hi guys Kirk and Jayson with Kirk Giordano plastering today want to answer a question a
lot of you guys see me doing color codes apply and say cement Isha's finishes or acrylic finishes the
more in question I get when I do that is what's the difference between painted surface and say
a color coat surface this is a perfect example we are just about ready to finish this up and I
thought man that question that folks keep asking me I could explain it well here they did two new
windows because they're installed in a bathroom um say for example guys this right here is a color
coat cement tshis finish when we're color codes started well this company right here La Habra
they started in 1926 followed by Western in like 34 and other companies followed suit because it's
a good product this house I don't know how old it is but I would say 70 to 80 years old if I put it
on Google it'll tell me the exact age of this but I'm looking at this finish right here it's
a smooth finish and how do you know if a house is say on color coding well you know because like a
brick you have a wet a brick guys and see how it goes dark or a red tile roof like we have all over
here if you wet them tiles or wet the brick say for example that you have it darkens what does
that mean that means it's maintenance-free this is white okay this is a white maintenance-free finish
that that's why it's not showing to clear down there probably crystal white that they applied
here and I'd say probably about Oh 60 70 years ago maybe 80 I don't know but I do know this guy okay
the example was why paint versus cement Tisha's finish okay if the house is built after 1926 you
apply a maintenance-free finish that means you never have to touch it again it will never peel
off guys it'll discolor in a few ages or a few years but it will never ever come off now look
at the paint the paint is coming off in various sections and down there is a really good example
and we are on the side that gets no Sun guys it gets very little Sun the other side the paint is
blistering and peeling off quite a bit so if it were me guys I'd save that say for a house the
size $10,000 to paint every six to ten twelve years and I'd live with the color say the color
here again I think it's crystal white or it's a light tan anyway this will never come off but
sometimes you say gee I don't like the color anymore so you decide to paint if you don't
like the color anymore guys weigh the benefits of a color coat maintenance-free finish versus
painting and those benefits are this never peels off last two three hundred years this you'll have
to repaint every six to eight and I want to be careful I don't want to step on anybody's toes
and criticize anybody I don't know who painted it nor do I know when but I got a pretty good
idea when and how and all that but I'll keep that out because again I don't want to step on
toes we have I have three finishes here this one is Santa Barbara this is a twenty thirty sand or
I'm sorry a 30-30 stand then we have the other finish which is twenty thirty and sixteen twenty
one is very coarse and one is medium doubtful you'll be able to see these but anyway what I'm
going to do is put these back together because the point I was trying to make has been made yes
I went ahead and I brown this out a little while ago because it's going to get painted anyhow and
what I did guys is I used a hard rubber float and I compressed it hard rubber compressing what does
that do that compact it and compresses it because I can do a two coat finish guys in steel Charlet
to match this but if I did that it would defeat the purpose of what I'm trying to show you here
we are using a santa barbara color coat now and this santa barbara will do all the patch
work okay say for example Santa Barbara's smooth mission finish now I can go hard steel trowel with
without worrying about say this patch hair linings could add hairline when it dries absolutely every
patch can guys a head post called me so you know uh did a passionate got a couple hair lines it's
normal but what we're doing right now I'm trying to minimize the hairline cracking issue that's why
I went ahead and did the scratch the brown let that cure hard rubber floated it now what I'm
doing guys is the third coat and the third coat I can hard steel trowel it without worrying too much
about it hair lining that's a complicated issue of them I'm not sure if a lot of you folks could
understand that who watch our DUI stuff I'm sure a lot of the stucco guys who watch what I'm doing
right now understand it quite clearly when you hard steel chala wall as I'm doing now you should
be our third coat okay buddy I already did this little area here because the stuff is in my way
the scalpel I will go ahead and finish this off help explain one last detail guys about patchwork
on a Santa Barbara smoothness and finish because I do get asked often hedgy miles the Santa Barbara
can you match the finish and I'll say yeah I can match it however even with this thirty thirty fan
which is the lightest and they make you're still going to see just a tiny bit of sand or aggregate
because it has sand in it guys and you could only stand or apply this and trial down so smooth this
is not taping mud if it was taping but I could make it like glass you have the veneer plastering
is inside I can make like glass if I chose to but then has sand in it which is 3030 fine sand okay
when you're doing something like this this is a smooth child finish now so I'll give this a smooth
child finish but the joint the perimeter this is what I'm always telling people over the telephone
I can match it but the perimeter has sand in it so when this new sand goes over this existing sand
you'll sometimes see it so what we do is we take a sponge float like this and hit the perimeter edges
just lightly just a feather and as best as you can because I stand in it here I'll do the whole thing
once more and get it as close as possible noticing it does have sand in it and there you go there's
there's the best you can do with a santabarbara smooth mission finish with patchwork and as I said
earlier you guys make the decision if the benefits of painting outweigh the the fact that you have a
maintenance-free finish and even if you have a maintenance-free finish oftentimes guys you'll
have to paint your window trim again or your eaves but if I were you I'd paint the ease in
the window trim and leave that maintenance-free finish alone even if you don't like the color
anyhow guys my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see you
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