Thank you for providing a great tutorial! I have a large picture window that was installed in our stucco home, and we found a few years later that rainwater was leaking in from around the window. After removing the window trim, I saw that the installers apparently paid absolutely no attention to sealing around the new window. I have properly repaired it using your techniques. Have A Blessed Day!
Thanks for putting this up. I was looking for a refresher and the first couple videos I watched had me like "How is that legal?" I'm glad I found yours because it is thorough, up to code, and reminded me of the things I was pretty sure I was forgetting.
Dude! I've been a Fellow Plasterer for about 25 years. You did a Perfect Example. Very good dude. Even your texture looks great! Very impressed with the importance of paper placement and wrapping your frame with your graded seal wrap and proper corner strength. Good job. Live long and Plaster!!🖖🏻 Off and on like you bro. I allways have to come back sometimes just for the "Art". Bless you friend 🤟
I’ve always been more of a patch man than a lather 😂. Patching and color matching was always my forte. I leaned to lath from my dad and uncles. Thanks for watching mud brother.
That stucco step was kinda skipped over at the end. I have a very similar project to finish, but I'm putting PVC brickmold around the frame first, then butting up the stucco around that.
Hey thanks for posting the videos. Your stucco work is awesome! Would have been great to see the stucco application process and the materials used. Question is: did you do a scratch, brown and texture coat ?
Thank you. I figured it would take forever so I focused more on the lath for this video. No need to scratch and brown for a small repair. A thick coat of brown works perfectly here. Yes sir. Cement and an accelerator for the brown. I always color coat my repairs as well.
@@zachsu6945 Man I would love to help, but I’m not too savvy when it comes to linking things around. It’s just your normal 60 minute paper, (black paper) any polyurethane caulking will do, a bad of scratch/brown and any stucco bag would do (if it’s painted.) If the house is NOT painted then check out some of my videos to see how I blend in the colors to match the exciting house color. Thanks for watching.
Excellent work and video even though it’s difficult to film yourself haha. Thank you for explaining your process so thoroughly! One question, any reason why you didn’t put the flashing tape inside the bottom sill plate and fold it over the edge? Noticed that’s what a lot of people recommend so wondering if there’s any reason you chose not to.
Good question. You do that if the window is inches inside of the wall. That way if there’s any water that concentrates on those couple of inches it would just slide down. This window is flat to the wall. I used caulking around the flashing and set the window over it. As you can see, there were holes that I used to screw the window to and smeared the caulking over it. When you drive around a new building and they haven’t installed the windows yet, check to see from a distance and they all install the flashing, under and to the sides of the windows (never the top) that will run nice and flat to the wall. I hope this makes sense. 🤷🏽♂️ 😆 Thanks for watching.
Hey question could I use rapid set stucco mix the white bag to fill everything or do I need brown scratch as the base ? I don’t plan on color matching because I’m going to repaint the house anyways 😅 it says use 2 coats
You can one coat it for sure. Apply of thickness around the repair and once it’s drying, go ahead and spread the brown coat. If you put too much too early, then it’ll sag. If you put the second coat when it’s too dry, then it won’t stick. Put your hand against the “scratch” and once it’s barely drying go ahead and spread the rest. Not sure how fast that white bag dries, but just remember that the paint might dry different then the rest of the house since “hotter” than the rest of the wall. If it makes sense.
It is not recommended. Screws will rip out the black paper with the circular motion that the screw will naturally make as it goes in. Plus, a screw will tighten the chicken wire while the furring nails will leave a gap thick enough that cement (scratch) will fill it up thus not leaving it flat and weaker in those areas.
Damn you hit it on the naiI 😂. I actually did quit plastering earlier this year. Long story short, I went to school and got my CDL. I am now trucking. I did some OTR and now have a local job. I still have my tools, but I haven’t used them since. Thanks for watching.
that shits beautiful, but you "fucked up" the stucco texture match on top huh? lol didnt show the top at the end . Prob still good, but not up to your standards.
Stop it ✋ 😆. I had to rewatch it, but yeah you’re right. I didn’t show the top. It “should” have looked just like the rest of the repair. That’s subjective so it all depends on how you see it if it looks good or not. I always tried my best. I had to hold my phone and be looking at the wall the whole time to, but I completely missed it. 🤷🏽♂️
