Hi everybody Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today I got something kind of
fun for you guys I mean it's not something that most homeowners or many guys are ever gonna have
to use but a couple months ago my dad brought home this husky mortar mixer and said oh man it's gonna
save you a ton of time and a ton of effort on jobs and I admit I was a little skeptical at
first I thought if it was gonna save that much time why weren't we already doing it well even
with his 30 years in my decade now we don't know everything and we find new stuff all the time so
on certain jobs this thing does save me a ton of time and I'm gonna show you why today what
we're doing is a couple small patches we're using a Portland premium blend of cement and
we're accelerating that with a luminite product and when you're doing that it helps if you mix
your Portland cement for around 10 minutes first make sure it's evenly distributed make
sure everything is mixed well so that when you put your accelerator in it you don't get areas
that are accelerated more than others in areas drying faster than others you want everything to
be consistent so it helps if you can let your your mud mix for a while now if I'm doing that by hand
it just takes way too much time and it prevents me from doing a lot of stuff that I need to be
doing elsewhere on the job that's where this guy comes in a lot of handy so if I've got my buckets
of sand and the different things that I've got ready say I'm going to use 10 buckets that day
I'll get as much as I can ready and then I will let it mix now the way this works is I've got this
bucket here I already started mixing it so just to show you guys I drop this down and it starts
automatically and it sits there and it churns and it mixes this was a bucket I already had mixed
turn that off right and so you can hear me so they just while I was getting everything set up,
but I'm gonna show you on a new bucket so pop this one-off wheel it out and just swap it for
this other bucket I have that's ready there's a little bit of sand in here all the powder I need,
and some water and I can always add more water as I'm mixing if I need to the trick is you
got to start with this particular machine with only a certain amount of sand at the
bottom if you have too much then this piece won't reach the bottom and it won't activate
so now get it down there, get it mixing,
and now I can add the rest of my materials which I have a little bit in this bucket
and then I've got more sand in these buckets
and since this already has all the cement powder I need,
I can see it turning there. I need to add a little water
there we go now I can let that sit mix for a couple minutes while I go do other things
and then I can come back and add the luminite so that we can put it on and to cope with it
in a few minutes I'll show you that all right guys it's been about five minutes I let that
other bucket churn for a minute now I'm back to the original bucket I made and it's time to add
the accelerator the luminite in now I opened a brand new bag of luminite today this stuff
when it's brand new it's kind of like a food product when it's brand new it is super potent
when it's kind of old it is not so potent so I'm gonna go with a scoop and a half of this
stuff drop it in there and I can get a little water in here because this will accelerate it
so quick I'm not worried about it being too loose and then I'm gonna drop this mixer back in I give
that a couple minutes and the nice thing is like I was saying it does save me a lot of effort but
it's got to be the right job I can't use it all the time I can't use it if we're doing rapid add
or Eisenwald products but on certain jobs certain days it saves me a lot of time give this a minute
to mix all that in and now it's pretty much ready I can go drop this on the board we can get busy
anyway just wanted to show you guys this thing. I've been using it for a couple months now,
and you know, not all the time, but sometimes it's great saves me a lot of effort,
and it's just kind of fun. I like having robots do work for me don't you anyway,
guys I'm Jason again; I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering, and we will see you on the next one
you