Hello folks, Kirk here with Kirk giordano plastering, my son Jason and I are going
to show you guys how today to plaster terra cotta walls, Oh terra cotta they don't really use this
for structural walls anymore, I'm not certain if they ever did, I see a lot of three-foot ones but
this one is uh 16 feet tall and it's hollow too I'll show you how I know it's hollow well I tapped
on it I can hear the sound I know what I'm hearing and that's hollow here I can stick my finger in
there and if I didn't have gloves no I wouldn't stick my finger in there anyway what we're going
to do is the fellow here says well gee Kirk I've worked for him quite a bit of times give you his
name too we're in Alameda fellows name is is Jack Wilton of course but his telephone number is 5 to
1 7 4 8 9 JW construction a master's master as far as construction been working for 30 over 30
years you name it he does it he fixes everything anyhow getting back to what we're doing he said
Kirk what he's recommend on it I said well if it were my wall instead of Portland cement which has
a strength level of 15 and 28 psi I said I'd use a rapidset on this because it's fragile stuff to
begin with and they rebuilt the other side of the wall restructured and all that but this I
mean if your kid with a baseball bat we're at an apartment building kid with a baseball bat
somebody backs their boat up you want it really strong so we're going to use a rapid set submit'
stucco on this guy here the difference is yet it when it's fully cured after 28 days I believe
it's 4,000 psi strains that's a lot stronger what we're doing here is I'm applying the weld creating
a lot of times if you've watched any of our other how-to videos you'll see us applying this bonding
agent and we're applying it over houses that we're going to put a color coat and I usually dilute it
something like this I want full strength when we go concrete the concrete stuck with a stucco we
want full strength with the weld Crete yes why do I prefer well Creek because you can see it it's
blue if I use some of the white glues which I'm not complaining about them but you have a tendency
unless you can see you don't see the sheen you could miss spots and we don't want to miss spots
even this when it dries it's going to leave a sheen so what we're doing is we're starting
off we're going to put some six-footers here extensions on that to plank that top off and start
from the top a lot of work up there so Jason and I are probably when we get down to this level show
you how to scratch em brown skin it is what it's called I'm going to skim it about 7/8 of an inch
thick to give it some really structural strength anyhow we're going to go ahead and get busy and
set all this scalpel up finish rolling it all out and when we get ready to put that rapid set strong
stucco on it will show you that part too okay guys quick tip Jason says death how come these
bricks of thinner and these are fatter I didn't even notice that myself and he says are these
supposed to be scratched so of course he's got Google on his phone he googled Dickies partition
tile now what that is is J just explained it to me and no I don't know everything about all this
different bricks and tiles and all that jazz but they started in Oakland we're in Alameda Oakland
California 1913 they got real popular in the 20s 29 and don't figure it's a recession so people
started doing a little bit cheaper hard times anyhow I thought that was kind of interesting that
Jake caught that as far as the the grout lines or looks to be a scratch coat and the difference of
the brick we've taken it all the way to the top you can show that we've glued everything if any
of you folks out there watching what we do we do this channel almost weekly have an idea why
they would me I would think if they're going to pyramid it type put the big ones on the bottom and
the small ones on the top why is it anybody know again jay says why why is it dad I said man how
old do you think I am this is 1920s anyhow we're going to get started with the plaster work okay
guys another tip the fella Jack when he put this board on here this terracotta is very wavy some
areas we got inch and a half some areas we got it on the terracotta what I generally do is I'll
scratch it and grant it I'm scratching this whole job and then brown in it and now I'm not putting
the scratch marks in it but that just means I'm putting the first coat so right here the camera
should show that it's we're about an inch and a half and I'm feathering everything in so now I'll
show you over here a little bit remember if we got any tile guys from from the past you guys can tell
me why they're using these shorter ones and then they have the thicker ones on I'm surely like to
know Jase and I have come up with whole bunch of scenarios why I don't know the exact reason sure
would like to anyhow what we're doing here is all I'm doing this I'm scratching everything first I
didn't show you the tops because there's always somebody who's gonna say hey I do like old Kirk
didn't climb way up there and kill themselves so we don't want that anyway on this bottom here this
is just a scratch coat and the follow-up coat is like that where we put where we're roughly a
quarter inch to an inch and a half with everything and we're feathering it all in to make it as true
and drum as possible so this is just the first coat right here and I'm taking it into the coat
here where I put my two coats on it then my below here it's a little thinner so it can accept the
second one and after I get this first coat I'll show you I can double this up I'll put another one
on it so I'll come up here just put the second coat on it guys this is setting pretty well so
just for the sake of showing you the second coat follow me throw a couple more on here do the first
ones on now the second one and you really got to know your semester if you're going to try to
do two coats in the same spot but this is a cement issus product we're going over so it's sucking the
ladder right out of this stuff here and of course I'm going to use my to handle serrated Darby to
make these walls little sure little plumber but you guys get the idea and when we get to the
stage of loading this I'll show you that part too because you only need a to see what we're doing
here and all this over here this just has the first coat I put two coats here and the Darby will
straighten all out all the rest when I what I want to do is make it fat and ugly then I'll come back
and hit it with the Darby okay guys we're at the stage now where it's a hot wall we're finishing
up and what what I'm just basically doing is using up the rest of the cement on this board we made a
little extra about a bucket or two make a little extra just put it on the wall it's not going to
hurt that wall especially if you know how to feather in I'll know how to feather in pretty
well cuz that's what we do so why throw all this good expensive stuck away when I can just utilize
it put it on here and make it part of the strength okay when you got this done take a Darby you call
different names anywhere in the world and you just gotta make it true and plumb just take it first
when I work Union I did this it hours a day every day for a couple years so you get to get pretty
good at it and the idea is we're going to float it see up there that's done it's floated when we
get to the floating stage lastly we'll show you that too but if you guys said gee I want to see
a video that you guys have done with just floating or just texturing go to our channel type that word
in and that video usually will come up say if you were looking for how to do Santa Barbara smooth
mission finish go to our channel type in Santa Barbara smooth mission finish owner was asking
me about this tree he said man how you gonna get behind it no problem we take our Darby bring it
here and just wrap it around that's how we get behind a tree then we continue doing this we're in
the hot Sun now so we're using a product that sets fast so we got to go level to level this product
is fastest setting anyhow in about 15 minutes we're going to start floating this I'll show
you that lastly guys okay guys I saved a little bit of spot left for loading just to show you how
we do this now this is a green sponge float and it brings the aggregate out and concrete that's
rocks various sizes and stucco it's sand so I'm bringing the aggregate out this is a sand finish
and so there you have it dip a float in here tap it like that dip flip it around tap it like that
and I'm hitting the side of the bucket to keep this float curved right if I do this let's mess
it up I can hit it lightly but we don't want to kink kink this out of proportion anyhow as I said
earlier if you really wanted long drawn-out videos of how to do any of these you just search our site
and type in that title this is just to show you how to correct terra-cotta what I would do if
it were my own house anyhow my name is Kirk I'm with kirk giordano plastering plastering, Jason
on the camera as usual we thank you folks for watching and we'll see you guys on the next one.