howdy folks kirk and jason here with kirk giordano plastering, today i want to show you
guys something um not revolutionary with cements but different different if you look at that wall
right there guys if you watch what we do and we've uh been doing videos for like 11 years that's a
dash finish how do you get that dash finished you throw it on well i had a guy who always emails me
he said kirk i'm doing a whole house i don't want to dash it but i want a heavier look than the
heaviest sand that comes at the material yards and he said i know you showed videos where you
went to say acapulco or larms where they sell clean coarse wash sand that's real heavy sand
and they wash it to get the salt out otherwise it compromises the cement he says
is there any material that will give me a dash looking finish without having to dash it and i
said well dyasen does and he says what's that i'm going to tell you what diocesan is uh before i
even get started okay here's dyason um that's made in italy guys and what's it got in it it got lime
cork um perlite it's lightweight it's so lightweight this bag right here i lift you
can lift it with one hand and hold it right like that a bag that size of sand and cement would
weigh 160 pounds it's like 50 pounds full it's it's lightweight it's like if you go in
here close you can see all this cork is uh hey that cork is lightweight but uh what i want
to show is okay take the worst finish you could find actually the worst finish you could find
was over there but take the second-worst finish you could find now i will show you how well this
stuff spreads guys and i'm just using it as an aggregate what's an aggregate in stucco it could
be sand it could be pearlite cork it could be a hundred different things and with stucco they've
in the last 10 000 years they've added everything known to man in it from human blood to human hair
to uh whiskey you name it i'm gonna do this guys to prove a point i'm gonna show you how this is uh
setting up but you would think man that's heavy ain't it it looks pretty heavy ah it's not that
heavy guys it's not it just looks heavy but anyway the proven point this has got the cork in it and
it's got all that lightweight stuff the perlite it's it's it's sweet i love it because it looks
really difficult to apply but it's not it's it's lightweight just to prove a point here too guys
i'm gonna get this base coat on here and um what i didn't generally do guys is drop
spin drag drop spin drag that's how i get it off if you want to take it off the top you could
okay guys that kirk you're not a real plaster don't take it off the top
nonsense okay getting back to this material here
it's not sold all over the place, guys, so um, this is specifically for a friend of
mine who said, kirk uh, where could what could I material could I use
And they sell this particular material here in the Uk it's. It's designed to go one coat one inch
thick over anything without the bonding agents. This blue stuff is a bonding agent because, um,
I want to make sure everything I put on adheres forever. I don't want to take somebody's word
for it that hey, you don't need a bonding agent uh because that could lead to me having failure
anyway, I'll get back to this uh while I'm doing this, which I can do all day long
I was talking to my Italian friend, and I said, how do you pronounce your name? it's like Dania
or danya I said but it's spelled so weirdly he says, dude that's an Italian name i said,
man i have an Italian name i know what that is, uh he says what it is i said well,
it's kirk, kirk giordano plastering and he's like no what's the middle name and I said, oh that's
private brother, its Pierre, I told him it was private, because
I'm gonna ramble on here about stuff that doesn't amount to nothing, because I could
do this all day. When I was growing up, I had some friends. We used to hang out with
a Filipino dude named, Jesse Brewer, looked like Bruce Lee used to win, he was a track, uh a
track star. He had legs that he'd flex them, you said, damn, well those muscles come from?
He even tried out for Bruce Lee actually, and another dude named, Michael, Michael Gilford a black dude
and anyway, we always hung out for years and years,
and these guys found out what my middle name was, and they were like, Pieeerrrreee,
that was funny crap man, they'd call me, Pierre and I'd get mad until i found out what their
middle name was, my buddy Jesse's middle name a Filipino dude was Harvey and Michael Gilford's was
Capellent, so i used to call these guys oh okay you want to tease me about Pierre, so I'd say
hey, Harvey what's going on? He says, man, who told you my middle name, I said your
mom, I asked Millie and she told me, it was. Well they stopped calling me, Pierre but these days
i'm a grown man, much older than when i was 15 so being called Pierre doesn't bother me.
Anyway all these products right here i brought that up because they're from Italy uh it's hard
to find these products here like this particular one you won't find it guys.
Where did i get it i got it from a buddy of mine he is also a a plasterer
but anyway getting back to what i'm trying to show you guys i was telling my buddy i said look man
i'll show you how to use well I'll show you how we use it if i'm going to use it
because how they recommend is not what i'm doing and you know i do a lot of
i do a lot of uh things that if I've done it before 40-30, 40 years ago and it's held up
over the years then i i might show it but as a rule if it's if if a product is say uh
engineered for a specific thing use it for just that I've done a lot of concrete work using uh
uh Poly-Bond, and people they call and get these nails out of here light goes in here people
call and go hey what's that material you use but that's uh that was that's a different material so
before i get too crazy with what i'm doing here this is not designed for this, i'm just showing
a buddy of mine how if you don't want to dash it you want a really heavy finish you got to get some
of that stuff why because it has the perlite and the cork cork is thick and it's green what's green
mean the color green like this no that just means it's friendly it's environmentally friendly so
um i thought i would show it and here's what we do guys, okay i've already did that spot
right there i'll take that gable because that'll take me uh 10 minutes because it's cut up and you
guys will have to listen to me ramble about stuff that don't amount to nothing so okay
we got this down now this is uh how you could finish off a wall in stucco
without having to dash it and make it look like a dash finish now notice i'm i'm
taking the the float i'm wetting this this material they say you can't do this
so I'm using it as an additive only
okay, again, clean your float, and now I'm gonna go to the surface of the top here,
and I'm gonna float it. All I'm doing when I say floating we're gonna bring this
the aggregate out what kind of aggregates in here guys
pearlite cork lightweight stuff now if I were to be using uh say Santa cement
I would take it would take me two buckets to do this with this stuff here
two big hog pools I've already done it because it's fluffy it looks like
it looks like you'd need a lot because it was so thick to fill in all the voids,
but not with this particular material. It's a great great product if you know how to use it,
but materials do take a lot of time in guys a lot of time in so uh
getting back to my buddy, he'll watch me do this and
give it a shot. Of course, he'd have to find that material I don't even know where they sell that
I do know we bought some things from Italy before because
europe is where a lot of stucco lime
was come from i mean all over europe is where you get your original lime and
clump you get your lime plastering from europe uh here portland cement kind of is king
and even that came from uh england in the early 1800s they thought heck with lime because
lime takes so long to set like sometimes three five days who wants to wait three to five days
here in uh us everybody's in a hurry i want to get that get it done say in a day so for example if
i'm an inch thick right here i'm not i'm about anywhere between a quarter to a half inch on
this right here and already i'm floating it and and all i'm doing here again is i'm i'm just uh
bringing out the cork the aggregate cork is used in here and you can see how thick some of it is
right there boom that's pretty thick and it's sticky stuff too it's sticky because they say
you could shoot this on an inch thick you don't need a primer you just shoot it on even plywood
and it'll protect the plywood but am i doing that new noo noo but for the sake
of something different i'm doing this anyhow you see how easy that is guys but plastering
is like any other thing material knowledge is huge i mean if you're gonna do stuff uh
any trade if you know the materials bet like i mean you've been using them for years and years
you know how much accelerators how much retardants and things like that to put in your materials
you can do just about anything with stucco and what i'm doing now is i'm trying to get
it all uniform and that means putting this float flat and so that it does i don't want to have a
bunch of float marks so that's what i'm trying to get out right now and i come across a few
uh big things corks i just keep going and smooth them out anyway my name is kirk
jason on the camera we thought we'd humor you guys and show you something different
and plus educate a fellow friend of mine who uh doesn't know the materials as well as i do so
we hope you enjoyed this as usual we thank you for watching and we'll see you guys on the next one
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