Hi folks Jason and Dan here, with Kirk Giordano Plastering,
Today in this quick video, what we're going to show you is some tips for applying a dash
finish, now the homeowner here, he did scratch and brown, he floated it it looks pretty good, could he
paint it right now? absolutely would he notice it? absolutely, yeah, his tie-ins aren't perfect
and this float finish while it looks close it's not consistent enough or deep enough
with the Peaks and valleys and the sand to look like a dash finish. So, when you do a dash finish
the two things to start with first, is we need our material to be wet the brown coat needs
to be kind of moist or wet so that we get a good mechanical bond. You can do that with a water hose
or you can do that by taking your sponge float dipping it in water and just tapping everything
to where the patch is wet. Now around the edge where the new dashed finish is going to stick
to the painted surface I had to put Weld-Crete or a bonding agent there you can use whatever
you want uh whatever company there's a lot of companies that make that stuff, so after the prep
work what do, you do you have to go and you have to mix really soupy mud. We're using just regular
Portland cement and even though I only need this much material check out what we had to mix we had
to mix almost a full bucket because you need to be able to submerge the brush first, I dip it in water
then I dip it in my soupy mud. I shouldn't have gone over the handle
like that, but just for the sake of the the video, you shake some of it out
and then now we're going to carefully throw it on just like a dash of salt.
You can do this more, you can do this less, you're just trying to match the consistency, that
the existing finishes you can see I covered this window because there's no such thing as
clean dashing of course if you watch our dad do it, he's uh pretty dang accurate and very clean.
I'd rather cover which makes it a lot easier for me in the long run.
after a few times, the brush gets so full that you need to dip it in your water again.
So I dip it in the water to clean the handle clean up at the top
and this time when I dip it, I don't want to go all the way in and get it all over the handle,
let me shake It out. I can see I'm getting a few drips here, that's okay, we'll come back
the important thing when you're doing a patch like this is your transition, the actual patch
the body of it, you know that will blend in well enough pretty much no matter what I do
but the transition, has to be better than what the homeowner can do, otherwise, why would they pay me
And we're just about there,
All right you see how quick and easy that was, if you've got enough mud in
your bucket, if your surface is ready then because we always make a big
mess. Again there's no way around it, you take your water hose you clean up below
you clean up the sides,
and I don't want to spray the top because that will cause everything to run off.
you can take your sponge float, we'll clean our tape,
Now what do you do if, there are areas where there was too much and it runs
down, it's too heavy. You can clean your dash brush
I can always tap it with this to make it a little more uniform, I can use my float to clean the area
and you just kind of go over and over until you get to a consistency you're happy with, I'm
going to clean up a little bit and there's one or two little spots I can see that I'm
going to fix but the point of the video stands you see how quickly and easily you can throw
the material on with a dash brush if you mix it's just right anyway I hope you guys learned
something. We thank you folks for watching and as usual, we'll see you on the next one. Alright
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