hi, guys. Kirk and family are here with Kirk Giordano plastering. today I want to show you
something that's actually quite common the fellow who did this right here you could see there's a
patch this is a text code on this side this area right here is a patch and above the garage door is
the same guy who did this now what this fella did and why it doesn't match this is because he used
a serrated Darby he took that serrated Darby and went straight up and I could see all the serrated
Darby lines here the camera can tell I don't know anyhow I'm gonna show you the proper way to do
that guys and this is what he already did I'm just gonna redo his and give it the proper finish first
thing we do if we're going over a painted surfaces we gotta apply a bonding agent so I just applied
a bonding agent and know it's not my typical weld Crete which is blue I actually prefer weld Crete
which is blue because back when I had 10 guys you know they missed an area I could see that
they did you missed this area if you miss an area it won't adhere for long six months a year too but
anyhow I'm gonna go right back over what he did and I feathered I'm gonna feather in all the way
here because I need the transition because this is a bit proud of this wall here you can't see
it but the bonding agent is all the way up to right here and it's to the corner I'm doing a
lot of here a lot of work on this but I just to prove a point you're just gonna do this small
area what you do is we put a coat over it in this particular cement I'm using just regular Portland
cement and I have added Newman I illuminate is an accelerator it will take it up so I could do it
quickly it's the same for the windows ahead here I'm gonna illuminate that because I just want to
put it on there and be done immediately with the application of this then I float the texture in
and if I needed, I'm pulling this last bit of illuminated Portland cement out, and these are
the areas that I needed a little thicker I can see because I'm right on it. You folks watching you
have these concerns, we probably won't be able to see it right, okay there's going, oh yeah, I need
with luminite this bucket over here again. You don't even need to point the camera here, but this
is just regular Portland cement with no additive or accelerator because I don't need it super full
right here I'm just skimming it 1/8 to 330 seconds over here I was going about a half-inch on the
transition I'll take it right to the corner to prove a point okay I did exactly what the
fellas before I did the only difference is they use the Darby on my right and didn't float it
okay for the sake of cutting short and showing you what I'm referring now I take a float bucket
take a float bucket and this is what they did wrong they originally put line there that's
kind of stupid they left it so we don't want to do that what we want to do is do the right
finish and so let us add a little bit now you this part takes a little bit of practice all
I'm doing now is floating it I'm bringing out the aggregate bringing out the sand to match the text
coat and this does take can you do it by watching this video maybe some people can a lot of people
say dude you tried it if it doesn't work not it doesn't work it's just we make it look a little
bit easier than it actually is because of the time in but they like the transitions here I've
got a little bit of water on this and I'm looking at his sand so as I'm looking at the currents and
my float is too heavy now I've drawn off too much cement on here so now it'll drag it'll make it too
coarse I don't want it too coarse I want it just right so now I've got to clean flow it again and
we're just going you can go in circles you can go this way guys I just like to go in circles
and get a flat pattern because sometimes when you go sweeping motions they put a put little
humps in it not all the time especially if you're experienced you can get away with that okay now
that's almost where I want it to be clean this flowed flip it clean it tap it out right here I
don't want to get that Syl jacked up so I use the clean float now the corner same thing I'm actually
going to do this other corner here to where it turns but for the sake of explaining this will
take it here and take it here and again what we want to do is make it look like it was shot
on with the same gun that these guys shot on and can you be perfect you can be pretty good but as
far as perfect it's a different type of system from one at Xcode me in usually us silica sand
or sometimes perlite in this case silica sand I know that because I could see the shine of
the sand that was shot on 30 years ago it was perlite you would see no glass effect or shine
in the stucco so we take it right here and it's getting better and the idea guys is if they shot
on a finish Tex Cote that's real heavy you just use a lot more water if they shot on one that's
this fine this is a real fine text coat very fine because the aggregate is probably 30 grit
silica sand that's pretty fine stuff I can see it so that's that's pretty much on the money and
if I wanted to make this lighter say you guys call or if you have a I finished that is even
lighter than this you would allow this to set say 10 to 15 minutes depending on the heat the
weather the material the seller aiders and all that jazz and you just hit it again lightly say
if I if I like to set 15 minutes but it's on the money now if I let us set another 15 minutes the
sand will just fall right off here and each time I do that it'll get finer and finer or softer in
appearance which pretty soon it's almost flat so that's how to do it anyway my name is Kirk
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