Hello folks, Kirk and Jason here, with Kirk Giordano plastering,
Today I'm going to show you something that a little bit different generally when over the
last 800 videos we've done every job we've done we use a specific material designed for that purpose
today I'm going to show you how to a coat driveway this is my little ramp coming up to the driveway
26 years ago I did this right here and what I do it because the asphalt was broken up and
it was a big mess and I lose got to bring that wheelbarrow up here all the time every day when
we're working so I made it a little bit easier for him to travel well it's 26 years later and
it's pretty beat-up not that I care but I was on a job and a guy was getting ready to do the same
thing and I said dude I explained to my said you don't need to do that I wasn't going to cost you
to break that out and then pour concrete hey sis I got a guy he's going to do it for 4 grand and I
thought mana I could I can fix that for 14 bucks and he says how I said well I won't explain it
I'll show it to you to video so this is for that fella poly bond what is poly bond poly
bond is for adhering styrofoam to stucco walls it's a cement ish as' bonding adhesive again I
did this 26 years ago I've driven this truck over this a thousand times that mixer been over here a
whole bunch of time and we have forklifts driving in here all the time not bad what I'm going to do
guys is I took some of this poly bond now I put some sand in it this is what I did the last time
so I got some sand in this area where it's real bad and I'm going to fill these big gas because
poly bond generally you're only going about an eighth to a quarter inch thick but where I'm
going thicker right here because I've got some holidays that are pretty big I've had the sand
to it now 26 years ago this was three inches thick in a lot of area so just to prove a
point guys and then J not going to walk across feet now I'm going to show you a fella who did
he went ahead and did a new driveway like the guy who I was telling him I don't know if I'd do that
and he says well what lasts longer as a concrete this is a temporary fix but it's lasted me 26
years I said you decide if you want to do it or just do it the right way but I'm going to show you
across the street the what right way really didn't come out so well and when the fella did that I
told him the same thing and he says uh just is the querque your concrete man oh why should I listen
to you if you don't know concrete I said I do know concrete, but I'm a stucco contractor anyway.
I want to prove a point here, so, and it's uh not like I got anything better to do. All right,
let me let this sit for a couple minutes. In fact, right here, this little hole was pretty ugly. I'm
going to go ahead and fix that too, then we're going to walk across the street for a minute,
guys, because I want to show you something all right walked across the street to my neighbor
this is concrete yeah this is my opinion has failed it's cracked worse than an egg,
but it's concrete, so he paid about four grand for this I show you one more thing
guys we're going to cross the street once more, and this is what mine used to look like
All this excess tar asphalt it's all over the place once every house on the block has
this built-up xs/s asphalt. Why I don't know, but anyway, getting back on what I promised,
it felt like show them we'll go back over here and look at my boring driveway alright
guy back at my boring driveway what I'm gonna do now is coat it I'm gonna take J mix this up
that should hopefully do it all right now. All I'm going to do is skim this guy,
and then I'm going to float it easy, nothing to it. You guys are sitting there still watching
this. You must have a driveway that's pretty jacked up - this is not very exciting work,
but this is a quick and easy way to fix it. This is poly bond is very, very strong. As a rule,
again, I use materials that are specifically engineered for that product. You guys might have
another like concrete guy might have another fix for this, such as turning it all off and
redoing it, but for a driveway guys, you really want to spend that kind of money I got a whole
bunch of bees here I guess they didn't like it when I pressure-wash open they don't sting me
All right almost got it pretty simple guys and again the materials like 14 bucks where you have
it where it's real thick and it's this won't work where it's real thick unless you add some
sand all right now that that's done that gives me a base coat now I simply get a sponge float
keep in mind guys this only really took me what are we at like 10 minutes to do this of course
I got help stasis mix it do you guys try to plaster and mix at the same time stop it at
Sun it's hard work and try to mix and plaster at the same time a lot of times I make it look
easy because I have either blue or J mixing for me if I was to try to mix my own stuff man I'll
be here all day instead of 15 minutes to do this I'd be here hours trying to keep an eye on the
mix this particular stuff you mix it you got to slack it then you put it on okay so now I'm just
going to clean it up a little bit right here flip that flip it so I don't make a big mess,
on that on the clean side and basically guys this is a driveway I'm not worried about being
cosmetically beautiful truck is going to be driving over this all kinds of stuff so all
I'm doing is giving it a sweet finish you can use the broom I can use a a scratcher is almost
anything it all depends on what you're after guys. See here get this part and we take the flow clean
it up now wouldn't you guys rather be doing this and watching football all right almost to that
stage a couple rocks in this again not a big deal I didn't really need to do this but I promised a
fella I'd show it to them so I'm stuck doing it now okay see a lot of water in there feather this
part in one more time I dip this float and that should do it well those bees just did not like
that pressure washing get off me man all right probably last piece right here a lot of water
on this guy's get my joint this actually makes it harden stronger so a little bit of water a little
bit of water that's about it water will make this a heck of a lot stronger don't ever try to dry
plaster guys doesn't work that way the water helps it anyway I'll let you folks decide what's best to
tear out a whole driveway when you're going to be driving over it anyway and even if you do do it
I've seen across the street it's still crack like an egg 26 years this lasts a long time.
Anyhow, guys, a poly bond if you decide to do this and one other thing poly bond is not designed for
this so I can do it this is my own house I'm just showing you guys it because i'm toda another fella
I would my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we're thank you for watching and as usual see you guys
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