good morning, my son and I are going to do scratch it a brown on this wall today goes around too but
we're gonna focus on this wall it's about seven o'clock in the morning right now what we're gonna
do is first we're going to set the staging then I'm gonna cover all these windows and because
I got all this but getting wire right here I'm gonna scratch all of this to about here then my
son will show me he's mixing by the way and he's also gonna help me scratch this but he's going
to stop doing what he's doing while the scalpel is here I'm gonna show you how to use a cheater
we're gonna be using a cheater on the majority of the bulk here and then I'm gonna cut in with
a Hopkin trial we're doing a Western reinforced pirate mesh here today there's a lot of materials
you could use for scratch and brown same day gotta have certifications in these and there's about 20
different materials on the market today we've been using them for 30 years so although I'm going to
do the scratch in brown the same day the myth is that you can do a one coat people think you can
put one solid inch on you can't not can't be done I've tried it it can't be done so we're going to
scratch the entire top we'll show it then we're going to brown the entire top and I'm going to
take it to about I'm six foot so I'm gonna take it to about this point here to here that way when
I come down this will all be scratching brown with the float finish then we'll start the bottom where
we tie in everything and again the same procedure we're gonna scratch and brown separately we're not
going to put one solid inch on because again that can't be done okay guys my son and I said
everything recovery here's where we're going I'm using a cheater on this what I generally do is
I'll cut it all my tops meaning I'll come here all the top I've already cut him but just for
the sake of showing you guys this second little bitty coat that's just the first coat here I'm
gonna scratch it soon how do you use a cheater and cut it first you cut in then you use a kid
and now my son here he put a huge mound of stucco here because he's mixing spreading and doing them
fill me but he's 24 you can do push-ups good shape you can do all that stuff generally this
is a three-man job but for the sake of showing you how just the two of us okay I'm using this
guy here I'm gonna fill this up what I like we call them cheaters and everybody has a different
name form what I like about this guy is put on a big swatch using your whole body now everybody
using a hockey table I've got 20 pounds here 10 pounds here kind of jacks your spine up and I've
been doing it for 30 years so it 10 takes a toll but when you use a cheater now using the whole
bottom squatting up I look at an advantage paid to work out that's how we do it just like this
you know I'm curious also squat now when you put it on we got pretty stiff mud here because
it's got accelerators in it and we've been messing around doing weird stuff so with your accelerators
in here even the first to set up, I'm gonna take a Darby and half your ID spread it all out like so
I'm gonna Darby it up to get ready for the scratch I don't generally have to put a scratch in it,
but for the sake of anyone watching saying how many coats is he doing gradual simplifying just
a little bit better then we want to do is wire this is the first coat we want to cover up this
wire real well since this mud is getting hard and I'm starting to hustle because I want to
use up what's left in the wheelbarrow I'm gonna call it quits with video and get busy
spread this out really quick I'll come back and show you guys the scratch coat as well as how we
blend it all in that's this is all just the first coat I'm gonna go ahead and do these two patches
and take five minutes now we're gonna come back I'm gonna scratch it see you soon okay guys second
good everything is scratched here and again what I want to show you is the purpose this is this
they call this reinforced pirate mint where you can do it in two David you're gonna do two coats
here's my second coat I'm bringing this out and I'm coming out to my blocks here with the second
and generally I don't need a scratch marks but I'm putting it into anything just to illustrate
the to coat system using a so called one coat so we put it right here and we fill these down and
after I get done with this whole lob in a Dargan make it all true and plumb unfortunately it has a
wavy finish on this house they're real simple to match so we're out of sand we're out of time the
sun's gonna go ahead and get material will show you once we're done here hey guys my son just
got back from the material yard thought I'd point this out because it's pretty important we did a
scratch coat which is technically a mechanical bond for the brown coat had this scratch coat
turned white you put your second coat on without a scratch mark it doesn't it here as well so
it's good thing we did a scratch coat on this just for video and you folks always scratch everything
don't try to scratch him Brown without the marks because you got to have time in and know what
you're doing for the mechanical body okay guys we are getting there finishing up the brown coat
on the bottom now by the way this is getting kind of hard the Sun was it so I hosed everything down
otherwise I'm working twice as hard to have you here this our second coat okay I'll have you like
so I'm taking a straightedge army what would I be down like this our group screen here that's gotta
be true plumb take it just like so just guy again this this right here takes practice knows you need
I work behind a pump eight hours a day for about two years so just take a little bit of practice
I'm going they've got a really rough finish here what I'm doing is I'm churning it out just then
when I come to bloated I'm going to use a hard rubber float and I want to put my divots and
balls and shapes in it with me float we're almost there next time you see me will be floating it up
and pretty much wrapping it up okay guys that's it hard rubber floated it then we sponge floated it
this is what they have in the front of the house and then the side so we're kind of tired now so
we're gonna call it quits but we're just showing you a lot of stuff around here this you're gonna
have mixers this is not finish it's extremely wavy finish oh we went ahead and we tie it around
here to six inches anyhow this is Kirk with Kirk Giordano plastering. Jason is doing video, and
there was a long day for us glad it's over. We'll see you at the next one.