howdy folks Kirk and jason here with Kirk giordano plastering, with the tip of the day this is what we
call a fine lathe or a Spanish lace skip towel finish one of the hardest to match, I came here yesterday
and the fella did all the lower windows themselves a year ago, and he says well Kirk, what do you think?
So I said, what do you do for a living? He says I'm a plumber, and I said man, I suck at plumbing
I got to hire that out because my walls would leak and he says, what are you trying to say it
sucks, I said it it's good for a first-timer. He says, well I watched your videos. I said watching
our videos guys, you can learn how to do the paper you can learn how to do the basecoat. But a fine Skip trial finish you're not going to learn by watching the videos.
When I worked Union I did skip trowel finishes every day, day after day month after month, that's all I did was skip trowel
finishes, so you get a hang of it anyway. I was looking at his finish and by the way, guys see
this pink color when you, it's like a brick, anytime you paint stucco too, you'll see it, but this pink color is maintenance-free, how long is this colors been on here I think they stopped making
this pink about 30 years ago they make a Miami peach now it's kind of close. But anyway
getting off all that. This color coat is about 77 years old has about 1950 it's 2017 now, so about
77 years old? Anyway, the color is still on and it still looks good and it will remain on for another
hundred, two hundred years. The color is never going to come off, but anyway get him back to what
he did and he says, well gee can you fix it and I said well you don't ever want to put a finish
over a finish. And he says it's going to come off huh? I said, no, it's not going to come off.
You didn't need a bonding agent because this is a color coat maintenance-free porous finish integrated a
mouthful, but it's what it is. If it was painted then he would need a bonding agent for this to
adhere. But what I told the fella is, I said well look they're kind of stuck now unless you want
to redo the whole thing, you take a trowel and get it off of here, because when you paint, all this excess
it is really going to show, and he says, what can i grind it? But that's it that's a story for another
another job, another day.
He is going to eventually grind it all off. We're going to fix that up for him. But he says, well I thought I did a better job than the fellows who did my door. Okay, so he
showed me the door, and I thought hmm, okay, well these guys, they did the base coat, the base coat
you get at Home Depot, Lowe's, anywhere. But the base coat. doesn't have this really fine sand this
is a again a Spanish lace fine finishes, the sand is silica sand and it's basically a 20/30,
so these guys didn't even try to texture they just put a bunch of blobs, so I said yes you did
a much better job than they did. We're going to go over here, and I'm going to go up top, I'm going
to show you guys, how to match this finish. We we're looking at this one too which he matched, he
actually used the same material I'm going to use the only difference is I've got a lot of time in
and he doesn't. So I'm gonna get up top and then I'll show you how to do this guys. Okay, guys, I'm up
here on another balancing act and for you fellows who say hey, if you're in my home state, OSHA would fine
you. No, OSHA would not fine me, we are not above a certain height and I don't need guardrails here,
although, when I did from here to here, I only stood on a 2x4, but I didn't show you, folks, that. I'm
kidding, Lou, give me some mud, all right when I did do that little part, I was thinking about
a whole bunch of useful stuff that didn't amount to nothing. I got dizzy flipped over Lou, fortunately
was down below and caught me, I said wow, man, how'd you catch me? He said because you screamed
like a wee baby, I looked up and you're in my arms. But that's another story. What we're doing guys is
as I say, we are putting on a skip trowel, and this finish shouldn't pass this finish, if this finished the
depth is past this depth, eyesore when it's painted. Paint enhances flaws, anybody who does you're
stucco and says hey, paint it, man, it'll blend it all in, is full of crap, because paint enhances flaws.
Anyway getting back to what we're doing here, you can take your skip trowel, I get asked this
often, people say gee, can I take my skip trowel on top of another skip trowel, only if you really
know what you're doing, because like a fella earlier, Jay has the technology, he'll show you
my finish versus the other one, we're side by side he went too far over here, um, and it just shows
after you paint it. It shows, so, he didn't do a bad job, for somebody who's not in the trade, but when
he paints that, that will show unless corrected. So me, I just taking a light hand, relaxing and
just skipping it and this two, guys, it does take a lot of practice too, to skip this with this fine
lace finish, I could not skip this if I just use the basecoat material, not me. I'm pretty good but I
can't do that. not and I couldn't do it well where when is painted it wouldn't be noticeable.
So you got to have your, you got to know your cements, guys. A lot of stuff about this trade that takes a lot of years.
I remember Lou, when we first started doing this seven years ago, he said, man, how come you're showing everybody all the secrets? Nobody's going to hire us! I said, "secrets," nobody wants to do this hard hard work that takes so many years to learn, so we show you, folks, how we do it, and what you can do is the lath, scratch, and brown.
But certain things you're not going to learn just by watching the video, and this is one of them, anyhow what I do is I match this we match it we get it all pretty, get it where we think we want it then the last thing is guys, is to feather it in. Okay, you take your trowel, clean it, clean it real well, Now, a light touch I'm going to barely, barely hold it, if
I hold it tight and put serious strength on it, it's going to push this into it, it's not going
to match, if I hold it real gentle, like a wee baby and just barely touch it that does it, guys.
You don't have to look, that does it, just really really light and what you don't want to do is knock it down to flat,
you want to just right, like in that old fairy tale. The three bears, that one is too heavy this one is
too fine, this one is just right. So to get it just right guys, it does this does take practice in a
good eye, you get it just right, and if I myself do something else, I say man, I screwed that up, I just
redo it and make it right.
Anyway, my name is Kirk, Jason is on the camera we thank you guys for watching and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one. also guys Jason has just signed us up to Amazon
affiliates because we get so many calls where do you buy all these tools and material besides going
to the plastering yard, so you just click on any other thumbnails or look in the description and
you can just hit a link, boom you're at where we purchase our own things I personally don't make
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I'm concerned. Jay makes a few bucks like that's another story. Anyhow you folks want to see where
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