Good morning folks Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what we're gonna do is we're
actually going to do a to coat system on the foundation repair for a fella by the name of Tom
Carroll of, Carroll construction, located in Alameda I'm getting emailed a whole bunch because this is
like our 300 videos, we have online so a lot of people think I use products such as the rapid
set, and the rapid set Eisenwall, I do use the Eisenwall product and back in my day when I
used that, you had to have a certification years ago.
These days the fellows are emailing me or saying, Kirk what's the difference of this rapid set, here versus this rapid set here? well this particular rapid
said this is sold at a lot of your big hardware stores, Home Depot Lowe's a lot of hardware stores
sell this and I'll tell you a little bit about this product here, it's a hydraulic product but
most cements are you just add water and it gets hard, also of course both of these products will
harden underwater, and no that doesn't mean you get scuba gear and start plastering underwater.
But it does mean once it starts to set, if you put it in water it will continue to set even in water, I'll tell you a little bit more about this particular product here all you do is add water, it
has sand in it, you don't need to add water to it this is user friendly guys if you're a homeowner
I'll explain this one in a minute but if you're a homeowner you're gonna want to buy this you could
buy it at Home Depot's and Lowe's and all that stuff and I'll tell you a little bit about this
product, in 15 minutes it's pretty hard in one hour it is extremely hard I'll give you the
PSI strength, generally concrete such as foundations or about 3,000 psi that means pounds per square
inch as far as the strength level this stuff and one hour it gets to 2,500 psi in 3 hours 4,000 psi
in 28 days it gets the 7,000 psi this stuff here is incredibly strong and and yes you could use
it for plaster, stucco, concrete, so this is for you homeowners just add water just like it says
for us guys in the trade now I'm using the rapid set, Eisenwall, now this particular product is we're
gonna mix and with it J is when he's done he's gonna mix up a mixer full now this here it's a
scratching brown in color coat same day I don't usually do the color coat same day but it says
you can in fact it says you could paint and all that same day read their literature I'm
just showing you folks how we use it both of these your cat mix or shouldn't mix more than three to
five minutes you can put retardants in this today it's cold I don't know it's about 50 degrees here.
It's pretty cold so I don't need any retardants if it was 90 degrees I would use retardants in
this now what we're gonna do is we're gonna mix up this isin wall then I usually go three to once
and that means this is probably a 90 pound bag 90 eighty eight pounds normal bags, about ninety four
pounds so what is three to one mean that means say this was a hundred pounds we put 300 pounds
of sand three parts and one part of the rapid set or the Eisenwall in here so we're we're gonna go
ahead and get a mix going and get busy. But those are the main reasons guys of these two particular
products this you don't need a certification, it's homeowner friendly this stuff guys if you're a
homeowner I would suggest don't try to use this, I don't know if you even need certifications anymore
but that's that's a main question I get asked a lot, I'm not actually gonna use this but I'd tell
Jason when he went to the material yard, I said grab a bag of that rapid set, so I could explain that hopefully
folks to stop emailing me that particular question, anyway my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk
giordano plastering, we thank you folks for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one.