good morning folks Kirk and JEaysonhere with Kirk Giordano plastering with another tip of the day
we just got here this morning getting ready to get started and their contractor come and he says well
Kirk can you match this I said well a little late to ask me now we already scratched everything but
of course he knew my reaction was and he's the cake yeah we can match it okay does the camera
show this right here J and these you see this guys can any of you folks see what this is because he
says well can you put these in I said yeah we can put those in but it's gonna take like 6070 years
and he says why is that I said man that's peeling paint that's what happened it's building first of
all it's about 90 years old and it has possibly 20 to 30 coats of paint when you consider the primer
as well as the paint I said this was paint that was applied right here these little spots and then
the paint peeled off kind of like this right here the paint's peeling off so that what creates that
look right there and no a blaster cannot duplicate this but what they did here was they they applied
to scratching a brown coat and then they floated it that brought out the sand or aggregate and
throughout the years with say 20 30 coats of paint on it it smoothed it out of quite a bit
here's here's one thing I'd tell folks what we'll do is we'll do the scratching brown coat and then
we'll come and float it because we have to bring out the aggregate but after that what we'll do so
they don't need 20 30 coats of paint to match a finish similar to this is we'll take a steel
trowel then we'll just lightly hit it we're just not hard but we're just barely grab that trial and
lightly hit it and we'll achieve this this soft look this soft look right here is because of all
the paint but we'll duplicate that with the trowel instead of saying gee whiz guys put 20 coats of
paint I said are you happy with this patch right here and they said what patches and that means
you're happy with it will do just as good as that and last thing I want to point out is if you look
at this this is an old-world craftsmanship what does that mean that means somebody took a hulking
child just put the finish on and then they floated it left it alone that way it's not true and plumb
in every direction because you could see all the humps and bumps so we can well we can match that
when we get to the other side and get busy we're gonna take the first two levels down and then at
the very bottom level I'll show you how to how to match this because guys this is about as common a
situation as you have then they got these little areas on the bottom here anyway we're gonna get
started it's kind of chilly so we got to get warmed up all right guys since I'm out of mud
I'll show you on a wall what I was referring to earlier what you do is you apply your your
second coat now this is still a little too wet so you actually show what I wanted to I just
put it on how wet is it let's see lamp okay we'll just disregard that right there and do it anyway
because I have the ability to all right what we do now we're gonna match a finish that is 80 90
years old why is it so old because it's actually a horse carriage this was built for a horse carriage
in the Berkeley Hills areas just like in the Jack London days all right so you figure 100 years old
actually 2,000 that's maybe 120 years old so how do you match a finish that has say every 10 years
been painted twice so this has like over 20 coats of paint I'll show you first you put it on and you
don't because this is a wavy finish old-world style I'm my habit is to put it on straight and
this looks pretty straight but what you don't see it I took my child and I kind of just went
like this and when I'm going like this I'm putting humps in it I'm putting bumps in it you can't see
it but the humps and bumps are are there because if I'm not looking I can see that too wavy wall
alright once you got that wet sure float and this green sponge float is designed to bring out the
sand or aggregates so what we want to do is float the wall now and this is what they did way back
then they floated it and because they applied it by hand there were no machines back in the
1900s early 1900s that put stuck along here's the machine right there that's the machine so you go
ahead and float it and after you floated that's again this is just bringing out the sand it's
called a sand finish and their sand finishes that you do that are perfectly straight and there's the
sand finishes that 99% of the houses are done that's by hand and they are no means flat and
true and plumb in every direction there are hand applied which sure a genius and you're using rods
there's no way to get them perfect guys if you look in the sunshine you'll see some imperfections
here if you look at the sunshine of the work that's already done you'll see twice as many
so here's what we want to do we want to make it a little uglier and I can just go sideways here
guy now this is not showing I'm actually wiggle I'm holding the float wiggling and so I give it
some humps and bumps and now here's what to do because it's been painted so many times if it's
been painting more than say 10 times I want to soften it I don't want to leave it like this
and say okay there you there you go guys when you paint it give it 20 coats of paint that's that's
goofy what we want to do is match the finish so where it's primed and painted like it's supposed
to it matches as close to as possible okay now we take a Chow and we just lightly hit it with
a child and we're skipping it basically and that's what the paint does the paint softens almost well
the paint softens the sand in an old finish and there you go now to get my joint I'll press a
little harder and I see from the aggregate sand I just take the Chou scrape it off take that off
and that's how it's done guys in this way you say gee let's use a primer and a paint and you
got what your finish used to be there it is as simple as that anyway my name is Kirk Jason on
the camera and he's spreading also we thank you for watching and as you you know guys live long
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