Howdy folks, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk  Giordano plastering, today we're going to  

show you an alternative method to instead of  say going through all the household with a CMU  

wall or cinderblock or concrete block or even  brick wall if you want to stucco it there's 25  

different ways to do that and keep in mind too  there's a reason why a lot of us plasters are  

kind of thin you take my skinny arse and you bend  down a lot guys you can just rip your pants so you  

better be on the ball and slim if you're gonna  be doing this for a living today we're gonna do  

something different we're gonna stucco a wall  and the camera may show what's in back of this  

3.8 high rib laughs we've got four by four sunk  in the ground and they were crossmembers and why  

are we doing it with this because this fella is  a friend of mine and he says well Kirk what I'm  

gonna do is I'm gonna dig down two feet I'm gonna  set CMU blocks cinder block concrete blocks all  

mean the same thing we're gonna set it here  we're gonna rebar it we're going to fill it  

with concrete and I thought why and he says  well we want a structurally strong wall and  

I said why I mean it sounds to me like you're  trying to build a Vatican wall I mean why not  

go 40 feet high like a telephone pole like there's  anyway he says well you got a better way to do it  

I said I got 50 ways to do it if you want to save  some time and money and effort he says what would  

you recommend us well stick some four-by-fours in  it pressure-treated go down two feet and I'll do  

it for you for nothing man you're my buddy oh  so that's what we're doing what I found myself  

this is a second take because I was whispering  and J says yeah why are you whispering we got  

eight hives over here they're beehives and we're  here earlier and they got steered up and he says  

dude they're swarming you got to leave and I said  man once we got mud going we can't leave I can't  

throw away a whole wheelbarrow or a whole mixer  full of mud so we're trying to be cautious and  

not piss these bees off anyway I have my guy  he's gonna come here and load these boards up  

gently and what we're gonna do is we're gonna go  ahead and skin these walls at first we're gonna  

match the color of the block and he says well  we can't do that we're gonna do something else  

I said I'll tell you what once we skim coat this  we could put lines in it to match the block or we  

can match pyramid blocks like put three lines  and then come vertically every other line and  

make it look like pyramids and finally he said  Kirk what we want to do is we're going to paint  

a mural on it and I said okay if you want to do  that what we'll do is we'll skim it will float  

it hard rubber float then we'll steel trowel  it now generally guys as a rule if you steel  

trowel plaster you're gonna get some hairline  cracking but on this just like cinderblock brick

folks even if it cracks all you have to do is  put a little caulking in it or buy a quality  

paint like Sherwin Williams and to flood the  cracks cracking it's not a big deal guys it  

is a simple minor thing to repair with good  quality paint okay guys I'll show you some  

of the something else to you you could save a  lot of money by the way to do it this way but  

if you the idea is to press just right and when  I say press just right notice there's not a lot  

dropping here's and this is good mud it's perfect  mud for this again notice there's not a whole lot  

of mud dropping so I'm not wasting a lot why  because I know how to to mix two adjacent we  

got a good mix here here's it if you don't know  what you're doing you'll do this and you see a  

lot of that mud drop you'll push too much pressure  and it drops down right now I got a very rich mix  

because if it's rich I won't lose too much what's  happening behind here it's Qian so its mushrooming  

in back of that what we're gonna do because it's  two fences when we're done we're gonna go behind  

and try that key and down anyway that's that is  what we are doing guys so I'm gonna get back to  

it because we got a lot of stuff to do here and  we're trying not to piss off them bees and again  

keep in mind this is just an alternative way it's  an alternative way guys to make a structurally  

sound wall at a much cheaper cost and labor  intensive than using the CM you box okay guys  

we are continuing with our adventure the camera  is been well we're stopping and going because  

when the bees get pissed off that's their way  of saying I ain't happy if they happy we ain't  

happy we just had a big swarm and I just keep  recalling what the homeowner said that he was  

up in a tree shaking a queen bee out and he got  stung 120 times that's what they pulled out of  

him so I know there's a bee friendly guy who  watches our video and a couple other bee guys  

they'll probably be the only ones who thinking hey  I know what he's talking about with me I'm not I'm  

not too worried about him I have I know when to  stop and when to start but anyway again the whole  

theme of this was to show you a different way  that you could stucco a fence a wall anything  

and save a little bit of money save a lot of money  actually because the CMU that gets expensive and  

it's very hard labor for most people because CMU  is not very the cinder blocks anyhow as we keep  

moving Jays gonna help me we're gonna bottom up  and give these guys a chance to relax over here  

because I see him start a swarm again we pick  a great day for this we need a cold rainy day  

but we improvise that's why if ice he said listen  if you hear them swarming and I thought this ears  

doesn't hear it well but I could hear oh so we're  gonna turn that camera off and we're gonna try to  

scratch scratch this whole thing and possibly  Brown it and then show you how we float it and  

steel trowel it alright guys what I'm doing we're  putting our second coat on and fat and ugly guys  

ugly that means I'm gonna Darby this anyhow and so  if I have excess mud on here that's good because  

I don't want it thin so I just always like to put  it on fat and ugly that's him like my brother Lu  

stop it all right fat and ugly around the bees  we don't want to piss these bees off again fat  

and ugly I'll show you why after I put two more of  these guys off right here one one more that ugly

Yeah, we got a stretch of it. Oh, that is  nothing a little too high for me. Come on,  

stretch it just one more time. I'm gonna move  this part with Darby. I'm just putting this  

excess mud where I could use it all right Darby  time we're always wet the Darby wet enough okay  

we're going to take this mud here move it around  stretch for that top all my tiptoes stretch boy  

my tiptoes okay now we just straighten this  middle section out that gives you a pretty  

full wall by the time this is set you got a  lot of stress going on here it would happen  

to be about a hundred today and so what we do  is we wet the walls prior what you guys aren't  

seeing is me missing these walls over and over  because I don't want it to set all right guys  

different day we took a little break the  being said hey Kurt I give you honey for  

your team but don't get too near us anyway  we had up I wasn't initially just going to

do a steel trowel finish but he was doing a mural  here and we left for a short period so that we  

didn't get stung and now we're back a different  day and since I had a few joints in here stucco  

waits for no man and it doesn't wait for be easy  either so when we left left a few holidays here  

and there nothing we can't handle so what we're  doing now is I'm just putting another finish on  

top of this finish because what we want to do is  give it a somewhat smooth finish I wanted to do  

this steel trowel finish for the mural I mean now  now granite guys this is gonna get painted anyway  

so if it's gonna get painted anyway it doesn't  matter imperfections they don't really matter  

so what we're doing is I'm using AA it's called  the Santa Barbara smooth mission finish but every  

every company has their own mix and the mix is  generally 30 by 30 it's that's a call to sand  

that's the finest sand you can get with stucco  be aware - guys this is not interior taste of  

mud we're working with interior taper my doesn't  have any sand in it so you could get tight and you  

you can go almost like glass if you're good enough  but here we're not we're not worried about making  

it to to glass like and you could only trowel down  sand so much guys because there's aggregate in it  

anybody says oh I can right here this is smooth  enough for a mural if I want to go another coat  

I can make it even a lot more smoother blood  it's not necessary so we're continuing with what  

we're doing and I'll tell you guys for we're just  traveling upon and traveling it off like I'll go  

up and then I'll come back down on my joint like  it's it's pretty simple I know a lot of folks they  

watch what we do and say, oh gee you're not a real  plasterer because using the wrong trowel, I'll  

tell you guys any trowel that floats your boat  use, it it doesn't matter if it's a tiny trowel or  

a big trowel I'll pull trowel if it's if it makes  you happy is it it's uh usually one guys say that  

I'll say mail what kind of comment is that that's  like plaster Envy I use a trowel I want to use  

anyhow you see where we're going with this you  go up and come on down and if you got a holiday  

you just go right over it holidays just a term for  painting if you miss a spot they call it a holiday

that's a hard steel trout finish guys

take it out put on your hawk now generally we  starting and this dirts gonna come up to here  

I went hide the fellows it Kirk you don't need to  go that high I thought well just for the sake of  

being extra cautious how about I take it a little  higher that way when everything is said and done  

I'd rather be nothing showing on the bottom then  a big gap and again he's gonna go ahead and put  

a mural on this so you guys have seen how this  works there's many ways to skin a cat guys and  

that just means if you want to do a cinderblock  wall you can do that if you want to do stuck on  

both sides of a wall you can do that there's a  thousand different ways to accomplish the same  

thing his idea was again with the cinderblock  man that was a lot of work fortunately he has  

me as a neighbor so I can come over here and  do this for him anyhow guys we thank you for  

watching I'm gonna finish this up and as usual  we'll see guys on the next one by the way folks  

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