hi guys Kirk and family here today did I want to show you guys what these are these are scratchers
in my day we'd call them scar fires or scary fires we'd scar the walls with them or you
can call them scary fire for short we just call it scratcher just like this stuff here this is
submit blast and we call it mud you can call it stucco - the same thing anyway let me show you
something oh this one of those rare days where my oldest daughter Lily say hello to everybody
hello and even Madeleine melis hello they are off from their real jobs and they're helping
us out um ballons actually home from Spain and she's cleaning barnacles - in San Francisco off
the bottom of the boats because she's a marine biologist and she just came here a little while
she says dad I'll help you out on that job that we got a whole house we're doing anyway I want to
show you guys what these scratchers do here's the thing guys if you just take scratcher and
just scratch you got to go sideways if you go like this see you just you tear that wall up and and by
the time you come to do the brown coat this gets it dry and it's hard as a rock and then the brown
coat skips it hits it so that's why I always put tape on mine or say for example you you have hay
bottom and they throw it in the truck and these are not clean and they're full of clinker and
dust well actually this is full of cement watch what happens to even though it's done this is what
I generally do with this it still needs a lot of clankers is because there's cement on this
right here that Jack's knees up what I want is I want the tape to actually help me and there's a
whole bunch of different kinds of these when I was Union this is this is an original one it's
got a wood handle and it's flexible right here sometimes they Bend why is this even necessary
well I'll explain while it's necessary while I show you something down here if it's scratched
horizontally and allowed to set sure next coat keys in here you've heard a Qian like inside
plaster where now the woodlot that's called qian mist of the plaster goes through the keys or wood
trim this wood trim here has a key on it the stucco goes in that key so it's the same thing
with the next coat this has got to set and the next coat keys in here and you can see that's
pretty raggedy - that's a little ragged here than I want so I'm just trying to please a point here
guys I'm killing time and explaining something as we go along so here's what I want to show you
guys all right guys I'll show you what we used to do when I was a union blaster we take a scratcher
We take gasoline or diesel, we pour it on here, light it, and I would melt all the
tape. That's what all this is about. Don't do this, guys. I'm just explaining it would melt
the tape here we take a trowel and get it rid of all the clinkers get rid of all the red tape
that's what all this, wow, that's what you guys are doing, big job contractors do this.
cut it, lay it down flat and what we're going to do is we want to use we put it
here one about a quarter inch scratch 3/8 now that's set here I set it right there I
take my tape oh man what a Whitney day I put it here, and I take this side wrap it on top
pretty can we take a go like so that way the tape sticks to itself between the scratches
Now watch this. We take it so much easier excuse me, girls,
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