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I’m glad that you’re making progress on the outside now. As a contractor who works on his own house, I really understand how your house never gets finished
Just a note for your consideration. We have a townhouse in Florida that’s stucco over block. The contractor then painted it with latex paint. Apparently (this all happened before we bought it), the stucco with latex paint wasn’t waterproof and water was migrating through to the block and inside. The fix was to repaint with an elastomeric paint. That stopped the water intrusion. Future paintings can use regular latex. By the way, great channel. Have been following you since your appearance on some of those early Andrew Comarata videos. Your depth of knowledge and skills for a young guy is impressive.
Nice. Here in Bulgaria (Eastern Europe) this sort of sprayed stuco is really common. People just spray it and do not try to smooth it over. It is extremely durable. Houses 40+ years look like new.
In a lot of countries (Asia, Eastern Europe) concrete is the preferred method of home construction, it’s weird in the US most of the time we use wood for house construction.
@@mchuo7834 I can see the benefits of wood. It is fast, you got a lot of it and it is efficient. US people seem to move a lot, so longevity is not high in your list. Here we use to live our entire live in a single house, very often even one build few generarations ago. Concrete as a matter of fact has been adopted in the past 70 years. Before that brick, wood, cob and stone were the norm. Honestly I don't know which is better. I guess it is all about cost at the end.
@@MrFilipT I really like the houses in Romania. Although construction techniques are the same as ours, you seem to be a bit more focused on the aesthetics than us. I'm talking about he 1940-2000 at least.
Great job, Jesse. I don't miss my days as a plasterer rendering houses. Looks like a great material to use and very similar to our K Rend we use in the UK. Can't paint it, and it does have a tendency to go green if trees are close to the building and the alge grows on it. Thanks for another year of interesting and varied content Merry Christmas to you and your family Austin
I agree with you. The finish coat looked far better as it was when spayed and without knocking it down with a trowel. On a box house that lacks any architectural detail or large (main floor) windows that would take the eye away from so much uninterupted surface area, flaws in the stucco will be much more noticeable. Otherwise, job well done.
I like the finish coat better without smoothing it out but to each his own. Either way your place is looking really nice .The one you need to please is your wife. 👍 Merry Christmas to you and your family.
12/17/23..ahh Jesse. Stucco makes yur house look sooo much better! Gray color is fine as wont show dirt as much as lighter or white. Gonna look great after you get garden, grass etc. Oh yes, loved when little boy (inside warm house) was 👋 waving at camera! Nice touch..😊 Stay safe & carry on!👍⚙️💪🍺😊
I did a smaller ranch house about 45 years ago with the lath and subsequent skim coats of mortar, then the house was painted white and has looked good for 45 years, I live a block away and it has held up very well.
friendly neighborhood stucco guy here, this was hard to watch lol but you got it done and it looks good! Stucco takes about 6 months of doing it everyday to become professional speed and quality. I know from training several guys over the past 6 years of being in the industry. You did a good job! Saved lots of money doing it yourself that’s for sure!
Yea I am sure it takes all of 6 months to train for one style, and even more when you start doing different styles.knockdown, smooth, sand finish. Could take years to be efficient at it
There are many parts to the build of this house that were new to you. You have done a great job on every step of the construction and should be very proud.
I purchased a home built in 1907 with a "rough stone foundation that leaked air, I used vermiculite cement on the Inside and out with a wire lathe base worked great with 20+ years without even a crack, and smooth as glass
Looking really good Jesse. There's a lot of work gone into this build and you should be proud of what you have achieved. The knowledge you have is unbelievable. Looking forward to the next vlog
First step you need is a plaster hawk and flat trowl. Than always start appling from bottom working your way up and down the line vertical left to right or vice versa depending on your dominate hand.. ☝☝ This will keep your drop waste down. The stuco must have the consistency of pudding or thin icing. To be able to apply it in a thin manner. Plus there's no need to apply a first coat before the mesh. It should go right onto the foam and smooshed on vertical with one coat at 1/8" to1/16" thick. 👍👍👍👍To do a knock down effect for spray on you need to lightly skim the trowl downward over the high spots knocking them flat ONLY with light pressure.👀👀It's the same as you see with plaster effects in many Hotel's. A light swipe is all that's needed.
I did stucco once...scratch, brown, finish, by hand over concrete block. Never touched the hock or trowel again. When you see stucco guys who do it everyday, you really appreciate what they do. They're incredibly efficient and precise.
I’ve used the same sprayer to do texture on drywall. Best thing I’ve found is to set stop on trigger where you like the amount of material coming out. Next thing is to stand alittle farther away it avoid it being botchy. It’s trail and error to get all those dailed in. It’s drywall texture verse stucco but it’s still spraying mud on a wall.
I sprayed one of my houses in the past with the same setup, but kept the spray texture and then used a elastomeric paint... 15 years later its the same and no cracks... Great work
Yea I kind of wished I kept the spray texture. But ultimately the look is the least of my concerns at the moment. I will want to revisit it though when things arent so hectic for us
@@jmuller86 I would like to know are the styrofoam sheets that are on the contour and the bottom of the concrete roof stay there because as it is a concrete roof there is no soffit and fascia
@@jmuller86 Sorry, I may have formulated it badly. I wanted to say that the foam remained in place once the formwork was removed, it should not have been removed with the formwork. I hope my question is clearer
Nice job, keep in mind that plastic for the corner bead has a half inch heat and cold shrinkage and it lives up to it. I have dealt with the problem many times in the construction end of things!
I have worked with this kind of job professionaly. What you shold do now to get a perfect finish is to get the colour sandmix product. Now I live in Sweden so I dont know exactly what products you have there. But this colour sandmix use to be able buy blended and ready to use in buckets. You spray it on. Leaves a very nice structure and even surface. Use to be several colours to choose from.
That mesh should help make the stucco last forever, and if there are any cracks, they will be almost invisible. Your eaves are well above most of the trees, and you have no roofing granules so the gutters should stay fairly clean. But when they do stop up, the telehandler will make short work of it.
as someone that was the third generation in the masonry business, mainly brick, block and stone and eventually stucco when the cheap labor from south of the border hit I can say I would hire you. You just need a few pointers to make it easier on you. You have the skills. Being in the trade that long I never want to see a brick or stucco again! We put 2" foam around my foundation when we built in 1991 and the rest is brick. A year ago my sister brought her monster dog over and it heard something behind the hedge along the foundation and plowed into it hard enough it destroyed about 30' of stucco and foam. I was back in the business for a weekend after that. 🙄
The stucco finish looks great Jessie. A lot of work for just two people though. Hopefully, the new year will bring you health, and happiness!!! Thank you for all the effort you expend making these videos.😃
Mr Wheeler had a video a few weeks ago detailing his chicken problem and the work of hand applying the same stucco to his ICF house over a mesh. A lot of work.
I like the finish straight out of the sprayer myself, I spose it’s just personal preference! Great job mate, you’re a credit to you and your family and they should be very proud of you and the work you do!❤
Jesse, I have followed you from the beginning, and have always loved and enjoyed your videos, and so appreicate that you have shared your life and your family's lives with all of us in any project you have done. Your an amazing person, and have been taught a great work ethetic, no matter what comes up, you face the issue and get er done! Awesome! The House is looking awesome. This is the same stuco that your parents now have installed on their home. Like the color that you chose, a bit like the color your parents also chose. I know your goal was to cover a larger area, and get the coatings done, but to me it looked like you doubled on the work you were doling, with spraying it on and then having to gove back over it all the smooth it all out. The House is looking so nice. Ready for your first Chrismas there?? Bet your family loves it. Great Job!
its been a long journey on youtube to get to this point with your house and even more so for you building it kuddos and merry Christmas to you and all your family! Keep on being a hard working creative smart guy!
Nicely put together video. At the 20 minute mark, "I bet it is pretty satisfying to watch somebody do it." Just before that quote while watching, I was thinking how labor intensive building a house really is to construct. When will the robots take over more of the construction? Eaglegards...
Looks like you have teared all the styrofoam off of the wall, like bare concrete showing up... 😊 The spray finish would like look quite nice, for the occasional blodges I would recommend a moist sponge to bring back some texture to them Great job, thx for showing! 👍👍👍
👏 👏 Awesome I love the colour it different from everyone else when is fully dry all will blend in and it will look slightly more beautiful. Years down the line you can improve but I like it the way it looks now.
The barrel technique is how I mixed small batches of grout for my foundation remediation. Mixer in one hand with the mixer running in the barrel, other hand with shovel dipped down into the trough next to me that had the cement in it. scoop, dump, mix. backbreaking lol
My dad did some stucco work on a house he built. It looked very splotchy so he whitewashed it and then it looked great. You can tint the whitewash if you want some color to it.
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I’m glad that you’re making progress on the outside now. As a contractor who works on his own house, I really understand how your house never gets finished
yeah he's also got the machines and shop and who knows what else lol
Jessie, I have followed you for a long time and I must say; you are a worker, a hard worker and that I respect enormously. Hats off to you.
Thanks for doing a full video without crazy music and pointless commentary. It's always good just to watch and learn through the whole process
Just a note for your consideration. We have a townhouse in Florida that’s stucco over block. The contractor then painted it with latex paint. Apparently (this all happened before we bought it), the stucco with latex paint wasn’t waterproof and water was migrating through to the block and inside. The fix was to repaint with an elastomeric paint. That stopped the water intrusion. Future paintings can use regular latex.
By the way, great channel. Have been following you since your appearance on some of those early Andrew Comarata videos. Your depth of knowledge and skills for a young guy is impressive.
Nice. Here in Bulgaria (Eastern Europe) this sort of sprayed stuco is really common. People just spray it and do not try to smooth it over. It is extremely durable. Houses 40+ years look like new.
I love that spray on rough finish too
Agree, same in Romania
In a lot of countries (Asia, Eastern Europe) concrete is the preferred method of home construction, it’s weird in the US most of the time we use wood for house construction.
@@mchuo7834 I can see the benefits of wood. It is fast, you got a lot of it and it is efficient. US people seem to move a lot, so longevity is not high in your list. Here we use to live our entire live in a single house, very often even one build few generarations ago. Concrete as a matter of fact has been adopted in the past 70 years. Before that brick, wood, cob and stone were the norm. Honestly I don't know which is better. I guess it is all about cost at the end.
@@MrFilipT I really like the houses in Romania. Although construction techniques are the same as ours, you seem to be a bit more focused on the aesthetics than us. I'm talking about he 1940-2000 at least.
Great job, Jesse. I don't miss my days as a plasterer rendering houses. Looks like a great material to use and very similar to our K Rend we use in the UK. Can't paint it, and it does have a tendency to go green if trees are close to the building and the alge grows on it.
Thanks for another year of interesting and varied content
Merry Christmas to you and your family
Austin
I agree with you. The finish coat looked far better as it was when spayed and without knocking it down with a trowel.
On a box house that lacks any architectural detail or large (main floor) windows that would take the eye away from so much uninterupted surface area, flaws in the stucco will be much more noticeable.
Otherwise, job well done.
I wouldn't have smoothed it out, it's already a very nice texture right out of the sprayer. Love your channel!
yeah the idea of respraying with a sand finish sounds good.
Here in Croatia everyone who sprays just leaves that finish. It's uniformly fuzzy, so it looks great.
I like the finish coat better without smoothing it out but to each his own. Either way your place is looking really nice .The one you need to please is your wife. 👍
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
12/17/23..ahh Jesse. Stucco makes yur house look sooo much better! Gray color is fine as wont show dirt as much as lighter or white. Gonna look great after you get garden, grass etc. Oh yes, loved when little boy (inside warm house) was 👋 waving at camera! Nice touch..😊 Stay safe & carry on!👍⚙️💪🍺😊
I did a smaller ranch house about 45 years ago with the lath and subsequent skim coats of mortar, then the house was painted white and has looked good for 45 years, I live a block away and it has held up very well.
what I love the most with your videos is your honesty about how you do things and what you would do differently in the future. very helpful
friendly neighborhood stucco guy here, this was hard to watch lol but you got it done and it looks good! Stucco takes about 6 months of doing it everyday to become professional speed and quality. I know from training several guys over the past 6 years of being in the industry. You did a good job! Saved lots of money doing it yourself that’s for sure!
Yea I am sure it takes all of 6 months to train for one style, and even more when you start doing different styles.knockdown, smooth, sand finish. Could take years to be efficient at it
There are many parts to the build of this house that were new to you. You have done a great job on every step of the construction and should be very proud.
This material is only sprayed and beautifully evenly. There is no smoothing.
That was a grab in the bucket.
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I purchased a home built in 1907 with a "rough stone foundation that leaked air, I used vermiculite cement on the Inside and out with a wire lathe base worked great with 20+ years without even a crack, and smooth as glass
Looking really good Jesse. There's a lot of work gone into this build and you should be proud of what you have achieved. The knowledge you have is unbelievable. Looking forward to the next vlog
the house can be stylized as a chalet, it will look beautiful especially since it is located in nature👍
First step you need is a plaster hawk and flat trowl. Than always start appling from bottom working your way up and down the line vertical left to right or vice versa depending on your dominate hand.. ☝☝ This will keep your drop waste down. The stuco must have the consistency of pudding or thin icing. To be able to apply it in a thin manner. Plus there's no need to apply a first coat before the mesh. It should go right onto the foam and smooshed on vertical with one coat at 1/8" to1/16" thick. 👍👍👍👍To do a knock down effect for spray on you need to lightly skim the trowl downward over the high spots knocking them flat ONLY with light pressure.👀👀It's the same as you see with plaster effects in many Hotel's. A light swipe is all that's needed.
I did stucco once...scratch, brown, finish, by hand over concrete block. Never touched the hock or trowel again. When you see stucco guys who do it everyday, you really appreciate what they do. They're incredibly efficient and precise.
The texture out of the sprayer looked great.
I’ve used the same sprayer to do texture on drywall. Best thing I’ve found is to set stop on trigger where you like the amount of material coming out. Next thing is to stand alittle farther away it avoid it being botchy. It’s trail and error to get all those dailed in. It’s drywall texture verse stucco but it’s still spraying mud on a wall.
I sprayed one of my houses in the past with the same setup, but kept the spray texture and then used a elastomeric paint... 15 years later its the same and no cracks... Great work
Yea I kind of wished I kept the spray texture. But ultimately the look is the least of my concerns at the moment. I will want to revisit it though when things arent so hectic for us
@@jmuller86 I would like to know are the styrofoam sheets that are on the contour and the bottom of the concrete roof stay there because as it is a concrete roof there is no soffit and fascia
@@TomGuimond that is a concrete overhang. It has foam on the outside and underside of the overhang because that was the best way to form it
@@jmuller86 you should of consulted with me. Haha
@@jmuller86 Sorry, I may have formulated it badly. I wanted to say that the foam remained in place once the formwork was removed, it should not have been removed with the formwork. I hope my question is clearer
What a difference a day makes.
Nice job, keep in mind that plastic for the corner bead has a half inch heat and cold shrinkage and it lives up to it. I have dealt with the problem many times in the construction end of things!
I've been waiting for this for a while, thank you Jesse!
That is a lot of work, well done. Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I have worked with this kind of job professionaly. What you shold do now to get a perfect finish is to get the colour sandmix product. Now I live in Sweden so I dont know exactly what products you have there. But this colour sandmix use to be able buy blended and ready to use in buckets. You spray it on. Leaves a very nice structure and even surface. Use to be several colours to choose from.
Been waiting on this video, pretty satisfying to see it all go on
Stucco looks good to me, done before the frost. Next! This product looks good. No primer, just slap it on. Thank you for the vid
I have been looking forward to this video since watching your mother and father stucco their home!
I'm really impressed with how everything is progressing, keep up the good work 👏
You sure are not afraid to try anything, but always comes out good. I really enjoy these videos, thank you for sharing.
That mesh should help make the stucco last forever, and if there are any cracks, they will be almost invisible. Your eaves are well above most of the trees, and you have no roofing granules so the gutters should stay fairly clean. But when they do stop up, the telehandler will make short work of it.
Watched the whole process frpm day one..I a word Great...Thanks Jesse
There are some trades, where the experts do a fabulous job. As compared to diy. You have definitely found one of them.
I really enjoy what you are doing! Thank you for sharing! 👌 😊
It looks beautiful. Nicely done!!!
Wow! What a big job man! Judos for sticking with it!
What a transformation you have done to the house with this job! Great job Jesse!!
It has been Amazing watching you build this house
Looks Wonderful !!! Can not wait to see mure !!!
Thanks for this Brother! I really enjoyed it and thank you for letting me come along on your journey ✌️❤️ from across the pond🏴
Great job Jesse. It looks very nice. I know you and your family are really going to enjoy your new home.
I've been watching your videos for a while. You are a talented and hard working man. 👍👍
I wish you all the best 👍👍
Awesome, awesome work guys.
as someone that was the third generation in the masonry business, mainly brick, block and stone and eventually stucco when the cheap labor from south of the border hit I can say I would hire you. You just need a few pointers to make it easier on you. You have the skills. Being in the trade that long I never want to see a brick or stucco again! We put 2" foam around my foundation when we built in 1991 and the rest is brick. A year ago my sister brought her monster dog over and it heard something behind the hedge along the foundation and plowed into it hard enough it destroyed about 30' of stucco and foam. I was back in the business for a weekend after that. 🙄
That's always the best side of the house to start a new project,and the time you get the front you'll be a pro!
Wow, that really changes the look of the house. Really great job!
The stucco finish looks great Jessie. A lot of work for just two people though. Hopefully, the new year will bring you health, and happiness!!! Thank you for all the effort you expend making these videos.😃
Mr Wheeler had a video a few weeks ago detailing his chicken problem and the work of hand applying the same stucco to his ICF house over a mesh. A lot of work.
GJ none the less JM!!!!! Looks better than bought.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
One step closer great build y'all have a great evening 👍🏻🇺🇸
Looking great Jesse, from my family to your family Merry Christmas and God bless
really enjoy watching your videos
Great videos - keep them coming.
Thanks for the content merry Christmas and a happy new year!
I like the finish straight out of the sprayer myself, I spose it’s just personal preference! Great job mate, you’re a credit to you and your family and they should be very proud of you and the work you do!❤
We love watching people thrive…… Jesse is thriving…. Awesome channel! Awesome uploads, let help him thrive!
Teamwork is definitely the way to go, lovely job😊
What a difference, looks so good now. Good job man.
It is very satisfying to watch. Especially when you put music to the time lapse
It's coming right along jesse.
Great video Jesse,,,,
Merry Christmas to you your co-workers,your beautiful wife and your two adorable sons.
An actual fortress. Kudos, sir!
I watched your Parents video and I was looking forward to watch this video and I truly enjoyed every minute of it well done buddy.
I like how it looks .. great job !!!
Yes. It's very relaxing watching you stucco the house😂. If you're interested in some land/house consulting work, I'd love to pick your brain.
Jesse, I have followed you from the beginning, and have always loved and enjoyed your videos, and so appreicate that you have shared your life and your family's lives with all of us in any project you have done. Your an amazing person, and have been taught a great work ethetic, no matter what comes up, you face the issue and get er done! Awesome! The House is looking awesome. This is the same stuco that your parents now have installed on their home. Like the color that you chose, a bit like the color your parents also chose. I know your goal was to cover a larger area, and get the coatings done, but to me it looked like you doubled on the work you were doling, with spraying it on and then having to gove back over it all the smooth it all out. The House is looking so nice. Ready for your first Chrismas there?? Bet your family loves it. Great Job!
Turning out real nice Jesse. You’re making a nice place for you and your family!
That looks good and protects the ICF material.
its been a long journey on youtube to get to this point with your house and even more so for you building it kuddos and merry Christmas to you and all your family! Keep on being a hard working creative smart guy!
Looks great!
#AWESOMESAUCE !!! Wonderful job!
Nicely put together video. At the 20 minute mark, "I bet it is pretty satisfying to watch somebody do it." Just before that quote while watching, I was thinking how labor intensive building a house really is to construct. When will the robots take over more of the construction? Eaglegards...
I think it looks great. Would like a peek inside, just to see how things are looking in there.
I will do a start to finish video involving everything on the house in a video coming up. and I will show it all finished
Good video. It's coming together nicely.
Looks awesome from the drone shots
Absolutely marvellous 👍
looking great!
Really enjoyed watching how that worked❤❤❤❤
Fascinating and enjoyable. The whole thing. Thanks :)
It looks really nice!
Looking really good!
Nice videos l, I always learn much relaxing music
Cool seeing it all one color!😊
The blue hopper sprayer is actually for spraying popcorn ceilings.
It looks great Jesse.
Nice looking stucco work, JM.
Wow looking good. Keep up the cool vid's.
Looks like you have teared all the styrofoam off of the wall, like bare concrete showing up...
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The spray finish would like look quite nice, for the occasional blodges I would recommend a moist sponge to bring back some texture to them
Great job, thx for showing!
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Looking good👍👍
LOVE THE CHANNEL, I LIKE THE LONG VIDEOS, I CAN SIT DOWN AND ENJOY IT FOR A WHILE, KEEP'EM COMIN BROTHER, CHANNEL SEEMS TO GROWIN WELL TOO
👏 👏 Awesome I love the colour it different from everyone else when is fully dry all will blend in and it will look slightly more beautiful.
Years down the line you can improve but I like it the way it looks now.
The barrel technique is how I mixed small batches of grout for my foundation remediation. Mixer in one hand with the mixer running in the barrel, other hand with shovel dipped down into the trough next to me that had the cement in it. scoop, dump, mix. backbreaking lol
It is very refreshing to watch your mom do stucco.
this build is awesome
Thank you very much for the video. 👍🤗👍🇸🇯
Very nice work Jesse looks great
My dad did some stucco work on a house he built. It looked very splotchy so he whitewashed it and then it looked great. You can tint the whitewash if you want some color to it.