howdy folks Kirk here with kirk giordano plastering, we are inside we're going to do
a couple of these repairs on these newly installed vents throughout the house just going to show you
one the fella here that install this vent the guy emailed it to me so I was looking at that I sure
hope that the flanges are on the outside so we came in here and justed just a bit because see
this flange actually the fellow who did this he should cut up he couldn't put studs in here and
laid this on studs while this was empty but since he did it what we are going to do is wire it so
here's how my way of repairing this I brought this down a little bit because this level here when is
when everything is said and done my stucco has got to be under underneath here because that's going
to give it some structural strength because it doesn't have the studs you could have put a stud
here and then one in here and that would have held at least three sides but it can use the bracket
which he did oh we got here and it was according to the photograph I looked at it it looked off and
it was so what we did was we unscrewed it pull it down just a hair that being said that being done
what we're going to do now I've marked the edges here now I've got the nasty job Oh drinking this
plaster out of it now what I'm going to do is I'm going to score it first we'll take a utility knife
and I mark just want to be it's kind of like shear on it when we do the mesh it's a similar procedure
we're going to cut this out right here I'm going to cut it out to the joist right here and then in
the field this is called the field because it's between the choices or the studs it's going to
be spongy so once I remove the plaster here I'm going to take this wire as a as my framing I want
to put it here I'm going to cut cut it out just the same as my markings and I'm going to slide
it in and I'm going to screw it into this because I can nail this one here which is solid but if I
try to nail it in here it will bounce because it's in the field so once I remove all of this which is
half the battle I'm going to install this mesh and then from there I'm going to go with their
same Portland cement they hit Portland here and that's what I'm going to do because I want more
strength than just plaster so my first coat of mud is going to be Portland cement and I'm going to
use hot mud then my next coat of plaster is going to be I'm going to use a twenty-minute button I'm
gonna accelerate that so it's like five minutes the interior muds come from five minutes to four
hours so I'm going to use a quick set interior mud for the final finish anyway once I cut this out
I'll screw this on I'll show you how to do that one solid piece works better than a whole bunch of
little pieces all over alright guys what I've done is I took my knife and I scored everything here I
scored it scored it here and then I just took my chisel and just lightly just popped it right off
if you don't score it the rest of this can come off so you got a score where you want to start
and stop now I can do this in ten different ways you can put it on the ground and take a measuring
tape and measure this or I can do it a simple way now what I want to do is I want to go I'm
just gonna put a staple in here as a template to give me the cut I need alright there's the cut I
need so now that I've got that particular cut I'm going to hold this up cut it out here cut it out
here and then I'm going to screw it into here I'm going to screw it everywhere and then I'm going to
cut this out I'm going to cut it out be upbeat beyond the flange so that once this is on I can
tuck this underneath this flange then we're going to do this Network when we get to that stage I'll
show it to you also okay guys I've got my cut in here and now my cut I want below this flange
as it's going to be a support now that I I had it screwed in i unscrewed it on the slide this
guy in you yeah right so little fit fits well enough anything else I'll improvise now that I
got this on exactly where I need it I'm going to use I'm using flat head screws we're giving me a
little bit more bite I'm going to screw it in and I actually come prepared I've got screws one inch
I got half inch sometimes when we do this the longer the screw might need to take it at an
angle to set it just right and what I want to do here is I'm going to put a lot of screws because
I want this this is my stud basically so I want I want this to be very tight and again
on the joist here I can go a lot a lot of them when I get into this spongy piece of lath right
here only a couple in here then I use this as a support here because these are kind of spongy
because they're in the field anyway that's where we're going when the next time you see me I'll be
doing the first coat of suits all right guys I put a little bit of weld Crete that's I usually
use well Crete on interiors that's just to give it an extra bond I got some real hot mud here by
the way look how rigid this lattice that's very rigid now this mud right here Jay makes it and
very good at mixing hot mud so this is what I want to do spurts coat on and within than
five minutes we'll be set basically the cement is going to mushroom above this mesh netting go
Maybe else I have had this fall in my face. Here we go. I will hit it with
some quick step 20 minute mud as soon as this is set up. We're actually going to make it,
so it hardens in five minutes. This right here is not about five minutes
as it sees how it's already good this that's pretty stiff with a lot of low
nitrogen here okay dear now when you can kind of spongy because no studs.
everyone from my head right under it pusher now that the conical fall on you
all right now I'm just gonna chew it out get it flush with the restroom and in five minutes
I'm going to cut it back and when I say kind of bathroom is going to use my edge my Excel
and clean it up just like clean it up and then I'll clean the clinkers around here then I'll
get ready to put my 20 minute mud off all right guys what I've done now is a hard rubber float
edition and why a hard rubber float it is I want to get it flat and it also opens it so
that the accelerator can dry it out now taking a sponge close I'm just going over it because
what I want is I'm going to put up material it's kind of like taping buddies we're all
multrevich 20-minute bud but it looks like take mine I'm going to allow this to set another 15
minutes it's got a bunch of these I'm going to do so could I put the taping mud on here
right now yes I can but I have other things to do and I want to dry completely because
if I don't allow this to dry completely what will happen is as I'm putting the next coat
of mud on here it'll grab a grain of sand and it will pull that grain of sand and just make
me work a little bit harder all right guys got everything done a lot faster than I expected
so I'm down here a wee bit sooner and here's what I'm going to do now goodness that's given
And even in a 20-minute mud I'm using here still requiring a little bit of set time,
I'm done with all the rest of the patches. I just got this around here right,
so give that about ten minutes, then I'm going to come incorrectly. So that got a
couple little holes here don't mean much as we'll hit them all here there you have it.
now it's a waiting game nothing bad is taping my where you're sitting here for hours waiting
20 minutes mean 20 minutes there you have it the fellow says what's this stuff that's they've got
a shower here that's just the steam the steam is rising bubbling the pan I'll scrape it off while
I'm up there just like that okay guys we're almost at the conclusion of I am going to give a little
bit of time to set and then I just trial it and it's done okay guys we're all set here the rest
of the 20 minute mud I was able to do the rest of the patches and they are actually setting up
this one is set up right now you know I switched to my pull trial not time I'll show you why okay
you can't see the ceiling through that camera but it looks like an orange peel they used a
heavy roller when they did so what I do is once if you want the this material soon enough it kind
of brings it a little bit back to life and what I'll do is I'll take my swimming pool trial work
because it won't leave any joints I'll just take it and feather into the existing I'll feather
right into it feather into it and this gets rid of all these little cat faces every column the
little loose aggregate here on there now as I do this I'll take my float and I'll just flip
that in and it's got it it's got to be at the right position if it's not it's not completely
hard then it'll just wipe it right off so I just feather that in now with the green sponge float
and it's hard enough where even if I see a joint right here I got the camera will show that but
I see a joint I can just smooth it right in of course one is here and just took care of these
little patches too anyway that's that's how you do these little bitty patches anyway my name is
Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering, and I'm with my two sons Jason and Dan we're helping me
do this thank you folks for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one.