hi guys Kirk an Jayson here with Kirk Giordano plastering today all about plastering 18 gauge
wire if it's 18 gauge you know I didn't install it I worked for this fellow I do a lot of his
work anyway he likes to use 18 gauge anybody know what kind of finish this is can you get up close
and show that that is a knockdown - finish what is the knockdown - we're going to show you how to do
a scratch coat of brown coat I'll show you how to use a go-devil then we'll show you how to do this
not now - is you mix them super submit you put a dash brush in it and throw it on you could use a
hand hopper - but these guys did it by hand it gives a little different look and then you take
a try knock it down knock down - what we got here are just a couple of our plastering tools that's
my DJ stools there and I got my brother Lou Lou is mixing why is it Lou mixing always mixed I hate to
mix another worse than mixing set and Scialfa or tearing stuff off what we're using as a premium
those green bag and yeah we buy our cement and our sand separately you guys watching what we
do you're going to go to Home Depot or Lowe's and you're gonna buy some of the rapid sets or
the other products which it has the sand in it all you guys do is add water difference between
what we do is I buy bulk I'll fill that truck up I'll get two yards of sand 1015 bags we could mix
that sand all day with that particular cement the products you buy at Home Depot or Lowe's
three to five minutes that's it most of those products they'll read your bags anyway Lou is
about ready and we're about ready to show you how to do a scratch coat and a brown coat and
this - now we'll show you the finish will we get to that stage oh man when I was Union we used to
piss those hot carriers off we'd be screaming mud and they'd say they're moving as fast as I can you
guys you got the easy job we're doing all the hard work oh brother Lou he's he's working around these
uh conditions here this is like amazed trying to figure out come over there come on move it
man give us the bud ah anyway come on man make it work make it work he's gonna fill us up and
Jay and I are gonna show you the obvious guys put some water on your board why do we got water on
this board because there's no water on the board this cement is gonna stick to this immediately and
today it's damn cold but I still got to use the water from there what do we do first all those
plasters start from the top first we get a joint what I'm doing is getting my joint first then I'm
gonna get the bottom yeah I'm gonna get the side then I'm going to grab my go-devil they call it a
go devil we call it a cheater whatever you want to call it it's to do the bulk and when you're
using that you got to use a lot of pressure all right guys now I'm going to use this it's called
the go-devil if we go out lying to look for it go devil why I don't know we call them Liberace's or
cheaters when I was Union they actually were illegal for the Union when we were when I was
a plaster coming to all kinds of shapes and sizes 22 inch 24 inch I had one that big about that long
where I'd almost take half this off at one time this right here now I'm working my lats I'm using
both of my lats here instead of kicking up my body a hawk you're holding to 15 20 pounds of trial and
it's awkward on the spine after 30-something years like myself now this I'm gonna use my
lats here perfect position and it's a lot easier but I like to I like to get my first coat on and
what we're doing guys is we're doing a scratch and a brown now if you use it a a cheater and you're
doing a scratch coat and a brown you've got to go really hard the first coat really push that stuff
in gives you a good workout man it's good for you now guys we're using a setter in this particular
material so I'm gonna do my scratch coat and my brown today but this again if you're gonna use
one of these go Devils you can buy them online just type in and go devil clean it up before you
use it also otherwise that cement sticks to it we're running out of ten and dang it we're close
to the beach we're in Alameda thirty years ago I did use some beats in that beach sand has salt in
it so if I used say if I thought man I only need a half wheel barrow and I went to the beach and I
got some beach sand what happened anybody know the sand will be soft in like 8 10 years to be
soft where it'll crack because the salt in it but we biased from the material yards to say
like Westside you know in Alameda or Oakland all the sand is washed no matter where it comes from
where whatever ocean it comes from they wash it why they washed it to get the salt out of
it anyway we're going to scratch this in a minute we're going to do the second coat will show you
that too all right guys all about plastering next stage scratcher what's a scratch it for you put
scratch marks in your work you go horizontally why can't you go vertical because if it was a
cold day and we came back to do it we put mud on it it could slide down plus it grips better for
the second coat do I need to put scratch marks in this no because I'm gonna do another coat
my buddy Larry bellman he did a job and he didn't get it and he's the best there is here in Alameda
as far as contractors anyway the people who did the addition they did it they hired a guy he did
the scratch coat and this how you this is how he did this Dubrow the scratch marks what does that
do when you do it like this guys I was telling Larry I said hey your guys wherever they hired
they're gonna need a bonding agent from the brown coat he's to do it it's not my job they didn't
hire me they saved a few bucks on the other guys anyway I thought I got a big kick out of that but
live and learn once you do this ok to get that joint right well let me take a float gather it
in just a little bit of water feather that joint in it now I'm gonna show you guys how to do them
the next coat - of course I'm gonna do most of it I'll just show you a little patch right here when
we get to that stage all right guys what it did was i browned out most of this and what you want
to do is round out the rest of it and with this finish here man I don't have to make this brown
coat pretty because I'm gonna throw a bunch of cement all over it you guys using your tools you
can I mean you can just you want to be pretty you can do like that but just pull it off any
which way slap it on there guys nice sticky mud and what that does is fill your top up I can look
at it and see what it's full but just put up sake of showing you guys fill that top up that's why
we started the top first guys cuz he doubled back immediately like I did this is within a half-hour
that top will fall out unless it has a chance to the paper to suck out the moisture and harden that
cement now I'm gonna leave this cut up that ugly just to prove a point guys yeah I'll leave it a
little full even now when I was Union way back 20 30 years ago acts about 30 years ago I'd be the
Derby man on the pump what I have is I'd follow the guy lead dart man they call it the stick now
this is serrated meaning this when I hit this it's serrated so this will dry out faster that's what
I want I do have some slick Darby's on my truck like steel blades like this no serration on it
anyway you want to take it on the side or here I'll share what I do guys I'm at the end of the
day we'd use our knee I'll put my arm right here me like 12-hour days we're to put our arm right
here put it here and use your knee use your knee to help your darby because end of the day you did
12 houses oh you're tired no we take it like so me right now it's early morning I'm not at all tired
I was tired I'd be doing that but here's how you do it it's not tired imagine a wall guys now you
take it here's how I used to practice I take it and I go straight up you don't want to push
in because then your wall be wavy you dictate the wall not the other way around if you're you don't
know what you're doing guys will do this they'll push it in they won't be looking and they'll be
pushing it in and what you have is a wallet all waving Humpty Dumpty you're pulling straight up
here imagine an invisible wall now imagine this wall I'm pulling it straight up kind of like
painting you don't do this with the airless you do this same difference guys wait up guys yeah
this a template here corner template here use it as a guide you won't have to look I'm looking at
the camera and I'm using the wall as a guy you get some timing guys you can do that but in the
meantime just look at what you're doing and get her done now I'm gonna let this step 40 minutes
maybe a half hour depending Dumbo floating I'm gonna make it almost similar to this we're gonna
throw some - on it I'll show you how to do that - but we're out of sand alright guys Jay suggests
that I go into deeper detail alright it's been about 10 minutes how do you know when that walls
ready well you can do it like me and look at it or you can do a BA by 600 patches spend 10 years
or you can do it this way let's see where we're at that wall ain't ready that wall ain't ready
when it is ready we take a float and I might not be able to show this because I'm gonna go get sand
no I'm not going to the beach go into the material yard when it is ready we take a float and we bring
out the aggregate we floated a lot of water now why are we doing that because this is - finished
before you do a - finish you want to float your own workflow you joints in float them and see what
that does is it gives a sandy finish we want that sandy look because then we have to - it left now I
just take a couple little pieces of - and go over it and can I mess up my own wall all day long No
no problemo what we do is we just clean this Darby off again never put a dry Darby on it because
it'll drag all the Smith and just fix it fix it anyway guys that's part Jake thought it would
help you guys a lot of you guys watch what we do and because you have similar problems on your own
house these repairs don't want to pay somebody to do it I feel for you guys no that's why we do this
stuff alright guys my dad's still out going to get more material but this wall is ready it needs to
be floated now if I wait for him to get back so he can show you guys this wall is gonna be real hard
and then he's gonna have to use muscle to float it instead of skill and then who gets yelled at me so
anyway I'm gonna show you guys on this patch right here I did most of the wall already so
you've got your nice smooth finish from your darby work or whatever you have and you're floating it
we were using if any snowboard using your float pretty flat and you're bringing the aggregate
out a lot of water need some more water and we're just floating it we want that sand coming to the
surface making it real real sandy just like that doesn't get any easier and so now this is gonna
sit and dry and then it'll be ready for the next phase alright guys just got back from the material
yard I had to get a new dash brush when I got sand because my other one took a crap on me you
know that's what happens guys that's what cement does to you that's why every once in a while I'll
spray my shoes and if you guys do this this for you young bucks that just joined the union and you
always ask me a bunch of question giving you guys a lot of tips right here don't soak your shoes so
that your socks are orange just a little bit so that this don't happen this is about two years
old now sly eats them up guys and you tough guys and I see all kinds that don't wear gloves just
a couple weeks ago so dude where's your gloves he says I don't need any gloves I thought that's
crazy since what kind of whistle you must be a smart one because I'm smart enough to know this
got lying it cancer can't synergetic that we're carcinogenic goes in your bloodstream it beats
your liver up some guys wear gloves anyway well where where was I at right here okay Lou brought
me over a bucket of stiff mud I tossed in some water here I'm using a trial all I did was super
down made it like some Campbell's soup put that away and notice I did if you guys can see I've
done most of this here's what a dash brush looks like how long will a dash brush last with that one
I got two years out of but anyhow you take it and you just fling it flick it look at the rest I've
done this ten hours a day every day for months on certain jobs where it's hand - finish that's all
I did we just go a day after day - and walls like this I can dash it with a brush like this hell I
can dash it with a broom it just takes practice I could dash it with a hand hopper that you hook up
to the air hose now here's the thing guys you look at it and you make sure you know when it's ready
to knock down because theirs was knocked down - in fact over here they had a flat spot and they
came out said hey Kirk can you fix that I know no problemo we just put a little bit of well Crete
went over it and we take the trial this is called knockdown - okay that's a - now you look at theirs
they put it on they knocked it down while it was still a little soupy so that's okay this is still
soupy but the base coat is hard so you don't have to look guys just take that trou and feel it feel
it man just just feel it just use that edge close your eye look the other way it doesn't matter just
feel it boom that's done and you look at it if it don't look right just go ahead give yourself a
little bit more I mean I'm looking at it thinking hey not enough feel okay I better go buy eyesight
okay there you go so that's done this is done behind the bush is done now when this was painted
they're gonna say Kirk good job brother anyway that's a lot of tips for you guys to take in all
at once but for you young fellas that just join the unions or just becoming the plastron trade
a lot of you guys calling me say Kirk be a little bit more detail we can't get any more detail than
this one anyway my name's Kirk Jews and on the camera as usual we thank you for watching see you
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