Howdy guys, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, above four weeks ago we did a
video and we showed cement all, they cut a tree down and we used, "Cement all," on the patch job. I did it
because I planned on I used the "Cement-all," because you could paint it in one hour, and it's got a nine
thousand psi strength, very very strong stuff it's like three times stronger than concrete or
foundations, but anyway I used it because you could paint the next day, but, I was doing an acrylic and
a lot of people who saw that video said Kirk, when you get ready to spread it out show us how you do
it, what products you use and I thought, okay so that video will be in the introduction so you
just scroll down and hit that click it to see the beginning of how we did this anyway, I'll show you
what we're doing we're using an acrylic finish oh.why an acrylic finish because i've got a lot
of acrylic finishes from past jobs that we've done already here, I did that about two hours
ago gave it a chance to dry because it will take me at least, oh about I don't know ten minutes to
a half-hour to spread all this, so what I'm gonna do is show you how to spread it and why,
okay this particular product here is called, "Stuccoflex." and "Stucco -flex" is one of the better
brands of acrylic finishes their are, is it used for grounds? No, why am i using it for the ground?
because it's excess from a job I got and I used an acrylic finish on the job what are some of the
good acrylic finishes besides Stucco-Flex, Dry-Vit, Carson's, BMI, and any of the terrible ones, I won't
mention because we're a positive Channel. guys, keep it keeps it positive, I don't want to mention crappy
material that ain't worth purchasing, but, "Stucco-Flex," is worth purchasing and I have some extra, so
I've done this quite a few times to my neighbor's house to my own, in fact I did a job where we had
so much excess that my buddy lives in the area where there's a lot of snow and he said, Kirk, my
concrete my wheels are sliding you got any of that stuff with the sand, and I said yeah I got I got a
lot, I can't guarantee what color will come out, but I do got a lot, and we ended up using a 50 gallon
garbage can and I put all my excess acrylic in it it came out about this color, and so we, we put it
on his driveway where the top is flat, we use the top of the acrylic and where it got toward the
bottom we used we use the bottom of a 50 gallon garbage can because the sand will drop, and so where
you got to really climb up we made it real sandy that was 25 years ago, guys and it is still on it
doesn't come off like paint this is got sand in it, what are the better acrylic products you
can buy, my neighbor there, he did stairs or I did his stairs seven years ago, and I told him dude, this
stuff is for houses it's not for stairs that are wood you have to put your scratch brown base coat
on, but he wanted to try it, anyway and I thought it's not going to last more than five years, it's
been five years and it looks brand-new still and that's across the street next door, where the car
is anyway sure say a little bit more about what we're doing here too because, I started earlier
with that color and my wife right there, she says baby, that's kind of light, can you darken it, so I
said well I got three pails, I'm only gonna need two, so I just doubled the light gray and I come
out with a dark gray here, I actually like this color better too, that's the beauty of owning
your own home, guys, if you want to change something change it. Its your house. Nobody cares, right
r now there's a lot of things going on, it was windy very windy earlier and all the leaves were
blowing down and I thought that kind of looks cool here's a real important thing guys a dollar brush
probably my most my best tool today right now this dollar brush can go in these cracks right here and
that's exactly what you need something to go in the cracks right there to embed that we don't
want to get rid of the expansion joints so that one's there where I got it real tight over here.
I'm just gonna use this, trowel, hopefully, it holds me up, there's a dollar brush, man, that really kicks
butt guys because it goes right into that little crack, okay now what I'm doing is I can leave it
like this but I like to float my work that just gives it a grip guys so it'll take me an extra
little water load all this but it's Saturday we're relaxing, we're in no hurry this stuff can go over
anything it's this is an acrylic finish, not a cementitious, guys, acrylic so this acrylic has
the sand in it it's great for swimming pools like that, because you can walk around it won't
stick, okay, and what I'm going to do is this hard part where I put this heart in what 25 years ago,
let's probably take me longer to do than the whole job, yep, yep, yep, okay so we move that guy come on
baby, this stuff it's an acrylic it's, Stucco-Flex, if you get it on your clothes, leave it on your
clothes, because it's not coming off, that's why I'm be cautious around this hearthstone, because if I
get it all over it then I gotta take all that time to get it off, okay, whoa coming apart here Jay, all
right had to hook me back up. Lou, my brother lou all you guys say hey where's Lou, Been, he's been
in that little jazzy power, chair, remember guys don't drink and ride, and if you do, don't go
parallel with the train tracks cuz you're ten-speed tires can get stuck and you could fall. anyway
Lous gonna be out for man, another month maybe two, no joke when you break your foot in
three places, anyhow back to messing around here this stuff will last, like like most
of the acrylic, this stuff will last about let's just put it this way I'll be pushing up daisies
before this comes off. This is not paint, paint will come off in about I would say under these
circumstances a couple years, if that this stuff will last 50 to 60, 70 years it will not come up
come off and separate, I know this because I've done this so many times, and here's where that
little two-dollar brush comes in handy, okay little two-dollar brush I'm floating here, I
knew this thing was going to take me longer than the whole job itself you want to make it pretty
since I put it in so long ago and guys there's a little area here oh this is a driveway it's for
my mixer I mean we got the mixer right here and we got we got my truck and forklifts that drive over
this non-stop, so the forklifts I mean they create a lot of damage they're heavy so if
anybody says hey well that crack, of course, it will, 1/16 of an inch of acrylic is not gonna stop the
ground from shifting, in fact when they cut the tree down it had big cracks all over the place
and those cracks are still there they're just covered up now and when those roots decay those
cracks are gonna come back, so we're not trying to do something that lasts forever and we're using a
product that is it's not intended for this purpose, guys, acrylics are made for houses walls, not for the
grounds but I've used him for the grounds and for stairs things of that nature well over 30
years, and some of the some of the better products man, they just last forever, ok moving on, moving on
moving on, oh you guys asked me once I did that driveway there a few years ago on video and
a couple of people said, I'd like to see it today, and when I did that I used the product just like
this you're not supposed to use it for the ground that was La Habra it was long it was La Habra's, "Poly-Bond" that's an adhesive cement, and we hang styrofoam with that, in fact I did a building
where we hung styrofoam and the 40 feet up the styrofoam were this heavy, I mean that big, came
out like that, and I was pretty nervous I said, guys I'm not gonna guarantee that this won't fall off.
Anyway they never fell off because the product that we used for that, is what I use for
there, because when I got the house 30 years ago the concrete right there was just, wiggly was four
or five inches different, so I used a product that was made specifically to adhere styrofoam to homes
are contextually for that I added sand you slack it you do it and then you and it holds up but it's
not for its sole purpose, I'm using a product here its sole purpose is not what I'm doing here, because it's
is for homes but you can you, can improvise, that and do it for other things like, like this why am
i doing this because I got some excess time on my hands and I can, a lot of people said hey show me
the finished product when you do it, so here is the finished product and again to when we get to that
point I'll show you guys the specific materials I used I had some humongous cracks here and there
those that were so big I just filled with I mean I had some big ones I just put that, "Cement-All," that
I had here cuz they sell - that's a 5 or 10 pound box there, I don't know if you can see that, little
bitty box, and sometimes those little bitty boxes is all you need, last thing you want to do is go
the material yards and spend a fortune for ninety pounds, when you don't need ninety pounds your
house, you can do anything you want, it's back again you remember well right there where it's curved
remember that yeah these guys would skateboard all over that, and so they'd come here and just
skateboard I had a little, little bush in there so I removed the bush, remember guys your house
your rules you do whatever you are these guys were small I had a zip line in my house from the living
room to the dining room about 40 feet why, because I could, I own the place I could do whatever I want
to it, right here where I can't reach it I'm just gonna use this guy here has helped me out,
help me uh okay and guys you don't have to do this particular finish, this particular design,
I'm just doing it because I like it floated, if it's floated like this, it has more stickum your
car won't roll, not that I plan on rolling here, again, earlier we were out here it was really windy
and I said crap, what a drag because the leaves were everywhere sticking, and I was pulling them
out, it took me forever, right now it's calm down a a little bit, maybe calm down just enough so I could
finish this up and show you some other areas, and some other uses that we did that aren't real
typical, my little handy dandy broom, get stuff off and you see how you see how fast this is going, doesn't
take long guys, especially when you're using a big trowel, now square trowel, I recommend you guys use this
this size trowel, I mean this size trowel, this is called the swimming pool trowel, it's 5 inches wide
5 inches wide, so you can move the mud if it's 3 and a half inches wide, it's four concrete it's
three and a half inches wide, see it doesn't flex well, but you could press down it and compact the
concrete so this is not really a concrete trowel, people say why you use a concrete trowel? it's
swimming pool trowel and because of its width it works well, see right now I can go way over
there and the fence is in my way, but because I have the extra width of the 5 inches I can
go in here in this little crack right here, where if I was using the regular concrete or pool, pool trowels, they're useless, unless you're doing concrete. Anyway you see how this is pretty easy guys, this
what I do sometimes with excess material here's a good tip for you guys, don't buy all of your
say, so you've got a house and you need 50-pails of acrylic, whatever the acrylic maker is.
You need 50- pails have say 40 of them tinted if you have 40 of them tinted that gives you a lot, of a lot of excess pails you could either return those or add some color like I did here to get whatever color
you want, because once they're tinted, they're not taking them back guys, it doesn't matter what
company it is, it doesn't matter if it's, Stucco-flex, Dry-vit, Carson's, BMI they're not taking them
back, and all those names I just said were good products, anyway I'll show you something you
guys see where I'm going with this, I could run a straight line by eye across there well what
I'm putting back here, is that mixer the mixer goes here the dumpster goes here, that pretty dumpster
right there, so this doesn't have to be pretty guys, it's it will outlast me, it'll be here a hundred
years, after me but anyway come on let me show you something, oh, you guys just saying right relaxing
and everything well, that's a pleasure having you watch baby see all that stuff right there
I get a lot of excess buckets and there's some Stucco-Flex, Renew, there's some, Dry-Vit, there's
all kinds of stuff that we use continuously so, I recommend if you're gonna do it guys, use the
good stuff what we're going to do is, I'm going to spend about another 15 minutes and finish
spreading this out and clean up this stuff, and we'll show you the final result when we're done.
because I know you don't want to hear another 15 minutes of me rambling on about a bunch of goofy
stuff that don't amount to nothing. So we'll get that done and we'll show you the finished product.
Okay, guys there's the final product I'll tell you this is the most handy tool I got, it's a dollar
brush, anyway I'll show you something else so many neighbors come over and they go Kirk, are you crazy
you picked the wrong day to do that, and I thought why, they say the leaves are blowing, check it out
guys okay for example I think that kind of looks cool if any of these leaves get on it and get
stuck, do I care much, not really, and for those of you, it's funny Jay gave me a birthday card just
two weeks ago that was always the same, it has a hot chick on it, and then there's a bunch of rocks
and it says what do you notice here? because you're always working on the house I said well I noticed
a hot chick, but there's nobody prettier than my baby here, but I just do this stuff because it
gives me great pleasure, anyway, my name is Kirk, Jason on the camera my baby doll. We thank you
folks for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one. Can I just say something?
uh-huh, that came out absolutely amazing, you can't even see that there as a tree there, you are so awesome, absolutely, I agree with her.
You see, that's why I love her. We thank you, folks for watching and we'll see you guys on the next one.
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