Caulking cracks in stucco use Mor-Flexx or Quikrete with sand

Caulking cracks in stucco, use Mor-Flexx or Quikrete with sand.
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Even my dear old granddad understood when he watched this video. In fact,
he shared his last bottle of Jack Daniels Irish whiskey with me for sharing it with him.

Howdy, all; in this caulking video, I’m explaining Caulking is explicitly engineered for cracking stucco.
Most stucco textures or finishes are sandy, so naturally, you need a calling with sand in it, also. However, I could do it much faster using stucco in this crack.
Sashco Mor-Flexx is caulking with sand.

However, when the walls move again, and they will, the stiff stucco will buckle and crack and fall out. This Caulking will expand and constrict with the home movement, lasting 5 times longer than any stucco used to fill the crack.

Tile caulking also has sand; however, sand grit is too tiny and does not match most finishes on stucco homes.
I prefer two types of Caulking, like Mor-Flexx caulking; however, many quality caulkings can be used on exterior stucco walls.
Also, Quikrete ready-to-use concrete Caulking has sand in every tube and can be used for walls and or concrete and is sold at all the HD and Lowes hardware stores.
FYI, Quikrete wrote the book on stucco and concrete products.

That’s right, we pay a premium for sand mixed with Caulking.
However, this saves us time, plus they spent time researching and developing this quality caulking.

Folks, you should fill stucco cracks before painting; whatever caulking use is your preference.

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[BlastReadingSeries]

Kirk!!!! Thank you for sharing the knowledge with us!!!

[Iron_alex_]

Seriously, Kirk, you are one of the best in the business. Thanks for the videos. You’ve helped me plenty around my home.

[Valleygirl]

fabulous! Thank-you! I live in a 1950's mossy green colored house, that my parents left to me.I can see on the back of the house where dad had been filling and touching up the paint ..now there's a super long crack all along the bottom of the back walls.I am going to try this myself, ..and follow your expertise instruction! Just got to get the correct matching paint!
Happy caulking!

[psykosteel]

Hi Kirk, I always enjoy your videos, even the older ones. Thank you for sharing these tips and tricks with us, wish we were in your area, I'd hire you to fix what the previous contractors did to the house before we bought it.

[LKemp-lrky]

We are about to repair a 61-yr-old stucco with many fine cracks. Dry-wall specialists, we should be ok. Thx. Appreciate your detailed pointers!

[ronpassmore]

Happy New Year Giordano family! Thanks for all you do!

[rj]

its noon and I just went to take a look at a hairline stucco crack I wanted to tackle and I can't find it. Fascinating how expansion hides stuff! I'll wait until morning. Thanks for the videos.

[matthewyap]

O.G KIRKO! The Grand Master 🙌 been watching & learning from your videos for the past 6 years! Your the man brother! I can’t thank you enough. Much love from an Acrylic Renderer from Australia 🤙😎
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[lebronjameslol]

Thanks again, nice to have a expert that takes time to make videos for us to have as a resource.

[lissa]

Perfect! I wasn't sure about the type of product to use to repair stucco cracks. Thanks!

[oscarbeteta]

Awesome videos Kirk! Thanks to you and your family for sharing this knowledge and experience with the world!

[frankingels]

Thanks again. I will now try the small cracks as well as the patch from your other video!

[joseescalante]

You should caulk in the Morning, The reason is before the sun has a chance to heat stucco, which can shrink the cracks, You can also use texture elastomeric caulking, listen to this man he knows what he is doing, years ago I did a job with you in Alameda, I enjoy your videos

[lindamaier]

hey kirk you are an awesome teacher ! Thanks, but not only guys do plastering and stucco work!!

[murphtahoe]

Always has great content that helps the DIY’r.

[JasonOakley-ruhz]

Thank you that helped a lot and I got a big stucco job coming and there's so many cracks I counted 1300 .62 take me 3 hours I knew about the what you were talking about the cartoon with the sand in it for stucco but I didn't think about using the sponge like you do with stucco thank you happy play my company is Oakley painting hey my phrases happy

[jaysenjohnivanturner]

kirk thank you! what about dusting /throwing some washed sand over the finished crack filled up.

[NathanPerkel]

For filling cracks on a painted stucco wall, do you need bonding adhesive?

[Sambaboy]

thanks Kirk...just what I needed to know!

[brianmi]

Dunno, seems to me like the hand rubbing and float wiping is doing two things I wouldn't want:

a. it is spreading caulk out into the surrounding texture which serves to FLATTEN the texture somewhat in those areas (hey, think about it, it gets wiped into the valleys, not onto the peaks...) (this I learned from patching nail holes in drywall that's textured, like orange peel. -- After you spackle the hole, take a second to run a well-pressed thumb AROUND the hole and REMOVE any spackle that got spread out into the surrounding texture so that there's ONLY spackle precisely where the hole was, not a drop of it anywhere else on the wall to flatten that texture! p.s. if the hole was dime-sized or larger, you'll want a can of spray texture to make that dime disappear so that the whole thing is invisible after painting...)

b. it is making the actual groove being caulked in very flat surfaced (clearly visible in the video, look at that upside-down smile of a crack at 2:41 in the video, smooth as a baby's butt! yikes!) despite the "sandi-ness" of the caulk, it's still overly smooth compared to the stucco. I'm guessing that's why we weren't treated to an "after-painting" view of this area...

Both of these are bad when you get to painting as they're going to make this repair visible by letting it show a flat area in the stucco that follows the original cracks path.

Me, I don't think I'd dress it out AT ALL with a gloved hand or a float. Seriously. Leave the build up there so that it CAN'T become a flat line that outlines the way the crack went. I WANT some of that caulk sticking UP PROUD OF THE SURFACE along the crack randomly so that the "run" of the crack is broken up as much as possible along its length. Instead, I'm just taking a stippling brush (or any stiff long bristled brush), and I'm gonna pat those bristles into that fresh juicy caulk. Very minimally. Gently. Maybe just once or twice in any one spot. I'd probably try that with wetting the brush first, and not wetting it to see how that makes the caulk shape up. I'd even try waiting a few different timeframes to let the caulk start to set up a tiny bit before patting. I'm betting there's a nearly perfect amount of time to wait that patted once or twice you'd almost need a magnifying glass to spot the crack! ;)

Goal for me is to get that caulk to stand up proud, and take on the rough, non-uniform shape of the original stucco so that we CAN'T SEE ANY HINT OF A CRACK.

But that's just me. I'll try and let you know how it goes as I just ordered the MorFlexx from the rain forest store online, 'cause that looks like exactly the right stuff to use... now where's that brush??? ;)