Hi folks Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering what we're doing today,
were on one of Jason's jobs we're doing is this finish here this is pretty much like what I call
an adobe finish with waves in it indentations show you guys how we do this first thing is we're gonna
apply this brown coat on it brown coat just simply means the second coat it is not the color brown
that's a misconception people always say to me on when they're answering or asking me questions
online why do they call it a brown coat if it's gray I don't know the answer to that but it's it's
the second coat so we're applying a second coat and when we get this on here I'll show you how
what we do we will float this coat and floating just means we're gonna bring out the aggregate you
see this aggregate here it's very heavy it's what we call a heavy flow finish after we bring out the
aggregate with the green sponge float we're going to put some lines in it then we're gonna allow
that to set and put more or we're gonna band we're gonna float that to give the the lines
an exact same finish as theirs because this whole house was done where the two code system they did
exactly what we're doing but the difference was on this after it was up for a number of
years they applied a tech coat to it and what is in the text cup a text code is simply sand or a
I'm sorry perlite color and paint usually it's an acrylic paint to waterproof and that is why
that's why this finish here is floated or it looks like the aggregate is brought out because they
came back and they text coded it so once we have this finished on and we're at the correct depth
which we're getting there generally what I'll do is I'll rod a wall but there's no need rod
in this wall because it's pretty Humpty so let's see okay well I'm out of mud until Jay mixes me
more but the idea is on this particular finish you look at that finish it's a lot of patchwork around
the house and some of its done well some of its done not so well our job is to do it as best as
we can per wall so I'll look at this right here they use a square jaw after they've gotten both
coats on it what they've done is they just put some marks in it here every which way and they're
not they're not stationary they're just random so we'll do that we're gonna do that and then what I
can do what's this all sets let's take my sponge float and float it or can you come down here Jay
for a second here's a wall that Jay did he spread it out he floated it then he put his random marks
in it so after you put your random marks in it's safer down here for example okay everything is
floated that means it looks like heavy sand paper or he brought the aggregate out then after you
put your lines in it it allowed to set about just the right amount of time and then you come and you
float those float those turn your float around and all you're doing is you're bringing the aggregate
out of the trials finish like so it's not that difficult if you know how to do it and we are
fortunate enough to know how to do it we've got a lot of time in again you just float over the areas
that we have already placed our intention and dan comes on and then patient that's that word all
right we're doing a lot of things here guys we are multitasking we have several other patches every
which way so excuse my stuttering anyhow we're gonna mix up some more mud I'm gonna finish that
because I'm jumping all over the place to prove a point here in about ten or fifteen minutes we'll
go back and we'll show you how we do this big section once that mud is mixed and it's fully
applied the base coat okay guys about a stage here where I decided to just start from scratch
so I could show you guys a little bit more of what I'm referring to with this indented adobe finish
what I'm doing right now is I'm floating the wall and it just means you take a green sponge float
like so and you put it in the water pound it out a little bit flip it put it back in count it out
a little bit and you'll see sometimes myself even we're all come like this and tap it like this if
you tap it like this hard guys you bend the crap out of this float so it's no longer effective so
what I generally do is I use the curve of the bucket and tap all the water out why do we want
all the water out or a lot of the water out because if I use just a little bit of water
now I'm not bringing out too much grain if I use a lot of the water say like okay I'm gonna leave
a lot of water in here look at all that grain I'm bringing out we don't want that so we tap it all
out and by the way guys when we are done we're gonna pull this tape is there gonna be a little
bit of residue on that window absolutely that's okay what we do is we take our float we clean
it keep it clean until the end of the job then we just take a towel and wipe it off anyhow where I
went ahead and proved a point now what I'm gonna do is take all of the water off of this and I'm
gonna fix my own little explanation here that's a lot drier another thing to guys is all right okay
they were about where we want to be here with our sand and you can do two things if it's way
too gritty you can hit it with your trowel again get rid of some of the grip or you can allow it
to set say for Oh 15 20 more minutes and then take a drier sponge float and just hit it very lightly
just barely hit it guys for the sake of what we're doing I'm fine with with what I have here because
I know how to improvise so what I'm gonna do now is again like what I showed you a second ago you
look at those finishes there I'm gonna use the heel of my trial it's straighter than the toe
toe you flip it around look at those indentations there and depending on depending on what they've
got on this particular wall they gots a little bit of half round little Wiggly is here and there what
we'll do is we just match it guys just look up and and sort of match it some of them touch each
other like so and some of them don't and I'm using the heel because I can put more pressure
and I can go deep so what I can go like they're kind of medium with what they have you can put
a couple in here and we go back over here and we look at that we kind of follow the pattern to hear
there's a patterns going right into there here there's a pattern we follow the patterns of what
they originally had and of course I could see them cuz I'm right here random guy random and then what
we're gonna do is we're gonna let this set about Oh 10 15 minutes while this is setting for 10 or
15 minutes we're gonna have a snack then what I'm gonna do guys is I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna
after the sets I'm gonna take each one of these and just lightly lightly go over it so we still
have the indentations we float them giving them the grit in the indentation caused by somebody's
brain adesh or text code in it and we're going to take out a little bit of the sharpness so it's a
little smoother like that ten coats of paint two guys a lot of little things when doing this you
consider everything paint text code and try to blend it all in in one shot alright guys we are
getting close now now what I'm doing is I let it set about 15 minutes so I got the majority
of these little guys and what I'm using is the edge of the float just the edge and what I'm
what I like to do is is soften these up a little bit we just saw up in a month see they're stopping
them up hit it right in the corner and with the edge here because it's been painted so many times
soften it match that what they have soften it up a little bit I'll show you the last thing before
I pull the tape off of this window guys and Jay Jay did the other window over there we were going
to show you his work compared to my work and it dawned on me like I used to say Union 30 years
ago 25 years ago guys to Kirk all the way better plaster than you and I'd say man I sure hope so
because if you're not that means I got to do all the work so anytime I work with anybody I'm hoping
they're way better than me and I love working with guys that are way better than me there's
no glory in being the best you're way better guys and you're working with me that just makes my day
anyhow so so one last little piece here we get all these little areas that aren't floated like so
okay see how's it going but I was just explaining your project you're catching me at the tail end of
explanation dirty float guys I dropped that dirty float in a dirty bucket now I'm gonna take a clean
bucket clean bucket I'm gonna pull off all of this tape here and yes we're gonna have some residue
absolutely no such thing as no residue we pull this guy oh come on up come on up get that stuff
off oh come on now oh yeah okay now what we do is with the clean bucket of water we can trim it out
say if some gets here we just go like so get it off as any of you guys think you're gonna cover so
well that you're not gonna get any tape or stucco on that frame you're a mistake and then work that
way you always get some but that's what the clean bucket of water for and if you get any in these
tracks which you're kind of weird you just take a piece of wood works the best let me use my trial
right now just to prove a point and get it out of there and then you clean it up like so and any
other master just take a clean towel and get it off there you're just in time brother anyhow this
is Jason's work right here okay see the homeowner he comes just in time for to hear that anyway my
name is Kirk, Jason on the Camera as usual we thank you for watching and we'll see you guys on
the next one all right guys we weren't getting out of here but Casey has all these little helicopters
all over the place I thought wow those are so cool he's gonna demonstrate how to use this thing the
first time I never I only see this in Star Wars and Jay was explaining to me one time how somebody
was using it during a wedding and it came down and went in some somebody's face and I thought
what a good wedding present so so so when you come down just try not to hit me that thing looks
awesome seaweed normally nothing but stucco but we have a little treat for you if anybody's ever
But can you grab it okay see anyhow,
guys? We thank you for watching, and we'll see you guys at the next one?