Howdy folks, kirk, and Jason here, with another adventure a lot of you guys are asking for.
I haven't had this many calls for this, by the way, in years. Still, everybody seems to want
a smooth texture to hide a heavy texture now. Let me show you this if you go up close, you can
see this is a skip trowel finish. If you see this right here, you could just say a pipe is missing.
What happens if you paint this? Well,
this will be enhanced. Let me show you a couple of the finishes that jason does quite often. In fact,
this house is really busy and really cut up, so we'll try to show you some things; well here's the
thing, guys, to go a lot smoother than this heavy texture, you can do two things one is a 1620 sand
this is what we call a heavy sand, heavy sand is necessary to cover up all these valleys and then
to hide the mountains you cannot use this particular sand however there are a lot of
finishes we do that you can smooth out that heavy texture with this smoother finish and this is a
30/20 that's the grit of the sand 20/ 30. That just means it's okay. There's one
more texture. Still, i no longer do it, and that's a steel trowel finish because
it's so thin, way thinner than eggshells, so you do two coats now it's twice the work
twice the money for the average person. Still, it's so fragile with that two-coat system that
its hairline cracks every time it rains; the house lifts and drops, so I don't even do it anymore.
Anyhow, nobody would know the difference unless you were eight inches from the wall
to determine that it's a 20/30 finish or a 16/20. You just can't see it so i choose not to do that
steel trowel finish anymore, because it's does more damage than good and by the way this is
50 times thicker than paint this finish here that we're doing today is 70 times thicker than paint,
that's how you can cover all of this stuff up and not get any hairline crack i'm going to take you
to the back here and we'll show you something else too all right guys now what what i'm doing
is the heavy finish has been trialed over now with the finish this heavy we'll let it set for about
two to five minutes two to seven minutes if it goes 10 that's okay and what i'm doing now is,
i'm floating i'm taking this sponge float and i'm i always want to go into the existing i'm
going to take the new and go into the current and where we have a wood trim right here
i'm going to take my cleanest part because i don't want to dirty the wood trim
like these guys did and i take it right here now what that does is it keeps that top piece of wood
clean then i take it down a bit of bit underneath okay now this is just called
uh sponge floating and what what's necessary in order to change that heavy finish to smooth
is for that to set just a little bit just a little bit and then you come back and when i have areas
like this where it's a vent we'll clean it then we'll come back and clean it a little bit better.
Here we go we clean that vent then we come back with a trowel and clean the inside where they
they slobbered on here all right so again remember we take the new and bring it into
the uh or they existed and get it into the new so we went ahead and and textured that
part here so i'm going to take it up take it up and this is how you cover
that heavy heavy skip trowel finish, I'm now as i'm going up i'm pulling it into
the stuff that's already applied and if you notice i'm not putting any water on this float because
if you put water on the float and this depends on the color too guys, if you use a dark color it
could uh ghost it that just means it can bleed it make it turn various shades of different colors so
you hit it here on the corner you never want that corner bead to show so what we do is we
just kind of pull it towards it if we pull it away then that corner bead is exposed so this
is how we're doing it and okay we have this part left now this is working um in a minefield but
welcome to plastering guys this is what we have it's a minefield all the time okay we're taking
the finish now that it's set enough if it's set in the extra five or ten minutes that's okay
an additional 15 that's okay uh that's uh my job to correct it now with
experience so well all i'm doing is i'm bringing the sand out so again this is a 1620. that just
means it's the heaviest sand finish you can buy, and they do have, as i was explaining earlier,
the 20/30. And here's what we do for the vents, and we come back to them like when these guys
are traveling on if they get any in here no worries we just clean it out with a float or
a little brush I'll show you something that i do too because these floats here get full of the sand
especially if you're doing an acrylic and if you see dirt just pull it right out and go back over
it sometimes when you go low you'll remove some dirt off any way that's how to cover everything
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