Howdy folks, Kirk Giordano and family here we are on top of the world in San Francisco.
This is a house we're working on, let me see if I can straighten that out a little bit it has a lot
of radiuses and details, back in the early 1900s it's got a lot of detail really pretty, and this
is the finish the homeowner wants us to match, and so he says well Kirk can you match it?
I said sure we could, it's a pebble dash type of finish. I said we can match it with a lot of stuff so
what we did, I mean again it's like 4:30 we're in San Francisco, so we still got to drive home, we're
going to be here another three hours another one of those long days. But anyway guys what I got here
is I'll just show you some of the things you can use perlite, vermiculite, same thing it's volcanic
ash, it's light this is nothing you put this in it, it absorbs water expands. Okay, I did a video
where we showed gravel, actual roof gravel that we put in, but the problem with the gravel is it
sinks real fast, all right since we're matching that heavy thing, I went with those decomposed
granite now, I got to send my buddy's yard Larms in Oakland, off a high street anyway this it's a
decomposed granite - but this one here has got bigger aggregate bigger aggregate what's that
word guys? sand so we mixed up Portland cement and added some of this guy right here because
this sample here is not your Felton or Oly sand. Could I've gone and got some different sand, clean
course wash? Yeah. but I like, I like using the decomposed granite, anyhow I'm gonna show you
what we're doing here what we did is we did a to coach system today and we took it all down there's
a couple of us working with Lou downstairs mix it. My daughter Madeleine, she's is back from Spain
for say another month she's been here for two weeks and it's gonna be here another month so
she always likes to help out, and she's stronger than most guys, she can plaster, she's carrying
buckets all day, you're strong baby. All right anyway I'm gonna show you how we, we match this
finish right here, because I told the homeowners well gee, we'll try to show some of, some of the
things that we're doing on here but we get caught up, and this has been one of those jobs where we
got caught up and one thing leads to another, I'm gonna start on this roof right here so, Jay, maybe
if you walk on this other side and try not to fall off this four-story building will be good.
I'll show you what we're doing guys all right let me get up here and what I'd done is or what Jay's
then he's just mixed he's mixed up a little bit of this now, it's heavy, Oh bucket here, and this
is a - brush guys a dash-brush because remember that old saying a dash of salt? A dash of salt, well that's
what it's talking about, a dash, so what I'm doing, because the Felton and Oly sand
is way too fine for to try to get that heavier aggregate, and the homeowner says gee Kirk, I want
it to match, I don't want it too heavy either and I thought okay man, you don't want it to heavy, you
don't want it to light, will get will try to get it just right. Okay, Jason mixed up this right here and
I'm taking this Dash-brush and I'm going all the way to the bottom, why? because sometimes this stuff is
heavier than the sand and it'll go to the bottom, so now that I got that done you're just, Dash, and
this is what they basically have on here, and we're now we're in the high winds too, what a drag so Madeleine,
now after plastering and Jay and me. She's going to be cleaning up behind me we got a couple of
other people, I can get Lou up here from mixing he's gonna clean up too, but, but anyway you see
that's, that's how it goes guys, and when I accepted this job the fella said, gee Kirk, we talked to a
whole bunch of people and they said that that was one difficult texture to match, I thought, it's not
that difficult to match guys, you just got to know your materials, know what you're doing and there's
a number of aggregates we could use. We're using this one because again he says not too light not
too heavy, and reminded me of that Goldilocks tale. Anyway, that it right there, is what they what
they have, you can see a little bit of maybe the camera won't show a little bit of rocks still
it big things like that that is not plaster sand guys Oly sand, its a lot finer this is a this is
only sand right here, anyway guys I thought we'd show just one little thing on this because it's
getting late and we had a hustle all day to get to this stage, and now I don't want to come back over
here because we're in San Francisco that bridge is a drag, alright guys we are running out of time
the fog is rolling in and I got to get that mix at home before dark anyway, you see if you get
pretty dirty when you do a dash finish even Madeleine, is pretty dirty, anyway guys we thought we'd show
it to you cuz Jason said let's show the last part. Now that we cleaned up everything oh we still got to go down, but that's for another day.
Anyway, my name is Kirk, Jason on the camera my daughter Madeleine, we thank you guys for watching and as usual we'll see you on the next one.
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