hi guys Kirk and family here with Kirk Giordano plastering today I want to show you guys how to
match a certain finish because j-just tell me well dad you know we're approaching 8 million
views I thought that was kind of cool you can see what goes on behind the camera we I've got three
sons Carl's here he knows how to use these camera Dan does Jade does the majority of this stuff so
we can bring this to you guys and put us out of business not kidding anyway guys what we have
here look at this can you get a close-up J of this particular finish this particular finish
is done two different ways all your professionals probably look at it say man I could match that I'm
going to match it with a hard rubber float and how many kinds of floats are there guys there's
cork floats I don't like them but I have them there are a lot of plastic floats most of these
are from the UK in fact I brought one back from the UK about 20 years ago I was showing my buddy
he says dude that's nothing new and he pulls one out and anyway what I like are these floats right
here these are hard rubber floats what a hard rubber floats usually do they compact the mud
after you brown it out you can pack it when I work during you and we do this eight hours a
day that's all one person or two people did behind a gun just eight hours a day after day week after
week month after month you just float see the difference in size here generally guys I buy a
whole float like this that's a bigger one it's a lot easier to use I take it one of the guys I
hired one at one time brought this little crappy useless one and took my good one but part of being
a big-time contractor anyway so she says well gee Kirk on this particular finish here there's
a whole bunch of patches around the house that I won't show you how they tried to match it and
couldn't but I will show you how to match it first of all we brown this out what do we got here see
that guy now why am i showing you this because this this wall right here is still somewhat wet
so what we're going to use is scale I don't want to use muscle if I'm using muscle that I'm going
to be tired so okay now a lot of times you'll see me float and I'll take a green sponge float
now green sponge float brings the aggregate out say sand is aggregate if I were to sponge float
this now you see how all that sand is coming out because I have water in there there's two ways to
do that I can take the water out of this float like say for example I take it I'm just going
to show you something for example what I'm doing is I'm taking the water out of this float okay
no once I get all the water out of the float and yeah I could tap it on this surface here and just
somebody's bound and say hey you mess up their wall I just take a water hose and hit that but
the idea is get all the get all of the moisture out and now when you have a dry float I can match
this right here to with a dry float what you do is you just take it and you see how dry it is
now notice that matches this right here in fact I could fix my own screw up right here and as
you give it some time you can go right back over it however there's an easier way to do that hard
rubber float like take my float here and the surface I just did I'm going to float it now
I remember my youngest son trying this dad and he was doing it and what he kept doing is with
so I can look I don't have to look at the wall I can feel the wall you're just walking what you
guys does see is as I'm floating this wall say for example what I'm doing is I'm lifting it you
can't hardly see it because it's going fast well my son said dad I'm jacking it up I can't do this
this is about 60 years ago I said that's because you got all those trophies for that snowboard and
stuff but it's the same technique and what he was doing was this he was digging in or when he
was he was coming like this and digging in but what you're doing is you got to lift it lift it
and you can't see it but it's being lifted and dropped that's what takes that out right there
now to go back to what I wanted to show you she says well gee and she showed me about six spots
on the house and every one of them was a pretty bad match but we're not going to go there and
show you somebody else's work what I generally do when I float my work my new work into the existing
is I'll float into it and I always explain why this time I'm going to float the existing into
my new and the reason is because this is so fine right here I've got to compress my own work why
okay so now I'm taking my work and there's a lot of gravel in mind this got rocks this guy
is supposed to be holy sand but it's still got a lot of pebbles I can see them all and what we're
doing is we're compressing the pebbles so that when this is painted they match can't have a bunch
of pebbles I was going to show you but instead of that just keep going now again this is stuff you
don't have to look at guys once you get good at this the idea is just to float it use the whole
float not the tip not not the heel but the whole float so you're coming in and you're floating it
it always helps to watch but you don't have to because this is all pretty much you just feel in
the wall and you're pushing all the sand into it you don't want any grit showing so oftentimes what
I'll do is after I get everything where I wanted if it's still not as tight here's a tip guys I
don't want to throw too many things at you at once but if it's still not too tight you could always
take a sponge float now with a little bit of water and hit it right here and that even gets the joint
tighter but if you don't know what you're doing you can pull the aggregate out or the sand and
make it worse so anyway this just saw kiddy it was about using a hard rubber float which again we use
to compact everything we do a brown coat then we float it all we float it so that a compact
everything compresses it that way when we come to do a color coat we are on the money there's
less likely to be cracks if you do this and notice two guys I'm doing big circles you don't have to
love guys just big circles big circles and you using some muscle here it looks like I'm just
touching the wall but I'm actually going about ten pounds pushing it in pushing it in our finish has
got to match when it's when is painted can't not like the house next to me but we're not going to
show that anyway here's the last tip guys say we had a little drop out here because we're pretty
thick what we do is compress compress and lift that float up and another thing I like to tell
my guys or my sons is guys when we're doing this and say we have a drip sweep sweep screen here
take our hand and clean that edge and feather that in too because if you have a whole bunch
of clinkers at the end of the job man that just takes all the beauty out of the work and folks
I know if it were me I'd look at and say hey guys what's all the crumbs hanging down so make sure as
you do it you take your float go underneath clean that stuff up - anyway you guys see where we're
going with this this is a tip on how to float in your joints when you want it tight and I get a
lot of calls from even stuck a contractor they say dude you show a lot of stuff I get some new guys I
tell them sometimes watch your channel because if they're really good and they're really on the ball
you make them even that much better anyway since we're approaching that 9 million views which I
think it's kind of cool Jason hi Carl and even move 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
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