hi guys Kirk here with Kirk Giordano Plastering, my son Jason doing the video I'm going to help
you with this project we're doing today is fella called me and he wants to correct this he wanted
to remove all the stucco up to the Queens up there I tell it man not necessary he says well look at
the patchwork somebody else did I love you camera can show it but it's pretty bad scale 1 to 10 10
being high and zero being terrible it's about a 1 or 2 but I taught a man you know I don't do any
plumbing or electrical I but I do do stucco that's all I do and I've been doing it for over 25 years
I said I can just break out the area that's bad and we could correct that that's what we do for a
living so we're going to just break this out right here and replace it and this right here still real
gritty so what I done is I just took all these rocks around here and come back here to give
me some room then I'm gonna take um my trials and get some of this stuff off I'm gonna wet it first
because I don't want to inhale the dust if I wet it then a dust will just fall on the ground I'll
stick it in a bucket a lot of ways for me to get rid of this I could pressure wash it but too much
work to put my pressure washer on the truck for this little amount so we're just going to scrape
this off and after I scrape this off I'll show you what's next we're going to apply a bonding
agent called welcome to the brick circles when we get to that stage I'll show you how we plaster it
I can put corners on here I can just do it by eye but we'll cross that bridge when I get this
all right guys we're at a stage now where we are fine well Crete well Pete as a body nation which
you do most and here the new stucco to this stuff brick okay I'm a putting the weld Crete honest
first before I put the corner otherwise if I have the corner on right here then I won't be able to
get it between the wire so you got to put a lot of welcome also more the better surface has got
to be prepped really well you see how blue that is that's a lot put it on real thick as the next
stage you'll see is I will have the corner on here everything will be well created and we will mix
the stucco in a bucket and again this is going to be really wet but I'm going to be putting luminite
in my Portland cement which for example if I put enough alumina and mix it with the Portland
cement in a bucket like this within a minute I can flip it over and got a hard clump so really
got to know what you're doing if you're using the accelerators I don't advise anybody new to try to
use accelerators because I've got a whole hour of boring conversation about accelerators you don't
know how to use this don't try to use that stuff anyway when I get ready to plaster we'll show
you that too okay guys already got one corner up I'm putting the other corner up and these
corners don't align this this lower portions got a line here what I've done on that side is I just
use I got it where I wanted I use my knees I'm using quarter inch concrete nails now of course
you can't grab it with a finger so I use a magnet and we just pop them in you're using quarter inch
nails and you're going through brick usually you got to hit the center of a brick or you
will explode the brick if you're going to go on the ground use a inch long concrete nail because
if you go in the grout with a quarter they tend to pop right back out to the grout talk really
actually strong alright I'm all set here get ready to do the plaster and so again this is not well
Crete on it and it's pretty moist but our mix with Portland cement with alumina that's kind of like
an interior well make your fix all fix all hardens the minute you mix it what we're using the product
is very similar it's going to harden very very fast so as fast as I skinned this depending on
the amount of luminite I put on that is going to set it so I'll go ahead and get this part on this
plaster and then I'll show you how I'm plastered this and I'll show you how to do the finish - so
I'll make it look easier because I've been doing it for over 25 years but it does take practice
okay guys uh I spread it and this is hot mud meaning it's set quick on take Darby straight edge
all this does is make the wall trim from where I don't have to guess then when I get it to where
I want to get it I'm gonna get a load bucket float and because this has luminite in it it's gonna set
really fast so I have my float bucket here I'll show you that in another minute okay guys we are
at the flood stage I had to go grab a bucket and this is called a sponge float and all it does is
when you wet it bring the aggregate or sand out of this notice this was a - finish at one time
then somebody apply the text code over it so it's got a certain finish we're going to catch
that what I did first is I'll take the I'll hit my foundation like this and I'm getting a slope
on this take the trout like that as I'm doing this I want to take my transition into the existence or
due to the existence we do this just like that there's moisture on this float this one didn't
have any water and do that so gotta have a little bit of water on the float and again this is got
accelerators so it's trying pretty fast the drier it is the easier it is to work with but take more
muscle if it's wet it's more skill it's uh pretty dry already he says we've only been here about
well 15 minutes put this coat on though with the luminite in it it really sets fast you really got
to work it again I don't recommend anybody who's not got a few years in trying to use a good idea
it's tough really not know if you're doing so take enough dipping the float in here just what I can
really do is I want to get my hands all wet so I did half of it clean it off I guess the other half
clean it off I don't take the float and slam it down like this to get the water off because then
you bend it you bend it you awkward and it just leaves lines everywhere so when you learn how
to do this just cap it inside there and just like that and if you're not going to cover the ground
you've got to keep it wet okay so happy when I get done with this sweet process all showed you what
it's supposed to look like and how the transitions are supposed to blend in about another half hour
and then we'll show you the final video okay folks there you have it and again sponge float is what
gives it the texture it's your foundation feather everything in where it's turning white right here
where that's where it's dry um I didn't cover this brick here but I didn't need to here's the
thing at this red brick it will stain in about ten minutes if it's red with deck wood it will stain
in about ten seconds where you'll have to use a lot of elbow grease and sandpaper to get one speck
off if it's metal flashing such as copper it'll turn it brown so the lie that's in the Portland
cement can really damage a lot of things and I've had my share back in the 80s and 90s of using
erotic acid to scrub out brick things like you always cover everything real well don't clean out
your tools on front long you will kill the long hauls because of the line anyway see can you get
this in here Jake and now they had a little patch right here so I just threw that patch in while I
was here everything is cleaned up real well left it better than when I found it and of course I
don't want to put the brick back yet because he's still got a prize and paint all this so no need
me putting the brick back and then him moving it all so that's why we are going to leave right now.
they ac prime and paint then put all this stuff back. I thank you, folks, for watching. Thank You,
Jay, for doing the videos, and helping me will help with this. We'll see folks on the next one