Howdy folks, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today we're going to
show you an alternative method to instead of say going through all the household with a CMU
wall or cinderblock or concrete block or even brick wall if you want to stucco it there's 25
different ways to do that and keep in mind too there's a reason why a lot of us plasters are
kind of thin you take my skinny arse and you bend down a lot guys you can just rip your pants so you
better be on the ball and slim if you're gonna be doing this for a living today we're gonna do
something different we're gonna stucco a wall and the camera may show what's in back of this
3.8 high rib laughs we've got four by four sunk in the ground and they were crossmembers and why
are we doing it with this because this fella is a friend of mine and he says well Kirk what I'm
gonna do is I'm gonna dig down two feet I'm gonna set CMU blocks cinder block concrete blocks all
mean the same thing we're gonna set it here we're gonna rebar it we're going to fill it
with concrete and I thought why and he says well we want a structurally strong wall and
I said why I mean it sounds to me like you're trying to build a Vatican wall I mean why not
go 40 feet high like a telephone pole like there's anyway he says well you got a better way to do it
I said I got 50 ways to do it if you want to save some time and money and effort he says what would
you recommend us well stick some four-by-fours in it pressure-treated go down two feet and I'll do
it for you for nothing man you're my buddy oh so that's what we're doing what I found myself
this is a second take because I was whispering and J says yeah why are you whispering we got
eight hives over here they're beehives and we're here earlier and they got steered up and he says
dude they're swarming you got to leave and I said man once we got mud going we can't leave I can't
throw away a whole wheelbarrow or a whole mixer full of mud so we're trying to be cautious and
not piss these bees off anyway I have my guy he's gonna come here and load these boards up
gently and what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and skin these walls at first we're gonna
match the color of the block and he says well we can't do that we're gonna do something else
I said I'll tell you what once we skim coat this we could put lines in it to match the block or we
can match pyramid blocks like put three lines and then come vertically every other line and
make it look like pyramids and finally he said Kirk what we want to do is we're going to paint
a mural on it and I said okay if you want to do that what we'll do is we'll skim it will float
it hard rubber float then we'll steel trowel it now generally guys as a rule if you steel
trowel plaster you're gonna get some hairline cracking but on this just like cinderblock brick
it's unlikely to get hairline cracking and even if it cracks that's not a big deal I tell most
folks even if it cracks all you have to do is put a little caulking in it or buy a quality
paint like Sherwin Williams and to flood the cracks cracking it's not a big deal guys it
is a simple minor thing to repair with good quality paint okay guys I'll show you some
of the something else to you you could save a lot of money by the way to do it this way but
if you the idea is to press just right and when I say press just right notice there's not a lot
dropping here's and this is good mud it's perfect mud for this again notice there's not a whole lot
of mud dropping so I'm not wasting a lot why because I know how to to mix two adjacent we
got a good mix here here's it if you don't know what you're doing you'll do this and you see a
lot of that mud drop you'll push too much pressure and it drops down right now I got a very rich mix
because if it's rich I won't lose too much what's happening behind here it's Qian so its mushrooming
in back of that what we're gonna do because it's two fences when we're done we're gonna go behind
and try that key and down anyway that's that is what we are doing guys so I'm gonna get back to
it because we got a lot of stuff to do here and we're trying not to piss off them bees and again
keep in mind this is just an alternative way it's an alternative way guys to make a structurally
sound wall at a much cheaper cost and labor intensive than using the CM you box okay guys
we are continuing with our adventure the camera is been well we're stopping and going because
when the bees get pissed off that's their way of saying I ain't happy if they happy we ain't
happy we just had a big swarm and I just keep recalling what the homeowner said that he was
up in a tree shaking a queen bee out and he got stung 120 times that's what they pulled out of
him so I know there's a bee friendly guy who watches our video and a couple other bee guys
they'll probably be the only ones who thinking hey I know what he's talking about with me I'm not I'm
not too worried about him I have I know when to stop and when to start but anyway again the whole
theme of this was to show you a different way that you could stucco a fence a wall anything
and save a little bit of money save a lot of money actually because the CMU that gets expensive and
it's very hard labor for most people because CMU is not very the cinder blocks anyhow as we keep
moving Jays gonna help me we're gonna bottom up and give these guys a chance to relax over here
because I see him start a swarm again we pick a great day for this we need a cold rainy day
but we improvise that's why if ice he said listen if you hear them swarming and I thought this ears
doesn't hear it well but I could hear oh so we're gonna turn that camera off and we're gonna try to
scratch scratch this whole thing and possibly Brown it and then show you how we float it and
steel trowel it alright guys what I'm doing we're putting our second coat on and fat and ugly guys
ugly that means I'm gonna Darby this anyhow and so if I have excess mud on here that's good because
I don't want it thin so I just always like to put it on fat and ugly that's him like my brother Lu
stop it all right fat and ugly around the bees we don't want to piss these bees off again fat
and ugly I'll show you why after I put two more of these guys off right here one one more that ugly
Yeah, we got a stretch of it. Oh, that is nothing a little too high for me. Come on,
stretch it just one more time. I'm gonna move this part with Darby. I'm just putting this
excess mud where I could use it all right Darby time we're always wet the Darby wet enough okay
we're going to take this mud here move it around stretch for that top all my tiptoes stretch boy
my tiptoes okay now we just straighten this middle section out that gives you a pretty
full wall by the time this is set you got a lot of stress going on here it would happen
to be about a hundred today and so what we do is we wet the walls prior what you guys aren't
seeing is me missing these walls over and over because I don't want it to set all right guys
different day we took a little break the being said hey Kurt I give you honey for
your team but don't get too near us anyway we had up I wasn't initially just going to
do a steel trowel finish but he was doing a mural here and we left for a short period so that we
didn't get stung and now we're back a different day and since I had a few joints in here stucco
waits for no man and it doesn't wait for be easy either so when we left left a few holidays here
and there nothing we can't handle so what we're doing now is I'm just putting another finish on
top of this finish because what we want to do is give it a somewhat smooth finish I wanted to do
this steel trowel finish for the mural I mean now now granite guys this is gonna get painted anyway
so if it's gonna get painted anyway it doesn't matter imperfections they don't really matter
so what we're doing is I'm using AA it's called the Santa Barbara smooth mission finish but every
every company has their own mix and the mix is generally 30 by 30 it's that's a call to sand
that's the finest sand you can get with stucco be aware - guys this is not interior taste of
mud we're working with interior taper my doesn't have any sand in it so you could get tight and you
you can go almost like glass if you're good enough but here we're not we're not worried about making
it to to glass like and you could only trowel down sand so much guys because there's aggregate in it
anybody says oh I can right here this is smooth enough for a mural if I want to go another coat
I can make it even a lot more smoother blood it's not necessary so we're continuing with what
we're doing and I'll tell you guys for we're just traveling upon and traveling it off like I'll go
up and then I'll come back down on my joint like it's it's pretty simple I know a lot of folks they
watch what we do and say, oh gee you're not a real plasterer because using the wrong trowel, I'll
tell you guys any trowel that floats your boat use, it it doesn't matter if it's a tiny trowel or
a big trowel I'll pull trowel if it's if it makes you happy is it it's uh usually one guys say that
I'll say mail what kind of comment is that that's like plaster Envy I use a trowel I want to use
anyhow you see where we're going with this you go up and come on down and if you got a holiday
you just go right over it holidays just a term for painting if you miss a spot they call it a holiday
that's a hard steel trout finish guys
take it out put on your hawk now generally we starting and this dirts gonna come up to here
I went hide the fellows it Kirk you don't need to go that high I thought well just for the sake of
being extra cautious how about I take it a little higher that way when everything is said and done
I'd rather be nothing showing on the bottom then a big gap and again he's gonna go ahead and put
a mural on this so you guys have seen how this works there's many ways to skin a cat guys and
that just means if you want to do a cinderblock wall you can do that if you want to do stuck on
both sides of a wall you can do that there's a thousand different ways to accomplish the same
thing his idea was again with the cinderblock man that was a lot of work fortunately he has
me as a neighbor so I can come over here and do this for him anyhow guys we thank you for
watching I'm gonna finish this up and as usual we'll see guys on the next one by the way folks
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