hi guys Kirk family here with Kirk Giordano plastering today Jacobs is gonna show us how
to golf he's gonna teach you guys a few things here that is so close dude actually what we're
doing is whoa man that almost wet I look use my Darby I got to give this a try I suck thank you
for the tip Jacob anyway guys first golfing tennis balling I suck at all of them but one
thing I do very well is stucco I'm gonna show you what we're doing here guys we are taking
these retaining walls now these retaining walls have seen better days it's only about ten years
now and they're they're actually not too bad however the fellows who did this there's a
few areas bubbling and blistering why because it wasn't a totally clean wall when they put
the plaster on that's why it come off when you're doing a skim coat whether or not it's over brick
cinder block concrete the surface has got to be clean I'm talking clean enough to lick or eat
off it's got to be that clean and over here on some of the buttresses by the way you see this
this right here this is called a buttress or you could call it a side wall but this stabilizes the
whole foundation so it doesn't lean many of the foundations we do have big cracks in them where
we could stick our hands in why because they don't have these buttresses these sides right
here really stabilize a lot of it now granted this is there for looks you got to have a side
but it really also does stabilize it I'll show you guys something else here if you're going to
do this get a gas-powered pressure washer because the electric ones they go like 1600 psi to 2,000
not enough guys you got a really itched this and I already pressure washed it it's a hot day right
now it's about 95 so we pressure washed it early and it dries quick just absorbs right in this tip
right here turbo temp a lot more force centrifugal force centrifugal force anyway like a helicopter
but it really is strong now that we got everything pressure washed what we're doing is we pulled back
allow for the color to go to the bottom because we're putting on a bonding agent guys now I want
to point this out because so many people come in said gee where's Kirk what bonding agent do you
use and where can we find I mean as a weld creep why am i using well decreed by Larsen's because
it's blue it's chemically engineered to adhere concrete to concrete I use it for color coach
too but I do a certain thing with it so you folks you're going to Home Depot or Lowe's you can find
the quick read quick read is just as good they wrote the book on stucco and stucco products
the sick of products they also have it both of those stores those are more for that additives
for cement plaster you put it in there it makes it adhere it makes it a little stronger so get
either one of these guys you only find this at professional material yards so what we're doing
now is we're covering everything and generally when I cover I'll just walk up these stairs for
a second excuse me guys excuse me all right Dan is Anna Lou are gonna be plastering soon but what Dan
is doing he's coming all the way to the bottom and he's going all the way to the top because
the roller won't do that the roller will get it all over here we don't want to do that and the
roller will drip what I do is I put a vinyl tape right here and I put about I put the vinyl tape
where it covers about an inch and a half of the tile because we don't want to destroy this tile
because the bonding agent have a tendency to come and go underneath the paper every single time our
color code is going to be above 3/16 of an inch thick so because the color code is 3/16 of an
inch thick we got this tape 3/16 give or take it could be 1/8 it could be 1/4 it doesn't matter
that much but when we pull this tape if it's right against the wall we pull all the stucco
off the bottom the idea is to give this a finish that won't bleed through meaning it won't come
off it'll be maintenance-free they'll never have to paint this this was painted so what we do they
won't have to paint I want to show you one more thing guys address this question and concern to
La Habra at the risk of whining come on La Habra when I was back in the day I mean we I've been
in this trade for over 30 years now the harbor used to have charts like this you see those big
samples now those big samples are work and this is stucco supply my buddy or Dan Smith I used to
work for Danny Smith plastering now he has his business in San Jose but I noticed their color
charts and they're always big like this people can make a a choice much easier now La Habra they got
to fancy come on guys with these fancy you got a three page color chart and your samples here
like six or seven out of my clients can't make a decision based on these little tiny samples
they used to have them like this years ago if you folks are looking for colors that you could
distinguish easily yeah you have a long ways to go but this these charts make a real difference
and I only bring this up because these folks had a hard time choosing a color on and I thought you
know a lot of people do because these chips are too small anyway that's irrelevant and whiney but
I thought I'd throw that out what we're gonna do now is we're gonna finish putting a bonding
agent all over here I'm gonna help J's gonna help he's going to get off the camera then we're going
to start spreading this out we'll show you how it looks after while doing it and and what to
do and what not to do and we'll show you the final results when we get done with everything
okay guys why do you ask me why do you wear those white shirts one reason right now it's
about a hundred degrees and it's 100 degrees we're cooking I prefer not to burn blush okay thank you
Protects my arm from lie burns. We're using a color coat right now. Color code
has got lime and lime blistering any that stuff that gets on you it burns
because Jay and I are working in the hot sun and, it's about I'd say one o'clock
These walls are hot. Having hot walls sucks up the moisture as fast as I put
this on. It sucks the moisture right out, so you really got to know what you're doing when
you're working in the hot sun if you're smart, you're waiting for a day where it cools off,
but we don't always have that luxury and what I'm doing here.
the tops here a hollow so I'm putting a little bit more in the tops kind of fix that I store
all right okay what I'm keeping in mind guys is actually do media the heat the wall here this wall
is hot if I were to touch it it's probably 102 so it's sucking the moisture right out what's this
blue stuff well that blue stuff is called weld creep if I didn't have weld creep on there which
is a bonding agent I'd have joints already but the bonding agent is stopping it from absorbing
all of the moisture out immediately so there's a lot of things going on right now one of them
is the bonding agent stopping this wall from sucking the moisture out of this color coat or
the water to 100 degree weather already three we're doing these walls and though the bottom
walls are heating up these bottom walls down here that as they get hotter and hotter gonna be harder
and harder to spread it so I'm gonna hit those with water before we come to it difficult part
floating right now we're using a heavy heavy sand and the heaviest sand there is a 16:20
what's the lightest thing guys that would be a 30-30 silica it goes by 1620s this 2030s medium
and then 3030 is the finest like Santa Barbara smooth admission finishes the grains of sand
dictate a lot now this one with the heavy sand gives me the opportunity to do a few things to
do me the opportunity to put it on heavier I want a heavy finish because we had block
lines showing cinderblock lines showing you want one as heavy as you can go now granted
we didn't do the first coat but I assume they went just by looking at the tile that are set
below about quarter inch to possibly happened in some areas they were a little thicker in other
areas lighter all right guys we got lucky when I say lucky how's that well it's a BA hundred in
six right now let the wind picked up so with the wind picking up it only feels like I'm hood it for
anyway we're on home stretch now my job is to local high NJ right now Dan and clean up
along with Lu me and Lou gutsy the easy job of cleaning up I'll show you what we do because
this is indented up here we just take it like that to clean part of the flow hey J let's uh
let's put a finish on this and let Dan finish the this last little piece we're gonna do is
we're gonna take you guys and show you what we've done so those of you who say man why did they do
all that good question glad you asked we've done all this because this finish here it's
50 times thicker than paint so if you have a finish that's 50 times thicker than paint and
it's cement ish as' see this cement issues like a brick what happens when you get a brick wet it
darkens like this you see that that tile darkened that's why it's maintenance-free the other areas
up here where you could see all of the cinder block when it got wet I'll show you we're trying
to cool the walls off anyway because it's so hot once you start plastering 100 or above you better
know what you're doing like all these we just did it I soaked the walls down in order to cool
them off because you touch them with your hand you'll burn right here you can you can cook an
egg on this so what I was doing was I was hitting them with water prior just right over the bonding
agent I was hitting him with water and what this water does is it caused a lot of the concrete
off that way we could go ahead and apply it and not have it suck up instantly now notice there
are no block lines appearing when it's getting wet right here if they appear is at the end of
the world not really that just basically means somebody didn't apply the base coat or the color
thick enough anyway this as I said a minute ago is maintenance free for a hundred years it won't come
off ever like see see the gazebo or the trellis you can see where it's starting to rust here and
there that's got to be repainted every five to seven eight years this 100 years it will never
come off never peel off if done properly anyway you get an idea of how to do that I'm gonna help
Dan finish his job over there and we thank you for watching and as usual let's see you guys on
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