hi guys Kirk family here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today we're going to show you how
to eat pizza we're exhausted right now we've already done most of this house anyway my baby
was kind enough, thank you sweetie to bring us pizza My daughter Madedleine is leaving
for Spain in another day so we want to get her in one last one before she hits the road,
Lulie here you and and these guys here anyway we're going to show you how to do a scratch
and brown on this you'll love it I have all five of my kids here so plus my brother Lou,
this is a small house we're working on it everybody helps everybody if there's not
enough room to plaster for a couple guys making Wilbur oh they can take Sam from the front of
the truck bring it to the back they could set scaffold they could float hard rubber float they
can do all kinds of stuff we're killing time right here while Jason gets that all set up so
we're just playing some tic-tac-toe in this mud that's getting really stiff you did not just do
that anyway take care count we're going to get started guys we're going to show you how how to
work with I'd rather have two extra guys than not enough guys well why we're doing this is
because Madeline's leaving Madeline my daughter my youngest daughter is leaving she's going to
Spain in two days she's been in Spain for one year we did a video last week where she was helping us
spread a gluey like substance on a retaining wall and because she hasn't plastered in a year uh at
the end of the day she was using both hands and putting it on use-it-or-lose-it your arms right
here your forearms and your wrists really start to get hot after about fifteen minutes when you
first learning this trade under a year it takes about a year to get all that strength going but
anyway Jason and I are going to start topping out these guys they're all over the place we
got another camera set up to show you guys go ahead start spreading start spreading it in quit
messing around but anyway Madeline's going back to Spain she's in Spain teaching English waiting for
her degree she's doing marine biology she wants to aw go in the oceans and things like that she
actually working into the San Francisco aquarium feeding sharks and all that stuff for years now
anyhow we're just sending her off she says dad is there one last day and so today is that last day
Jay and I are going to get busy because we've been messing around setting stuff up because when you
do a video you actually jack up your your whole procedure of how to get started when we do plaster
but nothing we can't handle because I got all the manpower or what the fella here says you don't
have manpower you have staff power because I have my two daughters working here also so Jay and I
are going to get started we're going to start from the top work our way down these guys are going to
get here Jay and I are going to diary behind them and this is just a scratching Braun that
we're doing right now my other daughter Lily she's around here somewhere you'll see her soon enough
All right, how many experienced stucco guys watch this and say, hey, those guys are going out of
sync? We are not following the Sun. We're not going right to the left. We're going every which
way just as a goodbye type thing for my daughter Madeleine and Lulie is over here spreading,
to all you girls who ake if they do can we plaster absolutely these guys been
plastering and never worry about how filthy you get guys because this is a dirty trade,
so we get right back to it, A little tiny bit more practice, and when you have extra guys,
the idea is everybody helps each other, everybody it's a teamwork effort,
generally how I got Dan and Karl on the other side. They're cleaning up floating.
Jay and I can spread and darby because the darbying does take some practice too.
Anyway ah, we're hustling because we're about to take lunch, and we got a pizza on the way, so I'll
show you one more thing, guys excuse me, sweetie okay Lulie, actually has a full-time job besides
this and goes to school full-time it works for me full-time how do you do that baby? It's, "magic"
but you got more energy than me, sweetie because I don't have that kind of magic left. What I'm
doing guys is is getting these tops because sometimes with the same day back-to-back system
the tops too kind of wanna fall down that we put it right back up magic huh sweetie yeah that when
you're working full-time going to school full time then doing this that'll beat you up guys
all right guys another thing the camera doesn't show is these windows have set out inch and a
half should only be 7 H so we're improvising this whole area around we were head specially the back
wall a lot of improvising to bring it out just to inch and a half and then feather it in to 7 days
but nothing we can handle all right guys let me show you this gets complicated especially if you
have an extra guy which is or to it which is good come on by here we got a lot of things going on
here but as we started this wall now this wall is it ready a lot of people okay are you ready
we're ready okay so now we start floating this why do we float it before the wall gets too hard or
turns white because right now guess what anybody know why I'm floating it right now because if I I
could allow this to get hardened a little bit but what happens if it gets too hard guys instead of
using skill which I'm using skill right now I'd only have to look at this wall all I'm doing is
compacting it getting the lines out because we're doing a fine float finish and when this cured so
because the wall right now is just right I mean this is a just right wall I can float it and I'm
using skill I'm not using muscle because I got to conserve my strength because we have a whole
house to do so you see that guys you don't really have to look at it but you got to know your float
and I can do this because I've been doing it for 30 years so I'm going to do the whole wall just
like this it's called floating it hard rubber floating it yo your right arm gets tired switch
to your left guys there's no such thing as a one-handed plaster you ladies to one arm
gets tired switch when it starts to burn that means hey switch that hand you see that this is
compressing it hard rubber floating it compresses it it opens it allows it to breathe less likely to
hairline crack come on through Dan come on come on through I'm getting out your way getting out
your way come on through relax we're having fun we're having fun we're having fun here this is I
can't believe they pay me to do this stuff which is fun for me okay guys we have about 40 minutes
left all before the Sun Goes Down so we're going to put a conclusion on this right now let me leave
this here for a second and all right guys say goodbye because this video is ending right now
anyway guys this is uh this Chuck here it's got love and foot bed I could put two to three yards
here easily with cement plus all the scaffold. Each yard is 2,000 pounds or 2,400 pounds if
you want to be right on the money as a ton is 2,000 yards is 2,400 pounds. Okay, I filled
this up three times. It should only take one and a half, but the window frames are off. They're
about an inch and a half to twosome areas, and it just you got to no feathering guys we're making it
work anyway let's go this way there's tied three truckloads that's a lot of stucco alright, guys.
I'm going to show you something when we use this particular product we leave the bags here because
inspectors sometimes want to see what we're using notice this wall is is all day with this
particular product I've been hosing this down yeah we're go downwind of me Jason okay so we take the
water we hose it down just yes it's dry guys it's dry this is a quick-setting cement obviously you
can't do two coats if it wasn't anything on the vents you can just saturate it on the windows
saturated over here back wall same deal guys same deals you go ahead and hit it hit it with water
throughout the day I can't show you guys how to do this you guys got to learn it but hydration is a
big part of it over here I just we're still got to clean up but not certain how much the camera
will show because it is getting dark anyway this is the other side we're just going to clean up the
front anyway my name is Kirk Jason on the camera way thank you folks for watching it 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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