Hello folks Kirk and Carl here with Kirk Giordano plastering a lot of you are saying hey you put
your fingers in the wall and you you test the stucco I'm going to show you guys a few tips on
when you know a walls ready now about 15-20 minutes ago my finger was going all the way
through any with hitting the paper and wire because we're doing a scratching brown same
day now this is about ready so what happens if you leave it too long well another 10 minutes I
won't be able to work this mud what does that mean it means that the finish is gonna match
this which means I'm not gonna get paid so what I'm doing now is I got this whole piece of doing
the hot Sun I thought I'd just do this just to prove a point here's what you do guys you
put this on and now notice I got weld creat all over the finish here because they jacked up the
foundation and when you jack up the foundation and you have the old latinum plaster it's kind
of weak so we're trying to strengthen it here's what I'm gonna do guys I'm gonna we've we've just
spread this out about 25-30 minutes ago take my trowel take it on edge take it on edge and get
rid of get rid of some of the detail the detail here because this green floral about to use is
just designed to bring out the aggregate now we take a bucket of water there green flow guys and
this is getting hard so I'm gonna hustle what I'm doing guys I'm using the full flow and I'm
getting my joint first putting it back in water if I try to make more circles or tie it into the
existing it won't work I'll show you why okay now I'm about I can dip this back in the water which
I'd normally do because it accumulated too much stucco it's hard now it's hard with stucco so
watch what happens when you're really hard like I can still float it but when you're really hard
it accumulates on this then it starts to make a nasty finish so right now way over the time where
I should have dipped it so I'm gonna dip it back in here clean all that stucco out of the sponge
looks fun just full of it now I'm gonna take my weep screed and go horizontal like this and I'm
using a lot of water guy this by the way this is a look finish that I'm giving it but what do we
have on that wall and you guys know can you get a close-up of say this wall oh that's a - finish
that's a throne on or blown on finish back when they did this house 90 years ago it was thrown on
they didn't have hand hoppers then so what I'm doing still is I'm hustling to try to get this
because in 15 more minutes I am gonna lose this wall and we don't want to lose wall stucco does
not wait for anybody another comment I get often asked is hydration what about hydration well if
your do a scratch coat you you apply a scratch coat you let that hydrate or say I generally
let that scratch coat go for three days and I tell the homeowners hey hydrated mist it with
water saturated so that the water goes in it hits the paper with this particular system here and
I'm using the same day applications so same day application whether or not it's well there's 20
different products same day application same day application how long have they been around Oh BA
35 years because back in 1980 we used to use them there was Western La Habra there were many of them
Omega today 35 years later 30 years later we come up with a lot of advanced stucco one-day finishes
same-day finishes same-day finishes does not being you apply a stucco coat one inch even here
where the code is thin you scratch everything you come right back and brown over do you have to put
the scratch marks in it when you're doing same-day applications no so back to hustling guys I want to
lose these joints I'm in the in the hot Sun golf about 40 degrees because we're in wintertime I got
about three shirts off sweating like a pig right now but I'm gonna pull them off it right after I
do this simple explanation what I'm doing guys is I'm taking that load let me show you what you're
gonna do this you take the float you tap it on the inside inner bucket don't do this if you do this
you bend this downward and it's a real drag to get your aggregate out plus it destroys a float these
floats I'm buying by the case of course like 100 in a case but still look like five bucks a float
why destroy them okay now we're coming here but where our window is take a hand get rid of this
stuff and now we're gonna go up always take that joint up make it like so and here's a tricky part
underneath this window the sill after we get all the details out and what we're doing guys is we're
feather in a transition 7/8 right here because the weep screed is 7/8 and here is about only
a quarter inch because that it's the old lath and plaster board that laughing plaster board is keyed
so the stucco goes in those keys so we're about quarter inch here one inch here it's all about
feathering in you got to know how to do this safer underneath this sill I'll share the messy dirty
way we do underneath that sill we clean our float get it clean okay now just lay down on your back
the same way we applied this is we want to get under the sill here of course you can't see this
but just for the sake of showing you we take it we floated upward upward motions and get half of it
we're gonna have to lay in this dirt twice we're good half boom there it is take the other half
now can I do it without looking at it I can but I can't plaster it without looking at it because
I have to make sure that underneath here is one inch thick I can't have this 7/8 and then this
go in so I laid on my back and I plastered that I'm taking this and I already know I plastered
at the right yep so let's see what the heck is in my way lamb obstacle course around here then what
he do is just keep loading it out keep loading it out like so and if you put mud on too heavy
just take your trowel and wipe it off this is this is the stage right now okay we're in the hot Sun I
have other I have the other front and the rear and the other side to do I can come back here in about
say 20 minutes two hours like come tomorrow and do a light - a light - on this entire wall right
here want to show that entire wall will take me about five minutes I mixed some soupy cement and
I come with a light - and I'm talking real light because it's painted about 20 times that's 100
year old house so we're just like - it anyway I thought I'd show you because people say how come
you poked it your finger in and you just show it I poked my finger in the show the the well when it's
ready that's how you can you I can usually look at a wall and see if it's if it's ready it starts to
lose its Sheen and it starts to go a lighter color that's when you're losing it guys so for the sake
of just explaining some things that are behind the scenes I look at walls and I know when they're
ready that's an important thing because if you have to use muscle that's rough because the way
I figure it is the stucco applications is about 30% of the knowledge the other 70% is material
I know almost every material they sell because I've been using it for 30 years and if I don't
know them I pay the price of working my ass off to try to get that done so 70 percent is knowing your
materials guys thought I'd give you some material tips because we're here and because we can anyway
my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano plaster and we thank you for watching as usual we'll
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