Hi, guys. Kirk and Jason, and Madeline are here with Kirk Giordano plastering today.
I want to answer, well, I want to answer a whole lot of questions that people ask me
about mixin one of them is how much sand you put for the amount of stucco added or cement
plaster the same thing another is how much water do you add another is should I use a
drill or should I use a mixer that's designed for cement plastering mixing another is how much
additives or retardant should I use and lastly the water thing everybody says well gee I mix.
It splatters all over me. That's you using the wrong paddle, guys. I can show you right
now as an example and get my whole self saturated with cement plaster. Still,
I don't want to do that. Anyway, we're in San Francisco; remember that old saying, the
coldest winter I ever spent was the summer in San Francisco? Try February. It's been raining. We're
by the coast, and we are freezing our arse off. But I want to still show you because we still
got to do some work here, all right guys, as far as how much water to add, get yourself a
water bottle, a gallon water bottle, a drinking water bottle, anything and is consistent okay,
for example, I'm just going to take a pan the old cooking pen. I'm going to put it to the top
that's almost a gallon all right now in these buckets. I've got three-quarters sand at 1/4
cement plaster. Okay, what does that mean, guys? About this much on down are sand about this much
its plaster, so three to one usually three parts stucco one part sand, and what did I just put in
here? I think this is roughly three-quarters of a gallon. If you're unsure, play with it,
practice with it, and get yourself something. okay now as far as mixing and not getting it
all over you guys it's a paddle if you're mixing drills go both ways and drills actually are for
drilling drilling in the wall they're not really for mixing but have we used drills for mixing you
betcha I got every drill known to man with paddles for mixing stucco they have these right here this
color mix and they have many other mixers for cement plaster I mean they got 160 bucks it's
kind of like this anyway this won't splatter you and if you have the right blade that's a huge part
of it this drama to show you it has these paddles right here they make a mess that get you all over
the place this right here this color mix has this paddle and if I'm going to interior I use
this it's like a birdcage anyway so say roughly there's three quarters of a gallon here now if I
want to mix and you can leave that water in here guys you just feel it this particular paddle you
know it'll go to the bottom and what is he doing it's going clockwise why because it's pulling
the mud to the bottom if it was pushing it to the top like some of these drills I'd have mud
all over my knees my Birds my pants and I'd be saturated before I even finish this so now this
right here you just look at it guys just kind of look at what you're doing don't do like me and
don't look and when it starts just feel like that that's okay what I'm doing is I'm gonna be adding
accelerators to this okay there wasn't that's not enough mud or that's not enough water so I'm gonna
add a little bit more water to it about a quarter so it makes it a gallon if I'm adding that to that
I'm gonna put another quarter in here no the quarter in there it really doesn't matter if
I'm on the money or not because I'm gonna add a cellar ater to it luminite and we're gonna
be one coating things okay so I got another quarter in here so this is a gallon of water
I'll show you the consistency when I'm done I like this to use this right here guys because
the very bottom contours with the bucket and the sides contour with the bucket if you use certain
paddles then like he is this paddle it hits the sides and it scrapes the bucket it just we get
all these little scraps in it if we're mixing color codes but for mixing one coat it's not a
big deal then it hits the bottom it just makes a big mess how about use them heck yeah I'll
use whatever is available Jay and I will also enchant Cisco about six months ago and forgot
the drill we mixed on the ground so whatever works guys okay hey Madeleine bring a Hawk and trowel,
please I'll show you guys to consistency that it should be and his real important guy never stick
a dry blade into a mix it it won't work it'll stick to the blade what I do is I put it in
water first and I put a full bucket full bucket of water or usually hold a drill barely so get
that bucket of water full if it's half empty you'll put the drill like this and guess what
that buckets gonna fall over if it falls over like I'm on thank me I'm on shaky ground right
here a bunch of rocks and stuff but if it falls over the water hits the drill which is plugged in
don't do that guy okay anyway what consistency I want is something like this and this is what
you guys want to if you're mixing a scratch coat a brown coat you want that consistency beautiful
now this will hug the wall dad that's perfect I'm gonna be one coat so I'm gonna add some
Accelerator to that, it's called luminite. My brother Lou usually mixes. He's actually
still out. Man, he jacked himself up now this drill here. I'll show it to you because I can.
I will make a longer video, but we want to get it wet. First of all, guys, get this thing wet.
I don't like these drills right here. You name it, I got them. I got they sell these buckets or these
drills in a bucket you buy a 5-gallon bucket put it together I got these Milwaukee's makitas are
the ones from Home Depot I got them all okay now this particular one here this drill it's the same
guy the same thing guys this goes two ways it goes clockwise. It goes counterclockwise, either way,
you're going to get filthy guys unless you're really good, and this is, uh, I don't want issues
with this one, so we'll put a little more water because I'm gonna add luminite in it anyway. I
got to soup it up a little bit more now; this guy right here, you can see, it kind of is a mess guy.
And I'm strong enough to control this and hold it in the spot any way you guys can do it this
way. I prefer to go clockwise myself if I got a mix with this just ain't the greatest to mix,
but I'll tell you what's better than mixing by hand or on the ground, so this I'm pulling it down
now I want the mud to go down I don't want it to go up it goes up it's gonna splatter me, so I've
got the blades on clockwise and again because of this old De-Walt here that's a strong drill guy.
I mean it's for lag Boulting things like that it'll do anything but to mix them in it goes
too fast and when it goes fast it splatters your whole body anyway I'm just showing you the drills
there's all kinds of drills on the market guys but I particularly like the the drills out of
for mixing cement like like these guys right here there's a whole bunch of them on the market guy
we actually do a lot of a lot of videos and we point out if you go to our web website that you
can it's a direct link to Amazon where we show some of these tools to buy now this one here
it's it's strong it's it's stronger than that because it is designed for concrete for stucco
for cement this one here I was about this far from the bottom guys I could feel it because it's like
dang it's way up there so this one is pulling it down it's so much easier to use we've got
two hands now now you're using your lats look at that I mean this one this one's easy, but the idea
this video was not to talk about drills the idea was to show how much water how much sand and how
much cement plaster and for all you guys saying gee whiz how much lime should I put in? No guys,
I'm going to show you the cement plaster we're using in a minute here because we buy the bags
that have everything. It's got lime in it, or additives are good old common for strength. Still,
if you just mix common only, it's hard, but it's stronger; if you add just lime,
it's easy to apply but not as strong, so I buy the bags already, guys. I've been buying the same bags
for the last 25 years, guys, but if you're going to Home Depot, but all the plastering yards have,
it is called premium Lehigh's premium cement. I'll show you though the bag in a minute before
all you guys say what drew was man we saved some money I go and I buy bags of common it's six
dollars and the the lime is six dollars so I spend twelve well I spend fifteen guy it isn't worth the
savings of three dollars to put get Co in there and any other products to give it more strength
or more durability let me show you guys cuz we're getting ready to plaster it's getting late and I
hate to be stuck on that bridge Oh planter box excuse us planter box okay you can cut out all
that planter box crap yeah here's what we use guys and I don't know if they sell this at Home
Depot because say we get I get two yards with sand put in here two yards about 2,400 pounds and they
just drop it right dead center and I've been using this product here for long as I can remember it's
Lehigh's lah IgH and no I'm not affiliated with this company it's just an all-purpose plaster it
makes my life easier heck we're trying to save three bucks and buy and the common plaster and
adding give CO or lime and too much work ice it really is not worth it all-purpose plastering
cement anyway that's what I use three two one guys as a roll if you're doing soffits and
you're dealing with gravity two to one because you want it sticky to adhere to a ceiling hey
guys my brother Lu is usually mixing everything but he's up second month now he when you break
the bones in your foot guys it's no joke anyhow my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you
for watching and as usual live long and plaster. Folks, my dad and I are now members of Amazon
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