Howdy folks, kirk, and Jason here with kirk giordano plastering,
today, i want to show you guys some more tips on applications. Now the fella who did this patch he
obviously removed an air conditioning unit. And he put it on and he says well,
man, I could not get it to hang, let me tell you guys something that we, take for granted. Okay,
uh, first of all, you've got this mesh here, this is 3.4 soffit mesh, that's used for ceilings in
some states they actually do use this on walls. But what he did was, he put it too flat and he's
going an inch and a half so, if it's so flat, it's a little tougher you might even want to put furring
strips underneath that way the wire is between say the depth here is an inch and a half if that wire
was separated from the wall. It would have adhered much better because it would have mushroomed
through. Anyhow this is what he did and we're gonna clean it up a little bit we're gonna plaster it.
it'll probably take me five minutes to plaster it. Uh this finish here, you see that grain, now
all that is is they take a sponge float and they bring out the aggregate, they bring the sand out.
Aggregate, it's a fancy name for sand, so I'll show you some products guys, just because some people
sometimes people call me from home depot and they say, hey kirk, I watch your videos, what product do
I buy? and I think, where'd you get my cell number to ask me a goofy question? Anyway, this is, "Sakrete," base coat, scratch, and brown stucco.
Now they have, "Sakrete," they have, "Quick Crete" why they're always
saying, "crete" at the end, because it's concrete so they figured they'd be clever and say
Sakrete," or "Quick Crete," they're sold at all the major hardware stores like home depot, lowe's
they're sold everywhere, all you do guys is add water. that's it. you just put this in a
bucket, you add water mix it and apply it. He would have been a bit more successful had the wire been
out and it would have mushroomed in there. Could he have matched this finish? Maybe, ah because you need
a sponge float in order to bring that sand out. so what i'm going to do is i'm going to go ahead and
spread this out real quick. Now we are using a product, called Eisenwall, Eisenwall is a
quickset it's just like that stuff, it's a quick set the only difference is, this sets faster. Now
it sets faster but i want it to set fast we're an inch and a half thick in some areas,
now what i was telling him is if you're going to apply it and it does fall sometimes that means
that the material is kind of sandy,
but when you buy it like that guys, it's all in one you should have everything in it that you need.
When I just now got here what i did is i put this blue stuff. What's that blue stuff? it's a bonding
agent. Why did I put a bonding agent because, he didn't leave any scratch marks, so it's harder for
this to adhere, it's uh it has to have a mechanical bond guys and in order to get a mechanical bond,
that just means, either I wet this, with a garden hose and have it dripping all over
or I hit it with the Weld Crete, and i hit it with the weld creed around here, Weld Crete is just
a blue bonding agent, that is because i'm going to go over the painted surface to blend this one in.
And again guys you have those at home depot and lowe's you also have rapid set, Rapid set, has a
a 16/20 sand that's a heavy sand, like this. You also have Green-Core, Green-Core is a lighter sand.
here's what i do too guys just out of habit in case, this drops out
I'll put my hawk under, so it'll catch it. But anyway
when you're doing tops guys you want to go hard up here, squeeze it up into that key
less likely to fall out, and if you play with it or over trowel it, you get a dropout, now i'm going
to need one more little bitty application, here we go, i'm going to pull it up and sideways
let's say sideways i mean on edge. if i do this on edge, it dries faster if i close it, seals it
and because i want this to dry really fast, i'm putting it on
edge. see. Okay I'll do something i shouldn't do because I've already I have a wet base, because i
put Weld Crete, if i seal it like that's sealing it can't breathe so it takes a lot
longer to dry but if i put my trowel on edge now. it's drying fast and i want it to dry fast because
it's so thick i don't want to be here all day. in other words, I'm pulling it on edge and i'm
pulling it upward now this is a good example. you see that it's starting to come down, because
i'm, you don't want to seal it. so anyhow i'm going to give this about 15 minutes while Jay and i have
lunch or breakfast actually, then i'll show you how we float this. all right guys we had a cup of
coffee the owner was kind enough to offer us. Let's see if it's ready now it looks ready. That's ready
that's 10 to 15 minutes thus with the Rapid Set, or if you go to the material yards, Eisenwall,
that stuff is no joke. let's see, uh, uh, kirk's the best. that's pretty set and that's an inch and a half thick. Okay, now guys what i was saying earlier is you take a sponge float this
brings out the aggregate now if you notice you've got float lines here that mean they used a lot
of water and they pulled in weird directions, so we're going to pull in weird directions.
if you buy Rapid Set, it does have this 16/20 sand that has the same sand. Green Core, USA that is sold
at home depot and lowe's has a fine sand. You can't get this finish unless you use a lot of water.
Can I make this smooth? yes. Can I make this half the sand? Yes. You just wet it float it and then
come back with a dry float. I could, i could almost make it smooth but anyway here we go. okay,
we're going to wet this we're going to do our joints, first we're going to do the joints first
we're going to take the new and bring it into the existing. So we're going to like so, and when
this sponge gets full of stucco, which it will see right now it's starting to drag, so I flip it around
and get my last little, there's this okay now it's full of stucco so we take it we clean
this stucco out, and guys you're just flipping it around, flipping it around, flipping it around and
boom tap it on the inside, don't tap it right here or you bend the float in the wrong direction. Okay
again we are feathering in the joint if you don't know how to feather in the joint guys. you're going
to have a noticeable patch. This is right in the front of the fella's house, if you're gonna do a
bad patch do it in your backyard where no one can see it. Okay, i'm gonna tap this water out
tap the water actually, i'm tapping the sand out the cement because we don't want the
cement in here, otherwise it drags, this now all I got is the center okay upward upward upward
now okay if you want to get fancy you see these guys are coming straight up and i'm in circles.
they're straight up here so what i'm gonna do is do that once more. I'm gonna clean this float
clean the float get the stucco out of it clean it, tap the water out because, i don't want too
much water, now tap it. okay now i'm going to match this see how they're going here now you just put
a little pressure on put 10 pounds of pressure you see those lines? those lines are going up
here the lines are going up 10 pounds of pressure here about five, boom there you go, guys
nothing to it, and if you go too much where you can see this little transition
take it into the transition to make the transition disappear. If you got caulking, pull it off.
Anyway, guys, i'm going to pull this piece of caulking off and feather that in. but you see how
it's done. This explains some of the materials some of how to bring the aggregate out. Anyhow guys my
name is kirk, Jason on the camera we thank you for watching and as usual, see you guys on the next one.
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