Brown coat and finish stucco tips for your upcoming stucco tasks
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2020
- From hell to high water this little house was unfortunately the victim of a collision to wit a car. A young drunk driver barreling down a busy city street lost control and created a huge hole in this little pink house. We were informed of the incident and brought in to repair the damage from the studs out to finished stucco. The contractor will be painting the whole home with the money furbished by the insurance company plus a few bucs out of the home owners pocket for miscellanies expenses. We have have been doing the contractors work here locally for more than twenty years. Last we we did a major new construction job for him in Davis Ca on College park with all of the new state of the art appointments and acrylic finish to boot. If you need tools to start your project check out my tool page on my website at abersonplastering.com
Ask if you have any questions or suggestions on how to do this better. As many of you know I am a seasoned plasterer, lathing and plaster contractor since 1991. In the early days it was much different than it is today. Seems many things are different that they were yesteryear. Let me give you a few examples.
For one, a hod carrier is called a hod carrier because he's was the one who would carry an aluminum built v shaped bucket on his shoulders up a ladder to the brick layers or plasterers above. Today the hod is a thing of the past. Fast forward a few years. Home Depot and the Homer bucket. wallah the new way to carry mud up a ladder. Yet the bucket is much harder to carry, go figure. I guess the production line on hods fell to new lows over the years. Now new hoodies don't really even know what a hod is. Nor will you see brown stucco when we do the brown coat.
A second example is the use of furring nails. Long long ago our wire was made flat, much like chicken wire. Until the invention of self furred wire and pneumatic nail guns and 7/8" staples, lathers had to use what's called furred nails to space the wire away from the wall so mud could be squeezed behind wire lath. Today wire comes self furred and days of the furring nail are all but gone.
A third example of change over the years is what I believe holds true too many plasterers but not all is the interest of the beauty of conventional stucco. Now granted acrylic stucco will expand and contract with the system and inhibit extensive cracking. Acrylic is also a beautiful finish. When acrylic dries after its initial application it can be a beautiful wall. In fact it is so pretty that you would almost think it was painted. Acrylic stucco comes in any color of the spectrum and can be matched to specifications within 90% of its sample color. this is something that is hard to achieve with conventional stucco. What is the drawback and I bet you are saying to yourself what is Ken trying to say here. Well here it is guys. This is what I think about acrylics. All that I have written above plus this. However there is an even keel when it comes to cost. Because regular (conventional stucco cracks and some people are adamant that stucco isn't supposed to crack. Well these people are just misinformed. You see, stucco is supposed to crack. Its just not supposed to burn, it insulates well and the termites won't eat it. It goes the same for acrylics yes. But here is the thing. Regular conventional stucco is under rated. Once you truly understand art, and I will add that it doesn't take much to learn art, it's the yearning for art that will define who you are and tell you what you want to see. Acrylics are flat, no character, in fact it looks like it was painted on. Whereas regular stucco is natural. regular stucco comes from the earth and so do its colors. Not like acrylic who's colors are made in a factory in St Louis. They are both beautiful finish cladding for residential and commercial applications. The choice is yours. Which would you rather have on your dream home? Acrylic stucco? or Conventional stucco? 
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As a Plasterer myself I think you do an overall great job. Matching texture is an art in which you Sir are great at it. Picking up pointers from you in every video.
Thank you. From Northern California. Keep on getting it on!!
longtime fan of stucco look,but well aware of the old and newer....curious and now considering having it for 1st time,possibly,been studying vids for days...your summary of the history and aesthetics...and change and consideration of old school or new....darn good! thank you.im smitten with stucco. also scared. thanks for the run down....the best!
And your positive comments bring cheer and warmth to an otherwise colder day. Thanks for chiming in and I wish you the best on your endeavors.
Real nice match! Love your vids. Thanks for making them.
Nice Job Ken! takes years of experience to make it look easy people dont think any different
Haha thanks Aaron, Yeah the years of experience in plastering and in video editing, Im sure. Even I think its easier than it is when Im watching it. Hahaha
Really like that cap you have on. I've learned a bunch of techniques from your videos I intend on putting to use in the coming month on stuccoing the outside of my house.Thanks so much for doing them.
Wish you the best in your endeavors Aaron
@@AbersonPlastering Mr aberson, do you also work from bottom to top?
@@Bellathebear777 Mostly not
What an amazing texture match, not too many plaster can do that.
Thanks
😆🤣 it's gonna get painted anyway. Only thing better is that it looks good from my house. Definitely a Plasterer saying. Good stuff
Looks great! "I'm going to leave the lump, it was there already, kind of looks okay with the other lumps over there" 🤣I approve of this highly scientific lump analysis
Ya. I prolly shoulda knocked it off. Lol
Amazing!
Thanks
Awesome video. The music was cool too.
Thank you so much for checking us out Joseph
@@AbersonPlastering yes for sure. Your anbawesome plasterer and I enjoy the videos. I'm in a the trade also
Keep on keepin on
'Like buttah!' Thank's for posting.
Thanks for watching
Good match
Thank you Robert
Hello Ken what kind of material do you use for the first coat and which one for the finish.?? Thanks
What product did you use for finish coat? I am going to paint the wall. Can I use the regular la habra base 100 and just not add the color pack? Then paint it? Thank you
Yes absolutely. La Habra wants to sell you color. They should put the base without the color on the color chart.
Not everyone can plaster like Kirk
Isn’t he the best 😁
Ken what kind of floats are you guys using these days? Our old rubber floats of 20 yrs are finally toast and we don’t like the cork ones
Can’t find rubber floats
You would need to go to a stucco supply store or go online to find neoprene floats
What are you using Brand for the color finish coat?
La habra or Omega
You need a green sponge Float OK my opinion
Sponge floats create a nice tooth to grab the material from your trowel. However it is a different look. We are attempting to match the existing texture which has a flat base coat, um sanded. So on this project we only used a green float to blend in the edges then used out trowel to make the sandy mess disappear.
Man why doesn’t my brown coat stick like that. The scratches coat has been scratched like the video. Im using the stucco scratch brown coat 80lb bags
Mix it in 5 gallon pail with a 2500 rpm 1/2” drill with a whip with a long shank. Build some air into it
This guy is a master at his craft everything's on point step-by-step but the music not good
I’m working on the music. I’ve purchase a new AKAI 25 key mini midi controller and use it with garage band. I do appreciate your kind words and comments
Why didn’t you just reskin the gable and the 4 ft of wall on the left side ?
Hi. It’s stucco tips as title describes. But you are right it should have been as you said. Fortunately I am skilled enough to blend the new with the old. Sometimes we will skim the whole wall. Thanks for chiming in
kirks the best
What. Are you 10 years old?