Hi guys Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what I want to show you guys
is how we apply a BMI product to something cut up, as I was rambling on for about five minutes doing
this, Jay said dad, you're not even wearing the mic so we've stopped it. And now, I'm going to show you
how, what I just went through already.
Okay, I put two coats on here. and I took I take a Darby, this is Darby here in the United States out and if you're up the UK they call it a rod. Same thing, we
take it, we threw it on, I had an expansion joint which I completely covered because I know where
it's at. What I do is I make my walls true and plump, this way it's easier for me to come and
hard rubber float, so what I do is, I finish my corners and by the way I am not worried about
my knees, because I wearing some scarz pants these have knee pads in them, for guys like me, who have
sensitive knees. Anyhow all this mud getting hard, so I switch to my handy-dandy square trowel, it got more
strength, more rigid, for what I was just showing, you can throw your mud in here like this
guys or you can just put it in like so, either way works because we're going to trim this out.
Okay, guys, we are going to
put some mud on this ceiling, allow that to stand a little bit, come back and finish these walls,
and yes, if I was using regular cement, I wouldn't even try to go this thick guys, on
these soffits. I want to hit them first, give them a chance to set up even with this BMI,
it's still got a set just a little bit, and these ceilings are thick,
I'm putting this one here, it's about an inch thick, the one on this other side is
more of a problem it is easily 2 inches thick. So, we don't have a problem with a dropout, we leave that one
alone for the time being, now what we're going to do is, this ceiling or this window trim top.
That's a mess ain't it? Yea, handle it, I'm the best, i am the pro, but i didn't bring
it on, man, thanks for the tip, John. Okay I will handle it, John. Okay, let me focus on
one thing at a time, here guys what I do is show you how we do this inner corner.
Okay, so ugly has made this corner camera can't show that, but here's what I'll do
take my finger adjusted, take a trowel, and just pull it off now. This is a true and plum corner,
just like so, throw it off the same thing here, I take my finger now these corners are correct.
Nothing to it because my Darby or rod will not fit in here. If it could, I would take this put
it inside here what does fit and trim it out like that. Also a lot of ways to do this guy just
another way again I take it here trim it off, take it here, trim it out now we do the stop.
Not the best example, guys. What we do best we can do what we got to work with
Okay, we're getting there a little bit,
waiting on you boys.
All right, good mud, on a hot day. This stuff sets fast.
kind of perfect mud for this stuff, anytime we have it where it's so thick,
we wanted to be in here especially if we're doing same-day scratch and brown system.
one day you definitely want this stiff mud, even though it takes a lot of strength or
elbow grease to put it on, okay, dang, it gets up there, guy stay there! Okay,
now what I will do is take my handy dandy rod to pull it this way, pull it down the
way that gives me my corner, and I buried up a screed in their expansion joint, no worries.
We can handle that, okay lastly, finish up a little bit of stuff in here and then I do
this outer corner here, which is a piece of cake guys, again putting this here because
I don't want to bend down more than a half - I'm just going to slam this one out I've done
done.
get my ceiling hopefully, this won't fall on my head, because we are pretty
thick on that guy, and really hard to go one pass, Okay, the last thing I got is this inner
corner little mudball while I'm waiting for some mud, I just throw out a couple things,
I use the heel to get a straighter finish. Now take this piece, kind of jumping all
over around here, guys, but you get the the point, the last thing is just this instep.
and again, while I'm waiting for mud, there's always something to do
good
I'm almost ready to walk away and start doing these bottoms. Get all
this stuff off of here. Do my inside, place oof cake.
Guys, by the way, it really doesn't matter if you pull it off the top or you pull it off the bottom.
Okay, guys and comment and say, Kirk, you're not a real plasterer you pull it off the bottom. It really
doesn't matter guys, really doesn't matter, I'm trying to use, I prefer a 16-inch sometimes I'm
using an 18-inch pool trowel, all that stuff it really doesn't matter guys, it just depends on
practice, unless you're comfortable with, take it here, boom, here take it there come down the finish
that off, and I just about got this aside from a little petty thing one thing about BMI guys. This
is real important, you can't mess with this stuff guys, when it's on BMI generally this
particular material, I like it for color coats because we are going to color coat this, and
some other materials you can play with and float it. This one you're not supposed to, you just put
it on, you don't overwork it. otherwise, you break up the packs, I'm going to finish the tops here
it is ready almost to give it the half-hour set then I'm going to Darby it and we'll be
done with this guy. Okay guys were doing a lot of things here, pretty busy I actually got the other side
too and it's sort of drying up on me last thing I'm going to do with this 690 is rod or Darby it
I use a two-handed Darby, okay what I'm doing pull it up take it from here pull it up and what this
does is, it straightens everything out. It makes everything true and plumb, as you can get it just
like so we take it here right there this inner detail we have already got our corners which are
basically templates they're here, because this the particular product we don't play
with it. like the other Portland-based products. We put it on, we Darby it, and I'm going to use a
steel trowel to do some finishing touches down here one more time true and plumb, in fact, you
can see it smoking it's smoking because the walls the heat is on this wall but takes this piece here
where I buried that expansion screed give it get it tuned plumb and generally what I'll do guys is
when I'm rodding, I'll go upward strokes say for For example, I'll take this piece here and put it right
in that corner and upward strokes here, upward last piece right here and then her to take it
all the way around then switch it right here this piece same thing here, I'm kind of nervous about
this ceiling touching it right now so I'll leave it alone, as its an inch and a half of stucco there,
which is no such thing is put an inch and a half up one shot but with this BMI, I get about as close
as you can to doing it now when you're at this stage right here guys, and you got everything true
and plumb and as pretty as you can get it what you do is you find yourself either you can let
this set for about say 20 minutes and come back and steal Trowel it, just a little bit all we're
doing is getting some of the imperfections out or this particular product, you don't want
to use a green sponge float on you don't want to break up the packs basically, you put it on
once and leave those packs alone, now what I'll do is I'll at the end say another half-hour. I
can lightly hit it with the float lightly hit it, but we don't want to break up the packs, it's
set now I find my expansion joint know it's in here somewhere, that's the best way to go
is from the bottom run an expansion joint, take this goes straight up to allow this to set at
least when it's dry, I know where it is. The idea is to get it right in that hole and straight up
we let that set, then we take our trowel on edge come here follow that expansion and just pull it
straight-up guys. It takes a little bit of practice for this and if you notice I knew that ceiling
was going to be a culprit. But that's okay, we'll come back and put a little bit more in it that's
how do we do it guys any way I'm going to leave this alone because we got other guys on the job and
I got the whole rear here to still float out, so I'm going to do that but you get an idea of what
we're doing here okay guys we're done with this I'll show you what it's supposed to look like
when we were all trowled down, I had a boxing match with this ceiling here kept kicking my ass, every
time I put it up and fall back down on me, but we got over it any way that's what it's supposed to
look like we trowled it down, all the corners true and plumb all these corners are lined with these
corners and you know a funny thing, I was telling the contractor about this elevator, I said man, we
want to do this before the weekend unfortunately today's Friday, tonight is Friday night, and then
Saturday, somebody already bumped this, you figure do all this detail corner work and then somebody
bumps right into here with a couch or a fridge, keg of beer or what have you so we just take a little
bit of mud, where this big hump is or somebody did what they generally do, we just fill that out now
hopefully that'll that'll work right here we went ahead and we scraped out our expansion joint and
the last thing I'll show you is our expansion joint here we took a trowel, stripped it down, cleaned it
right up, what do you think, boss hog, Looking, good baby. Anyway, we're all done my name is Kirk, I'm with Kirk Giordano
plastering, we thank you guys for watching and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one.