Thank you for providing a great tutorial! I have a large picture window that was installed in our stucco home, and we found a few years later that rainwater was leaking in from around the window. After removing the window trim, I saw that the installers apparently paid absolutely no attention to sealing around the new window. I have properly repaired it using your techniques. Have A Blessed Day!
Dude! I've been a Fellow Plasterer for about 25 years. You did a Perfect Example. Very good dude. Even your texture looks great! Very impressed with the importance of paper placement and wrapping your frame with your graded seal wrap and proper corner strength. Good job. Live long and Plaster!!🖖🏻 Off and on like you bro. I allways have to come back sometimes just for the "Art". Bless you friend 🤟
I’ve always been more of a patch man than a lather 😂. Patching and color matching was always my forte. I leaned to lath from my dad and uncles. Thanks for watching mud brother.
Thanks for putting this up. I was looking for a refresher and the first couple videos I watched had me like "How is that legal?" I'm glad I found yours because it is thorough, up to code, and reminded me of the things I was pretty sure I was forgetting.
Hey thanks for posting the videos. Your stucco work is awesome! Would have been great to see the stucco application process and the materials used. Question is: did you do a scratch, brown and texture coat ?
Thank you. I figured it would take forever so I focused more on the lath for this video. No need to scratch and brown for a small repair. A thick coat of brown works perfectly here. Yes sir. Cement and an accelerator for the brown. I always color coat my repairs as well.
Thanks for the video. If I want to put a window into a stucco wall, can I just frame inside, cut exact opening through stucco, and install block frame window (no nail in fin), by screwing directly outward through the window frame directly into the studs, and then just caulk around the whole window? Will that make it waterproof enough? Will just caulking around the whole window make it water proof, as there will be nothing getting tucked around it, just caulk around it?
Well done brother! I know how hard it is to film while doing these type videos! Just ordered 8 new construction vinyl window to start replacing my wood windows in a stucco house - looking for any tips and you provided! Did you use a special type furring nail? I usually just staple? Thanks
@@thedadyouneverhad2023 good to know that I could help. No, both furring nails or staples would do the trick. It is easier and faster for me to use furring nails since I don’t have to bring down the compressor etc. Good luck on your project 👍🏽
@@zachsu6945 Man I would love to help, but I’m not too savvy when it comes to linking things around. It’s just your normal 60 minute paper, (black paper) any polyurethane caulking will do, a bad of scratch/brown and any stucco bag would do (if it’s painted.) If the house is NOT painted then check out some of my videos to see how I blend in the colors to match the exciting house color. Thanks for watching.
Hey question could I use rapid set stucco mix the white bag to fill everything or do I need brown scratch as the base ? I don’t plan on color matching because I’m going to repaint the house anyways 😅 it says use 2 coats
You can one coat it for sure. Apply of thickness around the repair and once it’s drying, go ahead and spread the brown coat. If you put too much too early, then it’ll sag. If you put the second coat when it’s too dry, then it won’t stick. Put your hand against the “scratch” and once it’s barely drying go ahead and spread the rest. Not sure how fast that white bag dries, but just remember that the paint might dry different then the rest of the house since “hotter” than the rest of the wall. If it makes sense.
It is not recommended. Screws will rip out the black paper with the circular motion that the screw will naturally make as it goes in. Plus, a screw will tighten the chicken wire while the furring nails will leave a gap thick enough that cement (scratch) will fill it up thus not leaving it flat and weaker in those areas.
Excellent work and video even though it’s difficult to film yourself haha. Thank you for explaining your process so thoroughly! One question, any reason why you didn’t put the flashing tape inside the bottom sill plate and fold it over the edge? Noticed that’s what a lot of people recommend so wondering if there’s any reason you chose not to.
Good question. You do that if the window is inches inside of the wall. That way if there’s any water that concentrates on those couple of inches it would just slide down. This window is flat to the wall. I used caulking around the flashing and set the window over it. As you can see, there were holes that I used to screw the window to and smeared the caulking over it. When you drive around a new building and they haven’t installed the windows yet, check to see from a distance and they all install the flashing, under and to the sides of the windows (never the top) that will run nice and flat to the wall. I hope this makes sense. 🤷🏽♂️ 😆 Thanks for watching.
I got a questions , I have a 1/2 moon on top and a typical sliding window below. Home was built in 1990 and stucco exterior. The drywall on the 1/2 moon window leaks and the sliding window leaks like crazy. Do I hire a stucco person or a window person. I called 3 window company and they wouldn’t touch the job . Am I calling the wrong people? I’m in Phoenix. Thanks for your response.
@@55azguy Good question. A stucco company would be better to contact since they know how the exterior of the house was built. You can do it yourself as well. It is called a water test. You can cut a big enough spot on the damage drywall and place blue paper towels on the studs and surrounding. Mask the window and grab a hose. Wet the stucco from the bottom spending at least 10 second per foot before you move it to the right or to the left. The water needs to be sprayed replicating the rain. Meaning, from top to bottom and with similar rain pressure. Go side to side and make your way to the top. Have someone inside tell you if the blue paper towels get wet. If it does get wet, then wait 10 minutes to let the leak dry out. Put new blue paper towels and restart the test slower this time since you know that there is a leak. The stucco should be wet so it’ll be faster to detect the leak. If it does NOT leak, then remove the plastic from the windows, cover the weep holes and gently cover the track with water and see if water penetrates from the window. You might want to cut a little bit of dry way on bottom side of window and place blue paper towels there to see if it leaks. This is called a WATER TEST. If you don’t feel confortable doing it, then ask a plastering company if they can come out to do it. I hope I made sense 😆. Hopefully this helps.
@@blackhemi8thank you for getting back to me . I’ll be trying this today or tomorrow. I haven’t seen anybody do a video on this. Talking to a few neighbors since I wrote you they are experiencing the same problems that I am. I neighbor said that they never even installed flashing/ barrier before installing the window. In 1970 I had a charger r/t 440 , black top and burnt orange, like your name blackhemi .👍
That stucco step was kinda skipped over at the end. I have a very similar project to finish, but I'm putting PVC brickmold around the frame first, then butting up the stucco around that.
@@MetalAsFork yeah by the end of the day I really wanted out already. If I’m not mistaken, it was a hot day. I would have removed my gloves and put them back on constantly. It is a little hard working solo. Thanks for watching and good luck.
@@Steve-k4f5z this is all done to prevent any future water leaks. I hope the windows you installed are under a porch or anywhere where water will not hit it when it rains. Maybe it’s a new method 🤷🏽♂️. Thanks for watching.
Damn you hit it on the naiI 😂. I actually did quit plastering earlier this year. Long story short, I went to school and got my CDL. I am now trucking. I did some OTR and now have a local job. I still have my tools, but I haven’t used them since. Thanks for watching.
that shits beautiful, but you "fucked up" the stucco texture match on top huh? lol didnt show the top at the end . Prob still good, but not up to your standards.
Stop it ✋ 😆. I had to rewatch it, but yeah you’re right. I didn’t show the top. It “should” have looked just like the rest of the repair. That’s subjective so it all depends on how you see it if it looks good or not. I always tried my best. I had to hold my phone and be looking at the wall the whole time to, but I completely missed it. 🤷🏽♂️
Thank you for providing a great tutorial! I have a large picture window that was installed in our stucco home, and we found a few years later that rainwater was leaking in from around the window. After removing the window trim, I saw that the installers apparently paid absolutely no attention to sealing around the new window. I have properly repaired it using your techniques.
Have A Blessed Day!
Good to hear. Glad I could help at least one person out there. I hope everything works out this time around.
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Dude! I've been a Fellow Plasterer for about 25 years. You did a Perfect Example. Very good dude. Even your texture looks great! Very impressed with the importance of paper placement and wrapping your frame with your graded seal wrap and proper corner strength. Good job.
Live long and Plaster!!🖖🏻
Off and on like you bro. I allways have to come back sometimes just for the "Art".
Bless you friend 🤟
I’ve always been more of a patch man than a lather 😂. Patching and color matching was always my forte. I leaned to lath from my dad and uncles. Thanks for watching mud brother.
Excellent job and description of the process!
Great video- Showing in detail how you placed the flashing was so helpful. Info I had been searching for. Thank you.
Anytime. Thanks for watching.
Right on! Wish I could get my window guys to take this much care in their attention to detail. Thank you for sharing.
Good habits make a difference. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for putting this up. I was looking for a refresher and the first couple videos I watched had me like "How is that legal?" I'm glad I found yours because it is thorough, up to code, and reminded me of the things I was pretty sure I was forgetting.
I definitely took longer doing this job by recording, but I hope I helped a lot of people by doing so. Thanks for watching.
Hey thanks for posting the videos. Your stucco work is awesome! Would have been great to see the stucco application process and the materials used.
Question is: did you do a scratch, brown and texture coat ?
Thank you. I figured it would take forever so I focused more on the lath for this video. No need to scratch and brown for a small repair. A thick coat of brown works perfectly here. Yes sir. Cement and an accelerator for the brown. I always color coat my repairs as well.
Thanks for the info. Wish you the best on your channel. One of the best out there for stucco!
Thanks for the video. If I want to put a window into a stucco wall, can I just frame inside, cut exact opening through stucco, and install block frame window (no nail in fin), by screwing directly outward through the window frame directly into the studs, and then just caulk around the whole window? Will that make it waterproof enough? Will just caulking around the whole window make it water proof, as there will be nothing getting tucked around it, just caulk around it?
Thank you
Thank you for taking the time to make this!
Just trying to help out. Thanks for watching.
Well done brother! I know how hard it is to film while doing these type videos! Just ordered 8 new construction vinyl window to start replacing my wood windows in a stucco house - looking for any tips and you provided! Did you use a special type furring nail? I usually just staple? Thanks
@@thedadyouneverhad2023 good to know that I could help. No, both furring nails or staples would do the trick. It is easier and faster for me to use furring nails since I don’t have to bring down the compressor etc. Good luck on your project 👍🏽
Thank you to putting this together. Can you link me materials to put wire back? And other material links if possible. Thank you!
@@zachsu6945 Man I would love to help, but I’m not too savvy when it comes to linking things around. It’s just your normal 60 minute paper, (black paper) any polyurethane caulking will do, a bad of scratch/brown and any stucco bag would do (if it’s painted.) If the house is NOT painted then check out some of my videos to see how I blend in the colors to match the exciting house color. Thanks for watching.
Great help my brother! Thank you 👍🏾
Anytime. I hope this helps.
Hey question could I use rapid set stucco mix the white bag to fill everything or do I need brown scratch as the base ? I don’t plan on color matching because I’m going to repaint the house anyways 😅 it says use 2 coats
You can one coat it for sure. Apply of thickness around the repair and once it’s drying, go ahead and spread the brown coat. If you put too much too early, then it’ll sag. If you put the second coat when it’s too dry, then it won’t stick. Put your hand against the “scratch” and once it’s barely drying go ahead and spread the rest.
Not sure how fast that white bag dries, but just remember that the paint might dry different then the rest of the house since “hotter” than the rest of the wall. If it makes sense.
Awesome explanation. Can screws be used instead of nails to put the wire back on?
It is not recommended. Screws will rip out the black paper with the circular motion that the screw will naturally make as it goes in. Plus, a screw will tighten the chicken wire while the furring nails will leave a gap thick enough that cement (scratch) will fill it up thus not leaving it flat and weaker in those areas.
@@blackhemi8 Thanks for the reply. You're awesome.
Excellent work and video even though it’s difficult to film yourself haha. Thank you for explaining your process so thoroughly!
One question, any reason why you didn’t put the flashing tape inside the bottom sill plate and fold it over the edge? Noticed that’s what a lot of people recommend so wondering if there’s any reason you chose not to.
Good question. You do that if the window is inches inside of the wall. That way if there’s any water that concentrates on those couple of inches it would just slide down. This window is flat to the wall. I used caulking around the flashing and set the window over it. As you can see, there were holes that I used to screw the window to and smeared the caulking over it. When you drive around a new building and they haven’t installed the windows yet, check to see from a distance and they all install the flashing, under and to the sides of the windows (never the top) that will run nice and flat to the wall. I hope this makes sense. 🤷🏽♂️ 😆
Thanks for watching.
I got a questions , I have a 1/2 moon on top and a typical sliding window below. Home was built in 1990 and stucco exterior. The drywall on the 1/2 moon window leaks and the sliding window leaks like crazy. Do I hire a stucco person or a window person. I called 3 window company and they wouldn’t touch the job . Am I calling the wrong people? I’m in Phoenix. Thanks for your response.
@@55azguy Good question. A stucco company would be better to contact since they know how the exterior of the house was built. You can do it yourself as well. It is called a water test. You can cut a big enough spot on the damage drywall and place blue paper towels on the studs and surrounding. Mask the window and grab a hose. Wet the stucco from the bottom spending at least 10 second per foot before you move it to the right or to the left. The water needs to be sprayed replicating the rain. Meaning, from top to bottom and with similar rain pressure. Go side to side and make your way to the top. Have someone inside tell you if the blue paper towels get wet. If it does get wet, then wait 10 minutes to let the leak dry out. Put new blue paper towels and restart the test slower this time since you know that there is a leak. The stucco should be wet so it’ll be faster to detect the leak. If it does NOT leak, then remove the plastic from the windows, cover the weep holes and gently cover the track with water and see if water penetrates from the window. You might want to cut a little bit of dry way on bottom side of window and place blue paper towels there to see if it leaks. This is called a WATER TEST. If you don’t feel confortable doing it, then ask a plastering company if they can come out to do it. I hope I made sense 😆. Hopefully this helps.
@@blackhemi8thank you for getting back to me . I’ll be trying this today or tomorrow. I haven’t seen anybody do a video on this. Talking to a few neighbors since I wrote you they are experiencing the same problems that I am. I neighbor said that they never even installed flashing/ barrier before installing the window. In 1970 I had a charger r/t 440 , black top and burnt orange, like your name blackhemi .👍
@@55azguy Keep us posted. I hope things work out for you.
Awesome video brother, are you in The LA area? How can I contact you?
For the most part, I stayed around the IE. However, stucco work is no longer my job. I learned a lot while it lasted. Thanks for watching though.
That stucco step was kinda skipped over at the end. I have a very similar project to finish, but I'm putting PVC brickmold around the frame first, then butting up the stucco around that.
@@MetalAsFork yeah by the end of the day I really wanted out already. If I’m not mistaken, it was a hot day. I would have removed my gloves and put them back on constantly. It is a little hard working solo. Thanks for watching and good luck.
We just changed 3 huge windows,used an oscillating tool and never harmed any of outside finish.
@@Steve-k4f5z this is all done to prevent any future water leaks. I hope the windows you installed are under a porch or anywhere where water will not hit it when it rains. Maybe it’s a new method 🤷🏽♂️. Thanks for watching.
@blackhemi8 Been in business 40 yrs. None ever leaked
@@Steve-k4f5z 👍🏽
Good job 👍
Thank you.
@@blackhemi8
You’re welcome
Do you have any videos on stucco inspection codes?
@@Leo-ch9117 I don’t sorry.
@@blackhemi8
Thank you for answering I like how you explain your work step by step.
@@Leo-ch9117 Just trying to make it easy for people. I’m glad this helped.
This is the clearest explanation I’ve found. Thanks for sharing!
I hope everything made sense. Thanks for watching.
What's going on, why did you stop recording?Good stuff.Don't quit.
Damn you hit it on the naiI 😂. I actually did quit plastering earlier this year. Long story short, I went to school and got my CDL. I am now trucking. I did some OTR and now have a local job. I still have my tools, but I haven’t used them since. Thanks for watching.
You got the gift.Can you say side hustle.
@@larryestrada5418 Been doing side jobs for a while now. It’s time. Maybe for a family or friend. Who knows 🤷🏽♂️
That’s exactly the way we do this in Colorado my dude, of course we put pop outs on top all that , up tight to windows
@@DavidSanchez-ot3it Yes sir, this system never failed me. Thanks for watching.
It’s 45 degrees not 44. Just in case you catch it 🤦🏽♂️.
Very thorough job. Good work.
Thanks for watching.
Good stuff
that shits beautiful, but you "fucked up" the stucco texture match on top huh? lol didnt show the top at the end . Prob still good, but not up to your standards.
Stop it ✋ 😆. I had to rewatch it, but yeah you’re right. I didn’t show the top. It “should” have looked just like the rest of the repair. That’s subjective so it all depends on how you see it if it looks good or not. I always tried my best. I had to hold my phone and be looking at the wall the whole time to, but I completely missed it. 🤷🏽♂️