Hello folks, Kirk here with Kirk giordano plastering, we're going to do today is we're
going to show you how to do a scratching of brown on them pretty cut up porch I came here the other
day and they were just getting ready to do the concrete work by the way the job is completed
the construction by Mark sure-sure design and construction you could reach him in Albany his
telephone number is 847 8900 does kitchens bathrooms he is absolutely one of the best
contractors out there in fact I was noticing when I came out here two days ago the rebar they put
inside the front porch way above what's necessary in grade five heavy-duty stuff must have been a
real challenge just to bend it all anyway what we got going here is it's pretty cut up it's a
small thing but it's got a lot of corners a lot of columns a lot of detail to it so we'll show
you how we do it when we get to that stage all right guys I'll show you a little bit about how
mark laughs this a lot of times we'll laughs everything we do but sometimes to contractors
want to laugh that we we go ahead and encourage that mark did a great job here underneath here
he's got metal he's got a great membrane he's got paper and we're going to go right down to
the stairs it's got a lot of a lot of columns columns here a lot of corners a lot of detail
inside the porch area there's also a lot of detail what you see here we got on the other
side but we're not going to be able to show you that because of the tarp but it's going to be too
however we will show you how we do the scratching the brown on this it match the 15 finish and we
get to stage we're going to go ahead and turn that noisy mix around right now so once we get
going I'll show you how we do it all right guys we have put in the first coat on let's
call the scratch coat we're going to come right back around it up it has a chance to tour all
right guys everything is scratched poppies his horizontal line that's the stretch what Jason
are doing this mono fat ugly coach because I'm going to brown it with all the Darby as soon as
we get it on and this doesn't have to be Freddie Mac ugly or the fat we put it on real heavy that
way when I come to uh guarding it which I'll show you in a minute I have some excess mud
I don't have to be pretty what I like it a lot of fat in my corner,
my corners right here on money like that ugly it was better as long as it's at what a lot of
battles all right pull it off fat more fat loser my next gonna be okay now that that's
done we'll take this dari or straightedge I'm going to follow my crowds maybe your
screens here right here come straight it up just like that I have holidays follow.
Just like that throw that excess Roger here. Here's a touchscreen right here,
so I'm going to follow my drip speed that's my guide in the corner push it
in like down push it in I have a lot of fat there, so it makes it a lot easier
than trying to put it on too thin too much work like yeah see how we get a nice clean
Yes, there it is. I Gotta pick this straight up here. I just know this for a long time. I used to
work behind a pump where we would shoot out about 10 or 15 houses of the game, and there'd be a guy
like me, and we follow the pump so take practice, but that's how you get a wall sure and plunge
again right, here sweet that's what I want to get on I got excess, but I look for a place that's all
just put that, but on here we go one more time in that corner just like it I'm going upward
nice clean corners this way when I go to float this the walls true and plump if the
walls trick fun my jobs easier I have it all on alignment where it's crooked then I've got it
put it down we always wanted a wall trim here we go I can actually look that right there one more
time right here straight up and what I'm using this Darby I'm doing this pretend nurse we're
taking the wall here straight up like this not pushing it in gouging it every which way straight
up just like that there you have it this is going to sit for about 30 minutes then it's ready to
flow I'll show you that part too okay guys I told the homeowner and the Builder mark they said well
you ever seen a texture like this and what they originally had here was a float finish a heavy
float finish for these Albany homes real real common and what it looks to me as if somebody
came with some last American primer real thick pink and they applied it with a roller and I
see a lot of this inside I rarely see it on the outside but anyhow I'm going to show you how we
match this particular finish then on the front of the house we're going to give it the proper
finish which is a heavy float finish all right enough it's not here now say for example I've
floated this already this is pretty wet we're using a rapid set you got to keep this stuff wet
they said earlier wrap it said it's that same day stucco that just means you do the scratch
coat and the brown coat same day but there's no such thing as a one coat material that I'm aware
all right now that I floated it that's what they originally had looks like they applied the bonding
in order to paint and then they use a heavy roller so let's see what we got here that's it I see this
often on interior finishes where it'll have a heavy orange peel look so that's what I'm going
to do on this side here when we get to the front we got all that tarp in the way it's going to be
kind of tough to see it but I'll show you how we're just going to do a regular floats finish
such as this right here right now we're at a stage where we're allowing this to dry another 10 15
minutes we get there I'll show you this okay guys the front of the house now and what I'm doing here
is uploading everything a lot of water with this particular product we want we wanted to slow cure
start it off pretty cold so that's good alright so now this particular finish of I'm hitting it
very light with the trowel after I put it on just just knocking some of the hive stuff down because
that's what they have in the front of the house just barely knock it down now I don't want to
go hard I go hard I seal it in the crack or on this cap here I asked the book what do you want
one it's solid so you can place a plant there and my recommendation is when pyramid that way water
doesn't set so it wasn't my recommendation what we do is we just little bit of mud on it watch
how easy this is to pyramid this okay start here and it actually works out real well it kind of
does it for you that's what we call a pyramid that way the water won't set there but you can't put no
plant there anyhow we're gotten about another two hours and we're finally completed everything else
I'll show you the results of it alright guys they're all completed with this as you can see
our texture matches their texture you did a heavy float like going over with a trowel just barely
touching it to get what they have here we had a little bit of issues with these columns and
these caps because the corners were tweaked here in there alone but nothing we couldn't
hear anyhow my name is Kirk thank you folks for watching it as usual see guys on the next one.