howdy folks kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering today I'm gonna show you something
that I get asked often just little itty bitty area here well the folks on the place weren't
sure how we're the heck we were gonna get stucco in there and I said no problem he says should we
remove the trim first no not at all several ways to get stucco in there guys and we are leaving a
half inch lip here I could fill it or I can throw it in either way works I'll show you almost and
it doesn't matter forget anything on here okay at the bottom I'll fill it and you feel it tight
enough that's a real deep hole right there so you gotta feel it tight enough otherwise it'll keep
sliding off and don't worry about being clean guys because no such thing as being clean here when you
have a hole that's 2 inches deep okay that's one way to do it I'll show you another way I'm just
gonna grab some mud here all right another way of doing it is throwing it in either way it's
fine guys you take it you throw it in the same same idea applies you have to throw it in thick
otherwise it's just gonna fall right out throw it in thick and then you can cut it back I can
use a trowel and cut it back or one of the fellows were saying well don't you need a wing tool a wing
Tolan like that you could use a wing tool but you don't really need to do that I'll show you let me
get these other couple little bits of stucco in it and again because I'm working 2 inches thick
I'm gonna put it extra full by putting it extra full it avoids the drop out so otherwise it's
gonna continue dropping out what happens if you start at the top and work down it just falls out
all the time because the bottom needs to hold the top okay so I'm gonna finish doing this top piece
and all you're doing is putting a little bit of stucco on the trial okay once you got it where
you need it now you take any trial guys any trial will work what I'll generally do is I'll take my
trial now on the edge and just push it in there tight once you got it in there tight take a margin
trowel he's coming all sizes from long ones short ones fat ones me what I'll do is because this one
is about the right depth I'll use my finger as a template I'll take it wherever I can okay about
right there now my finger is a template to give me the gauge to go straight up and give me that
half inch that I'm looking for okay now throw that excess there step up here and I'm still holding
that my finger to give me that half inch template it doesn't have to be pretty now because it still
has to be floated okay we got that half inch now here I'm going to take this and go a little
tighter now I'm going to turn it at an angle so I'm going to turn it out of angle and still get
that half inch you know how to use your tools guys you've been doing this for a while it's a piece
of cake okay so once you got it where you you're happy with it then you use a float okay right here
this is a heavy finish so I buy these by the box guys about 100 in a box you buy them separately
they're like 5 bucks buy them in a box at like 3 you put it on the ground and you can just step on
it and do whatever you want they're throwaways but what I did is I got a pretty little float because
I wanted it easier I just cut the inside out with my handy dandy snips now what I'll do is I'll dip
this in water why do I have to dip it in water because if I don't it'll just drag that now if
you want to make the wall pretty first you can do this or you can use a rag and make the wall
pretty first is it necessary not really guys but since I'm showing you I figure I'll make it pretty
okay now what you're going to do is I bent this out a certain angle where the extra sponge is at
the edge here so I'm gonna take take it and put it in here and just just as I was doing earlier
use my common sense and a little bit of practice and use my eyeball to bring it upward if I go down
what happens guys it falls off the wall okay there there now that actually matches pretty good but of
course I'm gonna go over it a couple more times and pretty it up even further than that but these
guys these little sponge floats here you can do whatever you want you could improvise what we do
is all about improvising you look at something and you figure out a way to do it use the same
existing tools that we have you don't need to go with anything fancy or special and there it
is that's a done deal if you really want to get fancy you take your regular sponge float now and
I can take it sideways here and pull it up but I'm just gonna clean this up right here for just for
the camera and you guys get an idea of how to get into a tight area the same tools just improvise
alright guys end of the day we just had a lot of work to do on the other side figured I'd show one
last thing okay the float that actually brought it to a float finish it brought to stand out but
it didn't give it this dash finish we mixed up some soupy mud dip the dash brush in there and
flung it on there just like that then cleaned everything up I figured I'd show you guys that
because there's always some sharp guy who'll say hey that's a float finish but the wall is a dash
and I'd say right on the money guys anyhow see how easy it is even you folks can do it anyway
my name is Kirk Jason on the camera long day as usual we thank you for watching we'll see guys
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