hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today I want to go over something
that I got a lot of emails about I roughly get about six emails per week and that is
the question of gee we have a heavy textured house and it's painted and what we would like is a Santa
Barbara smooth mission finish everybody loves a Santa Barbara smooth mission finish they don't
know how much work it is to do it though nor do they have an idea on cost I try to answer
that question say like for example this this is a heavy - and that's a hand-blown on finished it's
very heavy now when we do Santa Barbara smooth mission finishes which I've got a ten videos on
how to do it but we're going over a brown coat a brown coat is the base coat and it's very smooth
to go over this heavy - it takes some skill I know about three people out of the thirty stucco guys
I know who could actually do it and do it well one of them is working on this job Jay's on the camera
Jay's been working on this job now five days so he can't show himself but he loves doing these Santa
Barbara smooth mission finishes because they take a great deal of skill which we happen to possess
you know I've read you a letter she says well gee I have this house as painted it's a heavy
texture do I have to remove all of the stucco no you don't I haven't seen a house yet where we have
to remove all this stuff let me give you a let me show you some of the stuffs which these folks are
encountering now you see this roof that's that's tough work or say for example it's kind of loud
over here but you see this this is um it's a heavy finish you really got to know what you're doing in
order to do it properly I'll show you answer two things because I've gone over finishes that were
4 times as heavy hey you got to watch that it's land mines around here and when I've gone over
some finishes that were very heavy in the past I mean granted we've been doing videos for about
six years and we got about seven hundred there's like 10 million people ten million views so a lot
of our work gets out there and folks asked me this question often so when I come to houses at a very
very rough I'm talking look like whipping cream what we have to do is put a base coat first you
put a base coat then you do two layers of Santa Barbara smooth mission finish and when you do
that that's that's the right way however if they did a base coat over this the windows the grounds
would it would throw the whole house off because then you'd come out here a quarter-inch so the
two other finishes would not they wouldn't work on this they would look actually quite
cheesy cheap or foolish or unprofessional so the only way you can do this is with two color
codes and the trick is knowing which two color codes to use because two color codes of Santa
Barbara that won't do it I won't get into the two different materials out of necessary
but I will show you this this is what these folks already have done okay now you see this
that they just put this on about I guess three hours ago and what you do is you find the
material that has a bit more grit in it or sand or aggregate other than Santa Barbara this does
have a little bit more it's a heavier grit but if you just use Santa Barbara this would crack
like an egg so that takes some time in guys and I just happen to know the fella doing this job
here anyway you can see this is the first coat everywhere here and I'm going to take you around
and I'm going to show you some things such as modeling and what to expect because you guys say
well gee whisker what would it cost me ballpark and you tell them you send me pictures in and I
have to look at Google Maps and see the house and it's hard to get a ball but I'll just give you an
idea once we get to that stage let me take you around where the fellas are actually working Jay
likes this part because he got out of plastering for a few minutes job what's cooking daddy L well
Tim it works with me a lot of years he's not working for me right now but this guy is one
of the best plasters I have ever met he's as good as me thank you okay anyway we'll go around here
uh I'll just show you what the finished product here adolfo he got all my good plaster is here
Oh got Lu Lu's out here working for see that guy up there Gilligan with the hat all this as Annie
Davis is Davis stucco that guy is really really good how long you been doing this now thirty years
man you're getting old anyway let me let me show you some of the things they've done and it's kind
of difficult to get what they've achieved when you start out with this really heavy finish but
okay for example this is the the look now notice these corners are pretty smooth they have to use
a corner tool and go up it's called a reverse wing tool and you you get these corners but if
you notice this that's a smooth finish here and you see that modeling look or variations
in colors the variations in colors are quite typical and normal when I do Santa Barbara
finishes if somebody says well gee whiz Kirk we want it to look like a painted finish and solid
and appearance I said Matt can't help you you got to get somebody else because as you apply
these colors you take on your second coat this is to coat right here what I showed you earlier
was only one coat you got to let that set when it's set you come and put your second coat and
you use water so as you use the water to bring it back to life in order to take a trial and
smooth it down you get a variation of color it's almost similar to pouring Clorox on blue jeans
it'll it'll lighten it bleach there's a lot of words for this it's modeling I'll show you
something else too this this retaining wall and that's about as smooth as you guys are going to
get over a - finish guys the corners look good and all of this variations of color it's called
modeling I take you guys a little bit further we're going to pass Andy's Chuck and his mixers
get kind of noisy here we're going to back and I'll show you one more thing see all right here
here's what they're doing all right watch yourself J it's like a landmine here but this house is it's
quite big it's quite big it goes all the way up and I won't bore you too much with the rest but
we'll just show you one more piece in here because you get these corners and to get them modeled like
this where where they're smooth when you start off with a square a square corner it takes a little
bit of skill you can see the back here right away when I come here I notice this is a cement tshis
smooth coat a cement tshis when it gets wet it will darken that gazebo over there gazebo I looked
at that and as soon as I got closer I thought well that's an acrylic I can tell by the different
finishes anyway a lot of you folks say gee whiz we want to go with the smooth coach of trying to
give you an idea of what it takes to do a smooth coat the Santa Barbara it takes two finishes guys
at the least sometimes three like a lot of times people will come and put a whole base coat over
this first and then do two coats I'm sure if they had enough bid people bidding this they've got
that let me let me throw a number out just for the sake of argument say if this is I'm just going to
throw this round number out guys I have no idea what the fella charge no do I care say if you
charge 25,000 to say 1250 12,500 to do each coat that's the 25 grand to color coat the house what
you have to do is you have to pressure wash the house you have to apply a bonding agent directly
to that painted surface otherwise the cement tissues finished won't adhere now if somebody
said well gee whiz we want a base coat to that attack on another 20,000 so you got to know what's
best for your needs this is something that I'd been telling people for over 20 years I'll look
at it and say well if it's me I'll go with either two coats of Santa Barbara or two coats of this
or one of this and that so your folks who asked me will cost you can email me pictures and I'll give
you some cost just off of out of the sky they're round about ballparks in a lot of places I don't
even work because we're in Oakland let me go back around and we'll talk with Annie for a bit more
beautiful beautiful this looks really really good I love this old-world charm right here my wife is
from England and she says why is it that all you Americans want everything solid and appearance in
England we love the mottled look we even like moss on our houses so I like this this look myself and
I try to discourage people who say gee I wanted to look solid and appearance like a painted a paint
job look at it this way this this is a santa barbara finish there's a lot of them in the
Mediterranean Florida it gives you that feeling of you want to just take your shoes off stick
your feet in some warm sand and have a margarita you'll feel like you're at the beach anyway these
guys right here are doing the first coat when you guys can take lunch soon oh yeah I figure
Andy up there he's got he's one of the better guys of doing this particular stuff so he knows
what to look for and things of that nature these guys they're going to take lunch and after they
take lunch they're going to go ahead and Reese Kim the first coat all this is just the first
coat this first coat has got to set and after its set they're going to do the second coat and
the finished product is going to look like that guys Jason and I actually are going to do a house
almost similar in size two months from now but since Jay is working on this one I figured heck
I don't even have to video the other one now which takes a lot of time while we're trying to work so
I like this idea anyway um you guys are doing a great job man I'm impressed I told him I come out
here I told him I come out here and work a couple hours but but I figure I'm gonna leave Jay here
because he's working anyhow I just thought I'd come by and take a look at it and see because this
is the extremely tough thing to do and he's been telling me all about it so I'll leave all these
guys and leave them with their fun and go get into something that's more enjoyable than spreading
for me anyhow my name is Kurt Jason on the Cameron I know he wants to get back to work
so I'll leave it at that we thank you folks for watching and 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 comments if
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