Good morning folks Kirk here with kirk Giordano plastering, this one is for Michael, a fella who ask me
how do you work them boards and sometimes? I see you taking it out of buckets, well sometimes
I do take it out of buckets, but I prefer a board. now these boards I got to set up one is set up
vertically, Me I'm tall, skinny so I like I don't want to reach down so much. The other
same stand, you can put it down here but notice the difference you see that it's like
that other board is up to here, some guys are shorter, they like it down to here, so that I
bend it are so much anyway. Michael was asking me with about how to spread it? I'll just
normally take it off like that if you're trying to learn how to do this do this a whole bunch
of times. just play around with it you get the the idea, of the mud. Generally, I'll hit the
top first and then I'll hit my corners, I'll come this way, I'll start at the bottom, come this way, so what I'm doing is I'm filling, filling that corner. Hey Dan, what's up dad? Grab me a square trowel, please. there's a
difference between using a square trowel and a swimming pool trowel. Notice their width, Okay,
They asked this to, how come you use a pool trowel? well if I'm using this one and I fill it up all
the way watch how much drops off. I'm trying to make some drop-off but I've been doing this so
long, yeah a lot drops off now if I switch over to my 20-inch swimming pool trowel, I'll put some
on, Hardly any drops off. because I'm using the center of the trowel which right there if I
were to take it off and fill this up here, and this and when I hit the wall naturally it's
gonna squeeze off. We'll end up with a wheelbarrow of mud on the sides, anyhow after I say I cut
it I will cut in cutting in just me do all the detail work you did it stuff that is a little
tougher to do with trowels then I'll switch to a cheater, especially if I'm working myself
but right now Jason's got the camera he's helping me spread and Dan and Madeline are actually here
too, helping me spread then I'll grab this guy's now see I gotta bend down for this board here so
spread it out and all we're doing today it's a scratch coat if you look up you see the scratch
lines it's called the scratch you're gonna let this cure about 48 hours possibly the weekend
we're gonna hose it down and hydrate it so it has a chance to crack we want it to crack the,
the first coat you get all these tools boards and stands at Westside building supplies they're
located in Oakland. Jess guys Armando and Eric have any technical questions you can always call
Tom Veraretta, just like Veretta, beretta he'll tell you have anything about any product you need to know
so I'm gonna continue working here and last thing on show you Michael, since you asked me about the
tools and the boards and stands is I will take this scratcher here come around just like that
when I'm done with everything I think that does it, it allows for a mechanical bond for the next
coat it'll go in these horizontal groups and it will bomb mechanically in there that way
you get a good good fit there why wears long sleeve white shirts because no matter how good
you are it's gonna get all over your arms and you don't want this it's got lie in it all over
your arms let's see anyhow I'm gonna go ahead and continue with this we're gonna scratch the
entire addition give it at least minimum 48 hours secure then we're going to come
back and Brown it's a real simple finish it's called a float finish real simple I might show
you guys there too but I've done other videos where I showed you how to do that anyway this
is Kirk with Kirk Giordano plastering, thank you, folks for watching thanks,
Jason for doing the video. We'll see you guys at the next one.