Howdy Folks Kirk and Jay here with Dan and Carl also,
Another one of Jason's interior jobs, we want to show you guys how to fix it yourself,
or if not, you're going to end up calling folks like us.
What happened here? They stepped through the ceiling oh, they're walking on the joyces here's
your Joyce, Joyce, Joyce, and if you're not careful guys you could step off the joist and
into the field, and if you step into the field your foot can go through it, even if you pull
back this could still happen anyway what we're going to do is Jason just cut the perimeter out.
What he did is he scored it with a knife, you could use a saw too, but it gets dusty;
he scored it with a knife all the way around the crack, was about here and what that does is
it contains it because right here we're about an eighth of an inch thick, right here we're inch and
a half so this is all it's a Victorian house, everything here is done by hand by eyeball.
And so what we're trying to do is,
well what we're going to do is we're going to put this thing back together.
So what Jay did is after he removed all the loose stuff, now this pink stuff,
this it's just a bonding agent why do we need a bonding agent, if we're going to wire it? because
we want to remove the dust dirt, grime, and crap see like that you just put this this is a Larson's
its pink Plaster-Weld can you use Quick crate at Home Depot or Lowe's absolutely Quikrete works,
too we just happen to have this it's it's colored so you can see if you miss a spot but anyhow after
you get your perimeters done and the reason I'm wiring this is because of this hole right here
it's too much work guys to try to salvage these wood lath and put them back in.
So what I'm going to do right now is put this guy right here, and I'm going to staple it or
screw it right back in, and then the boys are going to make me up some mud,
and we're going to show you how to replaster it we are wired up I'll show you how we put
this thing back together real fast we're working with 20-minute mud, what's 20-minute mud mean?
It means you got 20 minutes to put it up, what oh this is, well, it could be a little bit stiffer,
but oh, kirk will make it work. 20-minute mud, so what I want to do first, I always like to go
into the perimeter, so that's what I'm gonna do, take it here, come here, here, come here.
I was talking to the fella a little while ago, and he was telling me a guy was working up here;
yeah, he fell he stepped through it.
He he and his wife were underneath hit his wife, in the head, and she had to go to the hospital.
So all you clumsy electricians,
be aware of what you're doing and stay on those joists. Me I've been up in so many attics and
I've done so much work in them, but I'm kind of like a gazelle, I put my foot only on the rafters,
and if I fall, I've done it, where I jump right back up real quick.
Anyway, we're putting this one back together; two weeks ago we were doing a job,
and there's a little bit of animosity on that job; that's a three-dollar word.
That just means the guy who lived there, he says man, my brother was up in the attic
and he comes through it. And he says check this out,
and I thought, check what out? So he shows me a picture of a leg
hanging through almost to the hip, and I thought, you took a picture of that!
Anyway, he was a little bit peeved and pissed off. And he said yeah, he was walking up there,
and he just stepped right through it, so that happens, guys.
It happens that's why most attics, you'll see, It'll have plywood here
and there because there's always somebody who is just not all that gracious and they'll fall.
What, what I'm doing now guys is I'm just doing a base coat
this is a scratch coat base coat; you can call it whatever you want,
and earlier, I said it's 20-minute mud. That just means guys that, 20 minutes means
you got 20 minutes to work with it to put it on, and earlier I was talking about
the bonding agent that bonding agent does a couple things, now it stops it from.
Well it actually bonds it, but you see, the wood lath of old, it was from the 1800s 1830
they stopped or 1930 they stopped doing that wood lath in some areas, not everywhere,
but the idea is the wood lath the plaster goes through that, it mushrooms on the top
and that's how it adheres, with the metal lath we're using now that it does the same thing
but that metal louth we're using is for exteriors. But it also can be used for interiors because
you can't find this wood lath, and it's uh too much of a drag looking for it.
So if you get if you have this happen, guys, uh use the 3.4 mesh,
that's what it's called if you go to uh say Home Depot or Lowe's, or you could use rib lath a lot
of things you could do but don't use regular uh stucco netting that's for exterior walls.
The holes are too big; gravity won't allow it to adhere,
these little bitty holes, what it does is it goes through these little bitty holes right here,
and mushrooms above it and that's how it adheres plus this pink stuff that's just
a bonding agent it gets rid of the dust, and man we want to get rid of the dust.
Okay, right here, it's about half inch thick I'm using the toe of my trowel to fill that
fill it up.
What you want to do, guys, is keep your hawk under it in case
stuff drops off the job's off. I mean we're covered like crazy.
But in case it drops off, you have it
on your Hawk, so you don't have to clean up too much excess down below,
Okay, I can feel this is starting to set I'll have a little bit of mud left in this bucket
using a scoop contoured the same as the bucket so it takes every Grunion out of the bucket.
It takes all this mud out, cleans the bucket real well uh, and again, this is 20-minute
mud you can buy 90-minute mud, hour and a half minute mud you go based on your skill level I
do not recommend five-minute mud, because it sets in five minutes unless you are real professional.
Okay, while I'm, I'm just using the rest of this bucket out now,
and I hear other mud be mixed, but I'm really not ready for it yet.
Anyhow, I got one more scoop in here, and once this sets,
we're gonna put the next and last bucket on, and I'll show you guys how to do that too.
Getting ready for this second coat, that'll do it about right there, so what we're going to do now
is fur it out, I like to put a little bit of water on the trowel so that it doesn't stick, and I can
see where it's uh hollow, so we put this here what kind of other materials can you use guys?
Oh you could use Strocto-Lite the Structo-lite takes like four hours to dry unless you know
how to use accelerators; you could use uh Diamond finish, Diamond base,
Imperial base Imperial finish, those are plasters this is is uh, it's a sheetrock compound.
What does that mean? That means it has its sheetrock mud, taping mud with accelerators
in it, and they got it down to science guys. from uh five minutes, 20 minutes, 90 minutes,
if that just means when you mix it, you better be able to put it on in that that amount of time.
So what I got now here guys, is I've got enough mud, so what I want to do is allow this to set,
little rocks, no big deal, nothing we can't handle.
Pull the rocks out, clumps now and notice I use a big Congo trowel that way
it's done I mean right now I'm gonna just sit have a sandwich and allow this to set
for about 15 minutes, because it's just mixed so another another 10 or 15 it'll be really hard,
then what I want to do is come back up here wet it a little bit and play with it and make
it match this right here, so we're almost done all right guys the moral to this is
whoever you hire as an electrician to walk on these joists, make sure they have good balance,
if, if somebody looks awkward, guess what? No doubt they are! Anyway back to that one
fella who was, I was talking about, he actually took a picture of his brother's leg hanging out,
and I thought, man why would you do that, you going to put him on Facebook?
I think he probably did, but anyway, I want to point out something about trowels guys,
all right I'm using a big swim pool s-w-i-m swim pull p-o-o-l, not p-u-l like pull it,
here's what I get a lot of people saying Kirk I went and bought a silo trowel, it's better than
the one you're using I say if it floats your boat then use it this doesn't float anybody's boat what
it is a silo trowel it has straight here and just the ends art now what they should develop.
Marshalltown, Curry, all you guys uh who make all these Okay, this is perform you guys make
a Plastering trowel, here's a big difference you see that this this a plaster trial this
is for somebody with experience they could use their wrists, and it flexes this one is four
inches four so it's for concrete you push down on the concrete you embed the Rocks.
This is not a Plastering trowel, guys, and this I could use this little one but,
it's it's too stiff it's not rigid; now we go to this trowel; this one flexes, it bends;
why is that really necessary that it flex and bend, now I'm waiting any of you companies that
develop trials develop a silo trial like this but give it five inches or even six,
I've never seen a six but I'd make one six inches so that us as plasterers,
we could put the mud on here and then we'll be able to go up top and move it we use our wrist
our skill to get the plaster in tops this you can't use skill because it's the wrong too rigid.
Anyway, so you guys who say I you I got a silo trial wrong trowel, brother, forget about it it
won't work, anyway getting back to what I'm doing, okay, this mud is set how do you bring it back to
life because right now I need a handful of mud to match this texture you hit it with water, Okay now
this is uh a compound so I I hit that with water now you're going to take the trowel on edge if
you want to bring it to life on edge guys, if you put it flat you're just going to flatten it out on
edge give yourself a little bit see you see that? I want to show you something now look at that
trowel that's a little bit of mud there, so if you have an area like, uh here I got some holidays,
you could put that see that excess mud put it down there and go over it because that
mud is a set mud that means it's already had 20-minutes so it'll fill in voids.
Cool beans, all right, uh, now what I want to do, guys, is I was putting it
on edge to prove a point, but I pulled up some grit, and that grit left some lines.
All right now, this little bit of mud right here, all I needed is a there's about an inch of mud in
this bucket, so I'm gonna clean this off because it's got dirt and crap on it, and that's all the
mud I need for this texture it's just a tiny bit, and again this this trowel here is five
inches wide, I'm hoping uh one of these trowel manufacturers such as Curry or Marshall Town
or even that particular, will make a five-inch or six-inch width it doesn't matter the length
and this particular trowel here is straight here it's got arcs, but anyway getting off of that.
All right, so I got to match this texture right there what is that? That is a skip trial,
so I'm going to take a little bit of this mud, close my eyes, and skip it, okay skip it,
And I'm going over the joint here so that you the joint doesn't show now.
How about that, guys? That's just too easy.
And that's a little heavier than what they got, but that's all right because I'm going
to come back in a second and flatten it out a little bit, what I'm doing is
I'm looking for any holidays of course you can't, the camera won't show any holidays,
and I want to get my perimeter joint so that when this is painted the outline does and show.
Okay, now that's about right, so I'm going to set this down out of my way,
and then oh, come on now. Okay, Dan, grab this thing before it flips off and goes on the floor.
All right, guys, so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to wet the trowel one last time
because we are done we're gonna just knock this down and get out of here always wet your tools,
baby, all right guys wet the tools because if it's dry it's going to drag everything and it's
going to look like crap when it's done. all right, so now that this is wet,
just go over it guys go over it
What I'm doing is I'm looking at theirs.
And then I'm Hollow here, no way.
See that all that rambling, I'm missing stuff
Okay, you all have a good idea of how to fix it yourself or avoid clumsy electricians.
Anyway, my name is Kirk, Jay, Dan, and Carl, we thank you,
guys, for watching, and as usual, we'll see you on the next one.
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