Hello folks, Kirk and Jason here with, Kirk Giordano plastering, we're going to do is
something really unusual is probably going to take me 50-60 hours I'll try to compress it into
ten minutes, I'm at my wife's parents house where they have a property kind
of like Disneyland where you've got waterfalls beaches, fish ponds, you name it, they have this
really cool, well show you a little bit about it what they've had is this mountain here they've
been trying to get me to plaster it for years, I've got a picture of my house where a job we
did and it looks like huge stones like this stones that would be on a pyramid and they often comment
about how cool that is I told my did it out of plaster so what I'm going to do is do the same
finish here I've tried every excuse in the book to get away from it meaning we're in the middle
of winter it's got a crack because of all the rocks and everything and to do this particular
finish I need common plaster it's hard enough to put it on a straight wall let alone all these
divots and mountains and valleys after I wire it well I guess they've been watching a lot of
my videos because they said well you could use that machine you have it's actually a mortar
sprayer so I finally gave in and thought okay I'll do it if I'm gonna do it I'm gonna put in
a lot of designs of what I would do it's my own place meaning today we're going to wire it and
we're gonna try the wire I've got a few hundred of these a little piece of the rebar which after
it's all wired we're going to pound into here at specific angles to hold it all we are actually
going to put a groove in here we're gonna bend the wire down here because it catches a lot of
water this is a whole mountain and plus they have a goldmine here where it leaked the water travels
here goes up it washes this out so I'm going to put my wire and fend it here and give it a little
Valley tooth for the water we're going to take it all the way over there to where those white
rocks are and of course I'm going to show those white rocks I'm going to wire around them and
they're going to be into the finish these these songs right here we're going to incorporate these
into the finish they want to meet up they come down it must be kidding me well incorporate them
will tie our wire inside it I'll come this way my wife is actually doing the filming it gets
real loud over here because it's a waterfall so often a scream a little bit we're going
to take the wire around to here I've just been digging this out right here because we want to
make it so the wire comes here we have that water going off we go right to that mine I'll show you
something over here which got me into this mess again with here's our wire use all those rolls
I told you it looked like Disneyland here.
forget this waterfall in its cool
Right in the Sun with Jack, this is what got us into this. To begin with,
this particular fish pond we did we did the fish pond here? This used to
just be a whole pop-up. They bought the flagstone, I went ahead and installed it,
I put all these heavy guys here I think I would have back.
tennis courts and waterfalls start very top over
there it comes down into this one maybe you better step up this way
travels that way there goes into the small pond and then goes into the
creek where it belongs this is all with stucco I used a common plastic common is
very very hard but it's challenging to spread it, but it's good for this kind
of remixing structural strength anyway we're gonna go ahead and wire that up,
and when I'm completely done I'm going to show you that particular finish it is really cool
all right guys I'm not going to show you three solid days of attaching wire because it's boring
it's where the crap out of you anyhow what I will share is what we're doing we're taking
this we'll hire and we're pushing it in the back of the retaining wall rock we're cutting
out a lot of these rocks here because I want them for looks as we come around here by the
way you do stuff like this you've got to know how to improvise if you can't improvise in the
wrong trailer I'm taking this a slope here so that the water will go down and I have to have
the wire tied in we don't tie this wire in then we'll have cracks probably gonna get some cracks
anyway even using the comments man hey baby I was my wife Jackie her parents house she's
helping even if it wasn't she likes to help any help we're gonna cut them out and that way when
although all the work is done you'll see these rocks here they look pretty cool too white rock
so oh that's where we're going with this when we get ready to do the cement work in the final
finish that's what I really want to show you guys so we get to that bridge will show you
now you guys see my higher milk right there I've been helping it with all these clips
all right, guys, now this little square
They've got a huge hole right here because we're doing this. This works well for straw
bale houses or projects made of mesh-like animals the castles you spray them with this
if it's a mesh job all the unusual contours it's a real drag we can't hop to college,
so I'm using these right here, lauter sprayer dot-com is where you get these guys when my
wife comes she wants to use a toothbrush she gets a few minutes on this where we're
starting right here we're going all the way around we're just starting to submit
work about a half-hour hour ago we're gonna be here another eight hours then 8:00 tomorrow,
so I'm not going to bore you with the whole thing. Still, you get the idea of how these things work.
the big difference between this and a hand hopper hat hopper sprays of texture finish
might as well show you guys this sprays a textured finish and hopping this a mud
bass finish scratching a brown, so a huge difference with them and also you do need
a big compress have used it a little n blow or the wall won't run you need
a big wheelbarrow type to push out the amount of psi to operate this guy here one more time
Boat after coat after coat, this is a dirty job too. By the time I'm done, this is my clean shirt.
By the time I'm done, it will be garbage. There's my wife, Jackie. She just had to have a go at it.
Notice she's wearing one of my good white shirts. What's up with that? Come on, baby, we do a lot
of tile floors together, you name it was done it she always helps me. Hence, she just wanted to
give it a shot. I'd show you guys anybody can do this. You don't have to do it for the bed.
all right
Good morning folks, it is about 6:30 in the morning pick cold up here I'd say it's about
35 degrees I can see my breath I know it's cold this is what we've done yesterday take
you away from the mixer it's kind of loud we put a trough in here also we're incorporating quite
a few things here we want to do a finish we want to save the mountain so it can stops continuing
to fall and we want a a water trough to go all the way around this may be 200 feet they got a
covert pipe under here that is what we're gonna do today this is just the first coat today I'm
hoping to finish the entire job show you this is a mother-in-law unit this right here looks
like good zoom in a little bit better is there gorgeous home fortunately it was stucco when
they bought it I did however do a lot of coins and styrofoam molds it reminds me of a project
my son and I went to and I said okay there's so many outlets and they responded with oh
my son-in-law is an electrician I looked at my mile and son and we we thought hmm okay anyhow
this is what we're where we're at today hopefully we're going to finish this and do a completion hi
guys there's a change in plans instead of my cool blocks which we're going to be 4 foot by
4 foot they now think that'll look a bit too naughty and it won't match what they have so
they approached me last night at all I got bad news we don't want that finish who wants to - I
thought great please - finishes ways to do the blocks I was going to use a level on straight
walls but synthesis has radiances in and out I was going to I have I rented up a laser which
the laser spins and it hits them out and what I was going to do is follow that with this but
I'll give you an idea of what we were I was going to place some lines say like right here
these were going to be block lines that I was going to
I was actually going with this one for concrete because I wanted deep lines I have a different one
for plaster so if it was if it was four foot block it would look kind of cool with just with the
deeper lines but anyway that's what we were going to do but that's all changed now we're going to
go with a simple - which doesn't break my heart it saves me a lot a lot of time and I can return that
rented laser level so give you an idea what we're going to do now change of plans what we're doing
guys is closing everything around these rocks I got a hand trowel it in and then we're floating
it in yeah there's more than just my wife and I doing this my son Jason is helping us and a few
other guys this is way to larger projects we've missed a few but no way but no way for just the
two of us to do it but it's kind of fun this is this is prior to doing the - and then I'm going to
hook up a little mortar sprayer and shoot it out all right guys this is the last part we're going
to show you because this is the final texture now regarded to Coast everywhere else plus the texture
I'm doing the high stuff Jackie good low stuff and when she gets tired.
like yeah, this is called -
oh, you're dead
okay alright guys we are cleaned up finally and we want to show you the completion of this we
put this little drainage curve here also no I didn't use a sprayer for this the mortar
sprayer for this drainage curve what I did was I just used a wheelbarrow and a shovel and we
shoveled it in what I wanted to find out was oh well this flows down here because there's a lot
of water here the road keeps it running the mountain keeps eroding, then there's a lot of
water from the goldmine, so well it's looking pretty cool that looks like something
they would have it didn't land anyhow we've incorporated all the stonework there anyhow
again I want to thank all the kids for helping out in and you he saved my back he is kind of
like a workhorse lastly the last thing I want to point out is this goes all the way around
we we actually like the Winchester house we keep going and going and going but anyway
it's finally done they're happy with it I'm happy to be complete with it and it was a
really fun project my wife Jackie I'm Kirk with Kirk giordano plastering, and generally
we're doing houses but this just shows you some of the things you could do with a little bit
of imagination and some incentive, we'll see you folks on the next one and thank you for watching.