Howdy folks Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering today. Today we're going to
show you how to do this whole wall right here, of course. Jay is going to use his
fast motion fast set on the camera as we don't want it to be too long,
but this will take Jay and I at least an hour to do both coaches keep in mind we're professionals
also this fellow he did his own lat he watched our videos and he did a nice job did he need to caulk
every staple hole or nail hole no they're self-healing here because we're about Oh
gee-whiz two inches you see that okay for doing back-to-back coats same day I put a little bit
of extra wire because has a tendency to fall down right here and today it's really really
cold I guess you could tell the time of year it is because I was thinking mana I hope I have a beanie
in the truck because it is ice cold until we start moving Jay said I got a beanie and he brought me
these and I thought hey cool they're warm too you can tell what year it is it's Christmas time
alright I'm waiting on Lou bring me some mud we turned his little workbench into a big mud board
because we can what we do is put some paper over a guy I'll put some paper over it you can make a mud
board right there so whenever who gets here with this mud I'm gonna scratch that whole thing right
there I got myself a little handy dandy step right there just like going to the gym you see
those guys going to the gym and do that step stuff where's our mud my brother Louie was gonna get the
mud here we are going to get going what I'm gonna do is scratch and brown this whole top then we're
gonna take the scalp out here in jail be bottoming up right here if my brother whoever gets over here
with our mud anyway well show you that when we get to that stage bud come on man give me some
bug give me some oh we're gonna do guys because all right here we're seven eight that's groovy
over here works really thick all right who's gonna give me some mud let me show you guys
something if you have some really thick areas like this do them first why the paper absorbs
a lot of the moisture and sets it although today is really cold but that's what I tell folks and I
recommend do you do your always do your tops first guy because when you're this thick here you gotta
have time for it to set otherwise otherwise you'll be doing this and then the top will fall you lose
that top seal that's not good so what I'm doing is I'm putting the bow oh actually about almost
a wheelbarrow just right here this part will take a bottle from from here to here will take about a
wheelbarrow you see that that goes from 7 H to 2 inches nothing we can't handle fact it's add some
excitement to our job right there that's that's an inch thick that's another inch thick get in there
guy and here's another tip guy when you're doing tops do it over and over squish it in there over
and over guys over and over get it in there if you want to do is feel this key that's a key guys
meaning not to open your door but for the stucco to in here so it won't keep dropping out also
to this this particular swimming pool trial is great for these right here the difference between
a swimming pool Chow a plaster trial is plastic trials usually are 5 inches wide when you go with
a swimming pool trial unfortunately some of them alright well most of them are 3 inches wide me I
like at least four and a half minimum to 5 why because with a swimming pool trial for concrete
folks are pushing down and you don't need the width for plastering we use more skill skill is
for moving it around you got to move it move it move it now that's pretty thick right there guys
but it's to save some time and actually a lot of folks don't realize this but to do one solid
coat and keep the packs makes it stronger okay so right there I have over an inch it dies into
an inch from two to one I'll show you another tip guy okay I'm just gonna put some of this mud here
to get rid of it so I can take this scalpel out and Jay and I could really turn on the power and
and kick butt and get some of this spread out so I'm gonna put one last coat right here because I
can reach all this any of you mobsters watching what we're doing Wow how the heck has that stay
up that much mud because normally gravity would pull this and it would fall on the
ground why isn't it doing it now I put extra wire now I'm gonna take it right here boom that's done
that's done and as I'm doing this guys I'm putting this trowel on edge there's not flat like this but
I'm putting it on edge it opens the suckle and when you open it it can breathe where it'll stay
even if it's thick because again if I close it like this class this won't get any air and
it could just be like cows crapping on flat rocks you'll be on the other side hey what's that sound
well that's about 50 pounds falling on the ground you'll hear it anyway Lou's gonna finish give me a
little bit of mud here than we can get rid of this and stand on the ground all right guys I switch
back to my silver surfers surfboard right here why am i using such a gigantic cha because I can and I
like him I don't like the smaller ones but anyway getting back to stucco what I did here is we put
it we put it on pretty thick to feather back down now you guys if you're good with your tools you
can do like so and this child is so large it is like a Darby or a rod but if you guys aren't very
good with your tools here's another thing you can do okay well you can use the Darby straightedge
UK they use a lot of straight edges well you wet it always wet your tools guys wet both sides and
if you're not sure how to use a child to get us a true wall just use the Darby and Bay there we
go and if you can't reach an area take it and just push it upward what you can't see is I'm going up
yeah that's funny the homeowner was out here this is G Kirk oh you guys think it'd take you and I
said oh shoot trick question we're fast mad I can have a couple guys out here it could take him a
week and you feel like you got your money's worth or I can do it myself and I can do this in two
hours it's like no you can't - that can know that brings me to a story since I'm already working
here and that is often will go to jobs and people are impressed by how fast we are in fact I did a
job Obata three months ago and I charge a guy $400 for some patchwork it was yes close by my house I
thought no big deal so I got a check in the mail for 200 and so I called him and I said hey what's
that about I did you a favor man at 200 bucks and he says well I got an outside camera and the
outside camera says you were only there 41 minutes I thought I started laughing I thought wow that's
really funny I said really what's going on here he says well I've calculated it in two minutes then
you make just much a minute and I thought for $400 are you kidding me and I said what about
my truck what about my 30 years experience that truck is $100,000 truck with all the materials
on it and my 30 years so instead of saying gee you guys are good incompetent you're saying I'm
a cheat and a fraud that's kind of goofy so yeah anyway make a long story short he ended up sending
me the extra 200 bucks but when you hire us guys don't be surprised how fast we do a job because
we got a lot of time in which brings me to an old story that happened to me many years ago before I
was married I remember being at a club and I was dancing with somebody and this girl says gee you
got really big shoes I said well sweetie you know what that means so make a long story short we went
to my house and again this before I got married and the next day she left and when she left I
thought why didn't even wake me up but there was a an envelope next to me so I opened the envelope
and there was $20 and I thought whoa how about that and then I read them the note and I said buy
some shoes that fit really ouch anyway just goes to show you that some things are not always what
they seem so you see us come to your job and we're just in and out you guys think about other things
guys like the amount of time we got in the truck and all the rest of that jazz so then I point it
out because I'm killing time and I can all right guys show a couple more things while Luers out
there mixing the finish here you can't really see it too well it was a float finish meeting in
the sand or the aggregate is brought out somebody dashed it and then they didn't that's not a skip
shot looks like a scripture they - it and then they hit it with a trout real lightly how do we
match that we do a heavy water load finish then we take our trial we'll show you that after I want to
point out something guys a lot of people cause they're here you're not a real plaster because
you're using the wrong trow there's a tip guys whatever child works for you use it have a frying
pan or your shoe works is it the idea is yeah that's a big trial but I'm used to it I like the
bigger tools and besides I can take say say this right here I'm killing time now because Lou got
a key get a me so you take a little child here and this is a 14 I consider little you you put
it on your your trial like that you don't want to fill up you don't want to fill up the whole
thing because if you do then a lot spills off the sides when you smash it against the wall so
you put a little bit on this way you don't drop a whole lot but me I'll get rid of that and get
Mike under trial okay now this big trial it won't spill as much as a little one you're putting it on
and you see that and that's a lot of mud right there that's about 15 pounds so you put it on
another thing I get it is gee why did it take the mud off of the bottom here's what I do guys it's
called I don't know what it's called but I killed in turn what I do is I kill it put on my try turn
turn turn you probably can't see that but okay here's here's the idea I take some mud here now
I turn it and I just drop it on my trap I turn it I drop it on my trowel so technically for me over
the last many many years that's easier can you do this guy's okay you take your money put it on
it and put it on it and can you take it off the top sure you can but that really doesn't save a
lot of time guys everybody's they it's the same thing you do this it takes forever and then you
gotta still take it off so you're looking at four to five turns as opposed to three with a full hock
I get I get so many folks they say gee you know in my Union you'd be fired because you you don't
pull it off them the hawk right I'd say a guy's not the hawk or the Chow it's the experience of
a fella I mean again you find you can use the swimming-pool trial a small trial a frying pan
use whatever works for you don't let folks say hey gee you're not this of that because you don't keep
up to standards what's the opposite of courage and not cowardice its conformity just because you see
one guy doing it doesn't mean you got to do it guys take a chance and do whatever feels right
for you anyway loose hopefully these have to do another mix we've already done four wheel barrels
and this is a complete mixer full and all my sand is in the front of the truck so it's gonna take
them a while I thought since I got to do this anyway explain a few more tips all right guys
I did this in fast motion because I can I'll show you guys in slow or regular motion say for example
oh alright you got to have it that soft guys or little little harder it's not gonna hurt once
you float it what you do is you take a trial and you lightly hit it it's like okay you guys can't
do this I'll show you another way to do it okay so that's that's called a knockdown - and that
matches what they have if it was a little heavier I get a - brush throw it on wait a while and knock
it down that's a knockdown - lastly for you guys who I get said this too often hey Kirk using that
shooter used this using a big trout it's gonna blow out your arm I say blow out my arm anyway
that's ridiculous thinking this will make your arm stronger you're after year after year you get
stronger and stronger stronger providing you're eating right man you got to eat right food Kenny
plastic crap dad what your folks who say you put it on and you bend down a lot you gonna blow your
kneecaps out here's the thing I saw Jason doing Jason will lift and he'll put two 45s at the end
of a bar that's like heavier than me and when he squats it's just like what we do when I squat I
keep like I'm gonna sit down like I'm gonna sit down guys like that don't let your knees go past
your toes if you go past your toes then you're bending wrong Ben like you're gonna sit down
I'm gonna say something else but Ben like you're gonna sit down don't let your knees pass you toes
now that'll blow out your knees so when I'm when I'm doing this right here with the cheater I'm
not letting my knees go past my toes remember that because that will blow out your kneecaps so anyway
my name is Kirk Jason on their camera we thank you for watching and Happy Holidays all by the
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