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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 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 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
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 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.
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 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.
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
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!❤
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. 🙄
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!
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.
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.
Tiny Shiney Home tried the spraysnot devices. They work for interior texture with well-watered down mud, but not so much for stucco. Where I live there are many Hispanic stucco workers, and they just use a hawk and a trowel.
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
I am going to add an 8" pvc board to the fascia and use the 4x8 sheets of pvc for the soffit, make the soffit flat and add bird boxes to where jt wraps the corner. And then I was thinking box out the corners of the building with 1x8 pvc
Nice work Jesse. I was just like you when I was younger. Tried to do everything on my own. I have done a little stucco work. I tried the same way you did it. I found very inconsistent finish using the pool trowel. Then I tried using a rubber float. Worked awesome. Leveled the finish and also made very consistent matte finish. No glossy areas. Keep up the good work!
Thanks. If I was to do this again I would try something different like a wood or rubber float and make it more consistent. I really wish I would have tried it. I thought that knock down looked neat when up close but then from far away it looked really inconsistent
A sponge float is used with traditional stucco to do the scrub coat, which is a rough pebbled (usually somewhat coarse sand) finish. In SoCal, it is common for them to do a scrub coat and apply lace over the top with a steel trowel all in one coat without letting it dry. I also do many trades and decided to stucco a few walls on my garage from studs out. As a pro painter I had done patching and scrub coat before but never texture. After watching pros explain how to do it on youtube, about 30 hours worth, I did all the steps. Since I was new to it, I let the scrub coat dry and did the lace as a second coat. It worked but gave a heavier texture as I suspected. I should have tried doing it in a single coat but didn't think I would be able to move fast enough. So far, no one notices much of a difference but I can easily see the different textures around the house from various additions but I am ocd and finish work was my first and primary trade so I have an eye for the details. As said in the video, it looks good enough and I was ready to move on. If I had hired a stucco guy, it could have easily still had a difference in texture from the other existing walls and there was a chance for a hired guy to do worse. It was such a small job that some companies may not have wanted to deal with it. I'm glad I proved to myself that I could do it.
I'm using nudura and planning to rasp it first to create a key for the stucco. In other areas I will use a stainless steel lath for added strength where I will face off with natural stone
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.😃
Jessie, I have used tennis court paint. It has the sand texture you are looking for, and it is incredibly long lasting. I even built a set of front door steps with and metal tubing hand rails. Painted it over 25 years ago, still on the raling and most of the steps, treads showed some wear over the years though.
👏 👏 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.
Put a "D" handle on the bottom of the Hawk and use it to do the initial spread, much faster and as you said, first coat is just a leveler. Good work anyway for you and Pat as first attempt.
I think the fish looked better before it was smoothed out, i have it on my house in the UK where the dappled finish (before smoothing) is called “Tyrollean”. The spots do not show imperfections like a smooth finish does
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!
My icf house I decided to strap horizontal with 1x4's and do a combination of vertical siding with stone veneer on the bottom, looks great after 10 years, stucco is a finish that has let me down flakes of the foam and looks like shit when patched...house is coming along nicely..
Awesome stuff! Started watching you when you helped Andrew with his roof. When you spray it and smooth it over imo its easier if you put on a bit thicker layer
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.
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 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! 👍👍👍
Seems akin to Structolite stuff....mesh , mud and sometimes a flexible polymer topcoat.....or just double hard coats...polished, buffed to a hard dense sheen, with desired color embedded LOOKS TUFF...HOPE ITS GONNA CURE DESPITE COLD TEMPS.. CARRY ON
Grew up in a house with the sprayed stucco. Was good until you rubbed up against it and came away with a decent raspberry or torn clothing. Like the knocked down version better. Great job on your house. Have learned alot.
You've probably had a stack of tips already but I think the best way is 4 inch pvc beading with mesh first then when dry do your 1st coat with mesh smoothly over the corners so it all bonding in smooth. Then after this do your final tint coat. It'll do for now though.
When doing inner corners you have to put the mesh on both meeting surfaces to prevent corner cracking. Cheers from European plasterer. Love the idea that you are building an real house.
@@pauldudly yes. You go from the top to bottom I don't know how to say those thing's on the roof fascia I think. You put the corner mesh first then the mesh on all surfaces.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
The texture out of the sprayer looked great.
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.
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
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 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
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!
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 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.
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 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.
GJ none the less JM!!!!! Looks better than bought.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Watched the whole process frpm day one..I a word Great...Thanks Jesse
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
What a transformation you have done to the house with this job! Great job Jesse!!
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!❤
I'm really impressed with how everything is progressing, keep up the good work 👏
Looks Wonderful !!! Can not wait to see mure !!!
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 house can be stylized as a chalet, it will look beautiful especially since it is located in nature👍
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!
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 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
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 watched your Parents video and I was looking forward to watch this video and I truly enjoyed every minute of it well done buddy.
There are some trades, where the experts do a fabulous job. As compared to diy. You have definitely found one of them.
It has been Amazing watching you build this house
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.
What a difference a day makes.
Tiny Shiney Home tried the spraysnot devices. They work for interior texture with well-watered down mud, but not so much for stucco. Where I live there are many Hispanic stucco workers, and they just use a hawk and a trowel.
Great video Jesse,,,,
Merry Christmas to you your co-workers,your beautiful wife and your two adorable sons.
The blue hopper sprayer is actually for spraying popcorn ceilings.
You sure are not afraid to try anything, but always comes out good. I really enjoy these videos, thank you for sharing.
We love watching people thrive…… Jesse is thriving…. Awesome channel! Awesome uploads, let help him thrive!
It is very satisfying to watch. Especially when you put music to the time lapse
That is a lot of work, well done. Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Wow, that really changes the look of the house. Really great job!
Looking great Jesse, from my family to your family Merry Christmas and God bless
Great job Jesse. It looks very nice. I know you and your family are really going to enjoy your new home.
One step closer great build y'all have a great evening 👍🏻🇺🇸
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
Awesome, awesome work guys.
I bet it blends out by spring, looks good to me!
This material is only sprayed and beautifully evenly. There is no smoothing.
That was a grab in the bucket.
😜
I really enjoy what you are doing! Thank you for sharing! 👌 😊
Thanks for this Brother! I really enjoyed it and thank you for letting me come along on your journey ✌️❤️ from across the pond🏴
Very nice work Jesse looks great
Awesome Work Jessie. You make it took as easy as a hot knife through butter.
Maybe some black 3.5" fascia board around windows?
I am going to add an 8" pvc board to the fascia and use the 4x8 sheets of pvc for the soffit, make the soffit flat and add bird boxes to where jt wraps the corner. And then I was thinking box out the corners of the building with 1x8 pvc
Nice work Jesse. I was just like you when I was younger. Tried to do everything on my own. I have done a little stucco work. I tried the same way you did it. I found very inconsistent finish using the pool trowel. Then I tried using a rubber float. Worked awesome. Leveled the finish and also made very consistent matte finish. No glossy areas.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks. If I was to do this again I would try something different like a wood or rubber float and make it more consistent. I really wish I would have tried it. I thought that knock down looked neat when up close but then from far away it looked really inconsistent
A sponge float is used with traditional stucco to do the scrub coat, which is a rough pebbled (usually somewhat coarse sand) finish. In SoCal, it is common for them to do a scrub coat and apply lace over the top with a steel trowel all in one coat without letting it dry. I also do many trades and decided to stucco a few walls on my garage from studs out. As a pro painter I had done patching and scrub coat before but never texture. After watching pros explain how to do it on youtube, about 30 hours worth, I did all the steps. Since I was new to it, I let the scrub coat dry and did the lace as a second coat. It worked but gave a heavier texture as I suspected. I should have tried doing it in a single coat but didn't think I would be able to move fast enough. So far, no one notices much of a difference but I can easily see the different textures around the house from various additions but I am ocd and finish work was my first and primary trade so I have an eye for the details. As said in the video, it looks good enough and I was ready to move on. If I had hired a stucco guy, it could have easily still had a difference in texture from the other existing walls and there was a chance for a hired guy to do worse. It was such a small job that some companies may not have wanted to deal with it. I'm glad I proved to myself that I could do it.
@@CGT80 yea I may try doing like you say. I really dont like the look and its wearing on me. I may try to tackle it next year
I'm using nudura and planning to rasp it first to create a key for the stucco. In other areas I will use a stainless steel lath for added strength where I will face off with natural stone
An actual fortress. Kudos, sir!
I've been watching your videos for a while. You are a talented and hard working man. 👍👍
I wish you all the best 👍👍
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.😃
Jessie, I have used tennis court paint. It has the sand texture you are looking for, and it is incredibly long lasting. I even built a set of front door steps with and metal tubing hand rails. Painted it over 25 years ago, still on the raling and most of the steps, treads showed some wear over the years though.
👏 👏 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.
Put a "D" handle on the bottom of the Hawk and use it to do the initial spread, much faster and as you said, first coat is just a leveler. Good work anyway for you and Pat as first attempt.
I am also planning to scratch the base coat before putting the topcoat on
I think the fish looked better before it was smoothed out, i have it on my house in the UK where the dappled finish (before smoothing) is called “Tyrollean”. The spots do not show imperfections like a smooth finish does
really enjoy watching your videos
It is very refreshing to watch your mom do stucco.
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!
That looks good and protects the ICF material.
❤ the content ! Inspirational and motivational. I seen guys use pre-formed corner and sills in Grey.
Wow! What a big job man! Judos for sticking with it!
My icf house I decided to strap horizontal with 1x4's and do a combination of vertical siding with stone veneer on the bottom, looks great after 10 years, stucco is a finish that has let me down flakes of the foam and looks like shit when patched...house is coming along nicely..
It looks beautiful. Nicely done!!!
I've been waiting for this for a while, thank you Jesse!
Awesome stuff! Started watching you when you helped Andrew with his roof. When you spray it and smooth it over imo its easier if you put on a bit thicker layer
Looks awesome from the drone shots
Teamwork is definitely the way to go, lovely job😊
Been waiting on this video, pretty satisfying to see it all go on
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.
It's coming right along jesse.
What a difference, looks so good now. Good job man.
Really enjoyed watching how that worked❤❤❤❤
Turning out real nice Jesse. You’re making a nice place for you and your family!
Thanks for the content merry Christmas and a happy new year!
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 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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I like how it looks .. great job !!!
Seems akin to Structolite stuff....mesh , mud and sometimes a flexible polymer topcoat.....or just double hard coats...polished, buffed to a hard dense sheen, with desired color embedded
LOOKS TUFF...HOPE ITS GONNA CURE DESPITE COLD TEMPS..
CARRY ON
Great videos - keep them coming.
I have been considering using a stucco blower to get it on the wall first, then trowel it off level
It looks great Jesse.
Jesse always keeps it real. Good viewing and the one ryan farese track with the guitar was quality.
Nice looking stucco work, JM.
Grew up in a house with the sprayed stucco. Was good until you rubbed up against it and came away with a decent raspberry or torn clothing. Like the knocked down version better. Great job on your house. Have learned alot.
You've probably had a stack of tips already but I think the best way is 4 inch pvc beading with mesh first then when dry do your 1st coat with mesh smoothly over the corners so it all bonding in smooth. Then after this do your final tint coat. It'll do for now though.
When doing inner corners you have to put the mesh on both meeting surfaces to prevent corner cracking. Cheers from European plasterer. Love the idea that you are building an real house.
I thought you had to put mesh on all surfaces to avoid separation?
@@pauldudly yes. You go from the top to bottom I don't know how to say those thing's on the roof fascia I think. You put the corner mesh first then the mesh on all surfaces.