howdy guys Kirk and Jason here with kirk Giordano plastering welcome to the new Neptune's Beach this
is it it's the new place structure remember this Neptune's beach most people don't because it was
back in their early nineteen hundreds I remember it because we're at South Shore and my father used
to tell us about it plus we have about 50 pictures around the house where it was a boxer back then
and he was in front of the two Olympic sized swimming pools with James Cole Bert and all these
famous boxers way back when they've since well since the depression 39 I believe it was tore all
that stuff down because there wasn't enough cash flow to go there what we're doing today is it's a
play structure here it fell short and interesting thing about it is there's not much to it but when
I came here that fellow was saying gee Kirk you sure you know how to do this you sure you know how
to do that and he was questioning me and question me a question to me I thought I said dude where'd
you get my information from he says well architect I said I tell you something the architect knows
that you don't I've been doing this for close to 40 years I I mean we're rats I'll show now I did
the car wash right across the way is there an 89 how do I remember was 89 because that's when
we had that dreaded fire in the Oakland Hills and the bridge collapsed the Cypress freeway
that's how I remember 89 this whole shopping center here back in 1979 it was rebar I think
around there because when I was Union back in 1980 we redid a lot of it then they tore it all
down and they rebuilt this whole new one and so I said man I've been doing this a long time
you can trust in me that I know what I'm doing and anyway we're doing the play structure here
they're going to put two solid inches of rubber here because I can't even climb this we slid down
it a couple times I thought wow it's dangerous for a play structure but what we're doing is
putting this pillar back together and because of counter flashings and flashings we ended up
having to take this weep screed which is out of 45 embedded almost flat so I told guy don't worry
we'll handle it will make it all true plumb and level no matter what it takes because stucco is
all about improvising right now it's drizzling a little bit but nothing we can't handle Jay's gonna
mix me up some 5-minute mud what is five-minute mud that means five minutes and it's gone that's
how fast I want to apply this because it's raining we'll show you in a minute all right guys the fun
part history lessons over we're using a a quick set here and this this material is nothing new
the fella says well gee how how many days will that take you to do and that's a days laughing
is gonna take me longer than the actual Schmidt work this is how can that be don't you have to
do three coats that's it absolutely you know what we're doing right now is both coats we are using
accelerators now what is color editors mean we have retardants in order to slow the stucco drying
process down and we also have the accelerator the celebrators speed the stucco up meaning this will
set when I want it to set and I want it to set in five minutes why yeah because we're used to
doing everything quick and because it's drizzling on us so in case it really comes down I want to
be done already I can feel this stuff setting which is good I like it when it's such fast
we looked at this earlier and I thought well gee how to take about two buckets but after laughing
this and putting our screed on almost flush we had to improvise with that guy in order to
keep up with a few things that are going on here such as flashings and counter flashings hey guys
one thing I'm thinking about as I'm doing this set send in about 5 minutes to 10 then another
thing I'm thinking about is I've got to float this meaning hard rubber floated then I've got
to expose the aggregate I'm not going to try to match this finish here with this sand and cement
why because this is a maintenance-free cement tshis color coat finish that's a mouthful for
you guys maintenance free cement Isha's color coat finish meaning when it gets red wet this darkens
like a brick which also means that you never have to paint it now when I took this project
I told the fellas we will match the texture but we cannot match the color you'll have to either
and here's the thing where a lot of the guys that I work for get beat up on they'll either have to
paint this entire column or color coat this entire column what happens if you paint say my color is
going to be white when I'm done with this finish right here because this is 1620 maintenance-free
la habra finish what happens if I tie this in and they paint it well the paint when it rains
won't darken but this will darken it be sort of an eyesore so I already went over that little
complicated stuff with the managers and they said fine Kirk just get her done so I'm going to give
this five minutes I'm gonna float it J's gonna mix me up some color coat finish which has the
exact same aggregate is this which is the heavy sand which is 20 not 20 30 about 16 20 and we'll
show you how we do that also when we get to that stage okay guys that is set enough and when I say
no would I prefer it a little bit harder you see that a little bit but luminite is like food it
gets old so we've had this luminite now for about three months so as it gets old you'll need a lot
more to achieve the same thing so while we were sort of waiting for stucco to dry she cleaned
up everything because he wants to get out of here it is New Year's Eve and there's a lot of parties
going around here and there and all over the city in fact I'm thinking that sounds like a good idea
why we were waiting to a granddaughter came by and I said how is teaser I said no goofy kids
here and she says oh man Nana says I can play so I'm gonna play of course she got wet because
everything is wet here that ended death I always used to tease her when she was real small she's
six now and I'd say oh man here comes trouble so she used to call me all man she thought that was
my name in fact I think she still does but anyway okay as I was saying earlier it's a
mint Tisha's maintenance-free color coat what happens when it gets wet well I'll show you or
I better show you over on that pillar over here you see how when that gets wet you see how it's
darkening well look at the painting the painting doesn't darken or anything so cement Isha's
color finishes always darken because like a brick they're maintenance-free so if you have that and
winter is upon us right now I a lot of people would call mr. hey honey Kirk I just bought a
house and every time it rains it darkens I say count your blessings that's a maintenance-free
color coat finish and never ever ever have to paint it or somebody else say gee I got this
house and it's cracking you see these big cracks here that's common especially when you break it
or say windows and doors slam these these are common and this is a new it's pretty new I'd
say 15 years old this whole shopping center but there's not a wall on this Center that doesn't
have those hairline cracks because they are normal and vibrations causes cracking so what
am i doing now I am floating in the original or my stucco into the original finish a minute ago
if you would go back and rewind you would see my finish which I floated also so it would dry out
faster look just like there finish however if they would have painted that they would have found out
it was not on the money and if I couldn't have him paint it and then call me back and say Kirk
it looked like it was going to match but then when we painted it it didn't match come look at it so I
know all these little things and I couldn't use the old well I just wanted to get some beer and
get paid real quick and get out of there they'd never go for that they'd say no Kirk you bring
your butt back and fix it so we do it right the first time and this joint here the transition
from existing to new takes a little bit of water so what I'm doing is I'm bringing the existing or
the the new into the existing and it takes a bit of practice to do this guys what you don't see is
I'm using the entire float because this joint is also getting hard this joint right here it's it's
got luminite under and it's sucking the moisture right out of this color coat so I can see the
joint myself if you could see it that just means it's hardening too fast and sometimes you might
need to put on a little bit more like that one kind of got away from me because of the luminite
so what do I do I just add a little bit more I'll show you that real quick and then we're gonna hit
the road all right you just add a little bit more can't have a joint showing hey get out of there
okay we take it and now we try again this time I get it a little tighter there we go take this
bring their new into the existing and if you have to do it once or twice that's okay just get it
done so that it matches anyhow Jason and I want to thank you folks for watching the whole year round
and because it is New Year's Eve and it's about to rain on us we wanted to wish you a Happy New
Year from the both of us because Lou and everybody else has gone we thank you for watching it we'll
see you guys on the next one once again folks we thank you for watching and I really enjoy all your
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