howdy folks Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, Jason on the camera fella by the
name of Alex Sears from Venice Beach California asked me a question which I'm trying to answer
him a couple times and he says Kirk how come you don't show projects that you have done years ago?
we don't have the opportunity, Alex, but today we do have the opportunity if you could show
this we did this house about 17 to 20 years ago kind of interesting because we did a traditional
three coat driving system here we did scratching a brown coat over chicken wire and then we did a an
acrylic Dry-Vitt finish on it. Now It was about 20 years ago, follow me Jason, about 7 to10 years
ago we did the foundation which you can see the color difference but that's seven years later, we
did the foundation all the way around the entire home I'll show you some other stuff we did back
here which is kind of interesting a few folks have noticed the latticework in the front, well
we did this garage too, in 2009, now back in o nine, he said, Kirk, I want to copy that same
detailed I thought oh come on now, no you're don't. But anyway this is all wood and we stuck with all
this lattice detail here as well as here and what we did here is the same conventional three coach
system is or traditional we did the scratch in the brown coat we let each one of those set and
then we did the the acrylic finish here I'll show you what we're actually doing today gonna hike up
and come on back here now the fellow here says, Kirk, you remember when you did this and I thought
slightly and I was looking at it and I remember this fibers mesh see if the camera will pick up
some of the all these little fibers coming out of the stucco rock little fibers back in well
back when we did this we use the product there were three main one I'm not certain which one
we use there's La Habra Western and Omega it's a reinforced fiber mesh where you do
scratching Browncoats same day back 20-30 years ago the technology wasn't the same as today so
they added all these fibers and the fibers was because it set so fast that it didn't crack did
it crack? yes, it did do the finishes today crack with new technologies yeah sometimes but that's
the nature of stucco as you do both coats that can crack, anyway, what we're gonna do today is
we're gonna double the double back this up we're gonna do the scratching the brown coat same day
as we're here, we're gonna allow that to set. now why are we gonna allow that to set when
some of the products I know of today we can do the color coats because this color coat is an acrylic
color coat now an acrylic color coat needs a minimum of 28 days so if you do a scratching
around base coat, I'm not aware yet folks of any product that says you can color coat same day. or
within a week except for Eisenwall but that's a cementitious finish, which is porous the finish
that we have here is sealed it's an acrylic so the acrylics you have to wait at least 28 days
so what we're gonna do today is we're just going to go ahead and scratch and brown this. Are we
gonna use the same material I use 20 years ago? no, we're not even using fibers on this however
we are gonna allow that to be set for 28 days, so Jay and I are gonna show you how we just throw
that coat on and next time we come back to do this color finish. there are another tip guys if
you've been watching us you know these kind of things right here see this wall it's I believe
the color is French vanilla. But it's 20 years old, so he did so much work here I can see all
the dust that's accumulated on this most people in the city won't have a lot of dusty work in
the country yes but he's redid this whole yard landscaping and so it's full of dust right here
so that's why when we go to color coat this I'd normally try to blend a color within a color with
an acrylic you can do that if it's say six months but this 20 years it wouldn't work so we're gonna
go corner to corner but that's another day from now right now all we're gonna do is scratch and
brown this so we're trying to give you guys some tips on on the way stucco works for example if you
guys wanted to apply a Santa Barbara smooth mission finish to your house you would type
in on our keywords how to apply a Santa Barbara smooth mission finish and a video would come up
wallah take you right to that and show you how it's done can you guys do it maybe possibly but
I doubt it anyhow our site is designed to try to show you no matter you type in the keywords what
you're looking for and it will a video will come up to show you how we and the plastering trades
do it just so if you're like us and you want to know how things work you can see how things work
all right guys we're doing the fun stuff now this we're gonna scratch and brown this now generally
what I'll do is I'll just come in here Jay is mixing it up for me and I'm just taking it out
of this bucket with a scoop basically what I'm gonna do is both coats back to back immediately
almost like what we did 20 years ago except we're using a different type of material here
There's the fun part for us. I can do this all day long. Jays are about to mix me up another
bucket you guys are watching there. I always want to push up into your joints, especially on the
top like this push up besides push in there that's less likely to hairline crack. So if you do that,
guys, probably enough in here for me to finish the scratch coat, then Jays gonna go ahead and
mix me up the last bucket to or the next bucket to finish the next coat on here nothing to it, guys.
Yeah, we go the first coach. Do I need to put scratch marks in here?
Not because I'm going back to back, and they get late. Okay, guys, J,
mix me up some more mud. When I scratch this one, I scratched and browned this one, allowing this
one a little extra time to set. We are using the same day material, and it does set fast,
so back to this now here's my second coat, and again I allowed that to shed oh good 15 minutes,
and you can see J just mix this stuff is getting hard already that's okay we can handle it.
you get tired guys always rest my elbow right on that leg right there come on now well using
no effort pull it off and again guys this is just a skim coat we're doing a color coat over this so
doesn't have to be pretty one more trial for and now to get me what what I need say for example
okay I put this here now I can feather this out with my trowel but for the sake of you folks I'll
use a dog you know if you have any excess put it where you need it right there excess put it where
you need it let's see where do I need it that middle is a little Hollow and what I'm doing is
I'm using my the wall as a ground say like this side for example I need a little bit there when
I got all that done this I allowed a set and then I take a sponge float and guys you don't have you
don't get a lot of ways to do this you could come with a trial and pull it here you could
wait 15 to 20 minutes hard rubber floater you could spider float it like so the idea is we're
gonna set anyhow for two more weeks so the next time you see us I'll be showing you what happens
if I just put a color coat over this and blend it in it won't match so that's why we're going
to take it from corner to corner anyway until I see you guys again that'll be about Oh quite a
while this has got to cure okay guys back again I don't know how long it's been but in a while sure
what I was planning on doing anyhow guys I was going to apply this just finish over everything
that we've done this is the finish that they started off with it's a drive it I think it's
a french vanilla I'm not sure the owner picked this particular color up but originally he had
Sanji Kirk can you just go over the pass and make it blend in and I said no in fact what I
need to do is spread this the entire pack out and as I spread the entire batch out float it
then reskin the whole wall otherwise what I'll have is ghosting effect and you'll say what the
heck is ghosting effect well if I was to take another finish and just go over this whole thing
these patches could show through we in the trade call that ghosting effect so okay that being said
this been done I'll show you what I'm referring to now I've just got to float this in okay that's
done I take a sponge float water bucket get some of that out and then what I'm gonna do
here is I'm floating this in now in about an hour maybe two hours I'm gonna come back to this wall
and show you folks what I'm referring to when I say ghosting effect because although this is the
same color and although it's one of the better acrylics on the market drive it and that's one
of the better ones as an applicator trust me it's still even 20 years later it's gonna leave
some kind of a different shade I've done reds blues almost every different color and drive it
makes a good one where you can come back years later and do a patch within a patch however if
that patch within a patch has say aged because of working in your backyard dust and things of that
nature well then it's time to redo the whole wall so I'm gonna leave this at that no one you see me
again it's gonna be completely dry of course I'm gonna do this patch too and what we're probably
gonna doing is pulling that down spot and going from this corner to that corner and doing it but
I just want to show you folks how 20 years later an acrylic finish what it'll look like to one that
was done previously 20 years so we'll see how that goes okay guys no ghosts in effect that's
a good product what I did is I floated this joint here into this joint here and floated
it and floated everything no ghosting effect that is an excellent product we should have had it but
we're all prepared here anyhow to go ahead and skim from here the fellow doesn't want to pull
that pipe and I don't blame them it's riveted so we're gonna spread the whole thing out right
to that corner wall anyway Tim is going to go ahead and start spreading and then I'm gonna
float right behind him we'll show you how we do that too guys okay we're watching paint dry come
on Jim what we're gonna do guys because we're in pretty hot weather is if we took this joint
all the way across and we'd have a joint here so Tim is doing that little area let me float this
and then he's going to start from the bottom and take it up this way we don't have a joint
go ahead - beautiful
All right, Tim's taking it all the way to the bottom. When I grew up,
I want to be able to blast it just like Tim. You're the man.
beautiful
One man floats, the other spread the game nicely, and I got nothing better
to do when I'm bored. I can keep myself busy occupied and like pull
some red tape keep going about another two feet Tim then you can do the top
Beautiful, okay, guys, we are putting the final finish on this wall, and although earlier it
didn't show that there was some ghosting effect, the reason it didn't is that there
wasn't. However, we still had some discolorations up here, so I only took it to this point. You've
seen them in the early morning sun it would have shown from here up, so we went ahead and skimmed
the entire wall. That's how you do it if you're going to do patchwork to eliminate any ghosts in
effects anyway, guys. My name is Kirk. I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering Jason on the
camera. We thank you, folks, for watching, and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next stucco fix.