Hi guys Kirk and Jayson here with Kirk giordano plastering, my daughter Madeleine let me have a
little bit more baby, we're gonna show you today how to do some patchwork this is a ceiling and
everybody knows when you're doing a ceiling you have to deal with gravity, and so as fast as we put
it up it'll fall down I got some tips for you guys as far as when you do a ceiling first of
all don't use this this is three point four mesh that's the technical name three point four mesh
this is rib lat use rib laughs why rib lath when you have an expansion like this I mean we got wood
in here but it's it's metal so if you use rib lath it's less likely to go up meaning if you use this
three point four you put it on say like I'm using a hot mud too by the way all right so anyway when
you use rib lath it stops it from bowing or slows it down what if you use this three point four what
happened is you go like this and the three point four will go up and then when you pull the child
buying it a pop down and so any mud you put up there will go right in your face so now that we
got the last straightened down you want to mix your mud say for a soffit you mount you want to
mix it super-rich and me I've got accelerators in here what is an accelerator guys that means I have
like ten minutes to put all of this up or discard it because it will be too hard to use how many
different materials are there for a ceiling a lot guys you can you go you can go about 15 different
materials the idea is to make it super rich super rich because like what we do with stucco is we
generally mix mix it say the rule 3 to 1 what is 3 to 1 that means for every okay where every
bucket full you use three times as much sand to one time the plaster cement plaster whatever
you're using guys three to one well walls course ceiling it's a whole new ball games you can't get
this with three two one you know it'll just fall right off every single time so with this I'm doing
a scratch coat guys because it has to set yo got it alright now here's a rule to never work
this way because you see that pieces just fell off you're working this way and it's gonna fall
on your head work away from last one okay work away from where you're working otherwise like
that piece I just put on it'll fall right on your head which okay we're gonna mix some more cement
and get back on this now by the time they mixed one cement that's gonna be hard as a rock and
using that three point four we were doing a house and it was had had soffits all the way around it
it was very loose and I thought this one dude I said hey go go plaster that area knowing that
when he went up it was gonna go boying and fall down we went over there like 20 minutes later he
was covered with mud and I said man where'd you learn to plaster he lost his temper sit man look
somebody put this laugh on incorrectly because every time I do it we started laughing it was
a joke I didn't want to do it cuz I knew that I'd have to the same effect you working its gonna soon
as you go up fine fall all over yourself make sure you're using rib laughs guys when you're
doing look how solid this is okay look at that very solid anyway Madeleine's mixing some more
mud and then I'm gonna finish this off the whole point of this video is to show you guys your mud
it's got to be super rich because if it's not it would be falling right all over the place
right now when Madeline comes back we'll show you the conclusion let me show you something
else too we already got the first coat on here why am I using such a big trial because it's
kind of like a Darby or a screed now if I grab this smaller try and I put it on I'd have to
screed it in order for this piece to be lined up with the edges so basically I'm using this
as a screen this big trout now okay guys when you're putting your second coat on basically
you just want to look at any of the holidays any like holidays and in painting this boo-boos
mistakes and chew it out chew and plumb I just mean get everything lined up so true and plumb
there's another technical word and the trade for square it out make it make it as perfect as you
can okay with this big trial I can hit it once here and hit it once here and it's pretty much
tricked out that's that's squared as far as the material that I'm using I'm using accelerators
in a particular product because this is a sealing it's about an inch and a half thick guys so it's
and a half thick I'm working against gravity all the Portland cements just raw I could only scratch
this all of us could only scratch it if we're using just regular raw Portland cement there's
so many different companies out there that make so many fast set materials like Quick Crete like
BMI 690, Rapid set products, at Home Depo,t Lowe's there are just so many. I guess only the professional
Plasterers would say Kirk, I know exactly what material you're using, because, I need sticky mud,
guys sticky mud otherwise it's gonna fall all over this ground they're gonna fall all over my
head but at the same time not only sticky it's got to be a material that sets quick I mean I
don't want to be here all day all I wanted just to knock this out and go to our next little project
so it's gotta be sticky as well as setting fast now this is this is the equivalent of well what
I'd recommend for any soffit inside this could actually, be used for exterior stew but again
guys that's plastering what I'm doing here there's nothing anybody can plaster but it's the materials
that are important guys materials basically are I'd say 80% of the plastering knowledge the other
20% is is a skill of putting it up again a lot of people can understand it and put it up but the
knowledge of the materials is the true secret it's like anything else guys you know all the little
tips you're good this is a bucket scoop so it just takes all this stuff out of the bucket accurately
cuz it's got the same bend in it that's the bucket so I'm gonna need maybe another one scoop that
bucket is empty now so when we come back I'm gonna have this completed and I'll show you how we match
this finish and earlier I was talking about that wire how sharp is that wire I'll show you how
sharp that wire is guys you better wear gloves like these because generally when I'm lathing
which I just lathed this I wear with the fingers cut out why so I don't cut my finger off but see
this right here looked like I took a knife it went like that's the wire it's razor-sharp
guys, it's no joke took like half-hour for this to stop bleeding so when you're doing a ceiling
or when you're working with this rib lath or 3.4 lath any of that ceiling stuff remember it's
sharp razor sharp. it looks like I tried to cut my fingernail off. anyhow, guys I'm gonna let this set
about 15 minutes Jay's gonna mix a little bit more of this concrete or stucco, and we'll show you how
to float it to match this finish.
finally lastly he took a green sponge float and you lightly go over it now notice I'm not squeezing this hard I'm just holding it very and what that does is
it brings out the sand aggregate you want to match this finish so you need this particular float
if all your folks who watch in the UK said Kirk, you need a plastic float, sometimes but that
is that is when you're compressing the the two coats you use a plastic float or a hard rubber
or polyurethane float and that doesn't give you any sand, but a green sponge float brings the sand
to the surface. so that's what I'm doing here we're just bringing the sand to the surface and lastly
Madeleine suggested that I explain what this blue stuff is all the way around the perimeter I take
a lot of things for granted and just forget to mention stuff but the blue was Weld Crete it's blue,
the Weld-Crete is a bonding agent because it's a saw cut and we can't get any wire we can't
tie wire to wire so what we have is a cold joint and if we put Weld-Crete on it which is a bonding
agent it'll stick in here same thing we did on the front about four years ago to avoid a perimeter
crack can it still crack stucco can still crack because a movement stucco and movement is like a
bad deal together so anytime you have movement you can possibly have a hairline crack what does that
mean this means it's got a hairline crack when it dries caulk it and paints it anyhow guys my
name is Kirk, Jason on the camera, we thank you for watching and as usual, we'll see you guys on
the next one.
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