hi guys Kirk and family here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what we're going to do is we're
going to pressure wash this wall and can the camera show that, let me get come on over here
by Madeleine, Madeleine is chipping our tool because we got to mix up an acrylic color and that is full
of old stucco, here's what I want to show you folks see how all of this is chipping off yeah it's all
chipping off well and then you see right here this darker color and this was applied like 20
years ago this is all typical and normal what is all this black stuff right here that's dirt when
the water hits the ground here it fills up the trench here and then it comes over so this is
all dirt and nothing adheres the dirt dust grime mold moss you name it the owner here cut back and
I thought well that's pretty good because winter is coming he cut back so well that when the when
the rain starts going to hit here go into this trough go into a French drain and this should not
happen again but what we have again we're going to get rid of the block lines and block lines
do appear guys if the wall is not sealed number one or if the base coat is not thick enough so I
got a pressure washer here we're going to go ahead and pressure wash this and after we pressure wash
it we don't want to get no water on that camera after we pressure wash it will show you how we
seal it and apply an acrylic color coat okay guys cleaning out my float we're going to get started
ah well let me show you something first you guys go ahead and spread and then I'll come back to you
if you're going to use the pressure washer here's a tip this turbo tip right here it gives a 3,000
psi up to 35 psi 3,500 that is how strong is that my son Dan used it last and I was telling him how
strong it was I said watch baby he came back in hey you got any band-aids I just hit my shoe just
show Madeline I just hit my shoe a second look at that that's how strong that pressure washer
is so that's you want something real strong like that and guys too how you put a bonding agent on
an acrylic is your business there are certain techniques that I I strongly recommend but make
certain that your that whoever you guys hired Judas they'll have their own specific way okay
J for example is spreading this now I'm going to go right behind him and start floating what
did we have here we had a - a light - so after we pressure wash we had to come with the tools
and scrape it we had to scrape it we had to scrape the walls because we're doing a heavy float nobody
I know can tell the difference between either there's a lot of things to what we're doing the
Sun is coming up the walls or you can see the sunlight here this wall is going to be drying
out so it's all about hustling when you're doing this I'm going to have Malin I have J and since
Carl's done film and he's going to get it up on it and I'm going to float behind all three of
them floating takes years of practice guys so this is what I'm doing I'm gonna J is putting
it on just ride and I'm right behind him and I got a hustle to stay on him I'm gonna just go up
down up down and we got our paper so when we pull back it leaves a clean line now what I'm doing is
I'm bringing the middie a gogit into my existing because once you float it it starts to set because
it's an acrylic we're using it's kind of gluey I like the float because I can float behind 2 or 3
people easily because it takes a lot of practice and I just happen to have that practice in it is
easier physically but it takes a lot more time to get to get to know how to get all the lines
out and to give it a perfect finish so it looks like a dash but anyway guys we got a hustle here
because this is like a gluey like substance acrylics are no joke when you hire somebody
to do an acrylic make sure they know what they're doing because there's so many things that I can't
say in this video so don't try this yourself homeowners but hire somebody that knows what
they're doing I'm going to go over here and catch Madeline real quick and now you guys will show you
the completion when we're done and you'll see it gets all the lines out it's going to look
beautiful okay guys we are all complete you can see this is a beautiful wall now we went ahead
and sealed it and then we put in acrylic what does that mean that's two sealants over here
they stove a French drain system here and there were a couple cracks here although they had a
good French drain system will an acrylic stop a house from moving no it's just a color coat
maintenance-free surface this will last for 100 years it won't come off and it won't discolor
over the house itself that's a cement tshis color coat maintenance-free finish they started those in
1926 and it too can last hundreds of years it'll start to discolor but it's all maintenance-free
in the old days in Italy it's just lime kind of like this retaining wall right here this right
here it's called the Santa Barbara you just use lime and back and forth back and forth a lot of
elbow grease a lot of that stuff in Venice France and all over the UK last thousands of years guys
what we've done again here hello baby okay and and right here I'll show you what I'm talking
about and by the way guys this acrylic you might say what's the difference the crook is twice
as expensive it for one thing and when it when the walls move their critics flex with it to a
certain extent where the color codes here car let me see that hose for sexually alright the
color coats here like say for example here these darken when they get wet you see how that darkens
that's a color coat maintenance-free finish every time it rains I get about 15 calls because we have
about 800 videos online people say hey I just bought a house I know that Kirk guy knows the
answer to this they'll call me and say Kirk I just bought a house somebody pulled a Mon
Ami every time it rains it gets dark I was like a brick guy just like a brick so if you have a house
that darkens when it gets wet that means it's a maintenance-free finish and never have to paint
it the rest of your life use acrylics exact same thing they just happen to be more flexible and
what are the pros and cons a lot more expensive for an acrylic anyway we're going to wrap it up
we're going to get out of here my name is Kirk um my daughter Madeleine back from Spain for just
a couple weeks, and she's hitting the road, so we thank you for watching, and as usual, we'll see you
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