howdy folks, Kirk and Jayson here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today it's a weekend
I'm just messing around relaxing having a beer, I wanted to address a question that a lot of people
are asking me, they call me from Home Depot Lowe's, and it's like guys, where'd you get my
cell number? and they'll say, Kirk, hey I'm over here at Home Depot, what material do I use a
cement all, the stucco patch, the mortar mix, all by Rapid-Set? It's like well guys, if you're doing
concrete, bridges, at the Pentagon or something that say, rapid-set is usually used by professionals. If say
you have the street and you, you make a hole in the street, the city worker they'll use, Rapid-Set,
often because you could drive over it within an hour, how strong is, Rapid-Set Cement All?" Well lets put
it this way, this concrete here is usually about 3,000 sidewalks about 3,000 foundations are about
3,500 psi pounds per square inch, that's how strong they are, this stuff it when it's fully cured in
28 days is 9,000 psi, so that's pretty strong now what I had is I had a tree here, an arborist
stops by says Kirk, that trees a goner, I hired a guy to cut it down and he used a stump grinder,
and got rid of this, now as he got rid of it, I had six bags of the, "Cement-All," I mean these bags
come in ten-pound 25-pound boxes as well as the 55-pound bags, so I had a bunch of bag there and
I come back and I said, dude? what's that? he says well one of my guys was watching your videos and
it showed how you did a scratch in a brown and so he did this and I thought, cute, but that's not what
I really wanted him to do, so I ended up using those six bags on one of my jobs, on a wall just
to see how well it would spread don't do that, guys, it'll break your arm, trying to spread
this stuff. Jay just mix this, he mixed it like a minute and a half ago, how long do you have to
Oh, cool, you have about say minute to three to mix and then you have about 15 minutes to spread
this guy's, 15 minutes of spread isn't a long time, and 15 minutes this will be so hard that I
can't move it anymore, but anyway I'll show you what how we use this particular product
because you know I do, I'm a stucco contractor guys, a stucco contractor doesn't use too much, "Cement-All,"
but right here I have an instance where I could use it, because of the tree that was taken
out, and I want to fill this hole because I Drive over this often, now we are a little shy little
shy with the amount of mud we need, but that's Okay, us professionals even, can't get it right
every time, so, Jays, gonna mix up a little bit more and I'm gonna walk over with my baby and have a
beer, while he mixes up a little bit more for us, Okay, guys in order to recap what we've done, Jay
makes a little bit more, I just spread it out and personally guys, I could use a trowel, but if you
guys aren't sure how to screed something, find a piece of metal, wood and wet it, and just kind
of go like this out and that'll screed it out, and why you might say why are using the "Rapid-set, cement all,
when it's actually a different color than the concrete and I would say man that is a dang good question. The reason is you see this stuff here, this is a synthetic stucco or an acrylic stucco.
I'm about to, tomorrow spread this whole area out with that acrylic stucco because I like the way
looks and if I were to use regular Portland cement, I'd have to wait twenty eight days so, anyhow guys
to recap all this stuff, "Rapid-set," makes that stucco patch now that stuff you could put it on
and it sets really fast guys, you could paint that in two hours, "Rapid-Set-Cement-All," is for concrete
bridges, things that need high, high strength, this I don't need that much strength, but since I have it.
I'm figuring I'll use it, the, "Mortar-Mix is for patches, like this, Mortar-Mix is for cement, that's
forgoing say four inches or deeper you can go six inches of foot deep, this about four, four
inches max, anyhow guys ah my name is Kirk, I'm with, Kirk Giordano plastering, and that's just a
quick tip on some of the uses that, "Rapid-Set," makes they do make a whole bunch of different products,
so I figured if I tell you guys now, now you know, so when you go to Home Depot and Lowe's you know
what to buy, for what needs, anyway from my wife and I who are relaxing on ah, I never say no to beer.
Actually, the only time I do is, if I'm by myself or with a friend. Anyway, my name is Kirk, Jason
on the camera.
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