hi guys Kirk and Jason with Kirk Giordano plastering today I want to show you folks
to watch our how-to videos is how we put this together now the fella emailed me a picture and
he said gee Kirk I got several bids to do this and some guys are ranging from a day to three days to
do this job how long if I hired you would it take you to do it and he already laughed at himself
and I said well gee that's a tough question to answer for the other guys but for me me and Jay
maybe three hours max but what you don't see is us go into the material yard loading up my monster
truck with sand cement specific cements for the job I told them we'll use a rapid set because I
don't want to come twice rapidset makes isin wall which about 60 bucks a bag as opposed to say the
Portland cement which are about 10 15 a bag so the idea is we put the scratch on we let that set
we put the brown on almost immediately and then you hose it down hydrate it for this particular
material so when you folks ask gee whiz how much you pay your guys or chew is how long will this
project take I know what it only takes us not any other folks so I'm wearing glasses because
I didn't do the wire and a couple weeks ago I was doing the wire and I had a little piece flicking
my eye and guess what it's still in my eye but anyway I'm going to go ahead and get started
in show you folks how to apply this stuff in this is a scratch coat look at this is it you see that
it's not fully dried yet guys but I can put my next coat on it right now and okay so that's what
I'm gonna do I'm gonna put my coat on it and what I'm doing guys is just basically putting a second
coat a lot of you folks also call me and say gee car ah it says one coat should we do one coat well
I can't do one coat because if I try to put one coat on it just falls off you cannot go an inch
thick you can go half inch thick up to six inches thick but you can't just go an inch thick at one
pass because it happens to want to drop even if you throw out the water extra excess you still
still shouldn't do that guy you put on your first coat about 1/2 inch and you put your second coat
about 1/2 it and I'm kind of working around the elements here when he says can you work around
the pipes I thought sure this one is mighty close to the the house but let make it work
about anything yet that we can't make work and my father this is not nowhere near as difficult
as it may appear to some folks I'll point out two on the bottom this fella did his own laughs
now notice well notice over there you can't see it on this side notice he put an L flashing he put a
sick of flex polyurethane caulking under that and he set that down that's the way to do it guy that
way no no water could get under there smart guy and I said hey I was good ideas I learned that
from watching your videos I thought attaboy anyway so we're going to continue doing here is putting
the second coat on now I got the tough part done not here I'm just putting the second coat on these
buckets guys whose buckets and scoops priceless this is called a scoop stucco scoop and it gets
it out of the bucket perfectly because this has a radius on it you pull it out of the bucket
it's a lot faster sometimes than just using a board just and now what I'm doing again there's
a follow-up coat a lot of folks call this the brown coat including myself but you can see not
really brown in this case it will dry a light hand because we're using I use Benoit as well
again is a white cement and the white cement when mixed with can sand is about can when it's dried
You get that. Of course, take my square trial and get these little areas here because we've
been doing this for a while. Notice my hand will be on my knee right here. That doesn't
mean my arm is tired right now, so I'm pulling it up, and I'm using my knee as a backing, so
I get more strength only because we've been doing this for a while today now I'm getting beat up now
you guys might think well where's Kirk get those dancing shoes these blue shoes how many of you
contractors out there go to work and forget your work boots and then when we get on a job
you have to improvise and me doing stucco work my improvising is I don't want to screw up my
good tennis I just put some blue taping room I'll bet you a lot of folks you guys said man I forget
my work boots all the time morning my wife said Benny let's take out the garbage smells
at 6:00 and so I thought well gee I'll put my shoes on and go do that then forget all about
it because they were so comfortable didn't even think about those work boots anyway get it back
to this now this particular product here you got anywhere between 15 minutes to 45 minutes why the
discrepancy I'll tell you discrepancy is because of the additives or accelerators now we can put
retardants in this and that way I can get as much time as I need but if you watch the stuff we do Oh
curse doesn't like a lot of time I like to put it on fast get it over with and move on I don't have
the patience to be here all day for most folks so we use the additives now granted I'll make it look
easy because Jay who's on the camera is mixing you guys want to make it look easy get somebody to mix
well you don't try to plastic and mix as well how long do we give this okay the finger test lab oh
we give it about 15 minutes because we were doing other things and I told Jay to put a little bit of
retardants in 15 minutes I'll show you how fast we floated it would take me about three minutes
to float this alright guys we had just enough time to put our tools away here's a tip green
sponge floats you can buy them online but these are absolutely necessary to bring out the sand
or aggregate now this one here is B it up it's already torn I buy them by the Box like 120 a case
because we go through them if they're torn like this and I make my job a lot harder so what I do I
get a new one and if you think about it guys what we do is we try to teach you how to protect your
number-one investment you know that's your home so you can watch what we do and save some dough
and do some of the things yourself like the laughs as far as can you do what I do right now it's kind
of doubtful because I've been doing it so long but we give you an idea but the idea is you save
some dough by doing either paper wire now here's here's another technique this is a green sponge
float and I got a bucket of water here it's filled this much so first thing I want to do is I want to
wet this load got a wedding guys got to wet it I don't want too much water in it we're like when
I pull this water when I pull it out if I pull it out in waters say like it I pull it out and water
dripping off that's too much water guys get some of that water off by hitting the side the inside
of the bucket if you hit the inside of the bucket you make the curve of the float just right you hit
the outside you jack this up it won't be useful guys now what I'll do first with a clean bucket
of water is I'll clean my trim clean the trim and somebody might say oh my god he got stuck on the
trim not a big deal it's being painted the whole house being painted they'll come right off so what
we're doing is I'm putting my quarter inch groove right here with a straight edge of my low and then
well I can't see it and I'm back here I'm giving it to float finish test they also have originally
they had a dash but they've been painted all twenty times so it turned it into a float footage
kind of like what you see here that's been painted so many times it's uh it's kind of a float finish
now joints are tricky well for newbies what I'll do here I got a cleaning float so I'm going to
clean this electrical box I'm gonna move the float around now for the joints you take your existing
to float into G so let's take the new float into the existing okay and depending on the existing
finish if it's really sandy use a lot more water if it's really dry you use a lot less water or you
finish off the whole thing and come back with a drier float and then you hit it again and
that'll take off a lot of sand I'll show you that at the end how you could determine if you want to
go less sandy that some folks they do is that's uh it's too sandy I don't have that I have a lighter
finish pull these glasses off so I can see what they have been doing in the shade alright so what
I want to do is notice I keep pulling up guys why do I keep pulling up because if I pull down with
this finish yeah hey Kirk the man it will pull it off so you want to always pull up guys to pull it
up pull it up go in circles and what we're doing is we're opening it we're opening the wall and
allowing it to breathe we want to do that I answer a question a fella asked me yesterday we did a
video no and we titled it efis and how to shoot on an acrylic elastomeric finish and the fella said
well gee what do you pay your guys well I said gee that's kind of personal what do I pay my guys so I
said I'll never tell while the sun is shining but by the way I'm paying my guys in food stamps and I
pay Lou and beer and I had a couple comments they said Oh Lumis cost you the most out of everybody
because if you watch what we do you see my brother Lou he's like 260 pounds when we go to a club or
to the pub Lou doesn't buy beers he buys pitchers and he gets pissed off when you give him a glass
so he just drinks straight out of a pitcher so that fellow says what is loo make beer money
alright guys now I'm putting an end to this right here we take this and we go straight under here
and remember the same same thing apply I'm taking the new and dragging it into the existing and I
want to clean my flashing here's a flashing create a flashing now and I just take it like so okay now
that's that's done and that's done and any of you or keeping track of how much time I think that was
about an hour roughly by the time we got here setup and all that stuff anyway guys live long
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