Hi, guys. Kirk and Jay are here with Kirk Giordano plastering today. What we want to show you,
folks is the difference between, well, say here, an Adobe finish which is about 10-15 coats of
paint on it and a house about a hundred years old and newly built fence pillar now this one's close,
but it can use a little bit of dr. enough to get it smooth like this I'll show you an easy
way to do that now this is more of a heavy skip trial or a heavy adobe this is a softened adobe
I'll show you how I do it guys now there's a lot of bonding agents you could use or liquid
lath and I'm just using this clear one you put this clear stuff on you can't even see
its own good stuff then generally what I'll do is I'll take some cement Tisha's finish
and a couple ways you guys can do this just to prove a point since you're on that side
see all these gaps in here I'm just gonna feel I could skim it real quick I'll show you both
ways or I can just pass in these gaps here where the Skip trial is they not even sure
certain myself which way is faster I'm gonna hit them both ways okay we fill this in all we're
doing is we're filling in the areas that have too much of a skip trial finishing not enough
of what they have here they originally could have started are something similar like this
but after a hundred years and many many paint jobs later they are too soft this one's just
too textured now I can do that or I can come over here and just put it a little heavier and cover a
little bit more because it is an Adobe talked about Adobe finishes is they're very forgiving
here lastly we're gonna soften up these edges soften up that and get rid of that okay now
what I would do is there's just a little spot right here after you've got got it built out
and smooth down a bit then you take a green sponge float with water on it like at this
you see that water there okay now we look at this and since the cameras right here I'll
just feather this in and I'm just gonna go in circles all I want to do guys is soften this
up a little bit if it softened up a little bit then it'll match what they have much better it's
the equivalent to Oh 1020 coats of paint this is just a lot faster so take it there and when this
this sponge float starts to drag that means it's got too much cement on it and not enough you got
to clean it not enough water so it's starting to drag right now I got one whole side of that
pillar you know what that's good enough so what I do now notice how soft and that is now that
is pretty much well it's a lot closer than what was there it's on the money almost to what they
have because they did use the float okay so I'm gonna clean my float one more time get all of
that Portland cement off of there okay and now I'm gonna hit this side right here and again I
want to just soften the look so I know where the water is on this float as you see me just turn
it because I don't want to start dripping all over the play this this part right here makes a
little bit of practice guys we make it look easy and we're supposed to make it look easy because
this is what I do for a living there's a reason I don't show how to fix plumbing or electricity
that reason is I don't know how but I do know how to do this stuff anyway guys there you have it
Much softer now, and this will adhere forever because we do have that liquid lath on there.
Get out your way, and you could see that all right top looks pretty good, so we don't have
to mess with that backside. I'll get in a minute, but now notice how much softer it is. It still has
all the grooves and humps and bumps, but it's much softer now. In fact, it's just a floated finish on
some of the areas here, so anyhow, my name is Kirk. I am with Kirk Giordano plastering Jason
on the camera, and also, as usual, we thank you for watching, and we'll see you guys on the next
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