Howdy Folks Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano Plastering,
today I want to show you something that well I actually did like 25-30 years ago. we've done a
couple of videos of how to resurface driveways, how to resurface sidewalks using poly bond.
but what I have here is we have a ramp, and basically we had a fence right there so
about 30 years ago, the concrete was poured in the drive in the backyard here then the
perimeter all the way around this this, and all of this, was done by, yours truly.
I use BMI 690 it's made by well Sicka owns it now, BMI 690 because it's a lime plaster it flexes,
so when the ground moves and all this stuff it'll Flex with it.
So it'll last long in fact I do have a video titled,
what's the right or what's the strongest or best stucco for your house?
We did a house, and it was hecka beat up man, cracks everywhere, buckling,
so I had no choice but to use one of those strong plasters, that would move.
It was in the hills, Anyway I'm gonna cover this up right here with BMI 690.
What I'm doing right now, if you're not sure guys, apply a bonding agent.
if I were to use uh say La Habra, La Habra makes uh poly-bond which I was just talking
about earlier, that is a cementitious adhesive cement, it's used to hang styrofoam so it's a
strong product, but I'm going real thick right here I'm going to create something,
and because we got so many kids back here, it's like this is like Disneyland and the kids are
tripping here, and they're falling all over here. I figured well Jay wants to fix this so Avery
doesn't fall and Athena doesn't fall, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to do, Jay's gonna mix
me up some 690 I'm just going to drop the bucket down here, and I'm going to go over this here,
I'm going to put about three inches here, I'm gonna put two inches most of it,
I'm going to put about a quarter inch to 3/8. I'm just going to feather this whole thing
in and right here, I'm going to add quite a bit, but I'll show you that uh
soon when we get busy, you might say well how come you got three different patterns?
this right here was done when I had a fence here, but my brother Louuu,
he takes all the cement and the scaffold, he brings it back there, and he says man, I can't get
through that little opening where the fence used to be, so I told him, we'll tear the fence down.
So he tore the fence down, up to here, and then after we were done with a job he took some cement
and he just put it right here that was about 15 years ago, and about five years ago the rest of
the fence came apart, and so we were doing a job and Louuu, came and he applied some right here,
I looked at it, and I thought beautiful Louuu. Anyway, now what we're going to do is we're
going to cover this whole thing up because nothing matches.
Do I care about anything matching in my own house? kind of sorta, but I care about the kids tripping,
and I've I've watched him trip over this right here, so we're going to fix that up, and I'll show
you guys how to do it too. It's just if you're trying to re-skim your driveway walkway concrete
there are certain rules you got to do because 690, BMI 690 is not designed for concrete; I have
to put a bonding agent there are some materials, that I don't have to bonding agent, but anyway I'm
using Weld-Crete, I'm going to hit this, Jay's going to mix me up bucket, while I'm messing
around here we'll see you soon. I'll show you how to spread this out all right, guys. Jay did
the hard job and mixed me up some of this BMI, so what I'm gonna do is eyeball this, uh let's see.
I want to get a lot right here because we want to build this up.
Okay, that's a whole bucket full;
now, yeah, it's telling me how all the kids keep hitting this and tripping.
I thought, why fix it? We can have a beer and watch him trip?
Anyway let me let me explain something else guys, because this is useless without this; if you're
gonna do it guys get yourself a pressure washer this one got 3,400 PS,I it's gas, electric ones
will clean cars, but it won't clean the ground then this guy here it's a turbo tip you pay like
20 to 70 bucks for a tip, and it gives it a figure eight it gives it a lot more PSI strength, so
with covering concrete if it's only as good as what you are putting it over guys.
So if there's any dust, dirt, moss, anything like that, it won't adhere guys, Any oil it
won't adhere, and with four months of rain, I came back here this was full of moss it was green moss,
you guys should pressure wash anyway,if you've got a lot of cement because uh it'll get slippery,
especially with all the rain that we had I'm not sure if this is going to be enough,
but we're going to check it out. Now what I'm going to do guys is,
I'm just going to skim it, I only need about a quarter inch here, and about a half inch here,
so let's get going this stuff is really Pleasant to work with; what I'm doing is I don't want to
get all sloppy and get everything over, so I'm just coming here, as soon as I all right let's see
as I'm moving it, guys, I'm kind of putting it where I need it, uh,
the idea again when Louuu is bringing all that heavy stuff back here at the
end of the day that he doesn't trip and it makes it easy for him too.
I'd say the kids will just have to learn to be more graceful,l but
uh Louuu is not the most graceful person in the world,
in fact, he's like a a bull in a china shop. You ever hear that expression he's strong he's
strong but he ain't graceful, anyway so I'm gonna get this out, so he's not tripping because he does
have the hard job of bringing all the wheelbarrows back here and doing all the hard work,
what I do is easy stuff. I'm just spreading. okay,so here um I got a straight line or I'm
eyeballing it, guy's I got I pulled out a level and I thought oh crap, I don't need a level. I'm
just doing it here, and I'm taking this radius that way when ole Lou comes with the wheelbarrow,
uh there's no transitions for him to trip over, and by the way guys.
I usually leave out a lot of stuff because I'm doing many things at the same time.
the welcome do I need a bonding agent such as well Crete or Quikrete no but why I'm putting a
bonding agent because I'm trying to show you guys if you do it make sure, you put a bonding agent,
uh some of you guys might try this and not have your stucco or the ground perfectly clean and then
call me and say, Kirk, I tried that, and it came up, well a bonding agent is very important guys,
stucco will adhere to stucco, concrete will adhere to concrete, by suction. That's called
that's called a mechanical Bond, what I just did is I did a chemical bond,
the chemical is using chemicals so um any bonding agent,is a chemical bond. Anyway
let me get some of this mud right here out my own way, yeah moving it around and having fun
guys all right take it here you'll need to cover all that stuff take it here, come on
the beauty of this particular material is you can go, a quarter inch, heck you can go six inches,
and they do make a whole bunch of products like, well they're shot Crete there's
um oh Quikrete, they all seem to have that Cret at the end to try to mimic the word concrete,
so concrete, Sacrete, Quikrete, uh you use whatever one you feel comfortable with guys.
But if you're looking for strength you'd have to get this stuff and guess what? This is not sold
at Home Depot or Lowe's, it's sold at the plaster and material yards, plaster material yards like uh
West-Side in Oakland, they're all over the country, West-Side Building Supply,
or you can try Close, that's uh any Plastering yard, so if you're looking
for this stuff and you say hey I'm going to do like Kirk, Google Plastering yards in my area.
Rapid set, Quickret all of them make a concrete refinished, but the one thing I'm not sure of,
because it's not my trade is, if you can go if you're limited,
say can you a lot of these materials, you could only go say like oh, I'd say about
an eighth to a quarter, possibly 3/8. So this particular product, I know it well,
and it is strong, so that's why I'm using it here because I can go three inches,
and I just now went three inches right there. That's three inches; guys do I need to
measure it? No, I can just feel it the trowel is doing the feeling for me.
And again, I'm building this side up; that's something that you really can't see, uh
and what I want to do is make it so that when Lou is coming back here with a
wheelbarrow to unload, that he has a good transition, I mean, he don't want to go up bumps.
Okay, so I'm trying uh that was just right, Jay that was just enough stuff.
Yeah, he just looked at that and eyeballed the right amount
by the way. Guys look at that setup, Jay, Jay made as for this uh competition he entered,
pound for pound, uh strong man stuff. I'll stick with this personally, keeps me in decent shape,
plus that heavy lifting kicks my butt. All right so what do we have here, guys.
That looks pretty good.
And again this stuff it's it is a lime plaster, it's got a lot of lime in it, and
if you're looking for it, Google Plastering yards near me, it is one of the better products
out there, and I know I've used it for well, I think they've been selling this stuff for like
20 years, and I used it for all the perimeters and even this, uh now it looks
kind of beat up; actually it doesn't look bad uh considering all the traffic that goes back here,
scaffold, weights, and heck motorcycles, all kind of stuff goes back here so it's not bad.
Anyway moving on, now what I'm what I want to do is, I mean, that looks pretty good right there,
I don't even have to float this, but I want to give it a sort of non-slip type surface,
um, what's that mean, I will take actually uh I'm going to give it the same finish that I did here,
take us just a scratcher scarifier, scratch or whatever you want to call it and you wet it.
All right, so let's see what did I do 30 years ago.
I put a bunch of weird lines in it, so I'm gonna do the same thing.
I'm putting them sideways because you give it more traction
the moon guys
and if you guys say well I don't want to do that here's a float and just float it like
this you just float it give it a sand finish but I want to match what I already have here
I'll show you one thing to get your Corners real tight or strong, let me get this in here,
get this crap out of my way all right if you want to get your Corners super strong,
take the float and feather it in now that transition has no lip no lip guys when that dries,
this is going to be solid, very solid,
let's see, while I'm here pretty up this lip take it right here, and I can see it dry you know, well
this is just our house it was a customer's house I'd be more worried, Okay,
all right, hit that I'm gonna hit this to give it a super flat line that way; anybody walks over
this or wheelbarrows that it's uh pretty, it won't they won't trip on it, there'll be no lip plus
that bonds it to the previous much much stronger. Okay, we come over here now, guys
now, where it's on the vent, and it's actually dried up, uh, let's see,
Kirk's the best, Oh, wrong way. Anyway, I want to make it a little bit
tacky so I can put those grooves in it. I'm cleaning this so-called vent
Making it stronger, guys, giving that a real strong finish, cleaning it, cleaning it,
cleaning it up, blam. Okay, so I can do this and you guys can do
this it's called the float finish, and that just brings out the sand,
so it's a non-slip surface look how fast and easy that is, guys, okay, so we'll let this
by the way, guys, what I'll do is I'll put in the link, um
the other foundations we've done, we're not foundations, but we've done driveways,
and we've done sidewalks very similar but with a different product where the bonding agent
didn't need it because it was uh uh poly bond. Anyway guys you see how easy that is now there's
nothing to that and when the kids start playing here, no tripping, and if they do,
gives us something to laugh about. Jay thought we'd show you it the color
when it dries ooh it's concrete; guys, it's gray; he coned it off so the little kids wouldn't write
their names.But too late. Athena, Aver,y, and William, that must be Avery who did this
because his name is the biggest, as Jason. Anyway, guys, my name is Kirk Jason on the
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