Hello folks, Kirk, Dan, and Jason Giordano here with a tip of the day. what we're gonna do is
we're gonna scratch brown and color coat this wall today same day we really got to know what
you're doing when you do this. what I did is I've spread it here I've scratched it now I
want this to set, this particular material it's called a rapid set, it will set this one by
the time we spread this bottom out, this will be ready for the next coat and to make certain of
even that I'm opening the stucco meaning rather then rather, than put my trial flat and close it
I open it like this and that allows more air in it that way when I come right behind with a
scratch like now it has even that much more of an opportunity to dry. I'm not certain how many folks
will understand that point. but that's what I do, and then I scratch it like so I'm going to show
you guys how we spread it out in a few minutes, when I do come back to hit this after we tear
the scaffold down and come back up it will be hard as a rock, that's what we want for the next
coat, okay fellas girls, notice I'm just gonna do a small section here, what I generally like
to do when I do the scratch Brown and a color I don't generally do whole houses this way in fact
I'll do little jobs, this particular finish here, the fella all I was gonna do is do a scratch in
the brown and texture that Brown coat, but I've seen his finish on the other side it's not that
pretty so I called him. I said, listen how about this? You have a finish on the other side that's
less than desirable, I want to stay away from that ugly term but I'll show it to you soon so
I said I'll tell you what I'll do, we'll do the scratching the brown and then when I come over
to do the texture, I'll just recolor the whole thing, choose a color I said and we'll do
the scratch in the brown and then we'll apply that that color finish so all of this right now
as you can see up there it's starting to turn white, that means it's getting hard I've got about
another 15 or 20 minutes here then we're going to reset up when we set the staging back up this
will be out of stage now where it'll accept the next coat, and that's how we continue to
come down like this, so I'm going to go ahead and spread this out. When we get ready to start
the brown, I'll show you that too, and again this does and all that all the things we do this one
requires the most skill because you have to know the cements.
Whether or not it's set enough for the next coat so fortunately, we do know that kind of stuff. Well, what we're doing now guys is because
Dan's here, we have the luxury of Jay doing what he does best, he's spreading I'll come right behind
them and I will darby, say for example all right here we go, Jay, let me come to show what
I'm doing here, always stand in the middle of the board if you're gonna stand, now this wall
is not true and plumb that's what I do Jay puts it on I come right behind them we both actually
put it on. And actually, Dan, holding the camera, does too. Then I come here and what I'm doing is
getting my second coat true and plumb, now this the second coat actually is going to set really
fast to within an hour and a half, this coat time I get down then I'm gonna start hosing it down.
Because that material requires this rapid set says to hose it down especially right now we're
in about 85-90 degree heat, so when I get ready to show do the color will show you that too.
All right guys we're at a stage now where we have hot walls we're in the hot sun it's close to 90
I've already Darbied all this stuff up. now what J and I and Dan are gonna do is we're gonna jump up here
with these hard rubber floats, we're starting to turn white here, we got to get on it we push as
hard as we can, personally we go down here where it's a little softer now we're using skill, I'll
show you we're using skill right here because this is this is not set up up here we're going
to be using more muscle don't have Dan and Jason get up here, and give me a hint but when we get ready
to do the color coat, I'll show you, okay guys owner asked me a good question, he says what's that for well
this is a float this compresses it straightens it out and makes it real tight so it embeds into
the wire, this guy right here basically screeds it makes it true and plumb, gets it straight in
all the directions this particular product we're almost done with the base coat and here's another
tip to do now we're starting from the top we hose it down, give it everything a little shine, a little
sheen we're gonna do this several times just like that,t because it's a hot day and we want
it to dry out a little slower than what it's doing. But anyhow even if it were a cold day
we still want to hydrate this wall a little bit just like that, I'm gonna hit it about three
or four more times, next time you see us we'll be doing a color coat. Okay, guys, we're all set
with the base coat now, this was the finish we were supposed to match we were just going to do
the texture and he'd paint. When I looked at it I told the fella gee, I'll tell you what I'll do
I'll throw in a color coat at no extra cost, because this one is just incredibly ugly, so
we're gonna he's getting ready to do the front of the house too so I said let me give you a pretty
finish, no cost. And see how you like it so what we're gonna do is we're gonna start spreading
this over here now I've been hosing this wall down about five-six times now we're about to do
the color, so I'm gonna hold it down once more, with this particular material we're using rapid set it
got a hose it down we've got to hose it down quite a few times, and then I'll show you how we spread
out this what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna spread one area, Jay's gonna spread another, Dan's gonna
spread another and we're going to knock this wall out in about Oh... 15 minutes well we'll get started
and give you an idea how quickly this goes then I'm going to come back and put a texture on it.
All alright guys, we are done, and just in the right amount of time, it's about a hundred
degrees, anyhow this is what we call, "Pacific sand." So where it's really dark, it's still drying, think
about putting it over Rapid Set, Rapid Set sucks the moisture out just about as fast as we can put it on that's
why we hose it down, about six-ten times anyhow this is Jay, Dan, and Kirk with Kirk Giordano
plastering, we thank you, folks, for watching and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one.