hi guys Kirk and jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering today I'm gonna answer a question
and explain something that again I get asked a lot of questions we do a lot of online videos I
think we have over 700 so we were always asking me questions as we have so many question was can
I use expanding foam in a big hole this stuff here Dow makes it I think they make like 10
different brands of this stuff some of it expands humongously and some doesn't anyway this fella
filled the hole and he called me says can I do that I said sure what's going to happen is it
is going to expand and it's going to look like a tumor when when you're done the next day it's
going to be he says no I just put it in it looks fine I said yes but it expands so what we did is
these lives close by and this is simply Portland cement with sand and I put some luminite in it
luminite is a accelerator it makes it so that this stuff will set quick okay as far as when
you have expanding foam or any type of product on there you guys to everybody says do I need to use
weld Crete you can use weld Crete you could use this concrete bonding agent there's a whole bunch
to tell them at Lowe's they sell them at Home Depot they sell them everywhere alright so once
you apply your bonding agent to that because this will appear only for about a year or two
then it'll come off you've got to have a bonding agent guy now what you do is mix your stucco you
put the stucco on now I got a couple areas here we're getting back of it and underneath so once
you got this stucco on give it a second well you guys are not familiar with fun or accelerators
accelerators allows the stucco to dry according to how fast or how much you want you add a lot in
it it drives faster than you could use it you put just enough to do the job and you're good
it takes a lot of practice guys the accelerant then you take a bucket of water with a sponge
float that's the green sponge float and get all the moisture out if I put too much water on here
this will just drip if I don't put enough it'll be too dry what I want to do is bring the surface
or the aggregate what is aggregate it's just sand or rocks it's we want to match this - finish can i
matched this - finish without using a hand hopper or a brush absolutely okay we're going to take the
float now and we're going to float away from it we're going to clean the metal with a good side
of the float float away from it just like so and that when painted will match somewhat but it's
not as bumpy as this how do I make it a little bit heavier I use a little bit more water and
guys this does take practice or you fellas say hey I tried it you know didn't get bumpy enough
use a little bit more water okay now if you use too much it's going to drip off you got I got
a little extra water on here now I just put a little bit more and that that actually brings
it out a little bit better and guys if you pat it like this that actually can cause cracking because
now you're you're separating it from the base so no pattycake treatment guys just the regular float
and just know your amounts of water and yeah it does take practice you see if I'm doing that too
much water so right there is about right and of course I'm going to do this other side but you
can't see that from where jeiza anyhow I just wanted to point out yes absolutely you can use
this stuff sometimes it's an advantage to use it especially where you can't break it out properly
anyhow guys my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see
you guys on the next one once again folks we thank you for watching and I really enjoy all
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