Hello folks kirk here with kirk giordano plastering, today what we're gonna do is
we're gonna skim coat this chimney when I say skim coat generally we're scratching Brown two
coats 7/8 of an inch thick a skim coat just requires three-eighths half inch max what
we're doing first is the owner of this policy pressure-washed this chimney you pressure-washed
it because it had paint on it we got to get all the paint and dust dirt grime off of it you used
31 100 psi that's mighty strong pressure washer so what our job is now I just went ahead and wire
brushed everything just in case I always like to hit it with the wire brush and get any any
areas I think might just need to be scored next thing and I've already got started on
this actually is we're taking weld Creek this stuff here well krita's a bonding agent what
we're gonna roll out this whole chimney and I'm gonna roll it out real thick real heavy
we don't roll it out this heavy for color coats but for apply and cement to a painted surface
we want it pretty pretty thick pretty full so we're gonna hit this whole chimney it's kind
of like a blue what they have on here their color is Walt Crete coincidentally is also
blue anyhow after i weld Crete the entire chimney as well as all the corners here I'm
gonna place corners on them and when I say place corners on them I mean these kind of corners.
all right we're going to cut them to fit basically I'll take my snips and cut them to fit when I when
I attach these guys here I'm gonna attach them to the grout lines meaning see what everywhere
where there's grout I put these corners on I use a magnet like this here because my screws
are only about Finch know if I try to put a half inch grille with my hammer I'll bust my finger
than my nail so what we do is we just put it just like so we put the corners on like this get into
where we absolutely want them take a hammer and go right into the grout just like just kind of
takes a little practice we're gonna go all the way down here our corners are gonna go here here
here here here actually I put this corner on little premature because I'm good well screed
on the backside here so we're gonna well create it we're gonna corner it then we go to spread
it I'll show you that part too all right guys what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start spreading
this now the whole thing got a bonding agent on it's got corners everywhere we got a crack here
which is pretty substantial a chimney is 75 years old usually engineering though engineer the house
with the proper foundation a lot of times I'll see a chimney move or drop down 1/8 of an inch in 7080
years what I'm doing is I'm filling this whole not because it's gonna hold it together but I don't
want water going in there and I'm using a Sikaflex product it's a sea light it's actually good for
fastening but again no amount of caulking is gonna hold the chimney but this is how we're gonna do
this ball chimney dan is talking it to me and what I'm doing is I'm skimming it now I'm just giving
3/8 of an inch half inch max that's called the skim coat yeah,
when I get all the way toward the bottom always poking out his way,
we're gonna show it to you a little bit more close-up all right, guys I just put this on,
and I am Darby is now a narrow chimney is I visit my grounds here that means something to stop
how is it with retardants in it that's all ready to spread already at the point where I
could float it I told him I said the Sun was here when we came to this chimney was in the hot Sun
for three to four hours before we came and so the skin coat that I put it on that was so hot that it
just sucked all the moisture right out of it and that's how then maybe a few folks watching I'm
able to put that on with almost immediately this is fine you think there's a hot Sun the chimney
was baking already before we got here let's finish here this is called the float finish that's what
we're matching and we're actually going to color coat this entire house I'm using a fast set stucco
which allows us to do scratch brown and color if we chose to but we're not going to colors but we
are in a couple days so that's why I'm using this particular stucco because I think it's it's Monday
today come Wednesday we're gonna come back and we're gonna color coat this entire house generally
you have to let the base coat scratchy Brown set a minimum of two weeks if it's summer three weeks or
in the wintertime so that's what we call when we drop all this down be able to share how we put it
on a little bit too without us did this I am here okay folks we are putting the final finishes on
this chimney here and this particular system we're using here requires a lot of water have a lot of
benefits but it also has a lot of its rules to it say like see how it's turning white up
there we take the water hose you hit it there the whole chimney every time it starts to turn white
fortunately we're doing a lot of work around this house we're doing the equivalent of five of these
just brickwork everywhere no need to show you because this shows it all right here fella emailed
me the other day and said you were showing up the Greek Theatre and Berkeley how we're doing a sick
of flex or a sick up product on there and he says do you remember all those different systems all it
is is you have your cement test products versus your acrylic products the primers versus bonding
agents soupy mud versus stiff mud if you could spread one you could generally spread them all
you just have to know their technique in their intricate system everybody got a special way
of applying their products so anyway this is the product here then I kind of like it some
you can color code same day but we rarely do that however it's great for skin coding like
this anyway this this is the completion of this chimney my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano
plastering thank you folks for watching and as usual I'll see you guys on the next one.