hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what we're gonna show you guys
is how to match the swirl finish and usually for guys like me I look at it and I could see where
they started we use a clock sometimes to try to figure this out now these folks they went from
nine to one on the stay a clock is here six nine twelve three so they went from nine to one and
then they overlap their own texture these fellas here they didn't do that this guy started the
opposite way and went this way so this fellow started from say three so he started opposite
direction that's why the transition is so obvious here plus they didn't feather in their joint very
well you know we're professionals so we have to we have to come a lot closer than fellows like
these guys over here where they did the two bread boxes see the bread boxes again those guys aren't
pros probably homeowners but I'll show you how we do it I'll show you one more thing - alright as
I was doing the scratch coat on here my daughter Madeline say look dad this just doesn't match and
I said yeah all these guys did is they just close their eyes and put some patterns on again we're
professionals so we've got to be able to match this finish when we get to that stage I'll show
you how we do it or how I do it okay guys I'll show you what we're gonna do we're gonna do this
wall here parapets carpets are notorious for leak and they usually last about 50 years we've torn
thirty 40 houses apart because a pair of pizza anyway mark Schmidt's gonna put on a flashing on
here which is going to come down to here so it's a two inch flashing which is what i referred now
I'm gonna take my swirls and I'm gonna stay to inches from here that's just easy the scratch
coat was done about Oh two weeks ago because we've had a lot of wet weather we it set a lot longer
than we needed it to but that's okay scratch coat you can set forever what what I like when we do a
big finish like this is say I want this this is 3/8 of an inch thick my next coat is going to be
another 3/8 blessing quarter inch to a half inch with that texture I want this wall wet because
I don't want my my next coat to absorb too quick otherwise when I get ready to do my Brown I need
a sauce off my brown coat needs to be somewhat soft in order to get that texture because the
texture is going to be put over a soft brown in order to match that if it sucks up hard as a rock
that my texture is gonna be more difficult for me fortunately we are in December it is cold and man
it's been raining so this walls pretty wet anyhow but again if you folks want to do something like
this if it were August hot weather you'd have to saturate the crap out of this wall anyhow
we're gonna get started Dan's actually starting right now and once I get the base coat on I'll
show you that part okay guy Dan and I we're just putting this on ugly doesn't have to be pretty
put it on ugly because I'm going to Darby this in a minute what I do in this wall this wall is very
saturated so I'm not worried about it sucking up if it were warm weather then we would have we'd
have a lot more to worry about it as soon as you put it on it sucks right into it so anyway when I
when I get ready to rod that's our Darby oh I'll show you that part but that's not really not what
this videos about this videos about showing you how to do the texture alright guys let me show
you something else now that I've got up a bit of mud on this wall and generally a lot of ways
to do this finish and all this I've seen guys do it like this - okay put my swim pulled you trial
down grab a trowel and I remember what I said earlier there finishes roughly nine to one so
if it's on a clock say I'm gonna start from the top and work my way down but just as an example
this is another way to do this you could start nine to one and come here what that's not what
I want to do here's how I do mine I see a lot of guys do this and you can do that I'll take a Darby
and I'm gonna get this wall somewhat true and plumb although it doesn't need to be I take this
guy here and just chew it out a little bit and I want this to set just a little bit not the entire
wall to set because now to defeat the purpose I got to have a soft background and before I
do this finish what really did dictates where I start and stop gum is not me what dictates where
I start and stop is the wall because if this wall starts to dry out then I've got to do my texture
on it I'll show you that when we get to that stage all right guys what I'm doing is getting there all
right what we do is something like this I'm using a square child because I want to get these angles
right and I'll take it off the board and in order for me to try to get the right amount each time I
just flipping it and dropping it down and again when I said nine to one if you go a little bit
further the next one's gonna cover that so meaning like so you put it here and okay what's what I'm
doing I'm taking a little bit off move it off and look I'm switching the hawk every few seconds
kept some of this stuff is you got to be consistent upon taking it off,
but what you don't want to be consistent upon is a straight line you never want straight lines with
this you want if you do end up going a straight line, I tell folks to put some random patterns,
and you don't want a straight line so show you again take some mud off of here all
right we don't want straight lines because this is far from a random pattern we want
to come into the other one into starts to get weird on my hock I just turn it around
around the window, we just improvised a little bit here a little bit there we're
on a pretty busy street too well that background noise guys you'll hear it
Again it's random. We want random we don't want to be specific, and we don't want exact
lines everywhere when we're doing this, so I'm going to continue taking this here,
and the idea is it's all got to be Wiggly wavy and nothing straight,
so J's in my way well I'm gonna start right here I was gonna finish this wall start right here and
when we're done with this guy's what I'll do is I'll show you the whole thing actually I'm
gonna start from the top and work my way down, so you ride in my way we'll show you the whole
thing when we're completely done guys all right guys we're all set easy peasy lemon
squeezy that's it's pretty simple especially for us we've been doing this a long time we can show
you three different ways to do with this, but this is a simplest way and way I'm most familiar with,
and texture comes out a little bit better anyhow my name is Kirk I am with Kirk
Giordano plastering as usual guys thank you for watching and we'll see you on the next one