Hi guys Kirk and Jason here, with Kirk Giordano plastering.
Today any of you guys watch any of the six or so hundred videos we've done that what kind of
finished this is now we just pulled up about 20 minutes ago J looked at and said, aw dad,
that's a text coat painted over a normal finish. I looked at it, and I just thought it was a - when
I first did this, and we didn't do the paper wire, other folks did the paper wire. I said,
how can you tell and of course, Jason is also a licensed stucco contractor license plastering
contractor. He has had a c35 license for eight-nine years now anyway, you can see
this one patch right here, this original finish, and this is spray-on. How do I know that tune
now is I got here. I looked at this piece over here. You see how this is peeling. It is peeling
away. There's an eighth of an inch right here peeling off that is a technical plus I cheated.
I went in the back and I saw the wood all the wood is sprayed because a Tex-coat usually has
a perlite as an aggregate or sand it has glue it has an acrylic it sticks to everything so the back
is is full of texture coat over wood surfaces anyway what we're planning to do today is we're
going to show you how to match this finish and what you generally have to do is get all your
loose stuff off first guys I just happen to see it just now as I'm talking and once you get all
that stuff off you put your scratch coat on so what I'll generally do is start from the top
especially with tie-ins guys I'm going to get my tired real thick and push it in there with a
lot of muscle why because tions have a tendency to fall out so I'm going to for an example just
go ahead and scratch everything right now and when I say scratch everything we're gonna Jay
and I are going to pick up the tools and we're going to put scratch marks in there and then
we're going to turn right back around and brown it out so we've done enough scratch code so it I
don't want to show you that here but I am going to show you this finish because that requires
some skill I love doing those right there we're at the stage where we went ahead and spread that
out better this joint it real quick a little bit of water take your scratcher and just scratch it
out guys doesn't have to be pretty but there's another coat going over here just like that that
way that second coat adheres in those horizontal lines I'm waiting for my brothers ooh hurry up
and bring some damn mud so we could finish this top piece okay guys these folks hired the right
people although Jay and I both knew it was the finish was a Texaco we didn't know we'd have
three inches right here sometimes we get on these jobs that we have to improvise as we get to it so
any areas that have to be stuck with generally 7/8 of an inch but we got range in here anywhere
between one inch to two to three we just improvise and fill them up as we see it with extra cement
extra luminite stuff which acts as an accelerator anyway we're going to allow this to set we may
have people get a little bit more thin then we're going to show you how to float this and match this
text coat that's what it's all about all right guys now for the fun part I will not I say fun
I mean it's fun to me oh I enjoy doing this stuff we are using a double coat process which means it
has the Raiders in it and it hard quick guys you got to know what you're doing if you do
this particular stuff here and now all I'm doing is I'm bringing out the aggregate what does that
mean that means just bringing the sand out with water aggregate could be rocks sand or anything
how do you guys like this dr. Seuss pipe it's all crooked and bent in every which way took me more
time to do that then spread this half of this wall anyway what we want to do is we want to
bring our original finish or the new finish into the original and when this is the tricky part guys
and this does take a lot of practice when your flow gets full that means dip it in water I kind
of flip mine a couple times get all the water of all the sand out now you only have enough time say
like okay I'm going to feather into the existing and I can look at it and know when to stop and
possibly right now if I keep hitting that there's too much cement on here so I'll get the rest of
the water out on the wall itself yeah like that and this is just giving us the base coat what
does the base coat scotch Brown and then a heavy flow finish to match what those guys did when they
did that - the techs coat so now again I'm just finalizing it before I throw on a - finished and
can you guys use a hand hopper yes can you use a - brush like I'm about to do sure if you've got the
time in and you know how to get a perfect soupy mud in order to fling it on so it's just a tinge
heavier than this but not too much and you got to count for when they paint it when they paint this
this is got to match so got to know what you're doing anyway I'm going to - this and I'll show
you this little part right here because I don't want to bore you with the whole thing if you guys
watch what I do you know uh sometimes ramble on and got some quirky things and just talk forever
so I'll save it you that and just - this one area here and then show you the completion so you can
see how to match this finish better alright guys what I do now is I take a - brush I first put it
in a water bucket then I dump it in this soupy mud you look at this stuff guy and you see that
at soup and ya gets all over you if you guys hate to get dirty that's not a job for you I've done
this so often okay I'm going to practice now all I want is just a hair guys I don't want too much
so I'm getting a lot of the stuff off and you just fling it with your wrist you can match this with a
hand hopper or a - brush if you know how to do it and it does take practice I would practice the old
Kirk out but this way I've done this ten twelve hours a day for months at a time where you first
start this at the end of the day you can't even fill your arm anymore it feels like a piece of
spaghetti so that's how much time old Kirk has got and I know how to do this guy done it on several a
lot of houses over and over and over it just gives you an idea why won't I I figured I show you here
guys because I don't have to go over my head and you may be able to see it a wee bit better than
if I go over my head there so when you come to something like this you know you still want it
just just a little tiny bit guy little tiny bit it takes a lot of practice and if your mud is
too stiff you can't do it you gotta be real soupy mud like well like what we just showed you a mixer
finally turned off Lou said a minute ago it's the man that matches right there you don't even have
to dash it so that's why you're a hot carrier and I'm the plaster or anyway I'm gonna go ahead and
finish - in this out when I'm done dashing it out will show you the conclusion show you guys last
tip special tools like these guys here last three tools this guy is pretty important here to clean
off all these pipes you see why cover why not cover them try to and work at the same time anyhow
another tip - guys I got a lot of folks that call me they said gee man I tried to do just like you
and it was too heavy in a lot of spots okay I want to intentionally make it a little too heavy okay
that's a little too heavy how do you know just look at that you look at here here's what you
can do you don't have to scrape it all off but just tap it tap it very gently because if you
tap it too hard both coats or your first coat or your second coat dependent so you just tap it just
a little bit guy if it's too heavy right now I'm pretty much on the money although there is not a
patch that's been done by anybody including myself that I cannot detect that's what I do for a living
anyway guys my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see you
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