Hello folks Kirk here with Kirk giordano plastering, today what we're going to do is
a color coat maintenance-free finish over this home, I'll show you some of the prep work that's
necessary in order to do what we're going to do all right this area here is an addition obviously,
this is a three coat system, it's done with a heavy float finish it was done several years
ago this area here the whole area is a two coat system, it was done about 70 or 80 years ago, up top
that say for example, this window here this is a patch job done by one fella, if you could zero in
up there Jay that's done by another company there's various patches all throughout the house, a lot of
different guys our job is to we want to give the house a Hacienda look, I've done several
samples all around the house this is the one they like here, because what we're going to do today is
we're going to pressure wash the house, they are setting staging right now, and we're going to cover all
the windows and apply a bonding agent directly to the house. then when we get to that stage
a couple days from now when there's no rain forecast, we're going to come, we're going to
do a la Habra maintenance-free color finish over everything with this particular texture. This way
we blend all these different finishes into one uniform finish. All right we're using Weld-Crete
as our bonding agent, here Jason is, see that blue stuff that blue stuff there? It's called
Weld-Crete, we roll it on then we use our brush to cut in everything, and usually if we see any cracks
will gouge the cracks sometimes, then we'll place a fiber mesh tape over the cracks also, okay guys we
are now doing a La Habra cementitious finish it's not an acrylic, couple guys are spreading, Jason is
usually floating behind them, why do we have to float? why do we have to float after we put our basecoat on? because it
removes the holidays, here's what we do, we float everything, two guys spread, and one guy floats behind me and again
what this does is, because this wall so bumpy, this is a front where it's not as bumpy as the rear, you
spread it, and if you just texture right over it, you'll see holidays, so the float takes out the holidays, now
that these guys, come down here, now Jake, these guys are veterans the best plasterers, okay i'll show you
what i'm doing, now I'm putting the texture on we're not going with a Spanish lace, we're going with an
Adobe, it's sort of a customed look, so here's what they would like. Maybe you should film right here? Its very heavy it generally what I'll do is
I'll go up one way, I here I'm going, then I'll take a sideways, and i'm leaving a lot of texture.
up, sideways. If I start here, I don't want a straight line so now I'll take it sideways, all right
guys. this, we're not in the scaffold way, here so, I can demonstrate a bit better, we're coming up then
I'm going sideways. Here's what you don't want to do. I see a fella sometimes they do this, they
start at the same place and then when everything sets, you see a straight line, you don't want to do
that what you do is you stagger your texture, you come here, you come this way, and if you're coming
this way there, and you come this one here, just stagger the texture for this a Adobe texture, if
we were doing a different finish, such as anyone of the numbers of skip trowels, then we could, we
have a different pattern. This particular one is such a very simple but it does take a lot of us of the tools.
A lot of practice, then we hit a little bit. Heres another
tip guys, we have all this broken grout up here, where we're re-tieing this roof tile in.
You can use a brush, I'm brushing it on right here and notice that blue is Weld-crete, it will adhere to the grout. but it won't adhere to the painted surfaces.
What I'm doing is I'm just making is so as, the grout has been changed so many times.
There are lots of things and imperfections on this job. Were just protecting everything while we're here.
Here's another thing folks, this thing here, its a pipe trowel the fellows who did these columns here never
got in the back, because, I guess they didn't know how to use these, you can go up this way
or that way and that way we don't have a trowel to go inside here, that we use a pipe trowel to get
in there, see how that works? This way inside there and a fella just come by say that's
nice skip trowel, I said it's not a skip trowel it an Adobe, and he says what the heck's
the difference? Well a skip trowel is more of a skip, this I'm going to use a word i don't use,
this is more pancakeish, it's more pancakish, then a skip and with the Hacienda front, when
we pull all the stuff off here, theres a lot of tile here, so this this finish works extremely well
with this house hacienda, everything is sharp and jag, so i'm not taking my float and floating
in these corners, I'm leaving them all somewhat sharp and jagged that way it gives more of that
Haciendo look, alright folks. There you have it, we're complete with this color coat. If your going
to be a big-time contractor, this is how you do it. We left my house at five-thirty and got here about 7:30 AM
after material yard, it's almost 6pm we haven't stopped for lunch or breaks because we're in a
hurry today's walkthrough. Here please, see okay the lighter areas are where it's still drying
where it's darker it's wet we'll take a quick walk around, we're still cleaning up around here.
we got this backside, a lot of vines a lot of pillers, got these square pillars here,
we've got round pillars over here, those are kind of fun, going through all of these Oleanders, whatever the heck
that stuff if that was, that was a challenge, what's going on fellas we got the garage here as
Tim and Jake man those guys are quality plasterers. All right and take a peek right here, we got
these round pillars here, these are kind of fun to do, then walk this way,
Anyhow you guys get the idea. Notice this right here. This concrete, this a stamped
concrete, it's maintenance-free. Where when it's wet it darkens, it's like our color
coat, because it's maintenance-free. like the house next door that's maintenance-free also.
Anyhow my name is Kirk, I'm with kirk Giordano plastering, we thank you, folks,
for watching, we've got about a half-hour day left, so, we'll see you guys on the next one.