howdy folks Kirk and J here with Kirk Giordano plastering today we're gonna show you folks is
how to skim this concrete foundation now the homeowners emailed me photograph of here and I
looked at it and I thought hmmm I could see it's a heavy float finish so what I did was I called him
and says well gee what are gonna do they're gonna paint this but what I did was I went on my color
chart and I've come up with I bought actually all three of these colors not knowing which one it was
at Westside today and turns out it's this ivory so what we're gonna do is we're gonna mix it up
some BMI color coat it comes in 100 pound sacks or 94 pound sacks Jay's gonna mix up a bucket and
what we're gonna do first thing is we're gonna take this wall you see all this we've got a lot
of stuff going on on this wall we have some tar we have these form holes we have all this dust
dirt grime moss weeds I'm gonna first hit it with water and because I don't want to inhale it I'm
gonna hit it with water I'm gonna take a wire brush scrub the crap out of it and get all this
stuff off then I'm gonna hit it with my favorite product well decreed by Larson's all that is it's
a bonding agent this will allow my next finish to adhere to this prior to applying that finish I'm
gonna fill these holes with alumina I'm gonna put a little bit of lemonade in the cement and fill
these that way when I skim it these don't reappear anyhow Jay's gonna get that mix going and I'm
gonna clean this wall next time you see it this wall will be clean it'll be blue because that's
the color of this bonding agent here okay guys last thing is any pieces of this membrane left
you always want to get that stuff off if you can and here we had one last tie in for the concrete
those are for the form boards what we're doing is we are killing those because color coats only go
by well technically eighth of an inch eighth of an inch and we don't want to feel big big holes
like this so prepping it getting it all done well and then we're gonna skin it in a minute okay guys
taking my little handy dandy margin shop there's the margin shot with a point on it to get right in
there then once I get far enough I'll switch to my trowel and basically just doing like so what
I try to do guys is get far enough down and far enough up that way when I brush my top that'll
come in clean and generally guys almost every product I'm aware of VMI all these color coats
they always dry a little bit lighter so I told the homeowners here we weren't going to get exact fun
we could we could get something close and if they don't like it well they said they were gonna paint
it anyhow here's a little area didn't come off too well so we just go ahead and get it out of
there all right now almost have the stage where I'm gonna keep going up and as soon as I go to
the top I'm gonna take a sponge float and bring the aggregate out and all that just means is I'm
gonna go over this slightly by the way to guys what I did is I took a water hose and I shot it
under here pretty far if I didn't shoot it under there pretty far right now I'd be pulling out all
kinds of stuff bugs Birds you name it it would be in there and it would be dragging all over my work
it's bad enough if I miss the piece of rubber sticks to everything so we're getting there
going up okay cut it right there in' in about five minutes I'll take it up to here and I'll
show you how we float this in okay guys now that we got this VMI color coat spread what we do is
we take a green sponge float and now this is called floating we're floating it just bring
in the aggregate out lightly touch it and I've got this on a little bit thick we come to an area like
this where the float won't get in there you just take it sideways pull it barely touch it takes a
little bit of practice guide little holidays get them out of there with your hand and then continue
and what we want to do is just make a nice clean line and and can you bring in the aggregate out
this float I got it a little beat up but nothing I can't handle there we go always works guys if
you have a brand new float like this these are about oh five six bucks hit any of the department
stores and be better off and too much water and it'll pull the material off just a little bit of
waters all you need here anyhow you get the idea where we're going with this we've got a holiday
shown right here in case somebody's laying on their back we don't want that we just fill that
in just like so and what I'm gonna do is pull this paper out we're gonna clean up and I'll
show you after everything is said and done okay guys we are cleaning up right now again that's a
heavy float finish that's what it's called to match this finish here and yes you can paint
it this is painted by the way to also you folks have any projects such as small stuff like this
email it Timmy Kirk for stucco at gmail.com and where I can take a look at it without driving
I'm driving a humongous truck and if you look that way we are on top of the world guys we are upward
Grizzly Peak meets skyline in the Oakland Hills so if I could save you guys time and money by
saving myself time and money to drive my monster truck all the way up here this kind of stuff I
could see it easily off of a photograph anyhow guys my name is Kirk I am with Kirk Giordano
plastering Jason and I as usual thank you for watching and we'll see you on the next one
you