howdy there folks Kirk and Jason Giordano, here we're gonna show you today is how to match this
unusual texture exactly Jason's by John I'm helping him out with it he wanted to show you
guys how to put the texture but I can't work that camera so I get to do what I best now we came here
we're running out of daylight obviously so we slam this out and then like half-hour this is
about an inch and a half thick standard stuck was 3/4 when you go with the color coat 7/8 sometimes
we get jobs like this where his Shearer was 3/8 and the regular wood was 3/4 so we had to make
up for so we have accelerators in here so the accelerators speed up the drying anyway we're
very thick and I'll show you how we match these finishes here all right guys here's the things
what you remember if you're gonna match a texture like this usually we'll see a texture like this
and it looked like a seagull I've seen a lot of those or it'll be like say somebody else put a
trowel and start at I say 9 and run all the way to 3 o'clock position or start at 9 and run the
12 o'clock position on the clock this fella here he just put them random every which way but that's
nothing we can't match and how this guy did it is I'll show you I could see where he pushed in
hard here he pushed in hard here then he loosened up pushed in hard here and he loosened up he even
came this way a few times because wherever the deepest impression is that's where he started
so anyway this is the base coat now so what I'm gonna do is can you get up close to see
how grainy this is Jay I mean this is a very very very heavy load finished that means it's
very gritty so what I'm gonna do right now is I'm gonna follow his contours and generally what I'll
do is I'll follow the certain ones first that way when we float everything when we when we
get to doing this Center they all look like say here I'll match that one here I'll match that one
we try to match a few first okay now that I've matched a few now I'm going to just do what he
did he started here he went some half circles he went this way he went that way I'm looking
at his work not my trial yeah I look at his work I don't need to look at the wall you've got a few
little s shaves again I I've been doing this so long I'll look at his wall and not what I'm doing
what once this sets and well again we're running out of daylight it's the end of the day I figure
with the amount of mud we have on here right now another 15 minutes they're gonna be hard
as a rock so I'm going to clean that planks I'll have to sit in wet mud and continue with this this
isn't the final finish far from it once once I get the whole thing done I'm gonna take it down then
I have the luxury of just standing around for a little while I'm gonna take a sponge float a
green sponge float with a lot of water and bring the aggregate out I'm gonna bring the sand out
by sponge floating it and feather in these joints so we get to that stage we'll show you the actual
sponge float because it's kind of cool to see how it's done okay guys we are at a stage now I
think we got about 10 minutes 15 minutes worth of daylight left so what I generally do is I did my
top but I did it off a bucket I don't like folks to see that cuz they might try to do it and step
on a bucket and fall off and say I seen Kurt do it anyway bottoms done tops done I'm taking my
sponge float this got water it does water tap some out flip it around catch them out now what
we want to do is get that joint first get the joints so it doesn't fall off the joint is if
you can feather a joint well that's half the battle right there and again I could put some
marks in the wall with this float but I prefer to let it set with the trial first for example
if I go hard you see I can put a I can put a mark there but we're pretty set here in there anyhow
this is this is what we do now if you're observing cuz you say man I got to finish like that I want
to shutter get that I'm gonna run out of water in a minute okay this float is dry now if I keep
I keep using it I'm gonna drag the stucco right off so here we go put more water in it more water
you've got to keep dipping it in the water when you start to drag it that means you got to too
much stucco in the float that's how we do it guys you can depending on what you got there
you can dig this heel in just like that let's go upward look at what they've look what your
matching always in and pull some to the to the actual joint to that way it feathers in a little
bit nicer this is a difficult texture to high end look pretty good at it anyhow you get the
idea we have a mountain right here we're in El Cerrito we've got Oakland Hills here and
the Sun is down off that mountain so we've got to really get cleaned up generally what
I like to do is pull everything down and show you the complete finish but I don't
have that luxury because I got a mixer and I don't have my tail lights for it and I got to
get out of here so anyhow just like that and this is what you call us Oh an Adobe kind of
a Humpty finish real simple if you know how to do it time-consuming but you got to know
what you're doing guys anyhow Jay and I thank you for watching and as usual guys have a great day