Hello guys, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering.
today I want to talk about these mud boys I get a lot of people who call me and ask, gee Kirk
where do you buy those mud boards you can buy them online you can buy them at all the material yards
itself stucco and plastering equipment but a good point is a fella he called me it says Kirk no one
do you wear a back brace because your board is too low and I thought men that is that is absolutely
correct my boards often are too low but I'll show you why this just the board at this height right
here is to prove a point right now I mean this is where I want it to be it's where I'm not breaking
my back I'm standing straight up and it really matters today after even an hour can kick your
butt guys if you don't have that board where you need it apply one more bit and by the way guys
we're using traditional Portland cement we're just doing a scratch coat on this house I thought I'd
point that out okay now this board actually was in my garage or back yard for about five years
to prove a point these are the normal mud boards we have right here now this mud board can go this
height now notice that's a foot different or you can go that height now no that's way down
here so you bending down to your knees why do I sometimes bend down like that because if you put
it on the staging like so and you might say hey what's the change for the chains are when you
have your board on here and you have it full so you got 150 pounds it doesn't bow in like that
if you've got a fragile board and don't stand on these guys because these chains will snap how many
other ways can you do this your imagination is your only stop point I mean you can you can stack
them like this this is a tall one like this guy here and this is a normal one or you could even
do like what Jason you set me up right here so for example I'm climbing up here to do the the scratch
coach it's right there and notice it gives us a clear a clear way to plaster without being too
low this one notice right here okay that's that's at my thigh level now notice this one here that's
at my knee level so if we're doing a big job three four stories high and we continue to do
like this you feel it that isn't why I wear my back brace it's for a preventive maintenance but
you can get beat up like that anyway we are going to scratch this entire wall I'll show
you the completion when we're done we've showed how to scratch many times but again for all you
folks asking about these mud boards there they are your own imagination is your own limitation
you can do whatever you like but you start stacking them all weird like in dr. Seuss, they
can flip over, so that's a good way right there. How Jay did it anyhow, we'll get busy, and we'll
show you the final all right guys. Although this video is about board the stand, I thought I'd
show you one more little detail as far as how to scratch it while we're here a little bit.
and then what I do is I generally will take a scratcher and I have a piece of tape on my
scratches so that engages the depth of my scratch and what's scratch actually mean that's the first
coat of stucco and usually we always go horizontal with our scratch why because if you go vertical
it's a cold rainy day and you put your next coat on it it has a tendency to slide down so we want
to always go horizontal what I'll do is because this tape is my guideline you don't even have to
lift guy that was Union this is they had a scratch man this all you did all day long will scratch the
finish work just in the tape acts as your template so you don't go too deep and this you allow to set
for 48 hours you come back and do your brown coat then you use your handy dandy brush get
your corners yeah we use a brush for corner just like so get your screens clean up them screens
you don't want clinkers all over the place and you do your vents the same way clean them up because
when you come to do your brown coat if you have a whole bunch of clinkers it'll get in the way
anyway my name is Kirk and again these board stands you can order them online you can go to
Westside building materials any material yard even the big chain hardware stores have those called
mortar boards my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see
you guys on the next one once again folks we thank you for watching and I really enjoy all
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