Howdy, folks Kirk and Jayson here with Kirk Giordano plastering.
today I want to answer a few questions as usual I get a lot of calls and people you know we do
a lot of YouTube videos we have like 35 million views on our YouTube YouTube channel and a lot
of people show me and tell me what Kirk how do you get this finished right here let's call this
and finish guys it's the easiest finish you can do and how do you get all these lines right here
the same way you get a perfect finish perfect and finish I'll show you let's see it's okay the walls
getting hard guys that's us trying to beat the rain here well in order to get that particular
finish there guys what you're going to need is a float now let me explain some of these floats real
quick because it got a lot of them these are hard rubber or polyurethane these are designed to make
the wall chew and plumb and hard yes but that's not what we're trying to do here guys you make
you make the wall true and plumb and you condense it you compact it and it makes it stronger you got
your 5 inch and you got just three don't buy three guys buy fives this is the same with a
lot of these plastic trials are you in a UK use a 5 inch it does the exact same thing like the
polyurethane or a hard rubber and a cork float they all do the same thing you're gonna need in
order to get that finished right there you're going to need sponge float and yeah I generally
use these green sponge floats these yellow ones are just as good if not better in fact I think
they're built much better myself they're called killer bees but anyway these yellow ones are
stronger and they pull out more aggregate because they're a little bit more coarse and what I'm
using here is a course or two plaster sand what kind of sands do you have you have Felton and
Olli and they're fine how do you make a fine sand look like this well it takes some practice I'll
show you and while we're on this the same point of floats guys these five inches of the ones you want
don't buy these threes because they're you spin your wheels it doesn't matter if they're pretty
like this they're three inches don't bomb by a five inch anyway I'm going to avoid using the
the green ones and I'm gonna use the yellow one because it'll make it a little coarser now we're
messing around here killing time when I should be on this wall here now what I want to do is I want
to pull this aggregate out I want to get to sand out in order to get that right there I've got to
put a lot of water on this wall see if you want a perfect finish guys like us I mean a real fine
finish you let it dry like this and you see you can make it a perfect finish like this people say
well how do you get it really smooth let it dry and that's pretty dry and just hit it lightly a
little bit of water but I don't want this I want it heavy and can i still bring this wall back
sure I can a lot of water a lot of water a lot of elbow grease see I just dipped it I'm gonna dip
it again after I get all the sand out of there and that's what I'm doing right here is pushing
it a lot of pressure now that filled this float with stucco so it's full of stucco right now if
I keep going you know just get finer and finer so I got to get all the stucco out of here okay
get it all out and notice guys I'm tapping the inside of the bucket half the flow goes in the
other half goes in two just like that if you slam it like this you destroy the flow it goes
the wrong way so okay and right now all I'm gonna do guys I'm hustling because this wall is set you
got a set wall well then you got to use a lot of water a lot of elbow grease and a lot of speed
okay now I'm gonna create that look right there in a minute first I got to bring this
a lot of sand out and keep in mind this sand is just fine if I you could use two hands the
guy's if I had a clean coarse wash sand and be much easier to get this finish or had I
jumped on it about a half hour ago I wouldn't have to be straining but we're doing a lot of
things here so okay I'm gonna bring that I got to bring the stucco back to light once I bring
it back to life then I can put my float marks in it it's hard to revive stucco guys that's
why you should never let it get away from you and how many times the stuck have gotten away
from us hundreds of times okay now that we got it I brought this middle back to life I'll show
you now if I were to take this float right now and go here nothing's going to happen I'm not
going to give it you're not going to see these flow lines you see that the lines here a lot
of people hate that but we match what we see so okay I'm gonna match that right there I need to
clean this float once more because it's too full of plaster right now to get those lines all right
you can get the lines it takes a lot of water even that is not perfect or what I want
the more I do it, the closer it becomes and you see they got a lot of aggregate so we don't want
to make our finish perfect we want it we want it just like there's you go to a bunch of different
ways and you use the excess fat so what I've actually done guys is I'm using the excess fat
that I'm bringing out it's kind of like lime when we do interiors we we use a diamond finish it got
a lot of fat a lot of lime and that way we have time but now you see as I go over it it becomes
well it starts to look like that I was going to say uglier an ugly but that's just not the
right terminology it becomes like the existing you get some float marks in there and you want
that you want some different features in him you want the sand to come out and you want the
float lines to show so again if I wanted to make it pretty all I do is let it dry about
five more minutes and I hit it one more time and it would be perfect and uniform but we
don't want that today's video is all about how to how to match those float lines and if
you let it go like I did you'll be hustling and straining like I just did anyway my name is Kirk,
Jason's on the camera way thank you guys for watching as usual we'll see you guys on the next
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