I used to watch your videos years ago because it was so relaxing to listen to Kirk talk. He’s one of those guys I could listen to all day and enjoy every minute of it. Recently, when I needed to learn how to patch my stucco wall I did a search and Kirk popped up. A welcome blast from the past that I totally forgot about! And even more exciting is that you’ve kept that old-school UA-cam style video going that is so much more personable than the UA-cam of today. Thanks for all your awesome entertaining and informative content. I’m subscribed now so I won’t go away this time!
Thank you Kirk for your continued content. I'm getting ready to do a 100 year old church this week. Much Respect for your enthusiasm and Love for the craft. Your engine runs strong brotha! Not so many elders left out there. My guy Colin or Bud taught me so very much. Keep training my elder compadre!
When are you going to show how to do this skip trowel within a skip trowel texture Kirk? just watched your last short video and glad you posted this while I was typing a comment. I just past my scratch inspection on Tuesday for all my door/window replacing, as well as my back garage wall and gable dryrot fix. Thanks for all the vids, saved me a bunch of money to hire someone like yourself, when all I needed was a good teacher showing and explaining. I figured I was good with interior drywall texture and I watched hours of your vids before I got the courage and understanding up and just executed it, inspector was impressed. Thanks a ton. 1958 house, so there were some weird things I had to deal with, my sill plate hung over the slab 1/2inch all the way around my house. Much respect, this isn't a trade for the weak for sure. Whooped my ass between all the breakout and that balancing act with the trowel and hawk, tweaked my back for a month. Looking forward to seeing you do this texture.
Redline Dude, Thank you, wow, you noticed that balancing act? It was to place the plank in front of the tree or behind it where the wall would have been out of reach, my back did have a weird tweak in it but went away today. We make these videos to show those who may want to hire us, that indeed we do know what we are doing, so much as to be transparent in the applications, Via “UA-cam” Thus, all can depend on us for sound advice and workmanship.
You're such a righteous blue-collar artist who takes pride in his work. We're a dying breed brother, good to see fathers passing the trade down the family tree. With all the practice with stucco on my house and all the schooling I got from you, I won't have to pass up door and window change out jobs if there's stucco involved anymore. I know I'm far from your skill level, but so far, all the crappy stucco and waterproofing I've seen here in the Placer County area as a handyman, I know I can do better, and if I screw up, I know who to call. It's pretty far from home for you, but if I screw up, no price is too high to keep my reputation solid and I have yet to find a good stucco guy in my area, even the old stucco guy at the supply yard says there isn't any, or they're busier than a beeeee. Thanks again brother🤝@@StuccoPlastering
My buddy "Fred Smith" lives in you area, Ole Fred taught me more about plastering than anyone. He was Danny smith's brother and forman while I was working in the union. He's retired, but no doubt would rather plaster, than sit around as the man had talent falling out his pockets.
@@StuccoPlastering right on, just sharpied his name on my garage wall contact list😂 Next time I need some advice or help I'll track him down & tell him Kirk said 'you're the best in my area'. Hopefully that day doesn't come, but good to know, & knowing is half the battle👍🏻
Kirk, a BIG THANK YOU to you! I watched many of your videos on how to repair a lath and plaster ceiling. You gave me the confidence to take on the job in my home. I'm just getting it finished up and it turned out great! Thank you very much for sharing all you knowledge and helping me out with some questions.
Great video! I learned a lot brother! I removed two unwanted windows from a concrete exterior wall house built in 1940s. Framed the hole in and stucco the exterior, drywall inside. My house looks awesome now because of you!
I’ve used many stuccos where they have replaced the sand with different agragates such as polystyrene and such, I feel it’s an excellent idea. I will be using Kemset Eko-Plast Wednesday where the sand has also been replaced with volcanic Ash, DE and other organic compounds. Also sold in LA by my pal , Hickman
Hi Kirk, I've watched hundreds of your videos, thank you for all the information you've shared over the years, I do have a couple questions. We don't have a lot of the mortar products available in the States. For years we've done a 1/2" to 3/4" scratch and brown coat hand mixed on site using 1 bag Portland cement Type II (94 lb), 5 buckets (5 gal) course sand (some add 1 bucket of limestone crusher dust if sand is too course). Finish is a 50 lb bag of lime, 5 buckets of sand and 1 bucket of cement. All that on concrete block. My question is now that we're using some Durock, I'm wondering if that combination is appropriate for cement board? The other two options available are exponentially more expensive, Quikrete Mortar mix and Amerimix Fiber Base Coat Stucco. The question is which of these are the best option? As an alternative I was thinking of using 1 part cement, 4 parts sand & 1/2 part lime and some 1/2" fibers for a base coat, your thoughts? Also should I use concrete bonder or a bonder/cement/water slurry (something I saw on a UK render's forum.
I would use much less sand for cement boards or it will simply not stick. Perhaps 1 part stucco and two parts sand, three max. I'd also recommend a bonding agent for the boards such as Weld-Create, or Quikrete.
I would go with a base coat made for Efis (Exterior Installation Finishing System) Dryvit is our most popular brand in Mo. Along with Efis Mesh. Once browned and true and plumb, then you could use a bonding agent along with your favorite Stucco Texture. Hope this helps. We use Tons of Concrete board here in Mo because of the amount of expansion of hot and cold. Odd state🥶🥵🤟
@@danielparsons5519 exzackory, this in another way. You’re referring to Pancer fiberglass mesh, with what you are referring to as Poly-Bond. There are many ways to skin a cat.
Kirk, I’ve been looking online for about a year now for a similar trowel as yours with absolutely no luck. Barely able to find a photo. I’ve heard you call them ‘conga? Congo?’ Trowels, 5x18” semi round trowels that you praise. Not Marshalltown, nor Bon tools nor any pool trowel or big distributors seem to carry them. Can you lead me to what else they might be called? Thank you big time -from Idaho
Hi, I bought mine from Bon-tools; however, from what I'm hearing, they no longer sell it? Weird? It's called Bon 12-318 Curry Swim Pool Trowel, Carbon steel 16-inch x 4 1/2-inch, Flexible rounded blade, Short shank Camelback wood handle, Lightweight, Designed for long wear. The video below explains my preferred choice of trowel for interior or exterior plastering. ua-cam.com/video/X_SRyTIVMbU/v-deo.html/ Hopefully, another company will manufacture it and sell it at a reasonable cost. Thus, Bon-tolls can kick rocks.
Good morning, excelled question, the base coat was grey as it’s Portland cement. I could have used that base coat to apply the texture, but instead used a heavy finish coat stucco so that folks could see what we were doing better, that finish coat is called La HaBra color coat. Cheers. 😉
I used to watch your videos years ago because it was so relaxing to listen to Kirk talk. He’s one of those guys I could listen to all day and enjoy every minute of it. Recently, when I needed to learn how to patch my stucco wall I did a search and Kirk popped up. A welcome blast from the past that I totally forgot about!
And even more exciting is that you’ve kept that old-school UA-cam style video going that is so much more personable than the UA-cam of today. Thanks for all your awesome entertaining and informative content. I’m subscribed now so I won’t go away this time!
Good afternoon Jim Johnson, man, I like your style, thank you. Cheers.
I’m a lifelong carpenter from Michigan who is just now trying out my plastering skills and your videos are really helping me out! So I thank you
@@mikekautz5953 Howdy Mike, you can depend on us for sound advice. Cheers.
Thank you Kirk for your continued content. I'm getting ready to do a 100 year old church this week. Much Respect for your enthusiasm and Love for the craft. Your engine runs strong brotha! Not so many elders left out there. My guy Colin or Bud taught me so very much. Keep training my elder compadre!
Its my lifes work and I'm good at it thus no doubt, Cheers.
I watch now just to hear you ramble on. Ramble on, Kirk. Entertaining
LOL, I do tend to ramble about goofy stuff.
When are you going to show how to do this skip trowel within a skip trowel texture Kirk? just watched your last short video and glad you posted this while I was typing a comment. I just past my scratch inspection on Tuesday for all my door/window replacing, as well as my back garage wall and gable dryrot fix. Thanks for all the vids, saved me a bunch of money to hire someone like yourself, when all I needed was a good teacher showing and explaining. I figured I was good with interior drywall texture and I watched hours of your vids before I got the courage and understanding up and just executed it, inspector was impressed. Thanks a ton. 1958 house, so there were some weird things I had to deal with, my sill plate hung over the slab 1/2inch all the way around my house. Much respect, this isn't a trade for the weak for sure. Whooped my ass between all the breakout and that balancing act with the trowel and hawk, tweaked my back for a month. Looking forward to seeing you do this texture.
Redline Dude, Thank you, wow, you noticed that balancing act? It was to place the plank in front of the tree or behind it where the wall would have been out of reach, my back did have a weird tweak in it but went away today. We make these videos to show those who may want to hire us, that indeed we do know what we are doing, so much as to be transparent in the applications, Via “UA-cam” Thus, all can depend on us for sound advice and workmanship.
You're such a righteous blue-collar artist who takes pride in his work. We're a dying breed brother, good to see fathers passing the trade down the family tree. With all the practice with stucco on my house and all the schooling I got from you, I won't have to pass up door and window change out jobs if there's stucco involved anymore. I know I'm far from your skill level, but so far, all the crappy stucco and waterproofing I've seen here in the Placer County area as a handyman, I know I can do better, and if I screw up, I know who to call. It's pretty far from home for you, but if I screw up, no price is too high to keep my reputation solid and I have yet to find a good stucco guy in my area, even the old stucco guy at the supply yard says there isn't any, or they're busier than a beeeee. Thanks again brother🤝@@StuccoPlastering
My buddy "Fred Smith" lives in you area, Ole Fred taught me more about plastering than anyone. He was Danny smith's brother and forman while I was working in the union. He's retired, but no doubt would rather plaster, than sit around as the man had talent falling out his pockets.
@@StuccoPlastering right on, just sharpied his name on my garage wall contact list😂 Next time I need some advice or help I'll track him down & tell him Kirk said 'you're the best in my area'. Hopefully that day doesn't come, but good to know, & knowing is half the battle👍🏻
Kirk, a BIG THANK YOU to you! I watched many of your videos on how to repair a lath and plaster ceiling. You gave me the confidence to take on the job in my home. I'm just getting it finished up and it turned out great! Thank you very much for sharing all you knowledge and helping me out with some questions.
Good morning Meow, always a pleasure, Cheers.
Great video! I learned a lot brother! I removed two unwanted windows from a concrete exterior wall house built in 1940s. Framed the hole in and stucco the exterior, drywall inside. My house looks awesome now because of you!
Howdy Ben Contraire, because of you. Cheers
Hey Kirk, you should make a video on how to get leads for projects or how to bid on stucco projects for new stucco guys. Thank you
Thanks for the idea!
Great content Kirk & Jay 👍👍
Thank you, just another day at the office.
Kirk, have you heard of a stucco made in LA called Ustucco? They replace the sand with minerals to make it very light.
I’ve used many stuccos where they have replaced the sand with different agragates such as polystyrene and such, I feel it’s an excellent idea. I will be using Kemset Eko-Plast Wednesday where the sand has also been replaced with volcanic Ash, DE and other organic compounds. Also sold in LA by my pal , Hickman
very masterful Kirk-good job as usual
Thank you, Zeiten
God bless you and family from Florida
Man, if only we lived in Sunny Florida, thank you.
Nice job Kirk,cover the brick next time.
Look closer James, the cut cardboard blended in like white on rice.
Your videos are awesome but is it really necessary to use a big hawk and big trowel
There are perfect for my skill level
2:31 - Me when I come home from the bar and my wife is still awake
lol
your are the lord of stucco.
lol, thank you
Hi Kirk, I've watched hundreds of your videos, thank you for all the information you've shared over the years, I do have a couple questions. We don't have a lot of the mortar products available in the States. For years we've done a 1/2" to 3/4" scratch and brown coat hand mixed on site using 1 bag Portland cement Type II (94 lb), 5 buckets (5 gal) course sand (some add 1 bucket of limestone crusher dust if sand is too course). Finish is a 50 lb bag of lime, 5 buckets of sand and 1 bucket of cement. All that on concrete block. My question is now that we're using some Durock, I'm wondering if that combination is appropriate for cement board? The other two options available are exponentially more expensive, Quikrete Mortar mix and Amerimix Fiber Base Coat Stucco. The question is which of these are the best option? As an alternative I was thinking of using 1 part cement, 4 parts sand & 1/2 part lime and some 1/2" fibers for a base coat, your thoughts? Also should I use concrete bonder or a bonder/cement/water slurry (something I saw on a UK render's forum.
I would use much less sand for cement boards or it will simply not stick. Perhaps 1 part stucco and two parts sand, three max. I'd also recommend a bonding agent for the boards such as Weld-Create, or Quikrete.
I would go with a base coat made for Efis (Exterior Installation Finishing System) Dryvit is our most popular brand in Mo. Along with Efis Mesh. Once browned and true and plumb, then you could use a bonding agent along with your favorite Stucco Texture. Hope this helps. We use Tons of Concrete board here in Mo because of the amount of expansion of hot and cold. Odd state🥶🥵🤟
@@danielparsons5519 exzackory, this in another way. You’re referring to Pancer fiberglass mesh, with what you are referring to as Poly-Bond. There are many ways to skin a cat.
Kirk, I’ve been looking online for about a year now for a similar trowel as yours with absolutely no luck. Barely able to find a photo. I’ve heard you call them ‘conga? Congo?’ Trowels, 5x18” semi round trowels that you praise. Not Marshalltown, nor Bon tools nor any pool trowel or big distributors seem to carry them. Can you lead me to what else they might be called? Thank you big time -from Idaho
Hi, I bought mine from Bon-tools; however, from what I'm hearing, they no longer sell it? Weird?
It's called Bon 12-318 Curry Swim Pool Trowel, Carbon steel 16-inch x 4 1/2-inch, Flexible rounded blade, Short shank Camelback wood handle, Lightweight, Designed for long wear.
The video below explains my preferred choice of trowel for interior or exterior plastering.
ua-cam.com/video/X_SRyTIVMbU/v-deo.html/
Hopefully, another company will manufacture it and sell it at a reasonable cost. Thus, Bon-tolls can kick rocks.
Doesn’t accelerated stucco crack quicker as opposed to normal mixed stucco?
Excellent question, No, in fact, the opposite, Google Lumnite for cement acceleration.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
hey how much the stucco is gray and the texturing mud is white in color? is it a different kind of mud or still stucco but different kind of stucco?
Good morning, excelled question, the base coat was grey as it’s Portland cement. I could have used that base coat to apply the texture, but instead used a heavy finish coat stucco so that folks could see what we were doing better, that finish coat is called La HaBra color coat. Cheers. 😉
Good stuff 👍
Thank you,
Hi Kirk, is there a way I can reach you with a question?
Thank you!
Sure, my email is in the description in every video. Cheers.
Hi Kirk and Jay - what mix do you use on the texture (skip trowel) coat?
La Habra finish coats, Sold at "Westside Building materials" they are a professional plastering yard.
Man you’re like the Bob Ross of stucco, but way more charasmatic.
Ding, Ding, Ding, give that man a cigar, thank you. Cheers.
thank you
You're welcome.
The man, the legend.
LOL, I would go that far, but I do have some time in.
Sweet umpire guards
Hi Tyler, I use them for knee pads as they don't cut my circulation off.
my man 👍👍
Cool beans, daddieo.
Can you come give me some estimates.
Of course, but I'd need more information than that. Our contacts are in every video we've ever posted.
bbeautiful ❤
You're welcome.
Kirk is best💪👌🍻🍻
You're welcome. I read that on the lady's bathroom wall, now I'm sorry I wrote it.