Howdy folks, Kirk and Jay here with Larry Beilman and Pat Beilman a couple of father-son
contractors, we got here, we're helping Larry do some styrofoam molds, we've already done quite
a few and these get really intricate and detailed. Pat's holding this one in place we're going to
butter it up, what we're using is a poly-bond here and of course, Larry you might have seen him
on a few of my other videos? Larry's done about 30-second story editions in Alameda alone, he's
pretty good as far as, you name it he can do it, This second-story addition here is giving
us a bit of a challenge with all these intricate details, anyway we're going to go ahead and build
this up it when we get to that next area, we'll show you how Larry, Larry is actually doing all
the mitering and all that fancy gizmo the cutting.
Where I'm not that great, anyhow we're going to pop this one on here. We're using some nails what we generally do guys is we put it in place,
we butter the back we get it to where we want it, wiggle it a couple times, no that one's that
wasn't secure because I have something to rest on, now we're going to put some nails in it ah got a
job-ready all right, pop a couple nails in these. It's not normal, I let the stucco man use a
hammer, but in this case, when it says Kirk it's okay right? I wouldn't use your good hammer though.
We need a couple longer ones okay you know what I got I knew I'd have some okay alright anyway
we're going to go ahead and get this one on here and then we're going to show you how we do these
fancy ones here we've got a couple fancy ones here and we got one that Jays sitting on that goes
here with a little detail here it's really cool when we get to that stage all right guys now he
was telling you that we're using Poly-bond to hang these molds now I have a bunch of different
adhesive things glues things here that I wanted to explain to you I've got a bucket here and
I just mixed my Polly bond by La Habra it's a cement ish as' bonding agent stuff this stuff
is really sticky really strong good stuff what I have over here, Weld-Crete, quikrete concrete
bonding agent and some sicko latex bonding agent these are liquid concrete bonding agents you put
these on before doing a color coat before doing a cement ish as' finish on painted
surfaces there are a lot of really good reasons to use these you don't however hang styrofoam molds
with these. that's not going to work what you need is something cementitious, something mud
like, now I just mix this it needs to set for five minutes, and then I'm going to break that
set with the drill again in a couple minutes when once I break that set, you'll see us back up there
hang in these molds.
Alright guys we've mudded this one and we've found some monster screws to put in that bottom piece, now this guy it's going right here of course . Larry never trusts my eye, so he's
going to measure that and make sure we have two and a half on each side. Larry gets to put in
this plaster of Paris, this stuff is fragile plaster of Paris, you countersink it wrong or oh
man it explodes. Larry wants to be the Michael Angelo of the building codes, so you know hammer,
hammer time he is doing pilot holes all that holes are so when it gets ready to screw those guys in.
if they don't have the countersink or the pilot holes it can it can shatter that stuff parachutes
right there otherwise this is very very brittle I put the school here and sucks it into something
just freakin heartbeat doesn't it all I'm doing guys and putting two nails you say why put the
nails if you have the poly bond well keep it in place because I've done a few thousand of these
over the years and a few nails do not hurt and if the nails Bend which a lot of them do if they Bend
just pull it out and start a new pot a new hole anyway you get the fun part let's put a little
bit of butter on that guy too little tiny bit of butter on it we call this poly bond butter
a little bit I just make sure they're really going to adhere their nasty stuff this poly-bond
all right, beautiful get that other hall and be a flirt guess that one's
done before we do this we've got to put some straight pieces here
Larry Angelo, you're the man those are beautiful man all right well we're going to go ahead and
put these boring straight pieces on into the straight piece here then we get to these guys
here we'll show you that last section and how to butter off the end all right guys I wouldn't keep
my fingers there if I were you, Larry, all right we got that one and Larry's gonna rub this little
half piece here we're both gonna pop a nail in there if you hold it in place brother I will
think about this stuff guys' there's a lot of room for imperfections beautiful and last thing we're
going to do is these sides all right guys after will you get everything where you wanted then you
take the same Polly bond this is all the hubber makes Polly bond and you fill everything up what
I generally do is I'll bury my nail holes now these are supposed to be galvanized which don't
rust, but by the time you hit them with a hammer, A few times they lose that ability. So you come
here and where you need mud say like every nail hole and right here where it's it's uneven guess
what guys you're never going to be able to put an arch on and have it fit perfectly it just doesn't
work that way in the real world you're always going to have to do a little bit of buttering
up so that's what we're doing now we're going to butter up everything and things like this I can
cost this right here or I can put some of this here and just flush it out anyway we're going
to go ahead and butter all these joints up now get everything true and plumb or with everything
let's give you a quick tour of it okay guys so we show you oh the completion of it they wanted some
humps and molds and how we cut back everything filled in all our joints buttered everything
so there's no gaps here and there a way to make it easy for the painter anyhow we did this side
of course to Larry and I were busy anyway guys as a rule I don't do very many Styrofoam molds
anymore I've done a few thousand in my life just hard to find companies that still make the stuff
let alone still sell it I end up having to refer my buddy Larry to Ulta or Westside called and
says who do you guys buy your molds from reason is he he asked me I suspect that it's because in 2013
where we're at now it's not like it was eight nine years ago everybody was spending money on a lot of
details a lot of custom homes may still have these but it's hard to find that's why that's why the
four companies. I recommended he calls his a Kirk they're all out of business anyway so much for
Styrofoam molds they're easy to do but it's just a drag trying to find them sometimes and a lot of
times you can't have that guys who sell it install them my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano
plastering Larry my buddy and I thank you for watching and we'll see you guys on the next one.