Good morning folks Kirk here with Kirk Giordano Plastering, they're doing and the foundation a
couple repair off an entire house this part of the house this happens to be in the shade best
part for you folks to see what number one on the lab is put your drip screen and make sure it's an
H below the wood that way the water goes on the paper comes out through these holes it's called
the drip speed or weak screen as it weeps out here if it's too high up it's a good smell it
you have to redo that to make certain that's an inch below two layers of paper both layers go
under the existing paper if you can solve a lot of times you can't then you put the 17 gauge wire
high power wire to the existing water otherwise you get the perimeter crack and I'm doing these
corners right here I like to use a hammer and nail what I do is I'm putting this guy on just
like that now making sure it lines up here and lined up at the bottom if not it's going to be
cockeyed and crooked so that's it for the last all right folks scratch coat now what
we have here is we put on the first coat which is about 3/8 of an inch thick and make these trowels
right here we stretch this pile with them also what I like gonna scratch it and put some tape
on it now you went to scratcher let the tape back said a guy it tears off 50 areas and you
always go horizontal never go that way the next coat will adhere to that but if you go vertical
sometimes the next coat if it's a cold or wet day then slide right down she's always going
horizontal and around this Dallas leader and a wee bit chicken lovely scratches anyhow and I started
the same spot that we were at while we did a lot now I could I'll take it right here children.
now chief Russia's best brush - it's drunk reporters go like what and get all the mud
off the corners no way when we couldn't do the next Coast we won't have any clinker and again
I already explained how important this point is lined up with this corner that's part that's about
the most important thing with these areas like so take this brush go over the corner just like
that both sides that way you got a clean finish here so when the next coat is applied with no
clinkers sure another important thing is saying like the window here you're just going to take
this brush here clean it up we can use a brush I like to take this float to mean it up a bit
We clean the drift speed all right, guys. Another important aspect of a scratch coat is not only
having your horizontal scratch line take a sponge float. It's easier than a brush, and you just get
the joint right here. You don't want this stucco to be passed this existing stuffing because the
next coat will be too full. It's okay if it's too thin if you could add more so a wet float
will come here all the way around it that way, your next coat might you don't want to fight
it on any of the coaches remember this is about skill, not about strength or muscle you can be
See, we still do this. It doesn't take a lot of strength. It takes a lot of skill little bit out
of time all right, take a little show that way, Browns got to be cleaned up the window
wood everything has got to be cleaned up just right because you can do a great job back and
finish it, but if you leave a mess that's the only thing close folks are in for it,
so cleanup is real point knocks anyway that's it for this scratch coat we're in Alameda so
fatso
there it is, folks - finishing on
alright guys now we're going to - - brush it it's bristles so what I generally do is I've got some
soupy mud here then I have some water here on give the brush and water clean it up that way
it's just stupid water and I put a little bit of water in here and you spin it in here you want a
to soupy or - yeah I did is called - and just like the old saying - of salt and you can use
your wrist flick it on there not sure how well that camera will show this going on a mission
possibly zoom in the idea is now that the entire house just a second coat on it and we've loaded
everything this is technically a third coat but I call third coats color coats myself so
depending on the city I'd like to say this is the third coat fighters it's a - finish over a
second coat you spin this - brush and this does take practice to make it look a lot easier than
it is but I've been doing this a lot of years so anybody pick up the brush they have I think
little bit difficult if you haven't experienced before just like anything else more practice you
have itself in them whether you're going to get active so this is what I'm going to do throughout
the entire house if I bothered or obviously if I go this way I'm going to get it all over the
screen so there's no vertical right here because a lot less mess to clean that's bad enough we're
gonna have a lot of mess to clean out this I don't want to make more again Kircher Donna LaDonna
as far as how to do it for those of you who don't know how to do it don't watch it feel free to call
us Kurt Joe Donald last week I'll call somebody else because we do make it look a lot easier
than it actually is thank you for your time and you have a great day all right guys now we're
completely done with everything we're all cleaned up our trip streets are cleaned underneath the
windows lights doors all concrete around the whole perimeter of the house that looks bad that our
work looks back again remember this is for those if you want to do it but don't know how to thank
you, Jason and Kirk, can help me do this not only in do it the video and you folks have a great day