Howdy, folks kirk and Dan here on the job today, and Dan was telling me, dad,
since Jay is doing some work on his job, how about I film you? And I thought with what?
He says my iPhone; he's got a pretty state-of-the-art iPhone. I said let's try it,
i'm curious to see how well that iPhone works, to film this, when we first started like 15 years ago.
I had an iPhone, and it was hard to hear me, so I don't know if that iPhone would record me.
Anyway, what they had here was a little hole, a little hole. I bid it online and came, and i
thought, wow, i have to remove a lot of it, right there, you can see what we have taken off, and so
I know where to stop and where to start, and so what I've done is cleaned up all the wood.
Then I wet the wood, and i hit it with Weld-Crete this blue stuff that's just a bonding agent.
because in the old days, let me make sure i'm not losing this mud while i'm yammering, but let me get
I'll do both that one in the old days uh this would last it was used in say, 1890 to 1920.
Of course, if people had excess, they're not going to throw it away; they're going to use it,
so i already understand this is a 100-year-old plaster and what, what happened was the roof
leaked and so this system was so well designed that unless you get a leak, it'll last a
long time, forever so what i did was I broke out everything that was compromised. Then I
applied the bonding agent to the area that needed it, which was the wood
i wanted my stucco not only to adhere to this wood by suction, but I also wanted to key in
these the lath here the wood strips you've got your joists the joists are every two feet probably
on this old ceiling and then put these wood strips over that. So this creates a key. This is a key
right here, not a key to your front door. No, it's a key, so stucco goes in there kind of like that
old button board in the 1950s and 60s used for the interior, so what i'm going to do is finish.
bucketing this, you might say, well, what material you're using that's white? It's Kem-set plaster
Kem-set for interior and exterior use, and Kem-set actually takes a while to dry.
How wile?
Try about a couple hours, so I've added accelerators because if you guys watch what we do, you know i don't like to be here all day, especially when it's not necessary.
We don't like to watch paint dry, guys. Anyway, the idea for the mesh of this
metal here is to not only secure this but to hold the rest of the ceiling if done right.
I kind of overlapped everything because that's what i want to achieve now. Because i have put
the accelerators in here, it's taking a material that usually takes about an hour.
Sometimes longer, this stuff is very similar, i think to structo-lite,
where structo-lite is used for hospitals and schools, but it does take about
three and a half hours to five to dry. now notice this is starting to turn a
Darker color means it's starting to set. so again our almost out of here,
and what I've done, guys are again, we've added these
accelerators, so we're not here now that right there
is pretty much done i'm going to give this about
Another 10 minutes, then i'm going to finish it off a little bit tighter for the joints
but for you guys. See that, and
Dan's just using his phone for the camera. i'm curious, they can work with it and put it onto
our site, and if so, how well is the quality because it was telling me that maybe we should
upgrade our big camera. I thought, okay, if that's necessary, we'll do it, but Dan says,
let's try out my camera, and i am very curious to see what
this camera does, so while i'm messing with this, i'm going to end it.
And let me one more stroke just to make it pretty for you guys for watching this anyway.
That's how you do a ceiling, and you what i basically did is i was pushing up everywhere
when i got here, and i said, okay, here's what you have. This much is going to come loose,
and how do you know that i said I've been doing this forever, like 40 years.
I've taken off 100 ceilings, and the idea is to score it if necessary or pull it down and know
what you're doing because this whole ceiling could come down technically. Dan and i we were just
talking about it, i said, remember that time that ceiling fell on your head, my head, and Jason's?
We removed the light the whole ceiling fell down on us anyway i thought I'd point that out;
my name is kirk, Dan is on the camera;
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