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Stucco thickness how thick can you apply it?
This work involves applying the stucco and leaving it alone so that you don't break the stucco packs. Usually, only advanced masters can do this on the same day. No, I'm not trying to toot my horn.
98 percent of all folks should apply a few coats on different days, or the dropouts out will be often.
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Hello, my DIY homeowners, young apprentices, and even seasoned journeymen plasterers.
Watch and learn how we stucco professionals show how to spread or apply back-to-back coats of stucco on the same day or simultaneously.
Key Tip, the stucco lath can’t be too tight. It must be attached normally so the stucco has something to grip.
We have no secrets in stucco applications, just learned common sense.
Oaky, since this wall is double the average stucco thickness.
For any stucco applied more than one inch, gravity dictates that gravity will do the rest if more than an inch is applied.
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So if you’re working around the other side of the house, we might hear that familiar sound, like cows craping on flat rocks.
Allow me to explain to all why this can not happen.
Common sense says the first coat should be accelerated stucco or sticky hot mud mix engineered to set fast. Now take the paper. The paper will assist me by sucking the moister out of the new plaster.
This action helps to set that all-important first coat.
With same-day stuccos, apply or trowel it on, then allow it to set. Don’t play with it or over-trowel it. Why? Perhaps many folks won’t understand.
If you continue to trowel or mess with it, you will “BREAK THE PACKS,” don’t do that!
Give the stucco at least 15 minutes to a half-hour before applying the next coat, or most will slide off.
So do not over-trowel any same-day cement materials.
This great truth is that 90 percent of even professional plasterers “Do not understand!”
Learn to know when to stop playing, troweling, and darbying the newly applied stucco.
Simply allow it to just set!
We make it look as natural as white rice. But the truth is you are not supposed to do what you witness in this video. For us, it’s just another day at the office.
I spread three cement coats, roughly about 5 to 7 wheel barrels of stucco, on this one stretch;
The key to achieving this is to have the correct number of accelerators in each wheel barrel of mud.
Did you folks know that when you apply the first coat, if it’s in the sun that heats up the paper, the paper absorbs the water from the stucco extremely fast, setting the first coat quickly.