Painting Stucco & Repairing Cracks With Caulking & Elastomeric Paint

Chris, the Idaho painter. In this video, we're actually painting a Stuckco house. It has a lot of cracks in it. This house, it's got extreme amount of cracks, hairline cracks, and a lot of them. They're even larger than that. It was probably stuckcoed in the wintertime up here in Boise, Idaho, which is a very common practice, which causes this stuckco to not cure properly and get hairline cracks in it all over. And now we're attempting to hide all those cracks and and get rid of them for the customer. The customer wants this Stuckco to not have any cracks anymore. they're willing to sacrifice cocking the cracks and where that actually shows sometimes worse than the crack, but the customer wants the cracks cocked. And so we're cocking it and then we're actually painting it with a product that's designed to span hairline cracks and stucco or concrete. And it's a product from Sherwims called Sherastic. And we're spraying that on here. And some of these cracks are way too big for the product to span the gap of. So we're cocking them first and then spraying over it with the shastic. And we're spraying it with a very large tip. We're using a 621 or a 623 tip to spray on a very thick thick coating. And we're trying to spray it about 20 ms thick. So you're spraying it on extremely thick. So expand so expand that gap of the cracks and give a nice flexible coating that won't snap and break. So we're going to show you that process of cocking these cracks and actually spraying it with our airless sprayer. We're using a Titan 1140 sprayer set at about 2200 PSI spraying all this stucco. And typically, like I say, we don't like to coaul Stuckco, but the customer is more concerned about the cracks being covered than actually the crack itself. So, um, the very large cracks that we don't believe that the the sherassic will span the gap of, we're caulking them first and then spraying it. So, we're going to show you that process right now. I got a few cracks right here. This is a pretty large crack right here. And it's we're spraying with an elasame coating that's designed to cover hairline cracks. And this crack is way too big. So you're going to see some of the cocking up here. It's not ideal to the Stuckco cuz you'll typically always see where you cocked it just as bad as the crack itself, but the customer is more concerned about the crack. So these ones that the elastimeone is designed not to cover and span the gap, we're actually coughing these. And I'm just taking rubber gloves and using a cocking from Sher Williams 950A and cocking these cracks. And you're just trying to put just enough cocking on there just to fill that crack in. And I'm just going along pumping it inside the crack. And once I get it filled, then I'm just dobbing it with my hands, trying to blend it in. And that's an important step, just pressing it with your hands and not actually just making a smooth line. So, you kind of want to do it to push it into the stucco and blend it into the stucco. Here's another pretty large crack right here. So, I'm getting the caulking down. I'm just going to take and do it. Trying to make the the stuckco kind of roughs or the caulking kind of rough so it blends into the stucco. Trying to give you a closer look of these cracks in the stucco right here. Here's one of them. This is larger than what we would consider a hairline crack. Another look at a bunch of cracks on this side. These all the cracks that we're actually cocking are larger than hairline cracks. So, here's a look at our 1140. We got it set up right here uh spraying this Sherastic uh product right here. And here's a look. It's a shastic and it's an elastic coating from Sherwin Williams. Got it tinted to the color the customer wants and 1140 setup right here. 2200 PSI using 621 and a 623 tip to actually spray this product. So, this is all the setup right here. Closer look of our Titan 1140. Can easily set the pressure to the what we want cuz it's got a digital readout on it. Try to give you a close look of how thick it is on here. Spray it on extremely thick. You go a lot slower than you typically would with a regular airless spray and spraying regular paint. So you get a really good thick mill thickness. Stuff supposed to go on 20 ms thick. So, some of the key points while you're spraying this stuff, just make sure you go extremely slow. So, you can watch in the video, watch us spraying it. We're going probably twice as slow as we typically would on a regular house because you got to get that buildup on the stucco. So, the last America will get on there thick enough to the proper mill thickness and do its job of spanning the gaps of those hairline cracks and basically creating a nice flexible rubber seal that will span those uh cracks because they'll actually expand and contract over the winter time versus summertime. those cracks will get bigger and smaller and that elasame coating will flex and and not actually snap and break if applied properly over those cracks and you won't see them again. Here's a look at the side. We've already sprayed this side and I've inspected it for cracks and you can't see any of the cracks anymore on the side of the house whatsoever. They're covered 100%. Also, one thing to keep in mind when you're actually spraying this extremely thick product, it's like it's super super thick. Kind of like the product we use, Steel Bond or Prime RX, and you got to use a a really large tip to spray it. But you also got to change out your filters on your gun or your your machine. We change our gun filters out to a 30 mesh filter. We typically run 100 mesh filters in our guns, but you're going to have a real problem with that thick product going through those filters. So, make sure you change out your your gun filters. He is so annoying. Stop. Where are you going? What are you doing? Videoing you. That's annoying. Just act like I'm not here. Why? You're here. No, I'm not. Oh my gosh, that's so rude. Have you ever heard of privacy?