How to install Foam Stucco Trim for the DIY

Hello to everyone tuning in and thank you for visiting my channel. In todays video, Glenn and I install a beautiful piece of decorative foam trim on this large ADU in this backyard located right here in the great city of Vacaville California, Home of the Nut Tree and the Nut Tree airport. Just 35 minutes from downtown Sacramento and one hour from San Francisco and The Golden Gate Bridge.
I show only one type of adhesive in the video, when there are probably a dozen different ways to adhere coated and uncoated styrofoam. Its a simple mixture of silica sand or 20 mesh sand, white glue and type I and II cement. do not attempt to use thin set as thin set takes too long to dry. Only use material specifically designed for sticking foam to a wall. The color finish we put on the foam is a custom color called 'Snow'. It has the coarse material and sand finished to blend nicely with the skip troweled body of the house. The body of the home is custom and came in a 5 lb. bag to mix with the base.
We didn't use any nails to hang this foam as it was a lightweight piece of foam. However when we hang larger, more heavier pieces of trim, we get the big 5 or six inch long nails. They are green as galvanized will bend to easily.We pull most of the nails out before we start the finish coat.
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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ABC supply, Sacramento stucco, Foam stucco products. Go online and type in foam stucco trim for sale. The system should generate suppliers in your local vicinity

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