hi guys kirk and Jayson here with Kirk Giordano plastering today what I want to do is show you how
we repair this first I thought I'd tell you why this is this way the fellow who owns this house
he had a heavy float finish and he wanted to go with the Santa Barbara smooth mission finish and
he decided well gee whiz I'll take a grinder and grind this off number one guys you don't need to
grind any finish off you can go over a finish you pressure wash it you apply a bonding agent
that's what this blue stuff is a bonding agent and then you apply a coat directly over it if
you want to go a smooth coat then you're going to have to do two coats directly over what that does
is eliminates the need to do a grinder now if any of you guys have ever tried this I have you take
a grinder and within 5 minutes you're in a cloud of dust you can't even see the wall man it's it's
so much dust your neighbors are screaming at you I had a guy come out and yell at me and say dude
I got dust all over my bathroom a kitchen well we don't do that anymore that was like 30 years
ago so never use a grinder guys just go over it I can see where he grinded off all the texture and
I see the d'Arby lines for the brown coat okay now that this area is coated with the primer I
can go ahead and add another finish directly over it so what I'm going to do is who mixed
me up some mud it takes a so-called illegal scoop they sell scoops now about half the size because
somebody was using one like this and he broke his arm and he sued hit hit hit Tommy from Ulta
told me hey he sued the company and won so anyway guys what we do is we put another coat on it and
I'm using the exact same finish down that fella used all right guys battery died have to put in
a new one anyway what I'm going to do guys is spread out this whole thing and I'll show you
how we float it and again what I'm doing is I'm spreading out a 16 21 16 20 mean that means that's
a heavy grit and if you're using a heavy grit guys you're not going to get long strokes if I
was using say Santa Barbara I can come up here I can go 10 foot strokes but this stuff here you've
got a lot of aggregate or heavy sand so it is what it is looks like I probably will use all
the mud that's in this bucket but for the sake of finishing what I started we'll see what I got how
much ha I can spread with what I have all right come in here I might have enough blue let's see
well if I do I do if not I'll be floating it while you make up some more doesn't have to be pretty
guys good we're gonna green float this let's get it out let's see if how probably enough to get
right to the vent Lou so if you want to go ahead and mix me up about two more Hawk that'd be good
for the sake of this video we're not going to wait for that I'm just going to float what I've
already spread the idea is we take this new and we feathered into the existing hood right here
whether that in that's going to be a lot of water guys all right let's see what we got here SDL ooh
ahh dang near made it s empty so I'll just finish this top piece here and the fellas here are going
to paint this after we finish this transition they're going to paint it so what I'll do is
just this little section wah wah Luis mix it up some more mud Jason's holding that camera I'm
just going to feather this in right here this is the easy part guys I used to work behind to three
guys who spread it and I just float behind him alright spread it and have a guy flow you want
to take a nice sponge flow get a kinked in the right direction get some water in there
and feather them joints him first guy I'm not worried about the Sun drying this up because I
got this bonding agent the bonding agent seals it so we're a bit sealed all right I'm going to
start over here what I want to do is get my joint first and feather it into here so we just pull it
upward I want to starts to drag flip that float around flip it around now it's starting to drag
need more water if I keep going with a dry float that's going to be a nasty finish it won't match
this part takes a little practice and use the whole flat surface flat surface of the float
doesn't matter if we get some drip marks I don't matter one bit you come back to that float it in
I don't want to get in my own way alright once you got the joint look at what they got which
is I mean you can I can do this guy's without even looking at the wall this is just a float
finish easy nothing to it easy peasy but where it comes to the joint no I better I got a look
at it to see what I'm doing there all right none more water because come back to a joint you get
these joints right here and again they're painting this wall so all right this is what takes practice
guys this would you get a little bit of time in say oh by 6 years war just having to do about 10
20 houses you can do this stuff like clockwork not that them enjoy to you guys want to do this stuff
but I on the other hand love doing this stuff because I'm good at it you always know somebody
you're good at something you like doing it and now when I first started in this trade there's
something years ago I hated it because I sucked at it all right there we go boom boom that is
how you feather in a joint your bottom get that weep screed now this is getting dry again okay
it's getting dry a little bit of water go take a little bow 15 minutes to mix up a little bit
more I told him I said dude it probably won't take more than a half a bucket so he makes me
3/4 of a bucket oops that happens we just get our screed now get here get around there and blam so
when Lou brings me up the rest of that mud I'm gonna feather this in just like the rest of the
wall anyway guys that's how you bring back the original texture and any of you guys who called
me and say hey I have a heavy finish and I want a smooth finish what do I do well here's what's not
to do do not take a grinder to it just pressure washer apply the bonding agent and reskin it guys
and you can reskin it with any kind of finish you can go a lighter finish a heavier finish
the same finish you go skip choppin it and you can go either la habra which makes the it sounds
smooth santabarbara mission or BMI I make the marble finish what's that mean it means a two
different companies call it a different finish but they both go on exactly the same that's for the
fellows who say gee whiz I want to have a ah hard steel chop finish or what we call in the trade a
Santa Barbara smooth mission finished anyway guys that's about it let's see what you might
see that I don't see any holidays just get them out a little bit of water on this float oh we're
done now I'm just bringing the wall back to life soon as Lou brings me that a little bit I finish
that and we're out of here my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you for watching as usual
see you guys on the next one once again folks we thank you for watching and I really enjoy all your
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