Hi guys, Kirk Jayson and Lou here, with Kirk giordano plastering, today we're going to do
today is, we're going to show you guys we're going to give you some tips on how to skim coat
cinderblock walls, now I look at this, and soon as I saw it,I told the homeowner, I said, whoa, you put
a regular Portland cement plaster here without sand didn't you? for all the joints, and he says
yeah, how could you tel?l I said well I could see it, and it's cracked like an egg everywhere.
You're supposed to add some sand, guys, if you're going to try to skim coat this. I also notice
that since they don't sell this bullnose right here, that I'm aware of in this particular shape
and size they took a grinder and you grind it off every edge and there's 12 of these there's
a bunch in the backyard there's a bunch here, I asked him gee, how did your neighbors like
you after you did that? he said they all hated me, what happens was when you grind off the concrete with
a grinder it puts dust everywhere; guys don't do it. Its real dusty job but anyway, he says, well
I'm having a hard time making it adhere, so what I told him is we'll do it, and here's a trick guys
a technique, trade secret, a common-sense, issue I've got cement right here this is cement plaster it's
Portland cement plaster, add some lime, I put a bag of lime in this why, because this wall
is hot, and depending on how hot it is we want to take a hose and mist it just but if it's running
water after you mist it, that's too much water right now we had to pressure wash these because
he ground them down, he grounded all the corners so the dust goes into the grooves here, into all
these divots and the plaster will not adhere. Nothing adheres to dust, guys, not paint, primer,
not cement so what we're doing here is we're going to skim this, the best way to skim it
is again put the lime in your plaster remember that old song, put the lime in the coconut, drink them
both together, you put the lime in the plaster and it'll help it stick better, watch this here guys.
Okay, up big rock you get a rock here's what you want to do, for us, we want to skim it I'm going
to get that corner in a minute what we do first guys is we skim coat everything and then we get
our corners after we get our middles and we got rock storm out okay there we go now when we go
to for our quarter, this is a little tricky guys which we want to start from the bottom,
Okay, we want to start putting it on here start put a little bit here, and if it drops it's okay get
a little bit here a little bit there, there and we continue to go up and then we're going to
take the other side in a minute now we take this side over here and just kind of turn it and there
you go you got it on both sides hit it here you got it on both sides because that other side is
holding this. okay, we put it that way pull it up here you can do it this way a lot of ways to do
these corners, guys let's share another technique in a second, and what we want to achieve here is we
want crooked, we want our corners crooked, because we're matching what's over on this other side so
say for example here here's another way to do this guy's squeeze over here put it here here
here and if I really wanted these corners straight I can do this. I can put the plastic here and pull
it up but that's making it way too straight we want divots we want imperfections in it so I'm
going to take it back here take it here and put some humps in it. Another rock, what's up with that?
Here pull it here, boom boom boom then one last a little piece, okay now remember what we're after
guys, we're after an adobe look, and we wanted he, wanted kind of ugly he wanted, Humpty and bumpy
and jagged and sandy, so what I'm going to do. is I'm allowing us to set while we do these other
twelve, we got a whole bunch more of these to do guys so in order to match that finish right there,
we've got to let this sit what happens if I hit this too soon with water, well if I hit this too
soon with water, it won't match that it'll it'll be too gritty it won't it won't have that painted
look if I hit this right now with water it's a lot of work, so what we'll do is we'll allow the
sun and time to do the work and than what it'll do is, it'll dry this it'll turn white it'll start
to turn this color here but when it starts to turn that color we take a float with water and
we hit it real easy, we close our eyes and hit it so the idea is to put it on no your cements and
then when it starts to lighten up then you hit it with the water to achieve what we're after
so another half hour we'll come back to this and show you how to do that. All right guys well show
you some more of this. We kind of lost it, the weather dictates what we have to do, it
right now it's really hot and so you can see it's turning white right here, when it's turning white
you're kind of lost it. Well here's a tip guys when you are doing blocks brick or anything, and you go
up don't pull this off right here because you pull that you pull your own finish off. Instead cut it
like this that way you leave the tops on they're going to put caps on these right here and when
they put the caps I don't want a bunch of big gaps yeah we kind of got beat up on this, we went to a
a material yard that sells sand gravel rock you name it, it sells it and they had a lot of rocks
in this stuff, I'd call them and complain but they will say, Kirk, stop whining and handle it. Normally
when I go to my material yards say like Westside they just sell Felton sand and Oly, so you don't
get any rocks in the sand. When they use the tractor to dump it, but anyway guys you can tell
it's getting at the end of the day because I don't want to bend down. I've got a bucket on
a bucket here's what I do let me get over here and take that bucket off the bucket to really show you
Okay, a lot of water guys, a lot of water drip it down let it drip down see I don't mind all this
water dripping down, you see, because that saturates everything and we want, oh oh okay we want a lot of
water just like that, Because I got to bring this back to life and notice, notice I'm using all the
water that's dripping down it and I'm pulling it back up because, it's hot it's really hot
it's about 95 maybe 100. I don't know, another tip to guys is I put some lime in this because we're
going over all of those surfaces that you use the grinder on them in and they're like glass
so the regular Portland cement has kind of a hard time sticking to surfaces that are really smooth.
like that you could put a bonding agent over just the corners or you could use a little bit of lime
and while I'm on the subject of lime there's lots of kinds of limes we got regular bags of
lime you also got this kind of lime right here it's a BMI with fibers type of lime you you
could use that on this - there's a lot of kind of limes to use. Generally, I just buy lime in a
bag and put it with Portland, and it's very rare that I'll do that on something like this because
usually, I'm just using shape Portland, and when I'm going over bricks I'll sometimes go to one.
What is two to one mean? That means twice as much sand as cement, then when we're going over walls
we're going three two one, that means, three times as much sand as cement plaster. So like doing
ceilings too, you want it a little bit richer so that it will stick. because this cement has,
a cinder block brick concrete it has the tendency to want to draw the moisture right out here. Unless
you really know what you're doing-especially on a hot day like like today is. Its pretty hot. Anyway
guys, you see where we're going with this and by the way, if you guys ever want jagged corners
leave them alone because all we'd have to do is put mud on each side, and we can get jagged corners
easy when he took a grinder and grind all this down, it not only created a lot of dust for him
and his neighbors, but it made our job tougher it's easier for us to actually get a sporadic
or wavy corners if you just leave the corners on. I don't want this homeowner to know that, because
he'll say dang, dude, if Id had known that I'd have saved a lot of time. Anyway, my name is Kirk, Jason on the
the camera, you see where we're at right here we got to put a closing in on it because it is getting
way too hot we still have more columns to go we thank you for watching and as usual we'll
see you guys on the next one.
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