://youtu.be/xvQX8VqAumI/Repair foundations, strongest stucco cement foundations.
https://youtu.be/dw34VLYFC1Y/Improve A Concrete block Retaining Wall, Berkeley,
https://youtu.be/MbZHkJCJuZ8/smooth stucco or steel trowel finishing block retaining walls
https://youtu.be/J6ROyM7gP4stucco over concrete or cinder blocks matching the home finish

https://www.StuccoPlastering.com/ My website and contact information
https://www.GiordanoPlastering.com/ Jason’s Website

Feel free to check out our recommended tools on our website below.
https://www.stuccoplastering.com/tools/
Kirk Giordano Plastering Inc.
Kirk & Jason Giordano’s how-to show and tell videos.

Thanks for watching, and have a great day!