Howdy, folks Kirk and jason here with Kirk giordano plastering.
today what we're gonna show you is how to repair these insulation holes now we've got about two
hundred on this house here now the fella emailed me these and he says Kirk can you match the
texture and I looked at pictures the other night and I thought yeah can match that texture and he
says well I've heard it was a - finish and I said technically through the couple pictures
you sent me it is a - finish but I don't know if I'd go a - finish because it'll be too heavy it
started off a - finish and then with all of the paint and say sixty years it softened it and then
when I got here I said there's your - finish and that doesn't match now see this right here maybe
if you're looking this way I don't know if the camera will show but this is somebody did this
here and they they did the two coats of cement then they threw the mud on it now this is way
more prominent than this what we're gonna do is match it much better than this because what they
have here is they threw it on but they didn't account for all the accumulation of 70 years
of paint jobs which softened did a bit where it's more like a heavy float and he says well
I'm gonna have you do it or a stucco man do it because I wouldn't looked at the guys job that
they did patchwork after they did the insulation holes and every one of them was worse than this
so sometimes guys you got to go with a specific trade so we're here let's see on these insulation
holes all I'm doing I told it fella that's it okay you had the guys install whatever quirks
they're going to use and by the way what what the insulation guys do they drill the holes in
there and then they use either a polyurethane cork or styrofoam cork or corks cork I didn't
actually I don't know if there's that word let me read let me rephrase that plugs they'll use
a Styrofoam plug or styrofoam or a polyurethane plug or a cork plug personally if it works for a
bottle of wine that's what I would prefer and when they do these plugs I've seen them every which way
I've seen about 20 different styles generally I would suggest they use a tapered cork where
the cork goes in there it's a little shorter and then you tap it in with a hammer and lastly the
insulation guys put their polyurethane caulking in the hole so fellows like us this is what we
do we take a bonding agent in a lot of different colors and a lot of different kinds of bonding
agent we all we do is we already did this we'll put our bonding agent around there and inside
there and inside here then we're going to mix them mud after we got that done we already did it but
just to prove a point I'm China redo it then we mix some mud now our mud is going to be safe for
200 holes we're gonna mix about a bucket of mud and each batch will do like 15 at a time will mix
it with luminite and luminaid has accelerators in it so as fast as I do say 20 holes then I'll come
back and hit it with a float immediately and in five more minutes that stuff's going to be dried
hard and it'll match this finish here you'll see this area here in the Sun what we'll do is
we'll finish this and then we'll show you all of all of the patch work to show you how well
does that blends in with what I'm referring to all right guys j-just mixed up some cement we're both
gonna get busy but first I thought I'd show you just what I'm referring to on these bottom this
hole here is two inches thick this one's about hell that's about two inches they're all about
two two and a half inches anyway it is what it is we just we just fill them what we do is J mix me
up some mud right here nice mud this nasty stuff is luminite see that it's brown and this brown
luminite we actually it gets old it's like food man this this product here it does get old so
what you do is you mix your luminite you can mix it on a hockey you can mix it in a bucket with a
drill a lot of different ways to do this just to prove a point here I'm gonna mix it on the hawk
a little bit of water on here and what does luminite do well it takes this mud here from
a hour to two hours set mud and transforms it into a in this case a 5-minute mud what
is a 5-minute mud mean he's a five-minute it's gonna be hard as a rock and just to prove the
point guys I'll show you something okay so we got we've got five possibly ten minutes with all this
mud here okay we're going to inches stick so I don't want to make too two trips for this okay
put your hock underneath it guys put your Hawk here and because it's so thick you want to fill
the hole two inches you don't want to just fill the top say seven eight you got to fill all of it
fill the whole thing and keep your Hawk underneath guys they don't make a big mess for example again
once more this one's about a inch and a half we squeeze it in there squeeze it in there what I'm
doing is I'm allowing those other three to set up a bit so I'll finish these other three right
here since I'm right here and notice two guys that that almost matches right there but that's
not how we're gonna leave them once twice throw that guy up now the idea is we're gonna float
these see how I've had my hawk underneath them so they don't spill and make a huge mess now I take
a water bucket yeah sponge float let me get some of the water out clean water it's not gonna make
a stain here clean water I just want a little bit of water in this that's already darkening
that's how fast this stuff works you take your sponge float the more water you put on this the
more aggregate is exposed now the idea is to bring out enough aggregate so that it matches
the existing those are pretty heavy and over here you just keep doing that same thing that
matches that matches this wall each one you see how fast that stuff hardens I could make
it harden in five minutes or twenty thirty all depends on what we want to do but anyway that
matches closer to the finish then if you dash it anyhow folks thought I'd point that out since we
got to do this job anyway we have a couple hundred holes so we're gonna get busy it can help me plug
them so we thank you folks for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one
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