howdy folks Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering a fella by the name of Joshua burden
asked me last week he said Kirk can you show me how and explain how you build a garden wall
concrete garden wall and I said absolutely not man all I am is an applicator all we do is apply the
finish coach to it however I taught him next week we're going to be out of buddy of Mines house and
heat we're going to be doing the block from hip for him anyway this is bob bob can give you an
idea what he did josh was as far as to do these retaining walls by the way you're never gonna
find one this complicated I want to explain and Bob what you somewhat dead sir we had to dig a
8-foot foundation for this as a six inch wide 18 inch tall city wall we framed it with plywood bent
it to the extent that it would in some places to get it as complicated to this and then I had to
hire a precast concrete guy in Hayward to cast these and he had to come out and make forms or
templates to make the forms out of jks precast concrete - yes - precast com can reach him if
you want but he does a really good job and he's real easy to work with but we had to form this
all up this is pretty much built like a foundation would be with the plywood and bracing to go along
with it you got to be very careful with this kind of wall because it's all poured concrete
and there's a lot of pressure on us you don't want any blowouts you want to make sure armed
definitely good Wow if you remember his website you must have been talking with him a lot of time
well Jay and I what we're gonna do is we're gonna spread in acrylic over this and I should have told
Bob this last week dig around here and give me give me at least an inch so we just did it and
made a big mud pie so we're gonna be laying in mud as we spread this I'm gonna spread it Jays
gonna float right behind me and we'll show you a small area of how we apply this acrylic finish
over this concrete pretty garden block wall okay guys what I'm gonna do is I'm going to spread this
and fortunately this is the last thing we're going to do here it's going to take us about three hours
to spread this retainer out what I'll generally do is I will do the top and Jay knows not to take his
float and touch that brick so this is mighty simple take it here there and I'm just gonna
follow this around just gonna lay in the mud take it here once we get going we'll get some momentum
here this is what you call a fancy garden wall but take a little bit here right there and I just
keep scooting along in the mud this is for float finish if we were doing a skip trial or something
different or cement Isha's finish on Santa Barbara smooth well we need Jay we just double it up but
for a flow finish this is the way to get it okay guys good Nick always going to play it to some
of your folks might say I don't have a luxury of having that second guy if you don't have the
luxury of having second guy well what you can do is shred it yourself like what I'm gonna show you
and generally guys we we do these videos to show what we do can you guys do this very familiar with
the tools maybe but this takes a lot of practice okay one guy spreading then I take the float and
I just float around always floated the new work into the existing this is probably one of the most
finishes difficult finishes you can do because it is are you okay this is a twenty thirty which is
fine fine aggregate or sand but if you're doing it yourself that's the way to do it just like that if
you get any holidays because your trial is picking up crap from the ground just clean it off and
start again okay guys we are done with this fancy garden wall I tell you some tips about what we've
done here now we put an acrylic membrane over here you might say man why go through all that
work when we could paint it we used this driving acrylic it's Drive it's one of the better acrylic
products they make for spreading he went through all this trouble because this particular product
is about twenty times thicker than paint and it'll last a long time they call it maintenance-free
the color just stays on there it's got the sand and the acrylic in it so again it's like about
twenty coats of paint will it waterproof this or water-resistant it from the coming through no
product does that guys but anyway we just wanted to show you a fancy wall and answer a question
that a fella emailed me because well I'm always saying if you guys have any questions or need
to know anything of the trade we do just subscribe below or a place to comments AG Kirk how do you do
this any if we don't do it like building this law we always come upon something that we can use from
practical reasons like Bob answer that question for you anyhow guys my name is Kirk, Jason on the
camera also we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next project.