howdy folks Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering today I'm going to show you guys how we
match a texture one of the things I want to show you too is I've explained this in about 20 videos
if you're going to put a cement tshis finish over a color coat or a painted surface apply
the bonding agent to the wall now the fellows here I can tell they applied the bonding agent
into the cement tshis mix how do I know that because this piece how it bends that's got a
the bonding agent in it and it's got an acrylic so it bends you don't want that this is not an
acrylic material this is the cement issus finish now how do I know that because if you wet it wet
it it darkens that's cement tisha so the idea guys is and I have this asked a lot of times how do you
apply a color coat maintenance-free cement tshis finish to a wall well you do this guys I'm using a
bonding agent in it's it's it's blue it's Larson's it's it's called weld creep and okay I'm making
a big mess but to prove a point I use this blue Larsson's because say I mean of course Jay and I
we're we're kind of a family oriented business we have our I have my other two sons with me also and
we know what's going on but say a company that has ten guys ten guys you can't see if you use
the white bonding agents for here you might miss a whole wall now the fella here he took this this
pressure washer and he used he used 2,600 psi to remove all this plus he scraped it when I got here
I thought I want to make sure so I used it nothing else came off so it's most of its off that's going
to come off so anyway guys I'm gonna show you how we now match this because the fellas that did this
they they dashed it how do I know they dashed it and they used a hand hopper because you can
would here that's it's all over the wood where they didn't cover it that's you could throw it
on by hand or you can just use a hand hopper and blow it on so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna they
did at least two to three coats it's roughly about 3/8 of an inch thick in some spots so
the first thing I'm gonna do is I will spread it with my first coat allow that to satin then
just double it back up okay guys we got a lot of things going on with this wall what I've done in
some areas where it come off where it's 3/8 of an inch thick I went ahead and spread it with
cement here I'm just spreading this with color coat and by the time this dries I'm gonna hit it
with the proper grit this is twenty thirty this is sixteen twenty all I'm doing is filling it up
to get it to its correct thickness I'm gonna take the whole wall then I'll show you the final coat
okay guys now we're feather in we're feathering in a quarter inch to here this is not something
any of you guys can do that you don't have if you don't have at least five years of floating this
this is not something I can help you guys with because it takes so much practice if you don't if
you go too too hard you push it and you give that same indentation so I don't recommend anybody try
doing this part here floating cement into a cement Isha's finish and trying to get the joints proper
you're better off with the scratch and brown on the whole wall but anyway we do this all the time
and we're almost at the stage where now I'm gonna skim coat the entire thing okay guys the party's
over for me J was spreading and I was floating right behind him so now in order to show you
guys what we're doing I gotta spread we're cuz we ended up doing the whole wall guys if you do the
whole wall that's the best way to get out all the imperfections and we're going with a heavy texture
it's 16-22 match - finish they say what is that technical stuff guys anyway what I do is go ahead
and fill this hock up like so and just start from the bottom we're using a heavy material
so you can't get long stretches some materials like like Santa Barbara I can get eight-foot
yes I just come all the way to the top go all the way down but when you're using 16 20 this
got heavy grit so what you do is you apply it a little bit more and then I'll show you
how we floated that's how we're getting the same finish that they started off with without having
to - it and again folks this wall looks like a rainbow wall with all the different colors of
different procedures we've been doing no matter their painting at any house so it doesn't matter
come up come on down here come up guys come on down and what I'll do is I'll show you how we're
tying all this together all right now what I do is take the handy-dandy wet sponge flow a lot of
water guy and I float into my finished product so I'm floating into here because I've already
got my top done with a lot of water gives it dad heavy looking that I'm floating into
here which is God this is already set here and I'm taking my new float and bringing it to the
existing flow and again guys they're painting it so we're just go overboard but I told them
we'll give them perfection on this wall here and that means corner to corner we come as good as
the next I love doing patchwork and that's what i bitted just to patch it in but we're here now
I figured it's not too much longer for us to go ahead and float the entire wall off we got
another 10 minutes we'll be done with the entire wall then we'll clean up and show you the final
finished product okay guys we are complete we're showing you this one wall but we did quite a few
walls and the moral to this story or the moral to this video is do not add the bonding agent to
a cement fishs material and expect it to bond to a wall if you want and a material that's flexible
by an acrylic they stick to everything you won't even need to apply the bonding agent they have
a primer instead anyhow we've gone from wall to wall from floor to ceiling completely the texture
is solid its uniform that's the way it should be done anyhow folks if you like to see any types
of jobs perform click below this video and hit the comments and say Kirk how about showing me
this or that and we'll include it sometime in the future anyhow my name is Kirk I'm with kirk
Giordano plastering Jason on the camera and as usual folks we'll see you guys on the next one.