Hello folks, Kirk and Jay, here, with Kirk Giordano plastering,
today we're in beautiful, frigid, freezing San Francisco; what's the old saying? 'The coldest winter I ever spent was the summer in San Francisco," well, it's wintertime, foggy, and cold as hell out here. anyway
what we're doing is we're going to match this decorative block design here and they sent me
an email and so I was looking at the email and I thought well that's we're actually here now so the
email is looking at it and I thought okay I've done this about 20 times but this is the first
time Jay and I are actually putting this kind of work on film so I brought all my concrete tools
and these tools are simply to put grout lines or expansion joints in concrete so what we did is I
brought them all I'll use this one to prove a point you see that big blade there you put it
on concrete and it makes an expansion joint so personally none of these these are all too big
I knew this was too big this one is just right like in the three bears you see that just right
so what we're going to do is we're going to last crach and brown this and then I'm going to dash
it and apply this texture I'm going to take my levels there and put my levels horizontal and put
my lines in it with this tool here and fortunately I can't believe how lucky we got these lines here
the grout lines expansion joints what you want to call Orin sets increments of 10 10 20 30 40
I thought man that's just too easy over here on this side I was going to remove that piece of
stucco but it is a perfect set of increment of 10 so we're going to leave that there anyhow we're
going to lap this up and my corners are going to be turn that damn thing off my corners are going
to be inset because when I get my detail here I want to come around and if my corner bead is
sticking out for a template then I won't be able to turn around so I'm going to put the corners on
and inset them and then just mud right over by a quarter inch that way I can take it and turn
this corner here will show you how to do it it's it's it's kind of a fun thing to do I've done
it again 20 times so we'll show you guys how we actually do this all right guys we're not going
to show you how we scratch this whole thing that's kind of an important what we are going to do is
we're going to go ahead and scratch this and by the way guys we laugh this here are two inches
thick so if we're going to inches thick you can put a little extra wire you don't have to fasten
your wire as tight we want a good fur so anyway we're going to go ahead and scratch all of this
when we come back to do that second coat that's what we're really going to show you alright guys
now that we've got all the mud on that we want to put on what I've done is I've used this wall as a
template here is my expansion joint so I went from here to here you could also also measure
down I've used this wall over here as a template so we already have two walls to work with and what
I did is we take our expansion joint after we put on a couple coats then we kind of just line it up
what I'll do here is I'll make my indentation then I'll get this level here and I'll line it up let's
the best I can and let's see here get my expansion joint where I want it and get this level let's see
that looks level and then what I'll do is I'll put my expansion joints in and this is this is just
one more step we still got to - this whole thing you might say what the heck is a - well I'll show
you in as soon as I line this last one up here and what you want to do is is line these holes up and
scrape them okay so we're going to do that right there and doesn't matter what it looks like right
now it can be ugly because we still got to dash it what the heck does dash mean it means we take this
brush right here we dip it in soupy mud now you say wow you're going to mess up your pretty work
that's okay guys what we're going to do now is is dasha now this is going to match their finish and
also yeah I still got to put a line in here but that's okay for the sake of explaining this this
is fine here and I still got to put the lines and I still got to put the verticals there are
vertical lines that are going to go on this one here on this side I already installed some of
the verticals just to give me a pattern and idea where the heck I'm at so what I'm going to do is
finish this right here and then once I once I have this done I'm going to go ahead and put my final
lines in it and here's a tip guys once that's done there take your expansion and you just go
right back over it you could free free form it use your eye to get that anyhow we're going to
go ahead and finish this up and then I'll figure out where my verticals go and we'll show you that
part too okay guys we've reached the point of multitask and we're doing about ten different
things at once now and what I'm doing is dashing everything I went ahead and put my horizontal
and vertical lines the other thing I got to do now are some trial marks to match what they've
done and I've done this every which way you guys can't imagine you know I've done this at least 25
different ways okay now the last thing I want to do is I'm wetting my child I'm going to go with
some lines that they have howling like this one too and they have four and these one two three
four one two one two one two three four and so on and then what I'll do is well I'll finish this off
with to prove a point and then what I want to match I have to want to take a guess that these
are where those are then the last thing I do is take my expansion joint again this is for concrete
guys and just go over it and get rid of some of that excess - just look at it just like that get
rid of that excess - that's all these expansions marks when right here just look at the bottom
line it up bring it to the top come down shake it off here again the same exact thing you guys
get where I'm going with this and as I said we're doing a whole bunch of multitasking stuff so i'm
going to call it an end to this explanation and what we'll do is we'll show you the whole thing
when we're completely done with it okay guys we're all set I think it come out real nice match what
they have I would suggest if any of you homeowners try to do this scratch it come back the next day
don't try to do it all in one day it's a lot of work and you got to know your cements the
weathers and all that difficult stuff anyhow my buddy Robert Miller did the whole front
of this building here we are in San Francisco Robert Miller is located in Oakland or San Pablo
Bay Oakland we give you his telephone number in case you guys have some intricate stuff you need
completed Robert Miller 510 area code five nine nine two six eight - I've done several projects
for him great guy anyway folks we thank you for watching and as usual see you guys on the next one.