howdy guys Jason and Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what we're going to do is show
you how to do two coats, up here we're going to show it in its entirety, a lot of folks in hey
Kirk why don't you show the whole thing well this wall here, if you look at it it'll take Jay and
I at least two solid hours, nobody's going to watch it two solid hour video so let me give you just
a breakdown and what we're going to do that is original - finish and we're doing both coach today
and we're doing the finish we're not going to dash it because if I did that - would no longer match
this is a 100 year old house or apartment there's already about 40 to 50 patches around the house so
what we're doing is we're mixing and if you show that over there for a sec Jay now that's half the
job guys what Jason and I are doing is the other half of the job a lot of folks call me said Kirk
how do you make it look easy because how's the jobs done if you know how to mix and we do that's
half the job say like that mixer will be going for about 20 minutes mixing it making them into
sand and cement fluffy and we do our additives and crap then we're going to apply it but if the
mix isn't right we can't make ourselves do the job properly and just like at war you know you check
your weapon I check it all my trials right now because if you folks watch what I do I'm kind of
partial to these 16-inch trials this is a 16 by 5 inches it's kind of wide and it's just technically
a swimming pool trial but these are plaster trials here these plaster trials you only got
a half inch here half inch here and then it's all rivet it so they don't tweak this one here I got
5 inches here and 5 inches here with the rivets so occasionally they banana in the wrong way so
I've got to fix them in comparison we're getting ready for our job here generally I like a 16 inch
and a 14 inch trowel or ha that way I can put on a lot of mud on anyway we're going to set this up
and as we set this up first I like if I'm going to work up high like as many plank as possible
so I feel like I'm on the ground if you have one plank you're teetering it's bowing so we're going
to set this up then we're going to show you how we start off on this this may look complicated guys
but you could almost closure we could almost close our eyes and and do this it's incredibly simple it
just looks complicated anyway we're going to set up and we'll tell you a little bit more once we
get started okay guys we're going to show you how to put two coats on here a lot of things need to
be taken into consideration when doing both coats but we are taking them into consideration so we're
going to get started right now I do keep on us keep us full of mud Oh in doing - coach guys on
a cold day you put your first coat what we want to do is we're going to let the paper suck out
the moisture because right now it's much too cold so this is just a scratch coat right now
all right, easy peasy, put some mud up there, drop it down
Good thing lu doesn't watch these videos as he don't know how to use a computer,
so I don't have to worry about him saying, dude talking smack about me? now we take the rod Darby
if you want to call it straightedge t-bar this is technically a Darby here in the US we wet it
what happens if we don't wet this well to drag all the stucco right off the wall got a wet it
you got a wet your gloves with everything then now we use this and this as our guide we don't
have to look just go straight up guys see that got any hollow spots put it where you need it
we're going to take it up and you're going to push the top down so what I'll do is I take it
up and I push the top down and force it into here you know again I'm using this in this and
you don't have to look but you got to feel it boom Oh boom ah too bad this good oh yeah there we go
get it right in there beautiful we do the same here boom to the top these guys here we pull it
we pull this we pull this we take this one here same thing like I did a second ago sometimes you
get dropouts guys from the bottoms here because we're doing both coats you both coats on a cold
day like this it doesn't want to set too fast okay just all right take it up take it up make
it pretty take this guy here say and say and pull it up pull it up this saw is Darby takes a little
bit of time to get used to it but once you do not a big deal of course anybody watch what we do you
probably heard me say a couple times that when I was Union I'd work behind a pump and this is
all I would do for eight hours a day they shoot it on with a big pump and then you're either the
Darby man the float man the hose man you make it work come here make it work now what I'm going to
do here is move this board to stand out of our way and we are going to take it down to the next level
ah, for a few minutes, yeah
easy-peasy nothing to it
This first coat is a little harder than the second coat because everything is still wet.
As soon as this has a chance to suck up and dry, then it becomes a little bit easier
hmm
that's a good spot for a margin trowel up there
okay guys what we're doing now is just tearing down I'll show you actually what we're going to
do here because I had to take a pizza break let me show you what takes real skill you see this
pizza and two slices of tomato now that hasn't fallen off yet anyway that's what I went to do
why I left J to float everything let me show you something guys you see all of it that's what I
pointed out earlier now this stuff is soft and so what I do is I get the heavy sand and you
can see I'm floating it you see much aggregate or sand comes out of there and that's a perfect
when this was painted this will match much much better than say if I dashed it by - that it would
matte what we're going to do guys is because we are trying to get out of here get it done
we're going to float the rest of this but the idea the whole point of this video is to show
you top sand and a good sponge float a new one preferably that way you can match a hundred year
old - so as I said here's the real skill didn't even lose any pizza tomatoes we'll see you when
we're almost done all right guys we are complete with everything here here's a tip for any of you
young fellows who are watching who work with other companies when you have a lot of corners such as
this this is about the whole box of corners float upward in to your corners you float because you
want to cover that piece of wire homeowners would probably never do corner aid like that
but you float up to it and you float into it cover that piece of galvanized wire other than
that it's time to get out of here we always try to leave a job a little cleaner than we found it
so we'll leave you with that; we thank you, folks for watching, and as usual, we'll see you guys on
the next one once again folks we thank you for watching and I really enjoy all your comments if
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