Hello folks, Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, my sons and I are gonna show you
something somewhat odd we're doing a two coat system here we've already done the scratch in
brown that's not what I was going to show you guys what I'm gonna show you guys is this odd
texture the homeowner said gee how come we're so thick and how come we have such a weird texture
now check this trial out I'm gonna show you how deep we are I'm gonna take it right here we are
two inches deep right here I'll show you one more time two inches deep now why are we so deep right
here why do we have to feather from here to here what they had here is they have a house about
I'd say 80 years old they had original stucco job and somebody came back and what they did
was they came they put a bonding agent on the original stucco job which was 7/8 of an inch
thick then they put another half inch to 7/8 of an inch there that's why in many places on
this house here we have close to two inches thick close to but not quite inch and a half maxing out
we just did the scratch in brown we're using a hot mud I'll show you once more you see how
that Chow is embedded there that's pretty deep guys pretty deep anyhow what I'm going to show
you is the same thing they said well how come it's the texture so on well they floated the walls and
what they did is now that we're done with this the two coats which took us all day what I do
is I'm gonna float these walls we take a green sponge float and we want to get all the water
out because this is so thick so if I use a hard rubber float now we're these where I went over
just now I'm just gonna float them out if I use the hard rubber float for example what that would
do is give me all the grit that they have here in fact it would come compress it so what I'm doing
is I'm using this and when I get full where this float right here is so full of sand that it won't
work anymore one of the things you can't see is we have two inches here we have an inch and
a quarter here this is all going to be feathered this whole house is it really takes a little bit
of skill to do what we're doing here today but the point is we've got a green split spinous flow to
everything we take this green sponge and we bring the aggregate out that way we have the same bits
as these fellas did so we're working on that and another thing too when you're doing something like
this and for example if you're gonna try to do same-day stuff well same day stuff leave it for
the professionals but if you're gonna try to do even a scratch coat you put on a 3/8 of an inch
your next coat is still gonna be close to an inch and a half you'll want to hit this when it's when
it's drying out and what I do is I take my float here I'll clean it I'll hit it now it's full of
water and if I hit this it's so wet and that's so thick that it has a tendency to drop so what I'll
do is I'll find a fence like right here I will get the water out of my float I don't want this much
water in it and I'm not gonna leave that at the end of the day I'm gonna take my water hose and
clean that and now I have a clean float that's dry it doesn't have a lot of water so that when
I come up here and again this is two inches that was just applied I can pull it upward without it
sagging and falling all over the place when I get ready to do the texture I'll show you that
too because stuff like this where you have two inches you're trying to do it the same day you
better know what you're doing guys all right guys we're not at the texture yet but I was I
was cutting out my screen and Jay said hey yeah you take that for granted why don't you show
the folks that too we have a drip screen here the drip screed is tell our water to come out
I floated this out say we float it out like that and now that seals it if somebody comes and they
paint this they destroy our weap edge so what I generally do is I'll take my trowel come here and
pull it out just like that it'll take the trial on the screed come here and then you'll get rid
of it these are the little things we do a lot of this stuff is just so second nature I don't think
about pointing it out but we don't want to kill our drip screen so don't sacrifice cosmetics for
code that's code right here if I were to clean it and make it pretty that's cosmetics but it
defeats a push of a screen important anyway we're going to show you how we texture in a few minutes
we're at the texture stage so I'm using a very heavy texture it's called La Habra 16:20 that
means it's a heavy grip they have La Habra smooth coat smooth mission rather then they have la habra
2030 which is very fine I've got to match what these guys have here technically I could match
this particular texture with this cement as' scratching brown but in order to show you guys
how I'm doing it I had Dan mix up some color coat now again say like this this right here I'll show
you it I'm gonna take this whole wall but I'll show you this part here you look at the texture
you look at the consistency which way did this fella go he went like most people right-handed
he's coming up and around just like that so what we do is we start here we stagger we don't want
to go one piece here and one here I'll show you we don't want to go here and then here because
they don't look like a straight line that's not what they have this so we staggered come here
we put them all different directions when we come up to there we tie it all in let me get some more
mud I'll show you what I'm talking about now I have to get rid of my line here that I showed you
folks what not to do I did there we go just try to get rid of it let me get a little bit of mud
Yes, I have a mud board all the way around inside of there. What we're doing again here is we're
tying in this bulging wall to here going from 2 inches to 7/8, and that's the contractor actually
laughs this job. We're just doing that the scratch coat, the brown and the texture I do that,
by the way, folks if you want to laugh your own work, feel free. There's not too much Glorian will
come in and just do the scratched-up brown coat color coat whatever you like. Still, you got to
know your types of cement guys. You got to know what you're doing. You must know you're synapse.
Alright, I'm gonna go ahead and finish off the rest of this guy, and when I'm done,
we'll show you the whole wall. Alright, guys, we are complete. Jason and I are
both spreading Dan Still, man, so anyhow, guys, you see where we're going with this.
The transition between the two really defines how well it's going to paint out. So anyhow,
my name's Kirk and Jason down on the camera, and as usual, guys, we'll see on the next one.