Hello folks, Kirkhere with kirk giordano plastering, with a another tip of the day
today we're gonna do a fog coat we actually stuck up this house a year ago um when we did
it we told the folks gee any raw wood you have it's best to seal it now not wait after that
cement ish is finished because if it'll bleed during a winter when it gets saturated with
water then it'll bleed here we see this with nails roof tops parapet roofs when the water
accumulates anyhow it's not a big deal what we're gonna show you today is how to fix it
now what have they tried already well fellow the painter said you if I can get it all out all I
gotta do is bleach it I don't think that's gonna work but he tried to give it his best shot didn't
work another company said well gee whiz we could use muriatic acid I use muriatic acid way in the
past 20 years ago when we didn't cover brick and we got to stucco on it and it'll take the stucco
off but it also diminished a color terribly so I said no that's not the answer either what is
the answer as a fall coat a faux coat we'll get this out see the staining here that's where the
wood before it was primed and painted bled and if you can take a peek right here can you see
that staining right here it's it's on a few of these pillars and take another look here these
colors are these corbels bled not all of them but a few of them did where they put the plank
and they rubbed all the paint raw because they had the house had to have scalpel on the house
and I guess where all the plank were it made it worse but anyway what we're gonna do is a
fall coat we're gonna get this out it's not such a big deal the hardest part about a fall coat is
covering and take forever to cover I'll show you how we're mixing awesome all right guys fog coat
is bags you get the same color as the color you use and I only used half a bag so I've got this
much in my bucket if you use the whole bag you're supposed to fill that bucket up fill it with five
gallons of water and slack it what a slack he means you got to let it sit for about 10 to 15
20 minutes and then when it's ready on a whole bag you pour five gallons in another bucket so
you end up with two for five gallons but because we don't need much I've only used half and I'm
here and I'm gonna fill this bucket of water up or I'm gonna fill this bucket next because I've
slacked it this is called slacking right there where it looks like putty now I'm going to put
to the top with water and it's funny all the way over here my son says off crap I forgot that drill
man when I was bog coating 25 years ago we never had drills we'd use a stick so we're using a stick
we got it to creamy right here I'm gonna put three more gallons in here fill it to the top here's the
most important part about fog coating I'm gonna clean this out real well make sure there's no
cement ishes stuff in the hose but more important I'm gonna put a brand new tip on here these tips
right here if if you get a grip one little grip of sand instead of a nice spray you'll get a stream
and that'll just ruin your day so I've got three new tips with me I'm gonna put a new tip I'm gonna
screen this with a couple screens and we cannot get one grit of sand in this we have one grip that
just destroys the whole fogging so we're gonna take care of all that and then we're gonna Sun
probably gonna be honest I'm not certain how well it'll come out but I mean with the camera
we're gonna do our job and fix this bleeding of the wood I'm not sure what the camera will show
anyhow we got about 15 20 minutes of covering and still I've got to clean this out very thoroughly
it's gonna take me ten minutes to clean this out flush it out real well slack this and then pour
it in here but you'll see when we're actually fog coding and again fog coding and usually for
say you do a big two-story house and there's a lot of scaffolding that'll fog coat out change
the color I don't recommend it for things like this which is the wooded bleeding we can do it
it'll work but it's the best alternative to what I've seen out there all right guys couple tips get
enough air in here so it comes out and depending on which way you put your wand it'll come this way
Diagonal, and if I need it horizontal, I'll just move the one. What I want to do is put
two coats on. I'm going to have this whole wall once I'm gonna come back and hit it
again. If it's not out of this imperfection of weird blood, I'll do it a third time. Usually,
you only need two okay, here we go. It's the same color now you just hit everything and come
down and do the whole wall it's best to do the whole wall, okay then I'm gonna continue down
the wall because this is a porous wall meeting it's a summit issues water dis absorbs in there
by the time I start back over here it should be ready it should be dry just back step back okay.
All right, guys, second coat. Here's my stain. It's almost out one more time.
Sometimes you get a wall that looks like it got freckles well, I think that got it out
that's two times that's all you should need all right guys, we're complete I want to point out
around all of these little corbels we got all the details out this little area here still
drying because we gave it a third coat anyhow we got all of it out of the pillars columns
and whatnot around the sides we used about two boxes of plastic about five rolls of tape that's
half the battle if you cover everything you're better off in the long run because it's sprayed
it mists about this far. Then the further you go, it goes 20 feet in every direction,
so ticking us quite a long time just to pick all that stuff up took us five hours to do
this. So if you guys are not familiar with it, you will be there two to three days,
so I would advise you to hire a professional if you're gonna fog coat a wall if you don't
know-how. Hey, now this is Kirk and Jason Giordano saying so long. We'll see you at the next one.