Hey folsks, Jason here with kirk giordano plastering, and last week i released a video of me mixing a
same-day stucco material and it got a good response you guys liked it you had a couple
more questions for us so I thought today we can make a video and answer some of those
questions to start somebody asked me about paddle differences you know there's a bunch of different
paddle designs this is one we like to use for interior it works great on plaster mud inside
facet stuff like that but when I'm mixing a cement Isha's material I like this plate it's a lot more
effective it's efficient it just works better and then of course I've got my bucket you always see
me with a five-gallon bucket of water that I can stick my drill into when I'm not using it so the
bucket is full so it's not going to jump over and dump water everywhere it happens sometimes anyway
back to mixing so today what I'm going to do is a Portland cement with a luminite accelerator
and so I've got my bucket here to start what you can do is fill it about half way with sand and
then you're going to get your cement I know the ratio of this stuff it's three to one for what
we're doing today and I know that I'm going to need about five full scoops of this powder three
five and because I've been doing this so long, I can tell if I don't have enough;
when I get to that point, I can always add more later than you do your water,
and when you're doing your water to start, you can always make it a little extra soupy
to make your job easier, and you want about three quarts of water in here so I'm probably
going to need to add some more in a minute, and we've got our drill it's got two directions it
can spin backward and forwards pulling either the mud up or the drill down now I'm mixing
the powder into the water, and then I'm going to start going down into the sand
and so now that's done, I can add the rest of my sand
And so you can tell if it's getting a little chunky and hard to spin,
you need some more water. I had enough for that first mix, but not once I added more sand to it.
I got the rest of this bucket of sand in there,
and I was telling you with the same-day materials that you can't mix for more
than three to five minutes; you don't have that issue with a regular Portland cement.
Your biggest problem is if it takes you more than three to five minutes, you're going to have your
guys asking for mud. What are you doing taking so long so? Now I'm adding the accelerator we
use luminite, but there are plenty of different accelerators you can use, and this stuff it's
like a food product. If you let it sit in your garage or in the back of your truck,
it goes bad. You have to use more. I know that I'm going to need about a cup and a half to two cups,
and we just use these soda bottles as cups, and you want to make sure to get that evenly
distributed throughout the mix if it only sits on top of the top is going to set when you want it to
so I'm pulling everything up and down, and they can turn the mixers good
And just like that, I'm done. This mud is ready. I'm going to start plastering this up, and then
we're finished, alright guys? I hope that answered some more questions. If you have any more, please
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