Hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering today what I'm going to show you is
a simple thing it's the old wood redwood lath and plaster now what we had here was just like
a little mountain and when I was looking at it I thought I said well gee how much should we take
out and ken or do we even need to or can we just skim it what we had here was it was bubbled out a
little bit and I said you guys pound it on the wall on the opposite side of this wall he said
yeah we did because we had a mirror over there and we a vanity mirror and we had to push it and
I said what you did was you made a little piece of plaster loose and that plaster fell between
this and it bubbled this so there was a little mountain and the only way to get rid of that is
live with it or tear it out with a razor knife and it'd take about a half hour to tear this
out and contain it so that's what he did and here just a little bit of a little bit of movement the
wall is pretty solid other than that but when you pound on the opposite wall causes vibration will
cause cracking and sometimes that loose plaster will go behind the wood or on top of the wood
and bulge this out a little bit I'll show you how we fix that quickly now there's a lot of
types of mud to use guys I'm actually using a compound plaster it's mainly for taping mud why
do we have this pink here well the pink here is called plaster well that's made by Larson's and
you put it on the wood lath here so that it gets rid of the dust and now our particular mud that
I'm using will adhere to it and how many muds are there unless I'm using a 20-minute mud what
they also have awestruck delight it's dr. light you really can't do it in a day and most of the
stuff I do guys is in a day now what I'm doing here is I'm filling that guy up right there and
I'm just filling this up now I had five minute mud that that would set but what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna allow this to set and in about Oh 10 minutes this is 20 minute mud Jay took 10
minutes to mix it and so we got about 10 minutes to play with it in 10 minutes I'm gonna texture
this right here and match this I'll show you how we do that - all right guys back over here I gave
that actually about 15 minutes and what I do is while the mud is still a little loose I'll come
in here and get out some of the holidays make it blend in what I want to do is I want to blend the
sides in because if you blend your sides in real well that's half the job right there feathering
and guys is the most important so we got that done and we look at this wall here this is a
light skip trial finish done with a pan and a big 22 inch trial and you just pull it sideways but I
can match it with this guy here what I'm gonna do is just take a little tiny bit off here and
look at what they've got and you get out the way here and just pull it sideways if I don't
pull mine sideways they're not gonna match they're sideways that's all we do guys move
a bit sideways pull it pull it and if you miss a little spot you'd always come back to her there we
go get that little piece in there there sideways blam then how flat there is is I flatten my now
nothing to it, guys, and yeah, but it's a little too soupy like mine is right here.
I'll give it five more minutes them and now hurry one minute, and I come and play around with it a
little bit more for the sake of showing you guys that's it right there. We just give it
a little skip child finish, and we match it. I remember don't pound on the walls opposite
of plaster wall screw everything in when you come to old wood laughs my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk
Giordano plastering we thank you for watching and as usual, we'll I'll see you on the next one
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