Howdy folks, kirk, and Jason are here with kirk giordano plastering.
Today I want to show you guys something uh transitions.
If you don't know how to do transitions and you want to do your own patchwork,
well, it's going to show up like a sore thumb when it's painted, so you got to know how to do
transitions. I'll show you just a few tips. All this video is about as transitions now.
obviously the door was here so we put in we actually have about an inch and a half of mud here
how soupy is the mud kirk's the best that's pretty it's pretty soupy and it's pretty deep
but that's about what i want right there to prove a point here here's the transition guys now the
homeowner he's the kirk ah can you match this finish i don't want it too sandy and i said yes
and he says are you sure and i said yes i can do it man trust me i just said hey man we did
900 videos and i've been doing this for 40 years he says well here's what another guy started in
that blue stuff that's weld creek and it's really sandy right there it's just the blue stuff is uh
weld creep because i'm going to put a this finish over that he says well i don't want it too sandy
because on the other side there's two windows and they're very very sandy and it it really
sticks out so i said man don't sweat it dude i got it i got it here's what we generally do now
i'm just doing this because i can we're still in covet and everybody's tensed up
no worries i understand we're tensed up too if you use a float like this this is a sponge float
and you pull up you pull it in you you pull out the sand that's what those guys did
now if you use a hard rubber float or a polyurethane or plastic float in the uk these
they've got 20 different types of these plastic floats now these plastic floats are designed to
actually make a wall true and plumb so why do you want to wall trim plumb
that's so it's straight and level each way now i prefer these polyurethane floats myself
because say for example all this sand or grit right here if you know how to do this guys it'll
make your transitions look good and therefore when you paint it it'll look great and it won't stick
out like a sore thumb now the reason uh or the the main purpose of these guys here is to make
the wall true and plump however i've done a whole house like this because the guy said
look i don't want it too sandy i said okay we'll just use a polyurethane float or we'll give you a
third coat and he says there's a third coat cost extra money i said yeah but it costs extra money
so we ended up just doing this to his whole house because he didn't want it where it was really
sandy and he didn't want a hard steel child finish so we this is the finish we gave him
for you guys the transition here here's here's how you do it okay now i usually go into it like this
and every video we've done you'll see me pulling into it i'll take the existing and pull
into or i'll take the new and pull into the existing but with this particular
what i want to do because see that you could see the the new into the existing you can see all the
sand right there when that's painted i'm going to give him an eyesore like he has on the other side
he said kirk i want that so now i'm going to go from the existing into the new to remove that line
and that's how you do it guys you close your eyes you just you take that this all this is doing is
pushing the grit from where I overlapped right here it's got weld crete weld
crate is just a bonding agent you could use quick crete too they're both bonding agents
but what we do is we overlap the original and it adheres because i have the bonding needed and now
what we do is we just we take that original sand that was overlapped and we push it back into this
you see how easy that is and this is polyurethane it's a polyurethane float for you to say well
I don't have a polyurethane flow guys you know again we're in hectic times and everybody's tense
it doesn't matter what you use for example let's take these old dancing shoes polyurethane bottoms
you can do that too, guys, and all I'm doing
is actually I'm just creating some humor because everybody's too tense right now with life
and have i ever done this no but i thought i did a video last week and i was using my shoe and
a whole bunch of other goofy stuff to throw it on and i had a lot of funny responses like hey
man that's that's kind of funny so i thought i'd do it again because we're still in a tense time
so tools matter how long does it take to plaster now many people will say okay i learned in about
two months and i think yeah sure you did it takes about three to five years to learn how to plaster
how long does it take to learn materials try 10 to 15 to know what all the materials do how could i
put an inch and a half on this wall and already float it that's material knowledge when you got
material knowledge you got everything anyway the transition here and people i know there's going to
be some guys who are going to say well i would have used a red a red float well the red float
it brings out the sand because this is for brick so don't use that red float guys use polyurethane
use your shoe but make sure you flatten it out anyway guys we're having fun i thought i'd
show the old shoe trick again because it's not that critical the tools because so many people say
hey kirk you're using the wrong tool guys get over it and use anything just get the job done anyway
my name is kirk jason on the camera we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on
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as you can see we've already picked out avery's first trowel so when they get a little older they
can come to the job site and learn from their dad and my dad the plaster master just like i got to
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