Fill Stucco Cracks with Masonry Caulking

So, here we go. The first secret, professional secret to painting Stuckco is typically all the Stuckco we deal with is going to have some type of crack, some type of hairline crack or even cracks even bigger. And how do you go about dealing with that? So, John is going to show us one of the secrets to filling cracks in Stuckco. So, John, why don't you show us what's going on here? Yeah. One of the things we do is we use a masonary caulking that's actually uh texturized and then has a high elasticity so that it's not going to break apart and then it's not going to flash as much because it's already got some sand and grit worked into it. Yeah. So this this masonry cocking it's unlike a regular caulking that's just smooth. It's got sanded grit so it blends right in with the stucco. So we're going to take our caulking gun. We're going to work the this masonary caulking right along that crack. And you don't want to put tons on. Just enough to start filling that crack. We'll work our way all the way down here. And you can take your finger. You can lightly, very lightly, smooth it out. Wipe the excess off. And then a little trick I like to do is I'll take a an old duster brush that's a little bit wet. You got a little bucket of water here. get some of the water off and we'll kind of work that caulking with that duster brush, jabbing into it with the bristles. And what that'll do is that's going to help feather out that caulking so that it doesn't show up as bad after we've painted it. You see there in the wet paint, it's almost all gone. We just kind of push it in a little bit and that's it. Now we'll paint it and it shouldn't show up at all. So,