Here is some basic instruction on how to apply scratch coat stucco. keep walls moist between coats.
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- A basic example of applying scratch coat stucco over 2 layers of grade D 60 minute paper, over plywood sheathing on a large garage addition in Fairfield Ca.
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I love watching someone who really knows their craft
The guys experienced yet humble in his attitude. I consider that an indication of good character. Pleasant. I haven't had a stucco job in a while and I wish I did. I do all kind of stuff, stucco just being one of them. I miss it a bit.
Purchased my first pool trowel this year.
Love it for inside and outside applications.
Thank You for what you do
Creating informative content.
I’m glad you appreciate the tools of the trade.
He says...i know i make it look easy but ive been doing it a while... haha fyi, this man has golden hands. Practically zero mud falls off. When i do this. I average 60% on wall 30% on floor 10% on me.
Mix it a bit wetter. Dry will fall off.
Let's just say he's alot better than most of the guys I've seen on here so far. Good to know there's some people that know what they're doing still.
Thank you Sam Tu!
Priceless advice about wearing glasses,seen lots of videos and never heard that before!!!
great video. good camera angle. good audio. good information. good technique. all equals a great video, well done.
Really good plastering. This guy knows his stuff.
Thank you Puerto Rico it's nice to know that my videos are gaining attention of a worldwide audience
Ken, You do make it look Easy.
Ron.
Greetings from Puerto Rico. This is a great video. I've always wanted to learn how to do this! A++
Thanks for Checking in Javier
Thats a great story coleagle.. Thanks for sharing. Ken
thank you for sharing. very clean, very nice and smooth
It looks like magic!!
Good job time to make more $ with experience thank you
Nice work Ken.
Thanks Mark!
Looks good Ken, you know your stuff. I follow Kirk Giordano plastering too, first time seeing yours.
Hi Anthony. Thanks for checking us out.
Hey!... I just learned something(s) ... Thanks Ken... I am thinking to stucco a geodesic dome frame. about 15'diameter or so.
Excellent video
Gracias amigo great 👍🏽
Dinatha
I really appreciate all the nice compliments, Thanks so much. Please continue to watch and share my videos. Ken
Much better than the man with the white shirt u doñt need a big pool trowel ule do more with a small trowel i used 2put on a tonne a dy in Glasgow this guy knows his stuff doesn't talk shit or love himself just gets on with it
Make more videos I like ur technique on how not to get ur hands dirty best I seen so far
Maria Flores Thanks Maria!
Your welcome
Or on your skin may cause a burn or rash wear long sleeve shirt to protect your skin as well as eye gear or gloves.
Good Plaster
Thanks for the nice compliment. Ken
Good video my Christian Friend !
Jesus any day !
Wow we may have a real life plasterer on Utube. Need to see more vids of finishing. I scratch line on near 45* angle so if I wet it water does not collect.
PaddleDogC5
Interesting!
Interesting suggestion. Contradictory, I would think that horizontal lines might catch the water and help in the curing process between coats. But I like the concept and deep thinking of your 45 lines. Thanks
That's why you get the big bucks I have tried to do just on side of a garage
Excellent work.
What is the mortar you are using ? Do you buy it or you mix it yourself ? Thanks
+Joseph K Hello Joseph. The mud is a combination of plastic cement and plaster sand. I do buy pre mix for smaller jobs.
Thanks for watching. Ken
Thanks Mark
Your a great plasterer! Being right handed, I always work from left to right. And where's your gloves. Great job!
Ya I was trained to go from Right to left. As you can imagine its a hard habit to break now. I feel more comfortable going from R to L. On finish we go from L to R. :)
Ken, great work. Question: What happens if the staple gun or pneumatic nail gun are set too strong and they overdrive the staples or nails too deep and tear the flashing around the windows or the 30 minute tar paper? Will it soak the plywood? And if it the plywood if saturated with water what do you suggest as a remedy? Thank you.
Cover the work until the plywood drys completely. Then apply a good caulking wherever there is a staple. This is a common occurrence. Thanks for watching. Please like and subscribe
@@AbersonPlastering Thanks for responding Ken. Unfortunately, in this job the stucco was put on, along with a smooth finish. When the building got hit with heavy rains, the surface of the stucco started cracking all over. (Not an expert but I assume it's because the plywood was expanding??) I'm concerned I may have to redo the entire job.
Thank you incawarrior
Thank you for watching. "Again"
very nice :)
Great help. Thx ken. How long to let scratch coat cure before applying brown coat
So sorry for the delay in getting back to you Mad Mac 66. I hope you found the answer to your question. The scratch coat should sit for 48 hours before applying the second coat of material. Then the second coat should sit for at least 7 days, or longer if you can. We are waiting 1.5 weeks anymore as the salt can ruin the finish if you apply it to early. When I say salt, I am referring to the efforvecence that bleeds through the stucco after finish coat. Especially on cinder block walls.
begin wetting scratch coat down within first 24 hours. the twice daily after that for 2 days. early mornings and late evenings are best.
How much plaster sand do you put to 94# of plastic cement?
Hi Ken. You know I never saw your reply to my comment back then. Thanks for the advice. It’s been four years and the side of my house I restucco’d is still in good shape. I’m pretty sure I applied the brown coat too soon now but it’s only showing a few tiny cracks. I guess I know for the next time :) Thanks
Eres un chingon!!
Muchas gracias Emilio
4 hours later I was able to do what this guy just did in 5 minutes..
Okay Flash
Is it better to have a stucco house instead of having 3 inch weather walls
hey ken,any tips on how to stop making the sun shadow make render look bad and wavy ? i know it only lasts 5 minutes or so, looks fantastic on buildings but when angle on the sun hits it looks ugly for 5 to 10 minutes...any tips or we all just have to bare it for that time of the day, i even see it on tilt panels with out render on it
straight edges and finish with a wood float. I use redwood float.
Natural light always tells the truth. I've never seen a perfectly flat wall no matter how good a plasterer is. 9am-11am is the worst time to show off your work lol.
I was going to get this done to my Mothers addition to the house. She lives in the south, would this method work and not cause mold?
Yes
You handle a hawk and trowel like a ( plasterer ).
You no doubt realize that by settleing the mortar the mortar on the loaded hawk, it allows for easier removal from the front.
Its surprising to me how many guys claiming to be plasterers today take the mortar from the back.
And of coarse many today dont use a kawk and trowel at all, just what i would refer to as a sliker.
But i suppose getting mud on the wall and having it look good at the end is what matters.
When i started as a very young man in the early 50s most houses had plastered interior walls.
A brown coat or base coat consisted of about 13 shovels of sand to a 100# bag of gypsum, mixed in a mortar box with a hoe and carried into the house in a hod. When the brown coat dried a white coat was applied and trowled to a smooth finish.
The white coat consisted of a high grade lime known as finish lime, and it was soaked in a mortar box in water over night.
Then placed on a large mortar board and mixed with gauging plaster which is essentially plaster of paris.
We were not permitted to apply any mortar on a wall untill we could handle the hawk and trowel properly.
Meaning among other things taking mortar off the front of the hawk.
Hi Ernie. Thanks for checking in. And thanks for the history lesson. Even I consider myself an old timer, but you sir prolly wore the white shirt with bow tie. I’m thinking of challenging Kirk in a fastest plastering competition. Please subscribe if you haven’t already. Glad to have you aboard to kindly critique my postings😃. Kman
Ever use a Darby?
@@jonviall5566 Yes, i used a darby all the time with the base coat (brown coat) on interior plastering.
Its primary function is to flatten out the mortar after it is applied as well as show areas thad need filling in in order to straighten a wall.
We didnt use them very much on the exterior stucco however.
Most of the exterior stucco work we did had a textured final finish coat, so small discrepancies in unevenness werernt as noticable.
On the smooth sand finishes it is far more important to have a flat straight wall, and a darby is often used.
Hi nice video. Can you please explain why there's a need to do separate scratch and brown coats? Why can't you just place a 3/4" thick single coat?
You can double up right away. On bigger jobs though it’s just easier to proceed with caution. Makes it easier. But not necessarily better either way. Options. Plus read the scope. Some folks don’t believe in 1 step process. Also we need to justify the cost of our work by stretching out over a few days eh.
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Mr Ken, i am left hand, but most of my coworkers always tell me that its not okay plastering with my left hand, should i try with my right hand? I mean is okay if i work with my left hand? Or?
J. Thats ludicrous for them to say that. Im sure they are nice people. You asked the right guy. I could talk all day about this. I have worked with several plasterers that are left handed. Left handed plasterers are ideal. Especially for doing finish coat, but the other coats as well. Now I will assume you plaster opposite direction the fellow plasterers go, That may be why they are uncomfortable with you working that way. However lets say you plaster right to left on finish, and they plaster left to right.Then you could meet in the middle and have a perfect wall. Dont switch to accommodate them. How about they accommodate you? Is it because there is a majority that are right handed? Probably.
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technique that is bothering them. Listen you have got to stay clean and stop wasting so much mud. Dont put so much mud on your hawk. Wear nice clothes to work. Be clean in everything you do. Wear knee pads during work to protect your knees while crawling around on that scaffold, and crawling on floors. wear a hat if you aren’t already. And sunscreen. Be above your peers. Be professional. Ask them if they want sunscreen. They will laugh at you and treat you like your being ridicules, but in the end you wont be the one with skin cancer.
It doesn't matter what your predominant hand is. But if the crew is working left to right then you have to adapt and vice-versa. The only time I ever had to work right to left was when the crew leader was left handed and refused to work the predominant direction. Everyone else was taught left to right which is the proper direction. But it's good to train yourself a good stroke in either direction. I've been at this 35 years and all of the old technicians taught left to right in every application. I can only surmise that it's because most people are predominately right handed. Nice video for those needing some basic tips. When I first began I wore most of the material. 😂🤣
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What type the cement do you use
Riverside Plastic cement. Primarily because Riverside bags have a plastic liner to protect from moisture.
What stucco mix do you recommend?
Hi Jacob, I prefer 3 parts sand to one part cement on scratch coat, then 4 parts sand to one part cement on brown coats. Don't forget to hydrate the walls in between coats and thanks for watching. Ken
Does a 60 or 80 grit mason sand work OK with that ratio?
Jacob Lavoie you’d have to try it and see
What is your mix? Please identify cement and sand quantity. Thanks
Jose Canisales 18-1 scratch 25-1 brown
@@AbersonPlastering Is that Portland Plastic whole bag?
@@josecanisales3491 yes
You just mix your slurry on the table ?
No. This was a mechanical mixer. Never mix mud on the board. Lots of times I use a 5 gallon bucket
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I had never seen a white guy work so hard !!! Lmao great video man!
Haha Thanks Joe, But this video doesn't show the half of the hard work. Cheers
Thanks Joel. Yeah Its a love hate job. Lol.
In regards to the effects of Shadowing because of the angle of the light from the sun.
When the sun comes around and hits the wall and shows all of the highs and lowes We refer to this as ugly hour. This is especially prevalent with acrylic finishes.
If you dont want to see this extreme action, i have discovered a way. Read on.
Since doing the work in the sunlight would be next to impossible, cover the work with large tarps and bring in lights. You can also do the work at night this way. Move the light around to simulate the sun. Do this on the second coat if not the first and third as well. KA
+Ken Aberson
We could also plant trees or build structures to shield the wall from bad effects of the sun
no mention of when to hydrate the scratch coat.
Hi John, I have seen your comment, and I apologize for taking so long to replay, but Ive been so bz. Hydration begins within the first 24 hrs of scratch coat. then early mornings and late evenings are best to reduce potential cracking rendering the stucco more dense. In the winter time in California, I don't even wet the walls down because it gets below 45 degree which renders the stucco hard as a rock and almost zero cracks.
Can you come to pigeon forge tenn and stone my house.
Yes and no. We are swamped right now with work probably we can come at the end of 2017. My personal email is abersonplastering.com Stay in touch.
Right to Left? Always start left to right unless you’re a lefty....
Why go left to right? What is the advantage? Is it written somewhere that the way to plaster is from left to right unless you are a lefty? Or were you just brought up with guys that went from left to right and you never questioned it.
It doesn’t matter where you start as long as you are comfortable with it. I’m going to do a special video on this. Thanks for your suggestions. Ken
That's been the "unwritten rule" in plastering forever. It's because most are right handed. If the applicators are mainly right handed it's just common sense. But like Ken said, whatever is comfortable to everyone is acceptable. Never rock the boat just to be different. It can cause confusion among the ranks. 10 right handers 1 left handers doesn't warrant a change. The one guy out has to adapt not the 10.
Just stop trying to rewrite history.
And use whatever hand is necessary to get the job done.
Left to right or right to left end has never mattered enough to care,
as long as the material & strokes were consistent.
Lefties are just as good righties in the real world of labor.
Talking about it doesn’t get it done,
let alone forcing a contrary idea on your labor will only add confusion and stress to any project.
Skill with a hawk comes in time and eventually both hands will be able to handle any wall or ceiling with any material,
No matter where on the building you are working: upside down or side to side it all goes on the same way when your prep is done right.
Lefties have the same rights as righties to produce.
Thank You for letting me comment on the topic
I have a brother & mother who are lefties both exceptionally intelligent and talented with their hands.
Youre decent.much better then the other cali guy with the 2ft pool trowel but why u work right to left????
Hi average guy. I work right to left because that is the way I was taught. You know what's funny? When I first started plastering, I wondered why the guys went from right to left, when left to right seems easier. Now I can't break it. Im kinda stuck. But it goes well with a lefty on finish because then we can meet in the middle.
@@AbersonPlastering lol ok
I'm 44 in Philly. Been Plastering 26 years like yourself. How's your body holding up?
@@averageguy7641 Its in alright shape I guess. Backs been hurting this past week. I dont know why they have to make those bags so heavy. Its alright as long as we dont have to lift them from zero elevation. I can’t sleep on my left side. Shoulder is killing me. That comes from holding the hawks . And I’ll bet your thumb on your left hand hurts from holding the hawk handle sometimes. I move my thumb around to the other side of the handle. Its kind of weird that way, but the pain goes away. I used to do all the texting on the big houses by myself, because I was the only one who could do the lacy texture really nice. So I would hold the hawk for hours and hours.Paying for it now, but no regrets. How bout you? Hows the ol back?
@@frustrating123 the lower back is never 100% its just a matter of how sore it is right.couple motrins does the trick.2seasons ago my shoulder was bothering me and last year i felt severe tendinitis in trowel hand.worked thru both but what other option do we have?
So we had a bad slow winter here in Philly but now its pickin up
Currently trying to work off my wintertime 20lbs i gain every yr but knock on wood body feels decent so far.when i go back union it'll be all EIFS as opposed to sand & cement so that'll help too
Stay safe buddy
Right handed plasterers trowel from left to right, why are you going backwards, like a left handed plasterer
Hi Phillip, Here in Central California, It is of the norm for right handed plasterers to plaster from the right to the left, except on finish coat we plaster from the left to the right. Left handers here, plaster opposite. Lefties plaster from the right to the left. How long have you been plastering and most importantly, are you from Canada Or? Where did you learn how to plaster. Ken
I've been plastering for 37 yrs, it's faster and not as awkward, for a right handed plasterer to trowel all coats left to right, I'm a second generation plasterer,.y son 29, is a third generation plasterer, 5 brothers also are plasterers, we are in Knoxville Tennessee, my father 76, still plastering, we only go reverse if a left handed plasterer is on the job
Why is it awkward? Let me ask you this. Do you start on the top and work down? Or do you start at the bottom and work up.If you are plastering from left to right, are you finishing your stroke in the open field and not finishing your stroke by working into already laid mud. Actually you and I both know that it isn’t written anywhere on which way a plasterer is supposed plaster. It sounds like you’ve been around the block a few times as I have as well. So you and I can start wherever we want. We are both seasoned plasterers. I like it when I’m working with a left hand plasterers because then we can both meet in the middle. See out here lefties go from rleft to right on scratch and brown. Strange isn’t it anyway I believe I have the right formula I think that if I was to go from left to right I would spill more mud on the ground and if you can see from this video I probably spilled less than a trowel full of mud on the ground. I don’t feel awkward at all I feel very comfortable and I feel like I’m doing it the right way by working in to the mud that I’ve already laid on imagine trying to work into the mud that you’ve already laid on by going from left to right. That would be awkward.
He’s a liar,
me as a worker can tell that he’s the boss that’s why he chose the easy wall with solid back he’s way too slow and he only has practice unholding the blade.
You should show a video of the real deal,
your guys doing the work, that would be amazing
You got one thing right potato dip. IM THE BOSS
Well tspoonhunter after 25 years you can make it look easy too. Thanks for the compliment . Ken