Hello there folks, Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today I'm not going to show you how
to plaster, but I'm going to show you how to mix ,because we get a lot of folks saying gee whiz,
how do you mix what we generally users, I'll use an all-purpose sand and that just means
it has common and plastic mixed together in this right here the only thing we add and I
get a lot of folks in ya adding lime you adding this and that's gratis Portland cement and sand
and the racial usually is 3 to 1 3 to 1 means for example this bag is actually 94 pounds but
just for the sake of explanation we'll call it 100 pounds business 100 pounds here we add 3 to
1 which is 300 pounds of sand sometimes I'll add 4 to 1 pen and I'm browning and sometimes
I'll add less if I'm doing ceilings and I want it to cure and not fall so I wanted
stiffer and riches but anyway that's how we mix and we're out in front mixing right now
with a mix I'll show you the mixer we use although I see people using troughs a lot
of work anyhow we're gonna walk in front and I'm gonna get drowned out with this
mixer but I'll show you what I'm referring to and this is for scratch and brown coat
Rick's back
okay guys Smita square - this bucket would take about generally four hours to set possibly.
bought it because it's so soupy like this but to prove a point I'm gonna put just enough in
this bucket right here to show you I can control the set times now this bucket here
it says a luminite and what that is it's an accelerator depending on how much of this I
put I can dictate the amount of time that this bucket sets now I've had bucket set so fast they
bring it to me by the time to put it on board it's hard as a rock whereas an council stone
all right still will always keep a bump the drill in a wet [ __ ] that way dry drill kinda messes it
sticks to everything okay while that's setting and again there's just to prove a point I'm spinning
my wheels away from my time but I want to prove a point this bucket it's gonna set up in about
two to three minutes how do I know that because practice I know aluminate and I know how much
is necessary in order to set up the bucket this these three buckets right here I'm using this
to - with okay one throw me a couple of - brushes please okay blam this is the we're basically going
to put this in here and throw it on there okay let me finish three buckets by the time I'm done
with that third bucket I'm guessing that that luminite will have set up Portland cement I can
make a little sand castle sort of speak there there's really no secrets to this stuff it's
just common sense common sense working with the plasters you get a feel of what works what doesn't
youngest son was telling me what Dad I some fella said it's gonna show up
great secrets trade secrets that's great secrets it's just a matter of what works
what doesn't time in that's all it takes on all of this gonna practice
okay couple of boys show holes and we're gonna begin with the dad finished but in order to prove
that point my 19-year old I was explaining this stuff, okay that's this was soupy but
it's pretty hard already I wanted to make a little sandcastle by oh well that just shows you how fast
at luminite sepsis and it doesn't even destroy the integrity of the strength of the Portland
cement actually just makes him stronger this is normally it took five hours to set anyhow we're
gonna get back with what we're doing I just had to prove a point to my son hopefully you folks
to learn something about lumina my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk, with kirk Giordano plastering,
we thank you folks for watching and as usual we'll see you on the next one.