hello there folks Kirk and Jason here with Kirk giordano plastering, today what I'm going to do
is show you guys how to mix this quikrete stucco now I love from Connecticut Robert
the heck is Connecticut anyway Robert called me and said Kirk can you show me how to mix this and
we're generally mixing in mixers big mixers we tow behind the trucks but of course I know how to mix
it in buckets too now this product here this is a fiberglass reinforced stucco it's one coach stucco
and that that basically means you can put a coat on and it's that fiberglass reinforced stucco is
nothing new guys back in the 80s early 80s when I was Union we used to use the fiberglass reinforced
fiber mesh La Habra made it Western made it Omega made it so it's it's nothing new anyway we're
going to show you how to mix this quick Crete I always look for an extra K here thinking quick
Crete but quikrete anyhow what we have already done is I cut a a buck up these are 80 pound bags
now a 80 pound bag will mix more than one bucket so we're going to improvise a little bit for every
80 pound bucket that's usually about five to six quarts I'm not certain how much we're going to
need here but I'm just going to give you the basic Robert of how to do this stuff now generally what
I'll do or what jail you'll usually do is you'll take this bucket and or you take this bag here and
fill the bucket up okay so we're going to do that now generally I will have a mask too and so does
jaye and glasses this stuff gets in your eyeballs and pretty nasty stuff but if I have a mask on
that I can't show you folks how to do it and after 30 years of inhaling this stuff I figured
what the heck all right now we've got a bucket bucket filled with most of that bag there I'll
take I think this is about three quarts of water in here now the bag says hold it here and mix as
you're doing it you need two guys I can do it this way guys I've been doing this for years you take a
drill any kind of drill doesn't have to be the one I'm using and it doesn't have to excuse me that
doesn't have to be this particular paddle there's about 50 different paddles it's about 20 different
drills now this drill goes both ways it'll pull the mud down or to pull it up it's got a reverse
on it so what I'll generally do is number another thing too I keep a full bucket of water because if
I put this drill in it and I start doing something else if it's a half a bucket of water it's not
heavy enough if the drill will fall over and all the water will go into the components so if
you're going to do it guys have a full bucket of water at least to hold this in and plus you want
to wet the blade you wet the blade get it nice and wet that way when you go in here it'll mix
better it won't stick to this blade now what you want to do to guys is get this cord away because
you don't want to start mixing and have the cord wrap up in here I've done that more than my share
of times so okay I'm gonna get started now this particular stuff has sand in it as well everything
you need is in this bucket right here you don't need to add lime the lime is in it and if it's
a little too rich a little too sandy a little too dry a little too watery we improvise now now what
I'm doing is I'm I'm holding them in Reverse that way it pulls it down in Reverse will pull it down
guys okay if I go that's another finger it'll spin if you get if you get it where it's spinning just
go and reverse up you don't want that because now we get kind of compromised all right here
we go once more a little bit out of time and if it gets too hard guys you can add a little bit more
water what I did was I got a little my drinking water bottles here and I'll put a little bit more
water in it and one more thing - guys this is a must take a trial it doesn't matter what kind of
trial and you go and get the edges it's a huge deal right there let's try this one more time
different ways to go what I want to do is get all the mud off the sides 80% of this bucket
is mixed now I want to take the bottom, and this will go all the way down by itself the
drill if I put it in reverse it'll just pull it all the way down there you go,
guys, that's a perfect mix and doesn't take that long
And here's another thing to guys you don't want to over mix your one coat materials
they're about you now I put it in forward and it just pops it out for me I'll put this guy right
in here and clean the blade another worse in a dirty blade but a lot of these materials these
one coat materials you cannot over mix it because it beats up the integrity of them so anyway guys
this is what you want you want your mud just like this from the top to the bottom that way
you could apply it that's good mud here if it's fallen off if it's fallen off of this trial put
some more material in it if it's way too stiff add some more water just mix it anyway Robert I
told you I'd show you how we do it in a drill again we usually use mixers where we add our
own sand we'll put a hundred pound bag ninety pound bag and then three to one with sand but
if you buy this at say Lowe's Home Depot you don't have to do that you all these a these
bags have everything you need in it just add water anyway guys my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk
Giordano plastering ,Jason on the camera and as usual folks we will see you guys on the next one.