Howdy, folks, kirk and Jason here with kirk giordano plastering.
Today I want to show you some texturing and make up your mind which one is best. we're doing
a few windows here. Obviously, you could see the windows because we still have tape on them
now. Can you get a close-up of this now? This is considered a really nice finish,
guys. The guys who did this window installed it. That's pretty nice, but can you see what I see.
Well, let's go up top now. That's considered a really nice finish. Can you see what I see now
this one here the fella was pretty ambitious what he did was he did the scratching brown
and had he only known that you could take a dry sponge float and I'm going to show you this in a
minute and what he did is he put another coat over it, and it was called 20/30? it's a finish coat
and then he floated that so his is a little prominent so when it's painted
it doesn't match as well but it's still acceptable it still looks pretty good
that's a three coat system when he only needed to do a two coat system
if he had the extra knowledge now this guy he's got it closer his texture is a little bit closer
because he smoothed it out he did understand about floating it with a dry float but you see the the
joints he left the breakout so the breakout uh it's showing so personally i'd take that
guy right there who did that and by the way guys if you have something like this and you say wow
it's not matching identically this is just sand you can take a trowel a putty knife and
this will come right off even right now if i take if i take a chop for example and i just hit this
it comes off so can it match this yeah take about 10 minutes with the trowel and just the
sand will scrape right off anyway here's what i'm going to show you guys how to do
if you have this situation okay we just applied this sand well about an hour ago and we're using a
quick setting mud so it's it sets fast now when the average person does this you do the two coat
system and then you you put your finish coat on now i'm looking at this and thinking oh crap
i better quit talking so much and get on this because it's starting to dry and when it dries
you can't bring it back to life anyway how you get this finish here which has been painted about
maybe 10 times in the last uh 60 70 years take that float now this is bringing out the sand or
the aggregate and you you just go over it a few times and each time you go over it with the float
it it takes the grit off like say and and here's another thing too if you don't want that
the trail around it where you see the transition or the feathering in
the other upward what that fella did he feathered down so he pulled that joint out you go upward
and over here you go towards the existing I'll show you a couple other little tips too because
our sand right here is from a material yard where they have many different types of sand,
and one of them is a clean coarse wash and what does that mean that's some
weighty sand and so it gets mixed up in in the um uh
well in their little bins and the tractor gets it okay so i'm looking at a heavy sand here here
here here and this is all smooth so what what i would do is i could bring this back to life
maybe once more because it is setting now two if you want if for example if i want to if i i
see those grains of sand right now so i'm going to have to get those out but here's how i do it guys
to clean your float the the least amount of water you have in it the better so here's what i'll do
i'll clean it i'll hit get all the all i want to do is get the water out because the less water it
will take off the excess grains so either you just go ahead and get all that water out and again the
drier the float now it will pull off these heavier grains so you see that it's it's pulling off
it's pulling off some of the heavier stuff like that real simple if you understand that
concept and always take it from the new into the existing so you don't get that that nasty little
joint you come down on it i'm coming down on it because i have to keep the joint now
because i went to a material yard where they sell a couple different grains of
sand and because the bins get confused that's good actually because it could prove my point
now you see these when this dries you're going to see some of those bigger rocks
and that can't be helped because of the material yard and here's what you can do
you can bring it back to life or embed it take your trowel push it in embed it and this is how
that is how I still have some life here, so I'm going to go ahead and pull that out
but if it turns white guys, meaning like say here where it's lightening up, that means that's set,
and you're not going to be able to bring out the sand right here where I have some heavy aggregate
because of the place I got the materials I'm going to push it in I'm going to push it and bury it,
and even right here there's quite a bit I'm going to push it in and bury it's
kind of like concrete if you want an exposed aggregate finish you put the concrete on,
and you hit it quick that will expose it here I got some too so this is excess sand you push it
in guys bury it you just bury it and place it too big, and a big guy like that just get rid of it
bury it now we go through the same process what we did a second ago
we can use the same float it's got a little bit of water on it and we can just pull up because
this is the finish i want that's uh 20 30 basically a fine finish now you see i pushed
in i pushed in that heavier aggregate or heavier rocks and because i pushed it in i'm going through
the exact same motions as i did the first time i actually waited a little too long to hit this
because we're doing other things but if i wait an extra 20 minutes or i hit it too soon i can still
make it work because practice now you see all that heavy grains or the pieces now they're embedded
they're embedded in this coat and again i still do the same thing where i pull it upward to get the
joint so you don't see the the broken edge and you just basically go over it and you pull it lightly
i see what i'd like to do too is i'll pull it near the tape like this and if i get any big pieces of
aggregate sand i'll just pull them out with my fingers sometimes
like right here a little big a bigger piece so just pull it out and come and if i want this
almost smooth all i have to do is keep keep doing this and keep drying the float
out here again i don't want that joint on the bottom so i'm going to pull downward
if i pull up i can i can create that joint so we take it like so and just get it out
you see that it brings out a lot less aggregate or rocks and this particular batch again i wait
a little bit long but that's that's okay it allows me to go into a little bit more depth
and prove a point like here big rock i'm just going to squeeze that rock way below the surface
and i got a big rock here i know the camera doesn't show this but i see it right now so
i'm proving a point and i'm coming down so what i want to do is just bring a little bit
of sand out if i want to bring a lot of sand out well heck i had a lot of sand out a minute ago
that's uh when you first apply it and you you use a lot of water so you this this applies to
for dash finishes that you throw on those are called dash like the old say dash of salt same
thing guys if it's too too heavy knock it down a little bit over here this one here is what
the average it doesn't matter who you are what float you use this is uh yellow float you could
use a green one but this is what you're going to end up with like that and then it's just a
matter of knowing what you're doing and if you do let it set too much you will probably have to
embed it again like this and when you're all done with stuff guys here's what you should look like
I mean that the transition on edge is good, that's a good transition on edge, and it's got
just the same sand finish as this sand finish you got fine, which is 30/30.
You got a medium which is 20/30. This is 20/30. Then you got your heavy sand which is
16/20. So what we do is we try to match whatever finish and can you soften that up there absolutely
you need a heavy primer something like sherwin williams their primer is like glue but you pay
for that it's like 80 bucks a gallon that would soften that if you just want to spend that kind of
dough you just go over it once more with a roller and it'll soften it to this right here anyway guys
thought we'd point that out just because we're doing it my name is kirk jason on the camera we
thank you guys for watching and we'll see you guys on the next one hi folks jason here and i'm here
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