Hi guys Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today we're going to do today is
show you how we apply a Santa Barbara smooth mission finish now there's been a lot of talks
about you can do one coat not that I'm aware of hold off or go ahead Jay when you do a
Santa Barbara smooth mission finish number one is the day before you want to clean your mixer
I went ahead and I cleaned my mixer all day yesterday got all the clumps out because the
product we're spreading one sec Jay please the product we're spreading it's like taping mud
it's got very little aggregate it's like 30 30 weight aggregate it's very very very fine and
what we're going to do is two coats that's the proper way to do a Santa Barbara smooth mission
finish in what what Jay is doing over here he's putting on the one coat and then what what I'm
going to do I'm going to put on the one coat Jake over here is putting on a coat also we're
going to knock the top out we're going to double up immediately then drop it down and double up
the bottom and on this particular one we have a kind of a twist where the fella emailed me
this picture and it's Santa Barbara see if you could zoom in i really doubt my computer had
a hard time getting this photograph right here what it is it's a it's two coats and it's santa
barbara smooth mission finish you can see a lot of cat faces where that's where I could tell that
second coat then they floated it so it's half Santa Barbara half float finish we give folks
whatever they want anyhow what we're going to do here is we're going to spread this out so
give us will show you a minute of spreading it and then go ahead you guys can start now okay
what I'm doing, guys, I'm leaving a little bit of
nip because it's bullnose and put a little bit on the top here - yes
okay, what we're all going to do is touch J's going to come right to me I'm going to
go right to Jake, then we're going to turn right back around and put a second coat on
you guys could watch and see how we do this case any of you folks want to do a
Santa Barbara smooth mission finish you got to know what you're doing if you're
doing these brand-new buckets Nick and I and Jason been doing this stuff for
years so this is the best system I know how to do it let me touch Jake
as soon as I touch Jake here we're going to put the second coat on a lot of determines - let's
drop down fellas and uh put the first coat on the bottom this wall still lived - wet a lot
of Santa Barbara smooth mission finish determines the walls midday early morning how much water you
put in that kind of dictates when we can do our second coat we're not ready for the second coat
yet so we're going to move the scaffold back and put the next coat but when we return back we'll
have the bottom plastered with the first coat then we're going to be putting the second coat
we'll show you that when we get to that stage okay guys we're going to put the second coat
on here's another thing dad pointed out he said man that looks good dad it's a chatter pretty
much you just put your first coat on I've done this about 15 times on 15 houses at least where
we just do the chatter marked with this only one coat using Santa Barbara or we sometimes
use twenty thirty just one coat steel trowel it I've done that quite a bit of time so that looks
good too but for the sake of what he wants we're going to do the second coat all right guys let's
put the second coat on another thing - you got to know when to put that second coat on if you put
it on when it's too wet it's useless it's got to be just about right like what Jake's doing right
here that's just about right nice and that has to set up about ten ten minutes sometimes a half-hour
depending on the consistency of suction and when depending on when it's ready then we're going to
come back and and steel trowel it a little bit more Plus on this particular finish we're going
to put some float lines so what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you the second coat a little bit
second code I'm gonna start about right here ho folks get the idea and then when this sets up a
little bit I take my trowel and just go over it and we want some we want some cat faces
here in there we want some divots and I'm using a swimming pool trial I tend to use my square child
when I get to a corner but doing a Santa Barbara smooth mission finish my personal opinion is a
round trial comes out a lot nicer if we say we weren't going to put any chatter marks or any
float marks pull trials the best to do for this next you'll see us when we complete this whole
wall and I'm still chowing it the final completion okay guys we're back I'll just show you how we do
this last phase I've let this wall sit about hour and a half because it it's very very cold here so
what I'm doing is I'm taking my float and lightly hitting it we have two coats on this traditional
Santa Barbara smooth mission finish wall generally if we wait another ten fifteen minutes I can just
steel trowel it and get it smooth but that's not what they want what they do want is this I take my
And you see now what that does. It gives me cat faces here and there with the two coats. It gives
me the float finish that you could see below, and what they want is they want a lot of different
variations in the color old world you can call it a lot of names, but when you sponge float it,
you use a lot of water the moisture absorbs differently and so when this dries it's going
to be a lot of colors it's not going to be solid in a parent let me show you what we've done on
this garage I'll show you the rear here this was done and the side where you get a view of
the mixer over there anyhow that's an old-world finish it's a two coat Santa Barbara technically
now again if I waited for it I could have got it smooth, but that is not what these folks
are looking for anyhow guys my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering hope you learned
something about Santa Barbara finishes, and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one.