Howdy Folks, Kirk and Jason here, with Carl and Dan today.
I want to show you, folks, how to re-spread an existing color coat; this house is about
30 years old, it's on a mountain, a hill, and it's in excellent condition; however, the sun kind of
fades these maintenance-free color coats. It's, it's normal, perfectly normal,
So what we're prepared to do today is we're going to do just this middle band this right here,
the lower belly band this front, and all we're doing guys, is we're getting the color a lot
more uniform than it has been because a lot of work here as you mow the lawns dirt goes up, dirt then
settles, like this, settles on, on this bay window. It settles, then when it rains, it bleeds down,
and it looks kind of unsightly, so what they did is, they pressure washed it
lightly and what we are going to do is, Jay and I are going to spread this out.
When we come to the bottom here, we'll get rid of the staging and we'll show you
how we spread it out, I have done about 20 to 30 color coats a year times 35.
You learn a lot about material knowledge, such as fine sand, medium sand, heavy sands,
and how to match colors and all that jazz. Anyway, we'll get a little
bit more in-depth after, Jay and I get this scaffold out of here.
We'll see you in a minute; all right guys we're back; it's five o'clock now;
we started at eight but these walls been beating us up. And, what that means is
the base coat, whoever did the base coat used either Eisenwall or BMI 690,
and it has tremendous suction, so I've been hitting this wall right here with
water for about, oh, well eight hours. and it's finally coming to where I, we could
hydrate it and spread without it sucking up. So what we try to do is when you're doing two colors
we go right to the surface as Jay's doing and my job is the easy job, I'm just floating,
this is a float I'm giving it a sand finish so we're bringing the aggregate out.
What do you say, Herb? Hey, Kirk, do you get paid with lots. of work with making these videos?
Hey that's confidential, man, we're on video,
you can't ask me about my sex life or, or that confidential stuff.
Anyway what we're doing here guys is, Jay's putting it on and we have a joint right here,
but we've been hitting this wall, this wall all day, and we've been in the hot sun we're
kind of dirty, tired but we gotta get it done, actually, we're just trying to use up
all the rest of the materials we made. So I'll give you guys another tip, now this
this float, I'm using, hey Dan, let me have that clean bucket of water please.
Now guys, if you're gonna do this, I'll give you some tips, hydrate the wall,
and what I'm talking about, this wall is hot; that's just another, that's a materials thing.
How did I know 30 years ago they used some really porous stucco like a BMI or
Eisenwall or a rapid set? Because as fast as we're working,
this wall is, is drying. Okay, if it dries guys you're
in the hot sun, don't be afraid to wet it, don't be afraid to wet that wall, because
I have to, I have to have enough time to float behind Jay.
Always put a water hose where you need it. You don't have to bend down, but what I'm
doing guys is I'm taking water, tapping out this sponge float, and then once Jay does that,
now notice this edge is clean, this edge is clean so, what I'll do is I'll take the new while the
edge is clean, and come right here, boom and hit it one more time while the edge is clean.
Why? Because now I don't have to worry about this color getting on this color, they do look similar,
they look similar now while wet, but when when all this dries like a brick it's gonna lighten,
that right there, was this color and so when it dries out, it dries through it becomes dark again,
that's the beauty of a maintenance-free finish. You never have to paint this again
but actually, it's 30 years since the house was built and oh Herb right here, he actually has
some discoloration, just simple discoloration you know when you got when you got this,
show that mountain area, Carl. If you can, just show that mountain
area when you got that you got tractors you got a lot of dust, dirt, and moss, going in the air,
where is it going to go? It's gonna settle on your stucco, wood, chimneys, and things like that so,
it's normal for it to discolor, especially with the rains and all of that stuff.
Ops hey, Dan, I, boo-boo'ed right here, I wanna, wipe this window, that's what I get
for rambling when I should be working, and guys, if you could spread taping mud, you can do this,.
If you can spread any interior plaster, you guys can do this work right here.
Again Jay is spreading it, I'm just floating it.
I'll tell you a story because I got nothing better to do,
about 35, 40 years ago I was an apprentice, I put a add in, Craigslist I said uh you know where
plaster was looking for work uh if you want stucco work and this guy called us he says man I got a
an apartment and it's in a really shady area uh I thought what you mean by that he says well it's
it might scare you, and I said, man, I don't think so, but where is it at? And it just happened
to be a few blocks from where I grew up. And so I thought yeah, I went in there and I bid it at,
me and my buddy we thought we were going to get rich, I bit it out
um 200 a bathroom. So, we're doing just a little bitty bathrooms and I said to the guy, I said I
can't see man, and I'm that was when I was 19, My eyesight was real good, not that good now I'm no
spring chicken anymore, so he said man, sorry but the the tenants steel the light bulbs. I
said so what's that got to do with me, man? I need 100-watt bulbs so we could see what we're doing.
Anyway my buddy and I still laugh about this, I'll swap with you, oh huh, oh huh,uh huh, yep, yep, yep,
So again I want the clean edge here the clean edge here so I don't stain the double color.
But anyway, my buddy and I are are working in the bathroom and I said hey, Andy,
I said, how are you spreading this uh this material sucks and he says well mine's spreading good,
uh just handle it. And I thought man, this is horrible material and of course we're working
out with 25-watt light bulbs now um we thought we were getting rich you know making 200 bucks
a bathroom, it was taking us two hours and the point is if you could spread this you
could spread anything, if you could spread interior. Okay, so jumping back on that story
I do ramble guys. but jumping back on that story the next day he called me; he says, hey Kirk,
some, I'll be polite, some asshole, put tile adhesive all over my walls, and it was either you or
your buddy. And I said wow ,really? I said well maybe you should splurge for lights, so
I could see, I knew that wasn't spreading well, so I spread tile adhesive it was pink
all over the bathroom walls, my buddy Andy, still laughs about that today; he says, remember when we did that
like 35 years ago? We thought we were getting rich? Anyway, um I thought I'd point that out because
I got nothing to do except, spread this, hey Jay, yeah? we got that little bitty brush? uh no.
I don't have a brush, the little bitty one, all I got are uh plastering tools, Dan, come here, boy.
Please give me some clean water Dan, when you can, clean water boy, pronto, pronto.
Okay, so I'm gonna get the joint out right here, while I'm waiting for that clean water
so, I'm getting the joint out, getting that joint out. You might say
well how come you didn't have clean water waiting?
Well this stuff,
get your side tracked.
I got, I got uh this color on my float that is interfering with the other color, thank
you sir, all right now I got clean water so I can clean my float, because I don't want to drag
a different color on another color. So the same thing I was talking about, if this makes sense
to any of you guys. Clean side, clean, clean, I'll take it and come down, I take it and come down,
and if I wet this it darkens that's what this is water, it's darkening that's why this looks
like a zebra house or a two-tone finish. it's not. When it dries, it is going to be the same color
huh
Okay, so now I'm bringing the sand down, bringing the aggregate out. Boom
Okay guys, we thought we would show you the ending of it because last night it got dark
on us, like it gets dark early now, that crappy Daylight Saving stuff, three days ago we had the
lights on the truck, haven't done that in about 30 years. Anyway my three sons and I.
Who remembers that movie, all right you gotta, you gotta be old like me to remember that movie .
My Three Sons, Carl, Dan Jason on the um camera. I'll tell you what guys with taking this uh Light
tan and bringing it into this light brown, you just kind of kiss it if we were to show you it
in its entirety that's like eight hours work but anyway important thing is remember guys material
knowledge is about 70 percent of what we do the other thirty percent is applications. If you could
remember that or retain that information you'll be a good plasterer. Because anything we do, we screw up,
we got to come back and repair, that's, that's how you really learn. If you screw something up you got
to come back and redo it. The guys who work per hour, they don't have it up here because they're
not responsible for it. Anyway we thank you guys for watching, and as usual, we'll see you on the
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