Howdy folks, kirk and Jason
here, with kirk giordano plastering. Today what we want to do is explain to you
guys who get your house shot with insulation. Now the insulation usually they'll go
on the outside; they'll go between the studs and fill it up.
I'll also show you too how to patch these properly. These guys here,
this one is protruding, i mean you put this on, and it wiggles.
I'll show you how to fix that kind of stuff when i was working years and years ago.
i recall i didn't know how to texture, and texturing takes a while;
anyway, i'm going to get back to that story.
Let me show you this, this one is really out, it's really protruding,
this one is flush, this one is really out, this one is flush.
I'll show you how to do the flush ones first, then I'll get back to that story.
Okay, what you're going to do is you're going to take some you look at the sand grit here
anybody knows what kind of sand grit that is?
Can the camera do a close-up? That is 20/30,
but it's just not knocked down. So what we do is i'm gonna do the two flat ones first.
Now watch if i try to do that with this one, you see, there's where the high spot is,
and watch if i try to do it this way. e Even if i take it sideways,
there's where the high spot is.
How do you fix that? Put a little bit just on the tip of the trowel;
that's what my story was about; about 40 years ago, i was doing a job, and i was working
with my buddy Fred Smith, and Fred Smith is a master plasterer.
He worked for Danny Smith, his brother, for well, he just retired about two years ago.
He worked for him for, I'd say, 40 years. I remember getting a side job, so i was doing
a side job, and i did the walls, and they were kind of crooked back then, i was still learning,
and he, i called him, i said hey Fred, can you do the texture and this is the kind of wall i had.
It was crooked it was like some of these holes, and he looked at it he says you're learning, bro.
But let me show you how to fix it, and that's exactly what i'm showing here, where
if you go straight up and it leaves these hollow spots here, just put a little bit
on the tip of your trowel, and it doesn't matter if you're
using a pull trowel like the 20 inches, I got, or you're using a square trowel.
That doesn't matter, but anyway, let me show you what we have done;
number one, when you do something like this, get yourself an extra rough roller, a fat nap roller.
This, yeah, it costs a few bucks more, but it's an inch and a half,
you dip it in your bonding agent, and you go all the way around it.
I didn't expect this, but i told him, man, i can fix that for you.
What you do with the bonding agent is you just put it on.
here's the hole but go far around it that way if your texture exceeds the hole then
it'll still adhere, without this bonding agent it won't adhere forever,
so you got to do the bonding agent. all right guys, we had a little bit of
audio problems; this heat man, leave the camera in the sun; it beats it up.
Anyway, I was explaining this area here, i hadn't finished when jay said, oh crap, yeah
we lost audio; this guy here, he was okay. It's the same guy, then they had another
guy come here, and then, this guy, this guy only had an idea what he was doing.
because he used the wrong grit so you could see it right here can you zoom in right there Jay?
I already skimmed all of that i thought i was on camera. but it wasn't.
Okay, this finish here, is he spread it,
then he took a float and he brought the sand out or the aggregate.
He brought that out, but if you look at the existing, they don't have that out,
they have is a texture spread right there with a texture on it so they, they put the base coat then
a texture on this so while this is, here I'll, I'll finish doing what I started only on camera.
With the audio. Now what i like to do, guys, is
Go over from here to here, at least six inches it's called feather, feathering it in.
All right, one more.
Possible, and that should do it now what i'm going to do is get this top out real quick.
I don't notice a whole bunch of stuff, guys, but i do notice a texture, like my girl,
and I were having lunch somewhere, and she says, that's a pretty cool piano, right there.
I said, where? It's the right in front of you, I thought, wow, I didn't even notice it,
I'd make a lousy detective, but i can see a texture on any wall anywhere in a state, any.
I could always do that, by the way, i don't know if i said this because we lost the
audio for just a minute.
There's no such thing as anybody being able to get this perfect
with a skip top finish within a skip trowel. I'll show you what the one guy did wrong,
he took a float and he floated his, even with this lighter sand you can see, that's a sand finish.
Their base coat doesn't have a sand finish so
don't do that, guys. I'll only use that float where
if you have a dual finish. I will use the float on the edges.
okay, so the edges this is, the edges. Here's where I'll use the float to feather
that edge in as best as possible. if you can feather an edge in guys, you're on your way.
that distinguishes how well it's going to blend in, so i feather that in, feather that in,
feather this into, get the top once, because this is going to be painted.
does it matter that i got a few pieces that show not really if it did I'd hit those right now
so that's what you do and since i don't want any more problems with the
I'll show you something? Okay, this texture here,
I got one more big slobber right here now notice
again, if i put enough texture on here and i go straight up, this is going to be hollow,
this can be hollow, this, this why because this protrudes, like a half inch.
So here's what you do, Okay you can see where it's protruding now, you just fill up the trowel on the
toe or even the heel, and still let that hollow spot in, what's the beauty of a skip trowel guys?
Anybody know, anybody care? It hides everything; skip trowels
are very forgiving. you name it, it hides it. so now i'm just gonna put the skip trowel to
match theirs right here, over this nasty patch somebody did.
The idea is to look at their finish; if they took it off the top of the hawk take it off the top.
If they took it off the bottom, take it off the bottom.
if they took it from the middle like this, you know the difference because it makes a difference.
So I'll show you just right here, and i'm gonna wrap it up. because it is already about a
hundred degrees, when they said that we were gonna have a heatwave, I thought, yeah, right.
I'll believe it when i see it
i see it. We're in it, so i'm going to keep going here in texture and feather all this in,
then we have the average hole guy or the average holes about a 150 in your house.
So again, just ask the fella, say hey, who does your stucco work?
And if they say well you have to do it, this guy didn't know he had to do this.
So he's got to pay somebody like me or somebody like one of these guys and go
through a whole bunch of people to find the right guy that knows how to do it.
you cannot understand how to do it unless you've been doing it for years, guys.
Anyway, my name is kirk, Jason is on the camera; we thank you, folks, for watching and as usual,
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