hi guys, Kirk and Jason are here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what I'm gonna
show you guys this we're removing a loosely painted color coat on this house here. I came here about a
week ago. I told the fellow who owned it, well I have to do some exploration and see what I'm
even getting into, because I wasn't quite sure. I see he says well we got efflorescence and I
thought that's not really efflorescence, ah that's another topic, I won't get into, but what we did was
Jay and I removed some areas. and then I just put it back together with an acrylic. But they didn't
start with an acrylic. I said I'll remove it get an idea what the heck's going on there then I can
give you a cost to do it. so, we put an acrylic here, now notice acrylics are hard to get off, so,
I'm not looking forward to pulling this off, and I may not have to. but what they had here is the
fellows came and they weren't stucco guys but they were a licensed company that did foundation. So where
the failure came in is, guys, if you're going to do a color coat or a paint job whether it's acrylic
or cement this you've got to pressure wash the house first. That's where they failed they did,
however, apply a liquid bonding agent or weld Crete, as we call it and you see this blue this
blue stuff on the back of their cementitious finish that was painted. Excuse me well turn that
phone off. Okay the reason the blue is on the back of the cementitious finish is because they put
it over a dusty finish. Nothing sticks to dust guys, I'll give you an example of what
we're going to do. Okay, chimneys are always the worst because you mow the lawns, dust goes in the air
it settles on these shoulders and so we always have a worse area with a chimney, I already know
that and a parapet rooks the same thing the dust settles on it after years of mowing the lawn or
things of that nature, then the dust drips down here when it rains so that's why we pressure wash well
guys say for example on this chimney I'll just hate to do this without my mask on, but to prove
a point I can't talk with that mask on. what we do is we try to find the areas that are loose now I
told the guy who owns the house. The chimneys going to be the worst I expect to work on the
chimney to pull the most off, and while we're on the topic of how to scrape a finish off, let me
show you guys some things there's just one of my tips guys you could use a chisel like this on a
Bosch Bulldog, you could use a scraper like this on a Sawzall,, you could use a trowel somebody took
my good finish trowel was about to use that. we don't use a finish trowel on scraping off this
is strictly for interior finishing, but getting back to it a chisel or these little putty knife
works the best because you've got a good handle and you could really get in tight. So what we're
going to do is, I got my brother Lou over here, and we're scraping it off we're all three scrapings it
off and how do you know when you're done? well you know you're done if you're coming here and no
more comes off. That's when you're done. and I'm still going to pressure wash this but the idea
is the fellow said well, "gee," I had a guy, he told me to take it here all the way to the wall here and
I said maybe it'll come off, maybe it won't.
But I wouldn't know unless we come out. The idea is you could see the blue in some areas and when you're rolling it on sometimes it takes the dust off, so
I said what we'll do is, we'll if it comes off, it comes off then we're going to pressure
wash it we're going to get all the dust and dirt off. Reapply another coat and this coat here what
is? first I thought it was an acrylic because it has a sheen to it. But what they did was they
apply to La Habra course finished and they floated that. that's why it's rough,. then they
textured it real simple to do. So we are going to match exactly what they did when we get to
that stage in anything like this guys that come off with a putty knife that's the way to do it
This putty knife. especially this all-in-one is really sharp. so when we get to the next stage we'll show
you what I'm talking about okay guys we got off pretty much everything that's going to come off.
I'll give you a tip okay say like what we're doing here I use water because I don't like to
inhale the stuff we get off everything that will come off and then I score my edges because I'm
going to feather into this meaning my new finish is going to score into this so I've got a prep
it like that Plus this gets rid of everything the fellas who did this I'll bet you there was about
eight guys and what they did was they came with a water hose and they scraped it like this and you
can't do that with me it's so much easier to bring my pressure washer out originally so I mean you
guys if you don't have a pressure washer and you don't want to rent one well you can do with what
they did and the reason this wall failed and none of the rest of the house did was because too many
guy one man's the boss and the other guys getting paid by the hour they just don't care and it's
hard to watch everybody I used to have 15 guys I know but getting back on this I told the homeowner
he was pretty distraught he was like wow damn what a drag I said man it can't it could be a lot worse
because I've got a job a real Vista only because it was on the river and I wanted to have lunch on
the river I bid it about this size I think I was at 7 grand the pressure wash apply the bonding
agent and a color coat and she got somebody for 6 grand say sorry Kirk I said don't worry too far
for me to go anyway it's all the way past Antioch Pittsburgh month later she called me back to Kirk
it's all coming off in sheeps well that fella did two things wrong he didn't pressure wash and he
didn't apply the bonding agent to the wall he put the bonding agent in the mixer if you put
the bonding agent in the mixer like some of the bottles so you can't it dilutes it to nothingness
it's useless guys don't ever do that or it will come off just like this in a matter of six months
to a year so I totally owe you're not you're not bad it's pretty much what I thought it was when I
first got here anyway flus mixing up some cement we're going to reapply another bonding agent to
this F and I'm going to Riis credit nothing to it to match this finish here if you know how to do
it we'll show you that last phase when we get to it okay guys the fun part my brother GU is
finishing up the bonding agent there Oh what I'm going to do now is what I what they did prior ah
and keep this in mind two guys the fella who owned this house he's a jerk can I have the whole thing
sandblasted and another state maybe it's illegal to sandblast here so there was a time early 80s
when I used to look at houses that we'd color code and I'd tell everybody hey call these guys get a
price for the sandblasting those days are gone why I think it's because it spreads say if if let
in the pain or asbestos or any of that spreads it everywhere gets it in the soil gets it everywhere
so we don't do that that's not allowed anymore now what I'm doing is I'm matching their gap and all
this rough edges here that's for me to tie in so that when I'm done and my textures on you can't
see these textures Oh what I'm going to do is I'm going to spread this out texture it and then I'll
show you the end result because they're gonna repaint this lastly guys to us say the fella who
was before me there's a licensed stucco guy and he bid the whole thing nine hundred bucks obviously
I'm a lot less expensive but I said I can't get it all off I don't know where it'll stop and
start there's the key guy how much do you want to take off do you want to spend thousands and have
a crew of 10 guys take eight hours to try to get this off I wouldn't advise it but then some of you
who watch might say man that's what I would have done if it were my own house I'd do this well some
areas come off in the future one likely yeah but it's a choice you gotta know how much money you're
willing to spend and what you're getting for your money this guy chose what I would have done myself
anyway I'm going to finish feathering in this and then I'm going to texture it when I'm done
with everything we'll show you the conclusion okay guys this is what really takes the practice time
in talent whatever you want to call it we spread this now I floated in all my joints let me show
you see this is done I'm getting ready to texture this now it actually J I told him don't finish
the rest J was finishing this one let me show you right here guys these guys who did the finish they
got kind of gung-ho color coats only an eighth of an inch they went a quarter so it takes more
time to float it in they like you see that joint right there you got to take water float in the new
to the existing and if you can do this transition feathering in Thai in what we call it just right
your texture is going to come out so much better because again they're going to paint all this and
when they paint it you don't want it be shown I'll show you one more time on this area I haven't even
touched yet okay this nasty little stuff this is what it looks like after you trowel it down
now the real skill is right here you feather it all in remember earlier I said they applied
the finish then they floated it I can see that it looks like sandpaper here and then they textured
over it so I got to give it the same sandpaper look and knowing your materials is a big deal I
know they used a 16 20 what the heck is the 16 20 just technical terms meaning sand there's three
grit sand almost every cement ish asst finish on the market um and even the acrylic finishes are
very similar where you have fine which is the sand is usually 30 30 30 40 then you have medium which
the sand is usually 20 30 that goes for cement tissues as well as acrylics then you have this
one I'm using here this sand the technical name is you can call a course we call it 1620 that's
the size of the aggregate or the sand so I've got to use the exact same sand otherwise even
I can't match it I've been doing this forever okay you see there's there's the the floating
and then we're going to come with the texture okay guys we are doing the texture now couple
things I want to point out like Jay said to me if the well they went so stick these guys did go
about a quarter-inch thick you don't do that with a color coat you go you skim it keep your child on
edge not flat like that that's for browning anyway now what we're doing is we are taking our texture
into there's a minute ago I had some soup if it's fallen off of your hawk it's too soupy this is
not just right I could make it work now what I'm doing and getting sin if there's any clinkers in
here by passing it on the hawk and trial a couple times just like that now what I want to do is I
want to put it on real light real light guys it does matter if you take it from the top doesn't
matter if you take it from the bottom that's not what's important important thing is look at what
they got they've got such a light finish it's barely if I hold my child use pressure I'm not
going to match that I'm going to have pancakes so what I'm doing is very like I just a tiny bit on
the on the trowel I can't take six or eight foot swipes to match this it'll be two pancakes now
what I do is flip my trial a little bed look good that's a bright Sun okay and another thing
too guys how to fellow say if videos are too long dude wait making music videos we wish to show what
takes six hours to accomplish three guys it got to be over three minutes I don't have that big of
an attention span myself but the videos are what they are far as time I like the the young fellows
who say man I watch your videos I'm working for this company and I'm always showing them some
new stuff I use your videos this example learn a bunch of stuff I say more power to you young
fellas that's the way to do it and if you go to an area that's too thick scrape it off guys if
your edges just take it scrape it all okay now light just like snowboarding guys I'm barely
touching this trough barely touching it just let me skip itself and there you have it guys if you
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