Hello, folks. Kirk and Jason are here with kirk giordano plastering, Today, what we want to do
is show you guys how we'll match a finish. Let's see this chimney here. It's stucco,
it's about a 100-year-old chimney, and they said, gee, can you match this color
and texture? i said, absolutely, i haven't found one we can't match yet. Yours is not going to be
the first, well i'm going to show you something. You see how that darkens, okay that means it was
a color coat maintenance-free finish, and they didn't start making those until about 1926.
So this is about 100 year old chimney, I look at it because and I know it's 100 years because I
can see the Terracotta on the garage and that is a hundred years old because they stopped making that
stuff because it has no real structural strength, anyway what we're going to do to match this color
and match this finish is we're going to use a product called Eisenwall,
Eisenwald's, straight Eisenwall it's it's going to be close but is it going to be on the money
not really, because i told him you can't match a 100-year-old finish but we can get close
so this is straight Eisenwall, and what we're going to do is we're going to skim coat these
we're going to skim coat it's just here and just here and there and we're going to do the tops and
by the way while while i'm on that subject i put some corners on here because their corners
are very sharp can i match those corners by eye absolutely but while they were mixing it didn't
take me about five minutes to put these corners on guys if you're going to use corners you need a
little sledgehammer and people say well why can't you use a regular hammer you need a lot of torque
to pop a concrete nail into into this grout you need a lot of power so you got to use this and in
order to save your fingernails use this little guy here it's got a magnet it holds you put your and
you see all that okay this one is to protect your hand how many fingernails have i lost in the past
oh too many way too many anyway i'm going to show you what we're going to do
now what we're doing is we want a mechanical bond we want a mechanical bond so what i did was
i pressure washed this last week and when i said pressure wash it
nothing adheres to dirt guys nothing nothing this had dirt on it about that high i took
my gas-powered pressure washer and i used about 3,000 psi.
Just say what's 3000 psi mean that means, if you have an electric
pressure washer, it's not going to work, that means you put a turbo tip on it those are about
25 to 50 bucks each, and then you pressure wash, and that'll give you all the power you need to
get all the moss, you got moss you got gunk you've got dirt dust grime all that stuff
because unless you get all that stuff off this right here will not adhere how important is that
that's everything I've been getting so many calls from people saying, man, i hired these guys to do
this, and it's all coming off, well they did not pressure wash as well as they should have and
that's why it'll come off we've been doing this too long to have anything that we do
come off, i'm gonna hit this little piece right here and then move on what we're
prepared to do today is show you how we apply it and more importantly or equally importantly
uh how to match that finish there
what you want is rich mud means, uh less sand that way it won't drop out is this rich mud,
no it's not rich mud it's far from rich mud so i would have to tell lou, dude,
put some more eisenwall in it because it got rocks in it too put some more eisenwall
in it or no matter what cement you guys are using if it doesn't want to hang that means
it's got too much sand, and you can just fix that by adding more stucco make it richer so
if it takes me a lot of elbow grease to put it on, that means there's too much sand,
and right now, it's taking a lot of elbow grease to put this on
i was using about 40 pounds of pressure because it's so sandy,
so i'm pushing it all with as much strength as i can do, but instead of using strength
i prefer to use skill anyhow,
this is going to be their finish also, guys. That just means
that they don't have to ever paint this it's like a brick. When a brick gets wet in the rain,
it darkens but when drier conditions return rocks, it turns back to its normal color.
so why has that lasted 100 years, and it's still on because it has a maintenance-free
color finish on it just like this will be they'll never have to paint it
what we're going to do is allow this to set, and now with Eisenwall, it sets in a matter of um
minutes guys depends, i had my brother put a few uh retardants in this because i don't want it to
set too too fast so i've got about a half hour to play with this anyway, i thought i'd show you
just some of the applications and guys if you're going over cinder block bricks and you're putting
it on and it takes a lot of pressure i mean you're using all your muscle all your strength that means
add some more cement or plaster hydraulic plaster portland cement and less sand
anyway i'm going to get another bucket here and when we next show you guys we'll have all this
skim coated and i'll explain a little bit more in how we match this finish all right guys to
remind you maiden is free because it darkens like a brick uh you never have to paint that
that hasn't been painted a hundred years okay now we're going to float this um these are floats guys
hard rubber or polyurethane floats can you use this plastic float that is very common in the uk
sure you can use it i prefer these because they ben they bend in the right direction i catch my
own guy is doing this they'll take it and they'll shave the wall and that loosens this up if that
loosens it up now it's bent the wrong way so when you're trying to float they don't work these are
throwaways they're like five to eight bucks each if you use it right it'll last you a few months
but you can't watch a whole crew anyhow this is the float i'm gonna use to match that can you use
this brick layers float you could but it'll bring too much sand out this right here is used for
compacting you put your scratch coat in the brown and you compact it it's less likely to hairline
if you compact it so now to match that finish right there you could see they trialed it on
and they left it for a hundred years now that hundred years the rain hit it and kind of washed
it it gave it a smoother appearance so we're going to try to match that as best as possible so
we'll take the hard rubber polyurethane and all we're doing now guys is compacting it
we're compacting it so that not too much sand is brought to the surface if i use the green
sponge float or the yellow they're both the same it'll bring way too much sand to the surface
we don't want too much sand to the surface so say for example that that right there that's about
it and if i want less sand i let that dry and i hit it again and i'm just going to shave the
back here because we don't want all that excess so again if you want more sand you use a sponge float
and you bring that aggregate out if you want less you let that sit and if i hit it again it'll be
more compact and the sand granules will go deeper inside so we take this same um
hard rubber or polyurethane float whatever you want to call it guys and now we're compacting it
simply compacting it guys i mean
you don't have to be a rocket scientist you you don't have to look at the wall you just
compact it use the whole float don't use the tip or the heel use the whole float and just kind of
go in circles you go in circles and you're compacting it and it doesn't take a whole lot of
strength if you don't allow it to get away now if i allow this to get away i'm not strong enough to
bring it back to life if it turns that color there really light that means it's it's already set and
if it's set i am not strong enough nobody's strong enough to bring this stuff back to life
earlier when i was showing how we'll put it on what we did was we added a little bit more uh
cement because like when we do ceilings when we do a ceiling the gravity is against us so what we
want to do is make that richer so it sets faster and it's more gluey and as as it's gluey and less
handy it'll adhere to the ceiling the same applies to here we want it a little bit richer so that
we can spread it you know we jason and i spread all this and granted some of it we had to use a
little bit excess muscle now now granted also i'm no spraying chicken so if i don't have to
use muscle and i can use skill instead guess what guys i want to use skill rather than muscle
so this right here is pretty good and what happens if we get like a worm finish where
a piece of heavy sand because every time i mean we go to the material yard they put rocks like
this sometimes in the sand that's out of our hands and we mix it that'll hit and it'll drag
and it'll look like a worm going through the wall we just pop it out with we take it and
get rid of it that's not a big deal either how stiff is this wall let's see
There's my face, that's pretty stiff, and we're about a half-inch thick.
What happens if you only go ah 3 8 nothing except when it rains you'll see the grout lines
what happens if you go less than a half-inch again nothing it's just when it rains you can
see the grout line, and you can see that you don't see any grout lines because
they put it on thick enough so when this gets wet and the rainy season comes back we don't want all
those grout lines showing make us look incompetent anyway this is uh where we're going with this
and right there this when stucco dries guys it's always a lot lighter when the paint dries
it's a lot darker now this pretty much matches what they got
and here's a tip guys if you say wow that's not on the money you can always
take your trial after it's set and go over it but not over everything that's kind of
smooth right there so let's i brought out some sand and i take my trowel and hit it
if this was a wood wall with wood lat or lath and i did this when it dries it would hairline crack
because i'm smothering it or closing or sealing the stucco we don't want to seal it we want it
to be open so it can breathe but that's pretty much when that dries that's going to be on the
money there i'll show you one last thing over here too guys because they asked me this kirk
can you do these stairs and i said no we can't do the stairs because the stairs are on dirt
and dirt when it rains the dirt's gonna swell and then it's gonna dry and it's gonna crack like an
egg like for example here i'm just playing around now guys they said can you put stucco here i said
not really what you want to do there is put some sand put some risers on here or brick or block or
something so she said what about this i said i can do that it's going to crack in three months big
cracks because it's on dirt guys over here yeah i'm trying to make it look as pretty as we can
i said this is going to crack because it doesn't have the foundation this block wall here if
you look down it's got a two foot foundation that foundation has been there the block wall
is i'd say 70 years old not as old as the house i can tell but anyway that's a two foot foundation
so it stabilizes everything right here she said what about if we remove this acorn will that help
not really uh no it won't help but anyway we're gonna we're gonna coat this too just for
temporary cosmetics and by the first rain we're going to get a big crack right here a
crack that you could stick a credit card in even though we are using eisenwall
eisenhower when this sets is 4 800 psi when concrete sets for foundation or walkway
that's 3 000 to 35 how in the world can you get the same or higher strength with portland cement
and sand you can't this is a hydraulic uh cement and sand uh it's eisenwald it's strong strong
stuff but it certainly won't hold together that that's i just point that out because uh i can
anyway i will show you the completion when we're done okay guys we are done i want to show you
the chimney once more old world charming it's beautiful you can't i love it because it's not
perfect it's not a solid color like paint it varies in color the water hits it for
80 years you got discoloration what we got is we created discoloration it's like you take
you have to pour clorox on blue jeans and then wash them where you get that faded look kind of
like this or you guys ever you just pay all that money for pants with holes in it and
faded pour clorox on them it's cheaper you want holes in your pants working cement it eats this
the jeans right up it eats your shoes it eats your skin but anyway off topic here if you want to put
color variations in this particular here this is a white cement and the tan sand so when it dries it
turns out tan to give it a few more variations to match this chimney what we're doing is two things
we take a wet sponge and we just drip it and we put the those drips right here and
what's that do two things it does it reinforces that corner it strengthens it because the water
on any kind of base coat just makes it harder then you hit the whole top with with the water
now what this does is bleach it you cannot have a cementitious finish and use a sponge
on it or water because it will bleach and so we want to bleach it we want it to look 100 years old
so that's pretty good guys keep in mind material knowledge in the stucco industry is about
i'd say ninety percent of everything the other twenty or ten percent that's applications
uh if you know all your materials and granted lou mixed this at first it was a little a little soupy
so i had to adjust it and say hey let's go this way but we use about 25 different materials
inside and out last thing i will point out only because i can is we stuck with this
this the only reason i did this because there's an inch right here there's
two inches up there and when it rains it's just a big puddle so i told you this is going to crack
it's going to crack it's all locked together now with some of the strongest stucco there is
but it's going to crack like an egg anyway and she says that's okay we're going to
put sand on the top then we're going to put risers or stones or bricks or something so we just give
them a base and give them something so that when it rains it's not such a big mud puddle it'll come
off and and go down anyway my name is kirk, jason on the camera we thank you guys for watching and
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