Howdy folks, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano Plastering,
today I want to go over a question that I get asked lot and it's usually in my comments they'll say,
Kirk, how did you match the finish because I tried it and it looked like just concrete.
floating on the wall looks horrible I'll show you why guys because the guy who did this it looks
like concrete floating on the wall but he gave it his best shot and actually I think it's not bad
it he would have matched the finish if he would have just known how because he already put it on
you could see the trial marks and everything hard as a rock now we put a bonding agent on here now
the bonding agent they come in blue paint green yellow you name it they come in all different
colors and that is just so that what I'm going to put on now which is raw stucco it's just Portland
cement premium we use I'm gonna skim it with with Portland cement and I'm gonna show you how to take
raw stucco that you just have trial marked I'll show you guys how we get the finish guys because
I have to do what you did first I got to mimic this guy's work here and it's it's not that hard
to do we just put on another coat actually I I went ahead and did that top so that this
wouldn't be too long so any time you guys do this you'll be doing something like that right there
bring me a little bit more mud, baby we're finishing up a job come on back,
come on by, come on by, a lot of things going on,
guys no such thing as a construction site with not a lot of people walking around, so okay
and all I'm doing guys again I'm gonna give you the same finish that most of you get when you
give it your best shot okay don't mind people walking around this that's normal for job site
okay so this is what you guys end up doing you put it on and then you make it about as smooth as you
can under the circumstances this had some humps and bumps but I'm not gonna get everyone out I'm
just I'm just matching the finish all right so I'm recreating what what the hell yeah no one's
gonna notice that it's a lot thicker because it just doesn't show now he was full a minute ago
and now I'm fuller and this is where the the feathering comes in say like for example okay
this is what he had when this dries it's gonna be it's gonna look like this concrete look light
gray rather than dark gray that just means it's drying now here's the thing guys I'm gonna use
a float these yellow floats are called killer B floats you could use a green float yellow float
however whatever finish it is you just have to know the right tool for this particular wall you
see the grayness all these grains of sand okay the grains of sand mean that actually this is a text
coat over a float finish but what we want to do is we want to get rid of the concrete look okay
if that dries again it's gonna look just like how we found it so we don't want that we take
a sponge float and this is called feather and in guys when it's first wet what you want to do is
just get you want to feather in the existing to the new okay here's the new we're gonna feather
that right into the existing stucco I always do my feathering in first before I hit the middle
of the wall because the float will accumulate sand and if it accumulates sand or when it accumulates
and it gives a different finish it's more of a blob jump now notice okay I'm taking the sponge
flow and I'm tapping all the water out because too much water this is gonna just fall down like
here's an example okay too much water you see you can't do that guys you use too much water
it just takes it all off so I'm gonna get right back to what I was doing I thought I'd show that
because some people say what happens if you use too much water that's what happens it takes a
stucco off what happens if you don't use enough water well nothing happens it's just like using
a hard rubber or polyurethane float so all we're doing now guys and this is what you what one of
the number one questions and when when I get comments they'll say hey I get it looks just
like a slab of concrete that's because you're not using the finished tools that you should you look
at the finish if it's this which is a float or a sand finish both mean the same thing sand and
float same thing we call it a a float finish in the industry because we're using a float to
bring the sand out or the aggregate out but it's a sand finish okay so if you ever hear somebody
say well I got a float finish or they say I got a sand finish means the same thing alright so this
is that what you folks the last phase in what you need to know to not make it look like raw
concrete on your wall you've got to use the right tool the right finish and all we're doing now with
this is we're bringing the sand to the surface and there's a lot of ways to do this guys and
the fastest and easiest way is with a sponge float now they make them green yellow they make them all
different kinds of color blue but the idea is you see that's starting to bring the sand down
now it doesn't look like a piece of concrete that's stuck on a wall so when you guys the
next comment I said I get I received to any of the nine videos we have online if it's say Kirk
hey how do you do it mine looks like concrete I'm just gonna shift him to this video right here and
say here's a video how to do it it's long drawn out but we've got a lot of things going on today
and we're trying to squeeze everything in I told the fellow here hey I'll take care of that where
are you you gave it your best shot it's not bad but it could be better and this is better this
way gotta sell the house people don't say hey man what's up with that area right there anyway
you see that's how to do it guys you gotta have the right tool if it looks like a smooth finish
use a trowel but for this particular it's again it's a float or a sand finish because we'll bring
in the sand to the surface anyway guys that's all you need to know and it won't look like a
concrete finish on your wall anyhow guys my name is Kirk Jason on the camera way thank you for
watching this quick little narrative video of how to make your concrete look like stucco and match
the existing finish as usual we thank you for watching and we'll see you guys on the next one
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