howdy folks, Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, this morning, I'm getting ready to go to
work, I checked my email and a fella by the name of Mike Becaurd, says, hey, Kirk, I'm an interior
plaster. I'm trying to do a worm finish, and I talked to a whole bunch of plasters they can't
tell me how to do it. And I thought man, it's been since the early eighties, since I worked
Union, when we did a lot of worm finishes. So I called my buddy Tom at Alta, said hey, you got
the material for the worm finish? and he says yeah, Parex, makes, it these guys so what I did
was I asked them, what makes that worm finish? I've used a lot of the materials but
I never was Union, I never cared what was in the material. He says well, Kirk, it's it's
the round aggregate, the sand is completely round so when you steel trowel it
or you hard tr0wel it with plastic floats, the round aggregate skips and it makes it look
like worms are crawling through it. Where the regular sand we get it's crushed, it's jagged its
it's pretty muched up. Anyway, Tom says come on by man, I'll give you a sample and by the way
Tom is West Side's tech rep. I got him first on my phone because I go by the name of, Alta, which they
were for 30 years. Tom Veretta, if you really need any advice about anything don't call Oh
Kirk. Oh Kirk is simply an applicator, I don't know everything about all these new products
Westside phone number 510 area code 532-2582 ole, Tom Veretta, he's probably gonna get mad
that I sent a whole bunch of people his way, but that's what he does for a living. He is the tech
rep, he knows everything about stuff. So what I did is, I said can you make me a sample? He did and
I told him well we're I'm just gonna use a trowel full, so I added a little bit of color just now for the
sake of hopefully showing you, what this does. Okay, guys, the worm finish. We applying it now,
and again that difference of color is just myself, I put that brown in there because I didn't think
white, would show up well. Okay, once you've got it covered back and forth, again when I worked
union, we've done these finishes we do them all the time, but I never knew exactly what material
we were using, cuz back then, I really didn't care. Okay, for example now that that's on it you
take yourself a hard plastic float or I can use my trowel and all you do is go in circles guys.
You're going circles that's called the worm finish. Why they call it a worm finish I don't
know, looks like worms are going through it but anyway Mike, yeah got lucky we're going to work
at lunchtime today, so I had time to go to, Alta, a a lot of noise in the background, had time to go to
Westside and pick up this material, and I thought man, I got nothing better to do, so I thought I'd
show you. Jay got about 10 or 20 videos he has to upload, so maybe you'll get lucky and he'll upload
this one tonight for you, so you could see what a worm finish is, and I would advise a hard plastic
trowel and you just keep going over making sure you cover all of the the brown coat in this case
I'm covering all the sheetrock, got it, Mike? hope so, anyhow my name is Kirk, Jason on the camera, and as
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