Hi, guys Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering,
today we want to show you guys a couple of things actually this this wall here is about
two inches thick is it a big deal not really could they have put two layers of sheer wall
or plywood yeah they could have but I told the fellow we'd fill it in with stucco it's faster
actually for us number one I wanted to talk about those pretty vines that grow in your
house see those pretty vines right there they grow on the house and then you you actually
need if you're gonna say remove it because this rotted out all those pretty binds hold
the moisture when they hold the moisture it just beats up the wood they had wood showing here so
in order to get these vines out the fellows say well how do you get them out I said you need a
a pressure washer about 4000 psi pounds not an electric one a gas one to get to saw me and Jay
have done it a few times is tedious so don't do that don't let the vane the vines grow all over
it unless you understand that it's pretty but it will eat up the wood underneath anyway how
many you guys got this to say I mean again if this was a garage 125 years ago now they
converted into a studio you see the front there you know it's only in San Francisco if you got a
fountain right in front of your door that's really cool but anyway what we're gonna do is you had Jay
trim around here which means it was a studio for the last 20 years we papered it and then we took
the Jay trim and just folded it right over it and caulked it and put paper right on it anyway we're
gonna get started we'll show you a little bit about this finish that's a lot of people keep
it calling me saying gee Kirk how do you do a - well this is a - finishing if you could see it
it's very heavy we'll show you at the very end how to do that - finish and yes we use the same
material to do that - finish so right now Jays got a mix going and I'm gonna slam this stuff
on with a hockey child and a cheater they're called go Devils they're cheaters Liberace's
but a go devil instead of you in a Hawking trial say I put 30 pounds out here I take it off and
I put it on put it on you know it makes your body kind of crooked I see pictures of me at a
chiropractor's office all the time but if he is it a go devil you take it off the board you put it on
it works both your lats and it equal it's it's kind of cool I'll show you how guys how we use
that right now too okay guys we're gonna begin let me show you some tips guys when you do this stuff
you gotta have a bucket of water whether or not you have a green float or a brush it's okay wet
the board first because right now it's a pretty warm day and the moisture will be sucked right
out of the material in five minutes so we want to keep some of this water in this cement stucco and
what we're doing guys is okay I got a 16 inch trial here 18 and a 20 that's to cut in because
I move fast and we're not gonna be here we got so many different things we're doing today so we're
just gonna show you the some of the basics right now generally you start from the top but you know
I can reach all this stuff here because we're going to inches thick I'll show you how I do
it guys a lot of ways to do this you could take a little 12-inch Truong and do it I prefer they
used this is a go-devil go geo devil why I don't know somebody else named it but here's what you
do we put it on and notice the the board okay the muds right here you kind of use this and you fill
up just the middle you save about 2 to 4 inches because as you put this against the wall it'll
slide if if say you fill this whole thing this way you're gonna lose I'll lose some mud so what I'm
doing is I'm cutting the board cutting the mud cut in the mud and this is pretty fast this way
too guys because as I cut the mud here I look at the board okay so I don't want to spill it
all over the place because then we'll have to clean it up so we're taking it off cutting the
board and I'm putting it on and we last this so I accounted for the fact that it's so Hollow I put
the lath on really loose because I want the mud to go under it embed this in on top because we're
going thick so what I'm doing first is I'm just where I'm going to thickest is the bottom that's
almost two inches and two Wow I'm on the subject guys how many cement stucco's are there a ton of
them I'm using right now what they call isin wall I the wall sold at most of the plastering
material yards such as Westside building supply cowpie closed building there's a lot of them this
particular product is not sold at Home Depot but the sister product is rapidset now rapid said it's
the same company rapid head owns isin wall but isin wall is used by us professionals because if
you don't know how to use this it can beat you up because you can set so fast right now we put some
retardants in it now what's a retardant it is something that will allow us to have a little
bit more time with this mud it's how fast that goes Jay's gonna load me up and we'll show a
couple more things when you're using these same day products some of them set faster than others
right now you got to judge by the heat right I'd say it's about 80 the board is hot the wall is hot
so it's sucking the moisture right out so we're going to interesting because we're going to inches
thick you got to know all these the elements of it now safe for for cutting in I got my 16 18
and my 20 you guys don't use the 20 I like it cuz it's faster and that's what I use to cut in guys
you cut it in where the go-devil is not too practical yes the go-devil is good but it's not
too practical sage like to get under this window and we're going thick so you just switch off on
tools for the fastest method to do this I would suggest you watch closely because we're doing
it with the fastest method knowing how thick this is we've got a couple loose wires here no worries
because we're going to even thicker than that I'll show you how fast it'll go well I'll just
use the rest of this mud here I don't want to bore you guys and and do the whole job on camera that
takes me like Oh 40 minutes o wire just poked up hit it with my trial get into there alright
notice that's when you got a window don't try to use the go-devil for that when I was working Union
what's Union mean it's just you're working with a whole bunch of fellows who are in the Union that
means you join the company and the Union is kind of watching over you making sure you don't get
taken they watch your back for you because I've said that a few times on video and people say
gee whiz what is Union just an organization that watches your back when you work for people big
companies usually okay I'll hit that now because I want that to set fast usually your joint you hit
them first guys especially when you're using these same day products most same day products will come
with retardants which retards the accelerator so you can take your time you choose the level of
time you want say do I want a half hour before the sets I do but if you want an hour to to you
add retardants anyway I'm gonna put these down just for a second here and get back to what I was
doing you take the cheater or the what they call the go-devil yeah that's if you're trying to buy
it guys you got a type in go-devil because there's no such thing as a cheater we just been calling it
that for years now I was in Mexico not too long ago I've seen guys that was so good these guys
were blowing my mind with this right here they were way better than old Kirk they were putting
it on they were putting it on the windows here they were using it just like a darby just like
a straight edge or a rod they did a whole house with just this i can't do that nope I cannot do
that I thought wow I stood there for so long the family was like dad what's up are you gonna say
they're all deaths so impressed but as a rule I'll show you one more thing and I'll show you how as a
rule we do it and you're up they use rods we use rods here too but I like to use the Darby because
with the Darby you can have more play and just to prove a point I'm just putting this on fat and
ugly because now I'm going to use a Darby this is a rod or or a straightedge guys from the UK thing
I like about this is you look at it make sure it's straight it's a little cockeyed so fix it
make it straight okay I'm not going to do this whole thing in video I'll show you the end and
how we match the finish but you're just taken and smooth it out like that that gives you your
your thickness your depth you could make it true and plumb this way guys I have videos where in
all one video I just got 20 minutes of making everything true and straight and plumb and all
that stuff in every direction but I won't bore you with this one here because we got too much
we're doing I'll just give you an idea of what you can do with the knowledge anyhow Jay is going to
put some more mud back on here I want to finish this bottom and more than likely top I'm gonna
go back around where we're working when this is ready I'm gonna come back and float it and show
you how we do this - finish what's just going to show you the ending but I'm having fun right here
believe it or not I love doing this stuff oh now that the guys talking by make off those guys were
using this go-devil they were finishing the whole thing off with just this Kirk doesn't have that
kind of skill plus it takes too long here's what I'll use you okay again I know there's straight
edges or they call them a lot of things this is a Darby in the United States they call it a derp
bein in the UK big deal okay now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna find my grounds it's that piece
of metal I put there now what I'm doing basically guys is just making it true and plumb trim plumb
in every direction and from all my buddy is over in the UK who say Kirk I'd be fired if I
left that many holidays or left that many waves we go with whatever we're matching guys a lot
of stuff we do is old-world charm that just means you don't have to be perfect they want it by hand
they want variations what this is is similar it's done by hand a hundred years ago so do I
need the rod this no Roger just mean it makes it turn plumb in every direction you take it here
come down and you got to keep this Darby wet guys and if you play with the mud too much guess what
they'll just fall right out because we're going to inches thick right now generally you go 7h
thick with the total death but you put on say a half inch at a time or three-eighths technically
there might always be somebody who's gonna say Kirk it's three eighths okay technically a 3/8
and again when doing so thick you always want to give your do your tops first allow those to set
and when i say set i want the paper to suck out the moisture through the paper has been been in
the sunshine it's in the Sun then it's it's drying up so fast as I put this coat on it's sucking out
the moisture and you might be able to see where a lot of people caustic Kirk I tried it kept falling
out big dropouts I'd say like cows crapping on flat rocks that just means I'm moving too fast and
I'm not allowing it to set and that's okay right there guys because I'm gonna hit that and compact
it back again but I can't use that same mud when you're using these same day products you got to
if you drop into you you destroy the pack and so we don't want to destroy the pack meaning
that right so I'll just pull it aside and redo it anyhow this right here we're gonna leave it alone
for about a half hour maybe an hour we've got a whole bunch of things on this job that we're
working on and that's just the way I like it a lot of things all at once we're doing it keeps
us busy if you see me sweat and that means we're looking at work and we're doing it and
we're going fast okay guys ya don't have a whole lot of things on this job at one time here's the
stage we're in now this is pretty thick hello guys I'll show you what we do next after we got
the coats on and by the way guys in this video in the description I'll put a link where we're doing
six inches thick we're going around our house 90 feet each direction and I'm putting two inches
two inches two inches so we're six inches thick we did it in the number of coats you can do that with
this particular product so I have to get your mud on it then you take a float a green sponge
float and why a green sponge flow and not a hard rubber float or a polyurethane float because the
green sponge flow gives you a head start we're trying to match this - finish a - is basically
a float finish and then you - it so you have to float it first before you - it if I already
is a poly urethane black hard rubber float or a cork float or any other kind of float that would
compress it we don't want that so now what I'm doing is I'm gonna take a - brush you know that
old saying - assault - assault okay here it is we wet that - brush and our food just arrived so I
see them out there all right now we we just throw a dash on it so we take a dash brush and this is
dashing it like a dash of salt in the old days you just - it those are the old finishes that you can
do before they had color coat maintenance-free finishes before 1926 and of course it's 2,000 so
sky's the limit guys as far as different finishes you can do anyway we're gonna go ahead and eat
because our food is here we thank you folks for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the
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