30+ Stucco Brown Coat Cracking. Together we have created the most comprehensive encyclopedia of stucco and plastering videos ever produced in the world, all by your favorite plastering messengers of youtube. The brown coat in the stucco process is applied over the scratch coat mostly but can also be applied over cement based substrates as well you want the scratch and brown to be fully cured before applying the finish coat to minimize cracking and ensure the greatest possible strength.
You can patch small cracks and holes in the stucco yourself, but if they're larger than 1/2 mix a small batch of brown stucco for the base coat, following the manufacturer's instructions.
Applying the brown coat the brown coat is the second coat of stucco. When the brown coat is dry then the final finish coat is applied. A stucco coating over a less finished and less costly substrate, such as rubblestone, fieldstone, brick, log to improve water repellency, stucco buildings were also sometimes coated with paraffin, another type of to prevent cracking, it is imperative that stucco not dry too fast. Control & expansion joints are sometimes installed to help this is a myth.