howdy guys, Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today we're going to do is show you
guys something sort of fun for us, it's how to apply stucco plaster over cinderblock, now I'll
show you how we do it, guys on a radius right here this is actually really fun because
on a radius a cinder block, how thick you got to go usually one a two half-inch and you put it one
coat on a wall you do a scratching bout on cinder block brick stone you only go what we call in the
trade a skim coat, that's one coat you can put it on a couple times, but it's only one coat on this
radius how thick will I have to go because it turns and he did it the color who did the
blockwork by the way excellent job, he was down here grinding it, and I said, man, you're spoiling
us. you're making it so we don't have very much to do it depending on what you end up here with
the grout determines how thick you got to go, I'm looking at it so I've already determined because
I know what I'm doing, that I'm going to go about 3/4 of an inch on this wall actually that's about
the same as I put on regular wood walls, with wire only because I've got to get this radius real nice
so that when the Sun hits it, and we are in the hot Sun guys, the hot Sun right now, if you do a
radius and it's not straight true and plumb when you look at it in the Sun you'll see a bunch of
waves and all that we don't want that, okay, guys I'll show you something that I'm referring to as
why we're skim-coat in the block wall that we're on today look at this wall now you can see all the
cinder block, in fact, my wife and I ride our bikes by here she says that's such a beautiful
wall you could see all the lines, and I say if I did it they wouldn't pay me, well the idea is
what they did here they did possibly three color coats they color coded it once came back it said
oh you can see all the blocks, tried it again at all you can see all the blocks it looks like three
to me, but you still see when it gets wet you'll get that and plus we're getting hairline crack
ins of all the block over here is a real it's an area that you can see even more clearly as
you can see the cinderblock and that's okay, it looks it looks great but this is what happens
fellows if you do not apply a base coat now on the radius we're doing I'm going 7/8 what does
that means that mean. seven coats of this 1/8 inch coats on the flat walls I'd have to do at
least 1/2 inch that would be 4 coats well I do that when you can skim coat it with Portland
the cement which is a lot stronger than a cosmetic color coat. That's the idea we don't want any
block walls if the fellows at the shopping center see my work after work and they see block walls, guess
who's going back out there to fix it at their own cost? Me, so anyway what I'm going to do is
I'm going to get started then Jay is going to put the camera down, maybe please, even put it
on a tripod, that way he can get ahead of me and spread and I can use this Darby here to
match this thing out now oh by the way I figured I'd give a shout out to my pal Dave Evans sign
a company that did this wall they, do a lot of signs in fact, they do sign so well that his sign he had
here a beautiful wood sign is gone that's what happens if you do them to nice they get stolen,
here Dave try doing simple silly signs like this anyway, Evans sign company they're out of Vallejo, ca.
his telephone number is area code 707-3 3 2 -7 6 6 6, anyway that's my buddy, Dave's, and that man can do
signs out of anything would you name it he does it anyhow getting back to what we're about to do, what
I do is I took a water hose and I already wet this wall down a little bit, now what I'm going to do is
I'm going to follow this radius and this is best to have a couple guys spreading I'm just going to
get it started here then, Jays going to set that camera up and he's going to help me spread this
out because we're going to inch thick then he even though I went ahead and wet this wall down
it's it's dry and fast because we're going over sin block in the hot Sun I was hoping we had a
shady day here today but no such luxury and up here where I'm trying to get my radius all that
is guys is you chill it up fat shake it that way fill it up fat and I'm going to use that as my
template, now so anyways that right there and I can go like so and any excess scraping right
off using it as a knife just cutting it off then they're going to put their caps on later, anyhow
Jay, why don't you go ahead and see if you can set that up that way you can get ahead of me
alright guys good tip 2 is while you're spreading it out give it that arc give
it that so-called radius and like what we're having we let our mud
set a while, it got a little stiff on us but nothing we can't handle.
take it come sideways like that get that aren't just right down here go to put a little bit more
mud that's okay guys, okay guys, now we're going to mist these walls here, then we're going to come in
and put our first coat, and what I what I try to do because they're doing the caps at a later date is
I'm getting my caps and I'm put it on tight then Jason and I are gonna put our next coat, on here
all right now first coat is on, and I'm just following the radio making
that arc make the arch, that'll set and we throw our next coat underneath it, yeah we
make our arch, okay guys this reminds me of that commercial it doesn't get any better
than this, it's about a 101 degrees and we're putting stucco on walls.
What more could you want out of life?
I best put away my little round trowel, my swimming pool trowel, because on the
bottom here if I had my swimming pool trowel, I wouldn't be able to cut that back right there.
Where we got a little bit of holiday right here, easy-peasy, we just take a little bit of mud, yep
fill that holiday up, come around we're popped off we just put a little bit more, no big deal
for pops off, take it here and now when I take my Darby let me get that right ah nothing to it just
takes practice okay guys, we're at a stage now where this is pretty set, what I want to do is I
always give a little few slobbers over the top and then what I do is I take my trowel and I pull back
this way, pull back this way if I pull this way then I'm going to break out my own corner, so I'm
pulling back this way pull back easy nothing to it if you know how to do it okay now this particular
product says we can do scratch brown and color in a day we are going to do that we're going
to do the color also can you zoom in over there on that particular building? Now that particular
building is what we're going to match by the end of the day, now getting back to what we're doing
here right now this particular product wants the walls hydrated that means you've got to wet the
walls, but I'm giving this afloat finish anyhow so what I'm doing is I'm using this sponge float and
I'm wetting the walls, literally with water, and I'm floating it at the same time this way it'll, it'll
dry out and cure with this particular product. Depending on the weather you can do the next coat
and say if it's a cementitious finish, an hour, hour and a half, to as hot as it is today I can give it
about an hour and a half but we're going to take a long lunch, then come back for that other coat
here's another tip guys, we don't have any corners on these radiuses so what I do is I put a lot of
water on them a lot of water on the top then I come back and hit them that strengthens these
radiuses inner and outer where there are no corners, a lot of water guys, my buddy who says hey where
do you get those buckets that's say, stucco plaster I know you're kidding me but, we work with a lot of
companies and all those companies most times they take all our buckets. So I put stucco plastering on
it so they know hey those are Kirk's leave them alone. Anyway lots of water just like this, I'm I can't put
enough water on this, in fact, we're about another, half-hour from being done floating everything, then
I'll show you how we hydrate it, okay guys, I'll show you the easy part now we've floated
this like three times with water already we're going to take a long lunch, then we're going to
come back and color it, but that's another story. What I'm doing now is I'm hosing all the stuff off
the top here, hosing it all down, I'm strengthening the stucco. I'm wetting these walls. It's
called hydrating it. You can call it hosing it down, you can call it whatever you want it's a
technical term, its hydrating, so we hydrate this wall, we just go over and over it, we get all the stuff
off because, when they come back to do that cap, see they're going to come back and they're
going to do a cap right here the caps going to lay on here. Now if I have a lot of stucco that's over
here and they put the cap and they push it off not only is a piece of my stucco going to come
off but a piece of my color coat as well, so we want this top flat it. Would be better to do the
cap first? Absolutely, of course, the caps are on order, they won't be here for another few months so that's
why we're here now, what I do is I I wet everything down we just completely saturate it over and over
this particular product specifies this especially if you're going to do to down to coat, same day.
So we're just back and forth I'll show you one more thing guys before we call it a day, or before
we call it a lunch you want to get over here Jay? On, maybe even perhaps stand up in this on this box, on
this box here, guys now what we have done is we've taken the stucco down, I just figured six inches to
the dirt and he said, yes, six inches so what we did is we just took it down a foot and half just
always better to be safe than sorry. Because you never know when they put the dirt in here in their
plants we don't want the brick showing. aA quick story about 20 years ago, I did one of these, and I
only went down about 8 inches and the contractor, An old fella came and said, "Hey, Kirk," that's not going
to work, man this is not a planter box it's a fish pond, it was similar to this and I thought, fish
pond? He said, yeah, you got to take it all the way to the bottom and I thought, oh man, we had to dig
into myself I got to cover all this stuff then he looked at me and said, I got you, I'm kidding!
Man, I thought what? Anyway he got me on that one, but again six inches here go a little bit
further guys this way just in case you don't want to have to come back and redo everything. So anyway
guys that's how you do cinderblock the right way. there's a lot of things I couldn't explain because
we're busy man trying to get this done on a hot, hot, day anyhow folks, Kirk and Jay here with Kirk
Giordano plastering, we thank you for watching and as usual guys, we'll see on the next one.