hello everyone, Kirk and Jay here with Kirk giordano plastering, today, I want to show you
guys is something really complex, for example I mean we're skim coating a house now that is
published possibly a hundred years old or real close to hundred years old. notice the
cracks here can you zoom in and see those cracks that is one of the most cracked up houses I have
seen in if you watch what we do you know I've seen a whole bunch of stuff. The cracks on this
house are pretty amazing, we're going to do is what they did to uncover such cracks as these
is they pressure walk or sandblasted the house they did the ferrule system on it they use sand
and glass they had a tent the whole house because it's outlawed this sandblast here in California
2016, you see the cracks there we've had nasty cracks everywhere a couple places I reinforce
they like this one with corner aid and then we talked some cracks prior that we're really bad,
and what we're doing is we're doing an unusual system here guys it's uh it's called a BMI 690
reinforced fiber cement, that's a mouthful isn't it and it's got lime in the Portland cement. You
mix it all up in a machine and we'll go around here, beautiful fellows beautiful you want to
mix up a little bit John, let me show these folks how we do this and by the way guys the material
we're using has got a lot of lime in it, and I've already covered a video It took me an hour
and I covered lime plastering and we showed, how the what's the have's and all about lime plaster.
So I won't go over that but the material, we're using here we're using a D30 where they have D
20s the 30s, and big silos and actually we could mix it with our own mixer but, like
all same day materials and I'm talking about all the materials that say you can mix and apply the
scratch in brown the same day, you can't over mix, so we're not taking any chances we're using the
correct machine which gets every mix a perfect consistency. I'm going to go ahead and show that
kind of wet looking but that'll work. Anyway let me show you the material we're using, good job John.
Okay, this is not a very complicated mixer to use. I mean John's used it many times and he's a pretty
smart guy, you probably have another the answer to that old joke, John; why I can't dinosaurs talk? They don't have no vocal cords.
Cute, they're dead John. That's why they can't. Anyway here here's a material we're using this stuff here
you see right here fibers it's a BMI 695 ER and it says here do not overmix why there's about 20
materials that are rapid right now they're just everywhere all the Home Depot's the the Lowe's
they all sell these same-day materials all of them guys you can't mix over three, three to five
minutes. That's why we've got this machine here again John, has been using this many, many times
we've done videos on how to use it to in the past by the way that lime video I was talking about or
the video where John actually explains how to use this or Jason was on the camera I'll put it in the
link below now what we're doing here is what you might say well gee whiz, why are you using this
material? Because this material has got lime and it's got the Portland plaster. Why use a Portland
plaster based with lime? I'll tell you because see here's Portland plaster we did this chimney
like four years ago and it's got some cracks why is this house so cracked? well the sandblasting
had a lot to do with it but there's underground streams everywhere, we're on a mountain, in fact
where we had just had a two-year drought I said 2016 earlier a two-year drought even at the end
of the drought during the drought after two years there were still water underneath this building.
So the building is constantly moving and I can go over why buildings crack, as I've done in ten
videos why the crack there's a hundred different reasons, and all of them are based on movement so
this building is moving a lot so, with this 690 BMI material it has the lime in it, lime
actually fluctuates a bit more, so with the lime it gives it more more flexibility. So that's why
we're using it. What we're going about to do now is we're finishing the front here we'll show you
how to apply it to and by the way since I'm on this particular product, you can do one pass and
it's best to do one pass, and if you're going over say paper and wire. Can you go one pass
7/8 of an inch thick? Yes. you can do that if you read the bags it says one pass and I've used it
many times before I purchase silos that are 28 feet tall with 20 tons in it we've shot houses
with Tommy guns or pumps and we've hand applied it here we go on 7/8 thick, not necessary we're
going about anywhere between 1/4 to 3/8 to 1/2 inch just depending on what we have here, because
we're trying to give this building some stability, now could you color coat this building just like
this? Yes, it's not going to give it any structural straingth, and the product we're using does give it a
lot of structural strength. But is it going to stop this house from cracking? No product can do that
guys, it's just it will give it a lot of strength, but, if the house is going to lift and drop, no
product is going to do that, nor is engineering say 20 tiers or piers underneath the house and
spending $30,000 to stabilize that I've seen folks do it, and those houses still cracked because you
cannot judge what's underneath the house 20-30 feet deep you got rivers lakes sometimes all
kind of weird stuff. Anyhow we're going to do is we're going to get set up and I'll show you how
we apply this material, because it's really sticky and you folks who call me and say, gee Kirk, I just
got a an email and he said I want you to uh give me a cost to skim coat my cinder block, he says I
have all the bags of La Habra here for a smooth finish I said guys I can put six to seven coats
of La Habra color coat smooth finish on it, it's still going to hairline crack in all the joints
and when it rains you're still going to see that you need to at least skim coat first, and this is
an excellent product to skim-coat say a house for Santa Barbara finish that is an excellent product
just to do what we're doing now and just skim coat, and what is it again a skim coat is simply a coat
between 1/4 inch to say 1/2 inch that's a skim coat. A scratch coat is 3/8 a brown coat is 3/8
technically now, but you go a little bit more or less each time anyway guys we're going to go ahead and
set the rest of this and I'll tell you a little bit more about this product and why we're using
it, and show you how sticky it is and things of that nature all right guys I'll try to give you
a little demonstration about how this stuff works you see again this this takes some practice on
mixing ah let's see here kind of like okay what you want to do is put it on and remember guys you
want to give it some depth you know just to say a quarter inch that's about the least amount you
want to do I'm going a little heavier than that because I want to give some structural integrity
to this now, seeing the kind of cracking we have here so with that kind of cracking know what a
little bit extra they're not going to hurt guys a little, bit more this case a little bit better so
you can see though how sticky this stuff is it's very sticky, so they say on the bags, that with
this particular material it's quite different from any of the traditional ones that we show
often, you're better off putting it on one thick coat, then say a scratch in a brown, because it is
engineered for that. When I saw this house here, they said gee Kirk, which material would you
recommend, of course, I right away, because of my knowledge with lime plastering, and just regular
all-around plastering. I said well, gee let's go with the BMI 690 and of course, I got the fibers
just because it doesn't cost too much extra to get fibers guys and it does add just adds a little bit
more strength fiberglass has been used for years and for fiberglass, they use horsehair, human hair,
you name it, pig-hair anything to reinforce this stuff, so you get an idea and this stuff again
guys it's kind of gluey so it wants to stick to the trial what I generally do is I'll put it on
working in a tight spot here where I got holes in the ground I'm trying to avoid it stepping
in it and falling into a great doom, down there but what we want to do is get it about as smooth
as we can and then we can come back just a lot of ways to smooth it out even more than this
landmine around here, Okay, so I'm putting this guy on here and what I generally do when I'm
using this 690 is I'll allow it to set, and this stuff you really cannot, or you're not supposed
to use a green sponge float you guys see me use green sponge floats a lot say like, - ah
To float it this really, you're not supposed to float it because now you're disturbing
the pack. I'm just going to finish this little piece right here, and we'll we're
a little bit busy on that other side I got a landmine under me as if one goes to that side,
so they say one more thing, guys, Okay, getting it on there coming down, let's
just get it as smooth as you can what I'll generally do sometimes is either grab my pull
trial now how you generally wet it first and this is after I let it set for about an hour
this material it doesn't set real fast so I'll let it set and I'll come back kind of like doing
a Santa Barbara smooth mission finish you just allow it to set a little bit and don't disturb
the packs the packs are important and when I say packs let's just leave it alone and let it
set and you come back and just try out all the imperfections and all the Pens too on what type
of finish we're putting on it with this particular material a color coat can be applied within seven
days seven days that's that's pretty good most most companies when you do a scratching or a base
coat this is a base coat product guys that cannot be used for a finish coat that when you're doing a
base coat with most Portland types of finishes you allow it to set about two weeks minimum so
this it saves you a week if you're in a hurry us I'm rarely in a hurry so when folks often write
and say Kirk I could have did that so much faster and I say man have at it I'm in no hurry we take
our time we do it right plus uh you know among you might call me nervous or quirky I prefer to
take my time and get it done right then go fast and be in a hurry I'm in no hurry I'm rarely in
a hurry when we're doing these videos because I got enough guys here we could take our time do
it right and this way I'm not with my nervous nature stressed out at night thinking and you
hurried up on that so we're in no hurry guys we take our time and there's no crime to be nervous
and take your time the only crime is trying to speed things up in order to make a dollar we
don't get paid to make these videos and we don't get paid by any of these cements we use our show
but I do try to show everything that we do now because you folks ask to see them anyway we're
going to go back we're going to do a few other things and then we'll show you the conclusion of
it show you the whole house alright guys we are complete let me see if I missed anything this
house was pressure washed yesterday or the day before that's what it here's a new base coat to
an existing brown coat suction and here's what you do when you're done with it if depending on
the Sun and this is everybody you got to decide how much water based on the day if it's a super
hot day you're going to be hosing this down continuously and we just put this on you can
see the outline of the chimney how about that because that is still sucking up more moisture
and just use common sense when hydrating a house anyway there's our mix right there we're bringing
that that sucker back and mr. vocal cords a thank you for the tip anyway. My name is Kirk Jason on
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