Hi guys Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering today what I'm gonna show you guys
how we feather in a joint why am i going to show you that because we got some work in
the back I'm doing this for a contractor friend of mine but the homeowner came out and kind of
yelled at me and said man I hope you can match this finish because the people in the back who
did it and on the sides didn't so I'm gonna show you how we match it but first Jay got a lot of
celebrators in this product so I'm gonna spread this out real quick and I'll show you how what
I'm referring to a lot of there's been about all ten different people who've worked on this house
by the way I'm just gonna spread this out here because I don't think there's enough material
here to double coat this patch right here okay I'm getting there I'm just going to spread the
rest of this board out and take you around back and show you what the homeowner is referring to
it's actually pretty simple common mistake that people make - okay let me hear another half a
bucket to finish good that's okay nothing we can't handle there this is hot mud by the way
guys what's hot mud me that means it's got room and ice in it looma and I accelerate
err with the accelerator we got we choose the amount of time we want to work the wall I chose
10 minutes but maybe I can get 15 out of it before it starts to set up on me laughs okay
all right just now for the sake of what I was referring to as far as a good and a bad joint
well what I'll do is wire push it up there just push it down and guys go back over all right take
you over here and show you what he does not want all right over here guys yes zero in on this wall
hi this fella okay this is a patch around a window now this right here is a light - light - was put
on about 70 years ago this guy came in about three years ago and he put a scratch in a brown coat he
would have been better off if he used the course green sponge float and just floated it but here's
what really separates the DUI guys from or dy I guys from the professionals see this joint this
outline now that joint is really bad the fact that his texture is three times heavy well I
mean - right here that's kind of bad - but this is really what distinguishes if you're gonna do
it and make it noticeable so while the fellow was yelling at me saying it better come out
right I didn't have the heart to tell him dude I'm telling like 500 instructional videos I know how
to do this but I guess he'll find out for himself two floats one is fine and one is course okay I'm
going to take the course one why because I don't want this superfine the finish I want to bring
some of the aggregate out aggregates just a fancy word for sand okay so I'm a wet this sponge float
and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take it upward cuz it's got a lot of water in it right now take
it upward I'm gonna spin it around take it upward again and right now it's full if I keep going this
dragging you see we're just torrent tore right here because there's too much sand and cement
on this so now I dip it in this bucket tap it a couple times flip it around no technique guys
flip it around keep holding on to it don't drop it in the bucket okay now hit my joint a little
bit better with fresh water get this joint this is what I was talking about over there and this
this float has seen better days but I can make it work no problemo okay we take this joint and
we feather in and by the way guys you always see me applying a bonding agent here bonding agents
don't always have to be blue like this thick a bonding agent it's white when it dries you
can't see it and why did I put the bonding agent because I'm floating over their existing surface
a little bit okay now if you look at this I got a holiday here I got some boo-boos here and that
looks pretty bad so what I'm gonna do is fix those real quick I'm gonna come up right here fix that
one I'm gonna come up right here fix yeah now this guy here where it doesn't look too groovy we just
fixed yeah and now there's one piece I'm gonna tie this into my own work that I did a few minutes ago
I did that off the ladder I prefer I'm working off the ladder just get it done it takes too much time
trying to film off of a ladder okay now I clean the float one last time guys because I'm ready
for Jay to mix me up another half a bucket and do this notice this finish here that's what we
called a blob job you take a float and you slam it like this on wet cement you pull it off like
this but don't do that guys because all that does is loosen up the stucco the first coat underneath
that's not really you don't want to do that anyway that's what they did there alright so getting back
to what I was doing now I'm just putting a little bit more water on here and floating it and keep in
mind guys he might have started off with a light - 60 years ago but this has got 10 coats of paint on
it so if I put a dash on it like they did it will not match I don't want this guy yelling at me once
more about hey you told me you could match this it doesn't match anyway that matches this particular
wall we're doing a whole bunch of walls on this house we finished different on it but we'll match
every wall with every finish anyhow guys that is how you float out your joints and there are two
different kinds of floats so there's even red ones but we won't get into that my name is Kirk
Jason on the camera and as usual we thank you for watching we'll see you guys on the next one
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