Howdy guys, Kirk and Jay here, with Kirk Giordano plastering.
This is for a fella called Bill Tucker; he asked me how do you put the Skip
trowel on, and how do you know when it's ready?
I did the patch, and I tried it kept falling off because I use the same Portland cement-based product.
I can do it, but you can't show somebody how to do it, because it takes years and years of experience;
they sometimes like over 20; look at the Skip torowel finish; it's done with a 20-30 material.
So what is 20/30 material? Well, 20/30 material is medium sand, and here's the medium sand; now,
I could also use a 16/20 or use Santa Barbara, with this finer sand to match this finish.
To give you an idea of how to skip trowel it, guys, I'm going to show you a few things,
okay? This is a this was a stud house we just put it together.
I use a hard rubber float, and how I give you an idea, it still saw let's make that little
hole there; that's how green this is. We just applied this about a half hour ago and if I poke,
poke right here between the field, you can see it moving; that's okay.
Your hard rubber floated with hard rubber float two coats because we want to open it and allow
it to breathe. After all, I'm looking at their finish here, and it's kind of tight; what happens
if you steel trowel a base coat? Right now, it's open; it's allowed to breathe because the hard
rubber float opens it when you steal a trowel; it can fight or check or crack. So is it a big
deal? No, but it can happen like, say. I take my trowel, you know I mean.
I don't have to look back; you just steal trowel and what this does is it pushes the aggregate in,
so if we're pushing the aggregate in more than what the hard rubber float brings out,
then we're going to be tighter and finished so we push it in this way when
I do my texture it matches the base better. And guys, you can take if you see something
and skinned it like that, don't pull up on it; otherwise, you loosen your rivets just
like that guy. Okay, let me get back to what I will show you guys. A fella named bill, alright,
he says well can you show me how to texture? I can show you how bill, but you're not going
to do it unless you have about Oh 10 years behind you of actually doing this I used to
do this for union-shop that's a whole shopping for every day eight hours a
day that's all I do four months at a time just do textures, or we do just Darby or float in.
And it's how you get really good, guys; what I'm going to do is I'm going to put it over here
because you'll be able to see it skip if I were to skim coat this whole wall right here with this.
You won't be able to see it, and it's not necessary anyhow, so you can take
it away a lot. But, guys, some guys they're real adamant. But, hey, I want to take it off the top;
you can take it off the top. Still, this guy took it off
the bottom; what does that mean? That means he pulled it just like that.
Okay, now watch the guy you want to make a sporadic if you go sporadic,
meaning start at different areas because this guy was kind of sporadic actually, he was very
sporadic he was like okay is it almost time to go home and there's nothing wrong with that.
What we do is we look at it; this guy went straight up. I'm going
to go straight up; here's the thing, guys. Okay, now notice it's on the flat trowel here,
and I'm keeping it somewhat flat there's a gap, but anybody who watches what we do you'll get
an idea of how it's supposed to be done by others. Can anybody just start texturing? No
can anybody laugh at paper wire heck yeah are, you bet that's pretty easy, but these textures
take years of learning how to do them. I could almost close my eyes and do this stuff, guys,
because I've got just months upon months of doing this stuff working with the Union.
Now I got much. I got years working
by myself to license, so I could take this and trial it down now if I'm using a finer material or
finer sand. What's original? I leave it longer; if I'm using a heavier grit, then I hit it quicker;
you can do all of this stuff if you know how anytime you get a leaf, hey see ya get rid of it.
Okay, back to what I'm showing you guys; I'm pulling it here. I'm just showing you guys how
we are doing this, this is actually Jays' job, but because I was in the neighborhood, I thought,
why should you guys have all the fun. I stopped by and was like, come on, dad,
I can do it, and I thought, well, I do have a little time to kill, so I'm killing it right now.
God sees you don't have to look too many guys, but you got to know what
you're doing, got to know how to do it. you got no way to knock it down; you got
to know a whole bunch of things that a five-minute video is simply not going to show you but for the
sake of the fellow who asked me how do you do it, here's my advice pay somebody to do this because
you can spin your wheels and try it and that's all you'll be doing is spinning your wheels.
Then when you paint it, you'll say, wow, somebody is sitting in the hot tub going, dude,
what happened over there? If you ever get that, you know there's not enough alcohol on the job if
no one's supposed to know the pass and notice patchwork. Anyway, you see how easy that is,
guys, but I make it look easy. Jason makes it look easy because we've been doing this stuff so long.
In a little area right here that I just caught and sometimes we'll do a video and somebody else, oh
hey, I saw a little thing that you missed before we leave we catch any and everything like that
straight line there wasn't too beautiful miss that would make it pretty alright there we go anyway
bill this was for you buddy because I told you I'd do it and show you. My advice is to hire somebody
because you really need about 10 years of hands-on experience to do with texture; my name is Kirk.
I'm going to jump on the freeway before it gets too much traffic,
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