Hi guys, Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering,
today what I want to explain is some veneer plasters, what is veneer plaster the majority
of veneer, plasters are for interior bathrooms showers, kitchen someplace where you want a
hard durable dense and strong finish, so you like if you you can go taping mud here but it's three
separate trips and you have to put the first coat on allowed to set 24 hours, second coat
let that set and the third coat then you got to stand the piss out of it, takes three separate
days for something this small it is I've done it many times but it's pretty time-consuming.
This particular material I'm using here is a an imperial base what is an "Imperial base,"
it's a veneer plaster veneer plasters are really strong and you go about an sixteenth
of an inch to three thirty-seconds of an inch for your first coat anyhow I'll show you I'll
get started here with say this shower here and by the way if my buddy did the tile here you
got slits in the floor for the water to drain and surround or the doors gonna go right here
gonna be really cool but okay I'll show you how we how we apply this veneer plaster and usually
guys if you can apply tape and mud you can apply a veneer plaster or compound plaster or cement
or anything, it just takes a little bit of practice again, I said a second ago that we can
go anywhere between a 16th or say three seconds of an inch, with this for my purposes eighth of an
inch is okay because we are gonna double up in about 45 minutes to an hour with "Diamond,"
now I mentioned I'm using a base coat of, Imperial, Imperial has a finish coat also, but I kind of fond
of using diamond over the base coat of imperial, I've done them both actually diamond, makes a base
coat diamond actually makes a finish coat too what's the difference between the two a little
bit of structural strength few other things I'm sure for the sake of explaining a few things I'll
tell you that a lot of these finishes where they like I'm just going over sheetrock right now, if
I was going over the old lath where it has slits on it where the mud, mushrooms between the two, I
do say I can use this base coat or I could use a struct-lit, and go one-half inch to an inch
For my base coat, but we're going over sheetrock now suit rock is started by Oh 30s and
40s brought over from Europe, and it's been used here for, since early forties or late or early
early 30s late 40s early 50s, somewhere around that time and I'll tell you the sheetrock makes life a
lot easier, also with sheetrock you got a lot of different colors usually the colors dictate what
its intended purposes is, this particular product here let's see can you see I won't you won't be able to
see me spreading anymore well just for the sake of you won't be able to see me spreading anymore but
I'll give you an idea of different sheet rocks. if you have the old gray paperback sheet rock or
the blue, blue board that's specifically engineered for plasters, you don't need a bonding agent this
is white sheetrock or even if I'm going over any existing wall then you need a bonding agent, that's
what that pink stuff is, there is a purple sheetrock and there is a green sheetrock those
are pretty much the same thing those are like mold and moisture resistant, can't say waterproof that's
a dirty word on the plaster in industry, nobody like to hear that word, but the blue, the blue I'm
sorry the purple board and the green are mainly for showers, bathrooms, things of that nature where
you're worried about water, so I'm gonna go ahead and finish this base coat here and then when I get
to the actual finish coat, I'll show you that too because, I can apply that same day, in about an hour
and guys that beats the hell out of doing the the, so-called taping mud, where you're here just
too long, so when I get to that stage I'll show you that finish over this finish which when done right
it gives you a really really strong plaster finish, which hides all the joints, imperfections, you don't
see the nail heads, but he used screws anyway, I'll show you that part when we get to it alright guys
we are back and that has set enough I got a cool air coming through here so what we're gonna do now
is just put the veneer finish on, and we're doing a smooth coat today on this on this here can you do
a float finish make it look sandy, yes, can you do a skip trowel yes you're doing a float finish say
for example where you want it to look sandy in the finish coat just add a little bit of silica sand
and what you do is you take a sponge float or you take just a sponge that they use for tile
and make circles in it, and it gives a really cool pattern, so you can do a lot of stuff with these
veneer finishes and the best part is there's no sanding as I was saying in another video that a
lot of these veneer finishes, if you can use your tools to spread Say, taping mud, you can do these
I got asked well how come I never see it done here, well only plastering contractors usually do this.
if you hire a fella to do that the tape in mud or the sheetrock what he's going to use as a bazooka,
and that just he tapes and does the seams at the same time it's economical. If your gonna do
the, Diamond finishes, just need a fellow who is familiar with veneer plasters, I'll tell you in
Ireland that's all they do veneer plastering, they don't do a lot of taping mud, anyhow so we are
moving with this, and any of you folks who say how come I don't use other finishes there's a
lot of finishes you can use guys, again, I don't recommend taping mud in the bathroom but have
I done it absolutely, it just depends on what a person wants they tell me Kirk, put this we put
it but I always recommend something better like this and by the way guys what would happen if I
just used say a diamond or an imperial finish without a base coat well of course I've tried
it, and what happens is the finish slops all over the place because it has a tendency if you
just use say just a diamond finish over sheetrock, without the base coat process it has a tendency to
slide drag you can see the blemishes sometimes the the heads of the screws bleed through a lot
of different stuff so save yourself the time and don't try to don't try to just use the veneer
over it unless you're experienced and you know how to do it. but for you, homeowners stick with
a two coat and these bags actually weigh about 50- pounds you kind of get what you pay for at fifty
pounds somebody might say well heck heck with that I'll just go ahead and use a 20 minute compound
with you can use. the bags are a lot lighter and they come in 10 20 40 60 90 minutes before they
set this particular stuffs here sets in about oh, I'd say about 40 minutes 40-minuts to an hour
if you have dirty tools a dirty bucket a dirty drill they will set about half that time notice
this base coat it's got sand in it this doesn't have any sand see how it dark and that's when
it's dry when it starts to darken so we're gonna finish up the rest that camera won't show it and
I'll show you the finished product when we get to that stage okay guys I'll give you a last couple
tips that I've learned over the years so I put a piece of red tape here around the surround, where
I'm going and I take a little bitty brush now and we just clean up, that, that guy right there and
if you get any slobbers on the wall just take a towel and wipe it down or better yet if you folks
watching me, or not plasterers cover everything with plastic, I'll show you I'll explain a tip that ole, "Fred Smith," taught me 30 years ago he would do two rooms and I barely finished one, and I said
dude how are you, how are you able to do it that fast and he'd say because I lay it on almost to
perfection, what does that mean? back then I would slop it on and it looked like crap I was using
a 12 by 5 square trowel, just a little bit bigger than this stainless steel and he had a pretty big
trowel, I mean I was like a 20 inch and he'd slam it out he wasn't using a swimming pool trowel. By
the way guys the so-called swimming pool trowel there's straight on the edges here it's just
curved on the radius, but anyway, if you leave it as good as you can that way when you come back to
use your felt brush or the big paintbrush or a spray bottle which we use these days what we do
is we hit it with water and then bring it back to life, when it starts to darken like this
it's starting to set on such a little thing here I don't need any water because I've been doing this
too long so you see my finish I laid it on I laid it on well now I'll take a wet trowel and yeah
I'm using a pretty big trowel, people always come in say how could you use that big thing? Just practice
guys, take a big towel, now what we're doing is just bringing it to a smoother finish, as I
said earlier, yeah, you can do a texture you can do float finish you can do a sponge sand finish, you
could do any finish, but there you have it guys I'm gonna take care of a couple little holidays
here, but as that dries it's pretty damn strong so anyway, I'm sure I missed a lot of tips and
techniques as far as the makings of all of these veneer plasters, but you could always go to google
and hit "Diamond veneer Plaster," or "Diamond base coats," "Imperial Plasters," is made by the same company. anyway
they they come out really nice they're like glass if you touch it when it's dry it feels like glass
hard and solid, if you touch taping but it feels kind of soft and warm makes you fuzzy, Anyway
guys there's a tip on using these interior veneers finishes, as I said earlier they're great for
kitchens, bathrooms, steam rooms, where you know you're gonna get a lot of moisture because they
are water resistant my name is Kirk, Jason on the the camera we thank you for watching and as usual guys
we'll see you on the next one.
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