Hi, guys Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, We're going to show you today
is how to match a finish. Now, if you look up that finish,
there is very Humpty-dumpty wavy. This is old-world plastering,
where they did two coats in their idea was give something intricate or interesting. I'll show
you what before I put this on. I'll show you what they don't want you to have to flip around here.
Now, these fellas, you can see this one guy did this patch here that didn't work
than they had another guy come here, and they did this one all around the house.
There are about 20 different textures. Fortunately, this is right where I
could show what I'm referring to these guys. What they did is they did the scratch in brown,
then they took their trowel, and they just made some divots. These guys went a little
deeper with their divots. Neither one is actually what they have.
Because it just didn't go hard enough, they were on the right track.
I'll show you how we get these guys. I've done this whole 50 hundred times now we've
got a very heavy, heavy scratch. We want the brown to be just as heavy because the brown
coat is is where we're going to get our finish. I should show you roughly what we're doing here
to put on it very heavy now what I generally do is I'll look at this okay that's pretty heavy
you can go the other fellows they did this you can do that. Still, it's not going to match. What they
have okay we're going to do kind of gives shapes. We're going to really pronounce this because it's
got to be floated to and what I'll do is I'll look at a wall, and I'll see this guy
one here. They left a big clinker there, and you look at it and say well gee whiz,
that's way too rough that's even rougher than what they have, but this got a set and
then when we use a green sponge float. I'll show you that part, too, because
that's what's going to soften this up a bit. I can't match that finish with just a trowel,
we need to soften it up, so I'm going to spread this out, and when I get to the
point where I'm green sponge float. I'll show you guys, okay guys,
let's show you one more thing while we're killing time. This has got to be set another
20 minutes before I could even do my texture. Dan says, "Dad, I don't see how you're going
to make that look like that wall!" So I'll show you guys how we do it, and I'll show you to Dan
as far as these corners go. Then also said, why do you even put a corner when their corner is
very Humpty very wavy I don't know if you can get a shot of that, but that corner is
so Humpty and wavy when they did this house, they did a scratch coat they let it set 48
hours that came back, and they did a brown coat. You can do that where you just put your scratch
coat on and take it both ways and allow that to set me. I put a corner aide when we lap this,
and I smashed it so just to give it some extra strength.
Hold off one minute, Dan, and here's what I'll generally do now this corners it's not
bullnose. It's just jagged, so I'll start from the bottom. I'll put a little bit on here go on
up a little bit, then I'll take it this way, so I'm making a jagged now I'm just going that way
put it on make it jagged and also when and that's pretty jagged. I want it like that because that's
what I have to do to match what they have. So I'll show you and get one more Hawk full okay,
I'm going to continue what I've just started because I'm killing time now.
Here and there, and if I need more on this site, what I'll do is let me get over here just put it
here and go this way here pull it up that way what I'm basically doing is dragging it out I
have a habit to wanna make a pretty corner on this I gotta keep reminding myself don't make
it pretty make it jagged. So that's how we do that,
and we're good we're gonna be again there's got to take another 20 minutes,
and then we're gonna I'll show you how to float it all, including leaving this corner here jagged.
Okay, guys, now what we're doing is we're keeping the humps now. What I like to do is I'm using the
triangle of my float. If I just use my edge like this, it gets too sharp, but you can't see what
I'm doing. I'm using the edge of the triangle so, and I'm always I'm going upwards because a real
cold day it's damn cold today. We have an inch and a half in some areas because of the humps, so
how does its tendency to want to drag and fall so we're using again that corner we're going this way
going that way we're always going upward if it was a 100-degree day I can go any which way and not
worry about it coming down but because it's cold and because we're still not a hundred percent dry.
We just keep going upwards, and that allows it to dry out the float is opening it's allowing
both coats to dry out, and second to go dad said, dad, they don't have the seagull look,
and I thought that's a good question show go over here for a minute you see this wall.
60 years ago when they did this, there was scaffold right here, the scaffold right here
one guy was up here that's why the whole top is a different guy, was in the middle. He has
what we call a seagull, the wings of a seagull, and then down here is another guy. So even if I
was doing this whole wall myself, it is tough to get it exactly perfect on all three levels.
I'm sure you could, but getting back to over here on this gable here this doesn't have show over
here, Dan, this gable doesn't have one seagull sort of speak what did what it has is the finish
we're doing so we're matching this wall we're not matching the house wall so again that we
just go over and over it and right now because, I'm floating it heavy there's this a little
lighter so what we're going to do is after about another half hour this is how long it's going to
take me at least another half hour of bringing this aggregate out, and leaving these humps on
then I'm going to hit it one more time with the trowel lightly, and that will push the grains in.
Then I'll hit it one more time with the float, and that will give me that that finished right
there where it's a lot smoother than what I have. So let's see the last tip is if you
got a ridge that's sticking out and it's too sharp, you can hit the ridge with the float,
just hit it a little bit, and that'll smooth it out because there's this very smooth and
they have 20 coats of paint on it. The last thing before I finish is
on these jagged corners. I'm using just a heel,
the heel or the toe of my float, and I'm going upward upward each different way.
If I use the whole body of it, what I tend to do is straighten that out. I don't want it straight
anyhow. When we get done Jason, will show you the whole completion and what it looks like.
All right, guys, we're complete with that everything matches, and again we're matching
this particular gable, not something else this particular texture for me. It's effortless. It's
just time-consuming. You have to know all your types of cement, when you hit them, what to do,
and how to use your tools. Still, anyhow there you have it and that is how to do that. It's
Friday evening. It's Jay's birthday. I promised him I take them to the bar and
give them a couple shots of Irish whiskey, so as usual, folks, we'll see you guys on the next one.