hello there folks Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today I want what I want
to show you guys is we're going to fix some of these arches there's two of them that are out of
plumb, Rus we did all the wire work around all these arches you can take a peek around there
I'll show you something with this arch aid that we have here this is called arch aid and if done
right you bend it around and the idea behind this is you put it arch aid on an arch you pull it out
7/8 of an inch on a flat and half inch here you've got room for error if you do it even
sloppy about an eighth of an inch now the fellows who did this carpentry work, those guys are their
just amazing, they're terrific but when they put all this together this is off one inch so this
is off one inch then we have the following over there off one-inch, that's nothing, in order to do
this again you have to be you have to be a miter expert a really good with arithmetic to figure all
this out so this is a quick fix for us, I talked to the contractor and homeowner.
I said piece of cake what we're going to do is I'm cheating right here I, I i went ahead and screwed a corner on that's not
an arch it's a straight corner that way it give me a template, so I'm gonna use some hot mud fill
this up and then when I take this arch in here I'm gonna take it to about right here, I've got
if I'm on an inch here I've got a feather in about a half-inch because we still have to have the arc
as close as possible under the circumstances but anyway what I'll do is generally I'll take some
mud and a mixed up this mud here it's regular Portland cement now it's that a good spreading
consistency now what I'll generally do is I'll take about all about this much this will give me
both sides and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna add some luminite.
Luminite is an accelerator now this accelerator will create in 15 minutes what generally takes about 24 hours.
so I put this guy I mix this in and I'm gonna mix just right here there's a lot right there I want this to set in
15 minutes where it will generally take up get up three four hours because we're only here just for
these two little things if I were here for other things I just scratch it and brown it same day
but it would take me like an hour so we got this covered because this is Santa Barbara.
Any of this goes on there it's gonna stick immediately in discolor it so I'm gonna go ahead and mix this
up it's gonna take me about 10 minutes and I'll show you how we put it on their, okay guys now
what I have is a few minutes of mixing. Good mud here, it will set in about 15-20 minutes at most
so now you want to pull it from this side over here Jay to get a side view instead of a
front view you can see how this one here is flush with this detail so put this on here now where it
meets the metal here it has a tendency to want to drop when I hit this it's going to absorb
through suction, and just cure faster let me get this then I'll hit this corner a little bit more
now with that I'm going to put a little bit more here because I have to feather in a little
bit no such thing as just putting an extra inch and expected to not throw the whole radius off.
Okay so I'm allowed not to sit about all 15 minutes and that should be harder to rock then
I can throw my next coat on it okay guys here's the second coat and yes I do have luminite in
this to the second coat now I want to just feather in the further I take it here the better as far as
to hide that little flaw so I'll take it right about there we're done with it I have to build
this corner up, too which is kind of hard well it takes practice just go right here and catch it
before it drops and just keep doing that a little bit right here and then pull up that way to build
this corner up actually while I was waiting for this the set did the other side too we are always
doing a couple things at once so there we go and I just keep building this piece right here
take that pull it upward like so now I'm gonna do this other side which of course you won't be able
to see when I'm done I'll show you what it looks like okay guys green sponge float a lot of water
on it to feather this in and I want to bring the aggregate out here on the corner I want to
take it up because I want it to strengthen if I just take it down it'll fall right out then
I come up here got to get this corner because it's there's no wire reinforcing it it's just
well it's just a hand corner we're doing it by eye so you get it as best we can take that art
here clean this up down here pull it inward if I pull it out I'll lose this corner so we pull
it inward we pull this one inward and reinforce this with a lot of water which strengthens it come
around here and the same applies on this side upward motions everything is upward, upward otherwise we
lose these handmade corners and there you have it folks this I barely even have two dashes but I am
gonna throw it because we started off with a dash finish. here it's a thrown on finish I'm going
to throw maybe two or three little scoops on it and there, you have it that's the way to fix
a carpenter boo-boo okay guys last stage right - very very light in fact I want to take most
of the mud off of this - brush them all I want is just a tiny bit of - there we have it and we just
called a light dash guys, I did a machine dash here to begin with, but we don't need to hook all
the accessories up just for this little stuff. Next, we're just gonna clean up here now we're
done all right guys we're complete with this, as usual, the easy stuff just clean up I always
like to stress out to people especially if I'm just gonna help them out and pick something for
them for nothing there's always a compromise if we pull this out and this arc is not gonna
match that arc no matter how far down we go. Anyhow my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano
plastering thank you, folks, for watching and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one.