Hello folks, Kirk and family here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today we have something
interesting we're gonna show you how to do this imitation brick imitation block imitation stone
whatever you want to call it looks like the stuff they did for the pyramids what we're doing is we
have quite a few areas like this and we're doing about six at the same time so we're gonna make
it quick this block here four foot long these are two foot and then you got various assortments on
this apartment complex you got him at angles for decorative purposes what we're going to do here
is they reinforce all those put steel beams and all that stuff anyhow the scratch coat is already
set so we're going to put another coat on now I have Malin doing that one and I'm doing this
one and basically, once we get a coat on it, I'm gonna rod it, and then I'm going to put the lines
in it a lot of the tools I have over here you might say what the heck are all those tools? well
these are Fri-rig-let's those two are expansion joints for stucco project why do I have them here
or templates because we've got 90 inches from the ground to this beam, so I sacrifice what am I fry
rig-lit that's been sitting in my, lou let me have some more mud, Lou's gonna put some more mud on here because
I use it quick guys anyway the FRA rig let's I've been sitting in my garage now for about six seven
years I figure I could sacrifice them because I haven't used them in a long time I'll show you
what I mean about the fry rig-lets when we get to that stage right now all we're doing is is
filling this out flush we fill it out flush then we rot it and as I say we are doing a whole bunch
of these at once so when you're doing so many at once you really got to know when the stucco
sets that is a huge part of what we're doing today you folks who watch us not sure scratch
it one day and come back the next day and brown it and let every coach set when you get all the
experiences like what we have you can do six out of time and do both coach on the same day
let's see I'm looking at this I'm looking at words it's thin I can pretty much see where it's then
so where it's thin I'll put another coat because what I want to do is run that Darby or rod up and
straighten it out this actually is a lot easier than it looks guys because I'll show you we have
we pretty much have guides and you guys think what the heck is a guide well it's the existing
stucco this is a guide that's my existing stucco those are going to help me get my horizontal and
vertical lines in for that so-called brickwork so what I've done here is I made this stucco a little
fatter than normal why because I want to rot it now okay gotta have a level guys for when when I
put this this piece of I've got this cut perfectly and I'll put the level on it to get my verticals
but for right now we take a Darby you guys can use a rod hell you can even use a 2x4 but if it's not
wet it won't work got a wet it I could also use a rod here I could wet this and screed it but well
the sake of doing one thing here's what I'll show you I'm gonna use this as a guide this is a guide
now what I do is I come up see that and any excess I put it here you don't have to look at the wall
you just feel it so you take it here and just feel it yeah any excess put it where you need it take
it to the bottom come up any excess right there now I'm going to do one more time to take it to
the top okay that's to the top and up here I've straighten that out here I'll show you that out
now we got a pretty choo and plumb wall one more time boom simple as can be now the next thing
we're going to do is of course I got to clean my tools when I use them guys give me a second here
to wash this and we're talking the sides and the back side these sides are real important because
if just clinkers all over the sides this darby won't work well now I'm going to use a rod can I
use the Darby yes can I use a piece of fry ringlet absolutely but this is easiest for me now again
just like anything you do out of stucco guys wet the tools if you're using a 2x4 especially with
that but two by fours have a tendency to be warped okay now I'm gonna go for my horizontal pieces and
again all I'm gonna do is I'm gonna use the do remaining and or existing stucco and I'm gonna
go into the groove okay we're start at the bottom now I'm gonna take it up and then once I get in
the groove just like that here I'm gonna get right below it go into the groove and pull it up get rid
of it here the exact same thing and here you know technically guys I let this set about an
additional 15 minutes but I can handle it right now even though it's a little wet you guys if you
ever get the opportunity to do this fun stuff let us set a little bit longer it's makes it easier
okay now there's something that I saw soon as I looked at this I thought men you know those those
gaps are almost identical to a sponge float now I would recommend you guys we're going to do this
get a new sponge float why because this sponge float here has seen better days we beat the heck
out of that so my edges aren't crisp and clear see that edge there it's clean we want to get to
get the water out of there we don't want too much water now if I had left to set another say half
hour it'd be much easier but to prove a point I'm going to show you right here and then I'm going to
let it set now this I'm simply going to follow this line here now I'm not gonna I'm gonna use
my eye and try to make it straight I could use this and make it straight but I shouldn't need
that so what I'm gonna do is come here use both hands and just don't push too hard and just just
get it a little bit of water now that did the top piece and then I take the bottom here just like
that clean the float off and then start again pull it up pull it up up and when this float gets too
much grit on it that's when you get all the sand off again I'll show you one more will come right
here and we will make this groove okay we want to go inside and we want to go flat guys because
we want to push that groove in there and here's the tricky part loading in the existing to the
new okay if I if I pull this way let me show you I pull this way what happens is I pull the joint out
right there so we always pull in to the new okay so we're taking here we pull into the existing we
take the new and we go into the existing otherwise we're gonna have right here holidays where it'll
show and sometimes what I'll do is I'll just do all these first let's just take it now right now
this float is it needs more water so we get rid of some of this stucco that has a mast on the
float why because if I leave all that stucco here it's going to drag this and it's gonna it's gonna
make my work look much harder than it actually is so with a clean float you bring it down here
get that stuff off now you start from the top and go up and we're gonna we're gonna make this
line right here this transition exactly with what they got sometimes it takes going over it once or
twice and then you come down okay I'm just going to finish these two right here just to prove a
point get it get it straight and again guys what's the sets that's a lot easier than to try to work
wet mud but I got a lot of practice so I can work the wet mud okay so we got that like so clean the
float back let me get some of this mud off it's starting to drag okay now what I'm gonna do guys
is I'm gonna let this set we are working on six of these so I'm gonna go to the other five and
we're gonna spread them out and then I'm going to come back here when this is right thing about
cement is it doesn't wait for anybody if if we're doing this you kind of have to know cement meaning
if you hit it too soon you're now you're working against it if you hit it too late it's hard as a
rock and you can't work it so that's just to prove a point because I'm already here now we're gonna
go do some more stuff then I'm going to come back I'll finish floating all these then I'll show you
how we do the vertical line which is common sense guys there's nothing to it just plain old simple
common sense we're going to put a screen here I'm going to follow it either I'll start here and I'll
put one dead center dead center dead center dead center I have to figure it out when I see it in
go from there all right guys we're doing the easy stuff now we let a set I'll set is it see that's
about where we want it just like that so I left a couple lines still here here here's what you
guys will possibly need it's just a plasters tool and what do I use this for because sometimes the
outer coat will set up a hard as the inside inner coat so I can just make it like this I just follow
the pattern and use your eye make a straight line clean it off put in your back pocket I
also like brand new floats for stuff like this I have about I buy these by the case a hundred
at a time and those are because of the edge right here I want a clean edge so what I'm doing guys
is let me fix this up real quick it's not a big deal boom that's fixed boom that's fixed simple
simple simple now for these grooves in here I'm using very little water what I do is I drop the
float in here tap it I'm using the arc of the bucket to tap it like this if I go like this
then I tweak the float because it it tends to bend in so using the inner bucket and getting the water
out now okay I'll start about here and all I'm doing guys is I'm bringing some of the sand out
and then I flip it flip it the other way because that that edge is dirty come this way then I just
take it down cuz I want to leave that lip leave that lip on there and take it up leave their lip
alone and if you get got you get areas that don't look heavy or don't look sandy enough put a little
water leave it in and go over it a little bit more water that brings the sand out okay so last
one right here we are gonna take add and come this way and because we are doing a whole bunch
of these we're going to show you the next stage on another wall that I have set up because we're
almost done with all of these entryways and yeah we do a whole bunch of things out same time guys
we have to know our cement you have to know when this is setting that's the most important thing
you got to know the cement there's one thing to be able to be an applicator but if you don't know
I know what's going on on the other four we have on the other side I know how much time I have on
those before it gets too hard where I can't float it so excuse me Madeline okay Madeline spread out
this wall J put these horizontal lines in it and all I've done guys is this fry rig lit which was
sitting in my garage for years I cut a piece off so we'll line up I measured half of the beam here
and then we have four and a half inches I put the level on it and now I'm straight so now what I did
is I took a trowel so I'm gonna put one on the top one here and when I say one I'm putting the
vertical lines in come here and I'm just using my eyeball and coming right over here and the
bottom one I mean take this off now this part is quite easy guys this is a hundred different ways
to do it guys I could use this little child here come up with it I can just use this now that I've
scored both sides this is just floating now so if I just loosen it up the only thing holding it
is the bottom piece so I'll just kind of play with it a couple times and it'll just drop right out of
there drop right out same applies here I'll play with it a couple times and it'll just drop right
out but don't we don't want most of the stuff with a job back out but if it does I just put
more in it not a big deal okay there we go and I'm gonna work my way up again here to get my
line and hit it and it'll come right out where I scored the other side nothing to it you know
Madeline my daughter I get a girl saying hey how come there's no female plasters there are Milan
as good as plaster is that any man I've worked with FAC she's stronger than most men carries two
plagues she does it all she's actually teaching in Spain right now but she's here for a while so she
agreed to help us out on a few things this is just like riding a bike once you know how to do it you
could always do it don't you don't lose it so okay now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna dig this out
now that I've got my guide I'm gonna dig it out a little bit then I'm gonna take my sponge flow man
I got a whole bunch to choose from all right we'll take this guy here and again junior Eddie put the
horizontals so now I'm gonna put the verticals in and here I'm gonna use the toe because if I
use this I'm going to work jack up my owned so I'm gonna just use the toe and the heel come
down clean it out the toe and the heel actually the toe and the heel and when it overlaps like
that just boom take it that that actually makes the line clearer and if you got to go a little
deeper with my handy dandy tool here I can just put it here and pull out a little bit more because
this one wasn't quite deep enough not a big deal pull it upward why don't it well I don't pull down
usually because it pulls the sides down so we try that again and take the toe go up and bend
the heel of it come down and then just get those where I want it right here where I might rile mess
it up I just float it again same thing here here here well it's all a matter of knowing your tools
knowing what you want to do and knowing how how much aggregate I want it to expose if I want to
expose a whole bunch more make it like a - finish I just use a lot more water if I wanted it smooth
like glass I just use a steel trowel so this is a to coach system technically and here's my last
little bit guys and then we're gonna go finish off all the rest that we've started boom there and
here and again excess water here here here well nothing to it guys if you know how to do it if you
can plaster or do taping mud you can do this this is actually I'm surprised I'm getting paid to do
this I'd do this for free it's so simple and fun anyway guys up one way up here boom forgot about
that guy there you have it that's all what they have I mean I'm gonna doctor them up a little bit
more but for the sake of this long video I'm gonna call it quits my name is Kurt Jason on the camera
boo mixing in my daughter Madeline spreading we thank you guys for watching and as usual we'll see
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