Hi guys, Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering.
Today want to explain something. A lot of folks are calling me saying, Kirk, what's the difference between plasters, compounds, and or
veneer plasters? This it's a good example, we're actually working on this project anyhow, for me to explain
this. Number one. Okay, so you take a sheetrock and you mud your joints that's what I'm going
to do I'm gonna mud these joints I taped it in this pink stuff that's plaster well that's a
bonding agent I'm using an imperial plaster base coat now fortunately this is not very thick it's
only about a quarter inch thick right here to fill this so what I'm going to do is when you're
using veneer plasters you can go anywhere between eighth of an inch to or actually a sixteenth of an
inch to about three thirty second I'm going to skim this and the difference between with this
particular product say this is imperial it's a veneer plaster the difference between this and
say taping muddy okay I want to do tape and mud here tape and mud would require three coats the
first coat you'd let set for say 24 hours then you'd come back and sand it the second coat you
repeat that you would put it on and allow it to set for 24 hours and you come and put another
coat on it actually a minute ago I said you put you say in the first coat you put the first coat
on you come back and you do your second coat 24 hours later after cracked all the high heaven
and then you have to come back and put a third coat on and each time you you're waiting between
your weight in about 24 hours and with with that wait what does that mean that means three
trips guys I'm here right now I'm just going to do this in one trip because I'm doing other
stuff here but basically with taping mud you do a lot of sanding to and who likes Sandin nobody
I hate sand and stuff because it gets all over you gets all over your whole house that should
cover it very well this veneer plaster will will set in about 45 minutes and then I can
this is a base coat it's an imperial veneer base coat and it's kind of rough it's got a
little bit of sand in it for green with the two code system of this you end up with the same Oh
3,000 pounds per square inch of strand what does that mean hell I don't know I'm an applicant or
not an engineer but it's pretty strong stuff anyway you see how easy that is now this will
not shrink up like say taping mom so I'm gonna get on to what I'm really doing here and allow this to
set and by the way guys the difference between say veneer finishes and taping mud if you touch
the wall say right here this is all taping mud if you touch that or compound it's kind of soft
when I'm done with here with the next coat which I'm going to put a veneer Imperial finish coat
it's really hard it's cold you could tell the difference between it just by the touch anyway
guys that's that's it for here I'm going to get on to what else I'm doing and then I'm just going to
come back and put a finish coat over this they say to guys when you do this veneer plaster it covers
all the seams very well I mean much better than the taping muds or the compounds but it covers it
and you're less likely to get these nail heads coming up personally I've never seen the nail
heads come up or even on what I'm taping muddy but these right here these these are screws so they're
not going to come back up anyway about 15 minutes I'm going to come back maybe half hour I'm going
to come back to this and do the finish coat I'll show you that when we get to that stage all right
guys going with the finish coat now and again when your plasters you could use diamond or imperial
there's actually a lot more to but my material yard west side doesn't have all those they just
have the most popular one because there's always got somebody who's going to say Creek how come
you're not using red top or these other ones I use the finishes that my material yard provides
anyhow now you see this has got fine sand in it so it's pretty strong stuff okay veneer finish
now when this is on guys it's kind of it feels like glass when you touch it that's how I'll go
to a house and I'll say oh you got a veneer finish and they go how do you know that else I can feel
it it's sort of like glass what you're going to need for veneer finish is a good trowel now a lot
of folks sometimes watch my videos and say gee whisker you're using crazy tools those are not
proper guys whatever you're comfortable with use you don't have to have a square jaw Square child
is okay but I've been using this one here for Oh thirty years something like that I'm kind of
partial to it because it wasn't it won't leave lines not if done right but these trials here
stainless steel are good for veneer finishes line finishes this big Congo trial is great I kind of
use it as a derby I'll show you in a second once when I use that for okay now all we're
doing guys this is putting the other coat now this coat here Auto again I can go anywhere like like
the base coat I can go all a sixteenth of an inch to say three seconds of an inch but I've
got to match what they have here as far as depth and of course wood trim is going to go here then
have a kickboard on the bottom so I don't need to go all the way down but I am matching this down
here so when they put their board on it's equal to the rest of the wall take one more trough full and
finish this off right here now let's do them in a tight corner guys nothing we can't handle and
if you put your coat on and you notice that it's not a hundred percent mixed that's not
the end of the world you just keep trawling it and it'll trial down now for the sake of what I
was talking about earlier why should you use a veneer saves a lot of time are you I use a lot
of compounds but I'm actually using a veneer on another area on this house so I figured I'd show
you guys here because it's the only clear spot I got now when when I was doing it way back when
we'd have brushes we'd allow this veneer to set we'd have brushes about that wide they're about
35 bucks 40 bucks or we had a piece of felt and the felt had a handle on it and once this sets in
say I would say 20 minutes it'll start to darken what we would do generally is we'll take a trowel
and we'd we use the felt and wad wet it and bring out some of the fat because I can't work with this
right now because it's not set however let's see I do have my spray bottle here too I'll spray it and
then I'll just trial it down when I get to that state when I get to that stage I'm probably going
to use this big Congo trial and I'll show you one more thing guys if your trowel is cockeyed if it's
bent the wrong way you'll never plaster inside with it it'll leave too many too many lines so
this one say for example I can bring it up here and come on up boom that's one side bring here
that's two sides and now I just have to hit the middle that's pretty much done guys that's done
actually I mean I could pretty it up just a little bit more but the camera is not going to show it
anyhow so for the sake of trying to explain these plasters these are real common in Ireland they'd
hardly ever use tape and muds in Ireland but they do have their advantages guys these generally for
kitchens and bathrooms I'm just doing this right here because I'm using it anyhow anyway my name
is Kirk I am with Kirk Giordano plastering you could always google Imperial plastering imperial
base coat diamond base coat diamond finish coats and the rest of the veneer finishes to
find out more about these as I said a minute ago we appreciate you watching and we'll see
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