Hello folks, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what do we want to
show you guys is how we correct the texture on this mold now notice this mold had some issues
so the painter came and they put some kind of stucco here but they just brushed it on because
they couldn't figure out how to get this texture it goes from that point here here and all the way
around what Jason and I did is Jay took the wire brush and first got all the dust and moss off the
second thing we do is we put a bonding agent on it now everybody has a specific choice of what
they want I tend to use a weld Creed it's pretty good bonding agents never let me down and over
25 years so I stick with what works but there are a lot of bonding agents that are the color
of Elmer's glue say Wyatt green you name it what we're doing here is we're putting this because the
texture won't adhere if we don't so we're doing this and I'll show you guys something else this
particular finish gave the pain or a hard time and I know why because you have to really know
what you're doing to do this particular finish he gave it his best shot of like ten different areas
on this house but I'll show you something okay you see this finish here first they spread a 16 20 I'm
going to show you what that stuff is then they floated that after they floated that they came
and they put a texture so it's a little bit of work to do and you've really got to have some time
in in order to do it let me show you something over here I figured I'd bring a bag out because
someone's always going to say man what's that 16 20 see this la habra la habra makes color coat
materials they make all kinds of stuff but now notice here it says base 100 that's that's not
what I'm trying to get at 16:20 you see that 16 20 that means it's a heavy grit that's what they used
on here if you were to try to get this this is a la habra and this is base or I'm sorry did 20 30
that means it's finer then they even have one more bag which I have on my truck but I didn't want to
carry 100 pound sack it's not open this was heavy enough for me it's about 60 70 pounds left in here
but anyway you got to get the right texture or the right grit if you're going to try to match
something so what I'm going to do here is I've got some color coat material so we're going to
we're going to start by just putting a new texture on it so what I'll tend to do is I'll come up up
here put some on it back now again this is just a color coat material from La Habra and this is what
had the painters known that's what they would have used but I'm not criticizing their patch
because it gives me something to do also I'm not a great painter myself so here we go I am pretty
good at this stuff right here and I'll show you how they took it right to about here that's where
I'm going to take it down to after I now sure I get this texture on everything then I will come
back and float it and floating it is just we take a green sponge load and bring the aggregate out so
I thought I'll just take it right to here rather than it's going to take me another five minutes
to spread out the rest of these so I tell Jay to turn that camera off and when I spread the rest of
this one and this one I'll come back and show you how we do the texture all right guys I am finished
spreading these out now what I'm going to do is a lot of things to consider too I mean this is such
a simple fix right here is a flow bucket I'm going to float this because their base coat that's what
they originally did they floated it mean they took a green sponge float and this is called
floating it and what I'm doing is I'm bringing the aggregate out bringing the sand out giving it that
sand finish that's the base coat base coat has got that and finished and because it's kind of a cold
morning and I just put weld Crete on here and yes you can put it on directly while the weld Crete is
tacky you can let the well crease it a day or two or three however you want to do it but the bottom
line is on something like this is in order for me to match the texture now I'm pretty good at
texture matching but this is too wet for me to texture so what I'm going to do is we're going
to go on to other things and I'm going to give this about 15 minutes normally I'd have to give
it about an hour but the camera will show this and I'll explain it I put luminite in this stuff
luminite is an accelerator that's what turned this white color I use - this can so what I'm trying
to do is accelerate this dry in time so that we're not so-called watching paint dry no fun so
in about 15 minutes this will be ready this base coat has got to cure in order for me to match this
particular texture I know this I've seen textures where it's on wet or it's on dry finish so I
already know that okay guys we've given this about 15 minutes how we give this texture generally
what I like to do is start start up first I'll take it right here and just kind of stagger it
this is dry enough where it's still a little wet but I can make this finish work
take it up then we're going to take it down meaning okay now that we got that far we'll
take this and skip it it skips naturally on a dry surface it won't skip if this is wet what
it'll do is make a drag that's not pretty the other fellas already did that drag we don't
want to do that okay so what I'm going to do is just take it to the edge here here and when I
come to because I'm using a swimming hole trial when I come to areas such as the very corners I
can reach in my back pocket grab this guy here and put a little texture here the low texture
here anywhere where there is a square corner like so put this back and now I've got a way
to just a couple seconds for this to absorb in there because if I knock it down too soon then
it it'll be too flat so what I want to do is I want to match this finish right through so
I can't can't knock it down just yet check this side here it's ready to go all right so
if you're going to knock it down now you folks trying to do this stuff you might be able to do
it possible if you watch it enough okay maybe not it does take a little bit of time in guys
you got to know your cements like I'm looking at it and I can see it's not really quite dry but
for the sake of finishing this up I'll go ahead and lightly hit it now my trial is just going to
barely hit it because it's still sort of wet and I got to match this finish here so the trial is
just fair I'm just barely holding it off as well off of the texture itself now take it up now just
barely just barely holding this child in my hands while I hit it too too hard it'll flatten it out
and give it a pancake look and they don't have a pancake look on their original so there you
have it folks I'm hitting it little before you guys should if you're watching this and trying
to do this but I pretty much know what I'm doing anyhow guys Kirk and Jason here we thank you folks
for watching hopefully you learned something as usual guys we'll see you on the next one