hi guys Kirk with Kirk giordano plastering, today what we're going to do is go over the cracks
interior this fellow here had the crack prepared several times but they keep returning there's a
lot of ways to do these cracks I'm just going to show you which way I prefer there's 20 different
ways to do this the first thing we're doing is we're putting a fiber mesh tape this stuff right
here over the cracks we put that on the crack then the next thing we do is you get this guy
here this is called plaster weld and it's pink for interior the blue is for the exterior and you
spread this bonding agent right here because what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put some twenty-minute
mud over this twenty-minute mud means 20 minutes you have 20 minutes to work with it so I'm gonna
I don't want to build this out too much otherwise when they paint it you'll see a bump so I'm gonna
spread from here to here and just cover the tape now once that's all set there's a number of cracks
throughout the place there here's one and over here are a few others there are a few others
here and a few others there and in the stairwell you usually get them like that this is about an 80
year old home so it's expected anyhow getting back over here once I spread these out with
a twenty-minute mud I'm going to go elsewhere throughout the house and work then I'm going to
come back and put another coat over that very thin the camera won't show that this has an orange peel
look the surface just it looks like an orange so once I put that second coat on the twenty-minute
mud - I'm gonna take a roller heavy roller and I'm just gonna roll right over it because the tape
will be covered the next coat is just going to be for my texture so I'm gonna take a heavy roller
I'll show you how to do that and you just roll over it and when you roll over it it'll make it
look like this orange peel look here now why am I using a twenty-minute mud because if I use tapered
mud it's going to take me three trips the owner doesn't want to pay for come three times and I I
don't recommend it taping bud you put one coat on it you'll hit the road wait let it set for the day
then you'll come back and do it again sometimes three times so the plasters are the way to go
because you have 20 minutes to work with it but that's all the time we need we don't need days and
days and multiple trips here so this is the first stage and I did use a clock some of the cracks
won't go over where because the camera may not show that but some are pretty large so I applied
caulking in them first prior to the fibermesh tape so as we get going I'll show you how mainly it's
just the texture that's kind of interesting it's easier to do the texture than it actually looks
so that's what folks will probably be interested in alright guys I've got a couple coats on this
right here the idea is to cover the mesh tape if you don't cover the mesh tape then that will
bleed through so what we're doing is we're putting another coat over some areas where the mesh tape
is I have to now the idea is to put on thin coat over the whole thing and be consistent and I heavy
roller camera may not show this but it's pretty heavy and you just kind of roll over it and that
gives it the orange peel look just like that and some areas again the camera may not show this but
some areas are going to be a little heavier than others and if they are is what you do just take
a trough over the heaviest areas give it a little bit of time work on something else then come back
to it and give it that orange peel look that way when you paint this it blends in real well blends
in is about as best as you can get it because house is 80 years old they've used rollers so
now it looks like an orange peel it's not plaster that gives it that apparently it's the roller so
this is Kirk giordano plastering thanks for watching and I hope you learn something for
those of you who want to do it but don't know-how, we'll see on the next one.