Howdy folks, kirk and jay here with kirk giordano plastering today; we're gonna do
this simple patch. We lathed it a day ago, and the city had to come out and say, hey that's pretty.
It passed, so what we're gonna do is we're gonna put this mud on, a fella called me says,
you know Kirk, in Mexico i see those guys use just a cheater to spread it. They cheat it all out;
they don't even use hawk and trowel, I thought, I've actually seen a couple
guys do that, and he says, well how come you don't well it's a lot easier using
this for its main purpose and using a hawk and trowel, you combine them all you integrate them all
then it's way easier. but i'm going to try that, i'm gonna put the scratch and brown on with just the
cheater and try to rod it, with just a cheater and then just to make sure i'm gonna darby it too. So
what we got here is we got an inch and a half of stucco so i put that on with the hawk and trowel
because that's got a set now I'll try this middle stuff here my brother Lou is, is mixing we're
on a hill but let's try that guys, i'm gonna go ahead and try to use this cheater for both coats
And use it for a rod. Have i done both coats? Of course, I have with the cheater
because a lot easier than with a hawk and trowel or a lot faster
easier, i wouldn't go that far. It's just a lot faster but
with cheater you have this, is called the go-devil if you're looking to buy one you would have to
type in go-devil we call them cheaters when i worked with large crews in the union so now what
you do is a cheater or go-devil is when you apply the first coat you put it on heavy you put it on tight
heavy. you gotta really force it, you gotta embed it say like with a hawk and trowel
and just naturally you're using a quarter of this right here so
you know the push is hard with this you got to push a little bit harder you got to embed it
so what i'm doing is i'm embedding it because i want it to hang otherwise
if you just put it on and you don't use a lot of force, it'll sound like cows crapping on flat
rocks, you'll just hear it it's like wow, that was a big slobber. so again what i'm doing is
i'm i'm cutting the board of what we do with these go- i'm so used to calling them cheaters and
people type it in and go kirk hey we can't find a cheater it's called a go-devil, weird but anyway
so i'm putting a lot on right here and what this does guys are instead of a hawk and a trowel which
if you go to a chiropractor's office there'll be a guy like this with a hawk and a trowel
because you're putting 30 pounds here and taking 10 off at a time kind of tweaks your spine.
this doesn't tweak your spine because you're using your lats well you put it on like that
right there, that's about 30 pounds, and you can put it on
and once you do it, what you don't see is i'm pushing it kind of hard i think if i was to
say, well, use weights as a description, I'd be pushing about say uh 30 pounds
and it has a tendency it wants to fall off
it wants to defy gravity and fall so again what i'm doing is i'm pushing it hard
and up here we're a lot thicker i'm pushing it even harder and what we do is we use our grounds
when i say grounds i mean edges for uh true making a trim plump say like right here
i'm using this the stuck here to hold it
let's see so
right here where
Well, i want to get this full corner boom. That's how i do it; you got excess put it on like that;
let's get this other corner.
Yeah, this is kind of messy. You'll tend to drop a lot more
with this go-devil than you would a hawk in a chop.
you see wires poking out, use your finger to poke back in
and the owner here he says hey kirk can you match that finish i said yeah i can match that finish
he says well they took me in the back where nothing matches he said can you
do better than this i said i can do better than that without even trying,
but that's what we do for a living now you look at your wall and i see where it's hollow right here
i can just see it so what we want to do is fill those
i'm coming in here now and again putting it on. Here's something for you to remember,
guys if you're going to use a go-devil or a rod
when you're when you use doing your wall, pretend like there's an invisible wall where you're going
to take it down, and you're going to go straight up like this you're not going to let the wall
dictate you're going to use your skill let your skill dictate it so imagine an imaginary wall
you're just going straight up like a painter doesn't do this he goes straight
so i'm creating this to be straight not letting the wall dictated for otherwise a
wall
and i can see where it's hollow
boom
just match that
And again, where i could see it, if i see it's hollow, then i'm going to go ahead and
put more than one thing when using a go-devil. It's really difficult not to have it fall out if
you're going really thick, so if you're just going 7 8, no problem, you're going a little heavier
then i keep pushing. It doesn't look like i'm pushing, but i'm pushing it.
boom
and we take it here
boom
You just look at the wall. You got to look at it sideways. You got to look at it well every which
way vertical sideways you got to make that wall, and here's where it's really hollow here I'll try.
To pull it up and straighten this wall out,
a lot of pressure, guys, oops, too much pressure right there. Muuuuuud.
Lou hates it when i do that. That's why I do I,t a little bit of mud, Lu. Jason's
on the camera lou's gonna come over here; he's going to fill this board up for us,
and we're going to continue doing what we started doing; we're just going to as he takes it there
fills that board up we're going to continue so we're going to take a break for a second,
nothing on my wall man
i'm just messing around
uh
How much money do we got left in the mixer? Cool beans, this is a rod, this is a darby;
now what a darby does? It makes everything true and plumb. now that i dropped a little bit,
but i put some new stuff on what i do is nowhere. This is the same darby principle, guys;
when you're darbying it, you make the wall pretend there's an invisible wall; you make it go straight
up. Don't let the wall dictate it; otherwise, it won't work. Okay, now we'll lose it all
up. No, it's too thick because i didn't use this now. Here's what i'm doing, guys;
now, this tool is made for this right here. It makes everything chew and plumb, so i take it.
and i just match the wall now with this much easier tool
much easier so
i don't have that uh burden which i created of trying to
make the walls trim plum with the wrong tool
okay, so all i'm doing now, guys, is i'm going to make these corners a little tighter
And how do you make a corner a little tighter easy,
put some extra mud on it i'm going to take this here, take it here?
and break out the bottom here
if i want to really, really make sure i put some on this side too
tight corner guys, yeah
now you guys can do two things when you have this like this; you could use that this here,
or if you're you know what you're doing, you could kind of go up like this
and make that
corner, then you could true it out, and if you're going to chew it out,
that just makes it a little bit prettier wet the darby because
if it's sticky, it's just going to pull the corner right off, so what we want to do is cut it
we cut it that way
cut it this way
And if you really want to get fancy, there you go now. How long is this going to take to
set before i could actually load? We're gonna take lunch, that's how long it's gonna take,
and by that time, I'll be ready to float that'll match this all right guys; we are
complete, and to answer my earlier question can i cheat this wall out we had three things go wrong
there weren't enough accelerators in the cement, so we had to sit around and take a really long lunch.
Lou hated that anyway, so we sat around for about an hour to let this set up,
and because i was using the um go-devil and not rodding it, i put a little too much cement on it.
You guys have that happen often; it happens to us, too we're pretty good at what we do,
but we make some mistakes now and then too, anyway. This is, uh, the last part of it. I
had to hit this already because we're doing a couple things; you take a sponge float with water,
and guys, this is a sponge float green sponge float yellow doesn't matter; you put water on it,
and when this starts to set up a little bit you kind of go upward motions you see
that brings out the aggregate this is sand. We want to match this finish which has been painted
20 times at least in the last hundred years, so we put this on, and if we wanted a lot heavier,
we put more water, and then it becomes sandier. But i told him what we'll do is we'll try to get
you what you already have so you just prime it and paint it. It'll match, so we put a little bit of
water on this guy here, not too much otherwise, it brings too much sand out, and we just run it
up there like this, and the most important thing, guys is your joints always take your joints and go
upward. Unless it's really dry, then you can come down with it without worrying about it
pulling the stucco off anyway. Um, use the tools that we're designed for and forget about
using a go-devil as a rod. It doesn't work my name anyhow is kirk, Jason on the camera;
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