Hello folks, Kirk and Jayson with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what I'm going to show you
guys is how to fix a little hole in your ceiling, what happened the folks were up top and they step
through have I done that once I've done that where you up top in the Attic and you put your
foot down and as soon as you feel that going, you pull up quick what it does happen here's a stud
right here or the rafter the joist ever you want to call it there's a stud right here so they put
their foot right here and it buckled, it just slightly hundred-year-old house what is this
stuff here it's gypsum, gypsum plaster, so what we're going to do is we're going to patch this
I'll just give you guys a couple tips and I just answered this question on YouTube on another video
probably yesterday day before it's a Kirk, with the bonding agent how long do you have to put it
on before you can plaster guys I'm putting this pink stuff and they got all different colors I
just prefer, Larson's this is called plaster weld Larson also makes weld Creek for exteriors are
there other bonding agents absolutely can get them at Home Depot or Lowe's okay so I put this on just
now and here almost immediately this wood sucks the moisture or water right out of this bonding
agent this bonding agent here it's mostly water so answer that question how long do you have to
wait prior to the bonding agent I can I can do it right now it's a little bit tacky that's perfect
if I wait an hour that's okay to guys there's no right or wrong can't be dripping wet but this is
ready to go Jason and I are going to go down and I'm going to show you this grit right here there's
two ways to match this ceiling one of them is to plaster and take a roller with the naps a 3/8 if
I use a inch and a quarter nap it'll be very heavy and I can just roll my plaster before my plaster
set or I could put a handful of sand in my mix and I'll show you that sand we're going to use - this
is very fine sand what is it it's called what it's it's twenty thirty or thirty thirty it's
a silica sand very fine so we're going to go down J's going to mix and it's actually going
to take me about five minutes to patch if that I'll show you how we do that alright guys I got
some other quick tips for you so I got to ramble on and tell you about them if you want to skip
through and just watch me plastering you can do that naps okay if I were going to use regular
plaster this is the NAP I would use to achieve that texture if I use this heavy one this is
just the NAP it's as inch and a half this is 3/8 this would give me the texture I want this won't
it'll be too heavy that being said I'm going to use this float here to float it now while I'm on
the subject if folks always call me and say gee whiz we can't find that bonding agent weld Crete
or plaster weld guys this works too sold at Home Depot or Lowe's what it is it's a it's a bonding
agent it's a it's for concrete to concrete it's for plaster to stucco you name it this will do it
guys you don't have to use exactly what I said now as far as the plaster I'm going to use I'm
going to use a gypsum-based plaster now I usually buy my materials from Westside building materials
they're in Oakland there are shops all over the country I like this facet but a lot of you guys
call me it's the Kirk I can't buy and fast set depending on what part of the country you live
in or you might live in uh I don't know around the world somewhere you guys this this USG it's very
very popular too same stuff guys let me show you a tip too when you mix this stuff guys it's real
important that you know this okay it'll say it on the bag all you do is add water now what happens
busy street guys what happens if you use a bucket like this you see how filthy this bucket is well
this bucket is filthy it'll take 20 minute gypsum base mud and it'll set it in two to three in other
words Jay's on the camera he'll mix this and as soon as he mixes it he can put water in here and
slam it out and he'll have a little sand castle so if you use a dirt ready paddle or a drill or
dirty bucket it'll set that material quickly so just know that guys because we've lost a lot of
it and also guys it's kind of cute these bags all say they're kind of carcinogenic if say you
put this on and you're not very good with your tools and you have to sand it where dust masks
because this stuff is not good to inhale and for some folks they even put here this product is not
for human consumption in other words guys don't eat it may look like oatmeal but don't eat it it's
bad for you one more tip guys and then I'm going to go plaster this and Jay is going to use this
equipment right here that's a clean bucket clean water in order to mix this otherwise by time he
brings it to me to be set in the bucket okay this is regular stucco sand it's Portland or I'm sorry
it's Felton sand it got Olien Felton and that's for plastering or we can go with a heavy tops
and what I'm going to add is a handful of this right here this is us silica sands it's it's a
it's a twenty thirty if I use thirty thirty that's too fine so we're going to he's going to mix about
four that patch up there guys it's going to mix about this much that much in a bag right here
these coming about 25 pounds hacks so you're going to mix about this much it'll give us a lot action
I'm going to throw the excess in the garbage and we're going to put about a handful this much of
this sand in it that way I'll go ahead and apply it I'll watch it dry in about five minutes I'm
going to take this float and float it that means I'm going to bring the sand or aggregate out of
that finish nothing to it if you guys know what you're doing and all of these little boring tips
I'm saying right here are pretty important anyway he's going to go ahead and mix and then when we
get up there I'll show you how we spread it out all right guys we're about to spread this out
j-just mix this up and what happened with that I added sand to this so technically I can Tama
dated this 20-minute mud rather than 20 minutes it's going to set in 10 all right here's what I'm
going to do guys I'm going to get all my edges first drop down are now what I want to do is I
want to key it see these I want the mud to go through those mushroom on the top of here and
that's how it keeps alright so let's see let's take it like so your mud should be like whipping
cream guys there's not like whipping cream ah well that's alright but if it's like whipping
cream what you do is you get it's called kyun you wanna get it where it Keys through the wood the
wood laughs alright one more time guys and that shouldn't do it take it here boom take that and
notice guys I'm going into the plaster and when I say into it I'm taking it into the keyed areas
on the on the side now see right here we're scratching why is it scratching there's sand
in it if I had not put that sand it wouldn't get this little scratch effect so I'm going to take
it one more time all right beautiful beautiful beautiful that's it okay guys we are about to
float this these two floats will work this green one will bring out more aggregate make it sandy
this bricklayers float will make it um a lot finer because it's not as porous as this one here the
holes aren't as big but because I'm in a hurry I'm going to use a roller and when I say I'm in
a hurry this patch right here has got another 15 minutes to set we added some sand which sometimes
retards it and sometimes accelerates it right now it's retardant how do I know because I can
look at it and I can still see moisture so if I could still see moisture I know it's not ready
we take the three-eighths nap roller all right with this roller here I put a little water on
it guys a little bit of water that way it won't stick because if you put it dry you can pull the
whole thing out and notice this texture it's just a really super light texture so you got to have
a little fine thing now what I'm going to do is let's say let's try it this way boom the beautiful
beautiful there it is now I'm going to take right here the edge where I have a different finish all
I'm going to do is go over the edge like what they did the fellow here he says he'll cheat Kirk come
and look at this other room how come they have a different texture and I said well what they
did is they didn't use what I'm going to use I'm using a fast set jism this gypsum here is really
fast set what they used in the other room is they use taping mud and they tape the whole ceiling and
then they went over it with a heavy roller says how do you know that I said well I can see it
I've been doing this so long I know this kind of stuff so all I'm doing guys is I'm looking at it
and just trying to match it as close as possible none of their patches in this house match but I
told them they were professionals we'll make it match anyway guys what I'm doing is I'm looking
at it and just making it match so there you have it there's a lot of ways to do this guys these
are two of the most common can I show you about another 10 different ways sure but these are the
simplest for you guys so I want to show you guys simple ways to do it for you DUI errs d-y IRS keep
thinking that D DUI like it uh we don't want to go there okay anyway guys there you have it and
see this little pin hole I'm going to let that set another five minutes but we're not going to show
you that and I'm just going to roll over it's going to match perfectly anyway guys there you
have it my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you guys for watching and we've detailed
this out so anybody can do it you guys now have no excuse for not doing it yourself my name is Kirk,
Jason on the camera once more we thank you for watching and we'll see on the next one
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