howdy guys Kirk and J here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today we're going to go over some bricks plus I want
to go over what a lot of folks are asking me they say, Kirk how do you do that stuff by yourself we
have tried and it's too difficult. well, the answer that question and work at the same time. I don't
do it by myself Jay usually helps Jay's on the camera he's the bearded plasterer and or Lu my brother helps,
too because guys, this is not a one-man show this is a two-man job. If you guys think. Man, I'm fit I'm
young, I'm 20 years old, I can do this by myself wrong. even when I was 20 I didn't try to do this myself.
I actually did, but it was too difficult because now you have to keep an eye on your mix, and your mud
and when it sets. Often it's really tough as Jays found out because he's doing a house by
himself, and decided hey I guess I'll get Uncle Lu to help. So what I'm doing here guys is covering up
some bricks, now granted. I only have to go to here but we're taking it down to here because they're
covering all this stuff up, and we don't have to do the tops, because they got a cap
for this what I tell folks if you're gonna go over brick guys is put it on thick enough where you're
just skim coating, a lot of guys call to say, hey I'm gonna scratch and brown over bricks, and I say well
you don't need a scratch coat and a brown coat you need one skim coat and if you're good, or you have
some time in, you know all you need is a half-inch or more, one coat the idea is that coat got to be
thick enough that when it dries, you don't see all the grout lines, and long as I've been doing this
guy's I'll tell you right now you'll need about 1/2 inch or more, how thick am I going? a little
over a half-inch. I'm going a little over a half-inch because I can and I want to make certain that the
grout lines don't show even though they're gonna paint it and you guys who do it yourself and you
screw it up by putting it too thin and you can see the grout lines paint it you won't see the
grout lines when it rains that's all you gotta do is paint it oh now the top here you see how that's
jacked up that gives me a half-inch to about almost three quarters now what I do is I just
take my trowel and scrape that off. Now you could see this, is rough brick, but you could see it's
out and there's a tip guys, if you're not sure a little bit more like say you can just put
a little bit more on it on the top, you can do that in the next phase. I'm gonna go over here to a phase
that Jay already did, he got his tools there, I will put mine here how do you know when this cement is
ready? Well that's a good question and I'm in the shade but let's see all you have to do is the test
all right are you ready no can I work this mud yes here's what we're doing we're giving it a
float finish you see that aggregates coming out. Aggregate, fancy word for sand. You take a sponge
float a green sponge float guys and generally I'll tap it on the side of the bucket if I go like this
I've been this the wrong way so tap it on the side of the bucket, now J already floated this let's see
I better get out of the sunlight sit down here, so I'm gonna float it this way and we're all
we're doing is bringing the sand out guys. We're bringing the aggregate out, so it's called a
sand finish or a float finish. They both mean the exact same thing, by the way, cool vents huh? These
are vents allow the air to go under the house and we're going to pretty these vents up and pretty
the top-up. Last thing I'll show you right here guys before we put a so-called ending on this
because when we're completely done we'll show you that too. You take the top and you bring the bring
it horizontally now I'm I keep forgetting I'm in the shade and that blocks out the camera, I gotta
do a sunny spot okay you take the float this way then you bring it up this way you pull down and if
it's too wet guys just stick your finger in it, if it's I mean you want it where it's a
little stiffer, than this but again guys, I'm used to this stuff so I can go ahead and float this
in fact, jays used to it too, because he already floated this right here anyway sand, sand or float finish we're gonna
continue this whole wall when we're done give you a tour of it and just show you what it looks like
hopefully the shade won't be in our way. All right guys now just showing off because we got all this
stuff in the way I was gonna unhook the hose and I thought, man, I'm gonna leave the hose on it and show
you how we do it around pipes, guys, same thing guys what we're doing is putting it on, real thick or at least
over that half-inch. Alright with the pipe there, now how we're gonna go around this pipe that was
that was a question earlier, how we're going to get around that? Well I've got a pretty big trowel
here, it's a 16-inch, so 16 inche no problemo, we take it from here, take it, put a little extra
pull it upward and yeah I will drop a little bit of mud. but that's not a big deal.
What I generally do is put it down, go behind it, and use the toe. I'm using the toe of my trowel to come down and
then I'm going to use the top to cover it. here we go, we'll go, over it get up there, adhere baby.
Oh, prep work this wall was full of moss. So Jay, got here before I did, because this is Jay's job
and he pressure-washed it. If you got moss, dirt, dust, grime on any surface. Guess what? Nothing will
adhere. Nothing adheres to dust, guys! So if you have that get rid of it you could wire
brush it and spend all day, but that creates a lot of dust or you can just use what Jay did use
a pressure washer. A pressure washer not only gets all the dust off but it cleans it deep
enough so that it micro etches it or scores it, so that this stucco here will adhere. Stucco
here will adhere. You got to have this stuff where it adheres well, because, obviously nobody
wants to come back and redo a wall, now I'm just, any holidays I see I put it on the tip here or
the toe of the Trowel and just go upward motion, upwards, just right there and right there where it's
connected to the wall, even with this trowel being a little bit big, I could uh I can put it here and
basically, side it that way. Or let's see this trowel is big enough I could take his sideways, boom, and I
got my paper close enough so that if it's in the way, say like if it's in the way right there and
a little bit drops I take the paper and just push it right back up get right back up there guys, get
back up there. We've done walls where there's 40-50 pipes, and I hear the same thing how are you going
to get behind those pipes? well, just like this you use the toe and the heel independently and
then come back with the whole trowel and trowel it out tighter, and get all your holidays and humps
and bumps Out. Anyway, I just thought I'd point that out guys because anytime you see pipes electrical
outlets you got to know how to plaster to get around them guys. all right guys well show you
what we've done here now we floated it with the green sponge float made everything true and plum
and guys this one here this wall it's pretty straight it's pretty perfect with the sand grit
everything is uniform, but you don't have to do it this perfectly or straight. You guys could put
trowel marks in it, you could put humps in it, you can do old-world charm give it some old-world
charms and have some imagination and make it look different from the fellow's house next door. Anyway
my name is Kirk, Jason on the camera we thank you for watching and as usual live long and Plaster.
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