Howdy folks, kirk, Jason, and sons here with Kirk Giordan plastering, so you guys want to be a big
time stucco contractor? I'll show you what we're doing guys, we're, we're putting a scratch coat,
and it's going to be another one of those, triple-digit days. So we're trying to stay out of
the sunlight, and tell you guys some stuff. Here's what we're using, um well we're using super cement,
What does that mean? just a portland cement guys. They're all the same, see in here we have this,
is just starting the day. We're gonna go through this whole load today. I'll, I'll show you kind of
what we're doing, I'll just give you guys a few tips on a few things here, now most important,
you guys, we got colored concrete here, what's colored concrete? If this is tan, what happens
when stucco hits colored concrete? Instantly it stains it, so rather than come back another day
and hit this with muriatic acid. We leave the stucco on here we clean it up, and we don't take it off
today, any water will bleach this right here, so we're trying we got this really covered well, and
here's what we're doing guys. i see how it is. using my stuff, huh guys? Because it's so
hot today already it's like nine o'clock and it's already pretty hot, what we're doing is we're just
putting a scratch coat on this what's a scratch coat? It's the first coat, how thick you got to be
3/8 of an inch, what happens if you put a scratch coat on a little bit thinner or a little bit
heavier? Trick question? Nothing, but you want to try to go for 3/8 of an inch. This finish we're doing
here is, it's going to be a two-coat system. So what Dan and I and Carl are doing, we're just, just, you're
looking at it, guys, we're having fun I'd rather do a scratch coat and a brown coat any day than
hang wire. Just my personal preference, let me show you what we're matching over here, guys let's show
them these samples, Jay. Uh, last week we were here and they have well, you'll have to come over here,
here's what you guys want to do if you're not certain of the finish, we put one sample here
one sample here, one here, here, here, here, here, but we, these will come off with a pressure washing.
Because if we put a bonding agent, then we put this, we're never going to get them off. Anyway these
are just samples this is a two-coat system and all you need guys is imagination, what they did is they
sent me some pictures on my phone, I looked at them, I thought, Okay, we can do that, we did this one, we
did this, they're not sure they want some old world charm. Anyhow, let's go back over here I'll show
you guys, well, when we get to this, when we get to doing the stairs and those tricky things and the
soffit, we'll show you a little bit about that. If we have time because, uh there's a specific order
in which you do this. Now we're trying to beat that 100 degrees, uh it's about 85 right now it's kind
of cool, so we're, we're kicking it, we'll show you some intricate stuff like say, you, you have a house
and you want to bull nose your corners here and you want to spread your arch aid and do your tops,
and as i said, when we lath this what we do is we take our straight flash, we go here
then because there's a terracotta roof going here, we take their flashing peel off the stick
and go over ours, that waterproofs it. And if i have a pyramid like this, at nine o'clock in the morning,
That means it's a hot humid day. Today. so what we're doing, guys, my habit is
I'll take my well, I'm filling up my corners.
Now for say this radius, for example, all right, we're going to do the radius,
and we're going to put it off upward, put it on an upward motion.
Upward and just hold that trowel flat,
and go kind of an arched upward, you can put it another way too guys say like for example,
some guys like to do this, they'll put it on here straight, put on here straight, but that
wastes a lot of mud. It drops, but if you just put it on here and you take it, and you go upwards.
In upward motion, guys you won't have a big mess all over the ground. The idea is
get that mud on the wall, leave it on the wall. We don't want it all on the
on the ground. As a rule, say if i plastered this whole house by myself, I'll have about four
hawks falls on the ground. Some guys will have four wheelbarrows, Now, say for the top here.
Same thing, same motion, we go here we go here going around here.
And say now just to finish this little corner right here and put this on, then we just
pull that around here like that guy pull it around, Okay, now we have our, our scratch
coat. You're doing the top guys, pull it off like that here, of the top pull it off here like that.
Bottoms of corner aids this is actually called half aid or half flange. How easy that is, guys.
What we want to do is squish that mud in there again here.
We're going to squish that mud in here, see how we squish it in there? and what happens if uh,
If you don't really squish it super tight? Nothing, it'll just fall out,
guys. you don't want to keep playing with it, and have it fall out, so that's how we do it, guy's,
then the guys who are doing the tile work, they'll come to do their tiles,
and they'll counter this, the the tile will cover all of this to waterproof those areas.
so again we'll take it off here and put it on.
Go here, Okay, let me finish that cap off. These radiuses they look tough,
but they're kind of like doing a ceiling; ceilings are a lot easier than they look if
you don't have a sandy mix; if you have a real sandy mix guys, you're going to have more on the
floor or the ground then you have on your ceiling. So make your ceilings one and one, that means
Portland cement and then just a little bit of sand. We usually, right now we're going three in one.
Three and one is fine for a wall. Okay, now I'll show you one last thing because
we got to get moving here, like say a radius here, you see how that goes here and put a
little bit on the toe, i'm putting, i'm trying i'm putting a lot of here, let's go over here. Okay,
let's go over here, Okay guys, we're gonna do this radius here, the radius is,, if i just hit
this radius right here ,and i don't hit this first when I hit this radius all this mud falls out. So
first thing I'll do is do the top because I want the top corner,
I want this to hold the radius cement, for example.
Now the first thing I'll do is I'll go sideways get it started. Now i'm set, to, it's on my toe
here, so we're just doing that doing that. If you think the man, I'm going to lose a lot of
mud, hold your hawk under, your trowel meaning you see here, my hawk is underneath. Why? my hawk is
underneath, so that if i do drop some, which we're trying to defy gravity you can't defy gravity.
you could only apply it and then when some falls catch it, so boom that's done. And now I could use
my scratcher or we could use a float, but just for the sake of showing you guys, when you're
done with all that, here's what you can do guys, you could use a paintbrush, or you could use the float,
get all the water out, and this is considered a scratch I'm going to take this right here
go around, that's scratched guys, that's okay, and that's ready for my next coat.
The bottom here that's okay, That's ready for my next coat the top here.
That's okay. That's ready for my next coat. When are we gonna do the next coat,
guys? You could do the next coat 48 hours later, a week later, two weeks later, a month a year.
It doesn't matter; uh, the longer you leave this on, hydrate it float, it'll expand shrink,
and that's pretty important when you're doing color finishes, but for a two coats stucco system.
One week to two weeks and we're in mid-summer. So when we get done I tell the homeowners, I
say hydrated it, and they say what's that mean? That means you soak the walls down, you soak it into
it no longer absorbs any moisture, and when it just floods off just like a waterfall. That water or the
wall is hydrated well enough. As we're hustling because it's going to get into the triple digits,
we'll just show you the very ending. Now we're going to take it all the way around ,working with
Dan, Carl me and Jay, so uh we'll show you the very conclusion. All right guys we're just gonna show
you the completion of what we've done today. We used the full truck that we showed you earlier and
about another half load. This is just the tip of the iceberg, what you see here it's about five
o'clock now, we've we've done everything around here ,uh we did a lot more than we're showing, but
without the young bucks here, I might just have some energy left in me. Anyway, my name is kirk
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