hello guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today folks watch what we do having
have an idea what this stuff is it looks like craters like a moon I'll cheek guys are now point
to the top doubtful the camera will show that but it's all over the wood too as well as the rafters
the soffits it is called a text coat and generally way in the past you do text coats with perlite
in it just mine volcanic it's mine from volcanic rocks it's a lot lighter than sand and so because
it's so light they put it in there like say a five-gallon bucket you add say perlite and then
used to be acrylics and then glue ish material and the color and you shoot it all over the
place today they go with more of an elastomeric type paints and I don't sleep very much perlite
anymore so I see they just put fine silica sand in the buckets and they roll out houses now with
a much stronger type of paint but anyway we'd already did all that right there tex coats are
pretty good because of the perlite here it adds her strength but it comes off sometimes if it's
a real hot neighborhood or Arizona and New Mexico where it gets a hundred and ten it really kind of
bubbles it off anyway this is a situation we have and I was telling the fellow well gee we can't get
perlite I can't find it anymore my material yard used to have it but they don't carry it anymore
so what we do use that's close to the finish is a 16 20 sand and if you look at a perlite finish
like this you think gee it's not as uniformed as this when we do a color coat but I'll show you how
to get it like that okay we're gonna fill these areas where this popped out the homeowner did some
quality primer I think he used a Loctite I think that's just a really strong paint uh Loctite I'm
not sure exactly what kind it is I have a couple out of painter buddies who say that's the stuff
so what we do is I'm putting a 16 20 and on it the 1620 sand is about as close as you're going
to get to pearlite for my perlite vermiculite all that stuff is used in a lot of stuff fact people
use it for gardening quite often okay getting back to what we're doing if you have a text coat that
come off and you can't find perlite or vermiculite or whatever the heck they used so many different
products you can do this alright this is a 1620 it's a finish coat material you take a float dip
it in water tap it out leave a little bit of water in it and you look at what they have now when we
do color coats we try to get very uniformed I mean this is a color coat that's pretty uniform
but there's a sporadic so I'm gonna go faster I mean I'm gonna drag it quick I'm gonna use a lot
more water and hit my joints faster and what that does is it pulls off some of the aggregate sand
aggregates a fancy word for sand or rocks or in stucco we use sand we call it an aggregate perlite
is an aggregate in concrete it's different sized rocks as an aggregate now you see if you hit it
fast you use a lot of water it'll become sporadic rather than uniform we don't want uniform if I was
doing a color coat I'd want uniform excuse me all right okay one more time guys a lot of water keep
flipping this float and if I leave it just like this if I was doing a color coat on somebody's
house that is uniform we don't want it uniform so we add a little bit more water go a little
sporadic by the we when we do color coats this this is sand now sand is stronger than perlite but
perlite is half the weight so again when you use the perlite it's so it won't sink to the bottom
sand will sink to the bottom in a bucket however machines used when they spray this stuff just kind
of like a cement mixer on the back of a chuck it keep spinning anyway guys I thought I'd point out
on on this because not too many of you folks ask me about this but I'm here and I'm doing it and
the homeowner was saying to you what is that and I said it's tax code they're quite common
anyway guys my name is Kirk I thought I'd show you just the tip of the iceberg about tic-tacs
coats and how to match their finish in case any of you guys are interested in doing it yourself
my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on
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