Hello folks, Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering. Towards the end of the day,
Dan had a question for me, he asked, how long do you think you could put two coats over this wall here with
the smooth Santa Barbara mission finish? I said about 10 minutes, and he said like to see that, so
I thought I'd show you folks to what we're doing is smooth Santa Barbara mission finish we're doing
the house here when I get done with this wall we walk you around and show you the whole house with
bullnose and all that stuff anyhow guys here's the proper way to do Santa Barbara smooth mission
finish and when you're doing Santa Barbara smooth mission finish you want to do to coach you do not
want to do one otherwise it'll chatter on you it'll crack I'll show you how we do these guys.
okay, one come up, come down just for you beginners you always you fill your trowel
up you come upon it, and then you come down on it watch go right to the edge come upon it then
come down on you don't want to do this guy and keep messing with you don't want to mess with it
here's what you do you start from the bottom one stroke you work your way up to come here
come down over your joint that's my joint right there I go right to beginner, my guy
and come down there's my buddy I'm showing folks how to do this see there start here come up and
come down I better do a good job cuz Robert the owner is watching me now alright yeah I
Just call you Robert, Brian. That's the fella I was dealing with a little while
ago. You're doing a fireplace for my call. This is hell. Are you ready for us anyway,
okay guys? This is only the first coat you come up to come down on your own coat one
more hawk full, and then I'm gonna double it up here we go all right.
Know what I'm gonna do is immediately double it up now. If I were to hose
this wall down with a lot of water, I can go elsewhere and mess around,
but because I didn't put any water on here, it's absorbing quickly, so now I've got to.
I've actually got about ten minutes before I double this up. So here we go the same thing,
guys, and start from the bottom and come on down. You notice you're not hearing that
trowel sound anymore, the deep one because I'm putting this one on a little heavier you won't
hear the trowel scraping it hard, okay now three more hot bowls, and I will have this complete.
alright, go I'm coming straight upon it,
coming down on it, and I'm going a little bit thicker than my first coat
a lot of fellows out there talking about they do the Santa barbara's nutrition finish and
one coat i say more power to you what I tend to get spider cracking or checking when we do that
because we'll put one thick coat on don't allow that to dry then you put you just try you wait
for that to set and you come back with elbow grease and yeah you pounded down it'll spider
check that's what we always have to do - you're not doing - it's not a true Santa
Barbara smooth mission finish it's somebody else's idea what it supposed to be all right
last hoc pool and then what I'm gonna do guys is I'm gonna give this wall bow oh it's kind of
warm today right now even though it's toward the end of the day we are winter time go get
this about all right guys that's about a half hour right now what we're doing is there's two
coats on here and I'm just traveling up smooth now I like to use a swimming pool trowel to get
smooth like this because it's easier than a square cha but of course so Jake right there,
he's pretty good with that square trowel, he's good as I am with this round trowel, I always
say that because he does cage fighting on the side, so anyway this is what we're up against
after you allow that to set for ya just it takes practice all this stuff takes practice
its amount of look at the wall when that walls ready and that takes some practice so you got a
look at it and say if you hit it too late then it's dry as a bone if you hit it too
soon then it just streaks right off so we're about ready now and this is all we do we put
the final touches on this - do these bull-nosed corners like this that is an art it really really
time out of course we're all pretty good at what we do here anyway this is the last part I'll
show you and then we're done with the complete job we'll show it to you okay guys we are all complete
with what we're doing today too much work to doing today anyhow, I'll show you the back beautiful,
beautiful, beautiful, finish that is Santa Babara's smooth mission, come on over here, Dan and you can
show this wall right here see that and we still got a focus on the front but that's for another
day and then you guys, who think old Kirk does all this work by himself most of the stuff, I do but
big jobs like this you got to have some raw talent, Jason down there they're tearing the scaffold down
if we had scaffold here, he does rock climbing he does ski patrol, does one-arm pull-ups, Jake, there
is a cage fighter, man these guys are strong you got to have some strength when you're doing this
kind of work or take your time and do it slowly, anyway that's the Santa Barbara smooth mission
finished for you folks, we're getting ready to hit the road and we're coming back another day, but
I wanted to put a conclusion on this, my name is Kirk I am with, Kirk Giordano plastering,
I appreciate you, folks, for watching and wewill see you guys on the next one.