hi guys Kirk and jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering what I want to show you guys today
is what we have here is a heavy - finish it's been painted multiple times probably about 15
times it's actually peeling here and there and well it says legit can you match that finish
I said absolutely I'm show you what with just this patch right here now this pile right here
you might the camera might show wow that looks like stiff muddy it is somewhat stiff but it's
the one coat material and we put it on a dry board when you put it on a dry board that's what happens
it won't spread out the bottom will be stiff but that's okay we can work with that I'm gonna show
you something when when we're doing uh and these Frank were a little Wiggly too but nothing we
can't handle when you're doing two coats same same day back to back do things to remember are
get your joints first get my joint right in here and get it way up under there squeeze it in there
a lot of muscles to get it in there then you could use strength or skill in a few minutes after you
gotten this real tight here's the muscle part lot of muscle in there and by the way guys this isn't
something we laugh and if you're familiar with our work you know when we laugh something we use
a staple gun and staples they've used burning nails here and can you use Furness absolutely
you could use burn nails staples screws fastest way is with staples in a gun but a lot of people
don't want to spend 500 bucks on a pneumatic gun compressor hoses and all that so if you don't want
to spend the 500 bucks it is best to just use furry nails the wire by the way is self first
anyhow what i was i want to point out on this job is get rid of that little itty-bitty trial
you get my Congo trial is on this particular job because it's a heavy sand I don't know if
the cameras gonna show the heavy Sam but what I want to point out is our material yards and most
plaster material yards will have a sand which we call Oly Oly are Felton sand oleum Felton cent is
a plaster or sand made for plastering but this particular finish is a - but it's been softened
by many years of paint so rather than scratch and brown this and - it what I'm prepared to
do is we're scratching it and browning it and this particular sand is from Acapulco we are in
the Acapulco Albany open in California Acapulco sells all kinds of sands plans you name it rocks
things like that but they have plaster sand to have Olie sand but they also have a clean course
wash sand what a clean course washed sand main it's a heavier sand its course very coarse as
opposed to light which means when I float this in a minute I can bring out the aggregate aggregates
a fancy name for sand so I'm going to bring the sand out and that sand will match their finish
meaning I don't have to dash it if I didn't go to Acapulco and get some of that clean course washed
and coarse wash again no salt in it that's why they wash it to get the salt out you don't want
salt when in plaster bad news so this is clean course washed meaning again we can use it for
plaster so now that I'm got this on here a little bit more to get my corner a little bit straighter
as we didn't lastest not criticize in their corners or anything but it could have been a
little straighter if they're not straight we'll straight with the mud so come in here straighten
in it and what I do is I look for the holidays I can look this trial that I'm using which I've
heard a lot of people say hey Kirk you're not a real plaster that Charlie you have is not a real
trial actually this is for swimming pools it's a 20 by 5 it's not completely round it's this part
is straight but it's for swimming pools but I just happen to like it I've been using it for 30 years
so I'm fond of them we used to use these all the time when we would do interior finishes do a lot
of Cove ceilings and I just got to liken these guys anyhow now that I'm flush down two coats
okay I'm using this as a rod now cuz it's pretty big I'm flushed out where I've done both coats
and because we're on a hot day I can do this if it wasn't about 90 degrees I could not do this Plus
the board sucked out a lot of the life of that now what this is guys is the green sponge float now
I'm going to give this a really heavy sponge float finish will chill actually match this because the
sand that I'm using is very very heavy very heavy it's again it's clean course washed meaning it's
much fatter the aggregate it's almost like rocks in here but when I'm done it'll match all right
guys and on a corner here's how you do a corner guys we want to cover the wire if we can an old
Cerf can so we take it out to it we take it out and we just look at that why the wire take this
side get that and the idea is to cover the wire guys if I go like this I'm uncovering the wire
so go into the wire go into it and then here where the corners not straight I'm gonna go upward if I
go down it'll fall right off a couple little tips I wouldn't call these trade secrets but the the
heavy grit sand is something that usually only us fellows in the trades realize all right I'm gonna
get the joint now and what's a joint I don't want always a little guy about garbey in case I want to
use it but I don't need it okay I'm gonna get the joint with a sponge float right here once and I'm
gonna turn the float around and tie that in all right now that's that matches what with what they
have what because there's this painted and they have so much here I know what the pressure washer
is gonna get off and what it's not last thing I have is this joint before you get a joint guys
you don't want a lot of mud on your clothes so I'm gonna get the mud off now all I'm gonna do is
tie this in I'm gonna tie it into the existing I better go right here pull it upward pull it upward
notice how heavy that grip is I mean it's even little rocks right here but that's what they
have they have a heavy - but rather than me - this and have it when it's painted too heavy
you've got to kind of look at it and say gee what can you do that when it's done you only
have to prime it and paint it anybody says well just keep put five more coats of paint on it well
you didn't know how to match it to begin with and these guys know I know how to match it so
I don't have that luxury of coming up with a whiny excuse as far as well paint it five more
times and it'll match okay now that that's done that is pretty much what they have but because
there's this though got so many coats of paint and the pressure wash and even what 3,000 psi is
the only gonna take so much of that off they're still going to have a lot of flat spots so what
I'm doing is I'm cleaning the trowel it doesn't matter which trowel I use a square one what size
the idea is now that you have a clean shot if it was dry it would drag this it's wet so I'm
gonna take this I'm just gonna barely hold it and all I want to do is knock it down just a
hair just a hair so when this is painted it's as close of a match as you can get yeah because this
has got so many coats of paint on it there's nothing to it guys but it does take practice
Oh Kirk makes it look easy because it is easy for me anyway guys Barry right habit I got a
whole house to do so I'm gonna quit messing around anyway my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk
giordano plastering we thank you for watching and as usual guys we'll see you on the next one
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