Hi guys, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering. Today I want to show you guys is some
tips on, if you're gonna do a dormer. first of all I got here we could go while they're building it
they said does is everything look groovy? I said, "No." give me some scaffold with outriggers here, or at least
give me a kickboard so he put a kickboard here for me just in case. now what I'm going to do is because
I'm a kind of nervous individual I'm still going to use my handy-dandy belt because you never know
you could slide so I'm gonna attach this to a pipe around the corner and put a harness on but anyhow
getting back to this now I was looking at it and guys. Jay and I do a lot of work for contractors
homeowners who just understand how to laughs things but don't know how to plaster it no worries
we'll we'll do the the plaster work only a lot of times and so I was looking at this in this corner
here the corner aid it should be out to this metal here and it should be better than what it is they
got it flat so it actually serves no purpose so I fortunately on my truck I have everything
known to man so I'm gonna bring this corner out to where it should be both sides but before I do
that I don't want to jack up this roof here either because now if you're if you're working on a roof
it's 100 degrees man you're gonna mess that tar up, right now that's about 70, so we're fine I'm
gonna go ahead and tarp this off then once I tarp it off, I'm gonna fix these corners and show you
how we apply the stucco. Guys if you're gonna work on a slant like this, paper, won't work because
if you put paper here like I got 10-15 rolls on the truck what happens if you step on paver it
slides and you'll slide with it it's gonna be hard enough sitting on this slope here without paper so
we're going to put a cloth tarp here to protect the roof and how we do it alright guys I don't advise
any of you to do this stuff, my buddy old Tom come by and say Kirk, how do you like that setup? and I
said Tommy your too good to me, you're spoiling me. Keep doing this kind of stuff for me, I'll be able to
retire early, because I'll be in a damn wheelchair. Anyway I'll show you how I do this the best way to
do these guys have you mud up here just brought it to me and up this window and out
the window he hands it to me and I start off from the bottom if I start off from the top it's gonna
drop so I'm doing this with luminite in it. What's aluminite it is an accelerator you
put it in mud and it hardens quick why because I don't want to come up here to scratch it and
reset this nightmare up and come up here and Brown it, so basically what I'm doing is I'm doing both
coats right now, Fat and ugly, fat and ugly, now you can watch me for the next 5 minutes put to do this
face you get an idea of what I'm talking about generally when I'm spreading uh big walls and I
have Jay behind me or in front of me plastering it I'll tell us give it to me fat ugly because I'll
Darby it. Here I want it pretty because I don't want to have to come and redo it, I just want to
make it so that I put this one coat on it and I floated, just kill some time guys, killing time
well, there's that, I'll set this down for a second because this one bucket now seems to
be getting in my way. Another thing to fellas you're gonna do this you got to put these buckets
at an angle, preferably I like scaffolding without scaffolding life it's so harder, I can do it like
this because I used to do it like this, all the time. Okay, we'll start again, and I got a full
bucket here it's full buckets gonna go fast, I take two big scoops and generally what I do is
Okay, I'll do all my little stuff like, Like I have, double it up, double it up, there it is this
gets a float finish this isn't the best setup; I've had better setups,
guys, I'll tell you, what we do what it takes to get the job done all right, almost that
corner peak the eyebrows what we call it there we go, Oh two more big fat hawks,
and I got this and you I need some Darby it?
no, no, no no, need to Darby these guys do I need this harness is not really but kind of nervous guys. after you fall in a couple times puts the fear
in you now granted I'm not falling, but I don't want this to be my first job where I've fallen.
Here we go that's my second coat, follow up follow up and just, true it out, now there's
like so beautiful and this has got the accelerator so it is going too harden quick, and since that
let's see my margin trowel for this eyebrow up top I'll show you how, I get it, I'll put a little bit
on the hawk that's enough to finish this gable now climb this gauntlet of a ladder and I'll throw it
in sideways blam, there it is and take my trowel and get it the best as possible because my trowel is not
gonna fit in that corner then I'll put a little bit more mud where I need it all right now I'm
gonna so-called rod it out start here come up this is traveling it out but I'm trueing everything out
great true here yeah then I'm gonna need a few more buckets actually for the front there and when we
get that we'll show you how we do that part - right here margin trowel or I could use a pointer
trowel I just take it and fill it up flush like that okay Jay's gonna go ahead and mix me up two
more buckets for the front and as he's mixing I'm gonna put some finishing touches on this all right
guys my third bucket, my third bucket I'm gonna finish all this detail crime work around this maze
There we go, but that second coat on there, and of course,
I'm not really set up to do above this window real well all right now. If I had staging,
that'd be another story, so what I'm gonna do is just toss it up there like so,
once they get it up there like so, then I'm gonna float this entire thing and to see if
I can't get a better position okay take this mud here open the window so don't
kill myself hold on to it put it here boom that's done that's a good idea try that move
again, put it here, a little bit, hold that, get my square trowel out of the way, and hit it, boom, done.
Then, don't try that guy's, if you have proper staging. Okay, that's how I'm gonna do that entire
top, close this window then over here I'm gonna take this all the way up course I'm gonna finish
what I started first and get this left-hand side all right a little bit of mud there a little bit
about here nothing to it guys here good add an angle all right no I got just right side
then I'm gonna flow to everything and I want to make the right side pretty make it pretty I
don't have to redo it like that song if you want to be happy for the rest of your life never make
a pretty woman you know what so for my personal point of view getting a good girl to marry you
where's that song doesn't apply to me I got a the girl who shows can't cook and she's good-looking,
take it pull it notice I got my elbow on my knee that's holding it, that's a journeyman
trick there take it to fill it up now come to the top and this guy didn't have this kickboard here
could I do this? No, I could but it'd be even more dangerous than what I'm doing right now.
I always advise you guys, if you're gonna do anything on a roof, wear a harness.
even Jay, now Jays a rock climber he strongly recommends harnesses and he's a lot braver
than me anyway, we're just filling this out filling that out, nice and pretty oh I am the prettier it
is the easier it is for the next well they are floating I got to put one more hawk on here see
again, guys, that's on my knee my knees holding up all the way straight now get over here and
finish this top little piece nothing to it just takes practice guys like anything else come here
Oh the last piece is above this nasty window where we don't have a set right but we can make it work
professionals, basically I'm gonna trim out the top of that just a little bit better than what I'm
gonna do guys just take this green sponge float sponge float put some water on this is called
the float finish guys you see me doing in a number of videos, I'll take my sponge add some water go
over it and that brings in the sand or aggregate out and that's the finished product just like that
see that sandy finish a sandy finish just like that I'm gonna do the whole wall like that this
just gets a sandy finish it actually goes with everything is quite elegant all right guys we've
showed you how to do a float finish about two or three hundred times, what I'm doing now is showing
you how we clean this roof. I kink the hose because they got a drip screed directly on the roof you
can do that I usually raise it a hat quarter-inch kink the hose and just put it under here and wait
we don't wipe our own cement off, then what I generally do is I'll take some water now if I
get any on a window or a frame, no big deal. I take the water with a float clean it up. clean between
the windows there's none here, but just to prove a the point, we just clean the edges, I take the water hose
stand back and clean around it. It was just put on, I'm staying off of the wall itself, now my new
tarps are already folded and on the truck because I don't want them saturated with water. Anyhow
guys that is how we do a float finish it's kind of a drag, the way scaffold was set, but I worked
off worse. Anyhow, my name is Kirk, Jason on the camera and as usual, guys, see you at the next one.