Hello folks Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today I want to show you how to use
a float and why what to do with with it what not to do and you might say hey I've already watched
a video where you showed how to use a float I want to show you what not to do with a float i'ma
show you what a float is for on this particular one when on holiday I come back all my floats
a beat-up what does beat-up mean will for a float okay first of all this is a hard rubber float it's
rubber and it's hard hard rubber float this is a cork float this is useless I had never cared for
them a cork float works like a hard rubber float but it's I prefer the hard rubber floats this
particular one here somebody pulled it up like this that's the cardinal sin in the plastering
industry because why open junk the glues they use for these not all that great so what happens say
when you go up see say so I catch get my guys some of the guys do this often they'll do this
now notice this this is still saw if you do it wallets soft it's not so bad because you're not
gonna beat it up that much but if you do this one it turns kind of white greyish white that
means it's real hard and so you get a corner like this and I've I'll do it sometimes myself with one
of these guys right here because it's saw you can do that but what happens you see that you can you
can make a corner what happens if this turns white or hard lightens up that's what happens that's now
this float is it's garbage because you see all the the stucco went under here and it hardens so now
it comes down it points this way like a banana and like a banana it goes like this so this float is
useless let's see how many other floats I got so I can say are useless because of folks using them
the wrong way this one is pretty beat up too the ends are too Wiggly you got a wiggly end like that
garbage so three right there going into garbage this one here they pulled up one corner again the
only time I'll go sideways with these I'm doing a gable and I'm throwing stucco it into the gable
I'll take it and go sideways while it's wet while it's curing like this what I'll do is it's the way
to use a guy you put it on you put it on and you just go with the wall say like for example here no
but if you go like this you take that sideways that's the wrong way to do it I'm gonna take a
beat up trial that I'm discarding anyway and go right over here I see guys do this you can do
this with a trowel guys not with a float if you do it with a float you jack it up so this one's
going into garbage anyway so here's how you use a float you leave it flat and this way you don't
expose the metal here it's cheap metal obviously and it's glued down with expect for five bucks
anyhow what you're doing now is if you want a straighter corner rather than pull it up like
this and Jack it up go here go straight up eyeball it and then come straight up here a couple times
if you don't get it right the first time so what I'm gonna do now is I'm I'm just floating this and
what is floating really supposed to do floating opens the stucco what is opening the stucco main
good question guys that means you hit a wire to yo jack up a float do those two marks that's a
wire stick it out okay when you when you float a wall not only open it opening it means it allows
it to breathe but you compress it and that's all I want to do guys I just want to compress this and
allow it to breathe so like say if I get a trowel a trowel will seal it because I don't have a trial
with me but a shout a trial will seal this it will look real slippery and shiny now the wall
can't breathe and if I allowed that to set it will Caroline crack well it's still hairline crack with
this look sure if a house is gonna move or lift with say 15 days of rain no amount of stucco is
gonna stop that from happening not on a hundred ton house so that's the first thing you do and
that's what a float is really for guys it is not for say fix this little core while I'm here it is
not for pulling upward and separating the float from its base now of course just to show you
something you'll see man that doesn't matter the point of this wasn't to match the wall the point
of it was to show you what a float is for you match the wall with a different a different tool
this is a green sponge float green sponge float will bring the aggregate out aggregates and fancy
word for a force an aggregate concrete blocks shuttle sand you clean this out get the aggregate
out that lodges between there and now you're going up guys you're pulling it up and match the finish
here at spring and the sand out or the Negritude anyway it's nothing to it guys it does like
anything else plumbing electricity carpentry it all takes practice unfortunately we got paper here
people a piece of paper and done we're done with it with the cleanup but for the sake of showing
you guys I'll pull that out one last thing we fly in this video is I'm gonna make it real pretty cuz
there's always somebody who's gonna look at it and say hey dude and when you left on video it
wasn't perfect well the video is to just prove a point with the tools now I make it pretty make it
real pretty make it perfect to match this what I'm doing is I'm using extra water on the law and the
extra water to drip down drip down and correct it correct to finish that right there I'm gonna come
back to but the idea is you bring out the sand and you match it you match this right here that's how
it's done as far as these floats guy I don't know how to use them if you want to want them to last
me yeah I bought and bought 50 out of time but still you got to know what tools you using what
how to use them anyway my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you folks for watching in judo
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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