all right guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering today what we're doing
is doing just the face of this house felt here had a bad roof he put a new roof on it and the
dirt you know all the cement and everything been pouring down this for 20 years so what we're doing
is we're doing another acrylic drive it over an acrylic drive it that we did about 20 years ago
anyhow Tim spreading and I'm right behind him on the float man we're doing these molds and we're
going under here I'm using a brush guys as Tim spreads it I take my brush go here and then I
float everything what we do is we take off the existing material we float it to the new stuff
just like this and we are working amongst wash these birds your name it is we've got all kinds
of issues here so Tim is spreading and what I do is I float everything and brush everything in
and it is my job also to pull the tape like say once we're done with an area this this acrylic
sticks to everything so and you have an acrylic that stick to everything takes up a lot of work
to tape everything earlier I had a bird fly up right here I'm hoping I didn't scare the
mother away permanently but anyway so to pull the tape off drop it out of our away we have to have
a bird then some of the wasps nests that are all over the place and take that take this one
pull that off and what I do guys is Tim spread and we pulled the downspout off I get my float
in water this is an acrylic maintenance-free membrane after about 20 20 years they say it
loses some of its waterproof resistance these but they do last a long time ago it's been at
least 20 years since we've done this what we're doing here is we had to get up top but we had a
ladder up here I don't want to show you guys a bunch of weird stuff somebody might try to
copy what we do anyway Tim's going to spread the rest of this out I'm going to float right behind
we're gonna tear this scaffold down and Jay is going to be right with us also he's gonna help
us spread you see how that goes one guy spreading another guy floating usually for this we have two
guys spreading so Jays just down there temporary to get to get the video and show you folks how we
do this and color coats guys is one of the most difficult things in the plastering industry so
any of you guys watch and say well man I can do that you might be able to do it but it does take
about 20 years to learn 10 years to learn how to spread these acrylic and Ezer like I was telling
the fellow who emailed me and says hey man I'll work for you for free if you could if I could
work a few days with you and you show me how to do this that way I can do my house doesn't work
that way I've had guys that work with me for a year and still can't spread this particular
material so I told that fellow something similar I said man I'd love to take you on at that offer
the work for free but you really got to have hands-on for at least five years and then this
this right here it just takes years of practice because we're spreading out a gluey sticky sticky
substance and if you don't have five 10 years of tools you're never gonna get this guy so anyhow
we're gonna finish this off and when we get to the bottom we'll show you the completion okay guys we
forgot all about that we were actually showing you folks how to do stuff we're standing here working
talking about a whole bunch of useless trivia stuff that don't amount to nothing Tim's love
life anyway Jay's gonna pull off today then did plastic and I'm floating all this stuff
we're doing a few different things here this guy's we're always multitasking oh okay we get that off
skin spreading J spreading taking the time out to go ahead and pull the molds to and stuff like this
yes, chicky, you gotta have water on it, okay
Acrylic finishes are one of the toughest finishes a company can do anyhow. Let's see, we've got
joints. Fortunately, it's not too hot right now but what we had earlier was we had a wall that was
in the hot sun for about 8 to 9 hours. We got here about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It was already
an 85-degree day, so this wall had the Sun on it for about 10 hours which made it a very hot wall,
so we're struggling to work trying to get it done. Can we do it absolutely? This is what we do for a
living, and we have to adjust to the weather all the time. Okay, get Nair floating here.
when we get done, we'll show you the whole wall as we generally do,
and the molds here they're kind of tricky because they're radiuses nothing we can't handle
Okay, guys, we'll show you the completion of the wall and again, basically what we have done is
we've taken a drive at the maintenance-free acrylic finish and put another one over
it because the last time we did this was about 20 years this particular float here,
so I just put it on the ground and kick the handle right off gets in-between areas such as around
that water pipe you always have to improvise when you're in this particular trade of doing
different things anyway that's the completion of it come out charming the owners happy everybody's
happy we're getting ready to go home it's been a 10-hour day for us, Jay. Thank you, folks,
for watching, and as usual, I hope you learn something, and we'll see you guys on the next one.