Howdy folks, Kirk and Jason,
here with kirk Giordano plastering. How many of you guys have got old
houses to say from 1920 that have these guys right here, and what are these plaster casts.
How they make them is they get a form of rubber, and they put this powder down put
then add the cement, throw a couple pieces of rebar in there let it set.
Then they flip those over, and they put these on houses. Then, they just take them
and put them on the stucco with bonding agents.
These days or in the last 40-50 years, they make these still out of styrofoam.
Now to have this one custom made out of styrofoam, leat says you're gonna pay
six to a thousand bucks, because they say, oh we have to make a template, they're not
going to say we already have that template. They're going to say we have to make it,
so it will cost you eleven twelve hundred bucks for something like this.
Anyway, Dan, we've done a lot of work for Dan in the past with my buddy here. So what we're
going to do is, over here, and give you an idea. This one comes off, so they took it off
so that we're going to do the same with this one here, oh it's cracking right here,
and then we have this joint here where it comes down about a half-inch so.
What Jason's already done is he's pressure washed. This is Jay's job. I'm just coming
over here, playing around. So, you pressure wash this,
then we're going to put a bonding agent from here to here and put and skim coat of cement over it.
Then float it out and give it that exact same finish.
Where the crack is right there, we'll put some caulking in that and just float it,
so this will be like it'll have these cornices or corbels or whatever you want to call them.
You'll have these three on each side, but this one is going, it's goner,
and this one going to be gone now too. I'm looking at this, and I
thought, let's see, uh, it looks pretty beat up. This is how I would take it off, guys you can
do this you could take a hammer and just pop that right off right here, or you could take
what we use now we use a battery operated roto Milwaukee and use skill rather than muscle, but
this doesn't look like it's going to need a lot of muscle, let me manhandle it, well that was easy.
Beautiful, so here's your rebar, and it's so old that I was going to cut it right here, but it
looks like I'll be able to get that out okay. What they did is they placed these molds
right over the paper, so we're good, we're outstanding, Jason's gonna pop this piece off here
several ways to do it guys you can put a hammer under here and pop this off,
or you can just do it like that either way works. Anyway, we're going to go ahead and
finish doing the prep work on this. We're going to lath this,s then, we're going to
do this exactly like we're doing here and you know while we're on the subject, guys my buddy
Dan here we were talking about these guys going to space, and I thought what did they achieve?
Tell me, guys, what did they achieve? The guys who went into space did they perform
something like this where it takes 20 years of skill and knowledge to know this stuff, or did
they pay for a seat that costs about five thousand dollars to sit on, and pay and just fly there and
fly back, what's the achievement? I don't get it. What's the achievement guys, you tell me
what that achievement is. They didn't create art. They didn't create this, that mowing a lawn takes
more skilled than what they did. They're just rich. They sat in the seat.
I bring this up because I talked to my buddy Dan, just now and he says I
don't know what they achieved. So I said, "I don't know what they achieved either, man."
Anyway, we're going to put this back. When we get to that point, we'll show you a little bit more.
Okay, guys, let me tell you where we're at while we put this back together.
Luuuu's mixing up some mud, and we went ahead and feathered that out over there, and remember guys,
we were going one inch there and then a quarter-inch over that.
So the transition has got to be true and plumb,
I if I put a two by four up there, I'll be able to tell, but by eye, you shouldn't notice it here.
We know this has got a lot of accelerators in here. So what do the accelerators do? That makes
the stucco set in 5 minutes to 10 minutes to 20, depending on when we want it set.
I want it to set in five. Okay, guys, now what we're doing here is just building it back up.
Get up there when we defy gravity like that. We pull it up into it.
All right, so we're coming here and if you would have noticed
what I had here was a piece of corner aid doubled up we put, Sika-flex caulking too,
that's what that white stuff was, to seal this corner here and we put a bonding agent on, the
bonding agents all the way to here so I still have got to take this stucco over to here.
The same deal, guys. We are going an eighth of an inch over this right here because
we want it all to be so-called cosmetically pretty.
Okay, it's got to be kind of true and level every which way, even if it's not really.
That means a lot of elbow grease, guys. When you're putting accelerated stucco over
already hard stucco, you gotta use a lot of elbow grease. It just means about 20 pounds of pressure.
So we take it here, and here now the bottom part same deal put it push it on tight
get that stuff on there tight I'm using a big trowel, so it takes a little bit more muscle.
But that's okay, I got that in an abundance of that, we created I made this corner right here,
that's so I didn't have to make this, but if you guys don't have a corner accessible. You think,
dang, I don't want to go all the way to home depot or lowes just for a measly corner. Here's what you
can do. You put some on here. put it here,
there, and a little bit at the top,
get that up, get that in there, get that on the top, then you could cheat use your hawk
along with the trowel,
take it and go over here. You take your hawk and make that corner put it here,
come up. That didn't work out so well.
Boom, and remember this is accelerated, so it's setting pretty fast, pretty hard to
get that little bit of stuff ou,t and
now, we are almost at that stage right there where it's ready to be floated.
There's
a little bit left in this bucket, and that's about all we'll need,
and then we'll float this up and show you the final product.
All right, guys, we're putting an ending on this will float bucket get that water on, then float
tap it out and what we do is remember where we have an inch and a half basically, we have a
quarter-inch to an eighth right here, so what we want to do is the corner we want to take it
straight up on that corner and pull it, in fact, there's a lot of water on this float right now
so while it's the wettest, we want to work on that corner, and we'll take it while it's the wettest
because while it's wet. It cleans in a minute it's going to fill up with
this aggregate, the sand you might say well Kirk, how is that stucco, "kirk's the best"
here there's there because we are going an inch and a half here and there we're just lightly
going over it so we're going to get out that happy smiley face, and I'm just doing that to show you,
it gives you a better idea so you can understand when to float it
because some people say when do you float it? When do you use the sponge flow? It's a sponge
float with a handle a stucco sponge float. When do you actually take that stucco sponge float and hit
it? I could almost hit it when I put it up, even if it's runny, no, but let it set a little bit.
Okay, I got a brand float, now there's no more grit or sand on here, so I'm going to touch the
corner again. Naturally, I'm always hitting the corner with a clean float, so I want that corner
straight, so I'm coming here, and I'm pulling it up to see where this gouge is. It's that big hole
right there; it's a humongous hole, we're going to take it. I'm going to go like this and fill it,
then go back up and pull it in this way. What happens if I pull it out that way?
I'd show you, but we're in a hurry. It'll just take the whole corner off, so don't do that.
Anyway, what we're doing is finishing up, and if you guys got any holes, you see it,
and you say, hey, there's some flow marks. What are float marks? Float marks are lines that don't
look like a dash finish. It's a light, light, light dash, so light dash they spray it on it
doesn't have float marks are lines, so what you do is you wet your float again
and get rid of those float marks just lightly hitting it with a lot of water take it any which
way but get that float marks off because a light dash like that doesn't have float marks anyway.
I've got about another minute or two here, but I'm going to stop rambling.
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