Howdy Folks, Kirk, Jay, Louuuu and Dan here,
Today I'm going to go over something and a fella asked me this uh just two nights ago;
he said Kirk, can you explain luminite? So I explained it and I thought you know
we're going to be using luminite on a job so I'll show you guys what it is what is luminite,
luminite is an accelerator for Portland cement now see this stuff, Lumnite, just like my brother Louuuu.
Okay, so what Lou's doing is he's going to take some of this
Lumnite, he's going to add it to the mixer. This brand new is like eighty dollars a bag.
I remember when I first started it was 15 a bag. Anyway you take one handful and it'll accelerate
a five-gallon bucket of mud just like that, in four months you'll need four handfuls and in
a year you'll need 12, because this is it's like ammunition guys it gets old. Any of you seasoned
veteran plasterers might notice, you'll say why not use the Eisenwall? I could mix some Eisenwall
in this, but you're not supposed to do that, this is a hydraulic and this is a hydraulic,
however this right here will change the suction and the color guys.
Don't do that, anyway I'm going to walk you back here what we have here is man we
started this house a year and a half ago, and they were waiting for the windows or for the
rear doors it took them six to nine months to get these doors and these guys were pissed off.
Im'a walk in the back quick thing, we did this in uh Christmas, a week
before Christmas just for the heck of it. See that little tiny crack there? owner said
why is that? I said you don't have any cracks anywhere else in the whole house, why do we
have that one? we had five weeks of rain and this right here this wasn't here, this is six
pallets two tons a pallet so you just added 20 tons of material what causes cracking guys?
The rain which lifts the ground and more important vibrations,
when you put this much weight, a little bit of vibration, it's like Kryptonite to Superman.
So, stucco and concrete, they don't like vibrations. Anyway, we're we're going to walk in the back,
here first this guy he was waiting again, this door took a year to come the one in the back
took uh six months to come, and what we had to do because they took so long is we had to repaper it.
The paper that we had here it, itwas it didn't get beat up, when do you change
papers? When they're in the in the wind, the wind shakes them and it beats them up guys.
The Staples it compromises, so what we did is we put all brand new paper, Dan's
finishing up the caulking, and we're going to show you guys how and why we're putting the
Lumnite into the material, because again this is almost eight months old now, and what we're going
to do is we're going to scratch and brown this out, now guys, again if I use any other kind of
cement I'd have to wait 28 days before I do the color here and even then the suction would be
different. Right here if I just say just something to throw this out if I use eyes and wall it
would absorb 10 times as much as that, that will create a color change that will create a texture
change so this is technical stuff now guys. Most people say, I'll never need to know that, but
in case some of you advanced stucco guys, want to know why your walls bled or ghosted that's why?
Anyway, Lou's going to bring us some stucco here and again, these doors,
six months ago and the one here almost a full year there I mean the owner was on the phone,
hey man come on what's with you guys? I overheard and he was calling him,
man, I'm tired of waiting guys get them get these doors over here.
A nyway so we're ready to do this we'll show you that right now all right guys
here's what we're doing now we are putting the a brown coat on I'm doing both coats at once.
All right that's at the end of the day, guys this is our second job and we're getting kind of tired
it's almost five o'clock it's time to go home but we gotta knock this out here.
What I'm doing here guys is,
I'm just one coating everything when I, when I say one coating, that just means I'm not going
to be coming back to it, take it up sideways put it on pull it upward, okay, now over here
now, if I if I had a cheater I could put it on quicker,
all right, we're walking the plank, just like an old pirate movie.
Hey Dan, you can fill this board up, and you can start this side.
That way, I'm not doing it all myself, and see all this stuff, guys again that's just where
we're waiting on them sometimes, you gotta wait there you go, fill it up and make Lou work for it.
My brother's been off for a while, He jacked up his foot, so he's back.
How would you guys feel if you ordered some windows or doors
and you were told, okay they'll be here, and it took forever, like this guy,
over a year for a couple of the the sliding glass doors in the front. That just goes to show you guys sometimes,
you could plan out a job, plan everything out, and doesn't always work how you, you like,\.
So what I'm trying to do here, guys is I'm filling this up, putting, uh oh about
7/8 of an inch roughly on here.
Once I got that 7/8 of an inch
then I'll Darby this out.
I'm going to tie it into this right here. I'll show you how we do that and guys if you're gonna
try to do this, don't try to mix it yourself and and apply it yourself; that's the cardinal sin.
Too many guys say oh, I was watching you do it, so I decided to mix my own and put it on,
doesn't work guys, and because I have accelerators in this,
you can see it's starting to get stiff, so we gotta hustle, oh
now I'm pulling it up right here, because I want I don't want this to dip in.
Oh, huh, exactly.
I'm thinking, guys oh it's starting to get hard, and we have all mixer; that's when the fun starts.
Thank you.
All right
What I'm gonna do is finish just this little area here, then I'm going to grab
my cheater and use my lat's to put it on instead of just one arm, go a lot quicker.
Okay, so
I'm looking at my low spots filling them up, all right
now; what I'm gonna do is get my darby, and a Darby should be wet when you
go to Darby the work because, if it's not wet, it'll pull it off; it'll drag.
All right,
So again, what I want to do is make a flush. I want to true it out, true and plumb,
here we go sideways,
here we're going to pull it back a quarter, go up,
pull it
up, find your find your guide for the last coat; what the heck does that mean?
Like right here, that's a straight corner, so I'm trueing that out now, here I'll take this corner
and go that way; the last thing I'll do once more is true it out.
All right, all right, so that's done guys that can be that can sit for about
15 minutes, then I'm a hard rubber float it. We'll show you that too; this is where we're
at we put a little bit of water in this sponge, I went ahead and floated this when you're bringing
new mud into existing guys, a little bit of do the patty cake treatment, for the mechanical bond.
Get it wet, Anyway, we are almost done to bring new mud into existing mud.
It's kind of a drag, you gotta, got to, you gotta go upwards a lot, of a lot of pressure,
so kind of like this, that's why you're kind of wet it first too just tap it
you're putting it up now, What we did is we had a whole mixer full of mud
and we we applied it, we finished this, this entire back and we finished the front,
just now, so now that it, uh uh on and we're able to relax a little bit exhale.
Because we were sweating, man, we don't want to lose that; how stiff is this
Kirk's the best. All right, you see now here that's still the higher I go up it
gets hard. Anyway, I'm messing around now just because I can.
Okay, there goes and what you want to do guys is
bring the new into the existing hard use a lot of a lot of elbow grease in here, you don't want
to go too soft you want to put a lot of muscle in there, and get it up under there, otherwise when
it dries you get a big perimeter crack, this guy here has just to clean this, and make it pretty.
so that the owners say, whoa, I think you guys know what you're doing!
Okay, there we go, one last little piece here, and we got to get back on the front because
we're burning daylight. And it's time to go home.
Anyhow, guys, you get an idea of Lumnite, and how it sets a dual coat, as far as why,
I already mentioned that it's kind of complicated. Anyhow my name is Kirk, Jason on the camera,
we thank you, guys, for watching, and as usual, we'll see you on the next one.
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