Where to install expansion joints.
Stucco Control Joints.
Exterior Plaster expansion joints.
We’re using the one-piece control joints is beneficial to relieve stress and help establish plaster thickness, in this video.
Control joints allow for stress relief in one direction to help reduce hairline cracking in cement plaster or stucco.
However, using control joints or what is also known as stucco expansion joints, is no guarantee of crack-free stucco walls.
Want stucco walls that don’t crack? Leave the stucco in the bags.
Vibrations and or movement of the structure cause cracks, not the stucco material.
They are excellent when you have two separate foundations butting up to each other that have been poured at different times or depths.
A control joint helps control separate foundations that settle or move independently.
Thus, you can avoid the dreaded natural crack that will develop within a year or two, sometimes an eight to a quarter inch wide. When this occurs, the new rainwater will now infiltrate your walls. Not good.
This is typical when one adds a new addition or remodel to their home.
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https://www.StuccoPlastering.com/ Kirk’s website.
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My other two sons, Carl and Dan, are located in Sonora, CA.
They both understand stucco and most carpentry. Both are young, strong, ambitious and have integrity instilled into them by a father with morals.
Call them for your stucco or plastering needs in that area.
Carl’s email is. Marriottjcarl@gmail.com
Dan’s email is. dannygster101@gmail.com
A big thanks to my sons, especially Jason, who has continued to provide the technical filming over the years while working simultaneously. Jason also makes the time to upload our labors of love into these videos.
Jason has filmed and uploaded a thousand over the last 15 years.
We do it all for you folks to better understand your number one investment. And teach the youngsters how to make an honest living.
We realize the world needs more Plasterers.
Kirk Giordano Plastering Inc.
