Howdy Folks, Kirk Dan Carl and Jason here with Kirk Giordano Plastering.
Today we're going to do something a little unusual, guys; this is, uh we're going to
go up this custom stairwell; actually, it's been here 140 years; the house is old and so what we're
going to do is, the fella called us and said, Kirk, I've had about five sheet rockers here and a
number of plasterers, they say this can't be done. I looked at it I thought man you must be kidding
me, I can do that blindfolded, so what we have here is we have a radius, now if this kept going,
it would go into a complete circle, just like that in a circle, so now you guys might look at this
and you'll say wow, man, everything is spinning. I can't even get my mind wrapped around that, you
might think, wow, I feel like I'm on that Indica ganja dab stuff. Everything is going in circles.
That is not what I see, I see a piece of cake here, that means,
I can lath this in about 15 minutes. How can that be done? well? I don't
know if the camera will show this tight space, but I'm going to do it; we already
did the wire now that took me 15 minutes. you guys don't want to hear me rambling
for 15 minutes so the wire's done. And basically, I'm creating my own studs, he put a few bunch of
blocks and everything, but I'm creating my own. Anyway, I've got some really hot mud, not sure
how hot, meaning this might even go off, before I finish rambling, so hot mud means I want to get
my first coat on here, and what it's doing is, is mushrooming through, mushrooming, right through
that wooden lath or the the metal lath. And once I get this base coat on
that establishes a firm surface. Okay, so I am using a Structo-Lite, why?
Because if I use, a heavier mud with silica sand, silica sand is heavy, it don't want to dry, it'll
take forever. But I'm already losing this because I had Dan put a ton of accelerator in here. So I'm
hustling, guys, I shouldn't be messing around on video right now, but, look at that. I can.
I'm using a wooded hawk.
How come? We forgot our hawk we got two trucks here, we're up in the Oakland Hills and
we got here and Dan said, well Dad, I forgot we took the hawks off the other truck and put them on
the two little trucks, but we left them. He says I'll go home and get it, I said are you crazy?
You guys are carpenters make me a hawk, so
This is it guys, this will give me a good base coat, so uh, this it's going to be
a very solid surface in a minute. I wanted it to set within 15. Okay,
it's set within five, but that's okay, to. I'm gonna hit all my difficult areas,
where it's spongy, what spongy mean, that means when you push up it sponges up, if you don't know
what you're doing, it comes right down in your face, which brings to mind a job I was doing
and my good buddy, he was with me and he wasn't yet a journeyman,
see like right here guys? I'm gonna prove a point.
prove a point, it's spongy, spongy it goes up, so I told my buddy, hey do me a favor and go
go plaster that soffit. So he went over there to do what I'm doing right here,
but as fast as he did it, it went up, and then it came down, which means it went, Boing.
All over his face and when I, me and the owner came and we looked at him, I thought, man you're
a pig, he lost his mind, he said let's see you do this man, this is going up and it's
going to my face, what did we have a good laugh. Anyway I'm still hustling so for the next batch we
use I'm gonna tell Dad or Carl, use, give me half of the accelerators, but for right now I'm gonna clean
this bucket out I'm gonna put it where I need it because there's some areas here that are spongy we
just we made all this,it's by eyeball you see how this is hard now? What I don't want to do too is,
drip this all over the floor where I gotta pick it up, so I'm using just the toe getting it in there.
Just the toe, and right here I'm going four to five inches thick; why? I have to.
When you drop some you got to pick it up, otherwise, we walk this all through
the house, by the way we got about 25 steps to come down into this uh basement.
Anyway, you see where we're going with this I like this handmade hawk, plywood it works, all right,
so with this, I'm using, I'll tell you, guys, a so-called trade secret now.
I'm using struct-Lite why? Because, Structo-Lite has perlite, and I might have said that already.
but Structo-lite has pearlite what is perlight? It's volcanic ash and it's very light you
ever try to put, even a fast patch, fast patch doesn't matter who makes it up on the ceiling?
well it has sand in it, so fast patch with sand even silica will drop on your head all day long,
but this stuff is like whipping cream and it just happens to stick very well and if you put enough
accelerators in it, you're good. There are so many different accelerators I won't even get into that,
so you could judge it and accelerated by the color, let me have a little bit more.
Okay one, more, one more, I'll show you how to do this complicated stuff now.
I've got three inches here; let's go four to five okay four to five inches the first coat
is set that first coat is set, there's two inches right there, there's already, three
but you can't do this with any other material, ops, it
tried to get away, get back up there. All right, gotta embed it
got a mushroom behind this lath here. Once this mushrooms behind and it starts
to set then it'll adhere forever kind of like button board, button board in the 60s,
it was like sheetrock except it had holes. People, I just answering a question yesterday
that's why I'm bringing up button board he says what the heck kind of sheetrock is this it has
holes button board the plaster adheres to the surface to the face because of the skin then
it buttons through or mushrooms through and that's how it adheres or anchors permanently.
Okay, now here's a difficult area, now I got five inches right there, I can't do that with
any of the other plasters, I can name them all right now, but uh for the sake of finishing this
Why? All right here we go, now I got a rock, I got a rock right there, all right so here we go,
and this is almost done now I've got the whole base coat, what's a rock?
that's a rock and so when it hits it it kind of jumps. All right guys,
four buckets of Structo-Lite with a lot of accelerators. Now this is almost done, if we
take lunch right now and come back this will be hard and I can float this in with a green float.
I'll show you that part I also learned something kinda important. You ever wonder where, Bob Dylan
got that slang? like yeeeah? I was lathing this and a spider fell on me, I mean it was a big hairy
ugly one and I said ewww, then I thought as I'm doing this thinking about a whole lot of useless
stuff that don't amount to nothing, that's how he got his twang, ewwww, bugs, spiders.
Anyway, you see I get to rambling, when I start to do stuff that's easy,
But just takes a little bit of concentration; my mind goes a lot of places back on track.
Transition right here, hit it with your float transition right here hit it with your
float. Make it pretty; what's this pink stuff? That's just a bonding agent; you come up here,
you look at this okay, we're gonna make it sexy, we're gonna give it some curb appeal,
we just do that right up here, where it's still kind of nasty,
we'll just take the float and hit it, it float it like so, and make it pretty and sexy.
There we go, boom, so easy can I put another coat on.
I think we're going to skim it one more time just to make it super smooth and pretty. Now
this finish coat we could also go three four five six inches we're about six to seven here,
I had this curved, I thought it was cool looking, I was, woah, that came out mighty sexy, the homeowner says,
hey, can you get that straight? I took about that much it was drier than this, this is going
to be set in about five minutes it's gonna be harder than rock and I just slammed it.
I said is that what you want? He says yeah, so the material knowledge guys is,
is everything, with almost everything, all these products, so I mean anybody can spread it out,
if you're if you could spread sheetrock guys and do Sheetrock finishes, you can do this guys.
Anyway, we just thought we'd show you a little bit of the finished coat, because we're almost
at the end of this, we will show you the very end, well I'm good the further I go up here, the less
Jay is going to be able to film anything of me or him doing this, so when we get done with it,
we'll show you the entire finish, because it is actually, it's not that difficult
it's just knowing the materials and getting that lath on just right, and playing around.
All, right guys, we will take you up this stairwell and show you what we have done all
right smooth as the baby's ass, butt, there we go, it comes all the way around there's a lot of
mud on their guys, it's like uh nine inches in a few spots, anyway all that with a homemade hawk,
anybody who says man I want that Hawk I just want to dance at that Hawk bother,
I thought man I forgot I was using it. Anyway, my name is Kirk and Jason on the camera,
Dan and Carl, we thank you, guys, for watching, and as usual, see you guys on the next one
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