Hello Folks, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering here.
What do show you folks how to go over this redwood lat the best wave especially for a
homeowner we're using accelerators, but I don't recommend anybody use Portland cement and put
accelerators in it unless you know what you're doing notice this wood looks wet all that wet
is a bonding agent this stuff right here and not blue like my normal world creep bonding agent but
doesn't have to be any way I put that to get rid of all the dust because nothing adheres to dust
anyway I have some hot mud here what hot mud that means it's got accelerators in it and most to you
folks watch what we do you know Kirk doesn't like to come back to. Three times unless it's the whole
house or big walls, if I can get away with doing the same day, I do the same day all right now is?
what I'm doing here is I'm filling that key that key is made for the first coat of stucco to adhere
in now just taking it this way turning my trial popping it in there easy peasy lemon squeezy
there it is give it a little bit right over here all right now as far as event they they're gonna
put a vent in this I tried to get him to put it beforehand but do they listen to old Kirk ooh
anyway they're gonna have to squeeze that vent in make it work and he says Kirk I'm a carbon door I
can make it work just give it an stucco for me all right there's that half now what I'm gonna
do guys is I'm gonna take a scratcher and all you homeowners watching this this is how you
should do it you scratch it first do I need to scratch that not really but because I'm doing
my next coat in a minute but you homeowners if you try to do both coasts I'll tell you it takes
a lot of practice and to get this mix just right also takes a lot of practice so unless
you have that practice just scratch it you see my hawk right here it's holding a lot of a lot
of stucco because it has these accelerators in it otherwise it would all just fall off the hawk in
fact I would say I have about 15 minutes to work with this stucco and it's gonna be part of the
rocks so finished my first coat right here and again I recommend any of you homeowners trying
to do this stick with just this first coat like that you do it then you come back wet your your
scratcher and scratch it there's a tip guys that deeper the scratch marks the better I've got the
tape on here for when it tells me don't go any deeper than that but if you're just very light
you're not going to leave much room for the next coat - and here in those scratch lines therefore
you will not get that desired mechanical bond all right so my second coat now nothing to it put it
on here and I'm just putting on about another half inch the guy who is actually doing this just for
that walls gonna be covered don't have to worry about making it pretty and I thought oh no we're
gonna make it pretty in case you don't cover it and I don't want to have to come back back
I don't want to have to come back unless it's for a different project all right take that now
I think I got just enough mud in this bucket to put my second coat find out in a few minutes here
All right, two more scoops batch scoops, and I think that'll do it for this bucket, but at
the same time, I think that's all I need again. These guys want to do this vent after I'm out of
here. I say whatever they want to do is their business, okay? This is my second coat again,
guys. You've never done this before. Do not try to do two coats on the same day. In fact,
find a half Jason here. I wouldn't be trying to do two coats. He actually knows how to mix this
cement. He's out pyramid it up here. He mixes it much better than me, so because I have him mixing,
I can do this without him mixing then I could not do this I could,
but it'd take me close to four hours just to do this little bitty project,
another thing people call them and say hey Kurt how do you do it so fast that's because I got
somebody mixed in okay I got some extra my time put it right here just to feather this mess in
little tiny bit of stucco laughs what are the odds that Jay would mix it right on the money
well he's been doing this a long time and it's pretty damn good at it okay so what I want to do
is square this off what I do is I'll just take it pull it that way take this side put some mud
on it take my trial on edge pull it that way because we want that vent when they bring it
to set that's close close as possible now I'm gonna take some water on my trial get it away
here and cut this back okay that should work last time I do guys is take my sponge float
that's the UH little holiday and to hear that that's your on your hands and knees won't see
alright now I'm gonna take a sponge float and float this what does that mean guys that means
this finish here which is not as easy as they come is what I got a match so I'm looking at
it and I got a clean sponge flow what that means is for me is I turn it twice and put
the clean side on this wood edge up here dunk it in the water clean it again why because I
want to keep the wood here clean I got two tries once now this way twice one more time to get the
last bit of wood showing and that's over here I'll clean it and now that I've got that would
clean I can just go ahead and float and stay below that wood meaning I don't have to clean
that wood again now I just float all this out and I'm just using a little bit of water and
if you guys do this and I have a lot of people call me I think Kirk every time I try that it
all comes off well that means you don't know when to dip this float I know when to dip it in myself
where right now is starting to drag and it was coming off so I dip it in clear it off clean
this little outlet here and feather this in right here and we start here and we just feather this in
see, that guy is just little circles. If you get some drag marks, clean your float clean
in my flow, and this float has definitely seen better days. It's somewhat beat-up,
but I can make it work to go inside here we'll go in here we'll take this one and
put a slight angle right there otherwise, to try to make it straight without the bet in first not
gonna happen now the last thing we're gonna do is finish this 45 right here and float it
now actually right here I'm a little hollow a little bit hollow so I'm gonna put a little bit
more there but I'm gonna finish this off okay so where could I take some mud from I could
take some mud from right here and fill that piece up all right we fill that one up and we
float it in load it in there this isn't science guys this is all practice and even me you look
at it and as you go you see things that are wrong adapt and just fix it anyhow guys I'm
gonna finish finish this up here you see how we do it over redwood laughs and again guys
take it from me scratch it first unless you're pretty good at celebrators we're using lumen I
plus J mixed it for ten minutes in a bucket with Portland cement before adding the alumina anyhow
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