hi guys Kirk and J ason here with Kirk Giordano plastering what I'm gonna do today is we're using
acrylic product we were going to use a cement tshis product but for this repair we've been
doing around here but I suggested hey before you guys paint let us put a primer and an acrylic just
as a precautionary measure a fella emailed me and said Kirk can you show this particular product and
I thought man I've used their cement Isha's based product for over 30 years a great product I said
you know you could use that product if you could spread one acrylic you could spread them all but
are they created equal hell no acrylic products are kind of like comparing a go-kart to a Ferrari
they are not created equal equal I'll show you a couple things guys no matter what acrylic you're
using I don't care what acrylic there is you want to Prime with their primer now this is Miami peach
and again we're just putting a primer on because it adds to the warranty of that particular product
and the warranty I mean without the primer they don't warranty a lot of guys don't use a primer
dumb move it's cheap and might as well do it guys because it's part of the warranty one of
the things I recommend guys if you're going to do this is go with the fattest roller you can you go
with a cheap four dollar roller you'll be here all day and it'll drip everywhere by the time we're
Jason and I are done spreading this we've got to pull this paper up and if I got a $2.00 roller or
four dollar roller we're going to have a big mess right here so go with a twelve dollar roller guys
they don't leak and they hold a lot more what I've left over here is an example of what we are going
over and that is six inches all the way around the whole place see that guy right there that's
what we're going over around this entire deck and there's a few columns pillars things like that and
I'm going over these two or three times and no I am NOT diluting the bonding agent we want this
bonding agent full strength as far as the acrylic now again they all spread pretty much the same but
a good acrylic guys is now you don't have to take Oh Kirk's word for it either you can go on Google
what to look for in a good acrylic product I know the good acrylic products I've used them 20 years
ago I use one of the best ones that ever made it's still one of the best today I don't want
to criticize any products I can tell you the 5 best and then some that I wouldn't use even if
they gave them to me but we don't our videos are positive I don't want to criticize any particular
brands but a good product usually has a lot of resin in it that's that real sticky stuff stoners
know what I'm talking about polymers and resin or what really binds a quality product together and
that those laughs another example is say most of these acrylic products they're made with silica
sand so like a sand is cool it's round if you look at it through a microscope it's round but if you
go with calcium marble that stuff is square it's blocks it's a lot better a product if it has the
marble and it's crushed marble as an aggregate now I've seen videos of products and this was
about 10 years ago I saw a video and they show their product on a basketball they dropped that
basketball it just bounces then they show another product with a one of their competitors product
they hit the BET the basketball is coated they hit the ground it all pops right off that's what I'm
talking about there are some acrylic products that are much much better than others one last example
of an acrylic product is if you put it on a piece of tile and you tap that with a hammer the less
than desirable products will just shatter certain products you tap that same piece of tile what it's
coated with a really good acrylic product it'll stay intact it'll break but it'll stay intact
that's what I'm talking about and usually they are the elastomeric types of acrylics and they
do bridge gaps and cracks you have cracks all over the bridge them another thing is to some acrylics
don't dry for days and I've gotten my ass kicked on a couple of jobs in the last 30 years where we
put it it rained a day and a half later washed it off in some areas then I got it comes out of
my pocket to redo the whole thing so I have done videos where we've used particulars to day I've
got to watch everything I do because if I choose a product then I'm liable for a minimum of 10 years
for that product let alone a more obligation of 30 years so what I'm getting at guys is pay
a little extra and get the quality products and don't you have to take my word in fact you can
call Ron Roberts plastering or Davis Andy Davis with Davis stucco we all know what products are
good which ones are bad again I don't want to mention products on here but I'm just telling
you do your homework do your research and get the good stuff in a minute I'm going to J and I are
going to finish all this priming as soon as I'm done priming I'll show you a little bit about how
we spread it and how we match a particular finish all right guys I'll show you what we are going to
do here today now is actually going to spread and I'm going to float right behind him what's that
mean put this here he's going to take this come around here take this right here come around here
what I generally do guys is I'll clean up my paper that way I'm not having big splotches
because if I catch some of this heavy [ __ ] down here I'll drag it along the wall so just
take it like that and holding I only need to go about 6 inches I'm going about an 18 inches
just for the heck of it because I can now say what happens to when when you flip this close
to blend into the other my idea is we're still in the shade for a little another 15 minutes
then the sun's gonna be beating down on this guy all right just for the sake of showing you
how this done because when J is spreading we're not gonna have a camera okay so we take that and
we get a green sponge flow guys have a little bit of water in it let's see how much water we
got and remember this is going to be painted anyhow so what we'll do to feather this in to
this is we'll take our material and pull it up into here so basically it's just like this guy
be careful not to let the sponge hit this area here otherwise the clinkers will be everywhere
and again we've got to clean up this paper when we're done so we don't want a big mess all over
it otherwise the the coating will stick to the flagstone under here to make our job a
lot tougher so once we've got this floated out like so J spreads everything what I'll do is I'm
just floating in this is the easy stuff I take the material and I float into the existing and
there are three types of sand usually and one is fine one is medium and the last is coarse
and so what they have here this is Miami pH a cement Isha's finish but for the sake of
waterproofing a little bit better because this is a deck and we have quite a bit of
things going on here we've got a lot of levels of defense on this with the membranes the stucco
which is a water resistant than the primer then the acrylic then they're going to prime this and
paint this whole wall whole back side a lot of levels of defense anyway guys what we'll do is
Jason's going to go ahead and get busy and I'm just going to basically float right behind him
this finish has got to match this finish so when it's painted it's all beautiful when we're done
with this entire job we are up in the Oakland Hills you want to take a quick peek around for
the Sun blinds us we're all the way up in these Oakland Hills will show it to you we'll do the
dirty work of tearing all the paper off and cleaning up everything will just show you the
deck what it looks like after we're done so when we get to that stage I'll show you the last piece
okay guys we'll show you the whole completion now couple things just I can't catch all the
bases but I'll try to do the best I can with few more tips on this stuff remember no matter if the
fellows say at the material you don't need the primer use the primer guys Cardinals said not to
use it you'll rot in stucco he'll what's that you have to watch our videos non-stop for all
eternity prime it number one number two don't do this stuff if there's a chance of rain I got beat
up twice in the last thirty years they said Kirk we want to get the scalpel out will you go ahead
and apply the acrylic I said man there's a chance of rain I ate it both times they both forgot that
I said no I had to paint the whole house with the acrylic product so don't do it if there's
a chance of rain guy you could add some mixes in it but why just go with the best quality acrylic
they make and you won't even had to put none of those ad mixes in it and again to find out what
the best acrylics are google it I got my opinion but we won't go there right now we want to finish
and showing you what we've got here guys okay and all of this stuff here it gets primed and it gets
painted I'm going to get primaried and painted anyhow you can see sort of what we what we've done
here we've taken then the paper all that stuff it systematically pull it up pull it up don't get
a bunch of clinkers all over your new work pull everything up looks good looks good I wouldn't do
that mess on that window anyway over here that's how to do an acrylic finish guys and there's a lot
of if ands or buts try to mention as many as I could but you guys get the idea if you have
any questions feel free to email me and I'll give you any more tips that you may have anyhow guys my
name is Kirk I am with Kirk O'Donnell plastering we thank you for watching and as usual Jay and
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