Hi folks, Kirk and Jason are here with Kirk Giordano plastering. We are on top of the
world. We're at Grizzly Peak in Oakland at about 10 o'clock in the morning. It looks
like it's 5 o'clock in the morning. It's still misty and dewy up here anyway. Well,
we're gonna show you today, guys. Is this fella the contractor he scored all this with
a saw blade thinking, well gee, if I score it, will it stick better, not necessarily,
guys you don't really need to score it like that I did a real nice job with the paper and
wire we're gonna show you how to do is match this finish here this finish was originally
a twenty-thirty done by a color coat a cement this type finish. You apply your third coat,
and then you float it, which gives you that, but it's been painted so many times I'll show
you another way that we could match that. So Jay went ahead and mixed me up some.
scratching brown material same day stuff I'll show you what I'm gonna do guys its
first thing I'm gonna do is put a scratch coat on all of this is perfect mud, by the way,
a lot of you guys call us ahead you made that look easy well I could make it look easy if
I have good mud guys if the mud is running off the hawk that's super mud and very few
people can make that look easy so what I'm doing here guys is giving it my first coat,
okay and we don't have a corner which for mud like this, not the end of the world I'll show you why
I'm gonna get this corner over here, but the first thing I want to do is finish underneath my window
this mud we're using is a same-day type of material and if you mix it just right guys
we would take accountability for say if it's hundred-degree if it's cold and today is a
pretty cold day so J mix it just ride a little a little stiff for me so that it'll set when I
need it stuck right here we don't have a corner here's what a fellow like me can do put it here
take it put it here and bring this up that's like so and make that corner little made a strong this
one with a corner aid pretty much the corner edge gives us a guide gives us something to stop - and
now watch by pull this toward me and then the corner falls out but if I hold it here to pull
it toward me and pull that bow of instant corner okay guys now what I'm gonna do extra I'll show
how we get above this window - guys now with with mud this stiff right here it's kind of perfect
for what we need we're gonna put a little bit here now granted to these fellows went through a lot of
work to get this mahogany in here so I don't want to mess it up so we put a little bit of tape right
there course I don't care how good you are guys got to tape it off okay so we're gonna continue
cut that cut it back climb this stuff here, and that's d keep on going go all the way up to it
I'll show you how fast this is actually damn they're ready to load okay a little bit more
on that top corner that way when I float it doesn't sink in and again guys all this
is this practice no I'm gonna do it take a look underneath here because sometimes you
think you got it just full I'll show you how fast this material is gonna
set can you see me just putting it on okay that's all I need for this particular side,
and again you see how stiff that's getting this is on timer guys this particular mud so after
another 10 minutes the 15 this will be pretty set it'll be set, and it won't reach its full
strength until 28 days what is the full strength of this stuff this particular stuff is around 3000
psi when it's fully cured and it again it takes about 30 days to get it full strength all right
I'm gonna give this well let's let's check it out just for the sake of not having to turn that on
and off a couple times hard rubber float sponge float we take the sponge float and no we don't
have no water up here but that's okay you get the top of this and what I'm doing is I'm just
bringing out the aggregate this compresses it gets it in there and I match this finish right here as
I said I was gonna use my hard rubber float and I still will but toward the bottom there there's a
pretty good match you get that camera right up into it you can show the aggregate coming out
to match the aggregate that's here know just generally folks I'll have water on my green
sponge float but we are on a roof and I forgot my water so I'm gonna show you how much we can
do just using a green spoke front green sponge float without water okay so now this corner as I
said before this is just I just made this corner so I'm gonna get my joint end up need water but
anyway off let's see is it ready this is not ready anyhow so tell me about oh five minutes
to ten to let this set and in the meantime I'm gonna finish this other side when this is ready
I'll show you how we float it of course we got to have some water up here all right guys we're
gonna start off right where we left off five minutes ago we were gonna do the other side but
with finish we thought for the sake of explanation would just show where we left off no clean water
I can clean this float get all the crap out of it otherwise it'll drag just like that I don't
want it to drag so with the clean water I'll clean my tape I'll come down here clean that tape that's
ready to pull off now guys now with the clean water also you see where a drug here that's
where it was too heavy it got the sponge got full of mud so now that I got some water on here I'll
just float out this joint what I like to do guys if you've watched any of our stuff it float into
the joint now this got too much cement in it so I will take it to that cement out of there and
it's I'll know when it it starts to accumulate submit because just start to drag go I'll take
it here and what I'll do is to now a minute ago I used a hawk to make my corner I can use a piece
of wood too guys anybody can use wood what you do is you wet the wood so that if the stucco doesn't
it here you don't wet the wood you put it on the stucco and then you pull it away you pull
the stucco part what I'm gonna do is just set this guy right here give me a straight corner and just
basically do just like that and I remember when I was working Union Danny Smith plastering we would
we be using jobs we'd be spraying out the houses second three-story houses and we'd find a couple
houses where the lathers didn't do their job Oh Fred was the old man gonna grab a 20 foot or 14
foot 2x4 two guys one at the top one at the bottom would hold the 2x4 and we'd make our corner just
like that then when we were done with it pull it away so that's an old technique guys no magic to
it it's actually quite simple okay so now that I've got this on I'm pretty much pretty much
matched with what they have however this has been painted quite a few times so I'll take the hard
rubber float now get some of that mud and crap off of it okay now what I can do to match this painted
surface because mine is a little bit too coarse so I take this the hard rubber float now and just go
over it and what this does it pushes the granules in and gives it more of that painted look so that
when they paint it it matches a little tighter will it match on the money well put it this way
I've got a lot of work for these fellas and they have confidence of my ability to match finishes
so hit it there now one last time and get all the all the water out of this float now now I want it
dry take it get all that water out of there why am I getting all the water out of there because
now I'm gonna hit it real light if I use a lot of water here or some water it'll drip down the wall
and I don't want rivers dripping down the wall so hit it like so and get our joints all I'm doing
here is getting that joint pretty guys get it get it nice and pretty so when they come that's a man
Kirk you're the man stuff looks good right on the money okay this is still a little damp but you
get where we're going with this now pretty much when that's when this is dried they're gonna put
a primer on it and paint it and it's gonna match right on the money what I'm gonna do now is pull
this tape boom done finish the other sides and we're out of here anyway guys my name is Kirk,
Jason on the camera as usual we thank you for watching in see you guys on the next one
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