hola senores Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, a fella from Mexico Jose
said Kirk just showed me how you do the tops and I've been waiting a month for a job where
I got some actual tops and underneath windows well that jobs not here so this one's going to
have to do all right Jose I'll show you how I get it but I'm going to knock this little
piece out we are working in the heat right now what I'm going to do is work my way up because
if I start at the top it's going to drop all over my miles and stuff so I'm going to just plaster
this thing out so I can get to that top we are working right now in about 100 degree weather and
it's a white background and a white roof what does that mean it's hot I heard it me reminds
me of uh all about long time ago buddy and me were working on a house same situation and it
just happened to be one of the hottest days of the year, my face was as red as this tape and a
Filipino dude, I was working with this face was red, because the sun was ricocheting off the
wall and It was burning the heck out of us, anyway a lady comes home she says oh my god, jump in the pool.
and I thought why? I was like 20 years old, she says, "you're going to have a heart attack," I thought, what's that,
but anyway we weren't I wasn't really working hard but it's just hot and it's like that right
now so what I've done is we've been soaking this For about a half-hour okay coming up to the
top now what I do is I grab it here and push it up I put it on from the top now and get it push
it up see that move guys I put it on top here and squeeze it up there now forth inner corners
I've taken a square trowel, because obviously I can't use my whole trowel, and what I do is
like so over here two ways to do it I'm get it here squish it and pull it again I'll show you
that we're kind of we kind of put it on here here's how I do it some spots like this words
hard to get into I'll take it to hit the trowel, once twice and now it's going to stick so I
can with motion I'm going to hit it like that or better yet I take it push it you guys sometimes
sometimes see me do this I'll take it from the bottom of the hock and put it here come up and
push in now I'm going to use the heel right here put it here push and pull and a little
falls off no big deal we have a cloth tarp over this right white roof I'm actually going to put
it on way thick up here generally you guys if you watch what we do I'd advise to follow you
guys to go about 3/8 of an inch thick scratch it then come back another day and do the brown
coat me I'm going to do both coats right now, why? because I got pretty good control of mud
I'll say this hot day right here doesn't hurt as far as drying out this mud for to coach system so
what I do now here is because we're going into not the roof we're going into existing stucco
It's all kind of curved this trowel,. This is where I like a pool trowel because it
got more flex, it'll flex say like right here on a trowel, especially up I can pull
it when those rafters get in the way just avoid it like such an okay staple okay
moving on and what I do is I look for the rafters I'll double this up while I'm here
because I can so if there's a rafter right here what I do is I can fill this part up,
and I can fill the backside or the opposite side and then nowhere put it this way and pull it that
way that a piece of wood won't impede my troweling between two rafters well we can handle it sideways
alright we're using up this mug quick give y'all I'll show you on the bottom here but first I want
to get my size because that's just how I like to do it now generally guys we go three-eighths
of an inch for scratch coat 3/8 for the brown but we are using a one coat material one coat
material skill doesn't mean put it on one inch thick because it won't hang you go back-to-back
and you do a scratch coat I just and you do a brown coat your folks might say well a lot of
the heck's they call it one coat if you have to do a scratch in a brown good question because one
coat they mean the same day you can do both coats they're not saying at the exact same time so you
let the first coat set and when you feel it's set proper then you lay your second coat I'm laying a
second coat on this right now why because I can and I know how to how to work with this stuff I
mean finish up my top right here get up there guys and what I'll do is take it sideways because it's
all right now here underneath the winner gets my loo all right stay under this window now you can
do it two ways you do like I do and push hard I'll do is put it here and I can push it I know what's
happening under there I should an easy way to guys for you homeowners, you might say hey I have a hard
time taking the mud off the child and pushing it this way take it off the bottom here and push it
it's all in the wrist there's a simple way for homeowners pull it up pull it up right here but
first put your base coat on like okay yeah I'm going to do both coach right now just to prove
a point you know what you're doing you can do exactly what I'm doing all right but one more all
right now that that's done now you put the next coat on and pull up now I'm pulling up I'm pulling
up and I'm trying to get my grounds where I can take my child and just swipe this and that's done
by the way, two guys most one coat materials if you drop some you can pick it up almost immediately if
it sets on there any surface for more than ten minutes, leave it alone don't try to reuse it one coat
material is temporalmental, no joke a lot of do's and don'ts with one coat materials by getting off
of that back on to how I do my windows underneath and the tops where ceilings are just like this
take a little bit more were almost through a wheelbarrow right now, and again here well take it under there
yeah just to prove a point loose why are you hit it pull it back down okay I've got a little bit
of mud left here what I'll do is finish out the rest because Lu got to climb a ladder for this
stuff if you watch our stuff you know lose no spring chicken okay so now that I got that done
here I want to get it tight and flat that way my next coat doesn't drop it and again guys if you're
not familiar with with the hand use and how you move these trials all in the wrist scratch it come
back another day and brown it okay now that's done where I have my scratch say now Brown and
again guys I can't emphasize this enough because a lot of you guys call me and say, "dude I tried to
do exactly how you did it and it didn't come out right," but Oh Kirk only does one thing and
I do this pretty well so I can do all-day long, guys whatever your trades are more likely I
can't so don't think you're going to catch this by watching this video it does take a little bit of
hands-on experience okay you got it right there now I'm going to get my window we'll take the
bottom whew I'm talking hot how hot is it let's say 100 and all this white walls and white thing
Rick is sharing the heat all right now we're going to come back up here I'm putting my second coat
on here boom and do you need a darby guys well depends on your abilities because to get to know
how to use a darby takes a long time, I learned how to use the darby because i work behind a pump for
about four years and that's all I did all-day long use a Darby, so you folks who don't have a
Darby and don't even want to know what a darby is, you can do like me, I'm going put the mud on go back and
forth sideways okay I'm going sideways pulling out here sideways and I'm dar being this sort of speak
because my trowel is large enough I'm going to a a little bit more on it to prove a play then I'll
show you the benefits of that square trowel, there's a lot of people call, and say, "Kirk you're now the real
plaster because you don't use the right tools this swimming-pool trowel I'm using guys and do you
have to use one no I'm just partial to it started using in twenty-something years ago I've been using it
ever since whatever works for you guys, use it kind of like folks call me and say hey Kirk you're not
a real plaster because you can't pull it from the top well well pull us on the top of the bottom if
I pull it from the bottom I can do two lifts off a hawk and empty it, if I'm pulling from the
top, say so to speak it's going to take me forever to do that, one guy works for will mention no names
I'll just say he's a bit of, "octopus excrete- meant" he was real firm on that, he said, "Hey, Kirk, I
been watching plastering, who uses taking it off the bottom and I thought why so that's not how real plaster is
doing and I said well I can plaster faster and so that question which is asked when people see
my videos and they go dude you don't know how to plaster, they're not that hawk it's not the trowel.
it's the coordination a fella may have you guys using a square trowel, here's what you can do now
if you already got it now keep this in mind you guys walk you say hey the square trowel made the
walls Humpty and lumpy the child didn't you did here's the thing when I'm going to pull upright
now when I pull up I'm going to be pretending like there is no stucco there is no wall I'm going to
pull up straight I'm not going to pull up like this and when I go sideways I don't squish in I
feel I feel the stucco and I go in straight lines that way you keep everything straight
an example straight I'm going straight I mean whether or not I'm looking at the wall or not I'm going
straight up saying here I'm going straight I'm matching the weep screed say okay take a window
you go straight now I'm looking what I'm doing and I'm using the wall as a guide but I'm more or less
keeping my trowel straight, say here's the wall I'm keeping my trowel, straight like this I'm not pushing in and
letting the wall dictate my walls otherwise, I'll have super wavy walls let me show you get some
of the clickers off this I just put it on and already it's set and dry because we are close to
120 up maybe 100 can up here okay you take it and you feel the stucco ceiling and go in a straight
line don't let the wall like dictate and make it wavy you make it straight if you that's what
you're looking for say one last thing here before I start giving this time and floating it because
we are losing the walls because it's so high all right now here you guys using square cha take it
straight up give yourself a gap on the window quarter-inch usually and then here, straighten that
stuff out, on a day like today where it's so hot no worries, you have to worry about is it going to
set it set me fly even gawking got to it anyway guys, I'll show you how we float this - we're
going to match this text code what's a text coat? That's another story okay guys we are back we
are hustling now to try to make this work because it's pretty hot out here if it's hot enough where
my sweat has fallen to my eyes I can't see, that's pretty hot it's hot enough for me to take my back
brace off that is mighty hot anyway what we're doing now guys is we are floating everything and
this stuff actually waits for nobody when you guys do these one-coat materials you know the beauty is
you can do both coats in a day but there's a lot of if and or buts when using this so I won't go
into all of them because I already did that on the other videos they like if you drop stuff leave it
alone don't over mix it past three minutes and okay we're going into this finish into the text
code so we take it here and what I'm doing is I'm swiping this really hard I want to bring out the
aggregate these folks here they did the finish too and they did a to coach system and they floated
it they floated it sideways I can see the marks you're supposed to go in circles and bring some of
the sand further out to match this but it's good enough they're happy with it what we do is we do
the same thing we just hit it faster that way the aggregate your grid of sand could be rocks could
be anything comes out and hides or blends in a little bit better to this so I don't want to go
too tight and slow I want to make it look like pearl Isis and similar similar aggregate anyhow
guys my name is Kirk my son, Jason on their camera we thank you for watching this sweaty video, and we'll
see you guys on the next one.
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