Howdy guys, Kirk and Jason here, with Kirk Giordano plastering.
Today I've got a tip for you guys is these green floats is probably the most useful tool you'll
have in the plastron industry whether or not it's inside or exterior let me show you guys
something what they're for and if you're gonna buy one which one to buy and how to clean them
and use them okay this Grange sponge float float FL Oh 80 all right this is what we do with these
these green sponge floats we take the bucket we fill them up with water and what do they do they
bring the sand or the aggregate to the surface so if I were to take a child and go over this it
would be smooth like a baby's butt say like for example here guys okay smooth now that's that's
not the finish we're looking for hello yes gonna show you the right finish okay hit you guys here
they bring the sand to the surface now what you do is you just put it on it and you use the whole
float guys don't I see a lot of guys especially when I need guys to and I hire some some people
no you just use a the side and just or the toe or the heel it's like guys come on use a hole use a
whole float like if you're snowboarding just the whole thing you go faster and while I'm on that
subject let me show you something else these are hard rubber floats what are hard rubber floats
actually they're polyurethane floats so it's the same thing they have a five inch and a three inch
no by the three it's a waste of money actually it's a four inch by the 5 inch same with these
guys right here don't buy the like three or four inch by the five inch you could save yourself a
lot of time guys and time is what this is about anyhow getting back to where the polyurethane
floats we just call him hard rubber floats we've been calling him that for over thirty years what
does a hard rubber float do it compresses the stucco oopsie there that's why by the way guys
this is raw and you got it we got a wire sticking out right there we put it right back and what it
does is it compresses the stucco so that when you do your your second coat if you want it straight
true and level you just use this float here but of course make sure it's a lot drier than what
I'm doing it this is pretty wet generally we wait till it almost turns white before we use this and
compact everything but that's really not what I wanted to explain I wanted to show how to clean
these because I see a lot of people including the guys working with me they're doing it wrong and
they're jacking up my floats what we don't want to do with either float is pull up on it like this
because then you separate it from the the handle and the hard rubber against the base so we don't
want to pull it like this on trial you could do that with they like this a trial you can skim it
to pull off some excess fat but don't pull with either of these guys here well what I wanted to
really show was people say well I seen what you do you slam it on the bucket and you you get all
the crap out of it it's kind of kind of what I do I'll show you in slow motion what we do okay
they like this float here it's I started using it this morning when I buy these floats right here
guys I buy them by the box I get a hundred at a time big box because we go through them what you
guys see me doing is this I'll tap it spin it and get the other side so it's clean so here show you
a quick tap it here why am i using the inside of the bucket guy because if I use the inside of the
bucket what it does is it puts a natural curve on this and I don't mind it being curved I do
mind it if it's cockeyed I'll show you how folks cocci this and I always tell people when I see
them doing doing that don't do that guys that's a real bad habit they'll go like this sometimes I'll
do it too but I'm tapping it very soft I'm tapping this would handle on this would and this side here
dead center I just go like that sometimes to get some loose water out of it because too much water
to drip all over over but I see guys doing this all the time and sometimes they're working with
me and that's a big no-no all right it says you see it's a habit for me to tap it on the inner
bucket so if I'm tapping it on the inner bucket it's helping the float how the right contours now
that's a pretty straight float now I'm going to tap it a little harder to emphasize the point now
that point is don't do this because when you do that and you do it hard enough the child becomes
like a banana so right now I just warped it so when I go to float this will hit and this will
hit but now it's warped because I'm doing this don't do that guys when I was working with a lot
of crew we were doing finishes we take it's kind of like a tennis racket we hold the tennis racket
we slap it flat that way we don't destroy it now this one has bent the wrong way so I mean I could
still use it but I'm trying to show you guys if you're going to get a float you're going to
do work because this is the most important tool don't tap it like that guy cuz after you tap it
like that about 10 to 15 times it is completely useless now now I got a big bow here so I wanted
to point that out guys and if you're gonna buy any of these floats make sure they're 5 inches you're
not saving in that buck you think you are you losing it in labor anyway my name is Kirk Jason
on the camera we thank you folks for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one
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