howdy folks Kirk and Jayson here with Kirk giordano plastering, today we're gonna show you
guys is how to plaster a ceiling now this ceiling has everything, it has the old cedar wood lath
and because they had a bout of leak toilet leak they pulled out some of the old wood lath it's
a nightmare to try to find this stuff so you can use three-point-four mesh wire that's what we've
done here and over here where there's a hole let me tell you some of the details about this stuff
guys now they pulled they corrected the pipe my buddy Bert did that from roto plus plumbing i
I remember him from six years ago we worked for him anyway get him back to what this is this is
struck the light with white coating I mean today they call it veneer finish but it back in my days
it was just white coating it's a lime plaster and it's really good let me show you some tips to guys
as far as the wood in the old days - they would take the cedar wood lath and a wedding they'd wet
it all day and that way when the plasters came the next day like us it would have a mechanical
bond it would bond not by suction to this but it would also mushroom and adhere through the
top that's that's a good bond it's like button board it goes through the holes and it bonds
the same thing happens with this mesh but your mesh on tight because you don't want it flexing
and the plaster goes the same way here and it just mushrooms through the top and that's what it hears
it I'll tell you another thing you should have guys while I'm on it is a couple HEPA vacuums we
got a vacuum here because when we got here needed a little bit of dusting off and we have an air
cleaner here to clean the air while we're working here and we wear masks we wear goggles because
you never know what's in here the fella who owns the place says well gee Burt came in here and he
tested for mold and there was no mold and I said I know, unfortunately, I have my own built-in mold
tester I walk in a house and there's mold my eye to a tear up and I'll start coughing what a drag
but when I came in here nothing no no coughing no sinus issues that's how you know there's no mold
and in besides I went outside to look at it to see if there's a roof that happened look leaking which
would indicate mold no mold so they've caught it in time toilet jacked up and boom they fixed it
so it allow us us to do our job without a headache or nightmare worried about mold I'll show you what
we got out here this is all necessary stuff guys it's a two most important thing a dollar brush for
your edges and a cheap radio I mean you can get these at second-hand store for a dollar the big
ones they take too much room in our truck that truck right there has it's an 11 foot bed but
it has everything we need important stuff here's what we're gonna use guys we're gonna use some
struck the light now my day there was 80 pound bags we were doing hospitals in schools when I
was working Union over 30 years ago so now today they have 50 pound bags so struck the light is a
good base coat a lot of ways to put that on to it and we'll get into that later there's
another thing you need person I brought my color mix with me we have other drills but this one got
a birdcage paddle and the paddle here is smooth so when we mix we can get all the corners also
I always fill a 5-gallon bucket and leave it in there the 5-gallon bucket holds the paddle and
it keeps it clean and if you're gonna do interior finish guys with a hard steel chop finish you need
new bucket brand-new buckets the paddle got to be clean everything got to be clean because if
you get a couple heavy grains of sand when you're doing the finish coat they'll bleed through we're
doing a base coat right now so we're not worried about that here is lastly - I want to show you
guys something folks always comments the G Kirk I can't find the bonding agent you're referring
to now generally I'll use the plaster world or the world Crete for outside interior/exterior you can
use the exterior for inside but you can't use the inside for outside and why I use it because it's
colored see that pink color and while we're on it and then you guys say gee I can't find either
one of these because they don't sell these at Home Depot they do sell at Home Depot they're
quikrete is white and the Merle X is white personally, I stuck my finger in this one here this is by Omega every plastering company makes the bonding agent guy so there's no shortage of
it I stuck my finger in here and I put it on the top here so you can see it's brown or yellowish
but what I like about these bonding agents are these are colored if you have a whole crew and
you're doing a whole house you could see if somebody missed the spot these milky white
ones good luck you can't see them they dry with a slight sheen but if you miss a spot it will come
off what did I use these bonding agents for I hit the wood that the cedar wood laughs there because
I want extra bonding agent besides as much for me anyway guys there's just a few tips on what we're
gonna do such as Jays job I'm kicking back I'm gonna actually mix for a change Jay Jay's gonna
be spreading I'm gonna help him of course because I want to explain what we're doing here because I
haven't shown structure light as a base coat it's kind of gluey stuff but it it's a great base coat
for a diamond or a white coat finish so when we get to that stage we'll show you that - all right
guys let me show you some more tips I'm gonna make this a real thorough plastering video so
this is the only video ever have to watch in order to do a ceiling or a wall okay we take our struck
a light i'll struck the light good good and bad about it is it's it is lightweight it looks and
feels just like whipping cream now you can put it over sheetrock you can put it over masonry brick
block as long as it's inside of course you go over wood laughs as well as button board or even wire
if you're not sure put a bonding agent on it and it'll hear anything but it's got to be interior
there's another tip guys know I I do this all often because I'm used to this product I mean
it's all these interior products you use one you could use them all what I have is the largest hawk
they sell the largest trial they sell and what I like to do is fill it up just a little bit I don't
like to drop too much of course I don't care how good you are you're gonna drop some mud but if you
drop a lot then you got to step all over a track it through the place everything so when you're
applying fill up your trowel and a light hand guys leave you you could put your Hawk underneath it in
case some does drop the idea is don't drop any mud if you don't have to of course it takes practice
not to drop mud and you don't want it good with a heavy hand and push too much otherwise you lose
all your mud and these keys so the idea again is try not to drop any mud guys don't drop any mud
because if you do you're gonna be stepping in it and make the job so much longer again we'd take a
plaster scoop by the way guys all these tools you see we we are using we have an Amazon account that
you did you can click on the description and purchase any of them so okay we're gonna move
right along to I'll tell you another thing well I like the largest trial they sell is because I can
take it to the mud right from the middle I leave four inches here four inches here and when I apply
it it won't spill like say I fill the whole trial up and I hit it it'll squirt right off the edges
then we're stepping in it and then we'll have to clean it up too so thought I'd point that out guys
because if you're really clean and you know your tools you're way ahead of the game and by the way
watch your foot and you don't want to fall through the plank but as you're doing this try to keep the
wall or ceiling as smooth as possible why because when you're done that can be your whole base coat
if you're doing hospitals and schools as we used to out of three-eighths at a time three-eighths
for the base the first code three eighths for the second coat total of seven eighths to an inch but
residential such as they're only 1/2 inch so we can get away with 1/4 to 1/2 inch on this and
then we are going to show you how to put or I'm going to show you how to put the white coat on or
again the diamond the diamond the veneer finish so I'm gonna stop it right here and finish what
I'm doing so that J can come up here and help to and we'll see you when we start the the old
white coating or veneer finishing all right guys a couple other tips remember that dollar brush
dollar brush is one of the things necessary to get these edges a big $50 brush or I felt I'll
just leave a lot of lines question what's a stronger finish sheetrock weather staggered or
just put up as opposed to this solid substrate anybody know anybody care this is why way way
stronger and it doesn't have the finish coat on it either because it's a solid substrate here's
something about this material that if any of you folks have ever spread interior finishes such as
struck delight think about structure light it is you don't wanna like say here you can look
at this this is like glass this is a white coat or a veneer coat it's like glass this particular
finish here's a tip guys if I keep going over it like this and clean here's a tears the tip
right here if I keep going over it now without wetting this trial it'll be like putting a dry
trial with mud on it trying to get it smooth it can never happen have I made this struck the light
smooth with my trial yes but how can I match this finish here no because it doesn't matter how good
you are you're not going to get it smooth like glass because this has some aggregate in it
so this gypsum you take it and you can each stroke you got a wet every stroke I mean if you wanted us
smooth as possible every stroke got to be cleaned to get to keep water on the trowel but what we're
doing is because we're doing a third coat I want to leave it a little rough if I don't leave it a
little rough my veneer I have a hard time setting on it so it's got to have some kind of suction so
what I'm getting at is if I seal it which this is sealing it now I'm hard steel trowel in it which
means I seal this so my diamond wouldn't adhere to it well I'd end up having to put a bonding
agent on this so I'm gonna leave it alone we're gonna watch paint dry sort of speak it's about
75 degrees outside we're up in the hills I had to turn the heat on the floor right here in order for
the heat to come up here and dry this out because I forgot my gym co-ed gym co2 struck the light and
you can make it set in five minutes if you like right now it's been an hour hour and a half and
we got nothing but time we're cleaning the truck and do another thing so a little tip for you guys
before we do the veneer finish all right guys ah before I start finishing up the diamond or skim
coat as they call it in UK the finish here you can float it you could texture it to your competitor
but it'll always have a little grainy look why is it here the grainy look that's not sand most
of your plasters watch what we do you guys know what that is that's volcanic rock crushed rock
and that's what gives it so much strength in fact this is one of the most soundproofing plasters
there are moving on guys now what I'm doing here is I'm putting on a veneer plaster what
does the veneer placer its lime a lot of lime and I'm using USG the same finish that I've
applied a minute a minute ago the structure struck the lights made by USG they have so many different
companies that make so many materials why do I use dime Imperial for the finish coats because
they sell them at my material yard they also sell I mean the UK they sell so many different products
this'll red top they're all the same guys in fact I can't tell the difference when applying but this
particular finish here will match this finish this is like glass so I like this crack right
here okay you take this finish and boom you got you got that done and and that's like glass so the
other the struck the light is the good base coat in fact if your daughter plays the drums or your
son like my daughter Madeleine she was playing the drums I said baby that's mighty loud she says well
I need the egg cartons back here and I said well how about I just put some struct-lite
on and she's like what's that dad I said never mind and instead of doing the egg crates I
went ahead and used the restrictor plastering and that gave it a lot of soundproof so the
neighbors didn't whine about how loud her drumset was anyway guys you see where this is going and
now this particular finish here is one of the hardest finishes why because it is a veneer and
a veneer has lime in it and lime is just say thee you crush the lime up and you you put it in so we
got soundproofing we've got base coat we've got fire retardant we got structural strength we got
we got it all at your head now what I'm doing is just putting on this finish coat I'm gonna
call it a day here because he's well because we've got a lot of stuff to do we're doing a
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two weeks in a row this is the final product it looks like a jigsaw puzzle that's okay it's light
and dark that's just a nature of a diamond finish we use diamond because it has a lot of lime a lot
of fat and we can play with it and bring it back to life anyway guys we thank you for watching and
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