hello folks cooking Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering down here also hanging out somewhere
anyway see this texture here this is what we call a knock down - what is a knock down - well here's
a - brush it's in water and here's mud we - it then we take a try and we knock it down and that
gives it the texture that is why it is called a knock down - and to do a knock down - the wall
got to be ready your cements got to be ready for it how do you know if your cements ready well you
can feel it or you can even talk to it they like stuck a stucco on the wall are you ready for us
at all no kidding guys we float that right back out stucco stucco on the wall who's the bestest
stucco guy of them all uh-huh you are Kirk you're the best good for you I like that answer so now
we will show you guys how to do this finish okay we're going to take our brush this Jay just mixed
this working on a roof here doing just carried it up so I take a wet brush put it in water okay
there's water coming out of there knock down - guys again you got to know when the wall is
ready I'll try to talk to it cuz it won't answer you okay we take this this brush here and get it
in here now this is the key to getting a good knock down - is you got to know your cement and
right now we're a little stiff but if we're a little loose Oh Kirk can still work with that
because I could make any mud work if it's drying it's setting it's wet or dry I can make it work
here's what we want to do I told Jay make me up some stiff stuff because it's got a stick now what
we do is we just throw throw it on the wall okay now see what I'm doing I'm using the flat part of
this brush and throwing it flat I'm not getting all crazy and doing weird stuff flat part flat
and you throw it on okay I'm gonna bring this mud back to life because it's kind of set and we are
getting this transition the transition is equally important what's the transition well that's where
you blend the new into the existing transition so here I'm going to hit that I'm coming up and why
is this got to be a little moist guys if it's hard as a rock that'll still work but if it's
moist this adheres by suction and if it hears by suction it's part of the wall that will remain
on for ever so I'm looking at this again knock down - what am i doing guys - Ian can you use
a hand hopper absolutely can you use a brush like I'm doing well I'm doing it can you use
the pumps sure a lot of ways to apply a - but for this particular texture the most important thing
is a little bit of knowledge of what you're doing all right guys ran out of battery power what I'm
doing here is this two-story so I'm doing here and then I'm going to go below and do the soffit
we're not going to show you the soffit because old Kirk is going to get covered with mud doing
that but what I am going to show you is you have to see this and you think gee whiz how did they
get that well I'm going to show you in one minute because now we have the foundation foundation is
a whole bunch of mud thrown on every which way you want to but it sure should be uniform like
say I'm about a quarter inch past the original but I'm going to knock it down in a minute so
what I'm doing is I'm looking at it and because I've dashed about all 50 hundred walls I know
what I'm trying to get and when the mud gets too stiff guys dip it back into the water and dip it
here and swirl it around now to bring it back to life okay I don't need a little too stiff right
here nothing where you can handle all right so I'm back to it I'm almost ready to do the texture and
anybody looking and save man in that the texture it's close you got one more thing to do in order
to make this perfect all right there we have it now does that match heck no here's the key to it
all guys besides knowing how long your cements set and by the way this is about two inches thick so
that's another another topic I won't go into you got to know your cements and how fast to put them
on and when they're set okay here's the key guys you see this flat surface here all they did was
took a wet trout you can't use a dry crowd guys if you try to dry kraut it'll give a different
finish this child is wet now I'm going to knock it down I'll show you right here okay presto magic
after you see inside we have the valleys the valleys in the mountains and we get our joint
right here now when I do a drink guys on a knob down - I'm pushing this in and I'm lifting this
up just to get the transition the feathering in as close as possible there we have it right there
and then you just look at it say now gee whiz does that match okay these guys have about that pattern
there you go there's nothing to it the majority of work on this particular patch is knowing the
cement and how long before it gets hard how long before you should apply it and even if it was
hard or if it was too soft you got to know what to do because of that so anyway I thought I'd point
this out because we're here and we're about to hit the road so that is a knockdown - guys there's a
little bit more to it it's only so much you can get into a video my name is Kirk Jason on the
camera Dan floating around here somewhere anyway we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see
you guys on the next one once again folks we thank you for watching and I really enjoy all
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