Hello folks, Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today we're going to
show you guys is how to smooth out a wall as smooth as you can get it about say a month and
a half ago we were here and we're at a school and they asked me, hey Kirk can you get the concrete
lines off and the - finish we said no problem we did that and this the folks that the PTA members
are we're under the impression that as long as you can put a coat of cement over it you
can skim coat it with a chalk board material even this asphalt they thought well gee you
can put it over the asphalt well a couple months of research and they found out if it's a little
smoother then it's a wee bit better so they call me back and say hey Kirk can you make it a little
smoother I said absolutely there's many different materials we can use such as their Santa Barbara
smooth mission finish but I chose this one here this is BMI marble finish what does BMI marble
finish means it's got a little bit of aggregate a 30 mesh and I'll show you how well it spreads
so what we're gonna do is we're all gonna take this wall all three of us and we're gonna start
in the bottom up come down on it and this is we're gonna take the whole wall just like that
and basically that will smooth it out when I come to my corner we just put a little bit on
it and again folks this is just so that when they spread this chalkboard finish it spreads a little
bit better because again through their research they have found out that the smoother the finish
the better the chalkboard finish covers so we're taking it up coming down and again guys this is
this is very similar to say Santa Barbara smooth mission finish we're where we put it on once and
double it back over taking it out of buckets and just straight up come down on it just like that
of course I'm working with Jason and Tim Jay is also a licensed contractor so is
Tim they've agreed to help us out good this is for good cause it's for the school we're
doing it no cost just as a favor to the school a worthy cause come down
come down piece of cake if you know how to do it guys well we get completely done too
well we'll try to give you a close-up of the work come down on it this is
plastering 101 you come straight up straight down on it way down no idea
guys you're gonna do this stuff you want to take long strokes you don't want to
you don't want to take a whole bunch of little strokes like just a bunch of little stuff here
otherwise you'll be here all day and you can however after you spread everything
come back and steel trowel it a little tighter if that's what you want come down if you miss
an area not a big deal this is the equivalent of taping mud inside although taping mud has
no sand in it I will say this you could only trowel down sand so smooth so I don't like to
use the term glass really meaning we make our finishes smooth like glass because unless you
work in interior you can only smooth exterior stucco down so smooth so that glass terminology
or the marble like on the bag you can get it pretty tight but there are limits to it
one more and we're about to have this guy lick one more by the way - I've wet these walls down
prior otherwise a fast as we were applying it it would suck up and dry then after your you guys
you guys kicked butt okay now after after we got that done I'm gonna take a float or you can use
a paintbrush and you get your edges meaning or just take it here and float these edges in guys
that's all we do it float these edges in
tap out any excess mud and remember guys this is for a chalkboard finish
it doesn't have to be perfect but from what their research has informed them of
it's got to be a little tighter than what regular stucco will do now once
you've got that on it you can come back and steal try you can do two coats if you wish
you see that now this is becoming a lot tighter guys
beautiful guys beautiful well we got that Nick anyhow we're gonna go ahead and clean this up and
we'll show you a final conclusion of it when we got this paper and all this picked up okay guys we
spared you the second coat because it's the same as the first the second coat gets all the chatter
marks out and what we do is after that spread we come and we lightly hit it I can walk the entire
length or just stay right here if you look at it it's very similar to Santa Barbara smooth mission
finish it's it's the marble bmi product by the way Gerry Pozzo how you doing bit Jerry Pozo, the tech
specialist for all to Bmi products in the Bay Area or the regional I want to thank Tim for donating
your time with me and Jay, I'm kidding man, I'm donating our time but anyway guys this is for the
school so yes well I'm doing this as a freebie for them Jason and I is helping these guys it's for
worthy cause for the kids so they don't have to bend down because Dave they still got great backs
unlike us they don't want to be painting all their chalkboard all their crayons all over this asphalt
finish they want to be sanding up painting in John pictures I know I would be anyhow guys my name is
Kirk, Tim, and Jason on the camera as usual also to folks as usual we will see you at the next one.