good morning folks Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what I'm going to do is a simple
window where the window goes to this door here they left three inches and expected us to tie in
what we're going to do is we're going to break the whole thing out and I'm going to break it
out with this Bosch because if I just try to pull this out with my hammers what I'm to do
is it'll rip this wood right here because it's keyed in the stucco's keyed into this redwood
stop meaning it has a groove so I got to break it out first with this guy here and then pull it out
I'm gonna break all this out what I want to do is expose two inches of paper three inches of wire
or vice versa when its existing like this we try to get three and three but sometimes the papers
deteriorated so we're going to go ahead and bust this out the next time you see me I won't show you
breaking this out because just goes everywhere and I don't want it in our camera my son asked
me a pretty good question what are all those wood strips these are first strips meaning in the old
days um they did the paper here and of course they use one layer because that was code back then is
it the paper and then they put these first trips meaning when you put this wire on here the first
strips would keep it 38 above the wall itself horse power wire today is salford we don't need
this these first strips so we're going to go ahead and tie our new paper to the underneath here a new
wire all the way around I just thought I'd point out these first trip because they're all over this
particular job anyway well we'll finish up with the laughs and we'll just show you the completion
and I'm just finishing up the stapler not a gun a lot faster than heard out with salford wires we
don't need the nails anyway I'm going to go ahead and use this window we're going to get out of here
see we get ready to do this texture okay folks I'm back and what we're doing is scratch coat right
now now what I'm going to do is I've got luma night in the scratch coat because once i'm done
with this in 10-15 minutes I wanted to be able to put the next coat on immediately right here where
we have the tie-in I use the water hose when we laugh this and I got all the dust and dirt off
because dust and dirt will sit right here so kind of important to remember that to groom it off just
it off with air or get it off with water i chose the water because it was handy so I'm doing this
first coat and in about 20 minute I'm going to do the second coat I'll show you that part when we do
it because had a couple fellows now who called me and said Wendy uploaded so I'm going to go
ahead and after i put my second coat i'm going to show you when the floated and that basically means
like right now we're pretty wet with the first coat but once this cures and sets i'm going to
put the second coat and when the second coat is is cured but not fully dry i'm going to show you how
to use the water with a bucket and sponge float it to get this particular texture okay now i'm doing
the second coat and again the second coat also has luma night lumini is an accelerator man it
sets this quick so already my first code is set and i'm putting my second coat on right now and
when I'm true meaning the window of the frame are perfectly level all the way around then I'll show
you a little bit more in detail than I have been in the future or the top as far as when
to actually hit this with a float now i'm using a green sponge float there's two types of float the
hard rubber then the green one which is a sponge with a handle and that's sponge which with a hand
i'm going to dip in the water and i'm just going to float this out if it gets too hard obviously it
won't float out and if it's too soft but i put the water to wash it all up so that's what I'm having
is call me telling me when do we do the float so I'll show it to you a little bit better that way
you get a an idea of exactly when to float okay guys now that I've got the second coat on what I'm
going to do is I'm going to use this as a rod I'm going around here it's already hard you can see
how hard it is already i'm using a lot of muscle now that yeah I let it sit just a little bit
too long okay that didn't take me but I'd say 15 minutes to do both coasts one thing i have heard
many many times is I'm fast that's what she said my son blaster whisk it on camera now the comedian
what I meant is I've got all the tools necessary in order to complete this job competently and a
pretty good speed ok so now i'm on the floaters so coming upward coming upward and when you're
floating it see there now this let me just show you it's not hard completely but it's it's about
right to float so hopefully the pick that up without hope you'll folds in now I'm show down
here what I do is I grab the float with my glove I get a little bit mad spin it around I don't want
too much water on this because if I put too much water it's going to take it off it I'm going to do
the sides first because the sides hit the stucco sides here which is raw and it draws out all the
water so what I'm going to do is come up word now now the majority of water is on the float and I'm
hitting this joint so now now I can hit this right here because I don't have too much water on it
I've already used the water and go upward guys especially if you're new now I can go down but
I've been doing this a lot of years so upward upward upward one is finally set you can go now
notice i'll do a little circles now and what I'm trying to achieve there's the texture that
say house which is a light dash originally but it's been painted 10 20 times so now it's at any
place i'm using a sand instead of holy or posture sand it's a little heavier so that that way i can
bring the aggregate out without the dash all right we're going to hit this we're gonna come
up lot of water on the top again I just put this brown coat on but I have illuminated luma night is
an accelerator so there we have it I've almost got the texture I'm going to dip this in water
a couple more times then I'll come back and clean that your frame different water come on down Jay
was so this dip it in water I normal it without half a bucket of water I fill it up and I won't
be able to get the water off the float I need the empty bucket or half empty to hit this okay
now that I've got a lot more water on here than the first time because now i want to bring the
aggregate out bring this hand out so I'm hitting it with more water and squaring it off this is the
number one question I hear from guys saying hectic look dumb what is floating most people think you
do the brown coat then you come back another day and you slope nope do it you were then before the
brown coat has a chance to really get hard if I waited another 15 minutes I would not help
been able to do it because I've been too hard yo you get this joint lot of water now
more aggregate who wants to achieve more water you put if I wanted it where it's
not as sandy then I use less water okay that tops done rather than the bar you for the next
five minutes of here I'm going to go ahead and float it then I'll show you the final resource
okay guys there you have it this is not yet fully hard as a rock it's still a little soft,
and that's when you do your sponge float finish otherwise you'll have
issues with it won't float if it's too hard and again if it's too soft it'll come right
off once you're all done with that the obvious is just go ahead and pull the
rag and clean up these new guys like that both hooks hook hope you learn something
this is Kirk giordano plastering thanks Jay for doing the video we'll see on the next one.