Hi, guys Kirk and Jason here, with Kirk Giordano plastering.
what we're doing today is veneer finishes inside on a shower we don't often have the opportunity to
show some of these veneer products so we're gonna take that opportunity now what we're doing today
is we're doing a to coat system we're gonna use this imperial veneer base coat then after that
sets which is usually about an hour we're gonna apply this veneer finish and usually over we're
going over sheetrock drywall plaster board gypsum board whatever you want to call it same stuff this
veneer base coat we can go one sixteenth to three thirty-seconds of an inch thick on our first pass
we let that set usually about 45 minutes to an hour then we come right back with this imperial
veneer finish and what that does is it gives them real hard finish kind of like glass if
you touch it it's cold and smooth like glass whereas taping muds they're kind of well warm
and soft these particular finishes are mainly for schools hospitals corridors where it gets a
lots of traffic and also for showers and kitchens because of the steam from cooking the steam from
showering these will not come off and they're waterproof so I actually brought this diamond
out here because we were doing some diamond last week and it was in the truck diamond this is the
Imperial or sorry this is the veneer finish it also has its own base coat anyway so what I've
got here is I got a bucket of water now what I like to do is I'll take my drill I'll put
the water in here and I'll just hold this base coat between my legs and kind of pour it in and
mix at the same time and pour this in and by the way there's a lot of paddles to my I had a good
cage paddle which is perfect for this but can't find it so anyway I just use this paddle I'll
show you what we're doing here guys is we're not mixing too much and I'll show you the consistency
afterwards I'm putting it in and I'm the water is in here already what happens if if say for
example that's about it say for example I put the powder in here then take the water hose and spray
it all the powder comes up so we put it in here first not because of the powder coming up but
because that's the instruction and we mix this up well I got a pretty good batch already and
generally with these base coat these veneer plaster you only mix about two minutes two
to five minutes I'm not going to bore you with a whole two minutes of mixing but what I will
do is show you you want to get everything off of the bottom of the bucket the sides of the bucket
and Mick okay I got at least another minute to mix this but I already got the consistency I
want to prove a point guys if you're going to use it it's obviously good to know how to mix it so
Jake generally mixes but his hand is all jacked up right now anyway that's the consistency and
this base coat does have fine fine sand silica sand and so it makes it really hard first coat
so we're gonna put this first then we're gonna come back after an hour mix up this veneer or
this this veneer finish and put that on it this has no sand in it guy so it when we're done it
gives like a glass-like finish and it is strong guys anyway I thought I'd point that out cuz I'm
getting ready to use this material anyhow and I get a lot of folks asked me what's the difference
between veneer plasters taping muds and compounds well this is the best it's for showers my name is
Kirk I'm with Kirk O'Donnell plastering Jason on the camera as usual we thank you for watching I
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