Hello Folks, Kirk today here with Kirk giordano plastering today I was answering an ad last night
typing as I do real slow with two fingers and the fellow says well gee watch one of your videos and
I'm curious about the ghosting effects because I just did a house and it's two different colors and
so I had a whole host of questions I asked him online and to try to figure out why he had such
ghosting effect they'll give you an example guys we did this three months ago we had an issue on
the mold so we're back here this is an acrylic finish an acrylic finish means it's an acrylic
paint and you put sand in the bucket plus a few other additives yeah you pay you pay big money for
that same guys so do I anyway we're gonna match this today this acrylic finish but we put a stucco
here now the stucco we use I won't get into brands but different stuccos have different suctions and
so ghosting effects if you know how to get the suction right or close then you could avoid the
ghosting effect what is a ghosting effect say if I put an acrylic finish from here to here and I I'm
going to town and we're plastering the next day it dries this is one shade different in texture also
two to four shades different in color coats that means I didn't get my suctions right so I'm taken
for granted that the fellas who did this acrylic they used a primer every acrylic company has its
own primer so I just know for common sense gee whiz if I had did this acrylic I would have used
a primer and does a primer has to be the exact same color not really do I have this color and
can I mix this primer to get this color yes I do but I don't need to that's not what's really
important what's really important is to get the suctions proper if this were pure Portland cement
two coats of primer would probably get the two coats of this one primer one acrylic finish but
it's not Portland cement it's a different cement I use so I've already got two coats of primer on
yesterday and today is a different day so I'm gonna hit it again because if I don't get the
suction right guess what and call me back if they Kirk you know that that work you did text your
matches but the color is off it's ghosting or they won't say ghosting because that's a terminology we
use but they'll say we've got some lightning dark shades and patches so we've got a lot of stuff
going on here with ghosting and so when you guys called me into hey Jay I got ghosty there are so
many different things to talk about I mean one of the things is why not just put a primer from
here to there well if we did that this would have three coats of primer in this - so the suctions
would still remain different and I'm gonna we're gonna apply the acrylic best as we can but I don't
know what these folks did but I do know the type of cement I use and it's very very absorbent so
I got to hit this three times just to make sure and even then can I have a perfect wall no if I
screwed up in the past ten years a couple times because this is not an exact science this house
was done about fifteen years ago so we're trying to blend in all the new windows with an old finish
for another example is I'm gonna I'm gonna walk over here hey Jane how's it going buddy I'll show
you something else guys okay they like this for example we are blending in texture to texture it's
a very fine finish so here we used a heavier sand just with the base coat now I had to hit this with
poly bonds or a cement Isha's type of material to get the plane the same because this has got to be
perfect so now this I've got to hit three times and so what I'll do is I'll come here it gets to
be a bit complicated but some of you guys said hey can you explain go scene you can't explain
ghosting unless you're gonna spend a minimum of twenty minutes showing all the different surfaces
and all the different necessities say like again here this was coated twice yesterday so this will
have to be coated right here at least three times and how do you do that one fat coat what we do is
I'm gonna put a coat here I'm gonna let it drop and put another coat this is what done yesterday
you see how that you see that's a perfect example of ghosting up there now that ghosty up there what
we want to avoid when we do the color today so let's see I'm going to what's cookin G alright
I'm just explaining this on a video that's my buddy Eugene one of the best contractors around
anyway right here so you okay buddy thanks for opening up this right here excuse all that stuff
this right here we've got to get the color the same now we're getting ready to start over there
and by the time we get to this wall and because we got all these moles we got a color coat these
moles and flow to them it takes forever time we get here I'm gonna hit it again one more time
this wall that way to have three because I know the cement I used here it is really absorbent
so the suctions guys the suctions are the key to ghosting effect and I'm hoping we do our job right
so when tomorrow this all dries it all blends in so we'll see how it goes alright guys let
me give you an update of where we're at we've got the perfect storm going on what does that
mean well the tape has been on for three months fortunately it's echo tape it's peeling off but
leaving the windows are little beat-up so I've got to hit him again of course we had to cover
this joint cuz we're not doing this wall what we are doing is this wall we got the tops done we're
using this as a natural stop point I'll show you now J spreading and I'm going right behind him
what I'm doing is taking three brush wide green eyeshade because we started this wall here now we
got to go with the big joint here where the wall dictates where we go okay this stuff is drying so
J is spread and asking spreads I pull into the existing just like yeah the finest finish it's
a very fine finish and you don't know what you're doing we're gonna have joints everywhere and on
top of that to make it even worse your honor you're honest how come I had such a hard time
finding anybody to do this like nobody wants to do it there's so many different things that can
go wrong they like these moles here they're great moles but me they could have ordered a different
style meaning kind of blowing on what I have to do now is keep the contours and use a brush and this
really takes a lot of practice too because I have the hand of a surgeon almost you've got to really
take your time and go up and down back and forth where to cover it's really time consuming just
going straight up and down and trying to get it where it's thick because this has a tendency to
drag let alone we've got to pull this tape off that's been on for three months if it had not
been HECO then we've been a lot of children anyway there's a there's another point that I wanted to
make on the other side but I don't know if the Sun will allow us to do that and what it is is when I
first looked at this there have a lot of ghosting effect already on this what I'm gonna do is we're
trying to play catch-up and my handy-dandy little margin trial is here this is what I've been doing
as J spread I'm right behind I'm trying to catch up trying to catch up trying to catch him if I
I'll go into the joint here I'll go into the joint here after he stretch them why because
sometimes I pull out the color they want these done what's right cheap brush $2.00 brush beats
of $50 big broom type of brush any day this you just go straight up very gently straight up when
I'm I'm pulling straight up like this I'm not going like this and pull straight up guys yeah
straight up any holidays we're gonna come back to because we're hustling and to try to get it
perfect I'll lose another section not a big deal but we're gonna take you to a place where I want
to show you the what we're trying to avoid they have ghosting effect on the other side and those
guys were good you asked me Kirk can you do any better than this no I can probably probably do
just as well then we're going to go over there take you there and then once we're done which
hopefully we're trying to get it done the game alright guys I'll show you what we're trying to
avoid they put two new windows in here now halfway up that window you could see in the holiday where
it goes up after on the big wall here and you can see some of the areas that they missed or
they actually got it but it's called ghosting bang is over here we're two feet on this side
they have one color then the last five feet over here to have a color that palm-leaf right there in
the shade might distract from it but right here we have serious ghosty where I tell the hey where did
the best we can but ghosting is something that even if I did the job myself five years ago or
last month I can still get it because the suctions may be different so I'm blessed to me we're up on
a hill right here gets a lot of moisture you can see the whole Bay you can see almost all three
bridges we're up high so the moisture in the air condensation all that stuff didn't matter
so what we're trying to do is the best we can with what we have to work with all right guys
look at that wall there it's pretty solid this is pretty solid it's pretty tough to get out of the
ghosting effect I've used three measly buckets of Carson's three but I use almost a whole gallon of
paint for this little itty bitty area and now all we were doing was going over our area which
means I had to paint him three four five times to get the suction just right because it's all about
suction guys anyway we can go all the way around but I think I made the point there the suction is
what determines whether or not your house is gonna have the ghosting effect whether or not you're
doing acrylic whether or not you're painting or if you're doing a cement tshis it's all about suction
and primers and bonding agents and stuff like that anyhow my name is Kirk we've had a long day here
so we're getting ready to get out of here Jason and I thank you for watching it as usual we'll
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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