@@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.

@@jacec5855 thanks. This is just a distant memory of what I used to do. Good times though. Thanks for watching.

@@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.

@@veronicagranados8190 this was once upon a time. It was fun while it lasted, but I have moved away from stucco. Thanks for watching though. I hope you watching the process helped.

@@alfonsomartinez6800 I do. They’re a bit old like this video, but it might help you out. This is the only video I made about fogging specifically though. Check them out. Thanks for watching.

@@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.

I definitely took longer doing this job by recording, but I hope I helped a lot of people by doing so. Thanks for watching.

Good habits make a difference. Thanks for watching.

Thank you. Thanks for watching.

You are correct. Two reasons why I did it this way. One, I was always picky when it came to feathering in the repair and made it as close to not noticeable as possible. Two, I’ve always had a bad habit doing it with a margin trowel. I found it more effective to me doing it this way 🤷🏽‍♂️. It does take longer, but it worked for me. Hats off to those that do it with the tip of the trowel and get it on point. No hate on this side at all. Thanks for watching.

Just trying to help out. Thanks for watching.

Anytime. Thanks for watching.

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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.

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Sometimes It’s hard to know to understand the process, but when you see it done it makes sense and it’s easier than expected. Thanks for watching.

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.

Thank you. Thanks for watching.

Tenga un color chart como el que tengo al principio del video. Raspe poquito de stucco y déjelo caer al color chart. De ahí, escoja cuál es el color más cercano al color del stucco. Una bolsa de stucco es equivalente a una bolsa de coló entonces si usa media bolsa de stucco, va a usar media bolsa de color. A lo que voy es que depende el parche que tenga va a depender de cuánto color use. Puede usar diferentes colores y también usar diferentes marcas también.

Muchas gracias por su excelente explicación!👍👍

@@boquence1010 Ya está 👍🏽. Gracias por ver el video.

@@blackhemi8 oyes otra pregunta puedes fog coating el stucco si es acrílico o solo el tradicional?

@@boquence1010solo tradicional. El acrílico es una mezcla de stucco y GLUE. Que yo sepa, solo puede ser fogged paredes con stucco. Hice parches hace muchos tiempo con acrílico pero los pintaron. No se si hoy en día haga una mejor manera para hacerlo.

I believe it’s called a heavy lace finish. Popular back in the day.

Thanks 🙏. This was once upon a time. I no longer do stucco work.

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.

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I guess you didn't wait very long. To paint ,,,Great video.,,, I love it Beastie Boys. I have the skills to pay the bills.

@@deddie4645 when it comes to paint, you can paint it faster than fogging it. In this case, I mixed rapid set with “scratch and brown” cement. On a day like this I would put a little more rapid set since the sun wasn’t out and it was a little late. I wouldn’t recommend only putting rapid set since the paint would absorb faster than the rest of the house which the patch would be noticeable. You have to let cement do it’s job and not rush it too much 🤷🏽‍♂️. Skills definitely payed the bills. That’s for watching.

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.

I’m glad it helped. If you’re going to do this for a living, I suggest you start by buying a container and stashing different color packs in them. You never know what color house or what colors you would use to make a color match. Best of luck.

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.

I worked around the Riverside area. I am no longer doing any stucco work, but this video is an example of how I used to color match existing stucco. Some guys will say you can’t, but there is always a way. Thanks for watching.

I can’t say I have used it. We’ve probably seen couple of the same videos here and they use it when they are going to color coat a repair or re stucco a PAINTER wall. If the wall hasn’t been painted, then there is no point on using it. I much rather use this acrylic cement than putting glue on a wall and apply stucco over it.

That’s what we do. Sadly our best work is when people can not see it 😂

You do a great job with before and after, the difference is clear. I started painting first then learned stucco repair. I’m using a white stucco patch from Custom Building Products and I prime/paint over it. I find it interesting that you don’t come back after a week or two and paint the project. Painting is relaxing. Stucco is too

@@zookini these homes are not painted. They are color coated with the original stucco. The way to tell the difference is if you wet the wall and it looks wet then it’s the original stucco. If water runs down then it’s painted. I would spray a little water on the wall to test it before you paint. If you paint the patch and the wall isn’t painted, then you’ll see the paint marks once it rains. I hope this helps. Thanks for watching and I appreciate the complement. 👍🏽

@@blackhemi8 makes sense, I’m cleaning my gutters today and I noticed that the base color stucco doesn’t absorb water but the accent color stucco does, is it possible that they painted part of the stucco on the house and not the other? Never been painted since 2006 build date

Will you be doing a repair or a re-stucco? It is not a bad idea to use up to three colors (moderately.) For example, if you’re doing a repair like I was here, a good idea is to go to the Home Depot and ask for a stucco color chart. It is a chart of stucco colors that LaHabra has to offer. You can take it home and scrape off a little stucco from your wall. Then match the closest color, a darker and lighter color to lighten or darken the color tint from your wall. I would go to a “building materials” since they have more color selection and stucco brands.

In addition, check the stucco base. For LaHabra, they use base 100 (white) for light colors and base 200 (gray) for darker colors. This is where you should start before anything else. The colors can very which you can mix any color to any base, but to achieve the color that is listed on the chart you must use the base in which it has been originally mixed in. I hope this helps.

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Crownco huh? I know about that company all too well that you’ll be surprise 😂. This process takes some time in and practice. Wish you luck. Thanks for watching.

@@blackhemi8 are you in San Diego area??

Al final quedo bien pero gracias por el comentario. 👍🏽

Online. It’s an Chaplin international 1949 to be exact. It’s a bit customize so it’ll look different stock. Unfortunately or fortunately, I stopped doing stucco a bit ago. Thanks for watching and good luck with your project.

Thank you 👍🏽

It’s what we call a brown float in the field. It is kinda like a brown rubbery float. I used a Darby and then float it with the brown float. I hope this helped.

Negative. If the wall (such as this wall) has not been painted, then you can apply stucco over it. In fact, you can go ahead and re stucco your house without any bonding agent if the walls have stucco that has not been painted over them.

@@blackhemi8would you paint a stucco color coated home? It seems to be common practice! I had to paint both of my chimneys and I haven’t decided what to do with the walls. I have the paint match but I know my stucco is color coated from 2006

From Amazon. There’s couple brands that you can choose from, but I’ve always bought a Pretul which have always been good to me.

Thank you Sir. I was blessed on having old timers teach me their skills. Thanks for watching.

Thanks. I used an acrylic cement. Each company has their own version. (Omega-foam tech, LaHabra-poly bond and Merlex-poly prep.) Fog with definitely not cover any hair line cracks. I wouldn’t stress on hairline cracks, but it’s your house and I would understand that you don’t want them. Just remember, trying to fix them might look worst at the end. Best of luck and thanks for watching.

I red float stucco into the cracks, blend out and paint the wall. Hand trowel for larger areas. Much more labor compared to your fog method.

⁠@@zookiniWe all have our way to do it. Cracks are prone to open faster when you patch cracks with only stucco. Then again, fixing it like I did does not guarantee that they will not re open again. Fog works when the house has the original stucco that hasn’t been painted. Once the house has been painted, fogging is no longer an option. Thanks for watching.

@@blackhemi8 thanks for sharing your knowledge bro, it’s good to know.

Anytime. Thanks for watching.

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. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Unfortunately or fortunately I stopped doing stucco already. I did at one point. This house was repaired in Riverside, but yes, at one point I was all over Southern California. Thank you for watching.

@@blackhemi8 Well, congrats for moving to a new career area! Any body you know that you would recommend that is on par with your work? I'm in the Lake Forest area.

@@hikeclimbsail Thank you. Email me at [email protected]

@@blackhemi8 Okay, thank you. Will do.