Howdy guys, Kirk and family here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today I want to show
you guys how we apply one of the toughest finishes there are. Why is it tough because it's got silica
sand in it this acrylic what's the difference in in spreading in acrylic versus the cementitious,
well in acrylic we put a primer on, this is the base coat now the primer is the same color,
it's it actually is the same color almost as a stucco wall now we did this wall about a month
ago you when you're doing an acrylic render or acrylic stucco product over a brown coat you've
got to let it set a minimum of 28 days 30 days just for example if you're doing a cement Isha's
finish over a brown coat you could do that within two to three week the difference is cementitious
is like a brick, this stuff is like glue it's got color it's got your aggregate a fine sand
but it's still 50 times thicker than paint and at last a lifetime guys but what Jay is doing
is he's getting the base coat on now it's going to be tough to kind of distinguish the base coat
because they're really close in in color but when this base coat dries it's going to match or it's
going to darken where cement Isha's finishes we put on dry they they often become much lighter
anyway jay is applying it what's you're going to what we need guys are brand new floats because
with this particular fine finish you really you have you need a brand new float you need perfect
walls we came here yesterday and we applied some caulking in some of the cracks we also applied
the primer why'd I use primer well most of these acrylics come with their own primers like BMI the
drive is the synergies the carson's and on and on they'll come with their own primer I'm using
primer because right now it's about 90 degrees and it's somewhat cloudy so these walls are absorbing
I'm yammering and bull and rambling on because I know what I'm doing now what I have done too is
I'm missing these walls just a little hey Dad then again okay you could ah well you could put this
you get the joint out real quick now now I've got this big trial here guys now the only reason I'm
bringing the big trial sometimes just to pull out a joint now this is called a sand finish what is
this hand finish a sand finish looks sandy with the fine grid it looks like fine sand with the
medium it looks like a hundred grit risking heavy it looks like a tea drift so now I'm going to take
this float and all I'm doing is bringing out the aggregate what is the aggregate it's a fancy word
for sand now this part takes a little bit of practice well actually takes a lot of years of
practice but I've been doing this forever and what I'm doing is I'm bringing the sand out because
that's why they call it a sand finish now James putting on the first coat I'm technically bringing
out the sand and Dan's going to start right here and get this joint out of if it wasn't so hot I
wouldn't let the walls down and actually guys a lot of people don't use a primer but when I apply
an acrylic I always do because it's supposed to they won't warranty it if something ever happens
if you don't use their primer I've never had anything happen but I like to follow the rule okay
so because we have this four footer in the way again you can just get the joint out right here
that way we're getting ready to move that back a bit Dan move all that stuff back just a hair
cool man alright so moving on here guys it's it's just a simple procedure in the UK you guys call
this rendering in the US we call it plastering you say tomato we say tomahto you're tall I'm
waiting for Dan for Jay to move on but in the UK where all this plastering originated they called
these band-aids plasters they call aluminium aluminium bonnet boot we call them trunk and
the hood for car so just different terminology guys different terminology means the same thing
but you cares where a lot of the plasters limes originated we just kind of started here the last
200 years they've been doing it there for about oh seven thousand that's what the churches the
Great Wall of China all the castles over there you name it alright so as soon as J
steps off of this again it's going to move this and start to get the joint out this joint right
here well there's going to be hard for the camera to pick the joint off they actually
wanted green for this house kind of like this green uh trash can here the recycler they had
it green and I said to do you guys really want that go look at this house I did in green and
they said ok we'll go with this now I'm looking at it seeing how we're video and is that the
the colors may not come out well because we're going a gray this is actually supposed to be a
greenish gray over a very similar color I think you mean the color is going to look good but it
might not show well on video that's correct the color is going to be great on the house
exactly and guys, this is like when you're spreading this material,
it's like spreading a glue; it's really tough, which brings me to a story
everybody hasn't heard this story about 30 years ago, we were about in my 20, and I was working
Union, and we were working in a real ghetto area, and the guy says, hey Kirk, you and your
buddy wanna make some extra dough, and we said absolutely so he was paying us a whole whopping
15 bucks an hour to work under the table to spread some material hi dad all right now I'm going to go
ahead and take this castle out of the way good so spreading this down all right let me get this
primer out of the way oh go ahead all right now Dan's going to start spreading out that bottom
while J finishes the top, and so we're kind of working together on this
and while I'm waiting another hawk around here, Lu, let you grab for me, please
you get that out you age all right all work together on this and I'm gonna hose the wall
down again is the camera will show it is really hot so even this cement or acrylic finish is
heating up and it can have a joint if if you're not on it immediately so I know how much time I
have for this wall which is about five minutes wait longer than five minutes I'm going to lose
that joint and so we'll work over here with Dan just for a second and get this staging out the
way and notice I'm keeping the eye on J because this this stuff here has a tendency to wanna set
and you really got to know what you're doing when you when you're doing it anyway my story about
spreading this particular bluish material thirty years ago we were making a big money like 10 12
bucks an hour working not Union I was working Union in a day time so we go to work on this
guy's house or his apartment building and he says well Kirk can you guys spread this interior and
I said we could spread anything now I told him to gee can you give me a little bit of Bob light and
he had 25 watt bulbs and yeah we were working in the ghetto and he says a little Kirk if I
put hundred watt bulbs they seal them and I said really okay well I can't see what I'm doing I'll
make a long story short because these guys already heard this story hold on look we went ahead and I
was spreading out this glue-like substance for the inside and I remember telling my buddy Andy
Davis I said man how's that shredding for you and he says well months reading nice and I thought
men - my sucks and it turns out the next day the guy says look spread up hope spread a bathroom
adhesive all over my walls I couldn't see what I was doing slice I was spreading the bathroom
adhesive which was pink rather than taping mud and I'll tell you it's like spreading this stuff here
it's gluey and it really takes practice to learn how to spread this stuff guys we do it but we do
this stuff for living and anyway if you're going to do in acrylic especially a fine float acrylic
you better know what you're doing okay here's my joint real critical guys I'm going to take
my bottom I'm floating the bottom and gotta have a brand new float guys especially with with a fine
finish like this because every little detail will show if you have any rocks clinkers it'll rip that
Blue Angels just went by; we are in
Alameda there's a base right here notice I'm taking the new into the existing dan just spread
this on taking it into the existing now this stuff again it takes a lot of practice generally when
I take my float I'll hit the bottom here get all this stuff out of here but now I'm aware of Jason
what he's doing so I'm gonna stop what I'm doing here and go back to J and this vent here I'm just
going to feather this guy in get my screen at the bottom we've covered the vents that way this
acrylic by the way this acrylic dixit everything your clothes your trials if it gets on my clothes
it stays on my clothes I wash my tools often when I'm doing this finish I'll wash them every time
I'm done using them wash them alright I'm coming around here coming around and now because it's
a hot day even with the primer which acts as a sealer I'm still hustling hustling but I like to
do that makes the time go by alright bringing the new into the existing and sense again is done as
far as you can go with this what I'll do is take it right here when I'm sure we have all the time
we need which another 15 minutes I will lose this wall what does that mean if I lose the wall that
means that it's set and then when it drives you'll see joint can't have that guys can't
have that so let's see I'm going to finish this up right here get all these little holidays just for
the record guys if the camera shows something that I haven't seen before we leave we make sure it's
perfect otherwise we don't get paid I'm jumping up to follow J slam okay and we get above this
window yesterday notice there's only an inch of us here we fix that yesterday I went ahead and when
we came to do the cracks there are some hairline cracks a base coat is supposed to hairline that's
why you allow it to set now again I'm doing the same thing I'm bringing out the spine float finish
this is uh that's again it's one of the toughest finishes to apply because the grit is so fine
it's still like a sand and silica sand it's like talcum powder almost stuff with grit anyway see
where we're going with this I'm going to go ahead and get on jail over here and when we're done with
this one little wall will show you a doubtful it's going to show much because it's almost the same
color but we give it our best shot all right guys we're finishing up here J Dan on the other wall
actually crawls on that camera and what we do now is just pull it everything off and do I did I need
to cover these vents no but since they're done that's no worries it's actually even better and
what I do now is once we once we remove it clean up after it and if you see any holidays you've got
minutes only to remove everything because once it sets and one thing I don't show is there's a
bucket of water I'm I'm pulling out the aggregate but I'm not dipping this in that water too much
why because if I dip it in the water you're going to see streaks all over this wall and now for the
absolute conclusion let's see I'm gonna pull this tape and since I don't want this acrylic a pop in
my I turn my head alright we take it like so and often guys when you pull a window when you're
doing acrylic or cement issues finish it's best to pull the tape immediately why I'll show you
sometimes it'll just when you pull this, it pops, and it makes little clinkers on the wall,
so while you got a float in hand, it's better to clean them up but looks like I'm too experienced
to make a mess anyhow; we take the float if I did and go over it and again the sun's coming out now,
and it's a really hot day your best to start this on a day when it's chilly or say 60 to 70 degrees
is great when you get up into the 90s right now you better have some serious time in any way my
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