Hello folks, Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what I'm going to show you guys is how to
mix ARCA stone you probably say what is ARCA stone stone was developed in Europe around 1960 I guess
it's looks kind of like this this travertine tile there are different colors of travertine tile my
wife and I just love this stuff it's full of pits and it looks really cool the arca stone we can put
this on 3/8 of an inch thick but what I'm gonna do is folks will show you how to mix this because
mixin is under rated it takes a lot of practice and you've got to do it just right so what what
you need first is a bucket clean very very clean anarchist own recommends per bag three and a half
quarts of water so of course I use the measuring cup and I've measured three and a half cups of
clean water clean bucket there's another thing to on a paddle I don't there's ten different types of
paddle better make sure that's clean too because if you have a dirty paddle it will accelerate it
or especially with interior plasters you use those and folks always call me say Kirk I use
that 20 minute mud before I got it in the house is set up I said you use the dirty buckets or
dirty paddles so that is very important that's one of those underestimated things where people
don't realize how important that is I normally keep a five-gallon bucket full of water why so
the drill doesn't tip over it can stay in this in this bucket without tipping over if you have
half a bucket of water it's going to fall over all the time water's going to go in the drill
okay what I originally just did is with arca stone you mix it while you drill while you're
drilling it I poured half in here already and we have a certain color that we use because some of
these colors are dark and you pick out pretty much which ones you like so look this one's a
little bit light so we could darken dollars up a little bit anyhow so I'm going to start this
drilling stuff now here's what you do the drip and you add it as you drill for one one person
kind of tough normally when my son is with me he killed drill it up and I'll add the material
but since I'm by myself I'll just go ahead and add a little bit pop it up on one knee
okay
And generally, guys, I'm usually wearing a mask on the table there, but if I'm wearing a mask,
I can't explain this. I haven't found the plot that interior/exterior that I like the
taste of yet, and a lot of these materials they cut it right on the bag going inhale it
so red I'm doing guys I'm mixing it for three to five minutes after I mix it for three to
five minutes I'm gonna slack it that means let it just set for about fifteen and then mix it
again for another minute and a half if you make it too soupy it won't set right it won't come out
you can't trial it it's a real nightmare so I'm gonna go ahead and mix three minutes then we're
going to turn that camera back on after we allow it to slack for fifteen and I'll show you the
consistency it's going to be see how it is right now it's going to be much much harder than that
in 15 minutes and then I read temp it in order to apply it it's got to be like butter or whipping
cream in order to do what I have intended for it okay guys there's another tip to you take a trial
or a margin trial pipe trial long one pull this out by the handle tap it a couple times I don't
care what material you're mixing here's a good tip you take this guy here go around because
sometimes it's fixed to the bucket in fact I could see a lot of it sticking to the bucket
that way get a really good mix and you don't get a bunch of clumps and by the way my wife said I
she's doing the film in here she said I said three and a half quarts which is what they recommend and
then she said I slept three and a half cups it is three and a half quarts of water okay so that
little tip here I'm gonna mix it up for another minute that'll be like four minutes then we're
gonna let it slack I'll show you the consistency what we've got right now and this is very very
coarse this cement right here this is very coarse and what is our cast stone it's it's pretty much
lime crushed limestone and then they put Portland cement in it it's got a lot of bonding agents
in it two polymers it's different from our cast stone plaster so don't mistake the two but this
stuff sticks to everything it's really really good anyhow well I'm gonna go ahead and continue and
then when it's slack for fifteen minutes I'll show you what it looks like okay guys we have
let this set 15 minutes now this is that's a lot better so when we do my corners it'll adhere well
that's that's getting better it's it's stripping up quite a bit a lot of materials you have to
slack or give it time so now I'm gonna take this drill out of here once more and man it's tough now
okay I've actually drilled this one I'm going to to make sure I have enough to complete that
and again I'm gonna drill this up for about two more minutes let it sit and I'll show you the
final result of it alright guys last thing I do is I'm gonna shake this off right here
get all this material off and remember I said a full bucket of water that way if you leave
this alone I see guys do this all the time they put it here in the whole bucket drops it goes
inside here when it's plugged in not good guys I think I would just whip it up a couple times
reverse and forward and that is how we clean this blade I'm getting ready now I'm going
to go ahead and apply this but YouTube won't allow these in really long videos so I'm gonna
just call this one a day as far as how to mix if you want to see how to apply it you go two
hours start with you you're probably already on our stucco plastering channel my son has it
so that if you go into the search and just put how to apply our key stone you'll see
me applying it so as usual we thank you folks for watching and we'll see you on the next one