hi guys Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, my son Jason and my brother, luuu, helpeing me today
on this little thing.
What we got here is the fella did the scratch coat a month or two ago.
He called me, sent me a video and I looked at It, thought that's cool. I was actually passing by the neighborhood, so I stopped to take a look at it and I said, it looks pretty
good, looks like he did everything pretty well and he says well yes. I watching this fellow on YouTube
and I learned a lot, and I said all there you go. And we're walking back to the car he's staring
at me, and I was thinking, what are you eyeballing me for? He said do you ever do videos? I said
sometimes, and he says, anyway made it was funny because he says, I think I saw you, show me how
to do it, I said if you're looking at me you wouldn't went up and down, you went up and down
on all your scratch marks, generally what I tell folks is go horizontal on your scratch marks and
why? I mean today is pretty damn cold but if it was rainy when I would put my next coat on it
will hit here and fall down a little bit, and by the way guys, see here's a scratcher he used, and
how do I know he just used a scratcher like this is because there's full of clinkers, these
clinkers, meaning during the way you scrape them off if you had a piece of red tape on it now when
you go sideways it sort of cleans the wall so you don't get clinkers or you could use one of
these trowels here it makes the grooves which avoids of clinkers, anyway that's pretty, petty
my real thing I want to do is answer a fellow who responds to a lot of my videos frustrated
is his email address well frustrating he said Kirk I got a patch and I want to make it look
like poured cement so my response last night was well I'm doing a video and I'll show you
how to do it but, there are some in aands and buts about that stuff, and he says well what
if I use a smooth Darby? Here's a smooth Darby straightedge, slicker, whatever you want to call
it.
it's smooth because generally, he says I see you as a Darby with the keys on it it's rated serrated edge Darby means if it's if it's really really cold you want a wall to set you use the
serrated and it opens it up allowing it to dry, if you flip it around and use the smooth edge now
it's smooths it ,doesn't dry as fast but if you leave it smooth like what I'm about to do right
here to prove a point it will crack there's no such thing as putting on a coat of stucco smooth
that won't crack and I'll show you I mean I'm just talking about hairline cracking so we're
going to take some mud out of here now I'm just going to fill in this patch that this fella left
us with notice I'm not wetting this wall if I wet the wall then it's going to take me a lot longer
for it to set okay we get a couple Hawks on here too I'll be able to pull this what I'm getting at
Notice guys, when you plaster, you always want to kind of lay it on. I'll show you gonna move
my handy-dandy chair, you want to lay it on and then come back down over it double it
up almost and come back down over and say, for example, I'm taking some bud I'm going
to put it on the right on top of it go up come right back down on the joint or the
seam come up on the seam straighten up my own work now what this is called is steel
troweling for the example of or the explanation to you're frustrated of why I don't recommend
steel trial finish I'll tell you right now now that I've got enough mud on here okay
now generally if you apply a coat and you want it to look like poured concrete you're going to go
like this you're going to use the hard steel edge of a trough you're going to smooth it
off okay now that's what's fine and dandy but the other thing. What happens is now I've done
many many many homes I've done a whole house where 20 years ago we applied a product we use
slickers like these with handles and it made it all smooth those houses cracked like eggs
if you're going to do a smooth coat you got to do your base coat then you bring a third
coat in because a scratching a brown our design it's normal for them to hairline so this without
being touched will it crack more than likely that's why I'm telling you frustrated there's
a give, give no matter if you do one coat or you do various coats back-to-back so this particular
coat here now when this dries it will hairline what I'm design what I'm going to do but this is
not what this is about it I'm going to actually float it now after this is done the hard rubber
floated like this now it's allowing it to dry out and come in here and see I'm opening it now now
this probably won't crack but can it absolutely stucco can crack guys it's not the end of the
world. it's when you do a scratch and brown those two are actually designed normally to hairline.
crack a little bit windows doors vibration will accelerate that anyhow frustrated I hope that
it illustrates my point what I was trying to explain to you yesterday and in a few words
that Google allows or YouTube allows hopefully that'll give you an idea you can make it look
like this and open it no cracks oh you can make it smooth and you will get a few cracks but if
you're going when it does crack and just put a little caulking in there and paint it it'll be a
little smoother looking then then what I'm doing here but this gets a texture anyhow frustrated
my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering and as usual folks, we thank you all for watching.