Hello folks Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, my son Jason on the camera
today I want to show you guys is how to fix a bent trowel I mean we were just working inside
today just just now on some walls and my son Dan says dad this materials no good I said I'm using
that same material what's wrong with it he says well every time I got a trowel it on it won't
it's leaving lines and I'll show you guys a tip I learned long time ago from the old buddy of mine
Fred Smith when I said something real similar I said man this material suck I can't get it to
spread right and Fred come over and looked at it cements your trowel it's bent now a lot of
times guys what I'll do is I'll use this it's a swimming pool child not PU ll or it's pulled
pol and it's this one I'm using is straight right here so it doesn't leave lines say if you're going
up now look how fat I'm going to I'm going up okay it's it's leaving one little Ridge and we're doing
some skim coat and interior and I can get that out after this starts to set because this is a plaster
I'll show you what my son was using he was using a trowel and I already straightened it out so I
told him go in the truck find the worst chili have out of the 30 and he come up with this one which
may be able to illustrate what I'm talking about say you you put this trial on here first of all
if you look down a trial guys if that trial is bowed where these are coming out like this it's
it's gonna leave bridges we wanted it bowed this way so like a pull trial it won't leave the ridges
I'll show you what he's got okay he's he's doing this guy's now if you go this way you're seeing
the result of a bent trial you try to go this way now you can't straighten this you see that doesn't
matter how much mud you put it's the trials bent now how do we fix that well we can't always fix
the first of all so I'll show you how I do it when this happens it's not too too often that happens
now I'm gonna look at that trial and I see well for the camera it's been here it's been here and
it's it's bent this way now this the trial blade itself is stainless steel just well steel and the
handle of course is wood and then this this piece here is cast-iron same stuff they use this the
piece right here is cast iron it's riveted to the steel steel rusty leave it out overnight at rust
that being said now what I'll do is I'll look down it and I see there's a huge Bend from here to here
so now what I'll do is I'm gonna push this soft metal into the riveted area now if I do this I'm
just opening it but I'm not pushing this this metal into this metal so what I want to do is
I want to push the cast iron into this to get this bow out so I'll show you how I do it I'll
start from the middle I'm just I'll start from the middle guys and I'll push the the galvanized metal
into the steel obviously the galvanized metal is a soft metal and the steel is hard so I'm pushing
this in I'm not doing this I'm not opening it I'm I am opening it but I'm pushing the cast
iron into it this is an old plasterers trick my buddy Fred he taught me a lot of chicks like this
thirty years ago now some of these childs you can't make them perfect after they're so beat
up but you can get a much better okay that one now I'm looking down here and I see the bend here
so where it's bowed to me I'm looking here now I push this there I can look at it again it's kind
of like cheering out a bicycle rim if you know how to do that I didn't I went online about a
week ago and I thought wow that was easy I fixed the bike rim in about ten minutes off of YouTube
anyhow I'll show you we just keep going over it what we want to do is push that soft metal
in there and fix this trial this side is fixed well enough this side here your camera can't
show that I'm sure it's still bowed at the top so I'm gonna keep on pushing this soft metal
into the Crowder to give it that right bend we want it bent this way like them like a banana
we want it bent this way we don't want to bent inward otherwise you can't plaster with it you
can do exterior stucco with it but you certainly cannot do interior plaster with it a couple more
pieces and I'll show you now let's see oh that's not that's not perfect but it's a lot better and
guys some trials I've seen are simply not worth fixing you just throw them away get rid of it
let's see I still have a bend right in here all right let's see what we got now give it
a little bit of water so it doesn't drag all right a little bit of water it's not gonna
be perfect like say this guy here but it's gonna be should be a lot better okay now we pull it up
now notice guys it's a lot better now when we go to we're gonna allow this to well actually we're
working inside I'm just doing a sample board out here but now you see that is how you fix the bent
trowel and I'll tell you guys I fix about 50 of them in my times and I've picked out some in the
trash that guys just throw away and it's only when you're working inside guys that y'all gee
the trowel is useless it's not useless guy you can correct it if you know how anyway my name is Kirk,
jason on the camera we're actually working on the house here doing a lot of interior
work we appreciate you watching and as usual see you guys on the next one