how do you guys Kirk Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today we're gonna show you guys,
how we match this fine skip trowel or Spanish lace texture, now it's kind of difficult there's about
20 solid different textures that folks can do on houses plus about a hundred other old-world styles
this one the fellow did and he asked my opinion I said well gee because we were here doing something
else. I said when you paint that it's going to be an eyesore because your textures are too full and it's
wavy the walls are jacked up this texture here there's not going to match that whoever did this
did a Spanish lace it's a Spanish lace and it's very uniform so blob job won't match expensive
apartment I probably a million-dollar apartment maybe two I don't know but he says well gee can
you fix it? I said I can fix it, but I can't make it perfect, because it is one of the most difficult
finishes to do, they said well do the best you can. I said I can do that, I notice every patch I've
ever done it forever but most folks don't see our patches and if they do then it's something that's
like this it's really difficult to do to come around this fella had a lot of time in and he
couldn't even do it here's what I recommend it to him because he says well gee Kirk I'm gonna take
a grinder and grind it off. I said don't do that. He said why not? I said you'll get dust over the whole
neighborhood, everybody will hate you, plus you have to inhale all that crap. He said well what if
I use a hatchet ax I said then you compromise the paper and wire, because the hatchet will hit this
real hard and you just compromise it me since what other things can I use there's a lot of things you
can use guys you can go by hand and you can use three and one tool this just a painter's scraper
a lot of things but here's the easiest thing just get your get yourself a Bosch bulldog and if you
ever have this situation, the boss Bosch makes the best tool have about Oh, 20 - 30 different electric tools
for breaking out and I've decided that this one is the best over the last 15 years I got all the air
tools anyway it's light you can with all kinds of different tips on it points this that here's what
I did already here I spend about 15 minutes here I'm just going to show you real quick because I
don't want to spend another 15 minutes what we have to do is get all these pancakes and blobs
off. because those are a sore thumb they simply won't match. So what I did do is, me and Jason
you get the idea. I don't want to put my mask on otherwise it would drawn me out, it's very windy
day here today too, so after you get everything ground down sort of speak with that right there
it creates a lot less dust - then you're ready like what we have to apply the texture now because
this is a color coat maintenance-free finish what does that mean? it's porous.
I wet the wall here,I wet everything because I don't want to inhale any dust, it keeps the dust down what I'm
gonna do now is put a finish coat on this, that is finer than the finish coat he used, now any of you
folks, clinker, any of you folks know this texture what degree of sand it is? This is what we call a
20-30 and the trades yeah 16-20 is much heavier, heavier grit and what I'm using this is Santa
Barbara it's thirty-thirty it's very fine, like talcum powder. Now what I'm gonna do here is I'm
gonna skim this real quick. up wrong trowel, I'm gonna get the trowel that I stole from the Silver
Surfer, that's this surfboard, don't you guys use a big one like this but I like using this big one
because it's fast alright now I've got to go over the existing, I don't like going over existing when
I do patchwork but here I have no choice because I've got to feather it in so what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna go over the existing a little bit just fine and now as I say I'm using a finer grit if I
use the same grit, it'll be too thick it won't work. So a lot of guys want to use the same mud that
they applied with don't do that, it won't it won't give you the right texture, by the way, guys if
you have this happen right here and you need to repair it I would suggest that you hire somebody
because we show a lot of how-to stuff and a lot of it is lathing which most folks can learn how to
lath by watching the video. But texturing here with one of the most difficult finishes to tie
in with patchwork it's gonna take some time so I'd recommend you hire somebody to do this part
for you the reason I say that is because when I was a union plaster Oh like 30 years ago I was
working for this one company and fella who was the supervisor of time, he says well Kirk, what
are you? I said, I'm a journeyman this is great, and after about three hours he said, I'll ask you again what
are you? I said I'm the journeyman, he says well your good but not a journeyman. I could see that but
the effort you put in I'll go definitely pay your journeyman wages, I wish all my guys took the time
out to put in a hundred percent like you are so it's not a big deal it was a matter of I was 80%
but anyway that was Fred Smith a plasterer he taught me more about how to match textures than anybody
He worked for Danny Smith for 40 years. he just retired anyhow that's the base coat, now notice
I went over the actual finish coat which again is a cardinal sin unless you know what you're
doing. now I took a wire brush and I wire brush the perimeter why because this wall is about 60
years old so a lot of dust accumulated that's what happens when you have a maintenance-free
finish it lasts forever it kind of diminishes and in a parent but it definitely lasts forever.
Now what I'm going to do next is I'm gonna hard rubber float this just to compact it and get my
joint a little tighter and then I'm gonna hit it with a spice float and why a sponge float
because I want to get this joint right here almost as flat as possible because again we're
going over finishing this is not very forgiving. Must skip trowels are real forgiving, this one is
not forgiving you either know what you're doing or hire somebody on this, and again it does take
about 10 years to learn how to do textures which my story goes with Fred Smith, on one other job
after a couple months I was working with the company he says Kirk texture this, I said I don't know how to texture, you don't know how to texture and you've been doing this three years?
I said yeah, but I know how to darby and how how to do the rest I'm was working a pump, pump crew so he says well I teach you so we were
doing about seven to eight houses a day and he says slow please he says alright Kirk go-ahead
and start texturing he showed me the specifics and I thought okay and I started texturing and
it was easier texture than this and I looked at us and all they're never gonna accept that hey don't
worry relax brother keep doing it so I kept doing it and after a half-hour, I looked at my own work
and I thought ah I'm just not happy with that, hey Kirk, it's don't worry about it it looks fine and
anyway for the rest of the day that's all I did was a texture for the next three months that's
all I did was texture he said we're gonna make you are as good if not better than all the guys on
the crew, good buddy of mine old Fred you're out there watching Fred anyway so here we have the
the base coat you got to have a base coat when you do a color coat otherwise the texture won't
work now because this is still moist here my next texture or my, my texture now is going to adhere by
suction and that's another topic within itself of when to applying it okay I'm gonna come over here
right by you Jay and I'm gonna put this surfboard away gonna hand me a little bit of mud alright
just gonna hand me a wee bit of mud all right now as a rule guys I have my way of texturing
and other folks have their way of texturing my way my way generally is I'll take my trowel
and I'll look at what they got I could see they got a Spanish lace so a Spanish lace you want to
just a light hand guys a light hand and it's okay to have straight lines because see this fella he
got a lot of straight lines what does that mean that means he took it off and just pulled it up
now this gives those straight lines but also the way this fell a different differs from me
is normally I would take the mud off here and slam it's right here and go this way Oh however this guy
didn't do any of it that way he pulled it straight up so the trowel, I generally use what wouldn't work
here anyhow so now this we've got a little hump but it's not noticeable with the camera here's
what I'll do because we want to feather into this light skip trial I'll just I have to go vertically
and I have to actually go over the existing wall I don't go over the existing wall then see that
I got that habit don't do that gotta have it a wanting to go sideways that's alright, stop it
Kirk, all right we gotta match this fella work alright that's done and guys regardless if you
take it from the top of the bottom say like me I'm used to I just have taken mud and I'll take thirty
pounds and I'll let it drop on my trough for me that's easy because the hawk is holding the weight
I drop it on here and I put it on a lot of guys will pull it off and take ten times to put it on
that's up to you as an individual me if I pull it off the top like like this I pull the mud off the
top I got the same finish but I like to pull it off the bottom okay so now we're doing the bottom
here now generally what I'll do is take it take it I can go vertically now because that's what
this guy is done this is very close to my own technique but just a little off nothing sweat
all right and now notice to another thing that's going on that that I'm not explaining is as I'm
talking this is allowing to suck up and dry what happens if I immediately start to knock this down
I'll get a different texture than theirs now again I I notice all my own textures or anybody else's
textures because that's what I do for a living my job here is to make it look much better than
what they did on when this is painted so you're sitting in a hot tub the fellas don't go hey man
I see somebody did some nasty patchwork on your house so we don't want that happening anyway we're
I'm getting ready to knock this down although I wet the wall in order to remove any dust plus I
had to wet it in order for the this new stucco to adhere to the existing moisture and in here
adhering like the mechanical bond that's pretty important but that's another story all right so
now that we've got it like done I'd say five minutes I could knock down this section but
I'm gonna do right now anyway with a light hand so again this fella everything he did is he took
it straight up vertically he didn't go horizontal anywhere that I can see so I'm gonna do the same
we're gonna go up and then come down and here we're gonna light hand guys a light hand and
the reason I said earlier is that we are using a bag of Santa Barbara texture because the sand in
the Santa Barbara the aggregates and same thing, just a fancy word is like talcum powder it's it's
called technically 30-30 and that's the sand this is twenty-thirty which is a little bit heavier
well hours to try to use twenty thirty could I do it I can come close but I want to get the material
that gives me as exact to finish as I can anyway there you have it guys my name is Kirk, Jason on
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