Hello there folks Kirk here with Kirk giordano plastering, today what today Jason and I are going to
show you guys is is a common question I hear all the time i get folks they say gee we laughed our
house but we ran out of cash we can do the scratch coat or any cement work how long do we have before
we have to put some mud on it now usually you tell folks men you got 30 days max if you have
a high wind area then you got about 15 because the 100 mile an hour winds that shakes the lath
and the paper and it just really beats it up so what I'm what we've done is this is five weeks
ago guys we've we did this and they've been waiting five weeks for a door no problem we
put our wire here and we left it here and I told them when the carpenter comes and installs this
door just cut the wire here fuse it together with a polyurethane talking and that's just what he did
up here you can see we already built this out we did the brown coat and the scratch coat here
I just took it right to the wall and the wire has already embedded it's not just stapled on
now it's embedded in here so what we're going to do is we mixed up some hot mud which means
it has accelerators in it and we're just going to go ahead and put this together for you I'll show
you guys how we get it in that little crack get started here now I have some work with
I'm going to continue like that all the way around here and then take a margin trowel
little bitty trial and get it right in there but the the real thing I want to explain to you folks
is don't panic oh you always want to get get some mud on to cover the wire but we're enclosed here
it's never going to see any rain so five weeks is pushing it but since we're enclosed here and
it'll never get in the rain we're fine anyhow go ahead and finish spreading this out and as
I throw this on and now granted to here's another way I can do it say once I once I
get the first bit on it say like yeah then I could come and put my neck bit on it that
way to a lot of ways to put this stucco on here guys then I take a bunch of margin trowel and
shave off my edges I'm working with hot mud and it's already getting stiff so I'm going
to go ahead and finish all this and when I get towards the end i'll show you folks what I'm
going how we finish it up alright guys I did in two different ways here just to prove a point I
threw it on this one and i plastered it on here and I got a little bit of mud remaining so I'm
just going to put it here and at least give this a scratch I'll share a couple ways then
you could make this work and this is all going to get painted anyhow okay one way is you could
take a margin trowel such as this and I generally will put my finger on it to give me a true spot
to stop in meaning come straight up right here and I'm using my finger as a guide a template.
now that happens to then you come on the other side oh that piece right there
we'll put it back in here we go okay put that right back in or you can go this route take a
trial now this kind of takes a lot more experience than just that and put it in here at an angle
and pull it straight up and you got to use your finger what you don't see is my left hand is at a
specific point meaning that gives me we want to be a half inch lower than this guy here so I'll show
you once more we're going to take the trial at an angle and just pull it straight up kind of get it
parallel with the wall and that gives me a pretty clean lot straight edge in a real tight surface go
all the way up sometimes it will fall out like it did a second ago if you just throw it in say for
example this other side me switch well that's working with my left hand now this other side
I child it in so it's less likely to fall off but the same applies I'm going to take this trial I'm
going to hold my finger out of angle a half inch below this wood here and this is kind of a big
cha to be doing this but anyhow I'll make it work I'll take it and I pull it straight up at an angle
watching that handle so it doesn't hit the wall and take it straight up like this and last thing
I'll do is after I got pretty much my template where I want to go I'll take my margin shop once
more and just hit it straight up like this guy because now I'm a half inch lower than this here
usually I always go up but the purpose of showing you guys this I'll take it down to just get it in
there just like that the fellows have been doing this for years can look at me and go man with a
piece of cake that's simple if you're new at it I've seen guys spend two hours trying to do a
little little detail like this it's not that big of a deal it's the whole thing should be no more
than 20 minutes but again if you're new at it some guys would be here for all day trying to do this
little itty bitty bit of cement then I let this set I'm going to put a few little humps and bumps
in it and show you the final result all right guys we're just loading this into the existing and as
I'm saying few minutes ago all of this gets painted everything gets painted so it doesn't
matter that there's a difference in color here we get our finishes to match we put our divots
in to match the rest of these divots and we call it a day if you can let's see if you can get your
windows and doors in when you originally laughing it always best to do that but if you can't again
it's not the end of the world because I got several jobs right now that same same difference
we're waiting on windows and doors anyhow I'm with Kirk giordano plastering with Jason on the camera,
as usual, we thank you for watching and we'll see you on the next one.