Hi, guys Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering. Today we're going to show you, folks; today is,
we pressure washed this complete home about a week ago and what I did is,
they used to have aluminum siding all over here or vinyl siding they took it off.
Now there are hundreds of nail holes everywhere, so what I did was I got a caulking that wouldn't
shrink, and that is also paintable because, and this back wall alone we have about 100 holes and
if this caulking wasn't paintable when I applied my Weld-Crete on here they would bleed through.
They would telegraph through, why we're on the issue of telegraphing through or ghosting effect
this window here the fellow contracting out had somebody else put this window in,
and they didn't do an okay job. But it's kind of bulged here. We're
going to do a skip trowel finish, so I got a coat here just to fill that out.
Well, what I want to show you guys is dark blue right here,
and it's a bonding agent we use and with this is just a single coat right here on full strength.
Because this is raw stucco, and when the color coat porous finish hits,
it'll absorb the color. I don't want this wall to be,
this wall, I don't want this window to show when we're done in everything dry.
So we have to get the suction similar to this painted surface,
so we've got many coats of bonding agent over there to bring the suction to the same thing.
So I'm using a ladder on the entire house because I got a long reach and what I'm doing is,
I'm just topping it out, and I can reach here one more time, and Tim is bottoming up.
Jay is also helping us. Tim is one of the better plasterers I know. He lives close by and said,
hey, I'll come to help you. Give me a day. so we'll continue on here and show you it as we go
all right guys here's how we do it up to the top I don't want to get this painted surface little mud
so I'll just pull my fingers back a little bit like so and we are going over a skip job finish
the stitch off finish it tends to have holidays so we're gonna float it then I'm gonna come back
and do a test I don't want to do my texture until until this wall sets up a little bit prettier one
you let the walls set up a little bit okay guys we spread the skin coat now what I'm doing is
I'm floating and it's gonna be best don't over a stick finish your are gonna leave holidays because
trowel will actually skip, when it hits the humps. notice I'm standing about a half-inch away
from all the way up a line on that painted wood there actually there's just painted,
they're gonna repaint will work done but I don't want to get a bunch of stucco on that tip too.
because I'm working off the ladder, you folks say unless you've got a lot of balance and used to it.
set up staging okay guys I'm kind of working backward but it's a texture so it's okay
generally we'll start from the top since Tim still in that wall I'm just staying busy.
I'll show you something kind of typical, common,they used to have a belly band
here and when they put that aluminum siding on here they ripped it off,
and what my job was it was to try to waterproof it so we came up with a lot of solutions,
we could have put a styrofoam piece of belly band here ,a piece of wood but they don't want
to maintenance I put a J channel here, the J channel we ran out of paper on it
which weatherproof that there it kind of looks like that belly band right there.
But anyhow they took off the belly band and as you could see we're coming in here
and this deciding was this was wood this was siding so the transition is, is right here we
have this set back about seven eighths and then our stucco and the same applies here,
when it gets done it's kind of look kind of cool. it's gonna look go real nice the fact when we're
done I'll show you this front because they said, gee Kirk, we're coming with buying
this house. we just bought it can you make it pretty so when I'm done with this we'll
take another look at it and see what it looks like right now and you guys can be the judge.
All right guys we're putting a slight skip trowel texture on this, that's what they
agreed on that's what we're doing. They actually like the float finish,
but I said because all the windows they're better off than potentially because it hides
everything oh and what I'm floating this to see folks say yeah I would do like turkey
does when I floated this a little bit of water because it's a very dark color you use a lot
of water it's gonna bleach the whole wall out. I'll tell you something else when I was Union
they used to say go long strokes, why don't you tell them about diluting the Weld-Crete, dad? That bothered
you! jay was mixing, the this, Weld-Crete earlier, I said let me show you how to do it.
I had my phone in my pocket, it sink to the bottom. ouch, anyway let me show you about the wall, okay we're
just continuing, continue on a nice, nice skip trowel finish. All right guys we're complete I'm gonna give you
a quick tour of just a couple walls this is the back, of course, and that window feather in real
well. this again is a cementitious finish which means it's maintenance-free. In 100 years this will
stay on the house. It won't come off. Ideal for all the brand-new windows they put in and they
have really really bad patches so we've prettied it up.
yeah, I'll just show you just this piece here this is what the texture the front of the garage. how's it going how they're gonna paint
all this stuff here is the color vanilla, and when it all dries it's gonna
look just like this every time it gets wet it's gonna darken but that like a brick that's what
makes it maintenance-free. anyhow, I hope you folks enjoyed this video.
my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering, we thank you for watching and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one.