hello guys Kirk and family here with Kirk Giordano plastering how many of you guys have got some old
homes this one is probably about a hundred years old if you notice this got old wood
lath on it what is the old resin treated laughs well you could get a glimpse of it right there
what happened why does it buckle and where do you actually stop well that part takes a little time
in I was here I just look at it and I come to the conclusion the house is 100 years old this is a
buckling about 6 inches you can see it right here now why did this part buckle because it's old and
movement rain we're on a very busy street the cars go up and down they build houses movement
these rafters here when they cut this they've made a pretty cool design but what happened was
on these right here they didn't seal the top well they did but I can feel it it would rot up in here
so when they changed the roof now the roof here was just been recently done about 10 years ago
they stepped out right here this push these down buckled this is it a big deal not really they've
got many patches all around this whole house but here are the tricks of the trade the tools of the
trade when you do this before I put my mouse I'm just gonna give you an idea now we tarped off all
the ground because this stuff comes right off now they asked me where where do you stop and
I said well I'm gonna take the whole face off and this whole face here because it's loose and they
said well how do you know I said well I don't I'm just going by what I've been doing for the last 30
years I know this is loose I can see it so we go corner to corner and I know this is loose why let
me drop down here and show you okay they've got vibration here now again what causes vibration
well these nails where you put your Christmas lights on you all these nails right here you're
pounding in this stuff you're not really supposed to pound in so I taught it once we remove all this
stuff screw next time and you'll hit wood because this is old resin treated wood where are we gonna
stop well can you see that all that stuff coming out okay we're gonna take it right to here to the
corner to that corner there's already about 10 or 15 patches on here and then we're going to
put wire mesh here and we're gonna put 3.4 mesh here when we get to that stage we'll show you one
of the things we do after we remove this should we go out all this submit in these keys or get
it take us three days instead we're gonna take a water hose wash it all off get rid of all the
desks why because nothing adheres to dust then we're gonna put some weld Crete over this then
we're gonna wire it it's a lot of efforts but if you put stucco over a dusty surface it'll come
right off anyway we're gonna get busy and yank this stuff off real quick because we can when we
get to the next stage we'll show you that part too okay guys we're done with that nasty chore
of break off we're a mass we had we couldn't show you had to cover all this cover the ground
cover everything once you get that off what I did is I took a water hose and I hosed all of
this down why because the dust nothing here's to dust and plus it goes in the air and afterwards
when you're done you take your mouse off the last thing you want to do is inhale this nasty stuff I
don't know what's in it it could have all kinds of stuff they promised me no lead in it they had
it tested they've said that it had nothing in it I said so in other words it's good for us right to
inhale it not right you don't want to inhale this stuff anyway I'll show you what the next phase is
that way you say hey Kirk I did this or that and it didn't work this is seven this wire here is
just regular stuck a wire now we're gonna put this 17 gauge on the face but before we put that on the
face I'm gonna hit with full strength weld Crete world Crete is blue why am i using full strength
because when I put this wire on I want to stucco to go through the wire and it's got to adhere
to this wood as well as this cement plaster right here again and some of it came out but most of it
didn't I didn't expect it to and when we do the soffit here's soffit mesh or ceiling mesh this
is three point four that goes up here why because if we use this 17 gauge wire the holes are so big
that'll just keep falling out so and you guys watch what we're doing you you don't say well
Kirk you didn't show me this part and everything I did loosened up talking with a good friend of mine
Larry bill man the other day contractor he says Kirk we're working inside you know what they did
is they put wire over the wood laughs and it's all coming off I said well that's because they
didn't have the luxury of taking a water hose and washing all the dust off so it was inside
and they put a wire over it and they stuck with that so all that plaster is coming off of that
wall so we don't want that to happen here this will last longer then I'll be alive anyway guys
we're gonna go ahead and wire this and when we get to the cement work we'll show you that because
this - is this the - finish it's kind of cool it's easier than it looks but it still does take some
practice anyway Oh Karl covering up again because we got rid of that nasty stuff so next phase we're
sorry that part - guys alright guys we had an error with the camera the 17 gauge wire is on
everything is bluing you can see the blue all over the place that's so the cement doesn't separate I
haven't gotten to this part yet but this is a three point four mesh and we have our corners
here the 17 gauge wire is here alright so what Jay and I are doing is working off of this man we're
teetering it's like on a in the ocean anyway we're putting the second coat on I'll give you a little
bit of inside information guys we're doing the second coat right now back in 1900 1900 to 1920
this cement plaster board was used a lot it's all over the Gold Coast all over Oakland Alameda and
it's basically a resin treated board that resin treated board is designed to for plaster to adhere
to it it has keys so the plaster sticks in those keys around 1920 or so they stopped doing that
and they used to use a line wire what is the line wire well that is you got a studded house and you
take the wire you take the studs say like a stud here stud here you put nails every six inches then
you wrap a wire and stretch it to the next one and go around that nail and stretch it why because if
you don't do that when you put the paper on the wall to protect wood between the bay's or the
studs we'd lose so much plaster so that was line wire after the line wire they they come up with a
better idea they come up with how about paperback wire that is embedded with the paper and the wire
that way you can stretch the crap out of it when you come to studs and you don't have to waste so
much cement between the Bay's well that went on for quite a few years - eventually they moved
on to two layers of paper and also eventually moved on to shear wall which today I don't know
about any other states but in California you got to have two layers of paper and you have
to have shear wall on the house anyway that's just a little bit of inside or boring knowledge for how
cement plaster was originally used and of course they put horse hairs in here pig hairs you name
it they put every hair known to man if it's from an animal problem from people to strengthen this
stuff as far as interior plaster all that is is gypsum kind of a same scenario they put they put
the wood laughs gypsum plaster so the gypsum after they started doing gypsum August's over the wood
laughs they went to button board button board has made a gypsum they just figured out a way hey put
the gypsum and setup by hand have it pre-made put for my sheets on it and the plaster would
would adhere through the buttons they call a button board because it would go through
the holes in it and that's how it would adhere today all that stuff is pretty outdated they
have a drywall sheetrock with that's also made of gypsum in fact we're doing a job next week that's
made a gypsum board inside and it's called dens glass we're gonna be covering exterior gens glass
the plasters are so the boards are so intricate they have different colors for say waterproof and
moisture barriers and things like that but that's interior gypsum did we lose it okay I thought it
went off ah anyway guys what we're gonna do is finish this second coat here and when this is dry
we'll show you how we brown it out and by the way guys I'll show you one last thing this is why we
put this three point four wire here because if we we put 17 gauge wire here the only things adhering
it would be the bonding agent but the 17 gauge it goes into these little bitty holes and sticks the
17 gauge that we're using here would be falling all over me alright guys these guys just finished
laughing at me doing a little spot here and it fell right between my eye so we were turning
off their radio and listening to the Weed Man and listening to these guys finish laughing I'll show
you the next phase you guys wouldn't have saw me with wanted to see me with cement all over
me anyway right alright here's what we're doing now guys now that we got both coats on and you
see this finish this finish is very very forgiving meaning we don't have to be perfect guys we can be
slightly off but we put the two coats on now we take a Darby do you need to Darby it you don't
have to but I like to Darby everything make sure everything is rotted somewhat true and plumb so
what I'll do is I'll take the Darby here we're kind of fun to this particular tool straightened
everything out straighten it out and right here where I got my B where it comes to that so-called
tip of the pyramid I'll go this way and I'll take it here and go that way and as I'm pulling up I
was on the other side that's where it dropped right in my face okay this time I'm not gonna
be underneath it see we just get that bottom and get the top I know I'll share a preliminary thing
guys if you're gonna do this - finish here here's a good tip now I could actually use say fathers to
get concrete's and concrete sand is a real heavy aggregate I could almost match that finish but
not quite because that's a - it's a thrown on finish or if blown up what I'll do now is see
this green sponge float this is not a hard rubber float I don't need to compact this what I want to
do is I want to pull some aggregate out sand I want to pull some aggregate out that way when I
do my - it's it's already got a head start meaning I've got the the grip here it just gives me a head
start you see that guys the more water you put on it the more aggregate as exposed say for example
this is really dry semi dry this out guys I'm a dryer dryer dryer dry dry dry take all the water
out of it now look I'll go right right here now look with it's super dry it doesn't pull much sand
out more water that's on it and the harder you go and the flatter the more sand is going to come out
we want that because it makes the next coat a lot easier next time you see me I'm gonna be throwing
a dash on this well float everything and I'm a dash it right here it would probably show you the
whole thing when it's finally complete so you get a good idea in case you guys you weekend warriors
want to do it yourself okay guys they want to be a big-time contractor you get filthy I done this
for months out of time eight hours a day that's all I did by the end of the day your arm feels
like spaghetti I put some perlite in here to give it that I didn't want to use gravel gravels too
heavy it sinks to the bottom perlite is just right gives it that that look and guys doubtful any of
you guys are going to want to do this because this is some dirty stuff it even got all over
my sacred bananas and carrot juice anyway you have to have a man washing behind you or you
could spend forever covering by the time you cover everything you can't see what you're doing so what
they're doing is I got Portland cement plaster in here and I mixed it with sand then I stuck in
a bunch of perlite that's just to give it this rocky look could I use gravel absolutely could
I use heavier sand absolutely but this is the easiest so when I'm gonna keep on doing this and
we're just making a big mess everywhere but that's the nature of a - finish I ought to know I've done
days upon days weeks upon weeks this is all I did you come home you look like a leopard man
anyway we're gonna finish it all clean everything up and I'll show you the final results alright
guys that was a lot of effort but I did manage to salvage my banana and carrot juice anyway I
thought we're gonna be out of here in about four hours man without doing this video they've only
been two that's the fact we are making ourselves obsolete for your folks is enjoyment so that you
can do it yourself my name is Kirk I'm Jason we thank you for watching and as usual let's see
you guys on next one once again folks we thank you for watching and I really enjoy all your
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