Howdy folks, kirk, Jason, Dan, and Carl here today, We are doing some interior
plastering in this garage. Got a bunch of stuff inside, but that's another story.
Because it's a different product, I'll show you guys if you have a new electrical panel.
How many of you guys have got new electrical panels? When you buy houses these days, they
want you to get rid of the old knob and tube and put a new electrical before you can get a loan,
so anyway, these people had this house a long time. They got a new panel here,
so this old one is no longer good. They put the new one in, so what we're doing is we are putting
it back together, and while we're here, they've made the electricians made a lot of holes, I'll,
I'll give you an example, guys.
They have to cut a lot of holes to run a lot of wires, so here's what you guys could do if
you don't tell, man, i don't want to call kirk and family i want to do it myself;
here's what you do get pieces of wood like this and there are endless ways to do this guy,
i could come up with 25 different ways, but for the sake of how we usually do it I'll show you
this we'll take a piece of wood like this. It's just a 1 by three, and we'll cut a whole bunch of
pieces. I'll take the Milwaukee saw there. It's battery operated, and we just cut a whole bunch
of pieces, then when we have that done, we'll fish it in here and here and put a screw into here, and
here, now that screw should set say a sixteenth of an inch or an eighth that holds that in place.
Is that all we do? No, now we put a bonding agent around the perimeter, and you guys don't need to
be as thorough as we are, but we're thorough. We put a bonding agent around the perimeter. That's
what this pink stuff is. It's a bonding agent, then we cut a piece of wire, and we put that mesh
in there so now how our structure light instructor light is a plaster it's going to mushroom through
this it's going to mushroom through these holes, and here it does it need the mushroom?
No, it doesn't make it could just be solid, too, a solid backing.
That's what they have here. I'll show you one more thing while we're talking about mushrooming.
I don't know if the camera will show this now, but inside here, we have old wood lath,
and you could see the structural light mushrooming through that old wood lath.
That old wood lath was in 1890 to about 1920 i still see it used in 1930 and 42 because of
inventory, and the folks here call this a kirk. So what are all these little holes,
i said? Well, if you got little holes all over the sheetrock,
that button board was usually about 1950 to 1960? So that's when they use a button
board with the same theory in mind, or the same method, the same theory meaning the
holes in the button board the plaster would go through it would adhere to the button board.
Then it would mushroom in the back of those holes. That's why it's called a button board,
and that's how it would give it more adhesion. It would stick forever. That stuff worked. Let
me show you a few other things since we're talking about this kind of stuff; guys,
okay, we got a lot of little holes here and there, a lot of little holes.
They're everywhere, and where they have this right here where it's really smooth,
and we got this pink stuff. The pink stuff's the bonding agent. It's a plaster world by wild
creed. Still, if you go to home depot or lowe's, you'll buy um quick-crete, because they don't sell
weld crete at home depot or lowe's, you have to go to the plastering yard,
so this pink stuff over here is just because when i plaster this i'm going to skim this just to give
it this sandy look and struck the light base coat is sandy guys it's used for hospitals and
schools and has been used for well over 140 years. I want to point something else out too since i'm
here like if you close in your electrical panels like say this they had some light switches they're
not going to use them so what we did was we put the bonding agent around it there are no wires
in here and we just put a little bit of wire and when i plaster this i'm going to fill this
whole box up that far it's just going to plaster right through this metal if you do have wires
here guys put some kind of make sure the wires are capped and or put a membrane over there too
that way no plaster gets in between the wires and shorts anything out i want to show you guys one
last thing before i start to plaster this and i'm we're going to plaster this uh and as soon as
we're done showing you this this is a job i did 35 years ago and right here well i guess you would
you would come on that side the people say kirk remember this job and i thought yeah i did that
for McNeil and John and Mcneil, they're retired now they're my age, i see them occasionally and
they always say, kirk, you retired yt? And i say, man, i'm in my prime, but anyway, 35 years ago,
we did this and did it match on the money it does. Still, when i did that, i told them, guys.
This has been painted at least uh 20 times every 10 years. You should prime something and paint it;
every year you do that, it softens it, so this is very soft. This is a knock-down dash.
This is a knock-down dash, but it's fresher. Because it's only been painted a couple times
did they paint that six times in the 35 years i don't know, but i can tell it's it's
when you're trying to soften something use a big fat nap roller anyway i'm going to get back to
this jay as me and dan are going to plaster this up but for the sake of showing you guys
how to plaster it and how to use structural light structure light takes three to five hours to set
and we are going to put accelerators in it because you know i don't want to wait three to five hours
for each patch to set so jay is going to determine or then how much accelerators to put in this stuff
so that i can do these patches in two to three minutes i can do the big ones in five minutes
and float them floating means i take a sponge float like your dishes your your kitchen sponge
but on a handle and we floated and what does that do it brings out the aggregate brings
out the sand, it's a the sand aggregate is a fantasy fancy word for the sand right here and
that's what we want to do we want to match the sand anyway they're gonna they're gonna match
uh mix up some and we'll show you how to do the fun part okay guys the fun part now we never know
it always it depends on the material here how fast it sets guys and i can see already this is
set and fast sometimes we'll use it and before we could even get the bucket here it's set okay
so i can see this is setting fast so what i planned on doing i'm going to change
all right this is done until i go to float that but because this is already hardening oh
i'm gonna lose that bucket but that's okay. i'm gonna lose it because
It depends on our accelerator. Sometimes, we put that accelerator in there,
and it just takes off sometimes; it doesn't, sometimes it does,
so i'm going to try to use as much of this as i can before
it's gone. Will i be able to use that whole bucket doubtful, but i'm gonna try because it's always a
drag to throw away. So now what i'm looking for is big holes, big holes to put this on.
getting stiff adds some excitement to my life, Okay,
Getting stiff sometimes, we'll have it, and i tell you, this stuff sets in three to five
hours. If it's set in three to five hours, that's a real drag. We can end up being here forever, so
we put this accelerator in it many times; you lose it. How many buckets have we lost?
More than i could think about, so i'm hustling, trying to get this on.
and i don't want to lose all this through the wire, but so i don't want to press very, very,
super hard i just want to i want to utilize this to the best, meaning sure i can be in a hurry
and waste it right through the wire, but that would be kind of goofy so
That's when you know that's pretty stiff i only got a couple hawks in here, and i know this stuff,
so i will i'm not going to lose anything. All i'm going to do is put it where it's needed,
but that was a close one, so when we mix our next batch, we know to put a little bit less of the
accelerator in it because, um, it's setting fast. There are too many reasons for me to go into
why but there are definitely reasons why that happens. Uh, it's usually the age of the material,
dirty tools, things like that, so i have this right here, and it's already stiff,
so now i'm going to just do some uh detail work because i can the detail work is right here.
That's one thing, guys; if you think, man, this is getting out of control, and i'm losing it,
put it anywhere but that mud somewhere. Hence, it's at least a good solid backing,
and then what we're going to do probably not on camera is put the next coat on here,
but on camera, I'll show you how we finish this stuff because there's nothing to it guys.
This stuff is excellent for interiors. It's why it's specked out for hospitals and schools.
It got a lot of benefits. What is it, its perlite volcanic glass? They take it from a mine and heat
it up to about 1600 degrees, and it pops just like popcorn, and it has so many uses; guys,
this is just another use for it anyway. We're out of the mud, so jay's gonna mix me up some more,
or dan mix me up some more, and i can finish this off. All right, guys, we've used all the material
we have so low man on the totem pole, i said, Dan, he goes, oh no, i don't want to go to the material
yard. i said somebody got to go with the material yard, now get your ass over there, and get give
me two more bags of structa-lite, any way you see these patches right here guys, we didn't do them.
We didn't do those. We did this one, and we're gonna do this one, but here's another little
patch that we didn't do this little bitty guy here what you do guys is, i mean if you're doing
this for yourself, you take a sponge float it doesn't matter green orange it doesn't matter the
color. Still, what you do is you float it in now. There are no other patches around here i could see
this one. Still, we didn't do that either so what we're doing is we're taking it on its flat side.
We're just feathering it in. We take it we take some of the fat from inside the patch.
We just get it around the perimeter. You get it around on the perimeter so
that when we're done it, it looks a little bit prettier than this kind of stuff these guys
plugged it, but it's not pretty i'm out of the water, so i'm going to put some water on this.
i'm going to tap this bucket right here. Tap it out, tap it out,
glue bucket. Always put your brushes in water; otherwise, those would be hard as a rock,
so i'm tapping this out now. What i'm going to hit these other two patches, and again the fellas
who did this are much better. These guys were pretty good. That's it blends in a lot tighter,
so for the sake of showing you what i'm talking about, these little covers here, you take some
of the fat from the middle, and you bring it out to the edge of the existing,g, and that's
how you feather in patch guys. The same with the exterior. There's no different exterior patchwork,
the same method, guys, so you take it from the inside. You go to the outside, and that makes
a difference between a good-looking patch and an ugly patch where somebody will say, hey man, you
know what you're doing versus dude, you suck, so that's done, that's, it's a good perimeter patch
it's called feathering in blending in the joint. This guy didn't he had a clue, o
kay, the same thing up here we're going to i'll blend it in we're going to feather in the joint
all right so now i'm going to take it this way and i still have a little bit of moisture on
this float a little bit of water without the water i can't blend in the joint or feather it
in so i'm taking it here now i can tell this got it dried out why is it drying out because
the structure light the pearlite the volcanic glass is sucking the moisture right out of this,
so i put some other in and again what we want to do is just just take it lightly and feather
in that joint a lot better than the other fellas we're professionals so we have to do it a little
bit better i'll show you a better example guys okay we only had a bag and a half when we came
here so we used that first bag and you see how i improvised i didn't want to just throw it away
so i put it where it's the largest holes we got a lot of little small holes we've got hundreds of
holes here so we're gonna be here a while i just spread this out about five minutes ago and this
we put the same amount of accelerators in it so for example i'll show you how
right we'll start from right here guys let's see i'm not sure if this is even ready
but if it's hard or it's too soft we can make it work we have the technology okay guys so again
what i'm doing is i'm taking the existing into or the new into the existing i need to put a piece of
tape on that that's the second time. i hit it with my head,
okay, here i want a straight line comes down, and i'm using a lot of water now because i want
to take this into i want to take the new into the existing that's what you always want to do take
the new into the existing, so when we're done they go wow you guys are way better than the last guys
And don't worry about covering the box, guys. Why? it's not necessary I'll show you why in a
minute i'm going to clean this box with the same float that i'm using now going up here i want this
kind of straight, you see how this corner straight see all this excess i can get that off
with my finger trowel or this float I'll show you we're going to take it here and i'm going to use
my eyeball to make that straight, and so i'm going to do that same method taking this and go straight
straight that way, when i add a little bit more uh structure light when dan comes back,
i don't have enough here, i can already see so, but when i when dan comes back, and we finish,
I'll have to put a little bit of mud right there of course i still got to do the patches
this is dried out all the water the moisture has been sucked out by this, so we add some more water
if you add too much water, what happens when you pull your
structure off you don't want to pull the structa- lite off,
so you just want to float it and that with that you need a certain amount of water
so what i'm doing here is i got a big holiday or big hole i'm just getting that out making it
sandy giving it the same appearance as the rest of the wall and usually i kind of go upward guys
like right here i'll take the middle of the sponge float and hit the joint and that just blended in
a little bit better i'm not going to mess with this top piece anymore because i still have to
add a little bit of uh structure there struck the light perlite okay so now we're because i didn't
cover this yeah it's dirty i could take a wash rag guys and clean it out or i could use this bucket
now all i'm doing guys is i'm cleaning the float you clean it flip it put this end in tap it out
now if i didn't have this paper i wouldn't be doing that i'd be doing it toward
me okay we want to tap out all of the color from here
why do we want to tap that color out because we want to clean this utility cover
boom, okay, let's do that one more time on the other side
Pretty.
Okay,
Make it real pretty, and guys, it doesn't have to be perfect because you could always
take a wash rag. We got wash rags on our truck and just go around it, so anyway,
that's pretty much how you uh bring the sand out of the aggregate with this uh structure light
anyhow i'm gonna go ahead and leave that we got a whole we got way too much stuff to be doing here
to be messing around on the camera. Anyway, my name is kirk Jason on the
camera calling down here too, or dan's at the material yard. We thank you guys for watching,
and as usual, we'll see you at the next one. All right, folks,
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