Hi guys, kirk and jason are here with kirk giordano plastering. I'm working
with my other son Dan. We're going to show you guys today is
what we're gonna show you guys today is how we do a hard steel trowel finish, we did a scratch
coat now we're gonna do the brown coat. Why do I got to mix? because I hate mixing, maybe Jay wants to, you want to mix? Man, I put my time in with mixing!
There you go, you're mixing. Anyway thought okay guys we're doing this doing a brown coat and
what we're gonna do here is these folks want a smooth or a hard steel trowel finish. Now they're
well aware that if you do two coats and you do a steel trowel finish. that we're gonna be closing
the wall. basically a lot of different finishes you can do with two coat and one of them is a
steel chop finish however when we steel trowel something like this we feel that now it can't
breathe so it's more likely to hairline crack which not a big deal paint usually will flood
it if it's a good quality paint some of those water paints of course won't flood it anyway
what Jason and I are doing here is we're gonna take this wall all the way down and we got a
little bit over here actually we're going around the whole house when we're done with that and this
is about ready I'll show you how we still trowel finish it and then I'll show you the results of
it. Okay, guys now that we've laid on a nice brown, what I generally do is I like this darby, you it up
I'm using a serrated Darby because, a rock. because I want this to be open for a little while to give it
a chance to dry out a little bit and then come back and steel trowel it the idea is we open a
little bit allowed to dry now we still trowel it the cake if you know what you're doing okay guys
we're at a stage now where we are losing these walls what does that mean we're in the hot Sun
and we're working fast now I've already gone over this wall about four times and a lot of
times what I'll do guys is instead of using the toe, I'll use the heel. oh I'm coming
here music and I'm doing this just going over and over over I've gone over this wall like two
three times now because you still see things like marks in here you can sometimes see wire
and here - guys hold that trial and put that heel a lot of pressure now as it starts to set
Unfortunately or fortunately we hit it already when it required skill and right now with the
Sun come up on us now it's required a little bit more elbow grease and I'll show you something that
Jay finish follow me over here, keep going down finish that up looking good looking good again
guys, if you see why is there anything all you do is you just keep going over it again just keep
going over and that's your hard steel trowel to coat finish over here this is already hard now
this hard spot you'll see what the final is like it's already turning white, can this
checker it will kind of checker a little tiny bit but nothing that paint won't bridge or or
flood will it sometimes hairline it can because it's closed this wall is completely closed it
means it can't breathe, but it's moved okay guys, now we're down to the easy stuff we're
just hydrating these walls before we were hustling like hell to get done we're doing
a whole house and we're at a hundred three hundred five weather and it's it's drying see
what we got here we could take the water hose now and just do the easy stuff the easiest is
the most important all stucco all we do is now we're clean and beds clean and pipe and it's
very simple you don't get any simpler than this we are just hose hydrating it ok take the mixer
with you quit messing up my videos yeah all right sorry about that guys you see how I'm doing it's
called hydrating and if you're doing a to code hard rubber float or steel trowel finished you
got to hydrate the crap out of this guy and even then you still might get some hairline cracking
anyway guys my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering, it's a long hot day we're getting out
of here. we thank you for watching and as Usually we'll see you guys on the next one.