how do you guys Kirk and J here with Kirk Giordano plastering hey I'll show you guys something can
you see the grit on this wall here it is very heavy and then you can see all the hunted empty
patterns what is this anybody know it is what we call a text coat and the fella here called me G
Kirk I've got a text code I just had a fella come by and he said he could match the stucco but then
I'd have to get a text coat over it it's he sent me some pictures and I said dude that's nonsense
so why would anybody want to do something like that what you do is what I've done I just went
to the material art instead of getting Felton or holy sand which is really fine go to a different
place get some heavier sand and that'll match it texaco I'll show you how we do that too while I'm
here we got about 15 windows we're doing on this house let's see and we're we're just putting this
stuff on you see that's kind of loose but that that's about right guys because right now we're
on the southwest side southwest side gets beat up the Sun bakes this wall house about 80 years
old parapets no protection water goes in you can see the results of water going in and somebody
said well gee whiz how about we take a text code which is 50 times thicker than paint and we'll
seal the house that's fine and dandy some places some places don't work work very well especially
if you don't clean the walls really well pressure Worcester 33,000 psi then put your bonding agent
then shoot the text it'll ask what I'm doing here is enough of that text code lessons we're matching
the text code I'll show you over here guys take a green sponge float and again the mud doesn't have
to be harder because if it turns white you're gonna have a hard time right now I'm at a stage
where this mud is just about right and how many coats do we have on here two and three the fellas
who did the work here they were pretty good they do have some this stucco about 2 or 3 inches deep
in different areas but here's what you do guys you determine when this stucco is ready and
you can do that by feeling it if it turns white then you lost it guys that's that kind of stuff
just takes a little bit of practice so you don't want it to turn white or like gray because that
just means you're not gonna be able to use skill you're gonna have to use muscle then you got to
save that muscle and what we want to do is bring the sand out and into this you've got to clean
a float often just a green sponge float it's fine just just like your kitchen sponge it holds water
what we'll do like say here is to get it a little tighter to blend this in I'll put weld crease here
it's a bonding agent and we just pull it out pull it out pull it out and into the existing finish
and that'll get you about as close as you can with the text coat nothing to it hardest part
of this is to look at it and put some divots in it because I'm used to doing a wall and a lot nicer
than their finish they use a heel and your toe and put some divots in it make it a little ugly
if you're gonna match the finish down it was on there's another tip guys do your perimeters first
okay it's a perimeter I'm using about Oh 25 pounds of pressure I'm pushing it in and I'm using the
whole float not not the toe or the heel or the tip or the bottom this is the whole float guys
when that's full of stucco like it is right here tap it out again tap it out then you you steep you
keep starting from the joint this where a lot of water is that water now as the joint gets loaded
into the existing the transition I keep wetting it and since I'm sitting down on this bucket here
I'll finish the bottom boom there we go finish the bottom finish the top you want to give it a
you want to pull a lot of sand out to match your text coat what happens if I use just a little bit
of water say like this is almost dried I'll show you guys if it's almost dry you can't hardly pull
anything out it's just a fine fine fine grit so we want if we want to be able to pull out more grit
more sand so we dump this in here and a lot has to do with the Sun and where it's at and how hot it
is and things of that nature oh let me get this bucket out of my way all right no little finger
holes I put in there I'd come right come right back load them right back in be that more water
then you can get a heavier heavier texture because I seems to some text coats out of mighty heavy
they use as a rule they're about like this but I've seen some where they use concrete sand and
man those are horrible looking like I've seen them anyway guys I'm gonna show you a little bit more
clean up my old work alright we're getting all the sand off of this alright then we take the clean
water clean the tape why do we need to clean clean the tape we don't but when I pull this tape when
I'm done it has cement all over it all that cement they're gonna pop in my face and I don't want that
all right no I'm floating it in I'm gonna leave it at bad guys because up there is kind of high
for me so I'm um I'm gonna do something different and if you guys say hey Kirk stood on a buck and
I'm gonna stand on a bucket like Kirk and you fall and you'll be calling me saying
hey I saw you standing on a bucket and you made it look like magic anyway that's how you match
at Xcode guys and if you see a imperfection that you don't like let's go back over a little bit
of extra water anyway guys my name is Kirk Jason on the camera actually J spread most
of these but for the sake of this video he's gotta do the camera as usual we thank you for
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