Howdy Vancouver, I appreciate the shout outs with your video. You did a brilliant job, especially for swimming upstream, for example your moister barrier is Tyvek, Tyvek is a lot harder to plaster over than two-ply paper. Why? Excellent question glad you asked, there is no suction with Tyvek like there is with jumbo tex. No offense to Tyvek as it's one of the strongest moister barriers sold on the planet. When jumbo tex is used this paper sucks or absorbs the moister out of the stucco faster, with the cement plaster you were using it would set almost immediately, another thing you did was wet the moister barrier and 3.4 mesh wire this would make the patch almost impossible to adhere, but you did it and had fun while doing it. Mesh stucco netting should be attached horizontally with the outer lip to hold the mud, one would have to look closely as it's one out of thirty who realize this fact. And one of thirty who cares.🤔 So now I'm interested, thinking he has almost everything against his ability to make the stucco adhere, the fact is you did it means you are a natural and have advance skills in handling mud, obviously learned from drywalling. Also, your Hod-Carrier made your life easier as he had a cool curled mustache, kidding, 😏that man mixed the cement plaster as perfect as It can be made. People often think I'm talented not realizing that plastering is like a team sport. It takes at least two people, without good mud, we can't apply as effortless as it appears. Have I applied soupy mud, yes, have I applied mud so stiff each hawk full burns my arm, you betcha, but is sho-nuff nice to have mud mixed the way your was in this video. Your ability to improvise while still having fun and not panicking is surely why you will prosper in any direction you choose to go in. Hears how your finish coat is applied kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e86ap8ljqN-mYWQ.html BTW, the 3.4 mesh does come preferred or dimpled so the nails are not necessary, excellent again, improvising with adding nails to keep it off the wall. Lastly, I dont use a full radius trowel as they are for concrete, the trowel I do use is below kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jsWDhdyFrryxkok.html Bringing peace, love, and harmony back to the world of plastering. The complete plastering encyclopedia on video, by the plastering messengers of KZfaq with over 800 videos

Kirk is one amazing guy, love the fact that his entire family helps, and the pride he takes in his work.

My only experience with stucco so far has been watching a canadian skateboarder just winging it :P

Here's my take on your job first step any clean cut Edge on the original plaster needs to be broke back so you can mend your wire if not then it will crack where the new wall and old wall meet we usually call those cold joints Next I would scratch and brown it regardless because when you try to put too much on at one time you get cracks and separation from the mud shrinkage when drying Unless you use some kind of cement containing eisenwall which is fast drying but for more the advanced plaster And since you're using Tyvek paper you don't need to wet it you only wet your paperback because it will suck up the water Tyrek don't suck up water now you increased your chances of mud sliding down the wall Next as for your mud mixing it looks like you used premix sand and cement so you could have just mix the material in a couple of buckets or small plastic barrel using a paddle drill you would have got a better fluff out of your mix that way And lastly you don't need that big pool trowel there is time and place for that all you needed was a regular 12 x5 hand trowel or one that you usually used on your drywall patches The big trowel makes you have to used too much pressure because of the long edges

Glad you gave Kirk a shoutout. I really enjoy watching his stucco and plaster videos even though I’m just a painter. Very informative.

My grandpa did this his whole life. Stucco plaster etc I’d Always be shocked how he could get things smooth as glass. It’s a true art.

My first time was for a soffit repair. 16”x16’ long. What an absolute nightmare. I literally dropped more than I got up. 3 coats and am very proud the way it came out. The customer didn’t know it was my first time and they loved it. Was nerve racking to be honest.

Mad respect. One thing most people don't understand is that a repair is significantly more difficult than an initial new construction / whole house installation. The fact that u knew where to stop shows both experience and talent. That last little gap would have mindf@$%ed so many beginners in screwing with it for another hour and wasting another mix chasing 4 sq inches. I live in the new England where 1 in every 10,000 homes have stucco but I learned to install it in California on a youthful sabbatical from the real world and now those jobs pull a premium. Start to finish the job u just showed would fetch an average weeks salary for a highly skilled tradesman in my area. Labor and materials, no paint, texture match within reason.

I'm obsessed with your channel. I don't even have that much drywall work to deal with in life. But this is so interesting to me all of a sudden.

Great channel,also love to watch Kirk and the crazy framer.

Haha. I’ve worked for a three man crew building a few timber-frame straw bail houses. It’s nice to see you struggle a little with stucco the same way I struggle with drywall. We mixed our own stucco with lime, Portland and sifted sand. It lets you make it a bit more sticky. Noting the sun on the lower have will make it dry too quick. Might want to think about shading ur work area evenly next time. Love the videos. I look back on ur drywall vids every time I end of having to do that kinda work. Great reference.

loving the comedy aspect to it as well - keep up the videos.

kind of makes you wish they made a thing called furring nails. also the lathe should be hung horizontally so that the stucco can grab the pockets. a thinner scratch coat and then a 2nd layer is also the better way to go. you should have broken out more of the edges and tied into the original stucco and lath to prevent a giant crack forming between the old and new work.

I’ve been watching Kirk and his family for years, he is a stucco Genius!

Great video, Ben. I've done a fair bit of plastering which is pretty sloppy, so when I first did a bit of rendering/stucco I thought it'd be a cakewalk. Nope. It's like trying to handle a wet bar of soap. The other thing you don't realise until you do it is just how heavy it is compared to plaster/drywall compound.

Ol kirk is an expert so don’t feel bad. He also mixes his own stucco mix from sand and cement with accelerators so he can make it as sticky as possible and have it set as fast as possible. Love watching that guy.

Ben, you did an excellent job with this! I was actually looking for a video on your page on how to repair a crack in a stucco ceiling that is plaster, but could not find one.

I watch Kirk too! Thanks for showing how you did. 👍 I haven’t tried yet but am planning to after winter 😊🤞

love the channel man.. tapers for life..

Tie in your lath to the old stucco. Take it hammer drill and knock out the old stucco 3" from cut. Western blend sanded will make you a champ with a good bit of bonding agent (you work fast but a helper is required to clean and mix). 101 and mesh to blend. Texture, paint. Solid

learned a lot from kirks vids ,but you are right he makes it look easy ,which you know by now its not ,but good effort all the same ,looking forward to the follow up vid

Your drywall videos are much more satisfying to watch

Yo Vancouver, Arizona here, im getting heavily involved in smaller patch work, however im sure it will be humiliating at times, good old Kirk he has it down, this job your on looks really good, I’ve learned a lot from you with drywall, and I was assuming stucco will be easy lol, 😊

I have about a 1% chance I will ever do stucco, but if I do, I watched the video! Great work.

You are good !!! And so interesting to watch

Good job. I'm not a professional stucco guy but as a general contractor I get to learn lots of trades. Im thinking by looking at how your mix was acting and sounding... you needed more cement . .or lime. Your mix should have a little more "stick" to it. Great job though working with a slippery cement!

Wow, Vancouver's nice this time of year!

I’m from the UK where stucco (render as we call it) is very common. The only tip i would give you for this stage is to not trowel down. You already have gravity working against you so just trowel up (at this stage) 👍 Oh, and fill the top edge in very first job on a bit of a chamfer (push it in firm) to help the sagging when trying to fill in one go 👍👍

Awesome thanks for continuing to post!

For patching around windows or small areas, I use RapidSet but usually put 2 coats plus the finish coat because as this video shows it falls off it you put on too much. RapidSet cures very fast so I do a coat a day. The first coat looks a lot like a scratch coat. A medium size window might take me 3 bags of this stuff. I use more water than the bag calls for because I don't know how anyone can work it otherwise. I mix about 1/2 bag at a time because I work slow and it sets fast. I've used both chicken wire and the mesh. For the mesh I don't care about it being off the paper but for the chicken wire I use those nails with the cardboard offsets that hold it out. It's important to tie the whatever you are using together with the existing wire so try to preserve whatever is there when you are busting out the old stucco. You are asking for cracks if you have clean edges. Do not cut straight lines with a saw--leave the edges very irregular by busting it out, about 6" around the opening. The hardest part for me is the finish coat since you have to try to match what's around it. This is where a professional shines. I'm a not a professional but this is how I do it.

Called Rendering here in Australia-very rare for us to be going over timber frames-done here on solid walls such as brick and block,ya did pretty well but at least you have used hawk and trowel before.Always great when someone wants to try for first time ever-ends up on floor.

i know lots of your videos are DIY tips and tricks but could you do a video about yourself. do you operate out of your garage or do you have a small shop? how do you find jobs? are you subcontracted from a GC or do you work for owners? do you have employees? what kind of truck do you drive? do you have a dedicated work truck? what tools to you keep in that truck at all time? do you enjoy drywall as much as carpentry? why do you seem to bid so many drywall jobs? what kind of projects wont you tackle?

Couple years late but I didn't see it mentioned in the comments. That wire lath has an orientation. It should go horizontal, with the angled expanded parts of the mesh pointed in and down towards the wall. This allows it to "hold" the stucco. when you put it sideways (vertical) like you did, it is not holding the stucco and can fall out much more easily. Aside for that, yeah, I've never managed to figure out how to make the stucco (or just mortar) "stick". I think kirk traded his soul to the devil for a magical trowel. :)

That mashing with hawk story is hilarious because its 100% true, we've all had that experience losing material all over the place🤣

That cool . I love watching the red head dude

Regular here Ben, out of Hickory, NC...i work for a very private construction company as a finish carpenter, painter and tile mason...and i skate

It’s funny I say the same thing about your drywall videos you make it look like you’re spreading butter and you make it look so godd easy like me and my brothers tease that your our drywall god and it’s so funny to hear you say that another professional something look so easy you really are a god man love the videos

just for entertainment. Then why did I learn so much and was entertained watching and listening to you

Yeah the first time I did stuff so I was super surprised most of it fell on the ground. My last stucco job I did much better on. I started mixing mine with a paint mixer in a 5 gallon bucket

I watched a bunch of Kirk's videos then stuccoed the entire back of my DC row house with a friend. It was a nightmare but it fixed a lot of the problems with the deteriorating brick.

It's nice to see you struggle for a change. You make a lot of things look too easy

When I like people, I try those people's suggestions. After I watch you "fumble your way through this", I'll go check him out 😂

Great video as always! I don't know how this stuff has to be work with. I've never seen this boards over here in Germany. But why don't you scratch the first coat after putting it on? The second coat will stick much better on a rough surface than on a smooth or is this type of plaster rough enough?

Love the kirky reference, you two are my favorite you-tubers😁

Barry allen out here doing stucco now 😂😂😂

This is exactly what I would look like trying stucco for the first time

So are you going to try some traditional plaster for interiors? Would be cool to see your process for that, even if you were only learning it...

Kirk is the man I love his videos

just dump it on ground in front of the patch, thin coat for 1st and fill in 2nd second.....supposed to stucco to jagged edges to prevent cracking....need to break stucco back and fish the paper behind existing....just use regular lath paper and the wire you used is fine, doesnt need to be furred out...stucco is hard ass work, as a remodeler you learn all trades fairly well.......its the same as floating a shower for tile

another great video, I did something very similar to what you are doing, a few years ago and it was coming along very well, but then almost near the top of the exterior wall I was doing, the whole patch fell right off and onto the ground. I had to start all over again, ugh. it did turn out nice in the end but I still hate doing stucco.

I live in Michigan. We usually don't use stucco for exterior veneer. I've seen it on some Mexican restaurants though. Lol

I’m not a pro, but I’ve done a few of these using tips I got from Kirks channel with decent results. The most important thing I found is to start by keying in the perimeter. Once that’s in good and tight, the rest goes on like buttah. I never had such a clean rectangle like that though, mine were just busted out with a hammer. That helped make the patch less visible. I dig your channel bro, thanks for putting this stuff out there!

Kirk and Vancouver carpenter are the best channel's to actually learn how to do the jobs right👍

Man you give a great reputation to the drywall guys out west, in Alberta here they seem to a pretty sketchy crowd.

Pros make everything look easy!

Yes watch the channel he suggests that guy is brilliant. I have watched a lot of his video's and learnt a lot.

Kirk makes it look so easy.

I think Kirk is drinking a beer relaxing in a chair and laughing his ass off...lol Kurt is an amazing plasterer, Is always relaxing to watch him work. Easy to sit back and laugh, but it is pretty hard to do a good job without the experience behind one. I think you did pretty good so far, be interesting to see how it turned out. I like the drywall videos you do.

You made old kirk look good buddy.

Your mix looks heavy and a little dry. I have seen your drywall videos and your technique is great, do you use a plasticiser in your mix?

Can I see you do a halfcab heelflip?

I'll stick to taping and texturing drywall ty. Lol I give it up to the plaster and stucco workers, no doubt! That shit makes your wrist strong af!!

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I don't think Ive ever seen him working with wood. Lol 😂

Looks like all your lath/metal is zinc so your off to a good start. Now lets see if you hang your lath correctly.....No! Side to side bro!

My story is straight on to brick in prep for plastering with a live gas pipe running across the middle of the wall.

When doing patchwork, always make sure to chip the edges. Have the new wire lap alteast an inch with the old to prevent from getting those big cracks.

you forgot to or didn't show, sponging the edges to fade in to the existing. if you don't do that before the final coat, it will be very visible.

I kinda wish i could hire him or someone who cares as much about their work as him to help with my house lol.

So essentially you're laying concrete vertically. Got it.

Where do you live? It’s so warm looking.

I learned a lot from this video: I will never do stucco.

Love all the dorks in these comments correcting dude based on what they think they saw in Kirk's videos. A couple dudes know what's up tho

If you don't demo the existing and overlap the existing wire, and new wire, you will have cracking all along the patch. Never plaster to a smooth existing plaster joint....Fun to watch 👍

Stucco is great, wish I knew how to

Want to see part 2 now!!!!!!

Is that a skate-board trowel?

Part 2 ?!

Uh, Kirk always uses that purple primer bro. Where’s the purple primer

I have a question. I live in the States so my products are different. I have a home that I am remodeling and all my walls are either concrete or plaster (there are no wooden lathes behind them just some sort or metal wire, so I’m not sure) But every single one, ceilings as well. No drywall. They look as if they have a coating on them. Some sort of skim coat or mud. My question is, what product would I use to mud the walls and ceilings? Thank you for your time. Great videos btw.

So this was produced after the 2018 BC Building Code was put in effect? Interesting.

The different between taper and plaster and stuco guy big different

Not bad. Where's your green float though. Kirk is shaking his head. Of yeah the old and new paper and wire should lap and you might consider using bonder around those edges to prevent cracking. that mud needs a bit of water

A pool trowel?? I don't know if Kirk would approve. And of course, he'd put Weld Crete over the old stucco. But to be fair, Kirk has Jason too.

kirk is a beast at stucco

You need Loooiu to do the mixing and Loooiuminite to accelerate the set.

As a plasterer from the UK you guys from US and Canada make plastering look like its hard and its rough. In the UK its always smooth and flat. And easy

Think your mix was a tad on the stiff side. You dont do stucco but own a Darby?

VC develops new stucco method of "hawking" it! hahahaha it actually worked tho! u should try to develop a new tool. maybe it is the the bigger surface of the hawk that helps apply it better by giving more blade area to push stucco into wall. then can use smaller floats to fine tune. similar to mudding... the bigger tool for application and smaller for fine tune.

You put it on wrong, should be side on ,the wire is beveled towards paper to hold mortar

U got to use a Bonding agent....get one's u can mix n ur mudd and or put on substrates...BOOM...it makes everything better...

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU... ... ...for ensuring that I NEVER do anything with stucco for the rest of my life.

Enjoyed....But, I think vinyl siding has its' charms....@ 14:00, I would have just stopped and painted it, as is...

In Michigan they have dryvit everywhere. Tried fixing a place once.. never will do it again

Love the channel

I did this once. Key word- once.

Good job, but you should of started with your edge first, that's what kirk always says, and never pull down unless you want to do more then needed

Just add glue yeah 😂

Never liked the look of stucco and no desire to work with it.

Man I swear you look just like grant gustin/ The Flash CW