Hello there folks, kirk here, with kirk giordano Plastering,
I'm a show you guys today is we're doing a tex coat, a blown on finish, how do we know this house
has a Tex-coat? You see that corbel detail and all that would work? That's a clear indication that
the house as a tex-coat, what is a tex-coat? Follow me around here please. A text coat is,
they take aggregate which is sand, take a bonding agent, acrylic and color, and they spray it around a
house? Now you say how do you know? Well here's a clear indication again, this is wood, they spray
this tex-coat on wood, the corbels all this is wood, wood details, wood framing, you see that
emblem up there? that's sprayed also. Its good, the good but tex-coats are? They generally waterproof
a lot of things well, depending on, if you're in a hot area such as Livermore, or where there's a
lot of heat, I'll do this right here. It will crack, because the heat actually exposes it, right here
you can zoom in here now this sand they throw in bags of aggregate that is sifted, meaning if
I'm getting ready to to apply a dash finish. I'm going to blow the finish on, and as I blow
it on if I just use regular cement, the sand has different sizes some of it is "Silica," which is
fine like dust, and some of it's very heavy so it wouldn't match this, so what I've done is we
just turn the compressor off, to show you folks this and the mixer now what we've done is I've
got bags which we're going to throw in our mixer and the bags are La Habra finish bags, that
way that means that the sand is sifted, it's the same aggregate as it's the same consistency so
when I dash, my dash will match this finish, we're going to show you that. All right guys getting
ready to start dashing now we've had a lot of people come by here a lot of contractors who
built this right here they all want to see how we do all this intricate stuff, now all these
colors came out and a whole bunch of other things, most of them say, wow that finished is perfect, you guys
are really good. This finish if it's painted like this realized it looks like it'll match but it
won't. We pulled out the aggregate with a sponge floats, but this is much heavier. I'm going to
show you how I do this by myself, as opposed to one guy throw mud in here, I'm going to turn this
on and it's going to drown me out. Because it's loud, we have a compressor in the garage.
The garage doors are covered, try to take down some of the sounds. Anyway, when I release some of the pressure it's
going to get loud. I'll show you how we do this. Okay, all right I usually put this between my leg like so,
Pour it, I'll pull a little bit In, if I'm going way above my head out,
you get the little bit. It's hard to hold it, and move it all right. Here we go.
I want to adjust my air, I do it right here, right there, it's heavier, Now it's heavier.
Look, guys, when your matching, a tex-coat, and water left here, so here we go, with a little less air,
Now we're going to put a little bit on the top. See how that works?
They're going to paint this so I'm not really worried about the color, all it is, is, i'm giving it
a little bit more sand, and that's all I'm doing
giving it a little bit more sand, out when it's a painting, it'll blend in real well.
this matters so I'll turn it off, this matter is quite a bit the air, if I want my aggregate
Heavy, I turn the air down, I want it lighter well I can change my material and
then turn off the air so it will really give it a lot of force a lot of different textures.
Anyway I've got about six to eight hours today, of doing this by the time I'm done
all I will have is just my glasses, where I take them off. My whole body could
be filled with this, it's a messy job, if you guys ever try to do this stuff, anyhow my name
is Kirk, I'm with Kirk giordano plastering, thank you, folks, for watching, I'm gonna get
back busy and finish what we started, as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one.