Howdy folks, Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today, we are on top
of the world. We're at about one of the highest places we've worked so far, and the reason we're
showing you this is because I want to explain something they get 100 miles an hour winds here,
maybe 110, maybe 120, so you better know what you're doing when you're working this hot you
got Tiburon San Rafael San Francisco Bridge San Francisco Oakland Lake Merritt San Jose bridge,
and there's my house right over there anyway guys we're gonna I'll show you something and
the reason I show this is because it's a cool-looking man how would you like to
look out your bedroom window or you're your evening window when you're sitting
having dinner and look out there that's working what we're doing is right here
come on down Jay anyway we're showing how to do acrylic finishes and if you do acrylic finishes
guys make sure you use the primer why because with the primer that not only seals it but it's
they don't warranty the product if you don't use the primers guy that's one of the things I
I here at the yards all the time this is it Kirk you're about the only one who uses the primer but
you're supposed to use it why because right now as soon as I'm done here I'm gonna go to another
area cuz this has got to soak in and and dry it's got a cure for a while before I can come back and
texture it what we've got going on here is we've got pieces of wood here so that we didn't drop all
the stucco and all that jazz and have to pick everything up so what you guys do is you when
you do a repair that has an acrylic finish on it and acrylic all that is is is stucco in a bucket
with sand and especially special paint which is acrylic paint so okay I'm gonna go over here can
you step back a sec Jay okay guys what we're gonna do is is that first batch we got a patch here like
to put piece of wood down here and I could hold on and stretching and plaster that I got a long
arm Staging said good but that's a little bit out of our way I'll show you something that is right
here where I don't have to stretch too far guys now when I was talking about the primer earlier
I'll show you how important the primer is because all right I'm I'm spreading stucco flex talk about
a good quality exterior stucco they don't come better than stucco flex guys now this is the
patch right here the patch is here they had a decorative beam right here it was a pretty cool
looking beam but it's seen better days so this is my patch here to here I'm gonna feather in to the
existing and yeah it's red it doesn't matter they're gonna paint the whole building so what
we're doing is all I'm doing now is I'm applying a texture guys the texture is what we call it in the
trade a light float finish that means the sand is 20 30 the 20 30 sand gives a a medium float
finish if I were to use 3030 that's smooth if I use 16 20 that is heavy so because I've got this
primer here I couldn't I could talk and I can plaster at the same time if I didn't have the
primer here this would suck up right now it'd be it would be completely dry and I wouldn't even be
able to float it but because I have the primer I could mess around like that I'll show you how I'm
gonna hit the bottom then I'm gonna float this and guys when you're floating acrylic stucco acrylic
stucco is it's kind of nasty smells terrible it really does it it reeks and it's gluey so it's
like spreading glue it takes a lot of pressure it's about twice as hard as spreading a cement
Isha's finish because it hits the wall and as fast as it hits the wall it dries out Holliday
okay hey Jake do you have that bucket of water by you all right Jay's gonna hand me that bucket of
water and I'm gonna show you guys how we float this and and guys when you're up as high as we
are on top of the world you can match this finish with a cement Tisha's finish however if you match
it with a cement Tisha's finish then when the painters come it's gonna ghost what does that
mean that word ghost that means right now we have an acrylic finish over the acrylic primer
and that's an extra layer of waterproofing acrylic stucco is about 30 to 50 times thicker than paint
so with an acrylic stucco finish on here it'll seal this wall I mean whatever they they had
here that decorative beam now they want this wall where it's watertight then they paint the whole
thing if I did not or if they didn't have a an acrylic finish put over this then their coat of
paint would ghost and again I had pictures but they're all the way in my truck because when I
bid this a fella sent me an email and he says hey Kirk why this happened and he showed me a
house I mean this big house all big like the rest of these over here and I looked at it and I said
well the fasteners they used they didn't put enough cement over them and why it's bleeding
like that or it's bleached out and just I think it was he said it was done about two years ago
I said why why it's bleeding like that works all different colors is because they didn't apply the
primer he says well how do you know it's dude I'm looking at the picture you sent me I know
what I'm looking at that's how I know that's why you asked me so this finish here will match this
finish here when this is painted and because we're using the the primer like we're supposed
to we won't get that discoloration or the painters won't get it when they come in and paint this kind
of a lot of little things to know about stucco guys but it's those little things that make a big
difference we're looking at the traffic here it's a tight tight corner tight Street my truck barely
made it up here but that's another story anyway guys if you have an acrylic finish to start off
with hire somebody who knows what an acrylic finish is make certain he's done a few of them
and there you go as far as patching that acrylic finish because unless you have done a few you're
not gonna know why and you end up putting a cement paste just finish which would match but again when
it's painted all the patchwork the texture would show different as well as the color you'd have to
paint it in that one area about five to twenty times another boring story anyway guys my name
is Kirk Jason on the camera it's at the end of the day it's Friday we're getting ready to hit
the road but I thought I'd show you before we go because this was kind of cool just to just
the sightseeing as usual guys we thank you for watching and live long and plaster by the way
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