Hello folks, what we're doing today is, I'm going to skim coat a lot of retaining walls of
were on the Lagoon in Alameda beautiful area I'm actually going to skim coat some of the walls on
this side too and I was under the impression when I got here that I was gonna have to take my shoes
off to roll them up to my knee my pan and scan in the water there but that makes it even better that
the tides out look real stay out what we're doing is we were going to use a Portland cement on this
but the fellows wife asked me gee can you add a color no we cannot add a color to Portland cement
we can add a color we can do a skim coat then add a color two weeks later but I thought it you know
what you have some Eisenwall wall rapidset on our job and either one usually is the color of the
standards white then whatever the sand is that's the color dictates for the proper set product so
because they have the tannish bricks here I said well I'll do a tan if you don't like it you could
do what you were going to do originally paint it what so we're going to skim coat all these
walls in a skim coat does it mean is 7/8 of an inch thick that's the scratch in a brown coat
the skin coat simply means cover the ground cover the drought that could go anywhere from an a to a
half inch there's sometimes grout sticks way out and we got to go that extra mile so we're covering
the grout we're covering the ground and then we're going to give this a float finish on this because
he's going to put bricks on top what I'm doing in order to get this straight line here since
I don't have a template or a guide is I'm just using the skill I have in the trade I'll show you
what we're doing is a daddles Dan's hand and it's heavy I'm coming up like so I'm just going to do
this the entire day he's just copyright in it and I'm going to apply it just like this but when we
get to the top I'll do something a bit different in fact I'll show you with what we did already a
little bit simpler okay we take the line oh here we go we take this mud in order to get
it oh just do it just like that you see how and pull it it back down I'll show you something okay
mom big gun, all right, you take it over it, and I make sure my lip is going oversee I'm
kinda can't really see that move, but I'm taking it, and it's dumping it pull to the top you dump
it over the top I'll show you one last quick thing on how to get a transition over the top
go over the top you say well how's that going to straighten it out well I'm going to Darby
everything now I'm gonna do this right here this will give me a clean line it's been scraped like
that then I'm going to pull draw like oh I guess to be a pretty clean surface on the top alright
guys we are no vertical corner and generally what I'll do is put a little bit on this site,
and you pull it this way the corner a little bit on this side pull it this way
catch it I'm going to use my Garvey and give it the final touches now this particular finish we
are doing a float finish meaning the walls are wavy so I can do wavy bowls but this just gives
me ature finish I come here come down crook and come down it gives me it where it's a little bit
true and plumber that I got to be perfect on this because the house is it I come to my quarters I
take it this way so now that I got this wall true aplomb and again well if I'm going to get these
caps nice put the trick well there's no way to get it perfect but this is the best way without
without having wood up here - stop - or something we do the best we can't hear then when you push
this brick or tile there may be a lip under to cover it the only one that's going to see the duct
enough Lagoon Oh anyhow here we go so now let's start floating this alright guys we are close
this wall a lot of water on here this material requires a lot of water I'm loading it with with
a lot of water because that's the rapidset water they advise it if they advise it it's no joke do
it of course you gotta be certified to use this particular product because good I'll get the ends
and buds and I just spread this but already even with retardants which slowly Turing down
it's going over block that block is in the sun we're about 75 degrees here not just barely warm
but warm enough heat these guys up and suck the moisture right out of here alright guys another
quick quick tip this or any other plows I don't care what kind of plaster it is we won't adhere
to this or it only here but not forever unless you soak this down nice silk just wall down I
miss I keep missing it as I go along here I put a little too much water so what I do is I scratch
it and then I'm gonna come back to it because it was starting to fall but I'd rather have too
much water and not enough I can double this right up right here I'm doubling it up going over that
edge going over that top edge because I've got to make this top edge pretty basically do that
you cut that's just important with this product or any other product as far as the longevity of
it I was hosing it down periodically this particular product we got to hold it down
lock so again a lot of water on the block and the homeowner pressure wash this he had a great job
I just went over earlier because I wasn't certain about the bottom but I could so he did a great job
alright guys we are hustling because we're in the hot Sun it's about 75 degrees now get a little
bit warmer what I'm doing is I did all this right here I have a joint here we always had two joint
first get it wet bring this bring it back to life right here bring it back to life this particular
product only have a little light blue eyes why would allow that to turn white like these now
I don't have enough muscle to fix that it would just be a mistake and I'd have to reskin it with
this product I've used a lot of water here but check this out - it specifies when you get your
certification keep this wet either way that's what I'm doing I'm going to do that to this wall top
four or five more times before we're done because I'm doing the back here we've got other sides over
here we've got other things so throughout the damp we continue to hydrate this wall that gives
it that structural strength all right guys the fun part was cleaning up now I'm hosing off the patio
might as well bring this in - we've taped all of our paper to the patio this is a stamp concrete no
matter if you use duct tape or the red vinyl like we do when we peel that up sometimes there's some
residue can't be helped anyhow I'm washing this off and yeah my dancers ain't yeah what about
everything else as long it's not hurting it I mean I got some left oh it was not hurt in this one bit
right here where the water didn't is that's good for it over here we Stoke it down I've been doing
this all day I figured about I'm thinking about Oh a half a yard of sand and about four times that if
we use that kind about right over here last thing I'm going to do is those this wall down about this
time that's all we need to do guys is hose down enough again you don't have to use a rapid set
eyes and wall for a foundation in fact that's way overkill too expensive a product for just
using that just use for this fish anyhow folks we are doing a good cleanup, as usual, I always stress
you can't the job clean enough if you do a great job you have to clean it up better, as that's what they will remember
anyhow folks thank you guys for watching and as usual see you guys on the next one.