hey, guys Kirk and Jason here, with Kirk Giordano plastering.
today what I'm going to show you is how we do a finish we're going to match this finish here
but before I show you how we actually use our hand hopper and spray that on I'm going to show
you how we scratch this now a fella called me the other day he says ma'am I was doing sockets and it
kept falling down he didn't have he had this wire instead of this water I'll show you something if
you have the right wire it sticks a lot better on a lid this is a lid or soffit however technical
term you want to put it what I'll generally do is I'll spread this out first before I start to
spread this out because now this holds this if if it's a hole like this where I didn't spread
this first it just fall straight through what we're prepared to do here today is scratch the
entire thing brown it and then when I get to the - I'm going to show you that okay guys now what I'm
going to do is fella like me working with J on something like this is okay I've scratched all
for these I'm about to tear this down and put a big 12 foot ladder and scratch that now I'm going
to go ahead and scratch this like so and then I have work on the top when I'm done with the top
this will be set enough for my next coat now I'm using a same day system I usually do on ceilings
a waffle the ceilings meaning I'll crisscross it I'll scratch it this way and I'll scratch it this
way gives it a waffle type of so when this dries I can put my next coat on and sticks real well
anyway I'm going to go ahead and finish scratching everything and then when I come to brown and I'll
show you that but the main thing I want to show you guys on this video how do we match a - finish
one this is pearlite the aggregate is pearlite how do you match pearlite with sand I'll show
you when we get to that stage alright guys what I'm doing now is putting on a lot of fat I want
it fat and ugly fat and ugly and then when I go ahead and darby ed i got a lot of excess mud i'd
rather have it fat and ugly which just is a term we use means a lot of lot of stucco on the wall
so here's what I'm gonna do now I'm using this as a rod to get everything true and plumb I used
to work behind a pump and I'd do this eight hours a day the pump would pump it on and I'd come and
just straighten it out I did that for a number of years so I got a lot of practice doing this
stuff and what I do now is I'm gonna let this set for about Oh 15 minutes and it is going to
be hard as a rock I let this set for an hour I'm going to lose this and not be able to float it I'm
going to come I'm going to hard rubber floated I'm going to hose it down to this particular
material you've got a wet it saturate it and then I'm a hard or almost fudge floated with
a green sponge float I'm going to bring any sand or aggregate out I'm going to bring that aggregate
out so it's something like this that makes my job easier when I go to - it ok guys what I'm
doing now is I'm hard rubber floating it why am i hard excuse me why am i hard rubber floating it
because I want to compress it I want to really embed both of these coats I embed them in the
Salford laughs and this straightens the walls - these walls are really true and plumb sometimes
I come to wavy walls I don't have to do this another tip brand new float I'll usually Bend
the floats up just a little bit otherwise when I go to float sometimes they'll drag anyway we're
hard rubber floating it right now and then in a in a couple minutes I'm going to sponge floated
and you might say what's the difference between a sponge float well this compresses it compacts
it and it you can see the grit but this guy here if this darbie out of the way now this actually
and it brings out the aggregate I'm using a lot of water in here this particular material needs
a lot of water either we spray it or we put it on with a float I mean this is this is a requirement
for this particular material by the way I don't I don't expect anybody who doesn't have time in
by at least 15 years to try to do what we're doing today because this takes a whole lot of practice
and there's a whole bunch of stuff I cannot show you that we just take for granted now what I'm
doing again is a lot of water in here this this material requires it so I bring in the aggregate
out it's just another step to get me closer to matching this very heavy perlite finish here's
something that goes off and see but somebody screwed up this corner right here when they
laughed it which was me so now I have to build it out by hand so what I do is I put my Darby here
and just come straight up get this loaded here and this is a make-believe corner it's actually
a quarter in dented I take it upward allow that to set allow that to set that makes a true and
plumb corner all right just in case you're doing corners and you're not just perfect you have to
chew them out anyhow we'll show you the - when we get to that stage because that's what this
is really about okay guys what we're doing now is we're using a hand hopper and the orphis that
I had before was for plaster and unfortunately I didn't have a bigger orifice so I just gouged
it out with my handy dandy file and made this bigger because our fand have got to go through
this hole when we pull this trigger the sand the big stain got to go through here I'll show you
something else - why we're at it alright this is this is plaster sand it's called plaster Dalton
or Olli it's very fine sand it's for plastering depending on what material yard you go to you
might get anything this is what we're using for the - this is a very heavy sand lights and just
you wouldn't match this because of the perlite the perlite is pretty big so just a tip folks so I'm
going to go ahead and begin - and get this project done alright guys we are concluding this instead
of the regular scratching brown material I'm using a color coat it's sixteen twenty that way
it will show a lot better with what we're doing if you notice there's more covering than actual
took me longer to cover them to do the cement work but that's the - for you it goes everywhere
Sukie mud has got to be real soupy to get through this guy here is the reason I'm doing
this is that it's getting stuck in there, so I'm helping it out let me go on the other side.
you get the idea shorty when we're complete with everything all right guys nothing but the ease
is stuff left I'm cleaning this travertine cow because even if your paper perfect like
what we sometimes did a little bit of stucco will find its way under there we got a lot of
travertine tile we got a lot of doors we got a lot of stuff here that we had to cover stamp
concrete shooting a hand hopper man that just that makes a humongous mess anyhow this is the
results we went ahead and did a color coat on this simply because it takes 28 days prior for
them to paint and they got other things that they have to paint I thought well for the sake of video
I can show what a - the gun does better with the color coat and for the sake of these folks
that look a lot prettier while they're waiting the - 30 days for it to cure before painting
anyhow as usual Jay and I thank you, folks, for watching, and we'll see you on the next one