Howdy folks kirk and jason here with kirk giordano plastering today what we're going
to do is we're going to show you guys how to stucco a window with a different sort of product
if you look here this is what we call a heavy sand finish and generally we can do a two coat system
with portland cement or any of the other cement and we can create something similar where it'll
pass but we're using a product now that has glass beads in it, it's it's designed for interior as
well as exterior I'll tell you about it as i start using it now what it is it's it's called Kemset plaster
and it is for interiors exteriors it's uh great for fire ratios and things of that nature
but the reason i kind of like this stuff is because it doesn't have any lye in it and lye
burns your skin it doesn't have any any silica sand in it either silica sand when disturbed
it's not good for you either, so what i'm gonna do here is i'm gonna put it on another good thing
about this stuff too guys is you can put it on say about an inch at a time where most stucco you
can't really do an inch at a time and then come right back and put another solid inch but as i'm
putting it on you can see almost you see that the sand and you see this sand ops glass beads it's
almost identical already so that's why i chose this particular material for this guy here, because
it's already got the exact same type of
uh of sand, or actually, it doesn't have sand. It has glass beads i like it;
I've been using it for a while now; I've done it on a few explanation videos because
i think it's a wonderful product, so what we're doing here is we're going to fill this out to
the grades meaning this wall and this window here gets about a quarter-inch
reveal, so after i finish plastering, this is what I'll do I'll take my trowel there,
and I'll come here and use it as a rod, then I'll do it here too so i can get it almost
true and plumb without doing much else and so how long will this take to set about
oh half hour, but that'll give me a chance to do this in that patch,
and this particular stuff i'm using here is kind of sticky i mean, that's how sticky it is, ops.
Messing around now, guys. That's pretty sticky anyway, so getting back to
what i'm doing here, you can do this two ways, guys. First, since i taped the window,
i can pull it in like this and not worry about it.
had i not taped that window, then i wouldn't want to get that frame wet, okay
now generally, what I'll do is look at how much do i need to put it on there
And that's another good thing about this it hangs like whipping cream, meaning,
if i did area this right here with regular portland, the portland would tend to be heavy,
and it would want to not key in here. So it would want to drop.
So this particular material, when i had seen this,
he sent me a picture of this online, and i thought, hmm, that looks like a job for kemset.
i'm gonna move the ladder one more time and see right there, guys it's not falling out,
and that's an inch and a half thick, so that's uh that's another good reason why this material here
is is something I've been using a lot of lately uh it's kind of new of course naturally from Europe.
where they're used to limes out there, here about 150 years in the USA, we're using more
more products that have portland cement because portland cement dries in a hurry i mean,
you put that on, and it's dry, and people here just have no patience wanted it done yesterday so
Now that tape the tape acts as a guide boom, that's done, and when i get ready to float that,
I'll show you how that floats too. What i'm going to do here is
Finish this side up. If i can get situated here, it's a crooked ladder. That's okay
i'm showing you guys how sticky this particular product is because you might have a use for it
so far. I've found many uses for it, including ceilings.
It's great for ceilings. It just hangs so well. Walls, of course, hang very well on the walls.
as a rule, two guys, when you're doing tops like this, fill it up like so and then
try not to hit the frame with your trowel and just shave it now that's ready to be
floated, so this last piece here because i got the blue tape on it
this is going to finish up doing and notice to the windows all windows usually are inset
and so i'm taking it in right here a quarter-inch when i get to the top
when it sets a little bit, I'll take all that in a quarter-inch because that is
that's code you want to have your flange on there let's see i don't need very much more
Just going to finish this little piece here, and then i'm going to go to that
next hole right there and patch that in, and by the time Jay mixes me up some more mud.
Hopefully, this will be ready to float, and I'll show you how we floated. It's uh
It's another day at the office for us it's a piece of cake you'll see all right guys
now, really important never paint your windows the night before because even with the blue
tape puls off new paint, if i put the red tape, it would have pulled it all off i asked him when
did you paint this? he said yesterday, i said oh man that tapes going to pull some off the paint.
Still, now I'm getting off the point, okay guys, you keep the trowel wet and uh you go over it,
and if you guys say gee i can't make the wall true and plumb with the trowel you can use a straight
edge or darby and just do the whole thing now this particular product here, i kind of like it because
it doesn't have the lye in which that's why I wear long-sleeve shirts guys because the lye
in just 15 minutes it'll make your skin red and itch and that's all kind of bad stuff, so we
like to get away from it this has no lye, all right guys this is this ready to float, let's see,
no, i'm not ready! you're ready anyway what i did was since i suck at tennis i took my tennis
racket and put it on top of this lids because as i float with this sponge float it's going to take
the aggregate off the wall put it in here and i need it off and rather than tap it here which
actually compresses it in here i'm just going to tap it right on that bucket or right on this net
listen up marshalltown curry and bon tools make something like this so i can
throw this piece of junk away all it is is the lid you take a lid and you i drilled some holes
on it and put this i did that like 30 years ago 35 because we were doing something similar so
you guys make a lid that's like that and we could just tap it with the whole float
you'll see what i'm talking about in a second okay now this particular material is good for interior
exterior i might have mentioned that but it it's sticky it's kind of like structo-lite, now you see
that the float is full so when the float gets full of aggregate it's dragging this plaster this is
lime plaster by the way guys made of limestone, it takes it and as you bring the float out to match
this you bring the sand out to match this sand we call it a float finish in my industry because we
use floats, but you folks know it as a sand finish so i'm bringing the sand out or the aggregate,
okay so and there's some a lot of cement that you can do this forever and hardly ever have to
clean the aggregate out of here but the sticky stuff like this
you've got to clean it out constantly because it fills the float up
and again, this would probably be great for hospitals and schools
as an alternative to structo-lite because of the code compliance meaning it's sound deadening and
it's got thermal value such as you can't catch it on fire, guys
that's huge I'll tell you what's also huge that people if i tell this to they think I'm
out of your mind if you put this on the inside of your house as i did on
the inside of my house about 10 years ago i was explaining it was a two-hour video
explaining all about lye and the history of lime plaster as when you inhale limestone you
inhale magnesium and all that good stuff we're back by the pacific ocean by the way we're in
san francisco and the ocean is right here and i'm thinking man it's nice you inhale all that
ocean air which is full of magnesium lime and other minerals and and all the good stuff, so this
inside your house this lime plaster it's a mineral you inhale it off the walls and you can't see it
but it's actually good for you, that's another reason this would be specked out for hospitals
and schools i'll bet you kind of soon because it doesn't have the lye and it doesn't have the
silica and silica by the way like i said earlier it it's not harmful if it's not cut or broken into
but i would think there'd be much more advantages to this particular product
in a hospital or school where lime is specked out for the strength and
other reasons, anyway you can see where that is this has the this is glass what's glass made
of sand so it's it's glass it looks like heavy sand there's no sand in this particular product
and there is sand in this right here so we use this product just because i wanted to match this
sandy finish right here, anyway guys it's getting late we're getting tired I'm getting goofy,
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