hi, guys. Kirk and Jason are here with Kirk Giordano plastering. today what I will show you
guys is it's an apartment building now they have units above it obviously some of their bathrooms
failed toilets pipe showers things like that we were here actually about five years ago and
you can see the patch see this patch right here goes right here follow the outline of my hammer
actually you should be able to see it but I know any patch even if I did it or anybody else did
it that's what I do for a living that patch with this fine skip child finish came out pretty nice
in fact what I was here yesterday I said damn where's my patch go and I thought oh there it is
anyway I was telling the fella you know you could put access doors in this that would be the best
case scenario because this is the second time this has happened with another unit now anyway
they had a plumber come by and he just went gung ho and broke all the stucco out this is a perfect
hole for us right here because I don't have to do anything to it I just have to mix some really rich
mud if it's too sanded just keep falling out really rich extra cement and it'll go through
this rib lath and it will adhere by mushrooming on the top again it's got to be really rich I'll show
you guys a technique if you're going to do this kind of stuff put some gloves on this rib laughs
like 3.4 2.5 is sharp like razors what they've got is say I mean all these holes I've got to
do this too so I'm going to first get my glove in here and pull this down a little bit just like so
and so I got the corner of my hammer too because this stuff is razor sharp I don't want to go home
today with blood all over my hands so we pull this down a little bit and we want it we want
it downs in order to tie in the laughs that we got to put back on top of this say for example
okay that's down so called far now we're going to use tie wire and mesh this is a three point
five mesh they got it different sizes they got a dimpled they got it v-shaped this is this will
work what we want to do is we just want to kind of get an outline of what we got here doesn't have to
be pretty it just has to squeeze in there and I'll show you a little technique how how we make it it
here in there okay I'm just kind of eyeballing this open stuff doesn't fall in my eyes okay now
that we got it kind of where we want it we find that on pattern okay we got it where we want it
there's two ways to do this we could squeeze it in here even that is we want it as tight as
possible so we don't have to put too many furry nails in it all right guys we take the tie wire
and we bend it a little bit we put our bend in it we take our nippers and make of B where the
bend is right now I'm going to get it as tight as possible but it's got to be almost at a point if
it's not at a point it won't go through both of the meshes okay we got somewhat of a point and
now I've got a longer end because I'm going to go through here and hope that when I pull back out I
catch both okay I caught the top mesh and the bottom mesh and now you just put a little bow
here and that's what nippers come or use for one of the uses now what I'm going to do is I'm just
going to turn this right here and that's going to attach it both of these wires and pull it up make
it then I just cut it right there now that's pretty firm in there so when I go to plaster
it it won't will go free otherwise like say these if I don't tie it down you go to plaster and the
cement will push it up and it'll just go inside the stud Bay and we'll lose it and have to redo
it anyway I'm going to go ahead and plaster all these or lath all these then when I go to plaster
I'll show you how we do it because we got to mix up some really if mud that's sticky we call it
rich mud otherwise I can be here all day for one little patch and if any of you guys watch what we
do and you've tried to do over your head you email me it's the Kirkham it won't stick too much sand
too much water it's got to be real sticky which J is an expert at mixing so we get to that stage
I'll make it look easy because he'll mix my mud just the way it needs to be okay guys J mix me
up some super rich mud now with super rich mud hopefully it ain't gonna fall there we go that's
what I'm talking about not going to fall in my face which when you do enough soffit you learn
that it falls all over you unless it is really rich I was telling the fellow who called me it
says how long will it take you to do Kirk Mac said maybe an hour maybe two but that's working
with Jay a lot of you guys call me a man you know what I was doing a job soffits always fall on you
I was doing a job and it took me 11 hours I see you guys did it and half the time guys one thing
if you're doing it by yourself this would take me about five hours by myself but since I got Jay and
he knows how to mix and spread and this is the whole key to this right here guys is mixing if
this mix isn't right I can be here about five hours trying to get the two here that's what
you need to a truck like that doesn't have to be a big monster truck like that but that's truck
it's got everything on it you know for such a small job like this we need scaffold I need
specifics like certain materials you've got to have accelerators that when you apply this stuff
it sets immediately otherwise I would highly recommend any homeowners trying this just put
a scratch coat on and even that scratch coat could take a couple hours because as you're applying it
it's falling back in your face or you're pushing the wire up and the wires coming off this is what
I consider a perfect perfect mud so what we do is we're going to let that set about ten minutes I'm
going to scrape it like so or to you saw I'm gonna scrape it and I'm going to come back and texture
it with a la habra color coat finish so when I'm done it'll match this right here if I use regular
sand and cement it'll be tough to match it when I get to that stage I'll show you okay guy okay mix
me up a little color coat call our Coast comes in three grits you got fine medium and coarse
right now we're using a twenty thirty y twenty thirty that's what this texture was originally and
just come here I can see this patch is a little hollow so what I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna go ahead and fill it it happens to the best of us fill it up a little flush and then
just put a texture right over it regardless of the color is not going to show when it's
painted I mean I could see right now where it looks like that's more of a blob but it
actually has a tiny bit of texture and that's all we need a tiny bit of texture like so we
are actually doing a whole ceiling like this next week the whole size you look where we're going to
do the scratch and the brown so technically we're getting a little practice always helps
to keep doing this stuff over and over and over guys use it or lose it even me I stopped doing
it for a certain thing for a month then I find that Wow get kind of rusty anyway there's those
last two little bitty patches got and take much helpfully you don't fall off your own stage and
when you're doing this move this over a hair put this last bit of texture on this guy here
and yeah call it a day anyhow guys you see how it's done my name is Kirk I was dick Giordano
plastering Jason I thank you for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one
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