Hi guys, Kirk and Jason here, here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today I'm gonna show you
guys, how to repair this ceiling if you're familiar with my work, you know, Kirk, can do that easily
I'm gonna show you my wife's work she's from Manchester England, this is how she would plaster
a ceiling, because she's British, she would put this band-aid right there and that's called, "plastering,"
in a ceiling, they call band-aids plasters, there she'll always say hey baby, I need "a plaster" and
I'll say you're looking at one, she'll say, don't be daft? I need a real plaster, and I'd say you mean
I'm not a real plasterer, I've got 10,000 subscribers, they call me a real plasterer before she get too
pissed off. Anyway it cracks me up when she says those terminologies, like a boot or a bonnet on a
car or the best one is alminiun, that's aluminum, anyway, guys, I'm gonna get back to what I was doing
I thought I'd harass my wife because she's not here, what I'm using guys is a 20-minute mud what
is a 20-minute mud? well, that means I have 20- minutes to apply it and what happens after 20
minutes it gets hard as a rock and I cannot use it, so the first thing I want to do is the fella here
took all this off the owner of this what we did is we put this plaster weld a bonding agent on not so
much as our plaster will adhere because it's going to adhere going through these keys it's going to
mushroom above the keys, I put this on because two things, I do want it to adhere here, I wanted
to adhear here but I want to clean the dust nothing adheres to dust guys not a thing so now that I got
this mud mixed, oh a little bit of stretching here, I don't want to move the latter a whole bunch of times, I'm gonna
go ahead and put a base coat, you know what's the base coat you can call it a scratch coat but what
I want to do is put my first coat down, because I will when I'm done, put several coats had this
asked me an interesting question, he says Kirk, do you think, by the way look how sticky this stuff
is, gonna it is sticky mud, by the way, I'll get back to the question the fellas hey, gee, can we use
sheetrock I said well if you're gonna use sheet-rock if I were you, I'd tear it all off and then re-sheetrock and he says why? I said well looking at the ceiling from what I see in some areas it's only
about an eighth of an inch thick, while in other areas it is about a half-inch to 3/4 thick, welcome
to plastering, that's what happens when you got a guy who does everything by hand it's it covers
the wood lath, but there's no sure way to get it perfect as far as to depth-wise anyway, I'm doing
here again, is I'm embedding this and I want it to go through my keys what is the key guys not
something you open the door with the key, is these grooves it keys in another thing, two guys come on
and pull this off he says gee, how do I know when to stop? that's a good question that's that is a
very good question, because what you want to do is pull it either you pull the whole thing off
or you do the best you can with what you have, now nobody wants to pull a whole ceiling off, but if
you do it with sheetrock after you repair right here we had some issues so I say, well gee
you see where this joist is put a couple screws and so we did just in case it looks pretty solid
to me okay I'm got to get more mud out of this bucket, and again guys, I'm not using structo-lite,
I'm not using an imperial base, or a diamond basecoat, why am I not using those because, Oh Kirk,
does not mess around and with an imperial base or a diamond base or structo-lite, that stuff
which have to set for about Oh at least 45 minutes possibly an hour and in an hour I'm gonna be done
I'm not gonna be messing around here waiting for a product to dry, so finish this once you guys get
the base coat down the rest is pretty much simple okay that's done go here here one last piece and
if you see what I see it's starting to come off take your trial clean it okay now we want to push
this in tight guys push it in your joints tight why don't we push it into the joints real tight
because that's what's gonna hold the rest of this and make it the rest it makes me existing
more solid all right so that's a base coat we're a scratch code I don't need scratch lines but that's
the first coat what I've got here is I'm gonna use the rest of this mud here which is about oh
another fat hock and while I'm doing this Jake's gonna go mix me up some more mud so you'll see me
when I put the final coat on because I almost have enough here to to to flush this out but still I
need another half a bucket so it's gonna go mix me that half a bucket and by the next time you
see me I'll have this spread and look a little flatter then it'll be dry enough to accept the
next coat 20 minute mod means five minutes to mix we're a second-story have to walk up here so I got
about six seven more minutes this is gonna be hard as a rock all right guys let me show you where we
are right now Jay just mixed another one through that it's hard guys it didn't take but 15 minutes
if you go over your edges guys take a trough and you can shape it like this yes you go over it or
you can use what I use and that is mekong a trowel look at that big baby you can take it here on edge
a little bit of elbow grease and shave it but I didn't I left a pretty good job so I don't need to
do that this actually acts as a Darby to slicker where you've got a lot of room all right so j-just
mix this, and this is, oh it's the same 20-minute mud guys, what's 20-minute mud? This is up right here
so that everywhere all the hardware stores all in the tour yards for us professional plasterers
like Westside shamrock diamond cow fly clothes they all sell this stuff including all of the
major hardware stores now because I'm using such a large trial this is actually a trial for concrete
but I could make it work I like these large crowds because act as a Darby also and we're the fellow
who originally did this years ago he had an area that was a sixteenth of an inch and when that was
Oh three quarters of an inch she had a bigger child he would be able to determine the depth
better okay stretch all over there there's that and finish up by quarter here I'm gonna need one
more trial full okay and I'm using this scoop you buy these scoops online guys where you get them at
the same material yards I just now was referring to you because they don't sell these at Home
Depot or Lowe's scoops go online and buy plaster scoop all right we are okay no we want to do is
round out I'm using the existing stucco's for my guide so half of this is on the existing stucco
because it's such a large job one more time right here I'm using the existing wall as a template
okay now we make it pretty guys that's done their head see usually guys you don't want to
work directly over your head because that'll be the time when you spill it right number of times
all right couple more done and then what we do is we allow this 20-minute bud a few minutes to set
then we use a felt brush water brush a sprayer and we bake it pretty okay one more child fall
here and then let the set guys for about Oh 10 minutes and then I'll show you how we do
the finishing is similar to what I just showed you a minute ago but I'll be getting all the lines
out so that it's smooth in order to do that it's best to just have a little patience and
let the wall hard don't try to muscle it okay guys here's the end part you wet a brush or a
felt or use a spray bottle however you want to do it you wet these joints guys because I can
bring this to life only once or twice and 15 to 20 minutes it's gone when I say it's gone
it's gone I even if the amount of strength I use won't bring it back to life okay I'm gonna use
the equivalent of say if I had a dumbbell here the equivalent of a 25 pound dumbbell and what
I'm doing it push it up I'm pushing the parm that's about a 30 pound dumbbell push hard guy
and that gets rid of your joints if you have any lines little water and press hard that gets rid
of all the lines guys more lines and more water so I actually have a spray bottle in the truck I just
spray the whole thing it brings it back to life for about 10 minutes and then once it's gone it
is gone no amount of muscle is going to bring it back to life after them so hey guys we are
done I'm sure there's a lot of things that you folks might ask but I can't do a more thorough
walkthrough than that and for me why who says I need a blaster I'm gonna give you that band-aid
back anyway my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you guys for watching as usual I'll see
you on the next one once again folks we thank you for watching and I really enjoy all your comments
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