how do you guys Kirk and Jason here, with Kirk Giordano plastering, today I'm going to show you
how we plaster the ceiling right here and for all you guys in the UK and all over the place
I just got to this job dude pulled over and said hey Kirk let me shake your hand man you showed me
how to make a living and I thought that's so cool anyway I wouldn't got material yesterday my buddy
Tom beretta and Eric over there had had Westside building materials they were talking about this
they say Kirk how do you do that and I said you know what tomorrow I'm gonna explain that because
because I can so you young plasters all over the world and we got 30 million views so I say all
over the world I'll show you how to do this guys this is uh I don't care how good you are there's
a trick to this I'm gonna show you that trick so when you're at work with all your journeyman's and
you're just an apprentice you could do this and they'll be like dude how you doing that anyway
working here for my artist friend named Elena here in Alameda we're gonna show you not only
how to do that trick but we're gonna explain how to do this patch right here now this patch this
100 year old house that's had tractors underneath it they had a lot of movement so you can get this
guys that's I'm looking at the rest of the CEO I thought man that ceilings working a couple cracks
here and there but you got some cracks because of vibrations guy anytime attractors under your house
or just the rain the rain lifts when the drier conditions occur they settle and you get this
kind of stuff so it's not a big deal what we did is I scored it okay the patch here what it looked
almost exactly like this when it fell so we take a knife a razor knife and we score it what happens
if we don't score it well the whole ceiling can come off because how this is adhered is
mushroom there goes through this wood laughs and the plaster mushrooms behind it and that's what
it here's the plaster to this old wood laughs for us what we did is after we scored it and contained
it that's huge guys you got to know how to contain stuff otherwise you'll be doing twice the work we
contained it we put this pink stuff what is that pink stuff that is a bonding agent as made by
Larson's and Larson has been selling the bonding agent at all of the professional plastering yards
for 40 years so I trust their product you've got a Home Depot and you can get quikrete and all the
rest of these bonding agent I just like Larson's anyhow after we put a bonding agent on this it's
ready to go what other benefits does that bonding agent have on taya and this is super important
guys for if you're painting no matter what you're doing caulking kill the dust we vacuumed the crap
out of this ceiling I mean we vacuumed it well and then what we did is we put the weld Crete
or the plaster weld on it I want to remove all of the dusts so now that our plaster could hit this
wood and suck up otherwise I mean when they first start that you wet it all and it sucks up plus
it goes and mushroom the wire isn't necessary no but we did it anyway just to make this as sturdy
as possible I'm gonna put another piece of wire right here when J goes mixed me some struck the
light when we get to that point I'll explain guys what what we're doing and how to do it this can
take somebody like an hour to do it could take me about a half hour to just spread it out they could
take the average person days and days if they're not using the right material I'll explain the
right material and why to use it guys okay Jay's gonna mix that stuff up and we'll get busy in a
second real quick the bonding agent well Crete by Larson's that's not a home depot or lowes so I'm
just giving you a comparable when I say quick read that's that all the big chain stores the
products were using right now struck the light and some of the other products I go to the plastering
material yards for last 40 years that stuff is for professionals so don't look for some of
these products I say at Home Depot so I've given you the comparable anyway I'm looking at this
material here and I'm thinking oh that's going to set in 10 minutes I don't know if I can do this in
10 minutes but I want to show you real quick guys you put a line from this corner to this corner and
score it with a nail you put a line from here to here score where the nails can you see that aside
from those pretty circles those pretty circles are working because this is a brand-new hawk I
just picked it up from Westside and here's the key here's the trick okay I took a nail and I I went
in this dead center now a trial can fit in there and it'll hold itself because it's spinning it's
perfectly centered and spinning can I do it well my buddy art from Westside he would say Kirk let
me see you spin that full of mud not this time Eric anyway I'm looking at this material is it
going oh my god it's going can I put this up in the amount of time that it is plaster or setting
doubtful but Oh Kirk give it a shot okay now this stuff here it's uh it has sand in it now USG makes
struktur struck the light USG also makes the the hot muds that we use office what's a hot mud and
this has 20 minutes against what guy it sets in 20 minutes if you have a dirty bucket the dirty
tools it sets in five but they also have 10 20 40 60 90 hour and a half months those are us
geez you got me oh I think it's fast pal anyway I'm hustling so that's not really important right
now the name of that mud a lot of you guys who watch our stuff you see me using it all
the time and the thing I like about this interior or the structure life is it's like butter guys is
better than every material I could put I can put interior plaster here I can put exterior plaster
here I can use almost every plaster known a man but this stuff here it sets and it hangs
anybody doing ceiling said wow how does he do that oh you make it look so easy well because
the material I've said this many times guys material is 70% from a plaster the other 30% is
actual skill so if you're a skilled plaster or mechanic how they call us sometime a journeyman
you got it you'll have the skill to do it but the material is where the time in comes
yeah I got a lot of time in I'm an expert at what materials to use so this right here guys for what
I'm doing and notice I'm messing around and this is getting really hard notice some of the cracks
over here now those crack repairs are done with gypsum now those when you do a crack repair on
a ceiling that is Scott's and in it you gotta know what material to use you can't you can't
blend the ceiling in with gypsum that as the sand finish so that's why we're using struck
the light while I'm saying that - I gotta count for somebody who's gonna go buy struck the light
from say one of the plaster in Matera yards and try to do this and they're gonna call me and say
Kirk this stuff didn't set for like four hours struck the light doesn't set for about four or
five hours so if you're gonna do something like this and you go to plastic material your honor
say give me up give me some [ __ ] or accelerated accelerator is what's in here Jaden mess around
he put a lot of accelerators because we want to get it done and I like I like moving fast anyway
when I'm I'm doing this stuff so this got a lot of accelerators and that's called get Co Jim Co
if you're at the plastic material yard as far as getting this perfect guys the ceiling itself is
hand troweled so I can hand child this I can look at it and I'm using like my 18 inch column I grab
my 20 in a minute just to make it true and level oh let's see here let me get the last of this
buck it out because ya Mon it is getting stiff kid old Kirk plaster with stiff mud absolutely
come on out of there all right I'm gonna finish showing y'all I'll do this one patch right here
we're gonna need more mud anyway there's going to do this one patch half of this and then I'll
show you I've dyed plaster the other half how to match the finish all right guys we got some hot
mud in this 10-minute mud well I want to address something okay here's a trowel I'm using there's
18 inch I'm gonna go back over that with the 20 inch okay that's kind of like what you would
call I know my friends in the UK they would say Kirkwood run you out of the UK because you're not
using a straight edge a straight edge just means you wet it first and then you pull it across and
it's true and level it's it's it's matches this side to that side but I tell those guys well wood
if it's an old-world charm finish that's hand applied and I put a flat perfectly flat finish
with say this or this Darby same thing you got a wedding both before you use them it won't match
but that's just a little a rub for all the guys who are gonna say Kirk in the UK we we'd get rid
of your ass for that crap you're not you're not rotting anything guys we don't have to rod this
okay oh this mud I got 15 minutes 20 minutes okay since I got 15 20 minutes now this Chow here I'm
going to switch to my big one there's a 20 inch trout I don't advise any guys that try to get a
20 inch Chow because for most of you a square one would be perfect these are swimming pool
trials all right now what I'm gonna do is finish this out and when this child is so big I can put
it here and basically half on the on the ceiling and the other half on the patch and get that true
and plumb okay with this with this gigantic cha guys it's uh you can use it but if you guys are
just watching to say hey I've never done that I'm gonna try it don't use a big cha there's a little
bitty guy easier to control now I'm gonna go ahead and spread the rest of this out and for the sake
of turning that camera off before it overheats and explode I'll come back when I'm doing the
texture work yeah and lastly uh yeah my brother Lou he's working again with us guys a lot of you
guys say where's Lou you know he broke his foot he's carrying a lot of weight on that foot so he's
back next week with us let me show you another important aspect of matching the finish now that
stuff is easy if you got time and if you're a good taping mud guy and work interiors this
will be easy for you it'll be easier than doing tape and mud where you got to do five coats for
something like that there's a product we're using guys I'm not pushing any products not like these
guys pay me anything but this is an easy product out of the 50 or 15 that's 20 available all kinds
of plasters veneers exterior stuccos that's the easiest guys to don't spin your wheels or doing
something else mm okay I already got this side down this side because we're trying to get out
of here and get something to eat so it's real important okay now let's see what's the mud look
like it's kind of soft but Oh Curt can handle it he's the best is the greatest is the Muhammad Ali
of plastering all right guys I'll show you this so you can get an idea of the consistency because
some people will wait and it'll lighten up and get hard as a rock you can't bring the aggregate out
it was hard as a rock okay you see that's kind of that's about ready you don't want it too hard cuz
you're not going to be able to get the texture you can do this to guys you could skim it with
your child and cut some of the fat off I like to leave a little fat to blend into this because this
is a sandy finish okay here's what you do this is wet now it's clean - so if it's clean it's
not gonna drag this okay wallis wet I'm gonna take it's like six inches back six inches back
and pull it into the existing because you don't want to see a big crust of an outline here same
thing here guys I'm gonna pull it back from six inches and what you can't see guys is you know
we take stuff for granted there's about 20 30 different things I take for granted right now
some of the things are I'm using a float flat a whole float and I'm now using a toe of the heel
and making indentations like some using the whole whole float kind of like snowboarding
another thing you're not gonna be able to see is if I just go like this guys this a lot of people
do this okay now I brought the aggregate out of this and it's showing aggregates fancy word for
saying so you see that now it's it's going one way it looks like crap okay if I go this way it
looks like crap so here's a key guy circles and put the whole float flap okay it's gonna want to
stick that's okay just right hand just make your circles that way you bring in the aggregate out
and you're not leaving those flat lines because of flat line look horrible plus they don't bring
enough aggregate out there's a fancy finish we did about a month ago we did it and then we just put
circles and they were like well that's so cool but okay getting off of that and back onto this finish
you go in different ways and what's all-important guys is the amount of water on this if there's no
water I'm not gonna match this if there's too much water it's just gonna drag and start to drip and
look goofy so it just takes practice guys like any other thing in this world car salesman okay all to
practice anyway Oh a thank you for watching and as usual Jay and I will see you guys on the next one
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