Hi guys Kirk and Jason here with Kirk giordano plastering, today what I'm going to show you is
how we do a brown coat on this gable wall now Tim is also going to help us do it he's also a
licensed stucco guy, Jay's actually licensed too. what I like to do first and what we've done so
far is we've hosed this wall down this just a scratch coat scratch coat has been on here for
about four or five days now we hose the wall down because we want the next coat to adhere
why these guys are spreading mud I'll show you a quick tip I get asked this a lot guys
I get asked do we need to use a sponge float or a hard rubber float once it's brown I'll answer
that question soon well I guess I'll answer it now because these guys got to get ahead of us
before ahead of me before I even can start my job if the walls turning white and hard we use
a hard rubber float if it's still a little soft we can use a sponge float but a sponge
float will leave grit depending on your next finish you got to know which one to use anyhow
what I'm going to do here is we're all capable of spreading and darbian behind each other but
I'm kind of partial to Darby and everything myself so what I'll generally do is how these
guys spread it out and if they're not as far as I'd like them to be all we even give them a
hand and then. ain't you cold boy! I'll show you we're going to put it, put it on pretty heavy.
Pretty heavy and doesn't have to be pretty. Guys, a lot of us are working on this one wall,
but to prove a point of how thick you got to be, that's okay; we've already done the top when I
was working Union. I'd use the Darby behind a pump. The pump would blow it on. We do about
eleven houses a day with the pump first coat scratch we do about nine if we were browning,
so I like that routine where it's put on, and then I take the rod or Darby,
depending on where are you located again let me get some more mud up here, please.
Are you okay? Go ahead and start that mixer and give us more mud now,
guys when I have a lot of mud on the wall what a fellow like Mille do and again,
these guys are full of using their own rod or Darby, but I kind of partial to this it gives
me a good workout I like doing it I just take the mud right here start from the bottom pull
it up and what I'm doing is I'm making the wall chew and plumb we're putting this getting the
depth proper what we've already got is 3/8 for the scratch coat now the brown is technically
about 3/8 also when everything is said and done we should have about 7/8 with the color coat included
Pretty simple, guys easy peasy oh, we take this one second, Tim brings it up to bring it up
there real simple if you know how to do it just takes practice. I used to be a stick man behind
the Darby behind the pump for years and years, and I actually like doing this stuff come up.
Now here's where the I'll let you finish this last piece Tim and I'll explain one more time
here's where the green sponge flow comes in or the hard rubber child personally I like the hard
rubber child but it's got a set this wall will you look at it I would say if you ever doing
a video phone always rings anyway I like to let it set in about a half hour this will be
ready - hard rubber explode I'll take the hard rubber float make the wall trim plumb compress
it allow that to set for a minimum of two solid weeks prior to a color coat and while that setting
I usually ask the homeowner hydrate the crap out of that wall meaning you take a water hose
and you just start on top you hit it about five six times this wall here take about 15 minutes
to hydrate you do it just right that's the best way to avoid any hairline cracking but even if
you do it everything up to code you can still get hairline cracking that's just the nature
of stucco guys anyhow there's no way to tell you every in every little detail about stucco with a
five-minute clip but I thought I'd show you just a couple tips anyhow my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk
giordano plastering and as usual we thank you for watching and we'll see you on the next one.