Hello folks, kirk is here with kirk giordano plaster today. What we're going to do is we're
going to do a brown coat, and we're going to put these humps in this wall and generally
what I'll do is I'll look at the humps, and i already know that they're a heavy float finish,
so the first thing we got to do at this scratch coat is cured about a week and a half
i wet the wall down because we're putting a heavy finish on it
we wet everything down, and when it's wet we're gonna, but the coat of
is called the second coat of the brown coat what we're going to do here is i'm simply going to
place a second coat on here after i get my second coat on here then i'm going to look
at their pattern their pattern where i'm i notice a horizontal line here and then
and the patterns they're not very big so whatever i see we're going to match the pattern a lot of
different patterns on this house but we're doing different walls whatever wall i get to that's the
wall i match so give us about oh a half hour to get my my ground coat on and then i'll show you
how we do these little patterns okay guys we're skipping ahead here and i'll show you before i
put these humps in it i've already browned this out i put my second coat on and now what i'm
doing with my second coat is i'm floating it i'm bringing out the aggregate bringing out the sand
bring the sand out this way i have a somewhat lumpy finish or sandy finish is more accurate
so now as soon as i'm done with the entire wall here i'm going to put these humps in and what
i'll do is i'll follow the pattern and i can see this pattern is going right here and i'm going to
go all the way straight down right here but first i floated then after i put those humps in it i'm
going to float those to get the same aggregate finish we're getting there all right guys
we're doing we finished up the ground and we uh floated everything with the sponge float and now
what i'm doing is i'm looking at the humps with this kind of finish the important thing is kind of
match the transition say like there was one right here so i'm going to continue that one right there
and then i'm looking at this okay this is at my chin level so those are going right there this is
at my chest level that's those are going about right there this uh i can look at the line and
what i'm going to do is i'm going to follow their pattern that pattern doesn't have any particular
pattern it's wavy every which way but i can see what they've done because i've done this a lot of
times okay so for example on this particular one here about my chin high they're putting it on here
we're putting it on this way we'll put it on this way and putting it on just different they
just move the trout and the float actually is going to soften them all up so i still got to
go one in here and so what i'll do is i like to find if one is already started then i follow
that pattern and if i see the wall right in the middle of one then that's what we want to do here
this is all one circle okay so back at the top all right about right at my forehead level there's
one we don't want to go a particular pattern so i'll take it sideways i'll take it up and down
i'll take it sideway and we have styrofoam molds going around these windows six inches
so i'm aware of that also so six inches around these molds i'm not getting near
carry it on up and down sideways,
matching their pattern, which again has no particular pattern, but i see what the fella did
This has got to be set for at least 20 minutes before i could hit this with the hook sponge
floats to soften them out. Okay, guys, now what i'm doing is floating. I've already floated the
top level, so i'm actually smoothing it completely out. If i happen to come on some of these
so-called pancakes that are too heavy, i just push a little heavier my son asked me a good question
how come we have so many different patterns all over the wall when this was set with staging
it wasn't more than 10 years ago there's a lot of different plasters here so different
plasters different techniques different humps they floated it differently so if you scan the
top gable you can see that that was done by a fella the next staging was done by a fella.
and so on, which actually makes it easy for me because there are so many different finishes here
i can choose the actual one i want to match i'm just going right between all of them, blending
right in any way you see where we're going with this, it's just a matter of water and floating
okay guys we're cleaning up we're getting out of here again if you could show this entire wall
All right, well anyhow, we were hoping the sun would get on this wall, but it's not going to
happen. We're going to get out of here. You can see we're all done. The cleanup is the
fun part. That's where i'm at right now. Again you never get yelled at if you clean up well.
My name is kirk giordano plastering. As usual,
thank you, folks, for watching, and we'll see you guys on the next one.