Howdy folks, kirk, and jay here with kirk giordano plastering,
today i want to show you how we do this patchwork. In the description of this video, you'll see how
we lathed this and why if you're interested in it.
They had some problems with the windows a lot of problems, so we solved that anyhow on that video it was cold, and this one it's hot
what we're going to do is we're going to spread.
Kemset plaster is silica and lye-free plaster. What does that mean?
That means that if i'm not wearing gloves and it gets on my hands,
my hands won't burn. That means that if it gets all over my clothes, they won't
disintegrate. So why am i using it? Because i can i like it, it's a great product.
it's like you see that that's uh it sticks well it's like whipping cream guys it's
beautiful stuff I'll show you how and they're gonna replace this roof anyway guys, so anybody
watching says kirk you got stuff on the roof. don't worry about it it's going to be replaced.
That's a lot of mud it's pretty sticky stuff anyway so what we're doing here is
we are filling out this coat here and how much how thick are we going we are going
an inch and a half, and you might say well gee isn't stuck at 7 8 of an inch yes it is, however,
the stucco here they had it i guess 80 90 years ago when the house was built,
and then somebody came along and said, "Hey, let's put another finish over that" so they
no doubt pressure washed it and put another finish on. just what this is that's another finish
it's a brown coat as well as a color coat, so we have to build out to that.
This particular stuff here you can build out pretty thick, I like it because
It goes on pretty simple, it matches almost all finishes. We can do a steel trowel finish. We can do
almost any finish. We are simply going to match this finish here
and by the way, guys this Kemset, if you're using it, it's kind of like structo-lite, only
plasters would probably know what the heck that means, but structo-lite is gluey and it used for,
say, insides hospitals, schools, police stations, racquetball courts, anywhere where they want
extra fireproof ratios or soundproof ratios this stuff is great for that.
The fact that it's lightweight, come on now you can't beat that that just makes it, now
you might look at this and say, wow, that guy's using the extra size hawk he must be strong.
No, I'm not strong, guys i'm about as strong as the next plasterer.
I can put a lot of mud on here because it doesn't weigh anything. It's like hollow it's uh
glass beads in this instead of sand, which creates the extra weight, that's the glass beads
and because of the fact that it does not contain
Lye, that's the stuff that burns your skin
if it gets on this frame what happens nothing, i just wipe it off you won't see me get like
this with regular stucco because that will burn. I was talking with the hod carriers that i
sometimes use, and he says "man, I'd like to see that product" because he hasn't worked with us on this.
Jay and me and Lou are usually doing this, oh you guys might have seen my brother do
another video but we're usually working with this anyway the hod carrier was telling me, I got
just a little bit on my elbow right here i had to go to the hospital they removed the poison
because he was scabbing up and jacking up anyway, he wasn't happy he was suffering,
Welcome to plastering guys, we don't usually talk about that stuff, because it's ugly, we try to
keep it positive and tell you about the beauty of plaster and not get negative about side effects of
getting this stuff all over your skin, again it doesn't matter if it gets all over my skin
because i'm used to being dirty do i like it? not really but
i'm used to it. That's the trade i chose. I've been doing this for about 40 years.
So, in other words, i'm no spring chicken and if i'm no spring chicken,
do I want a heavy, heavy stucco? Give me a break? No no no, I do not want to carry
heavy stucco that's mixed with sand, can i? Well, I've been doing it for 40 years, yeah,
i can still do it but anyway, getting back to this material, i'm showing you how easy it is,
and it's not sold everywhere in fact if anybody's interested, this can be used inside or exterior
what I'll do is I'll leave the fellas information of who to call if you're
interested in it because it's not sold at the material yard that we buy our stuff.
yeah generally we go to, "West Side Building Materials" it's a professional plastering yard, and we get
our cement, but they don't have it there.
I just call direct and say, "Hey, send it to my house," they say okay as we're contractors. I don't know if they'll do that for homeowners, but anyway
so much for that, so what we're doing again guys am i'm putting a fat coat on here inch and a half
when we get to the stage of finishing it this got to set a while uh
when it gets to that stage of finishing it we're doing a lot of different things on this job
every job we go to we're doing all kinds of different things, not just one, okay guys we are
done with all we're gonna do here we've got ten windows on this house, so we gotta
get busy, anyway the transition around here now this particular material is supposed to go one
inch thick what happens if you go inch and a half without allowing the first coat to dry you get a
slight sag like that but in a half hour hour that can be just floated in i'll show you something
guys okay if i want to make this very smooth I take a trowel like this and i make it smooth
now this you got to keep your tools wet guys because this is
very similar to the structo-lite interior it's gluey so if your tools are dry it's not going
to work.
if i want to make it twice as heavy as this, i just add the water now let's see.
kirk's the best, all right guys that's how wet this is that's an inch and a half thick
now i'm just trying to prove a point there guys you could still trowel it get that out of there
come on now, you don't want to break the pack and
jay is, came up with an idea, he says, hey dad let's do like one of those, where's Waldo, things
who out there watching what we do, can tell we did the paper and wire
and this coat all on the same day because we can? that's a little trick question if you watch the
video some sometimes guys are so sharp to pick out things, i thought, man, I didn't even see that and
i'm doing the job, anyhow this is Kemset plaster, we thank you, folks, for watching and as usual we'll see you
guys on the next one.
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