Hello folks kirk family here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today, I want to show you how we patch
around this window. But that's kind of easy if it was on the ground, it'd be way easy. but we're kind
of high up here, we got here and I thought I'm not comfortable with that so jason added a couple
ladders, and ropes and all the rest of that jazz because I'm no spring chicken and this kind of
stuff scares me these days. Anyway when we're doing something so high up like this and we're going so
thick, this is mighty thick stucco you got to have some rich mud because, Yes, we are doing both coats
right now, I'm not coming up here another day, so I'm going to get started. what I want to show you
is the finish now the finish coat we're going to get to that towards the end of
the video we may not show this entire application of mud but we'll cross that bridge when we get to
it, all right Jason is actually is a rock climber and this stuff doesn't bother him he's been
up Yosemite, all of that stuff swinging on a hanging rope a mile high, he doesn't care. All right, I'm taking
this stucco here turn it around and using my skill to get it up into here, I'm taking it
off turn it around guys slow motion, blam im putting it up in there a lot of mud right here
you take it you spin it and then you slam it up there and yeah we got we're gonna have some
drops because we are defying gravity right now and we're so thick I don't know I only want to
do one coat and can you guys do one coat it takes a lot of practice anything coming down you just
put it on best you can I'm gonna scoot over here we're gonna use like it doesn't look like much
but we're gonna use at least I'd say four buckets maybe what's four buckets to about a wheelbarrow
full of mud oh right here I'm getting my base coat then I'm spinning this around and buckets
in the way but I've spin it around guys you see what I got there take it off spin that and go
up top how long do I have before the sets? good question, glad you guys asked I have about 15
to 20 minutes, 15 to 20 minutes this is going to get hard as a rock or hard as stucco and we are
using the stuff of that they build bridges with how strong is it well you put it on it's about
2700 psi and when it's almost dry, it jumps up to about almost 4,000 psi strength, when dry now
the average stucco is about I guess, 1600 psi, strength, this is really strong stuff with all
same-day stucco's with all scratch and browns, where you do your scratch coat the brown coat
almost every one of them you cannot or should not over mix why? that compromises the strength of
them, now that I got most of that done I'm gonna lay here look at my own work and fill in this
gap because gravity is pulling it down so I'm back up a little bit back up and push it up
it's hard to see from down there I'm sure but I've got it work because we're doing two coats
but pushing it in there your lay back and it's done, now almost I get the luxury of standing up
I'm using it stiff, look how stiff that is, why? because I want it to set in here like
this mud here it's stiff and rich that means it's going to adhere well if it was runny
like soup, it would be falling down if it was too stiff of course I wouldn't be able to spread it.
I'm working here, and the owner says my voice got deeper. I said, that's the voice of fear, brother,
because I'm nervous up here. We generally have scaffolding, but if there's no scaffolding, can we
improvise? sure as long as the ladders are these heavy-duty ones and the plank is heavy-duty?
Otherwise, I tend to get kind of nervous, now that that's, done. I'm gonna just finish out this bucket
right here because I have the easy stuff left. I have my son, Jason on the camera. Jay actually said,
dad, I'll do it because you know he's a rock climber, and this is nothing to him. In fact,
he thought it'd be kind of fun, but I don't know how to use that camera, so I'm stuck
doing the plastering. What I'm gonna do is one more bucket which my other son is mixing,
then I'll show you how we match this finish here with this mud you can see
the window they already did know the fella did that window he did a pretty nice job.
So my job is to match this heavy float finish, and what does that mean? That means once I steel
trowel it down, I'm going to bring the aggregate out. What is the aggregate? That would be a fancy word
for sand; if it were concrete, the aggregate would rock, so I'm gonna wiggle over here,
finish the rest of this bucket, and when we get this next bucket on, we'll continue and show you
how to float this because floating it does require a lot of time and a lot of skill those guys did
a pretty nice job, I can see they got a little bit of time in. so I'll show you how we do it.
all right Jay's gonna bring me up some mud maybe it's a now this here
Jay actually reset it up because I don't trust anybody staging Jason's I'll trust he's a rock
climber and ski patroller he does this stuff all the time like that time you did that swinging off
that El Capitan in Yosemite, they were on a rope swinging and they swung out way above the ground
it seemed like a mile, but he says it was only a A few hundred feet anyway I'm gonna finish this off
right here and then we'll show you how we float it. All right guys I got the bird's-eye view up
here see this plank here these are quite common I have a 28 foot plank like this myself this is
about a 14 I got a 28 where you put two ladders it scares the crap out of me going on that but I
was just now looking I seen a clinker right here and I thought well I can get that clinker that's
when this was painted it'll be noticeable it's all you do is you scrape that off as I was doing that
I was telling Jay about a friend of mine he's a roofer a really good roofer him and his son
were working off of planks like this they had two ladders and they were set up like this they were
a little bit further apart he had that 28 foot plank he was about 10 feet higher than this and
I watched this I had to turn around I thought I can't watch that anymore his son stood at the end
and this plank here was off 15 feet because they couldn't set it up and he didn't have a
place to set the bottom ladder, so his son stood at one end this fella walked on here with nothing
underneath just the teeter-totter in effect or the counterweight of his son on one side he was
like, hey Kirk, I said man, I can't even watch that anymore so what I'm doing this is not this is not
a big deal when I think of some of the things that I've seen done and that I have done when I was a
younger fella anyway we're at the stage now where I'm gonna bring the sand out why because this is a
heavy load finish or sand finish it means the same thing we take this green sponge float green sponge
float you can buy these at Home Depot Lowe's Westside all over the place and now I started
from the bottom first so I'm gonna continue with the bottom I'm going to get out here and because
the bottom here I went ahead and and floated up and just lay on my back and I'm gonna push this
up now as I push up I get the bottom part I tie and I'll feather in my joint and and what you do
guys you should just push up with the float you guys may not be able to see this of course but we
push up in fact I'll go to an area where you can see oh this is where you at Jay alright let me get
this left-side won't bore you guys with all the details but here's how you float the edges you
can call it feathering in the joints we generally call this what I'm about to do feathering in the
joint now I'll take the wood trim here and I'll go straight up now I go a lot of water the water
helps set the stucco it hydrates it now I look at whatever finish I have to work with if it's
super fine finish where you barely see the sand what I can do is two things I can float it then
come back to it with a dryer float and almost get the sand where you can't even see it if it's super
heavy that means that I use a lot of water and leave that water on it so I dictate what I want
this finish to be on I've had fella say well, Jay I tried it and it's too sandy or felt let's say
I tried it and it's too fine we dictate what we want by our skill level now that matches what we
have here so I'm going to take the clean float and just clean the wood as I go right here that
way when I get to that stage I can just rip this plastic off and be done and many of you folks say
well gee how long do we wait until we paint on an average almost every stucco out there whether
it's the same day scratch and browns or Portland Types of cement of any kind from, Sacrete you name it
any of the products that are sold at Home Depot Lowe's or any of the hardware stores twenty-eight
days why 28 days well as a rule a whole house is stuccoed you have this wall say for example it's
in the hot sun right now well at least it's warm here you might have another wall in the shade so
if you give it 28 days you allow all of the houses to contract to expand then shrink or more importantly you
allow the stucco which has a high alkalinity to start off with like right now we it's about a
14 pH we want it to drop down to about a 9pH what does that technical stuff mean? That means don't
paint it till 28 days are up otherwise the paint can blister I've ever seen it blister no have I
seen guys paint it before that 28 days absolutely we did a commercial project I won't mention the
name of the very prominent company we worked for and I told him to wait 28 days to paint and they
painted it within two days and when I said, hey we've just happened to be driving by again I said
you know you're not you shouldn't have painted it that fast. He said, Kirk, look your job is done
I'm a general this is I need this done fast so we painted it within two days. I said okay I just
tell folks the reasoning behind everything I can't tell a fella gee don't paint I just advise anyway
you see where we're going with this I'm going, take another ten minutes that I'll spare you
guys my rambling and when I'm done I'll show you the finish and we'll pull this off, all right guys
laying in the sun it feels good I got the sand right here all I need is a margarita they've been
taking. I'm gonna leave you guys with one tip of advice if you're going to do this stuff set scaffold
set some staging this is all legal stuff, but it's it's dangerous guys I do this stuff for a living
so don't say oh I'm gonna copy ole Kirk, and another another tip is to wear glasses my youngest and son
Dan we were plastering and we had some loose wires so when you put the plaster on the wall it goes on
and then the loose wires if they're like this they flick it at you so I've had stucco flicked at me a
thousand times it always seems to come out of the right here it'll come out the next day well my son
wasn't so fortunate he was trying for a week he finally had to go to the eye doctor and guess what
they gave him a shot in his eye I said really he says yeah dad, it was like 300 bucks, remember guys
he watched a needle come in his eye so don't mess around, wear some glasses because
this stuff gets in your eye it is a bit of a drag to get it out that's that should scare the heck
out of all your guys meaning set staging and wear glasses and don't do anything goofy anyhow my name
is Kirk, Jason on the camera crawled down there mixed into we thank you for watching and as usual
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