howdy folks Kirk and Jayson here with Kirk Giordano plastering, as you may know if you
watch our video work we've been doing videos for about nine years we have over 800 videos and I've
been in the trades a lot longer than 30 years we won't go into how long. But enough to know-how
to do this stuff. Anyhow a couple of questions I've been getting a lot of responses from people who say
gee Kirk, we're doing a color coat, and as fast as we put the trowel full on it dries absorbs
and they said, should we use a weld crete or a bonding agent, and I said no, just hydrate the
walls I'm explaining what that is another thing we get asked a lot about is finishes this is a
double finish you know what does that mean a double finish that means somebody applied the
first coat then they floated it see that ceiling that's a sand finish so somebody came here they
applied the first coat and then they gave it a sand finish then they put a skip trowel over it
so this is called a sand skip trowel finish there's another tip guys because all these
questions that we receive over the years if he can zoom in Jay the top one notice that the grit
or sand is a bit heavier now that's called 16/20 right here that's the heaviest sand they make for
finishing plaster down here this is twenty/thirty that's a technical word for medium sand finish
then they have Santa Barbara or BMI's marble coat and that's for like talcum powder finishes.
like smooth mission finish or hard steel trowel let me explain to the folks who call me and say
how come I put on my first trowel full it absorbs in the wall? It's not hydrated for example a brick if you
wet a brick it darkens but that's maintenance-free look at the tile down here if you could shoot you
wet the tile and they darken considerably, that's maintenance for you never have to mess with that
stuff but if you're going to do a color coat over a brown coat which is cement Tisha sand a lot how
long would you think I would have to hit this wall right here so I'm gonna color coat this in
five minutes how long should i hydrate this wall hydrated its fancy word for wet the wall in order
to do the color coat finish the answer is about an hour this finished coat which is an eighth of
an inch has got to saturate and the two coats under it has got to saturate I want the paper
wet so if the paper's wet now my when I apply the the coat whether or not I'm using fine medium or
heavy sand finish it won't suck up and dry because out a jack up the texture, it'll jack up the color
so I'll show you over here guys because we're actually doing a wall all right this this work
here was done but when the guys did this they just they child it on which is not bad but they
didn't know that they had to do a float finish they just applied it and of course use it then
we got to match this finish here this is heavy sand that's been floated bring out the aggregate
and then the texture so what I'm gonna do here guys is I've been here let's the end of the day
now it's about seven hours we've been doing all kind of stuff our job was fixing windows fixing
doors and stuff like that I've been hydrating this wall I want this wall to absorb all the way
to the paper a solid inch how long will that take I've been doing this my six or seventh time doing
this and I do it so when you can see it absorb in and when it starts where it stops absorbing
it that's about ready guys right here we're a little too wet but nothing I can't handle since
I just overwet it for this video so let me show you guys something all right you take your caller
coat material and by the way guys there's so many different color coat manufacturers from La Habra,
BMI, Western, Omega and what I have here is just a color coat material see that's okay anybody knows
what color this is gonna be pretty good to know that it's sandstone x86 so what we're doing is we
apply it and remember guys paint dries darker and cement issus finishes whether or not it's
rock concrete sidewalks dries lighter bricks - a little wet here but nothing I can't handle I'm not
gonna do this whole wall guys to prove a point I'm gonna stop just up to this window and come
back to it but I'll show you something okay about what a float finishes or I got a bad habit me and
a lot of other guys in the trade calling it a float finish because we use a float to finish
it it's actually a sand finish see how that's kind of dripping that walls too wet but I'd rather have
a wall to wet then to dry because the first trial for it just absorbs right and you can't do nothing
with it so in order to finish one explaining what I started, I'm troweling, I'm trowling this stuff.
Okay I saved this I thought hey that's a good example right there to answer those questions that
I receive regularly by the way guys according to Google Analytics did some killing time and stuck
on at the same time I've had like 40,000 comments since we started on YouTube now of those comments
I've had I'd say about half the people say hey Kurt how do you do this you suggest this you
suggest that and the other half just say good job I learned something there's always the 1%
that says dude you suck which my comment is that's just jealousy you knock it off, anyway this wall
use notice it's not drying it's not going to dry until tomorrow because I've wet, I've wet it well
what I'll do is I'll take it to this window and then I'll show you on a try well how we texture
it but I'm gonna show you how we bring the sand out also on this particular wall because I'm not
worried about losing this wall when I say losing the wall that would mean anybody know I may not
be getting joint and various colorations and uh when you start a color finish one with stucco
ops you got to know where to stop and where to start otherwise you have transition lines and
since I'm talking and not paying attention, I just splattered oops don't worry guys if you're doing
this you're gonna be splattering - you're gonna be splattering it just name of the game alright
now for example I'm gonna take this just to the top because in a second I'm gonna go around the
corner and show you on a drywall how to do this texture but up here I'm gonna float this alright
for Charlie, this wall is really damp, and the material is really wet,
a little super that's my brother, luuuu, anyway a little wet for this but, weather or not it's
a little wet it's a little dry we managed to put it on. everybody says well it's too
soupy you just add another bag of color coat and that all stiffen it up
a bit. boom and since I use a swimming-pool trowel, take my handy-dandy little trowel and get that corner,
and I'm also gonna get above that window how would I get above that window guys with this big
trowel where should take a go upward right above it got it in there go up and come down on it that's
a wet wall I guess I got carried away guys as far as showing you how to wet the wall alright
in order to make this not too long and drawn-out let's stop right here and float it and again
floating just means I'm gonna bring out the sand it's a sand finish so we call it a float finish
many people call it a sand finish all right I'm gonna set these tools down and in order to bring
the aggregate out you need a sponge float this is a sponge float it's green they're usually
always green guys they got blue ones and all different rainbow colors but they're usually
always green so what I'm doing is all they want to dip this in the water once because with color
finishes depending on if they're really dark and you keep dipping this in the water it's gonna be
like pouring Clorox on blue jeans,it's gonna streak it'll bleach it quickly so I'm gonna
put this in the water now I'm not going into water anymore because I don't want this color
to be variations even though they're painting it really doesn't matter but I just don't want
to do that and here's you take the sponge float now I tap it inside the bucket on the top of me
like that why because I want to keep this curved I want to curve this way and I want to curve this
way we don't want it to bend in and if you go like this guys and slam it you tweak your float and you
can't float your wall because only two sides are hidden all right that being said now with a brand
new float if they weren't painting this whole house we'd have to be real particular but since
they are I'll take my and you float right here and go sideways and that's it that ties it into
the ceiling and over here where I have this joint I'm gonna take this right here because it's clean
now again it really doesn't matter since they're painting but if you guys are doing this and you
have a brand new wall and you've already done it then that's the way to get a clean joint now what
I do is I just float it and the reason this is called a float finish is because this is a float
in my hand and I'm giving it a sand finish that's that I'm gonna come down the window here take it
here and what I do is I just bring it into the existing now say if I star from the bottom here
and I bring it straight up blam that's uh that's done now I followed my weep screed at the bottom
my weep screed I'm on that's a piece of metal that's underneath the stucco to make it pretty
we don't want to leave here and leave a bunch of slobbers what a slobbers that's a bunch of
crap somebody did this and those they didn't clean that vent out so we're professionals we don't want
to do that alright we finish floating to bring out the sand Agra dude when you guys do this don't buy
a half a float they make them about five inches it's been a few bucks this is about five bucks
they got some that they're too narrow to do any good you can do them I mean I could use them but
this saves a lot of time alright so now we are finished bringing the sand to the surface that's
what they did here and when this dries it's gonna be a lot lighter so yeah I could finish this wall
but it took me like another fifteen minutes you guys don't want to hear me jabbering for fifteen
more minutes so instead I'm gonna take my tools here and show you how that texture is applied now
even with this alright I'm gonna go to the wall that J spread all right J spread this wall and
he already floated it see the sand finish that's the sand finish now what I do is I'm just gonna
give it a skip trial finish now granted you look at what they got that's a light lace skip trial
finish so that's what I'm gonna do and the wall I just spread I cannot get this finish right here
unless I let it dry for about another 20 minutes because I've hosed the crap out of that wall it
is wet saturated but that's okay because we're gonna be here for a few more hours and I wanted
not to lose the the wall itself and the finish the skip child right now yeah somebody say well
she shouldn't put so much water you could skip Charlotte a lot sooner depends on how much stuff
we got going on and we got a lot of stuff going on so we're gonna be here anyhow so now I'm just I'm
just matching the skip child finish and that is called a dual finish a dual skip trial float or
sand finish now I've got that on there so I knock it down alright we knock that down we knock this
down and then I go against gets the wall here I'll show you a little bit more but why by now
you probably got the idea and besides the whole house is already done and you can see that matches
exactly with what they have there and guys if you look at your own work and you say whoa that's a
hollow spot it's all you got to do a hollow spot come back look at it say where do you need some
mud okay a little bit more well it's gotta be before the whole wall dries if the whole wall
dries and you try to do that so you're gonna have a different color texture so you got time and all
about patience to you guys knowing your material anyway my name is kerb Jason's on the camera he's
and spread most of this stuff we thank you folks for watching and as usual live long and what
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