Howdy, folks Kirk and Jason here, with Kirk Giordano plastering, Today what we're doing is I'm going to
show you how to do an unusual texture. We're going to show you the cement we use, how to do it,
where to buy it, and all that stuff because you may be curious anyway. See that pattern
right there, there's an old-world finish. That just means they did it when they had craftsmanship
today. Everybody wants a three-coat system scratch brown and a color coat. That's a craftsman. We'll
show you how we match that. I can match it with this swim-pull trowel, but I've got my square trowel, too.
I'll show you how we do that. Okay, what we're doing, guys. We're covering cinderblock, and when
you cover cinderblock, it's the same as if you're covering concrete it's the same as if you're
covering terracotta, it's the same material that we're applying that we do our scratching and Brown
with over wood substrates, such as if I have paper wire it's the same material we're gonna show you
this material soon - as soon as I warm up a bit because it is it's pretty cold right now.
If it were raining, it would be snowing, so I'm trying to warm up right here, and all right, give
me some mud bud let me warm up these cold bones. All alright this stuff once we get started and
I warm-up, I'll show you a little more about materials and stuff like how we could put this
on. it was snowing we were doing a straw bale house and it was snowing and it was just lightly
snowing on us while we were working it was so cold that the water hose was freezing unless you kept
it on but we took our shirts off because once you start working you warm up quick especially if you
know what you're doing, so there's just a base coat, I'll think is a basecoat gotta be in order to
cover the grout lines you got to go at least, thank you, sir, at least a half-inch, if you're going
paint a wall you don't have to go a half-inch. you can go less but your best going
at least a half-inch. The cinderblock wall here most of you folks holiday mostly folks watch
what we do we apply bonding agents over walls this wall we hit a bonding agent we put our bonding agent,
"Weld Crete," over some of the corners for specific reasons but what I've done is, I will hydrate or
mist these walls although they're brand new. When I say brand new they're just built about
a month ago and I took a wire brush, I kind of scored the surface then I took a
water hose and the water hose removed any dust that might have accumulated from people using lawnmowers and things like that it stirs up the dust.
We don't want dust as the dust will inhibit any stucco paint from adhering well, so I did not apply Weld Crete or any bonding agent on
the flat walls, we got a mechanical bond that's even stronger, we wet this we misted it. so I'm looking at it
now say if it was a hundred degrees my application differ a little bit but right now where we're
still under 40 degrees so it's it's a bit chilly. One has to understand whether you got to understand materials also, yeah, usually if you could apply one, you could apply most materials the difference is you
have to know and understand what each stucco or plaster material it's capable of, and what it's
designed to you're not sure what it's designed for you better call somebody that surely does.
Again we show we show a lot of you folks how we do it and explain why and how and if the do's
and don'ts.
but again guys if you're not certain call somebody gets a professional out there and then go, I'm gonna just on this particular finish I apply the base coat this is a base coat skim coat means the same thing and no you don't have to scratch it I got a lot of folks whose watch they
ask, where's the scratch coat a scratch coat is for when you're doing. Wood lath with paper wire over a wood substrate.
you do not need a scratch coat if you're going over concrete blocks, CMU walls, or so-called terracotta walls. Anything that has a porous nature like this stone
even now how I got my corners is quite easy let me get off this hump I can put it on two different
ways guys we can put on this squeeze a little bit of excess off then we come through the other side and do the same thing. where I'll put a little
a bit on and I leave a little extra leave a little Stucco fat, because these corners are going to be jagged.
That's how you get a corner. Should I fast away to get a corner without messing around? Put it on here, put on here, and as it falls, no big deal. I'm not really concentrating on doing that. You take the mud, take it straight up like that, then just jack it up a little bit. We don't want it pretty.
corners we want we want jagged corners because that's what they have so that's what we want to
match. Let me show you something about the top edge generally, I'll take my hawk to go like this and pull
that right off the top because we want jagged tops to match the jagged finishes of the original house.
Has one finished retaining wall around the house another well, I'll just take some mud and put it right here, just wanna give it all to me I'll guess you could close your eyes and do this you want to.
Make's you want to put enough mud up here that will still, give the jagged look and give you a top and while he's bringing the mud, what I do is like to a pyramid, it goes this way go that way and then hit
it flat and now you can jagged your corners boom. we got a little bit of mud excess I'm squeezing a little bit of excess and then hitting it squeeze a a little bit of excess then hitting it that way I'm
getting about a half-inch on these corners some folks say they don't do the corners because we're
gonna cap them like this. The beautiful thing this you could leave it loose put your electricity in it
and all that jazz if that's what you have in mind. Now what we do is we keep putting it on, I'll
show you how we do these textures - this one is Jason favorite textures the beard behind the
the camera, who's actually filming me right now. So I built that corner here now I'm just
going to reinforce it, we're gonna take it just take practice, you look at it and it doesn't have
to be perfect because this finish we're doing is imperfect, so if I made it pretty I'd be defeating
the whole purpose. I'm gonna do one last thing and then show you some other stuff guys all right?
Personally, I'm getting warmed up finally it's a cold day out here everybody's walking by got
earmuffs on jackets ski jackets and I just took my ski jacket off to prove a point, plus I don't want
to get stucco all over my ski jacket. alright that's good enough, okay let me take this last a little bit right here because even though I've wet these walls or saturated them
for a mechanical bond, that's actually stronger than any bonding agent, I can apply.
It's wet how long will this take to dry if it was about eighty degrees that already be dried, I'd have to
keep misting it with water, as I'm plastering because it would suck up the moisture right out of
this Portland cement.
What does Portland cement.... excuse me fellas let me uh get over here, I want to show these guys something because I can.
This is Lou's job,
folks ask why do you always say luuuu, like that? Because of the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Lou's all right here's any way this is a lot of you guys think Kirk, I'm going to Home Depot I'm going to Lowe's what material do I buy I say buy a Portland cement buy some sand or what the heck. I say, if you're going to Home Depot buy the rapid set it's a product that has sand in it and cement all you do is add water.
here's how US professionals do it, okay we bring a yard I like this morning I got a couple yards of
sand now what a yard of the sand is 2,400 pounds a ton is 2,000 pounds so you get your sand and then you mix your cement plaster.
There are so many different cement plasters, I couldn't name them all here, and bore the crap out of you guys I just prefer this one here sold at the material yards it's a cement
that has common cement and it also has lime in it so it has everything all in one bag and what is
this it's a Lehigh's Lehigh is making this all in one it's premium that way I have to get
separate bags of plastic in common, that's a whole other story and I won't get into it.
The truck we use of course has everything a fella says how do you have like 20 of these, yeah I got about 15 of these because we use it we use everything. we come to a job like this we have everything the way we do it is we come to a job once I don't leave the job five six seven times to go back
and forth to get materials.
I have more materials that I need for every job when I get to that job anyway guys we're going to continue moving here, and when we get to these radiuses piece of cake.
close our eyes and go around them and do the tops the exact same way I'm not worried about getting
mud on these stairs because they have two-inch flagstone going on this so after we get all this is
done. we just take a trowel and trim it right out because it's all going to be covered. Let me show you a few more tips since we're here all right we're on a radius wall do you have to take it like this out of radius? not really. because it's such a large radius, I'll just take it
and just like I get on the other side I'm taking it here and then all I'll come back to it, by
the way guys you might be anybody watching and sees what we've done over the last ten years.
a lot of people say, Hey Kirk, how come you don't wear knee pads? well when I was working Union we would stucco about anywhere between ten houses a day with a gun, we'd go through 20 tons of sand
and 200 bags and I did wear kneepads I was wearing these catchers kneepads, why because these catchers kneepads they're comfortable.
these aren't as comfortable like a lounge chair or a hammock, but they don't fall off they don't slide down they don't cut your blood circulation off. so I know
someone's going to comment and say Kirk what kind of knee pads? They're catcher's knee pads from
baseball and another thing to guys is because I don't want to jack up my elbows, like say here
I'm just being lazy now watch I do this trowel the the bottom is gonna go on the ground, not my elbow the hawk tip is gonna go out and I'm putting all the weight on that tip while holding it or off and
I'll do this guys. I'm putting it on the mud on the wall a what I'll do sometimes is hold off the sack as I'm putting it on and if I have a seat right
now I'm on the tip, I'm not on my elbow I'm on the tip, just have it guys make some of these things
especially your apprentices, who watch what we do make these things have it so you don't jack up
your elbows now look like my hand is not on it or my elbow now I'm using it I'm going down I'm using
I'm using a hawk, kind of like a crutch man I'm here or here I'm never on my elbows on especially
on concrete I'll show you a couple of things too while why we're at this because what we're gonna
do is knock this out but want to show you a few basics before we even lift it up. I'm
lifting up everything is with my crutches now Jason is spreading the texture over this is tired
everything Jayson is really good at textures. You put your pancakes in it guy there's a lot
of ways to do this, if I were to let this turn light gray like the color of this when it dries
it's going to be that code that's Portland cement here's concrete it's Portland cement with
rocks. stucco or cement plaster or render as they say in the US or the UK all that is instead of
rocks it's Portland cement with sand so as it's a tanner color because of the sand the rocks are usually lighter.
so that's Portland cement and this this is going to dry like that just three to five different ways to do this, Jayson just put this on now you let the whole wall set entirely and turn
this one color and what Jay is doing is this. He's just taking each one and he's taking a sponge
flow sponge flow brings out the sand or aggregate, now you bring out the aggregate you just let
it drips on it, a lot of water, guys you're just a And that'll you let it drip you see how that's dripping down. It's not gonna hurt the wall. That's actually good
for the wall. just a lot of water guys I mean you could you just a lot of water depending on the
size depending on what type of Pancakes you're putting on it or trowel marks, no water or a lot
of water and yeah you could use a felt brush we use felt brushes when we were working at Union
for what interior coating but you can also just use a the brushes here. if you and the more water
you put you're gonna take away the sharpness of this so depending on what you want I use a little
water or a lot of water anyway guys we're gonna continue moving and when we get done with all of
this will show you.
Lou, he's doing another mix and that's how we do it guys we take the sand from the back of the truck and do individual mixes, Edgar here my nephew just happens to have the day
off he's working with us, this guy is the bomb it makes my life so easy you're spoiling me, brother.
Anyway we're gonna continue moving then we'll show you the end result alright guys I'm going to show
you the final of this now as you can see this is what the owner wanted we're here talking with him
and discussing things, as Jason says every day, that everybody has a different fingerprint as far as a different texture. This is what floated his boat. He's happy, so we're happy in a lot of different ways.
to do this when you're a big-time stucco guy, a lot of different things happens on the way here I was
huffing and puffing turning that truck that's a nightmare without power steering I thought man I
got to put this power steering before we leave to go home. no, I don't this is what's left in my power
steering belt no power steering belt no alternator no water pump I can't drive that we're in San Anselmo that's an hour and a half away from my house so wait and Jays are about to get off the camera, and go get all the belts, all four and another alternator and we're gonna have some
fun and stay here till dark and put it back. The life and times of a big-time contractor anyway my name
is Kirk, Jason on the camera we thank you guys for watching, and as usual live long and Plaster.
Hey, I forgot to tell you yesterday because I was sidetracked with uh what's left of my fan
belts but we got this truck here at we were an hour and a half away from san Anselmo we fixed the
truck somewhat but we're getting ready to go to work now and it's just as cold and because we're
not mechanics, we got a whole thing of oil over here, so you want to be a big-time contractor? I wanted to tell you guys my wife brought me a cup of coffee as she sees me freezing me
arse off and fortunately Carl my neighbor he's a 40-year forward mechanics I have turn this over to
him just like sometimes you guys turn the stucco over to me by the way would I miss yesterday to
say was if you guys want to see how that texture was put on I'm gonna put a link in the description
to Jason's channel, because he doesn't he did all the texturing, all I did was apply everything and
we got out of there, anyhow guys we thank you for watching and take care of your vehicles.
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