Hi, guys Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, my son Dan, is helping me on this one and doing the
filming let me show you guys it's Monday morning today and over the weekend I had about 4 calls
and emails and folks say hey I'm doing my foundation walls one guy said it cracked
like an egg he called me cell phone and say hey why is it cracking like an egg the mix go 3 2 1
3 basic mix is 3 2 1 that means for every 100 pounds of stuck a hundred pounds of sand as a
rule that changes but that's not what I'm here to explain I want to show you guys how to do a
skim coat like say Dan come over here show this right here you see now this is a straight piece
of wood see how this I can put my hand in here but yet this is flush and that's flush we're
going to correct that now this was already done once and fella whose job it is he came
in all these marks here are from a grinder they grinded the whole thing off so what I
did when I first got here was I hosed all the dust off because if there's dust guys it will
not adhere this coat will adhere for a bottom a month then he'll come right off so we got
all the dust off I've already spread this side right here I'll show you guys what I'm how I do
it all right now generally I don't want to be on my knees so sit on a bucket I've got about
got about a bucket here I got a square trial and a pull trap now I'm scooping out this mud in the
bucket from the bucket onto my Hawk now this is a dry wall if I have wet it then my mix would have
to be pretty dry but it's vice-versa my mix is kind of wet because this is sort of dry a lot of
wiggle room there guys now what I generally do is I'll put a little bit on and I'll come up you can
do this too guys if you're not familiar with how to use the tools but if you do that there's more
to clean up on that brick what I will generally do is come up and once you're familiar with the
tools you have this luxury come here and you just touch the brick just kiss the brick a little bit
with the trial okay show you something put it here and come up I'm trying to get a big bow
out right here too so I'm going to put a little bit more than I generally do right here to get
that bow out I'm going to go about an inch and a half right here then I'm going to feather down so
here we go one scoop to scoop takes them off here start from the bottom come around I'll
show you how I come up to the brick okay I'm put a little bit more thicker here a lot more
mud because we got a big bow in there show you guys a couple more right where this is how I'll
come up to brick stay because I don't want to clean that brick but I'll show you how to clean
the brick to take some mud here come up push it here push it up and just kind of come right up
to the brick right there here I went a little too far but that's okay this is how we spread
out concrete walls guys and again you it really matters if this concrete right here is wet then
this will have to be the opposite I'm going to fir this out a little bit more because I know
there's a big hump in this wall and what I do is see here I'll take this come up here tie it
in right underneath and pull this for the sake of showing you some other stuff because this forget
monotonous I'll show you one more trial full come up squeeze it in there just like that squeeze it
in there there's another thing guys like say the brick that we've already got done here now what
I'll do is a clean bucket of water I'm gonna put this clean water on this paper here and what I'll
do is okay that's brand new water no dirt no no dust no submit in it now you see this right
here where the brick touches the stucco here's a tip guy I guess you can call this a trade secret
but it's kind of common sense okay we Bend this a little bit because it's a brand new float now
I'll start I'll but this clean float on this clean brick and what that does is gives me a
clean line where the this Portland cement is not on the brick then I'll turn it around and
I'll make it um do it one more time at the top now I got a clean line here without a bunch of
Portland cement on it and because my float is dirty now now I'll go ahead and do the base
now get the majority of the wall this is called a float finish we can do this with colors we can do
it with Portland cement any of the cements we have we can do this because it's just a
sand finish float finish whatever you want to call it now I'll show you one more time and get
this bucket out my way I got a dirty float so because I got a dirty float I'm gonna put it in
the water flip it put it back in the water I'm going to clean that float I'll show it to you
right now it's going to be a lot cleaner okay now we got a clean float we're going to repeat
exactly what I just did in order to keep this from turning gray if I get a bunch of stucco on
this like the last guys they'll have to use a parodic after to get it off I don't want to do
that so again here's what I'll do I'll take the clean part of the float go on it whip it around
this part is dirty this is clean so I just tilt it that way I'm keeping the brick clean then we
do like so we floated okay now we're floating this and if you turn right here you'll see the
finished product this is the finished product that's called a sand or a float finish but
you really got to know your cements anyhow guys my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk giordano
plastering and as usual folks we thank you for watching and we'll see you guys on the next one