Hi, guys Kirk and Jay are here with Kirk Giordano plastering.
Today what we're gonna show you guys is a real technique; this is knocked down - its
interior finishes about 90 years old now it has many coats of paint on it and so I spoke
with the homeowner I came in, and I said. Do you see this patch here? And he says no.
I said good answer because I can match textures very well,
but we have about ten within a wall. When you have so many within a wall,
it's tougher to do it. So it's best to tear it all off and start fresh.
Anyhow, I'll give you guys some tips, okay, they've got old timber lath.
You can call it redwood lath. All it is is furring strips. You've got your studs coming down,
and the furring strips are on that the mud adheres by mushrooming through these keys,
that goes through the other side mushrooms on the back, and of course, it helps to adhere to this.
Now, if you show over here, I'm going to point out a few things. Guys, we've got a
lot of patchworks here now, the fellow says gee. How do we patch the holes? I said well, you could
use sheetrock, three-point-four mesh, different types of wire, and put the old timber lath back,
which is tedious. There are so many different ways to do it. Guys, don't get caught up in which way
is the correct way. There are a lot of ways to do it anyhow. Now, now that the timber lath is
removed and these are just buckling areas, there are so many areas that were buckling that had to
come out. We removed all the ones that I thought had to come out, and now what I've done is I've
taken this Plaster-Weld. See this stuff down here. It's made by Larson's, but there's a lot
of types of plaster welds, and what that means is I've put it on these strips right here the
wood timber lath. Why'd I done that? I want my new plaster to adhere to not only mushroom
inside here but to adhere. Plus, it removes all the dust. Guys, now what I'll do is make
A simple explanation is I'll take some mud here, and I can go on for
days about the types of mud you can use. Many folks watch what we do and say Kirk,
how come you know there's Structo-lite? I've used Structo-lite hundreds of times,
but what we do, guys, is same-day plaster with Structo-lite. You cannot do same-day
plaster with structo-lite. I had been using that so long 30 years ago even there used to come in
eighty-pound bags, now comes in 50-pound bags. But this particular mud here is called 20-minute
mud; what does 20-minute mud mean? That means you've got 20 minutes to put it on; it's sort
of like a fix-all you're familiar with, that so within 20 minutes, this is going to be hard,
it will not be working anymore. They have five-minute mud, ten-minute mud, 20, 40, 60,
9,0; you name it, but I'm not using Structo-Lite because we make same-day applications. Usually,
if I was doing this whole room, I would coat it with Structo-lite first, and Structo-lite
comes in a 50-pound bag that has perlite in it, and you can put it 1/4 inch to 3 inches
or 3/4 of an inch thick and coat the whole room then come back the next day and put a Keens or
a Diamond plaster or something like that. Anyhow now that I got this one patch here,
we're gonna back up a knot since I still got this mud right here. I'm
gonna hit this other area here just because I still have this mud guy but on my Hawk.
I figure I'll use it up right here. There's still quite a bit of area we've got to do.
Still, for the sake of explanation, I will just do this and - it's okay,
I've got to do this wall here - but this wall is coming out 3/4 of an inch thick,
then they're gonna put the trim here on here I'm gonna trim this out here but getting back
to the - now I'm gonna put this away and just come back to it now I'm gonna show you guys the dash.
This way, we compress six hours into as minimal as possible.
So you folks watching this have a kind of an idea of what the heck we're doing. This is a
Dash-brush. There are about ten different types of - brushes; I have some - brushes that are square,
like these 8-inch bristles and four-inch bristles six. I've even dashed using whisk brooms, so you
put three together because I have seen particular textures, and I thought I could match that.
Now what we're doing is Jason mixed up this mud here now. This is 20-minute
mud also. Do we need 20-minute mud? No, we could use 40, 60, 80, or 120.
But we just happen to be using the 20-minute mud because by the time I'm done with that,
that's going to be ready to dash over there, okay, this light switch I went ahead.
I put some mud on it now. I allowed that to set now for the sake of dashing. I put
the plastic on here, so we don't make a big mess, and I'm gonna do this with every hole
now we dip this dash brush into this soupy mud. Look at this. That's pretty soupy.
Now, this in itself takes a lot of practice, guys, and this is my first time today;
the first hole that I'm going to do the idea is to get most of the mud off here. Otherwise, it's just
going to splatter, and can this mud be looser? Yes, can it be tighter? Yes, but the idea is
to match this texture here. I want it wetter because if it's wetter,
it'll give this a smoother appearance. If it's really dry, then it to give a
much drier appearance, and it won't match that,t so now I'm gonna do guys is this is
called dashing like that you ever hear a dash of salt just a dash of salt from the old days.
Well, that's just the dash of mud right here, and the idea is to get get the perimeter to get the
insides to get it where we think it's close enough to theirs now I want to get all of it, so we're
doing that there now this is 20-minute-mud. Now they're their mud right here has
been knocked down in some areas. Knockdown means that when this sets,
you take a trowel and knock it down. Unfortunately, this side right here hasn't been
knocked down too much, so again I'll just I'll hit around the perimeter a little bit better to tie it
in; then here's another thing, too, if you got some goop where it's too much you could
take the brush here and just tap it like this. That's an old plastering technique, right there,
guys? It smoothes it out a little bit, all right, guys, Jay was telling me, dad,
all the patches you could do here, you did the cheesiest little patch, that's it fair enough,
so what we did is we finished everything but over here I'll actually show you how to do
it because Jay says dad you've got you got a dash. Then you got a dab it they're not going
to understand what to do on that small patch. So we're gonna show you how to do it with
this patch here, and then you can see all the completions of everything. I'll show you something
this doesn't match at all. It's just a patch that I've just done a simple technique, guys, now this
is called - but I'm gonna change the appearance of this 100% by using just the dash brush on edge.
Little techniques, guys there's you can use a float wet float and tap it. You can use a
brush like I'm doing and tap it, but the idea is when you're done, there's it's got a match.
It's got a match very close, or on the money now. This is just one way to do this patch; I can do
it about five-six different ways. Get some mud up here, and then I'll show you a simple way to match
this finish here. Okay, say we've got most of that covered, and if you look close, that won't match.
Now I can match this with a float at this stage by dabbing it, but it has to be a wet float. You
really got to know what you're doing, it since that way it's complicated, and you guys might
try to duplicate it I won't show you what we're doing now is we're taking just the tip of the
brush. We're going around the perimeter go just around the perimeter and just lightly tap it, and
that muds got to be wet it's soupy and just kind of pull it you pull it like so, and that matches
much tighter than what they then what just the dash brush alone, will do a lot of technique guys.
And you look at theirs and say, well gee, that's a lot smoother.
Yes, it has about 15 coats of paint, but this is just another way, and lastly, if you look
at a wall. You say that's a little tighter. After about 10 minutes, you can just Kathy
with a steel trowel, and it'll match it even if you know it'll give it more of a knockdown.
Butt right here we're more of a - anyway simple technique using the dashing brush dabbing it we
used to do that a long time ago anyway my name is Kirk, I'm with Kirk giordano plastering,
we thank you, folks, for watching and as usual I'll see you guys on the next one.
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