hello there folks Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, my sons and I are going to complete
the Santa Barbara finish that we started here about three weeks ago. Had a lot of rain, can't
do this in the rain, especially with parapet caps. Water hits those caps, and if it's not dry, it
will bleed all over the house. Anyhow, what we're doing Jay come up with a good idea to explain
how we're converting this older style cottage into a Mediterranean style home, if well I don't
have pictures of this house before they tore the stucco of, but that house right there that's what
this house used to look like, almost identical now what the fella did is he, he brought me some
pictures and I don't know if the camera will show these right here the same house and this
looks like. I asked the fellow, I said where'd you get that picture? Santa Barbara, San Diego on the
coast, this is a Mediterranean style house and the way we could make this look more Mediterranean is
we bulldozed everything we put rounded corners the bull-nosed corners and also he put the tile roof
here the terracotta which adds a good twist and some of the things that we're going to do today
is we're just going to finish up but I figured I'll show you guys once more how we apply the
Santa Barbara smooth mission finish and I'll give you guys some big tips if you're ever going to do
a Santa Barbara smooth mission finish we always take our, the last time we're here, two or three
weeks ago. we always take our finish around and minimum three inches preferably six because when
I start my finish today, as this has been on even yesterday it would when I come to this point here
if I don't wet this right now or missed it it will have a different color right here and when
you walk up to the front of the house you'll say wow, why do we have two different colors this is
the most important thing when doing bull-nosed corners. When you do a color coat so I'm going
to have to miss this right here, I didn't really want to wet this wall because as is right now
it's about 45 degrees, coldest, cold, cold, anyhow so we're we have to wet that over here, I'll show you
guys something, again when the last we were here we had the opportunity to knock this wall out here.
Which was good because now I'm starting fresh with a chimney here, the chimney here, and then
I wrap around here when we're doing the bull nose with the Santa Barbara well if you're if
we're doing bullnose with any finish even Santa Barbara one coat say skip trowel, anything with
with bull-nosed corners you got to come around so we're going to take this all the way around
and we have the luxury right now of not worrying about this joint right here, so on that other side
we've got to take more care. Anyway we're going to we're mixing up Dan's mixing right now we're
going to get started. when I get to do the Santa Barbara, right here I'll show you it's a to coach
system anybody's going to try to do Santa Barbara in one it will spider crack it will checker so you
put your first coat on your base then you follow up with your second coat you allow that to set
and with Santa Barbara smooth mission the most important things are knowing your submit a fella
can knock this wall out here in an hour or fella can take four hours on just this if they don't
know what they're doing you put your first coat your second coat and you have to know when that
second coat has set in order to come and steel trowel it now so anyway that's what we're going to
do today when we get to that point we'll show you hi guys Jason here I wanted to give you a couple
of tips on mixing Santa Barbara smooth mission finish so why don't you follow me over this way
This mixer is really loud, so we got it turned off when you mix in Santa Barbara or when you're
spread in Santa Barbara. Mixing is half the battle. You can be the best plasterer in the
world, but if you don't mix it well and don't follow the instructions, you're going to have
a tough time. One of the things you have to do with this product is you have to slack it. you
mix it for five to ten minutes, then you slack if you let it set up, and then you give that
about ten minutes, and then you remix it, and that gets it to the right consistency for the
guys spreading it, so I've got my mix coming out so once I've got it all you just come and you get
your extra here we don't want to make a big mess once I raise this mixer Bell and of course, it's
got my wheelbarrow kind of locked in so I'm going to start it up to get it out of there
I'm going to start-stop again so that's how we do that I'm going to get this mud to the guys
over there spreading and then we'll show you that in a minute. Alright guys we are moving, I'll show you
what we're doing here we're doing the two coats. Jake's, doing the tops, were just doing a the middle I'm
just doing the bottom. by the way, both of these guys have licensed stucco guys too. but they're
helping me out on this one. Of course, here we go all dirt is a common enemy, one little grain of
sand and we're screwed up okay by the way guys see this square trowel here, this is nice I like
this pool trowel and what you don't see on this pool trowel is the top is squared off, it's not
a complete circle sometimes I use a complete circle but this one is square. I still have to
use a margin trowel or the square one sometimes to get corners, now say for example here's the first
coat and as I was saying we we plaster around so I'm going to do it and it come up like so
right here you come down over my own work I'm going to come up and come down over my own work
again I come up I come down over my same work the idea is you go right next to it about half
way we come on up and then you come down over the same work the reason we do it like that is
because it gets rid of all the holidays you come up say here and you come right back down over your
same work excuse me Tim, excuse, and Tim we take it round here bullnose bull-nosed corners bull
nose bull, bull and this is just the first coat the other in Santa Barbara Santa Barbara does
require two cokes see that this is the first coat leaves all these chatter marks, see all that
chatter, that's okay cuz the second one get it out and when we come to something like this.
that guy's on here right here this is like spreading taping mug guys tape and mud spreads
really far anyhow we're getting ready to set that top or put our second coat on the top and
notice I didn't wet these walls I need wet him because it's a cold day today but I do have to
wet the joint they're right here notice this - listen it's really important see how white this
is its Hacienda the colors? Hacienda this is Hacienda, but this is dry this is wet and if
you don't wet your joint like I have been doing we're going to get a color difference especially
when I go right here on my joint the color will be a bit different so always remember what that
joint anyhow we're going to stay busy and here's important wrist - I'm right here at the corner
right here at the corner, at the corner right there and then I'm going to float that joint in. That's
what happens when you have bull-nose corners no matter where I finish you're doing anyway when
I get ready to do the second coat will show you that part - okay guys now what we're doing is the
second coat we've already topped out the top with the second coat now we just got to bottom up and
you see all the chatter marks again that's because it's only the first coat notice how smooth this is
that's two coats and then I have to let it set and when it sets I come back and slowly trowel it just
like that and you see that little bitty thing if you have one grain of one grain of sand it will
mess you up, so clean buckets, buy brand new buckets clean your trowels, clean the wheelbarrow clean the
mixer, all right now I'm going to start here and put my second coat. I'll show you how easy it is
this is like spreading taping mud here, guys, I'm first someone take my joint around now notice it's
not so noisy right now because I'm not the first coat it's real loud because I'm scraping
the wall hard now this one I'm kind of I'm not brown and what I am leaving a little bit of fat
a little bit of fat just enough fat, so that I can play with it now okay once I got that Oh bullnose
corner don't then I'm gonna come up right there I'm doing the exact same thing I did a second ago,
coming up coming down on it coming up coming down on it just yeah up down and I got so much fat here
that when I take it around here I'll take it right here that's what the fat comes from this will give
it about this one this real popular in Santa Barbara that's why they probably call it Santa
Barbara smooth mission finished it's popular all over the world Mediterranean look Greece, Italy a
lot of those places have this particular finish. Okay, now I have an inner Cove right here, inner wall
I'm gonna do the exact same thing I did a second ago start right here put a little bit of fat on
here like right there and it really doesn't matter guys if you pull it off the hawk the top or the
bottom I get a lot of comments saying you're not a plasterer you pull it off the bottom sometimes I
pull it off here thanks to him and when that happens you throw your mud away, let me get some more mud
hey Tim, get off, get off the top please. get off the top please. You just dropped a whole bunch
right in my hawk, any little divots, no problem. Dan hold off on, before pulling the windows too.
Anyhow back to where I was yeah, just like so one grain or grit in this will mess you up. It's just
like yeah, if Dan or Tim is above me or anybody's above me, and they drop anything or kick it on the
wall man a lot of work to fix that stuff, so you try to avoid it we come right here I'm putting
it on a little heavy this is a tricky finish to do it's one of the most difficult and probably
probably one of the most costly, because you're doing two finishes. if you're good you can do it
in about, oh, about time and a half it takes to do afloat finish anyway guys. when we're done with
this complete job I'll show you the completion of it and you could judge for yourself if it's
something that interests you, alright guys, we are complete finally with this home hello son
we're right in there hopefully we can capture some of this, the fella, Brian here, and by the
way we are in Kensington right by the Arlington Circle. the fella here wanted that Mediterranean
look I think we've captured it pretty well or he designed it pretty well over here, oh what's that
son you see what we did here looks pretty good thanks fellas these guys are all pretty good
plasters probably as good as me each one anyhow my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk giordano plastering,
Jay on the camera as usual we thank you for watching and we will see you on the next one.