howdy folks Jason and I with Kirk Giordano plastering, today were going to show you how
to use today a BMI product it is they say the cleaning choice if you're using a silo and what
this is is okay BMI they sell color culture crellick finishes scratching Browns they sell
all kinds of stuff but what we're gonna use is a BMI standard with fibers see that fibers right
there that means you can do the scratching brow in the same day BMI recommends you go one pass
generally we go a scratch in a brown no matter what accelerated products we use they say put
it on seven eighths of an inch thick and I say I can put it on two inches thick in one pass
if I want so this give me something a little bit more exciting to do than I generally do depends on
the job I had a fella Clark call me from LA he says hey Kirk can you show me how to use these
BMI products and I thought absolutely again I can use any one of twenty different products
on this particular patch it's roughly eight by ten the patch we're gonna do and we're going
over laughs so but give you some tips guys I probably won't be able to cover all the tips
but first of all I'm gonna give you a name of a fella who can cover any questions if you guys
have them and that is Tom Thomas the senior sales consultant with BMI his TOEFL number is area code
for weight five nine two six eight four two and by the way they've got a fleet of rental mixers
generally if I'm doing a whole house what what I generally would do is get a silo this is a truck
brings a silo lifts it up and it's about thirty feet tall and that silo that eliminates all the
chances of human error meaning we just push a button and the dry mix comes out and water hits
it and we can put a wheelbarrow underneath we can put a pump however we want to do it but it really
eliminates all the human error if you have say smaller jobs they do have electric mixer you put
them in the back of your car about in the trunk there about oh they're a lot smaller than this
mixer here which brings me to another subject I don't recommend anybody but plastering contractors
try to mix BMI in a mixer like this why because you're nuts you can't over mix this product it
just messes with the integrity of the strength so we're gonna mix this about three minutes it
mix it anymore they do not recommend it how can we do it you folks can't well Jason's been mixing
for you ten years now what he's gonna do is we're only gonna we're gonna start off with
five bags he's gonna put I don't know eight ten gallons of water in there and he's gonna mix this
very slow for a minute then put the blades on for about two and turn the blades off the only
time we're gonna take put the blades back on is when we're putting it into the wheelbarrow from
this mixer again guys don't try to do that unless you're a licensed plastering contractor because
here see this do not overmix and a lot of their literature they say do not overmix in fact even
in their literature which you can google in read do not overmix back in the 80s 81 82 83 we used
to use la habra and western reinforced fiber materials you can mix those all day long these
newer materials 30 years later you can not over mix again it really does affect the integrity of
the strength so I'm gonna show you just how to put it on because a fella asked me how to do it
and I thought men absolutely I can put it on seven eighths of an inch thick it's kind of fun going
that fat anyhow so Jays going to mix this up and when we get to that stage of putting it on he'll
bring it out to me and we'll both put it on I will show you guys how to apply it in one coat they mix
those bags and about 40 seconds he allowed it to mix two minutes and now the only time he's
turning this on is to actually pull the material out then the blades are going to be turned off
take practice he's been doing this 10 years all right guys is putting that stuff on the board
notice how thick that is that's about how I like that material right there if it's runny I'll never
be able to hang it 7/8 of an inch never never here to just keep falling that's why it takes so much
practice to mix this stuff guys and unless you've been doing it 10 years or a licensed plastering
contractor homeowners don't try to mix it in a mixer mix the other stuff but not this okay guys
this is the fun part right here I like doing this so I can do this all day long it usually I do now
they like it done in one pass well we can do that and for the sake of spreading this I can do I like
to do say a coat real fat cuz I'm gonna Darby this so it doesn't have to be pretty I'm not trying to
make this pretty facto I wanted ugly just let me call it fat and ugly in the trade and then I'll
Darby it when I get it the whole wall done I'll take a rod and show you what I'm talking about
and generally I will start at the top but to just just show you guys what to expect I'm starting in
the middle when you next see me all I'm gonna all I'm doing here is using up a wheelbarrow
soil but that just just kind of shows you what we're doing here I'm gonna use this wheelbarrow
right here and then I'm gonna set up a ladder and do the top portion Jason I actually are both gonna
do that okay guys I got the top piece out and I'll show you Jay and I have both been putting this on
I'll show you something else too which is somewhat important guys now I could have had Jay mix this
little soupier he I told him make it tight and tight in the industry means it's pretty stiff
because we plan on putting it on thick now in the industry I also call this a sticky plaster because
it is pretty sticky once I get this where I can look at it and say that's kind of true and plumb
I want it anywhere between I want it around 7/8 of an inch thick okay I'm gonna grab my garden my
garbage is gonna chew it out a little little bit better like say if I missed some spots no big deal
I missed a spot here there that rod or Darby which we call it here they call it straight edges other
places T bars in other countries doesn't matter what you call it it'll straighten it out for me
I'll show you and put on just the rest of this mud I always like to use the mud I got on my board one
more here we go all I'm doing is just getting rid of the mud now guys I got my last hawk full and I
can close my eyes put this mug anywhere guys I don't have to look it just doesn't have to be
pretty that ugly just like we used to say when we were working Union I'd work behind a pump they'd
spray it on and I'd tell the guys man don't be chintzy with the mud spray it on fat and ugly
so give me something to work with now this again is is my room Darby we call it here now what I'm
gonna do is I'm gonna chew this wall out basically making this up coming up now conventional methods
obviously with save Portland cement of course you can't do this because it would it would fall right
off but this this particular material has its advantages and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna
allow this to cure or set and when it's what it's done nuttin then I'm gonna come back and
hard rubber floating BMI a lot of the materials I use will sponge float it with water BMI doesn't
recommend that they say just put it on wait for it to set and then either hard rubber floated or
steel trowel it meaning take the trowel on its edge and scrape back say if we were doing tile
work afterward we take a trial and just scrape off the edges but using this Darby here also
helps that so anyway guys I'm gonna finish doing the bottom exactly like I've done there I'm gonna
get on the ladder and pull this up to the top right there but I can reach most of it right
here and again it's a sticky sticky material this Darby is serrated because I want to open
it up so it'll dry quick okay guys we've got the easy stuff done watch where I'm going to land my
around here all I'm doing now is making that wall true and plumb and we got to come back here and do
a texture and what I was gonna do is spread this out leave it alone and then in a week or actually
with the cement Isha's texture we're gonna do it simply to match this finish over here it's not a
color code if you're gonna do a color code on this you would want to wait seven days to ten if you're
gonna do a paint or come an acrylic you want to wait at least 28 days for it to cure anyhow that's
that's it with the one coat system this can set oh gee I mean in about six hours I can put a texture
but it's not gonna set into them but fortunately I'm in no hurry anyhow folks my name is Kirk with
Kirk giordano plastering as usual we thank you for watching and we will see you guys on the next one.