howdy folks Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering today what we're going to do is we're
going to skim coat that concrete wallets it's spalling a bit that just means the concrete is
separating from itself and what Jay's doing is he's hosing it down why is he hosing it down
because he's about to wire brush it and if it's not hosed down he will release a whole bunch of
Moss mildew dust and that stuff goes in your sinuses and give you a flu-like symptoms so
first thing we do right off the top is either we pressure wash the wall make a huge mess or
we just do it the old-fashioned way and just use water hose and a wire brush after we're done we're
gonna hit it with a bonding agent and then just skim coat it you see how you just go over and
over it and a lot of pressure guys and this way we prep this concrete wall for the application of
another coat of stucco alright guys I'll take pressure washer any day to doing this by hand
there must have put a hundred gallons of water on this now of course on this side where the Sun
hits it there's no moss on this side it's full of moss dirt dust grime and crap fortunately I went
in the garage he has a thump pump that kicked in and watered his own plants with it I thought
that is so cool anyway guys next thing you do for this is you apply a bonding agent now I'm applying
this bonding agent heavy full strength because we are putting at least a half coat of stucco on
this we get to that stage of doing the actual stucco will show you but the prep work that's
where it all that's the most important thing if it's not prepped properly it will come off
okay guys for the sake of explaining how we do this I'm gonna do one wall which is facing the
camera this guy here and J mix me up some mud here that just about what I want what i'm doing
here i'm putting my first coat on taking it out of this bucket sitting in the hot sun oh i guess
it's around 90 degrees right now it's starting to warm up so for the sake of any of you folks
trying to do this what you want to do is put it on thick enough where say we can match this
finish here that's a heavy float finish though if it's too thin say eighth of an inch I won't
be able to float it and what I generally do is I'm going to give it a lip here to because they
up here I want to give that a coat and what we do is we take it here come around here then we
take a downward that's what makes our new edge here okay I will continue to spread this out
coming here right up into it behind my back up into it then I pull it back now I've got
a tight top where it's got a lot of mud on it that way it's pretty strong if you only
have about an eighth of an inch on that top if somebody stands on it not gonna be that strong
well I'm riding my own way now as far as showing you folks how to do this so what I'm gonna do is
I'm sitting on a full bucket and I have this bucket here so that's about all I'll show you
folks how to spread but when I come to actually float this I'll show you that because we are
gonna be matching this finish right here and I'm getting ready to get in my own way of the camera
that's a drag when you're working in tight corners guys okay guys I have hustled and spread this out
now I got a tip for you guys if you're gonna do this and you check the weather it's gonna be a
hundred degrees wait because we are hustling to get this done I'm hustling and it's as fast
as I'm putting it on it's absorbing so camera won't show that so let's see here now what I'm
doing guys is I'm bringing the aggregate out right here in the hot Sun you gotta hustle see taking a
lot of water on this sponge float and one of the things that I'm doing that of course you wouldn't
be able to understand unless you're familiar with the trade is I'm putting a lot of water
on all my joints my corners I'm making my corner stronger with the extra water I'll take it soon
as the float gets clogged up and we we just put a lot of water on these edges right here this will
make them stronger guys and we just go in circles bring the aggregate out sports fun flow gets to
fuller aggregate dip it back in that bucket and we just you want to get it right before it gets
too hard if it's it turns white on us that we've lost it that means as as fast as I'm working now
I'd be working even harder to bring the aggregate out so there we go getting it you can't see what
I'm doing in this corner but all right now I matched the same texture as the house which is
heavy load Finnish guys have you float finished get my sponge right in there get the water out
of your eyeballs take the float up top just go straight up here give you a nice clean corner
pull it here pull it here sponge float in you know if I waited another 15 minutes to do this guy I
would be working full strength to try to save it because it would start to turn white we're
actually using a concrete here or stucco that call the rapid set at man they call it rapid set
for a reason it's cents back I was thinking I was thinking we're gonna be in the shade when we were
here but since the Sun come up on us we're using it anyhow anyway when I'm a hustlin here when as
soon as I get done with the entire finish we'll show it to you from this direction so you can see
how well it matches the house all right guys as I was saying don't don't do this in the hot Sun it's
how dry it is to hit it and it's not coming off better to hit it actually it's it's pretty stiff
now but you get your corners full of water and because it's set so fast on us I could even clean
the stairs without any worry about this stuff will come in off so that's what we're gonna do
here always take the water reinforce it I don't care what product you use and hit it with water
especially on a hot day you want it to slowly cure last tip is if you're going over would say
laughs or would house with laughs on it you are highly likely to get hair lines cracked if you're
going over concrete like what we're doing here I'm not even worried about any hairline cracks
it's really rare that's just a quick tip for you guys anyhow guys my name is Jason on the
camera as usual we thank you for watching kind of tough to show you how to do anything in a
little hole like this but we did the best we could as usual guys we'll see on the next one.