hi guys, Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, got a tip for you guys I'm about, Oh 30
feet up a ladder, no less personally I prefer staging or scaffold what I'm going to do this
one off a ladder because there's a few windows here now what I got is I like to put the ladder
just once I know I could move the ladder here so I can get this side I could move it here so I get
this side but I've learned a long time ago just essentially locate that ladder if it's in the way
when to lift the window up what I have here is the fella who installed all these windows I looked at
it and he asked me, Kirk, where the windows were did my guys lathed it, did they do a great job" so
I said i don't know it's 30 feet up, i didn't bring my ladder just to look at what your guys
have done. I asked, did it pass city inspection? He said, sure it passed. I said did he, the inspector bring a ladder and
go 30 feet to see it up close? He said no, so I got here, Jay just mixed me up a bucket of mud and I thought
hmm there's no caulking around the edges and there was no wire on top of here just empty space now if
I was to call my buddy and say, hey man, you didn't caulk it, you didn't wire it. I already know his
the response he'd say, Kirk, that's why I hired you you're the best; you always correct everything
I knew you'd catch it so I don't want to go that route, we just fix what we see, anyhow Jason mixed me
up a bucket and this brick mold or stucco mold is out way past here, so I'm pretty good I don't need
to cover this window I'm not worried about getting any stucco on it, there's a window below us I'm
going to hose that down but I'm not worried about getting any on that either. I'm going to
spread this out both coats one shot it's about a bucket of mud I plan on coming up here twice but I
gotta climb this long-arse ladder my hawk is going to be like this and I'll show you how I do it all.
alright, guys, Jay mixed me up a bucket of mud and Jay knows exactly what I'm looking for what I'm about
to do here oh they want to make two trips but if you're somebody who wants to make five six seven
trips you can do that to, Jay mixed it rich for me because I told him, dude, I don't to be climbing up that
ladder, you can't do that unless the mud is real rich here's a tricky part guy and I don't advise
any of you guys to do this, don't be climbing tall ladders with one hand, you got to be an experienced, I got
to do that anyway so I'll show you what i'm going to do first because i got a full hawk of mud,
I'm right handed so I'm gonna pull some of this mud off and put it where I could reach it easily
so here we go easily until I get a lot of this mud off here where I can play with it that's
what I want to do easily, okay now underneath this window, that's what gravity takes in I'm going to
lose some of it now what I'll generally do is give me a little bit but here work around this ladder
pushing it up now I'm going to go through the ladder get up get my next piece to push it up, take
this excess off and go in here now as I'm getting less and less mud on this hawk, thus it is more manageable.
so I'll take this here go, let's see well you know what I'm going to have a problem like that
I can throw that in, I'll try that one more time, come on guy get in there, nope it is not going
get in there, all right I'll try my original idea or I'll take it sideways throw it throw it
now come this way, beautiful over here I could do that same technique and throw it right in, then
pull it forward one more hopefully I'll get it if not I got to make three whole trips and that's why
we have a water hose here, this guy close your eyes and just keep it wet do the exact same thing I did.
There I might do a little less mud and just make the three trips rather than the two, ok and this
mud is already starting to harden because we've got the dreaded luminite in their aluminite or
luminite is an accelerator, with an accelerator you push the speed or dry time. ok you see how
I threw it underneath this ladder, now I'm going to do the same here because I'm right-handed
if this is if this mud here guys is too soupy or too runny all this going to fall right off
the idea is it's got to be sticky mud okay now that's done, take this last hawk and do the
top now you're going to take much up here, get it flush then what I'll do here is bring this
back take it here show you how sticky this mud is a guy that's pretty sticky here build
it out where you need it well it looks like i am making my third trip no worries coming
down I don't need a lot of mud this time though real tricky guys climbing up and down ladders
I used to do it with 40-foot ladders all-day long and I'll tell you what it's a lot easier
when you're about 20 after you out about 30 extra years, so that tends to be a wee bit trickier,
oh that's okay all right so I'm back up here we finish this little tiny piece here we take it
put it there take this side where I didn't finish right side push it out right-handed so that's real
easy to get this side and then what I'm going to do is float this give me about oh five minutes to
straighten this out just a little bit better and I'll bring a float up here and show you guys what
the heck I'm talking about with with the floating piece and again under the window I'm just going
to take a little bit this way flush it out fill that flush it out and the last piece i gotta do is
over here, get in there guy, beautiful, okay now give me about five minutes for this
to set and I'll float it show you guys a tip I'm wetting this green float or I couldn't just stick
it in a bottle or a bucket of water now i want all i want a lot of the water odd out of here now the
first thing i'm going to do is not go above that window why because if i go above that window with
afloat that's just dipped in water it's going to smear and drips are going to go over it.
so what I'll do is right here I boo-booed and got a little stuck on that trim, so ill get it off
right now, I'll get off this side than what I'm generally do is I'm right-handed so I'm going
to take the float right now while it's still got a lot of water in it and float this right side
out I'm looking at the finish, piece of cake very simple now what I'm doing is just matching the
finish they have floating in the edges or feather it in edges straight up straight down get all the
imperfections out now take it around this sill and feather into it now I still got to walk in
here so I'm going to do this side also float this off and float my joint in again it's feathering in
the joint just takes a little bit of water come up here and now as I'm as I'm getting the water
out of the sponge float, where is it going well it's sucking into the wall by the way guys I
went ahead and open this window or i can grab here now all right I finish this top piece off and now
i'm going to do it above the window because that's hardly any water left in this float and i didn't
want the water to spill all over it but at the same time there's enough water to get my texture
There we go. You get that texture with feather To make it pretty no one is painted it matches
as close as possible yeah we have it and there we have this side pretty close match guys all
right now what I'm going to do is the last part is feather and underneath and where the ladder
is I could drop this ladder down to here guys make my life easy or I can just do this feather
up into it gather this part and use this half here come up a feather and come here feather
push it up and come around and finally push this piece here upwards and float it and get that
joint just right there you have a guy that's a simple way to do it off a ladder, and again
Oh, Kirk doesn't advise anybody to use a ladder because it's damn dangerous; anyway, guys, my name
is Kirk, Jason on the camera, as usual, we thank you for watching, and we'll see you at the next one.