howdy guys, kirk jay lou my buddy Nathan here the guitar player uh and plasterer, today i'm gonna
show you guys how to do how to make a window straight I got a call from a guy in russia
is a kirk how do you get the windows straight and how do you get an inner corner wall straight
because i was wiggly like a dog's hind leg and i said man i can show you that so we're actually on
the job right now and every job caught windows guys unless we're fortunate enough to do uh
big walls anyway what i've done here is i've put a scratch coat on and since we're doing the same
day system what i do is i put a scratch i just go so far i let the paper suck that moisture right
out of this stucco and i know i can look at it i got the feel for it of when to put that next
coat on and i just applied this so what i'm gonna do now is i'm gonna put a second coat
on why because i can that's same day stucco you see that pretty ain't it okay now the idea guys
is when you are putting or trying to garb a wall straight chewing plum you want to make that wall
fat and ugly we used to say fat and ugly when we were working behind a gun oh fred
fred smith would be gunning it and i said give me some fat and ugly
that just meant don't put it on thin because if you put it on thin and let's say like a hot day
and it's drying that makes it so difficult to darby because now you need to instead of say ah oh
like 20 to 30 40 pounds of strength you need like like if you're lifting 100 pounds each time so
fat nugget i'm going to show you why fat and ugly works uh when i say that an ugly
i just mean sloppy put it on fat and ugly so you have something to work with
towards christmas time so we want to wish all you guys a merry christmas blam okay so i'm gonna put
this one more hawk full before i show you what i'm talking about guys fat and ugly remember
that terminology i know there's going to be some guys that say hey my girlfriend's fat ugly i don't
mean like that i mean fat and ugly that way you have some stucco to play with guys you got to
have something to play with because if it's a hot day 100 degrees and your scratch coat's already on
then you put your brown coat on and it sucks up now when you try to use a a darby a rod ah
a straight edge it'll be very difficult what i'm doing i'm looking here to see if this is banana
if it's banana we just fix it because it does banana you drop it and it goes like a banana
so it doesn't work right okay so what we're going to want to do to get a straight straight edge is
remember this two guys okay we got a wall fat and ugly that means there's a lot of stucco on it this
stucco is about an inch and a quarter how much sucker do i want everybody knows this we want 7
8 of an inch how do you know when you have 7 8 you don't i'm just making a point okay these windows
they're going to have to have a quarter inch reveal quarter inch reveal guys all the time
unless it's some weird specialty thing okay the darby it's wet if this derby was dry i touch it
what will happen it will pull off the stucco just pull it off the scratch coat because
we're doing the same day system okay what i'll generally do guys is i'll take it and i'll just
i'll just right now i'm just trying to get some of my middle section get your middle guy get your
middle okay no don't don't you try to fall on me if it tries to fall just put it right back
up okay you could do it two ways now i'm gonna pull it straight up when i pull it straight up
guys i'm not gonna let the i'm not gonna let the wall dictate it i'm gonna pull it like this
i ah well that ain't gonna bother me okay i'm gonna pull it straight up like this i'm gonna
pull it straight up like this guys kind of like painters painters don't do this they do this to
get it on right they go straight so this darby can be done two ways guys you can take it and always
remember pull it outward okay right here i'm gonna push it in and now i wanna make that reveal
upward i'm gonna push it in make the reveal upward and if you really want to this doesn't
necessarily need to be done but just to prove a point boom okay now when that's set
when that's set these windows are true and plumb and they're not wiggly i had a guy
one of my best bestest of buddies man he couldn't get a window to save his
life they'd always be crooked and i'd look at him and we'd always have to go over them
anyway okay now we're on another side so again you can there's a lot of ways to do this guys
but while it's fat and ugly you got a lot of play if it was hard and thin you would be sweating you
would have to it would take so much energy like right now okay for me to put this derby right here
and go up and down all i'm doing is making a making a line i'm making a line chewing plum
you can call it true and plum but the idea is if we were to put thin brick on here
that thin brick would it would need a wall that say every 20 feet was rotted that means it's
within a quarter inch of straight or true and plum so these walls aren't going to get rotted in fact
we're going to float these walls that just means we're going to bring the aggregate out the sand
so and you got you might say now i see what you're doing how thick is that stucco
boom boom you can see the wire kirk's the best okay that's how thick it is that's when you know
and weather depends man i mean if it's hot and sunny and it's pouring down on us
boom you got to move fast if it's cold like right now it's kind of cold so
we're just uh when you when you're doing a wall and and it's cold like it is right now
you see that breath that means it's cold guys i'm warmed up now man i had four shirts on earlier
but now that now that i'm moving i'm warmed up okay same thing guys if you want to get that
inner corner you're going to push it in pull upward and out in upward and out that's the
inner corner say for these tops which are difficult because generally they have a piece
of wood there that blocking of the wood keeps the roof from tweaking okay for me i'm just going to
show you a couple of these i got this spout in my way but that spout ain't heard nothing
what i'm doing now is i'm going up and then i'm lightly pushing it down then i take my fingers
and i pull it down saw what happens if i pull it down hard the whole thing comes off because
it's nowhere near set so now here i'm going to just take it straight across
boom boom okay that's that's ready to float and i'll show you one more time as i scoot my
bottom over here and how's that song go nathan we told nathan think of a jingle and later on i think
he's going to do his guitar thing he was sitting down right before we got here he says if stucco
needs repair and the cracks are everywhere anyway i'll let him do that song that's pretty funny okay
back to what i'm showing how to get a straight and true corner with a darby i can do this with
my big congo trout too but just to prove a point you guys use a darby or a straight edge or a rod
you take it you're gonna go up now i can feel it sticking so when it sticks i'm coming down and i'm
just like snowboarding guys you're going up and then when you come down you take that
edge down and because i'm using a swimming pool trowel wow okay this swim pull trial
it's not a perfect it's not a perfect radius it's straight here and then it's just the arcs are so i
can't get my corners real well but i already know i'm going to darby it guys if i'm going to dart
it what do i need it perfect right there because what i can do is use the darby to fix that just
right where i can't get a perfect uh well you guys can't see this one but i'm gonna fix this one boom
okay i'm gonna take the darby it's wet if it was dry it would be pulling this stuff
off and now i'm gonna take it and pull it there you see that if this derby was dry it would have
pulled all of that out but it's wet so that's the key guys that's the key my russian friend uh my
comrade like how do you get those corners straight because our windows are crooked anyway as we go
along i don't know if you see one more time guys one more can can the camera show way over here jay
okay cool beans all right i'm gonna this scaffold is really weird too guys okay again this is all
fat and ugly i want it fat and ugly if it's thin i have to put twice the pressure on it now if
i gotta put twice the pressure man i'm working hard i don't to work hard that's lou's job he's
a hot carrier and he always says man this job sure enough is hard that's why they call it hot carrier
plaster tender in the uk okay i'm gonna lay this rod now that it's kind of wet a dry rod a dry
garbage never ever ever ever works guys so keep that rod wet okay the rod is wet now what i'm
gonna do is i'm gonna play with it okay here and remember now i'm gonna use my fingers the tips of
my fingers first i'm gonna put some pressure okay about 15 20 25 35 30 pounds of pressure
okay i'm gonna come down and i'm gonna lift this bottom when i come down and now i'm using just my
fingertips it's set so the stucco is set right there it is not going to fall off now i'm going
to use my fingertips lift the bottom gently and come on down boom there it is that keeps it there
otherwise if i don't know what i'm doing i'm using the dry one i do this and boom the whole thing
comes right off and then i take because i'm using that pull trowel i take this top i go across here
and presto we get that and i'm gonna keep doing that all the way around here until we can get this
top done and then we're gonna float it but anyway i thought i'd show you that now because jay is a
new father and he's got to go check on his wife so congratulate jay for the new baby boy avery
anyhow uh he's got to hit it and when he comes back we'll show you some more stuff
all right guys just gotta leave in a minute so we ain't gonna show
the whole completion but what i want to do since we're here is finish showing how to make a wall
kind of true and plum it's like i was showing here now this let's see what i still got a lot of time
uh i got a lot of time with this i'm gonna float this and bring the aggregate or sand out so
we just now double coated this it's fat and ugly guys remember that terminology fat and ugly now
if it's fat and ugly then i don't have to use so much muscle i mean i'm i don't
want to burn out i'm no spring chicken i don't want to burn out all my strength
i got to preserve it so now this is fat and ugly so i'm going to take it get on my knees
sometime and i'ma bring it up boom underneath that window remember what i said earlier
you see how you might say how much pressure is he using? I'm doing about say if it's lifting weights
it's your it's equivalent of say 50 pounds okay I'm cleaning jerking 50 pounds right here
That's like saying, well, I say clean and jerk.
It's like putting the weight going about 50 pounds because that's you got to have
some strength to do these guys it uh if it's just right guys guess what less muscle more
skill let me use skill because I got more skill than I do muscles these days okay you see that.
bo that's using skill
all your old-timers know what i'm talking about all those fellow spreads in the uk go
that's what i'm talking about i want to use skill we do not want to use
muscles now nasty here he got a lot of muscle so he can use his muscles he's a spring chicken
what's that g if your suckle needs repair cause the cracks are man that's that's like some corny
hillbilly stuff you've been so corny why do you keep singing it you got me there ouch brother uh
as i'm blasting guys i keep singing that goofy stuff if you're stuck on these repair
cause the cracks are everywhere i'm giving this that country hinge or the country slang
trying to be sarcastic you're being funny that's cool anyway guys i just wanted to show you
how it was to get a wall to and plumb and get your corners straight there's a lot of goofy stuff i
could talk about all day but that answers the question from my fellow russian conrad who said
kirk i'm from russia man how do you do that that was in my last video he asked me that question
so uh you guys got questions we definitely got answers okay guys it's the end of the day
it's time to just clean ourselves up a little bit and i told nathan come on man
do that jingle again because i said it was corny while we're working our ace off
but it's cool do it again brother bye when your stucco needs repaired
cause the cracks are everywhere called your indonesia plastering right away
when it looks like an eyesore and you just can't take no more calls you're in donald a plastering
right away now you guys know i was stuck in my head he took 15 minutes to come up
with that [ __ ] and i thought dude i'm a plasterer you're a magician musician
so that's working anyway nathan humphreys i will put his phone number
email and all that stuff in the description so if you guys say man i need a jingle for my work
call this guy because he's a better magician than he is a classroom because i had to work
and do all the work today anyway we thank you guys for watching
and as usual have a merry christmas a happy new year do not drink and drive
leave that to us professionals because you do not want matching handcuffs so nathan
my brother he can't walk too well with that broke foot but he could drink beer damn well
anyway we thank you guys for watching and we'll see you guys on the next next one