hi guys kirk and Jayson here with Kirk Giordano plastering today we're gonna show you how to
fix some concrete any of you folks have say your downstairs or a basement you got a pool table or
card room and you have some weird stuff like this on an existing house say this foundation here was
poured about 90 years ago and the camera might be able to show it dives in right here it takes
a different hump right here this part protrudes about six inches then it goes in about six here
that's just kind of unsightly we got some work lofts work live lofts across the street on the
water so they want to pretty this up after about 50 years we're gonna show you how to do guys is
how to prep it a lot of you folks call me and say gee Kirk I have a a wall in my basement what do
I need to do well this is a painted surface no stucco will adhere to a painted surface so first
of all what we're gonna do is we're gonna apply a bonding agent to this stucco actually first
of all we're going to clean this stucco it the fellow says gee Kirk we just painted it recently
so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take this wire brush score it meaning I'm gonna scratch the crap
out of it I want to score it or micro score it so that we have sort of a scratch coat for the
bonding agent to get in there then we're going to put weld accrete of course full strength we're
gonna knock this piece off because it's too far to build out and once we got that I'm going to take
my handy dandy level and give him up give myself a couple straight lines for a guide as well as down
here we're just gonna take this piece straight here come up here down and take this one straight
so when you walk in this building and there's about fifty units here this part looks Pleasant
instead of such an eyesore so Jay and I are gonna go ahead and prep all this and once we prepped it
all I will show you how we spread it out notice this hump here the next time you see it that's
gonna be gone because I don't want to build my stucco out to that so well they're gonna take at
least six inches off of that guy right there all right guys we have prepped everything now here's
where we pulled off that about six eight inches we still have about three to four inches here
the most important thing with this guys is clean your work well and put a good bonding agent on it
we're using weld create weld krita's for concrete to concrete stucco to stucco and I'm using full
strength what I did was I gave myself a few guides with a marker so I know where I'm going to so what
I want to do first is I'm gonna do the big stuff because the big stuff has got to set first before
we start skimming everything say for example who's gonna knock me some mud right here we're
gonna build this up I figure one bucket just to build everything up okay and by the way guys and
the mud we're using you can go six inches with it of course back to back or you could throw it
on thick like I'm doing a lot of different muds for different reasons okay now what I'm what I'm
doing is I'm putting on this first coat because I want to go at least six inches and then I'll
skim the entire thing anybody watching say gee can you use any of the gypsum products you could but I
wouldn't recommend it say like they have a lot of fast patching like Westpac's fast patch to gypsum
base product like the sheetrock here this gypsum board sheetrock drywall whatever you want to call
it same stuff but what they have here this is an access room meaning the dumpster goes through here
now if I use say a product like gypsum even structure light or any of those others it's
not gonna be real strong so if it gets hit with a a dumpster it's gonna fall apart so basically
before we get to the next stage we have to do this stage and this is just a matter of building it out
also let's see and I stuck a little bit of wire in here just because we are so thick and then we're
gonna flatten this guy out we're gonna let this set my last pieces right here and we just leave
that alone I'm gonna put some scratch marks in there now I'm gonna go way over here right here
I'm going to inch thick do I need to use this mud here not really but we are going to follow this
line right here I marked it so this is going to go three inches thick so I will go ahead and just
throw this on right here and just like that guys just throw it on because we need to build up and
our next mud doesn't have to be as hot meaning we just finished that bucket Lu's going to mix some
more what we'll do is we're going to finish this here and right here because we're ten inches thick
what I'm gonna do is just take it as a triangle like this I've stuck a little piece of wire in
there just for the heck of it so we're gonna take this in case those dump shion's go through
here it doesn't chip this refrigerators washing machines everything is going to be going through
this entryway because it's the courtyard to about 30 or 40 units again guys if you have a basement a
laundry room and you have concrete brick cinder block and it's not pretty this is how you do it
as far as if you want to skim it again the most important thing is not so much my texture but
you make certain that whatever you're putting a bonding agent over is clean you can't put it over
dust or any bonding agent will fail the well Crete here now we can put it on we got ten days usually
I like to put it on while it's still a little tacky or you can allow it to dry completely anyhow
mix it up some more mud I'm gonna sit around and do nothing all right guys we are back to
mix up another bucket and again what we showed you earlier was pretty serious hump right here so we
want this wall straight this is a two and a half inch to three inch hump right here so I'm building
it up that way the next coat I only need one now what I'll do here is come here and put it on the
top building it out come here leave a little bit on that top I'll show you guys a shortcut to the
top so you like me I've been doing this for ever so I could make my corners right here however you
guys if you're going to do this and you say man I can't make those corners like that I'll show
you easy way to make the corners a little bit more mud here here and just put a heck of it one more
scoop and then I'll slide a corner on this is for you guys who much easier to give yourself a guide
okay just for the sake of explaining this is a piece of corner age you can get this corner aid
Lowe's Home Depot any of the material yards when you got it where you want it you put this guy here
Greg what's up buddy oh no you can leave it open or okay all right my buddy Greg just opened up
that door no worries it might have interfered with the camera so we put that there now what
I'm gonna do is I'm gonna let this set 15 minutes this is gonna be hard as a rock and yeah I can go
my three to six inches we're using a heavy heavy cement that is got no retardant whatsoever instead
it has a cellar a door so I we have adjusted this so 15 minutes that's going to be hard and we're
gonna start skimming this and what what I have here we're gonna straighten this out make it look
a bit prettier I'll show you that later alright guys I've set that corner over there and that mud
has got to sit for at least 15 minutes possibly 20 so in the meantime I'm gonna do something else
now what I'm doing like I showed you over there there's how to do a corner the easy way to put it
this mud and again this is this hot mud what does that mean I mean it's setting fast I'll show you
how I set that corner over there Jason gestured that I show you folks just in case you want to
take a shortcut because me I was just gonna build these out and just eyeball it into corners but a
few folks who watch what we do say gee I don't know how to do that I'll show you a simple way
because I didn't show you over there all right just we're done with the mud here all right one
more piece right here right two more so we're gonna take it here and granted this corner six
inches we're going about about four and a half inches thick right here so just for the sake of
squaring it off what I do is I put it here and I leave some fat up here or you can do what I was
doing earlier and just pop it like that here's my line guys so this we don't need to build up
so high right here on this side all right that's cool now what I'll do is I'm just gonna take this
corner a and I'm gonna set it in here okay I got it cut to length and I look at that side I look at
where I want to be here's the height I want to be so I take it just kind of squeeze it put my round
swimming pool trout down for a minute and I'll just seat this I've seating it in here and I'll
take my top mud and I'm using this for a guide now the corner aide this piece acts as a guide
so it it shows you exactly where you need to be if you're going heavy and then I take this side come
right up to it nothing to it just like that and I guess guys the most important thing you would
need to know if you're planning on doing something like this especially if it's over two inches thick
is the muds the muds are real important if it's if you don't know you're the type of mud you're
using or say how long you have before it sets scratch it come back another day and put another
coat we can do that all in one day because we understand retardants as well as accelerators
anyway so what Jay and I are gonna do is we're gonna finish doing this because we have about 10
more of these to do we're all over this building so I figured I'd show you guys once because I do
get a lot of people call in saying hey how do I skim coat foundation in my basement my laundry
room my pool table room this is how you do it guys all right guys we are at the end what we're trying
to show you here we're using a fast set product it's called rapid set and there's a reason it's
called rapid set it sets incredibly fast plus it has a PSI strength of almost more than concrete
it is strong stuff and we're hustling we've done about four or five of these I actually
floated this but I'll show you what these folks wanted they wanted a finished at this you bring
the aggregate out it's called a float finish because I'm using a green sponge float to get
that finish or it's called a sand finish you take the water you just put it on you can see how this
is already dry guys see that everything here is it sets incredibly quick that's why again it's
called rabbit set anyway guys that's how you do it I would advise you folks who watch what
we do they're gonna do something even half this thick scratch it one day come back and Brown at
the next or keep going day after day because to do the same do so many coats in some short of
time you really got to know your cement and it does take a lot of time in anyway folks might
miss Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you 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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