Hi guys, Kirk and family here, today we're gonna show you how to match this texture from this
texture what is this texture it's a text coat it's an old text code about 35 years old done
very very well too back you could still see some glass shining in some spots no wonder says hey
what's the Chris Philly stuff I said glass its you take sand and you say San gets hit by lightning in
the desert and that makes the purest form of glass but sand is the main ingredient for glass anyway
there's a lot of glassy color in here if you look at it a specific angle camera's not gonna show it
but you see it shining everywhere that I point that out what do we have here we have we have a
wall say here that okay that means this wall is out too proud for this finish and plus the guy
when they did this patch here he did it where he threw on a - finish and he was okay I give him a
two if he was a professional homeowner I give him about a thick not bad but it definitely in
shows now over here we got the same thing it's it's off I don't again I'm not sure if Carl can
pick that up with the camera but this is way too proud there's a couple ways to do it if I were
to apply a bonding engine here and skim it from here to here you'd still see the hump if you're
looking at it from say a straight angle so we want to take some of this off and the owner says
well what can you grind it off guys quick couple tips guys if you use a grinder by the way this
particular grinder has a blade that's oversized and the safety is off I don't recommend it but
if you use a grinder it's just gonna make dust everywhere I've done it it's a nightmare and some
tools like say oh I got a lot of these big ones here they're just too heavy you're holding them
for it for an hour or so and they I got the fives of sixes of these but just kind of heavy for this
but they're great for other purposes you can take a sawzall or reciprocating saw and put a blade on
it but it's not really meant for this you're gonna be here all day with this it's not meant for it so
what I'm really going to show you is like this particular tool here you get a specialty bit now
let me set this where I could actually work it a little bit better at the right angle and these uh
these tools right here up first of all you got to get them in there all right now this one here say
to remove some of this what happens okay I've got hatchets on my truck I've got laughing hatchets
where we could hit it well what that'll do is that'll compromise the membrane I don't know
what's underneath this so what we don't want to do is remove that membrane or disturb it and cause it
to leak it doesn't leak right now so what I'm gonna do or what Karl is gonna do after he gets
off this camera is he's gonna do this he's gonna use skill rather than muscle because we don't
want to disturb that paper this is one of the better chisel bits here generally if I'm breaking
stuff a lot I have a one inch bit you use a two inch bit it's much harder anyhow what we do is
yeah
I won't bore you and do more than that but you get the idea that's a Bosch boss Bulldog the
right tool Carl's gonna spend about an hour here break breaking this down then we get to the next
stage what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put a bonding agent over this and we're gonna reskin it now I
could to match this techs coat this is pearlite no it's sand because I see the glass in it the shine
we're just gonna apply another what I'm gonna use is I can use Portland cement and mix it or I could
use an acrylic finish with the aggregate about 16 20 that just means a heavy sand I could skim
it it'll stick to this without even a bonding agent I could use the primer instead well when
we get to that stage we'll show you and I'll show you how we remove this hump okay guys we decided
on a different system we couldn't break it down enough to give this particular product that I was
going to use this is kind of like taping mud it's tape and mud you go 1/16 of an inch this you go
1/8 of an inch it's an acrylic finish it here's to everything is the same texture as what they
have or real close to it I mean granted they're gonna paint this anyhow and generally what we do
we apply that and we just use a sponge flow and it was easy what we had to do is apply a bonding
agent over everything and yes they do make white bonding agents sort of clear you can get them
at Home Depot's or Lowe's and I kind of fancy the weld crease because you could see if you've missed
the spot because they're blue when I had big crews definitely needed that because if you miss an area
the plaster will not adhere so what we're doing I'm just screaming this out skimming it out.
yeah, okay got another rocket in getting rid of it
what we have of course we already did the top stuff I don't like to try to explain something
with staging in the way I'm gonna go ahead and hit the rest of this like so and this is the
bad area that they applied in - instead of fine float finish they did extra work and they just
wasn't necessary this is actually what we call a float finish you float it first then you - if
you even have to down okay so this area here is about an inch thick that's where the concrete's
stairs came down and the area that I did a little while ago because this is thick right
there that's a good inch right here is about an inch also that's the joint the transition
if you're looking sideways on this wall you want it to be somewhat as straight as possible now my
transition is off in every direction because I'm following the wall and I'm correcting all of the
bad things like say here I have a half inch in here we got about a half inch wide I put
so much I'm going back and back and forth I'm going coat after coat inside here because the
fellows who did this originally had an idea of what they were doing but that's about it
over here I've got two coats already I'm gonna put a third Oh sweetie I wouldn't bore you guys
with all these damn cuffs you can see when I started it with the Sun was on here and now
the Sun is off that's how long it's taken to address this wall and get it where we want it
now what I'll do is the floating process and the floating means how to get this to look
consistent with everything that's not too hard guys this is my last trifle actually here here
what I generally do is I'll float out the bad stuff and where the where it's proud I'll hit
it hard I can feel it with the wall put that part hard and then loose enough where you need
that extra mud right there is the last piece ok we got a big hump right here a huge hump I'm
gonna hit the hub dead center and then feather the rest in and yeah I've done it there it's 2
inches off 2 to 3 inches off of the further off it is the further you have to tie up okay we got
that done we will take a sponge float you watch a lot of the stuff we do I'll take a sponge flow and
I'll hit my joints first okay this is pretty wet and it's pretty full usually technically I should
wait another half hour but I don't want to because I want to get this mic off all right so I'm taking
this part here and guys if you're watching this at home and you say man I want to do that I got
a wall that's just as jacked up let it dry a little bit more and it'd be a lot easier this
is still pretty thick and so what I've got to do is I got to take my sponge float completely flat
kind of like snowboarding this fall go completely flat you can get a little bit of speed going but
if you put it on edge what will happen is if I put this on edge any which way it'll make
an indentation now - I've got too much Portland cement on this float so it'll tend to drag it I
don't want to drag it what we want to do is match that finish and so I clean it I'll flip it flip
that cuz that's a clean side now okay now here we're inch-thick just barely hit it can I just
put that on there and it's wet again you folks if you're watching this just let it draw a little
bit longer how do you know when it's drying guy well you could take your glasses off like I just
didn't see better we were working in the hot Sun a little while ago and breaking out so I had them on
right I can look at it, and I can see it's still too wet,
so the float is everything here the amount of water you put on it the amount of water
on this float means everything if you put too much it'll just make rivers in it notice when
I do it I keep flipping this float that that's because the waters starting to come off on one
side and I'll flip it so that it holds the water and doesn't drip down the wall
well, you have a wet wall. When you have a wall that you just put a lot of stucco on,
they like this area here. It tends to want to follow the
the low points meaning again alright I'm gonna clean my float right here we got we're really
heavy really heavy and then really thin so I'll take my thin part and I'll go on it and I'll just
get rid of that cuz it'll it'll stick on on the float and then it'll drag it yeah you're gonna
float it really does take a lot of practice I've been doing it for a lot of years and
sometimes I'll just be all day floating behind fellas they apply it I'll just float for color
coach and things like that you get a good grip on it you good handle on what the heck and winning
when it's time to flip it I know a lot you there a lot of people will call me and say Kirk you know I
tried that and I just can't seem to make it work maybe it's the float that's like it just takes
practice guy takes a lot of practice to do this I'm gonna do it one more time we'll call it an
explanation but before I call it an explanation I'm going to show you one thing if I put a lot
of water on here I could see how it pronounced the the sand becomes and if you say G I want to
make it a little finer than that well you can do that you get you get your float you know all the
mud off of it tap it on the wall below this is all getting painted anyway remove all the excess
water let this set now watch me pull that out okay it's really pronounced the grain the sand now I
just hit it again with less and it actually makes the texture here match this fine finish pretty on
the money much tighter so the more water you use the heavier that float or the more aggregate is
going to be exposed the less water the finer the finish and we just match whatever finishes there
anyway guys my name is Kirk Carl on the camera we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see
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