hello there folks Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what I'm going to show you folks
is how we do a sin barber a smooth mission finish and why I'm going to point out a lot of the tips
on that is because I get a lot of calls from it and I get emails probably once twice a week and
says I want a smooth finish on my home now is this way to get a smooth finish on your home that I'm
aware of is the Santa Barbara smooth mission finish that's also provided that we do a good
scratch in a brown coat and when we brown coat our walls we use a hard rubber float instead of
a sponge rubber float that way we don't have all the aggregate sticking out because this is Santa
Barbara right here that's very little sand very little aggregate almost Cecilia Santa so in order
to explain what I'm talking about we're going to do a couple samples here I've already laid
down one sample here I got it about an eighth of an inch thick really thick and I'm letting
that set up first we wet the walls too so it can have a mechanical bond this one here I've only put
one coat and I'm going to come back on it because Santa Barbara is best done when you do two coats
and you come back but I've seen many many folks good quality contractors do one coat also both
require a lot of elbow grease kind of like doing diamond finish inside or veneer your trial in it
and trial at it and trial in it fortunately I can try for ten hours a day doesn't bother my
arm I'm used to it but while I'm here let me show you folks this is the question I get often can I
do a smooth finish over my house um you may have to prep it why we have a sunlight here okay let's
see if we can get a glimpse of this wall here oh holy the best we've got a number of things going
on in this wall and so see right here where it's really heavy really heavy um I cannot do a smooth
finish on this particular part does that this is a son in the right direction where you can
actually see there's a dude shown okay there's the difference between this and this anyway this
I could probably get away with two coats and do a nice Santa Barbara smooth finish on it but when
get to this what happens is there's a lot of sand and aggregate and the trial will pick up
one grain of sand and that grain of sand will come through both coats and the album people as i trowe
on that one grain will follow me all those give worm designs all that's not what a smooth finish
is about so if you have a house it's done by an expert somebody licensed knows what they're doing
and give you a nice brown finish yes you can do Santa Barbara can you do it on here no I wouldn't
try it I'd skim this first and I do have a lot of folks who have rough finishes and they call me as
a chick and I go from rough to smooth you can but it needs a skim coat prior a skim coat we can do a
whole another ten minutes on that so this thing is skim coated and then achieve a great Santa Barbara
this can be as it is but since the whole wall is like this I'd recommend on this particular
wall of skim coat and then Santa Barbara and two coats from the Santa Barbara if you really want
it to look nice all right guys this is what we are going to try to match here this is a Santa Barbara
smooth mission finish not sure what material they use to achieve it but hover makes a great
one notice to on this particular wall it's almost perfect we got a hairline crack coming right out
there but these fine finishes with so little bit of aggregate they do tend to chatter uh discolor
oh they discolor big-time and get a lot of little cracks this one here it's brand-new and so I don't
see any yet and again it's just trowel and trout a lot of trout a lot of elbow grease goes into
these in Santa Barbara finishes anyway in order to get something this smooth you have to have a
good finish to start with so we're going to go back and I'm going to finish my little samples
here then the homeowners going to look at them for a week month a year and decide on what he
wants to do all right guys what I've done here is a sample now this is still not completely dry
I've got one fat coat on you this code is a good eighth of an inch to 3/16 Santa Barbara you're not
really supposed to go too thick because I like taping my dick will crack or chatter shutter
marks and tomorrow he can look at this and see if that appeals to him but here's the way it's
technically supposed to be done and you hit it once and let that set depending on temperature
and all that you just you depends on when you can put your next go so my next coats already
on here now now this is two coats it's still not dry yet but just for the sake of this video I'll
show you how we do this you come here you want to come up here J and and show this top how how
clean it is now the top is pretty smooth as I said earlier it's easy to get a small section
smooth especially if your trial goes from point to point on a big wall your trowel doesn't sit
on this wall here my child's in the middle so be more susceptible to trial lines when I do my Santa
Barbara smooth mission finishes or any smooth finish I'll use the swimming-pool trials not a
square child with it anyhow we're going to wrap it up and I'm going to let the homeowner look at both
of these choices because he's heard you could do one and two coats my name is Kirk I'm with
kirtk Giordano plastering, perhaps we'll come back another day and show you the final if the camera
will show that anyhow; thank you, folks, for watching have a great day; we'll see you at the next one.