howdy folks kirk and jay here with kirk giordano plastering today what i'm going to show you guys
is fella he skimmed this and he didn't do that great of a job but he did the best he
could under the circumstances we are this wall here should be level this is about an inch proud
we broke all the stucco excess stucco around the window off and it was pretty proud it was out to
about right here now notice here's the thing this wall here you see this gap uh if you look down
there's a there's a gap here where this wall is here and then this is proud by a half inch to
an inch i took a hammer and i broke this part out here because it was so far out the idea is
if you're going to leave it leave the stucco on and try to fix the texture is
to bring your glue or bonding agent we put a weld creta just a bonding agent over far enough where
i'm going to skim this a little bit past here a little bit proud i've got to go past his work
in order to feather in so that when i'm done it all blends in well so what i'm going to do is
i'm going to show you how to fix this nasty part down here that's that one's pretty beat up and i'm
just going to pull it out of my bucket here and guys i'm using a premium mix all that is is just
sand and cement now this is a little loose on the top it's been setting now for about an hour
because we're doing other things but let me get this watery stuff off and then i'll get back to
making it look a lot easier and what i'll do now guys is
all right this this bucket had a ton of water on the top almost done with that ton of water
and because i was doing other things it set up a little bit
you might say what kind of cement are you using well i'm using premium premium is a mixture of
plastic and common at the material yard common is in red bags and plastic is usually
in orange bags and two you might have noticed that i'm using a huge trowel
this is just the trial i prefer guys it's a 20x5 i don't recommend anybody use a trowel like this
but it's not really the trowel it's your skill with what you're doing guys
if you're going to use a child it was 16 by 5 a 12 by 5 is standard issue of your union but
12x5 i dropped too much mud because i put a lot on and i have four inches here forges
on the other side and when i hit the wall it stays on the wall so basically
boy, we let this mud set. It doesn't matter, guys if i have soupy mud, i'll make it work if
i have stiff mud I'll make it work, and right now, we're doing so many other things that
this mud has been mixed for about an hour it's kind of a drag to use, but oh kirk can use it
i'm a professional, so I'll take this just beat up mud and still use it all right. Generally,
you mix the mud guys you put it on immediately. This uh, i'm looking at it thinking,
man that's set a little too long, but nothing i can't handle, so again, what i'm doing here is
just doing the bottom i'm going to put this big trowel away because this mud is a little hard
and get a trowel that i could work with a little bit better for this top piece here okay
i'm gonna round this off
and as soon as i get this
if you've got bad mud sometimes guys it's best to pull it up bad mud just means it's set a while
just pull it up pull it up get it on that tape that tape is going to be
removed in about 15 minutes anyhow so i'm going to take the rest of this mud put it on here
jay's gonna put the camera down in a minute and he is going to mix me up some new mud fresh mud
as i say this set quite a while but nothing i can handle
all right jay you want to put that down what we'll do folks i'm going to spread this whole thing out
then when i'm done i'll show you how we float it to match this particular texture here too
okay guys we've spread it all out and we are where the joint is about about three quarters thick
and here's what i'm doing i already uh floated all this
a green sponge float a lot of water guys see that a lot of water okay i tap it spin it tap it and
you don't want to slam it here because you'll bend this the wrong way so just tap it in here guys
now the transition the joint is what you want to get first note this this is a heavy sand finish
with a lot of water you can tell a lot of water because you can see all the float line pattern
first let's get our joint okay get that joint when it starts to drag it's starting to drag
that means there's too much cement in this float so we take the cement out into the water bucket
we just get our transition once that's done it's starting to drag so i'm going
to put it in the bucket now then you just take it upward because i
i had the mud sitting in those buckets for over an hour so some of it was stiff some of it was
inconsistent so i'm pulling it straight up to deal with that issue
a big deal with uh doing what we're doing is is knowing your cements knowing how long
you got and if they give me soupy cement i know how to work that if they give me stiff
cement i know how to work that sometimes i'll send it back sorry guys uh remix it
but we try to avoid that we just use what we got and that takes practice so what i'm doing here is
i'm just floating everything out i'm going to pull that red tape shortly too okay for just
the sake of pulling that i'll go this way now i'll take it horizontal and watch this move guys okay
where that tape is now i'm going to get all the mud off of this clearing this mud getting it all
off of this float tapping it out spinning it tapping it out then where that tape is i got
two clean sides here i'll take one clean side go this way spin it around take the other clean side
spin it around and bullnose it in bull nose that guy in now technically i'm ready to pull that tape
and i'll show you what happens if we get any holidays around when i pull that tape
i've got a clean float so what i'll do is pull this guy off
and any holidays, we'll clean it up. This is a blue tape, not a weld crete,
so take it to take my float. Come around here at the edge, clean it up a little bit
same on the bottom here we have to bullnose this out just a hair you're not going to see it
visually, but if you put a two by four, you'll see it we just bull nose that out because we
are going over a mighty proud finish and we just do like so guys here we pull it
up to pull it up to pull it up and on the side here i just keep with that anyway guys you see
how it's done it's a lot of water a lot of practice we make it look a bit easier, but
that's what we do for a living anyway my name is kirk i'm with kirk giordano plastering
we thank you, folks, for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one
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