Howdy guys, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering,
Today's tip of the day I want to show you guys what I get a lot of calls about a lot of you folks
will do your lath, you're scratch and brown coat. A lot of you guys say, yea,
I learned this from watching your videos. I'd say more power to you because we need
more plasters in the world today. After all, it's a dusty, dirty job, and nobody wants to do it.
Plus, you need like 10 years to really get good, so nobody wants to invest that kind of time.
I'm going to show you something okay this fella here he did the scratching by himself,
and it doesn't look bad, however, upon looking
at it a little deeper knowledge, You can see some of the inconsistencies,
and that's what we're here to fix. I'm going to show you guys how to do it, and why,
okay he says, well do I need a bonding agent? He purchased right there's Merle X,
there's Larsen's, there's quikrete there are all kinds of bonding agents.
He wanted to know if you need a bonding agent for the color or the finish? No, you don't
need a bonding agent. It adheres to suction. I'll show you that but what I want to show
you is okay. Here's the wall. Now you can see my fingertips coming up. There is a good half-inch
gap here, and that's okay because this texture I can float it all in and disguise it, feather it in
what we call you to see that's a big gap guy. Hence, I told him and said, you know you guys
if you go with finished color; however, I use it because it's at my material yard. But, still, you
got BMI, you got an Omega, you got Western. These are what these colors look like.
We're not using color. What we're using is the finished material now. So if I put up
three finished materials, there's fine there's medium and heavy, so I'm going to skim coat
this from here to here heavy just because if I try to use the twenty-thirty they used here.
Twenty thirty just means medium it'll get a huge crack right here because it's too thick
color coats are made to go one-eighth of an inch thick in some instances when
you're doing Santa Barbara 1/16 going to try to get away with 1/4 inch with this 16/20,
and you see right here 16 20 that just means the grit of the sand if it said 20 30 that means
medium if it says 30/30 that means, fine sand. So they proceed and but before I proceed to say
if I take there's mud in this bucket Match color coat that's what we call it okay.
If I take the stucco that's another term for it, or cement plaster, it all means the same thing and
I just apply it right here let's look at the sun. Okay, the sun is shining right here is 90 degrees
right now. It's about 11 o'clock in the afternoon so it's 90 degrees. If I just put the material
on right now, it'll suck up immediately and it'll tend to be brittle and won't
achieve a mechanical bond. Can you use the well a bonding agent you could, but it's not necessary?
Here's how I prefer to do it I'm going to wet or mist this with water, this now
here's my mechanical bond it will adhere now by suction beats the
mechanical bond of a bonding agent, any day. So here's what we're prepared to do okay now
this product here it was mixed up shows you how hot it is because it was kind of soupy
a little while ago. This is 16/20. It's a little thicker, so what I'm going to do is
I want to fix their joint for them, okay, just feathering in that joint a little bit better.
Now what I told that fella is he was saying, well you need to reskim the whole thing,
and I said not really. But, still, if you just apply, you're like right here now,
I've got a lot of work on the other side. I'm going to put a little bit more down
here. Still, I got work on the other side. I'm going to go there. I'm going allow this about
in this kind of heat 20 minutes, which I needed on the other side anyhow when
I come back here this will look a lot lighter. Then I'm going to take my twenty-thirty color
coat and cover this right here and go to the window, and the texture will blend it all in.
So when we get to that stage, we'll show you, okay guys? We're at a
stage we're working on a lot of things here. Jayson just informed me. He said, dad, you put
your phone in this 104 degrees. It's hot. So what we're doing is after we put that on,
we let it set. We can take a child come down here we could take a floating feather in this joint,
but again that mechanical bond is all-important because it's so hot
now we want to hydrate these walls hydrate just means we're going to wet the walls down,
guys let the walls down as fast as we're hydrating it's drying upon us because it's about 104,
it was a hundred and seven yesterday, so we might just get that again hopefully,
okay now where I put this on, I'm gonna hit it also because I want the mechanical bond.
What I'm going to do is because we're going to be fighting the weather soon,
you'd expect it to be this hot. So I'm going to show you now with
the 20/30 is lighter sand we now we still have to go over this you're thinking hey just start
from there no what we do is we go over the whole thing now the other day one more time,
sorry a lot of folks who say hey you guys got it made you don't get hot
where you are occasionally it does. This is one of those rare days,
so you see where the two materials are mixed. You cannot tell the difference by the way they
do have base 100 and 200, but that's beside the point based on your just white 200 means gray,
but they're the same grips what we'll do is I'm going to take this right here then go to
the other side because we're done almost to give you an example of traveling on the finish coat.
Okay, one more trowel full, and then we'll go on the other side, get out of this hot sun,
we'll leave this out another day where now this right here guys is ready for
a texture. What's the texture? Okay, let's go on this site. This is what we were doing
while we were allowing that coat to dry. This was actually much deeper, much worse,
so we went ahead and feathered that in and give it to skip cha.
Can you see the outline of that patch? Because of the color differential,
you should be able to because of color differential. But, still, the fact that this
was indented 1/2 inch shouldn't show now what we do is the simple part which is the texture.
This is what I'm going to do over there, guys. but I'm not going to show that side because we
are burning daylight guys burning daylight, and we've got to put that camera away so Jay
can help me one more time last us bucketful because as soon as Jay puts that camera down,
he will be helping me spread this that way we could get it done in this hot sun now what I'll
do is I'll finish the texture in here camera may not share this texture because it is same color I
Run it hot like this you guys can spread the texture knock it down immediately because don't
knock that texture down immediately on a hot day like this you'll end up with the Taco Bell look,
where it's a super heavy finish because as soon as you apply it it's dry anyway.
About that, yes, that is the same texture. This gives you an idea of
color coating around the perimeter takes it on solid down immediately,
especially within over hundred-degree weather. My name is Kirk. Jason is on the camera. We
thank you for watching it. We're going to get busy as usual, live long and Plaster.
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surely. You guys got better things to do than to watch the very ends of these busy videos. Well,
show you what we ended up with anyway just because we're getting out of here.