Howdy folks, kirk, and Jason are here with kirk giordano plastering today.
We're going to show you guys how to plaster this patch. This fella did the lath here,
and i looked at it, and i thought, you can do that. You can put tape over the existing paper
as long as that paper is clean and dust-free, so everything looks good, and i said where'd
you learn to do that he said i was watching your videos anyway; we're using a rapid set
patch, and there's like 12 rapid set products guys so we're using rapid set patch meaning you could
apply it and paint within an hour now Jason mixed it up i can do this in say.
Oh, 10 or 15 minutes, but the idea is you got to have somebody that knows how to mix
and unless you have somebody who knows how to mix, you'll be here forever,
so anyway, i'm going to show you how we patch this, and again this is Rapid set
patch, there is rapid set stucco. Which is very, very similar to this,
and then there's rapid set um cement all the cement all that stuff is for
bridges or say you work for the city. You have a manhole cover
you could use cement all because when you first apply that,
it sets it like uh 15 minutes jay put this so it'll set in about a half-hour now with rapid set
cement all that sets so fast that you guys unless you're doing bridge work,
don't use it. then you have, many you have rapid waterproof set,
I've had people say kirk i'm not sure what i did was watertight can you use a rapid waterproof set
and i said no the rapid waterproof set you usually apply an eighth of an inch to and
you let that set plus they're slacking involved then you apply to say another eighth of an inch so
there are all these different products there's a whole bunch of them they have rolls to them this
one here i can feel it setting already so i call that a perfect mix because i want it to set fast
and what we're going over, guys is a maintenance-free finish,
and that means this right here, this is either
Look at that. That's getting stiff, so this finish is either.
It was blue-gray when it was done, La Habra brew, blue-gray, and i told him, well, there's no way;
unfortunately, anybody applies a finish and then matches an existing color. It's not how it works.
It's just you'll have to paint this or allow it to set and then recolor the whole wall after you
put a bonding agent on the whole wall. He says, well, i don't want to do that.
I thought most people didn't want to do that. Because it's a lot of work, we're going to match
the finish here, and then he'll paint it, so i'm gonna put one more scoop right here.
A little bit more down here to make sure it adheres, and we just come this way we come up,
and here i'm going to open the stucco. What's that mean, open the stucco? How is it closed?
It's closed right there because it's sealed, but to open it, you just take your trowel on edge.
It makes it look rough, but now it's open could, it can dry faster. It's like, how much faster
do i need it to dry than 15 minutes? Well, just a little bit, all right, i'm gonna let this sit for
15 minutes to a half-hour, then we're going to show you how we float it and match this texture,
all right, guys? That's set for about 15 minutes, i can see, uh oh, i can't do my cook's the best;
that's hard as a rock 15 minutes, okay so what i got to do now is shave it
i gotta shave it wrong tool when it gets that hard you shave it with a trowel
and that's 15 minutes that's exactly what i wanted so we shave it comes down shave it.
why am i shaving it i got another coat to put on here
And if you guys pay attention to some of the things we do, you two can laugh as good as sean's
the homeowner; hey sean, that guy pays attention because he did a great job with this lath. okay,
so we're taking it down, taking it down, taking it down i'm gonna show you one other thing
You guys probably said, hey, what's he doing using a square trowel?
He always has that congo trying in congo hawk.
okay
yeah, my, the hawk is uh customed; it's a little bigger than the average 12; it's a 14 but
This takes practice to learn how to use the tools, guys.
Okay, now, all right, we're going to do the color coat.
oops, you got to wet your
i got it i'm good. You got to get this. Otherwise, it won't come out all right, so with the color
coat you put it on there, and this is 20 30, but so is this now i'm going to put enough on here to
knock this whole thing out, and that's enough. So I'll grab my handy dandy congo trowel.
Okay, now what we do is just put this other coat on; why are we putting this other coat on
because i need the same.
Suction to match this finish can i use the base mud to match that finish
i probably could. Still, to show you guys the best way to do it,
it's best to point out this, too, so all i'm doing now is just put it on a color;
well, actually, it's there's no color because he's going to paint this, but this is a La Habra uh
finish coat bag we're using is base 100, how do you know if it's base 100 or base
200? base 100 is white, base 200 is gray, and that's for getting various colors okay now
that now that that's done this house is set for how long five minutes five minutes i'll do it
and what i'll do is i'll take my handy dandy sponge float green sponge float yellow it
doesn't matter color and here's what we do guys we take it up now we're just wetting it we're
just getting that finish so that the get out my own way so that the texture can be applied
and to do a texture like say a float finish that's where you float it and bring the aggregate out of
the sand that's easy but to do a finish uh a skip trial or a spanish lace within a finish that takes
a lot more practice but i've got some time in so what i'm doing here is just feathering in
the joint feather in the joint a little bit more water no problemo we put a little bit more water
flip that baby get that thing clean why because if this is not clean then all of the
stucco that's on it's going to make this drag so we're pulling up into the joint pulling up
into it and now that can set for 5-10 minutes or i could put my finish on or texture right now
but i'm doing other stuff here so so i'm gonna live it alone and i'm gonna do some other stuff
and i'm gonna come back to this in about five minutes and show you how we texture this too
what we're gonna do now is we're gonna put the texture on here and most people say you can't
match a spanish lace within a spanish lace but you can do the best you can and that's what i'm
going to do the best i can within a spanish lace first thing you look at the sand you see
when they did this color code they sponge floated it and they brought the aggregate out there's
that sand so i got the aggregate out now this has some aggregate in it that just means sand
so what i want to do is i'm going to take this to the corner and take this path
and it'll adhere past because it's a maintenance it's a cementitious finish so this
anything wet cementitious will stick to anything wet that's clean cementitious
and lastly i'm looking at this i'm thinking this is a 10 year old color coat i can see all
the spider cracks it's got spider checking and cracking everywhere all that means is when they
did the color code they put the bonding agent on too thick all right enough of that lesson on
so-called the past now we're going to skip it and come here and light lace it that just means uh
very lightly again this can be matched two different ways guys it could be matched with a
dash you throw it on and then you knock it down or it could be matched the way i'm matching it right
here and notice i'm not putting i'm not filling up my trowel like i normally do the whole blade
it's a 18 inch blade if i fill the whole blade up it'll give a different type of
texture i just want a little two inch four inch texture to match that dash finish.
So what i'm doing, you probably can't see, but i'm flipping this
watch the hawk guys two-inch i'm flipping It taking it off a different area two inches.
and yeah, i'm taking it into the original
i take it into the original to blend it in better, tighter
So again, sometimes on, I'll do this and drop it down. Okay, now again,
if i use my whole blade like this, that's not going to match their texture, so i have to kind
of play with it and dab it or dash it; then again, I'm not sure how well a dash finisher matches.
Because this is a texture within a texture, and when you start off doing a float finish,
and then you come back in texture, it takes a little bit of practice, nothing we can't handle.
And the only way to make this match as close as possible, guys is you got to go over the existing
you can't go right to the existing you got to go over it;
if you go right to it, it just won't work. So i'm taking it over the existing,
and i'm only going to use like a tenth of the trowel. Then i'm gonna knock this down,
so i was just about to go like this and hit this with one swipe, but if i did hit
it with one swipe, it would be one trowel, and it wouldn't match, so I gotta play around with
it little bits at a time guys, a little bit out of time how many times have i done this?
A lot; how many times do you guys need to do it? You watch what you're doing,
and like Shawn here, the guy who did the uh lath work did an excellent job. A couple guys said oh,
that's not right. I came and looked at it and said there's nothing wrong with that.
That's perfect; in fact, you don't get much better i couldn't do any better than what Sean did.
So again, i'm just using the toe; I could use the heel of the trowel, too,
because i just want little bits of stucco on here. I don't want big lines.
If I get that big lines, It's simply not going to match.
okay, that's about it i see some things that i know from my past experience just won't match
unless i go a little bit further into the surrounding finish
so i can do that; all right, that's done; now we got to knock it down,
now guys when you're knocking it down you want to just hold the trowel light i mean it's very light
you know you're not if you hit it flat this is not hit flat that's hit soft, and the mud has got to
be soupier if this is dry mud it won't match a lot of little tricks guys, so you're going
to take your trowel and just lightly hit it like this i'm holding it i'm letting it rest on my hand
lightly hit it all right guys lightly hit it lightly, go upward, go upward,
Go upward, do that, go upward take the top here lightly, hit it guys upward, upward.
Now when this is painted, will it match right on the money? No, nobody can do that.
Nobody can match it right on the money. But our job is to do the best we
can with what we have to work with. And this is the most difficult finish
to match, a Spanish lace within a Spanish lace. Where they put a 16/20 on it first.
Anyway, my name is kirk Jason on the camera. We thank you guys for watching,
and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one; all right, folks, as always,
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