hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what I will show you guys is
I had a fella retired police officers send me a picture it's very very similar to this about
three months ago I told them well gee when I do a finish like that I'll show you how, there's
two ways to do it I'm going to show you one way right now okay what you do is you kind of look
at these bumps you can brought you can brown it and put the textures in the brown immediately
or the easier way for one of you DUI folks is to brown it and then come back with your humps and
I'll show you how we do it but first I want to show you what they've got here okay can you see
the difference here now maybe I'll even step over here Jay and show this wall here also look
those humps look kind of cloudy these these humps here they don't have clouds they just have they
have straight inside straight inside there like that you put the mud on and I'll show you how
to do this too by the way and these folks here they over floated it it's not too bad I looked
at it and I said well we'll match the original finish well we'll try to match it as well as we
can this has been painted about 30 tons it's 100 year old house anyhow these folks I'll show you
what they did then they got the texture a little off but worse off is they over floated it where
it didn't blend in I'll show you another piece over here this just shows how difficult finish
it is the fellow who did this he was a licensed guy but the other guy was a lot closer with his
match this guy put it on what he did is he put little clinkers on and he he he jacked this wall
up let's face it the other guy did a lot better we don't the tie ends here are critical to I
that's what makes his actually everything makes this looks pretty bad anyway, we've got some stuff
we're gonna go up on the scalp. I'm gonna show you how we do it, okay guys, down here? This is a brown
coat up here that's the pattern and finally up top that's close to the finish but that's that's heavy
floated because that's what I had to do first and then then I'm gonna come back Jason and I are
gonna climb up there and we'll show you a little bit more in-depth okay guys I'll show you how we
apply this pattern matching the one that they had quite simple actually getting put rest here
Smear it out here and what I'm doing is I'm just
putting these random every once in a while. So I'll put one diagonally.
because they have them diagonally say one more hawk full when I take that Hawk Hawk
smear it out so I can grab it off my Hawk like so here put it because they actually had a few
rows like so anyway see how we do that just random guys every pattern is made differently,
in fact, I'm working with another fella, and I'm saying dude you just do wooden wall I'll do one
wall because we can't even make our own patterns perfectly and as far as criticizing that other
worker Lauren J said don't you know that guy I do what man I sure sucked that first pattern where
you looked on them at the corner all right guys now after you got your pattern on a lot of ways
to put that pattern on guys you take a bucket with water now this got a set - guys we took a
lunch it's set okay now you take water on here just put it on and let it drip off the idea is
to soften it up a bit we soften it up a bit then we let these act this Walsh it an hour
but if you let it sit a half hour that's about the right time so since I let it sit so long
I'm gonna use a little bit more water and of course a lot of water will create a very sandy
appearance less water less sand so we're taking it and we're just softening it up when you start
from the top a lot of water and let it drip down it's gonna drip right down the wall that's okay
just keep following it just you look at the humps and what we want to do is well we want
to leave them we just want to embed them and give it a float finish a lot of water guys
I'll show you a little bit more and then I'll show you the wall that I actually let sit for
a while they're actually almost fit ready to finish okay their corners these corners are we
Humpty Dumpty and wavy that's what we want to do to actually it's working pretty well right
now I did some other walls and I let them set about a half hour this we took lunch and that
works just as well I'll show you why okay a lot of water what I'll generally do is I'll put the
say that toe and then when this the heel gets fall I'll use the heel I like snowboarding just
move it around move it around guys that way you're not spinning your wheels and dipping
it every five minutes and what it dries out which it's gonna dry out in a minute just
read it okay get all the sand out flip that get all the sand out see that okay now we're doing
the same thing this is how we're gonna do this whole wall all day we've been doing this stuff
you got to have your pattern in here first this really does it it's not gonna take the pattern
out it's still gonna leave it I can soften it pronounce it whatever I want to do and I'm taking
my float at an angle right here to get these if I take it flat right here I'll take that dimension
out or that little shape I don't want to do that a lot of stuff you try this it's a little bit more
difficult than it looks okay we're gonna go on this other side all right guys lastly I'll show
you this is a finished product up here it's a 30-foot long stretch and what we had was this
to start out with and again there's a lot of steps to this this right here is very coarse it matches
what they did over here very coarse except our pattern is more on the money now you take a wet
sponge float if I tap all my water out of this I want this as dry as possible now and if I still
have some water then I'll just let the wall suck it right out okay now I got all the water out of
here now the idea is if you keep going over this heavy one before it gets too hard you can't do
this the next day guys but you could do it before this is fully dried and all I'm doing now guys is
I'm taking some of the extra grit off I'm taking some of the extra grit so they don't have to use
so much paint to try to fill it, and I'm leaving the pattern in here, guys, and if you folks fancy
yourself excellent trial man can you take a small swimming pool trowel and go over this
you can do that too guys but that's really uh it really takes a lot of practice usually you folks
looking at what I do or do-it-yourselfer so this way is time-consuming but it gets the results that
we want bullnose and all these windows we clean the tapes then we pull this you pull this right
off and that exposes the window bullnose just right there now all I'm doing is I'm leaving
the pattern and I'm softening it up again that's the final result anyhow guys that'll show you how
to do some very odd patterns in every pair is different and we usually could match them all
anyway we appreciate you folks watching and as usual, we'll see you guys at the next one.