Hello folks, Kirk and Jay are here with Kirk Giordano plastering,
today I want to mention something I see often people will saw cut the perimeter and add a
window can you do this sure you can these guys did they left the wire in there but it's got a
straight cut now I tell people like this fellow I said I could I can put that together I could even
use this this blue stuff this is weld creep made by Larson's it's a bonding agent and we could put
the bonding agent here give it more stickum I put this blue here so that when we do clasp through
this it's less likely to crack but I always tell folks you know we can get a perimeter crack unless
you want to further continue it and break it out a little bit better and most people say no
how do not worry about a perimeter crack when I'm talking about a perimeter crack I'm talking about
a crack that say a good paint will flood that's not a big deal now what what I'm prepared to do
here is they tried it right here and did an okay job but not on the money so what we're going to
do is pretty it up a little bit Foreman give them something a little bit more on the money by the
way guys I recommend you cover a window I got a guy who always emails me watching my videos
it's okay well better plaster than you say how do you know this is because I don't need to cover my
windows and I said well that's statement right there proves you're not a better faster than me
because if you don't cover your windows there's a ton of time plus there are these holes right
here which allow water to escape and if you fill those up it's a drag trying to uncover them guys
you can destroy the window frames plus you have screens it's much faster to cover them much much
faster because what I'm going to do basically a little bit of stiff mud here it's about a hundred
degrees that's okay nothing I can't handle I'll work a hundred degree weather many many times how
we work in cold weather hot weather you name it we work it sides are done and okay because
there's mud set for a little while that's okay it is will have a tendency to set up real fast which
I do want I wanted to set up real fast because as fast as we mud this I'm going to go ahead and
use a different mud that's already made for the texture now you look at this texture guys you
can tell well I can tell that is not a texture that is made with with the mud that will apply
the base coat with the mud that I'm using here is base coat mud you can call it Portland cement and
you do your scratch and brown or the base I've got accelerators in here to accelerate the drying time
so the drying time rather than rather than have it come back two days I add the accelerator seller is
about a little sixty bucks a bag as opposed to Portland which is about fifteen bucks a bag so
anyway I'm going to finish a mud miss out and I'll show you something about the texture when I get to
that stage and again you fellas watching me you folks want to do this it's a very hot day today
so count for that I mean Jay could put the camera down and give me some better mud but he knows I
can work with this mud right here so what we're going to do is cover their stuff up cover it up
cover it up put it in there and one more scoop and I got it made and then then what I'll do is
I'm going to allow this to set for about another actually uh actually I think I'm going to start
floating almost immediately and what does floating mean that means I take a hard rubber float and I
compress it in there when I'm at that since we don't have a hard rubber slow back here
we're going to get one and I'm going a hard rubber float this and I'll show you how we do the texture
around here because this texture here is made with on a color coat it's a cement tshis color coat
that's been painted how do I know I see the sheen plus I see this sheen here anyway when we get to
that stage was going to be about ten minutes we'll start that camera up again and show you
in the meantime we'll have a couple more windows to do all right guys and see where I was we're
doing other windows here and men in the hot Sun like 103 out here anyway here's what I did first
I took a hard rubber float why because I wanted to compress the stucco I'm really compressed to
get out of it I wanted to compact in there to hold real tight especially to the sides so that's what
I did first with this hard rubber float what's a hard rubber float man that means it's hard rubber
this is hard and it's rubber alright well put that away clean it off always clean the tools guys and
then what I did was I use a sponge float with this particular product I wanted a lot of water why do
I want a lot of water look at this base coat that base coat has got sand in it which means the color
coded it and then they came back and they floated it okay you floated after you apply the base coat
then you put your skip child finish that's what gives it such a distinguished look oh and this
is the only wall this this has been done to the rest of the house has not got or didn't have a
color coat maintenance-free finish it just had a skip child finish which looks quite different
from this right here anyway we match what we see so this is bringing out the aggregate bringing
out the sand fancy word for sand also when you float it like this you you give it some water
it helps it cure hard it fills in all the cracks and everything okay we put this away we go to our
color coat material our color coat material should be what they use here originally which is 1620 not
a problem we take it yeah basically I gotta get my tools because I clean them I got to get the tools
somewhat where they can hold it again if it's you just put water on here,
and you got it perfectly clean the muddle slide right off all right now you look at the finish
they have here now this fellow is right-handed he went to the right a little bit, so that's exactly
what I'll do I'll take it here and skip it we're just skipping it a little bit guy just light hand
you look at it and just skip it, and if you like you can go over the existing a little bit that's
why I always spread a little bit of weld crete, that way I can go over the existing just a half
all right what I'm doing is I'm looking up at what they've got I can see they pulled it straight up
we can do that we can pull it straight out that fella who says feel better than you because I
don't have to cover again that's nonsense we cover the bars we cover everything in
fact man I'll show you how easy it is to clean up your mess because okay how good you are and
I've done bets before with guys hey let's see you could say the cleanest will better so bet
that but if you get any mud in that screen now you got to pull the damn screen off and clean
it so it is much easier to cover the door window so I'm taking it here we're looking at that skip
Shaw again it's this guy was too easy he went side he took it from the window originally went
side way he took it here went up took it here so I'm I'm matching exactly what he did here I could
see his style because it's similar to my own and we just take it right here and I'm actually just
putting it on right now if I knock it down right this second it'll be too prominent we don't want
it too prominent we want it to match where when we're done you ever in that fancy Jacuzzi and hot
hot tub is not going to look over they did that's a new windows put it on I see homeowners say how
can you tell because it looks like we don't want that all right so I'm going to finish a couple
little details and then I'll show you what this is another good thing about wWeld Crete where you
put the bonding agent little further down because this is painted and this one here sometimes you
need to go a little bit further down then then the patch itself sometimes we feather right into
the patch only if it's a finish the - if it's a skip cha you get a little bit over okay I'm done
now here's what I'm going to do my chip child a little bit more prominence in there so I'm
gonna take it down a hair boom there it is I'll take this all I'm doing is not going to go and
you don't have to look guys just follow that wall just follow the wall oh look what you're
walking this knot in okay then we got that put cools down and the fellow says Amen I'm faster
than you I don't cover that's pretty goofy cuz all I do now is uncover and blam I'm done.
otherwise even I mean I'm pretty good but I could still drop a little bit and it could hang right
off of the edge of the child and go on on that window if it gets in here you got to pull it
shut it's a real drag anyway guys don't forget your caulking - he didn't have this cocked when
I got here so we cocked it for him anyway that's how you do around the window with a soft cut it's
better to break it out jag you'll probably rarely get those hair lines but if it did come it would
be such a hairline flood good paint will flood it anyway my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we're
going to get busy because we're losing walls as usual we thank you for watching we'll see you
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