Hello folks, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plasterer, today I want to show you
guys the question that I've been answered or asked quite a few times that a fella just a couple weeks
ago said Kirk I'm going to do a scratch and brown patch and I just did this patch you can see it's
still wet he says how many years the same mud that I textured or did the patch work because
the fella said I could true and false I mean can I match this is 2030 texture it says probably a
color coat and it was done with 2030 texture and in order to match this you'd have to go to Santa
Barbara I'm going to give you an example here because I have time and I'm on this job do another
thing the mud I use to notice it's the same color because I guess spread with it let me give you an
example okay the fella says well another guy says he could use it I can do a lot of Texas with this
this mud here is just scratching brown regular Portland cement no additives no retardants no
accelerators no nothing but to try to match this texture here this has Olli sand in it Olimpia
okay now I'll show you something and whether or not you pull it from the top of the bottom it
really doesn't matter but the sand is heavier so say for example I do my texture here now
if I miss a few areas that's okay because this is it's drying up now I'm going to scrape this
right off because I got enough time in guys after 30 years you know what works and what
doesn't work and I already know that this isn't working but we get some sellers and say oh I can
do it well I can do it too but the idea is even if you knock it down tight okay and I'm not get
down tight when this is painted it's not going to match this in fact it's going to be pretty far
off they're going to paint this and they're going to be sitting back in their hot tub and someone's
going to say man whoever did that patch sucks so I'm going to scrape it off that's not what
I'm going to do I'll show you what I am going to do get rid of this clean my hawking trowel
and show you the right way to do this stuff okay where's my float float right here now after I
clean this hawk in trial I have a bucket of some Santa Barbara smooth mission finish and all that
is is it just it's a 30 grit sand in the makings see this bucket right here that's just Santa
Barbara color coats come in in 30 grit 20 and 16 16 being the heaviest okay now take for example
this material will do the same thing matter of fact I will hard rubber floats on my own work off
okay let's start again now now I'm using color coat material finer finer grain we're placing
this on here and it's a lot tighter and then you just look at that texture there and you
come up with something that it's a lot tighter this is let's go on this side where you can see
a better example of the texture see this texture how the pattern of it you got a little bit more
to see if you could zoom in there okay this is one way we could skim the whole thing with this
or we can just texture he's painting it anyhow so what I like to do is I'll start off skip it a
little bit I could skip it a lot or a little what I'm doing is I'm looking at how this fella skip
dinner and I'm just matching it any areas that are in between that oh you missed a little bit
on your just like that just a little when all said and done it's got a when it's painted fee I mean
most homeowners can tell where a patch was done on their own property but again you don't want folks
sitting in a hot tub with nothing better to do a look at a wall and go hey a whole bunch of work
there didn't show so anyhow I'm looking at this it was knocked down it was laid on and then it
was knocked down when I say it was knocked down that just means they laid it on like I'm doing
or applying it then they came back after it's set and they finished it off okay I'm looking at this
that's knocked down after it was set for anywhere between five ten minutes now what I can do is I
take my trowel and just barely just barely hit it you don't have to look at it rip the wall dictator
Now when that's painted, it's going to match this texture flatter because that one would be
a big bulge that the grit is way too heavy for this right here this is twenty-thirty I'm using
thirty. Why am I using thirty lighter because this has been softened by paint for the last
50 years? It has at least maybe four paint jobs primer and paints, so it's too soft to go with
its original one. Anyhow, folks, that's how you do textures. I'm going to go ahead and reskin
this whole thing and just put a texture on it. My name is Kirk. I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering.
Hope that explains forget the fellows name about the texture and using the texture mud. Anyhow,
guys, we thank you for watching as usual, and we'll see on the next one.