Hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering today what I'm gonna show you guys
is how we apply this fibermesh tape on a brown coat prior to a color finish this house here we
has been hydrated now for two weeks we did the scratch coat we did the brown coat we hydrated
that meaning we hosed down the scratch coat for 48 hours actually it's about a week and
then we hydrated the brown coat that just means hit it with water and what we want is we want
to accelerate the cracking we want cracking the cracking normal guys in a brown coat so Michael
tell us Michael your last name is just about as difficult as ours anyway you asked me about this
fibermesh tape I'll show you it you say what's the difference you got your white tape you got your
yellow tape what's the difference none I just read them both and they're exactly alike actually this
this tape is for interior it's for doing sheetrock say you do your sheetrock little areas and put
the fiber mesh tape you can mud right over it I use a lot of this inside now say like something
like this I'll take it and see if you can see some hairline cracks we did the brown coat two
weeks ago and it's been fully hydrated we don't have any cracks well let me show you one that's
you can see see this one down there that one is visible so what we generally do guys is is I'll
take the fiber mesh tape cut it put it on it if it it's a little long oh that's about perfect okay we
got that on there here's another tip guys if you open a brand new roll it sticks very well I've
had this on the truck for about a month so it kind of loses its sticky stickiness unless you keep it
covered anyway that one's stuck and plus I've gone around the house and used it now the tip guys is
again like I say this is this is not a code you don't have to do this most contractors worth their
salt will do it I always do it because when we're done with this color code ten years from now if
somebody comes to look at it I want it pretty guys I don't want it full of cracks and stucco
does crack okay what well Jay data is he mix me up some Polly Bond guys now this Polly bond we
wanted soupy like water all we want this Polly bond for him by the way guys Polly bond is made
for and here in styrofoam molds to cement tissues finish so this Polly bond here is it sticks and so
all we do basically is go over it and like the one Jay did earlier all we wanted when we're
done with this and by the way too we just follow that tape follow that tape well we're done I want
it to look like Jays okay here's one he did and that's got the mesh tape underneath it it's got
the Polly bond on it and why do we do it the day before because tomorrow when we come to color coat
this we're gonna hydrate this because it's a dark color I'm gonna wet this wall for about an hour
and we wet the wall for about an hour and that way when we do the top then we come here we don't have
a joint where the two dried up so I will wet this and high grade it for about an hour and tomorrow
if this is not stuck come right off so it would be useless to put on any here anyhow guys I'll show
you one more tip now this this window here and you never know where cracks kind of come guys I've
been doing this for 30 years sometimes we have no cracks which is rare but sometimes we have a
lot sometimes more than others what I'll do again is I'll I'll come upward because if I start here
I can pull the tape right off so like so again we always want to use something cement tshis
because if I was to use a bonding agent which will work with this dark color we're going to apply
tomorrow if I use a bonding agent and it rains what will happen is now that bonding agent say
okay here's what happened we use a bonding agent as fast it's it it hears it in the next day it's
dry but when we come to color coded we do it and then the first day of range you'll see these where
the suction is gone because a bonding agent will kill the suction right here so when the first day
of rains the wall gets wet it darkens and you'll see these outlines so guys unless you're doing
an acrylic finish you got to know that kind of stuff it's real important it's trying to cover
a lot of bases with this particular stuff for you Michael but I think I touched most of them
you can't explain everything in a five-minute video but we tried to do the best we can and
also folks by the way Michael he asked me the question about this mesh tape you folks have
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Kirk Giordano plastering as usual we thank you for watching and we'll see you guys on the next one.