Howdy folks, Kirk and Jay a here with Kirk Giordano plastering today I'm going to show
you how to do some proper texturing to match existing texture a look over here guys look at
this patch did you see that square patch well the owner of this building said Kirk can you correct
all these patches tell me he had some plumbing issues and he says but can you do a better job
than that and I said absolutely and then he took me to another patch he said can you do
a better job than that I said absolutely we can do a better job than we did this stuff 411 in fact we
don't like 700 videos he says yeah that's what the last guy said and he missed textured almost every
patch here so he doesn't want any more eyesore so here's what the other guy used guys he used
raw stucco and how thick are we on this patch here in some areas 3 inches thick why because
this is I found interesting this are these are copper pipes and when you put mesh next to copper
pipe what happens electrolysis it takes about 70 to 100 years to pinhole this but they leak
don't do that guys we put it back together we put peel-and-stick over all the pipes before we put
it back together but anyway that's not what this video is about this video is about matching this
texture anybody know what kind of texture that is that texture is what we call Santa Barbara it's
smooth mission finish so in order to to match a smooth mission finish we've got to use the same
material now the sand that we use or we just used to do this base coat is plaster sand it's
called well it's called plaster sand or only either one works now that's it's a little too
thick for this texture why because this texture is similar to say talcum powder talcum powder is
well it's pretty fine this texture here it's got silica sand and silica sand is about the finest
sand what we use for class Serena most folks are worried for finishes exterior finishes on a house
that they want really tight or lacy so anyway in order to match the finish you have to use
the right material it doesn't matter how good you are or how good you think you are if you're not
using the right aggregates or sand you're not gonna match the texture so what I've got here
is the right aggregate and by the way guys always wear glasses when you're doing this stuff take a a
veteran like me I took my glasses off just for a minute now there's admire in my own work you
see that red stuff I'm sitting up here looking at a piece falls right in my eye now that kind
of kind of goofy and you would think well why why don't you have your glasses on again well I don't
think that could happen to me twice what anyhow wear glasses if you guys do soffits ceilings lids
whatever you want to call them why gravity now granted we have about three inches in some areas
because it's a soffit and it's kind of a weird detail that Bo might not show but they got a
huge bow in here it's it's kind of cute but they did it for a reason to hide some pipes that were
in here now okay just for the sake of showing you folks this is what we call again silica sand the
next heaviest one is twenty thirty the heaviest one is sixteen twenty that's in regards to sand
or you can go by smooth or fine smooth medium and coarse so there's like four of them anyway now to
match the texture this is not gonna show too well because I'm going over the same color but you just
put it here and skip it put it here and skip it where I missed it a little piece we put it on
there and skip it okay just skip it a little bit now this particular texture I'm doing here it's a
skip trial and there's a hundred different skip Charles Taco Bell has one that we have matched
a whole bunch of times and when we match that one we put it on and we don't knock it down but we use
the coarse sand we don't use this silica same so finishing off what we did here now a lot of
times it's easier to see what the heck you're doing if you're below so just to show you now
I would let this set about five to ten minutes as a rule if I if I use a light hand I can hit
it right now you're not sure you look at it and say man I need to let that set a while so you
would leave it about ten minutes if you are sure you just use a lighter hand like me I can see the
texture they did there and I can see they apply to finish then they apply to texture if I just
apply to texture would it match no it wouldn't because I can see the trial marks of the first
one so now I'm gonna take it in light hand right hand guy and just knock it down it's almost like
taping mud this stuff here and turning my head man I want that same experience it took me 15
minutes to flush my eyeball out I was and it ain't real pleasant to guys to get stucco in your eye
because it has lie in it lie birds anyway you see we're where we are with this and what I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna get off this ladder take a look down there and just see close that texture you
know if you're using the right the right grade sand you're doing fine let's see here now that
looks pretty good and now what I'm gonna do is take my float it's a green sponge float and go
over all the edges and tie it in anyway guys if you're going to do a smooth texture like this
you gotta know the right material so I thought I'd point that out because the owner asked me
and he showed me about ten patches and we won't bore you guys and show you all the rest of the
patches to make ourselves look good but it's kind of simple if you have the right material
my name is Kirk Jason on the camera don't forget guys wear glasses even if you're doing walls and
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