Hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano Plastering, today I had a question from a fella
England it's this Kirk can you tell me the correct ratio of luminize the accelerators we use in our
say something like this we're gonna go an inch thick and I mix in a Portland cement obviously
I don't want to be here all day and do two coats well the answer is I can try luminite is a real
delicate material when you first buy it it comes in 94 pound bags and when you first buy it it's
strongman a little cup little cup and it'll do a whole bucket as it ages it takes like ten cups to
do a bucket I'm not certain where any of this is but I'll show you this guy's okay whether or not
this is luminite right here this brown stuff it's just what is a technical name for lumen I
remember that but anyway okay this is luminite that's the product brand all right I've got to
do this little patch right here right here I got some soup that I made because I don't
usually mix anyway there's some soupy stuff so that's what I'm gonna do that sample with here
this is a little stiffer this what I'm gonna do my scratching Brown right here so let me
see I'm not certain the exact amount but okay this is about a 2 cup full so I figure about
right there so I can hit there if I want this soupy stuff to set bath I'll put double that
okay just for example okay so there's a lot of Newman ID in this right here so what I'm gonna
do now is is mix it up alright take the drill and we're going to mix this up a little bit
that makes here go from the bottom to the top. This drill got two
speeds forward and backwards, and we're gonna use them both
okay, there's that one that Ben does for the sample as enough. This one I'm gonna
put on them right here some and use it right now
oh, okay that's about right
now my brother Lou is here he'd show you how to wrap this quarter on your neck we're trying to
use it and fall over at the same time my boy tangles this thing up all the time all right
okay now this one here I'm going to show you as an example luminite get some water in here that would
normally take about four hours to set possibly five this one would normally take about it's four
hours because it's not as soupy as this one I'm gonna set this soupy [ __ ] right here just get it
out of my way for a minute and I'm gonna actually scratch him Brown this out and again this has got
room and I in it while I'm waiting I'll tell you an email that I read last night from my buddy old
man Bob an old man Bob what I call him old man Bob because oh man Bob is 81 good Paula my send
me an email and I said to arrogant young fellows sitting in a newly purchased store one guy looks
at the other guy and says watch some old geezer come in here asking us what we're selling because
they haven't got anything on the shelves yet sure enough five minutes goes by old fella walks
in said howdy youngsters what the heck you guys selling one guy looks at the other with a smirk
on his face and says we're selling [ __ ] and they both start laughing so the old fella looks
down and says wow guys must be really successful only two of you left moral to that story is don't
mess with the old guy anyway let's see here this is getting stiff right here and I just poked one
little bitty spoonful in here J generally mixes this stuff up for me so I don't have to worry
about when he mixes it but anyway I'm almost done with this and then I'll slam out that bucket right
there and this one here was mixed well it was a little stiffer than that last one why are we doing
this because we're getting set to do a color coat here tomorrow and lo and behold J pointed
this house is damn death the things falling apart so naturally we got to repair it before we do the
color coat tomorrow alumini guys does not affect the workability or the strength of the Portland
cement can you put luminite and other products such as well if the Portland base you can there's
a lot of products out there so I'm not sure on all of them up it's a Portland based product you can
use it okay and you can you do this with regular Portland cement sure you'd have to scratch it one
day come back the next day and then brown it and we don't have time for that we're professionals
okay and we just now hit this with a bonding agent so it's kind of moist that's good enough
for tomorrow we just clean that up right there anyway let's see what we got with this stuff here
oh man it's uh yeah let's see empty the water out I mess up my own work that is luminite guys women
they be a pretty little pancake but oh well you see this lumini it really accelerates it fast guy
so you're not sure don't try to do it with lumen I'd just go ahead and do the scratch in the brown
and besides it's 80 bucks a bag these days for luminite anyway guys thought I'd show that fellow
from England who asked me because I can and we are doing it right here anyhow and not so much extra
work to do a quick sample my name is Kirk Jason on the camera as usual we thank you for watching
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