Hi guys, Kirk, and jay here, with Kirk Giordano plastering.
Today we are spreading some acrylic product over these stairs, you might have remembered
if you watch what we do about a year and a half ago we actually put a membrane down and did the
Cement work, now this fella is my neighbor, he was supposed to tile this, but he never did. He had
this green right here, and he says, Kirk, next time you do a house with acrylic if it's a good
color, will you do this for me. Finish the color on here and I thought, okay we just happen to do
this dark gray and I showed it to him. He says. hey that's what I'm talking about, do that so we're
spreading an acrylic finish over stairs what's the advantage well, if you put a coat of paint on
this, say ten coats doesn't matter how many coats, within three years to five it can come off, this
won't come off for about, well, it won't come off. it'll start to fade, but this stuff has sand in
it, so no acrylic it will last about 30-40 years, it won't come off, it will just start to fade and all
that's the advantage of putting acrylic on a house. Generally, we put it on stairs it's tough to
wash, wash the stairs, like but you drop an egg on it it's a real drag to get out, that's why people
usually do tile, but for the sake of showing you folks how to do it if, you are considering putting
in acrylic over stairs, you might say, well man, I don't want to paint it's too much work I'll
show you how to do this stuff, you scoop it out of the acrylic bucket and now guys there's about 20
different materials, acrylic finishes, you name it I've used them. What I'm going to use first
is this big old trowel here, and just to get my my top and guys you're afraid of getting dirty, don't
use this stuff because it sticks to everything it is messy material, but most materials that
are really good, are kind of a drag to clean up, this is not water cleanup, okay, what we're gonna do is and
what I've done guys already is I've already done the top steps, I didn't want to bore you with an
hour of course and you would watch it for an hour anyhow what we do is we just get this on and then
we're going to float this, what is floating it mean? That that basically means we're going to give it a
sandy finish, so it's rough that way when you walk on it kind of like a swimming pool, where it'll
have something to grip in the summer, it's not such a big deal, but in the wintertime when
these are wet, now this sandy finish really helps out let's see now I got that up switch off to my
little pull trowel, hey Jay, now that keeps the man's attention, I noticed something there, my wife says
the only real secret to this is, what is this she says, how much they cost is, says the smaller
the item the more it costs, anyway I'm getting sidetracking for a minute there, if that doesn't get a man's
attention, he's half-dead we're going here we're gonna finish this little bit right here because
my swimming pool trowel, doesn't want to get in those corners that are tight like that and again guys
I've done this in my neighborhood I've done a lot a lot of work for folks here they always say, Kirk
when you've got extra materials do this or that, back to cross the street I got this same material
on wooden steps and I told the guys, that dude you don't want to do it on wood,I said if you do it
on wood, you're going to be redoing it every 3-4 years he's content he's like yeah, I'll redo that
every 3-4 years because it's not made to go over wood it's made to go over a cementitious finish,
like what we're doing here because it's so just so hot what I'm doing is two stairs at a time let me
grant it if it was even hotter I'd have to do one step at a time because it's dry and very fast and
when you float it you gotta have some fat to work with so it might say what does that mean well if
I lose my fat and it's too thin to coat then it just dry's right up, I got to bring it back to
life with water okay just going to do these two here move this up drop it down down here because
I'm going to do that bottom step to again guys. what is the advantage of an acrylic color coat
on a walkway? Well this stuff here will last forever the paint would fail quickly.
even if you get the best paint money can buy. when you're walking on it it just destroys
the integrity of it. All right that's put on there I'm going to take a sponge flow just water on the
green sponge clean my gloves here and again guys if you're doing this stuff with this acrylic it
is messy stuff, so wear the raggiest clothes you got, alright now what I'm doing is I'm pulling
the aggregate out, this actually takes a little bit of practice in the hot Sun I have to keep turning
this is where if I don't have enough water, it'll drag it, so I have to dip this sponge float into the
bucket quite often to keep it wet. if it starts to drag that means more water once a few years
back I had about 20 pails well more like 15 years ago I had about 20 pails and they were filled with
up in my driveway, I couldn't hardly move in there it's getting ready to chuck them out. And this buddy of mine
say's, hey Kirk, can I use that for my concrete and I said sure we mixed up about 20 different
colors and spread it and today it is still on. it looks great I forget the color was kind of a
weird color but it never came off he did a little touch-up in an area and did it with paint a year
later that paint was coming off, so this shows you how strong this stuff is, these acrylics with the
sand in them. Man they're great, they're great for doing a walkway here, but they are recommended
for exterior walls on houses stucco, I'm going to just finish this guy here and I'm in my own
light I don't know what the camera pickin up but I'll just finish this little piece here get this
guy here a lot of stretching so you want to starts to drag start to drag right now more
water on the float can have it dragon otherwise it's ugly. all right this is actually what I'm
doing here it takes a lot of practice guys I've got to cover up the wire cover up the cement make
sure there's no holidays and you have to know the material meaning I can look at it if it starts to
set, and I I don't have enough water it drags it it looks like hell when it's dry so anyway guys
I'm going to get back to doing this I thought I'd explain this acrylic material over a walkway they
use this on swimming pools often in the areas where people are walking, why? because it lasts so
long and because you won't slip if you're wet walking on it because of all the sand in it anyway
guys, acrylic oversteps my name is Kirk Jason on the camera, as usual, we thank you for watching I'll
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