Good morning guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk giordano plastering this morning I want to show
you guys how we do last scratch brown and a color on this particular sliding glass door
we're working on a commercial building so the rules change a little bit we're still going Oh
seven eighths of an inch thick and the difference is we use a lot more membranes on this particular
door say for example they started off with the membranes than we counter with membranes and
stick it to the existing membranes where we come around here where we have a cricket right here
this cricket goes up we put our templates here and then we come down to the scuppers so that
the water flows down to the scuppers here we're real thick so we just added extra wire on this
side we got a match expansion screens wherever there's expansion screens we just follow what
they've got and do we really need an expansion screen here no but that's the difference between
commercial work where it's specked out by the architect, everything that's specked out by an
architect you'd better do so we followed all the rules followed all their expansions used all the
floors we'd put templates here we're right here at the sills and we accounted for crickets and
all that kind of stuff this deck does go on for for a while but in order to simplify this
we're going to show you just this part and I'm going to scratch it and brown it right now and
then we'll show you a color to in the same video okay guys now that we have everything
laughs we're going to do is show you how we put the scratch coat on in that all-important
question I get asked pretty often does it matter which way you put the scratch mark vertical or
horizontal actually does matter guy if you put them vertical sometimes the say if it's a cold day
and it's drizzling in the second mud is somewhat soft and put the scratch mark vertical what will
happen if it can't have a tendency to slide just says what I'm doing is I'm really pushing this
up in there get it in that joint otherwise it's going to come down get it in that joint tight
ok now just again for the sake of explanation I'm pushing it into pushing it into the joy now
I'll show you the scratch marks age-old question scratch marks doesn't matter if you go vertical
yeah a lot of cities won't allow it or a scratch inspection so all the rules guys and go horizontal
and that means say if it's a real cold day and you're coming to do your second coat it'll it'll
in here in here and then the scratch marks horizontal will hold it if it's vertical and
I've had this happen in fact if you show the deck it poured rain all day yesterday and this morning
it just stopped raining and the clouds broke and so we're China get it before we get poured out
looks like the rest of the day is real nice it's not going to be any more rain but that is why we
go horizontal and another way is it holds the mud better okay guys now that we got that scratch on
there and it's set up enough we're going to go ahead and do the next coat next code is pretty
simple actually simpler than the first because it will adhere a little bit better we always got
to pull it upwards here make it stick in there we don't want to drop out and generally you'll see me
use a rod straight edge darby lot of different ways to call it and what that darby does is
it gets gets everything true and plum but since my trial is wider than this I can take my trial use
the wall and the frame as a template and there you have it you make a little booboo no worries
just mix it again and I'm keeping that trial on edge keep it on edge guys one last time I'll show
you two some mud get that nut on there finish your Brown pull it up here up let's see one less
hostile and I'm ready another important thing guys is we're gonna color this so because we're gonna
color this you might say why do you want to tape clean if you're gonna cover it anyway I'll tell
you why we want to tape clean or pretty because yeah granted we're not going to come back until
this sets and by the way guys set time for our painted finishes 28 days for a brown coat that
time for us color code cement inches finish is two weeks depending on cure time now what I've
generally do is I'll let this set a while like say Oh an hour but for the sake of this video I
don't want to start this camera up again I'll show you how we do this and I'll explain why
okay take your my sponge flow and I'm following the edge of the tape and the reason I do this is
because if I don't that when I go to do my color coat all this all this excess here will create a
grab basically and the color coat will adhere to this and then when I pull my final tape off
I have a whole bunch of holidays here so what you want to do yeah we don't necessarily need
to tape pretty but we like it pretty just like that right there that way we're looking out for
our next coat because soon enough we are going to do another coat when this are cures again
this is a scratch and brown system it's an acrylic finish you got to wait 28 days before
you do a paint or an acrylic usually there are exceptions to that rolls if we're doing a cement
ish is finished two weeks and of course there's always exceptions to that rule anyhow guys i just
wanted to show you a quick thing of commercial versus residential work my name is Kirk Jason
on the camera and as usual way thank you for watching and I'll see you guys on the next one
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