hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering today what I want to show you guys
is how to repair some styrofoam mold now this particular one a no chewed it up we got a couple
more on the other side where the steel is even mashed there a lawnmower hitted what is styrofoam
balls all it is it's styrofoam and they put a fiber glass finish over it then they usually
set that fiberglass with the cement issus type of bonding agent and they put it on the back and
they attach it alright how are we going to clean this up I've done about a thousand of these I've
actually installed on one job 30,000 feet of this stuff 20 years ago took me and about 10 guys 30
days to do it anyway let me show you how to repair this now first of all get your dog cubone they
love doing this stuff here's what I'm going to do guys all this nasty stuff here at all it is this
loose fiberglass take a brand new blade and start getting rid of it because if you try to repair it
and all this stuff's in the way when by the time you're done it's just going to be everywhere and
it makes it a real house or to do second thing you do is after you get all this loose fiberglass off
it doesn't matter if it's in here but if it's on the outer edge right here it'll stick out
everywhere and I'll end up having to take it off later anyhow which will increase my time here so
I know what I'm doing so I'll get it off now then once we get all that off we're going to I'm just
going to use regular Portland cement Portland cement we're going to mix with clean water and
sand I'm going to fill this up trim it out and match this finish now the Portland cement won't
adhere to the styrofoam not for more than a year and a half anyhow so I'm going to put a little
bit of bonding agent on this can you do this absolutely does it matter what color the bonding
agent is no can you use any of the white bonding agents that they have at Home Depot and Lowe's and
all the rest of the hardware stores absolutely I got a I got an email yesterday a fella said he's
putting a security door on and he needs to know how to pull the foam off and I told them yesterday
an email I said get self a big blade for a sawzall all the longest they have that is usually for
metals because I don't think they have them for concrete of course I could be wrong there's a
cement tshis finish that holds this on get started and you're going to destroy a blade or two and
just cut them off and that way you can reattach them I know I've taken these off many times and
reattached them but that's another question for a fella I thought I'd answered since I'm here
and he just asked me yesterday anyhow what Jays going to do is mix me up some hot mud and when
I say hot mud it's well it's the man who's going to put some luminite in it what is lumini that's
an accelerator that will I only want five minutes I don't want ten or twenty minutes to be here all
day because I can work this in five minutes and as soon as Jay mixes that up I'll show you how
we repair this and match this finish there's not a finish I can't match either done them all some
of them take me a little bit longer than others but I can match every one of them so we'll show
you how to do that in a minute alright guys now we're at the stage where that's all prepped I
was going to I can put a darby here and fill this side but you wouldn't be able to see it or could
I put my four foot rod and these come in eight twelves I've got them all on my truck but anyway
to for the sake of showing you guys I grabbed a little piece of metal because I want to show you
guys what I'm doing you can use a two-by-four sure wet to 2 by 4 1 by 2 sure wet it even this metal I
want to stick it in some water wet it why because I don't want to cement to stick to it now say if
I put it that way right there I mean I can put it either way guys it really doesn't matter I put it
this way I could actually hold it better and what we were doing is we were going around the house
filling up all the rest of the holes because this mud wasn't set yes and you see this mud here Jay
put luminite in this and sometimes you wait on it we waited about 15 minutes for it to start
the actual set time so now it's set and I can do what I was planning on doing so one hand I'm going
to hold this guy here and get it to where I want it the next hand I'm just going to fill this guy
up with mud start from the bottom work my way up let's see a lot of mud my dart my other tools will
work better this is flexing a little bit but Oh Kirk can handle it so this guy up take a mud out
of the bucket with one hand holding this with the other all right pulling it up like so get it yes
right or close enough because this is a template and once I get this where I want it I can pull
this off all right now see you may lower my hands down a little bit because this piece of j-term is
flexing on me all right now that I got that just slide this off and will this adhere should okay
here we go we're going to slide it up slide it up at all oh we got a little boo-boo nothing we
can't handle imma let this set about 15 minutes so it's almost pretty hard and then I'll show
you how we float it in the meantime I will put that piece back in get this guy here okay guys
we are multitasking as usual we've done all the rest of them around the house while this one sets
and you missed it this thing is still flexible as I wanted to show you guys something that when
I pull this off it fell off a big patch that had to redo it gay was still filming I said what the
heck he is still filming for says it's for our blooper video oh great anyhow now that this is uh
it's set pretty good that's been about 15 minutes yeah we waited 15 minutes for it to set we waited
for 15 minutes after we applied it luminite man I don't care how much time you got in a we got over
30 years still tough to gauge this stuff alright I think that's about right what we're doing is
we're taking a green sponge float now and now all we're doing is floating it we're bringing out the
sand or bringing out the Agra dude this is sand or aggregate so what we're doing now is going
upwards Y upward because if I go downward it all fall but it tends to follow the float okay so now
that I got that about where I want it couple more times go down here when I just said not to but I'm
doing little circles right there and get this and last thing I notice is this is pretty rounded off
or bull nose right here mine's too straight so I'm going to take it right here on this corner
and just give it a same finish as these guys gave it go up a couple times and again guys depending
on what type of finish you're dealing with that's what you match that's what we have pull this guy
off and this around here and rest go a match not a big deal but you got to know what you're doing
a lot of little things little tips that will match this out on the money anyhow guys my name is Kirk
Jason on the camera as usual we thank you guys for watching we'll see you guys on the next one
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