Hi folks Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering and today it's that time again I'm gonna talk to
you about mixing we're doing some small interior work here and what we're using
is something you guys have asked us a lot about struck the light now it's a really good product
we haven't used it much in the past because we like to do everything same day scratch
brown finish same day today we don't have that opportunity so we're gonna use this product
and it's good stuff there's a couple reasons why you would use it it's very thermodynamic
it's it's got pearlite in it instead of sand which is like styrofoam ball type things it
works really well for fireplaces and things of that nature which is actually what we're using
it for so it's very light instead of weighing 94 pounds like most of our bags this is a 50
pound bag this big old bag that's nice that's easy a couple of things to know about mixing
is that gotta have nice paddles got to have nice paddle it's got to be down so that it will reach
the corners of your bucket to give you some examples of some of the other older paddles
we've used this guy it only has one blade though the second blade up here really helps things mix
this guy I was never a big fan of they work all right but not super well for exterior stuff which
is what I typically mix and then if you use one for far too long it ends up like this you can
see where all the little pieces are missing from it it's just degraded over time and now when you
mix with something like that it scratches your bucket you end up with all these little plastic
flakes in your your material and if you're doing a finish coat that's that's a big deal
if you're doing just a base coat it's not such a big deal but you still don't want that stuff
in there throwing off your mix and maybe accelerating it maybe making it bad anyway
back to mixing so I've got my struck to light here we're gonna open this bag now things to
look out for when you're doing certain certain products like this one you always read the bag
you know I can tell you how to do it but always read your bag I've got this bag right here so
with this guy you want to put the water you're going to use at least a good majority of it in
your bucket already you don't want to add all your powder and then put water in it and try to
mix that together just doesn't work it's not what they specify when you're doing this you
want your water in your bucket get your drill in your bucket and then this is kind of a [ __ ] when
you have to do it one person hold that guy there and we're gonna start putting that stuff in and
hopefully not spill a bunch like I just did and then we're mixing that's enough of that
and we're mixing. I got a lot of water in here, so that ended up pretty soupy
so I need a little bit more material, and it's nice to err on the side of a little
bit soupier to start makes it easier to mix got that alright now that I put more material in,
it's getting a little too clumpy, you can always add more water as you're mixing to
get it the right consistency, but you want to start with quite a bit of water in there
boom so I'm only mixing up half a bucket right now because we're only doing a small thing to
start but it's that simple this stuff is ready now certain things to think about while mixing
always read your bag some materials need to be slacked that means you mix them you let them
set for a few minutes and then you remix them to break that initial set some materials you can't
mix for more than three to five minutes if you over mix it something about the chemicals inside
it compromises the integrity of the material themselves I don't know exactly why I'm just
an applicator I'm not an engineer I can't give you all the science behind it I can just tell
you that it will mess it up so always read your bag do what they say don't do what I say just
because I made this video do what the bag says I hope that this helped give you some tips on what
to do but I don't want it to lead you in the wrong direction anyway now that I've got this
mixed I'm gonna bring it up there and we're gonna get started thank you guys for watching
again I'm Jason with Kirk Giordano plastering and we will see you guys on the next one
you