Howdy folks, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano Plastering, what we're gonna do, guys today
is show you how to plaster, this beat-up old wall. Now this wall, the fellas who owns the house, says Kirk, can
you guys waterproof that with a waterproof cement? And I said yeah, they do make waterproof cement.
The paper has deteriorated over the whole house, you'll see it had about 20-30 paint jobs, but they
did the best they could with what they had; every time someone buys it it's their responsibility now
to take over where the last guy left off any way I'm we're trying to beat the rains we've
had nothing but rains uh it's been one of the wettest rainy seasons in I don't know, 20 years?
What we do first guys to match this this, is kind of like a swirl finish, uh, uh, um, a weird finish.
Anyway we're gonna scratch it, and now there's a lot of ways to do this guys, you could scratch it
like say here, I'm scratching it, whats scratch mean? That's the first coat of stucco. Now that first
coat of stucco is put on there, this this mud is a little bit tight, but that's okay, I think what I'll
do is improvise, because it's tight, I'll go over my own scratch immediately, and can we do that? Of
course we can, get it up there get it to adhere in that joint, then what we do is, for the sake
of just showing you guys, I'm not going around the whole house, and boring you the crap out of you.
I know some of you are thinking too late, I'm gonna double this up right here
okay doubling it up what I've got is accumulation of about oh
um an inch to an inch and a half, what we do is I take our screed, clean it take it up
and just kind of match what we have here. By the way next week we will be doing waterproof
stucco. It's for a fella whose basement flooded. How many of you guys have had a basement flood?
On our block, we've had, about six people move out, because their basement's flooded and that's where
a lot of residents were. Again we're at five weeks of heavy rain, so uh, with that interior cement,
we're going to do next week that's another story. I'll show you guys real quick just one area
because we don't want to go around the house we're trying to beat the rain, it's supposed
to rain this evening. Why would we do this? Because they want us to do it tonight or today or as soon
as possible. Okay, you look at that finish there first take your joint love that join in, it kind of
instead of that joint in best as possible guys, now what we do is you can do this two ways guys
take some mud here, now for this it's a little you see these These are called slobbers, slobbers, what
how do you create a slobber? same way you do if you're spitting. You have it excess wet, so
that's pretty wet this is not so wet you can do it two ways guys you can look at it and go gee,
that's pretty thick as it is, and take the toe or your heel and just dig it in, um. Okay, look at
theirs those are kind of half moons, some of them are vertical some of them are horizontal so what
we want to do is kind of match that right there, and just squeeze it guys, squeeze it
kind of like that. And what you do is you let that set now you see they got a little bit more
slobbers so if you wanted you could add a little bit and see how that slobber is out right there
you can add a little bit, and slobber it and there you have it guys. Now this is going to
take about, oh I give it a half hour, and it'll set and when it sets, then we take the transition here.
I'll show you with uh a, handy dandy float, we take the float here tap all that water out, get all that
excess water out, I'm looking at the skies thinking man we got at least six hours before the rain
starts coming. Anyway this is a fast setting rapid Set stucco. So you could do the same day uh and
it'll harden as fast as we want it to. We control the set or the retardants or the accelerators.
Anyway, now this is kind of heavy right here where it meets this and this is smooth why this
transition has been painted about maybe 20 times in the last hundred years? So what we're going to
do is I'm gonna I'm gonna force this meaning Okay, this joint right here it's it's gritty
when this dries in about a half hour 15 and a half hour, then you just take it and you hit it
real light and you feather in the transition. Feathering the transition with the same
the same thought the same theory in mind of uh look at this and try to blend them right into it
this right here the float. It will get you, would get you pretty good, pretty tight, and if you find it's
too sandy, don't be afraid to take a trowel and get some of that grit out, you just follow your same
patterns guys, and again this this doesn't have a pattern, it's just every which way. Anyway what
we're going to do is we're going to let this set up a little bit and then finish it off. All right
guys this is another way to do it, multiple ways to do it, endless all right. Jay already scratched this.
whole wall here, now the scratch is set up a little bit, and this mud here is a little bit soupier; it has
a little bit more water, so what I'm going to do is just brown this out. Okay, brown it out. Alright,
Get your bottom, true it out get it kind of right where you want it, do your corner make that corner,
I was gonna say, ugly, but we don't use that term. Make it match what they have, all right now that
we've got that done now look at these These are more um uh vertical, they kind of go upward like
from say seven o'clock to one o'clock, they kind of start here and then they all stop about there
but it's got a lot going on here guys it's kind of easy to match you just you take what you already
have here and just take a little bit of excess mud now, I'm going to follow this particular pattern, uh
I'm gonna try to follow that particular pattern, now we have them going vertical
you add more if you need it guys, you'll know if you need it because it won't it won't achieve
these little slobbers, so that kind of is it and like I did on the other side, I'm waiting
for that to set. Because the transition can't be this sandy but that's another half hour,
We're back now we got rained out that one day, I thought we might, it looked clear, next thing you
know, it was pouring down rain. After we got soaked to the skin and protected the walls
as much as possible, we're back today. I'm looking at I thought dang, we didn't do too bad.
I was telling the homeowner, I said well when we apply this, what we're doing is we're putting
stucco, stucco is what? Sand and cement, concrete rocks in Portland cement, same stuff. But just got
rocks it's got sand you're going to see the sand when we pull it up, now generally what we do is
on something like this where we see that the house has been about oh you look at it paint
scraping off every which way, I'd say a 90 year old house with about 20-30 coats of paint, and
most of it's coming off this is smoothed out by a lot of pain so I told the fella here, I said
paint it twice with some kind of a really thick quality primer and paint like Sherwin-Williams,
Kelly Moore, Benjamin Moore, and roll this out. You roll it out with a heavy nap roller, that
way you smooth this out just a little bit, is it going to fix the transition to make it look brand
like you can't see it? I can see every transition ever done, including my own, so I'm going to point
out something here's what we did today we spent about 10 minutes now, and I just went around and
what we're doing is, we're scraping off some of the uh stucco, because stucco has sand guys. Interior
Plastering does not have sand, so you can make interior plastering like glass, but if you think
you're going to smooth out exterior stucco that has even Felton or Oley sand you got another thing
coming. Anyhow we've we've had record-breaking temperatures of rain, and yeah we got rained out,
we're actually thinking about not coming today, but I wanted to see what the heck we left here. I'll
tell you what I like to do folks I talked to the owner, and I said you see this patch here? And he
says what patch? Hello, I said this patch, I said you can see all this heavy sand can't you? They did
something here and then this heavy sand that the transition, that's going to be something like what
we're going to leave so these guys didn't do such a bad job, it's just they didn't scrape it down
like so. Anyway, I'm going to show you on this other side, something where you can get a better idea of what I'm talking about because the transition here is tight. It's about as tight as we can get it and
we've been doing this a long time guys, but we're only as good as what we have to work with. I'ma
take you over here because I want to just prove a point. when I was talking to the homeowner at first
I said, look man, we're as good as the next guy, if not better, but we're only as good as what we have
to work with. I got to tell everybody that I said you see all these patches? they said what patches?
I said, hello man, right here; you can't see that patch, this patch this one does can the camera
take a close-up um anyway these patches right here. I said these are that's sand and these guys tried
their best to match it, they could have done better, we've done a little bit better, but we're only as
good as what we have to work with, so he says well I can barely see that, and I thought I like that
answer. So we'll give you something that is going to be a lot better the transition here is much
smoother and that's only because we allowed it to dry, then we came back you could use a wet brush a
trowel, anything, but allow it to dry and then handle it like this. There's some other work they did on
the other side, but I don't want to show that because people will say gee you're using that
to show how bad it can be? But since we're right here I was talking to the owner I said now, look
at this wall here. I said do you see this and he says what about it I said can you see the three
different finishes? He says I see two. I said okay, I'll show you one this is a similar finish to what
he had except it's been text coded how do you know it's text coded that's a spray-on finish
you could see it all over the pipe there that's where they spray it on, this is a float finish
that means they gave it their best shot, and then the two didn't match because they didn't put the
swirls in here, and then I said well you see this one? He says, which one? I said, man, you can't see that? They
just did a patch here, and they put little pancakes here, and he says I don't notice it, and I thought.
Okay, because what we're doing is again, we're only as good as what we have to work with. and yeah all
these rains and floods. How many of you guys got rained out on some of your jobs lately? I haven't
seen this much rain in ever, it's so compacted in say four months, but anyway, my name is Kirk,
Jason on the camera I thought we'd show you and explain it into detail because folks just
don't get it as far as priming it twice. When you have something of this kind of nature,
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