hello there folks Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering today we are in beautiful San Jose this
fella emailed me photographs of this particular wall that he wanted to get fixed and when I say
fixed he wants the textured blended now when I looked at it on on my computer I knew right away
why and my wife is looking at it's just an OK guy yes see why he wants to get it done it looks like
it'll match the mask I said here's what I see Mike my eyes a little bit more trained they used to
have a patch right here right here and I could see this off of the computer off of the screen I said
now this patch didn't blend in with dispatch this is a twenty thirty finish this track home area we
used to work track homes many years ago I know what I'm looking at so this is a twenty thirty
it's done with a la habra or western it's done with a twenty thirty material that's medium so
anyway you got a they colored this and then they textured it here they put on the brown coat and
actually it's kind of hollow now that I mean I'm just here for the first time and I'm looking at
it it's Wow looks hollow to me but kind of come Caves in you but anyway what we're gonna do is
we're gonna color coat this entire wall and when I say color coat I'm just gonna use a la habra
material in order proper word would be skim coat I'm gonna skim coat this entire wall so in order
to prep this for skim coat I've got to either use my pressure washer here which I brought and
take five minutes to pressure wash this wall or I could use wire brush and scrape it for about
thirty minutes I'm an oppression wash it's a lot faster then once we get this wall prepped this is
painted this is porous sealed porous so there'll be a different texture if I don't bond at all
consistently so I'm going to put weld Cree twelve creep made by Larsen's it's just a bonding agent
see this green stuff that's also a bonding agent I don't know what brand because there's so many I
lose track I can't keep up with how many bonding agents there are but I prefer well create it's
it's just the one I use is well proven that it works so after we prepped this wall we're gonna
apply wealth cream one coat of well Pete over this diluted two to three coats over this non
diluted that'll get the suctions very similar so this doesn't suck up dog the skin coat which even
Danning to change the texture then we're going to come we're gonna set this that we're going
to apply skin coat over everything we're gonna take off some of these heavier things because the
clinkers here on the skin because our color our color coat when we apply that it'd be tough to
float that it we're gonna spread it load it in and then give this gable wall a uniform texture kind
of technical stuff and I could see all this off of the computer just like when I went to Google
and said this is 45 minutes away from my house in fact we're two hours away from my house but we're
kind of stay green this fella emailed me I saw I was able to look at it I don't mind the four hour
drive because I'm just here to do the job not coming out here for hours then going home and
wondering if I got the job so show you one last thing before we even get started this wall here
I got everything I need on this Chuck here this Chuck I welded all this stuff to accommodate it so
I'm making one trip here that's all one trip I got everything and and then beyond what I need this
finish here this is a brown coat and the fella did a pretty nice job with the Skip trowel finish the
thing is this is all uniform so it's not gonna matter they have actually quite a few different
finishes here but we won't go into that this is uniform so no we're not going to color code or
apply a skim over this we're only gonna apply the skim here because again this thought realizes we
didn't get a real good visual this finish here is so different I I could look at it and say man
they if they painted this - here it is gonna be an incredible icing because it just doesn't match
I mean this you can't match a Portland finish with a La Habra finish some guys are real good and they
can get close but there's no way I can't even get on the money so we're gonna go ahead and fix this
Alright, guys, you know from that nasty scaffolding I can share love it better what
we're doing. I couldn't like the stagger, but I'm looking at what they have behind me, and they're
going pretty much up and down, so I mean, I can take it sideways a little bit sometimes I do,
but I'll follow their pattern. I won't leave a straight line when I first start my own
we've seen 10 times it's almost every holiday what ah you know how to do it texture right can't
correct it whereas I take a straight edge you do still not see it but why I you shouldn't see it
Okay, guys, fun part cleanup leaving we gave the moles they're a heavy float finish the match these
bolts that are a heavy flow finish we're doing a heavy flow finished anyhow to cover all the
imperfections this finish here is very, very forgiving so a heavy finish on it I was gonna
go with 20/30. Still, I ended up with a 16/20 because it covered everything. This whole wall
can be left like this forever. Of course, they're gonna paint it. Still, you never see that unless
you put a rod up to it that it's a bit off. Anyhow you guys again, we're in San Jose. Do me
a favor and email me pictures. It helps me stay green. I don't have to drive way out powers out
of my way. We just come and do the job. My name is Kirk with kirk giordano plastering.
Jason and my son Dan will be getting out of here, so as usual, we'll see you guys at the next one.