hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano  plastering today what I want to show you guys  

is how to repair some styrofoam mold now this  particular one a no chewed it up we got a couple  

more on the other side where the steel is even  mashed there a lawnmower hitted what is styrofoam  

balls all it is it's styrofoam and they put a  fiber glass finish over it then they usually  

set that fiberglass with the cement issus type  of bonding agent and they put it on the back and  

they attach it alright how are we going to clean  this up I've done about a thousand of these I've  

actually installed on one job 30,000 feet of this  stuff 20 years ago took me and about 10 guys 30  

days to do it anyway let me show you how to repair  this now first of all get your dog cubone they  

love doing this stuff here's what I'm going to do  guys all this nasty stuff here at all it is this  

loose fiberglass take a brand new blade and start  getting rid of it because if you try to repair it  

and all this stuff's in the way when by the time  you're done it's just going to be everywhere and  

it makes it a real house or to do second thing you  do is after you get all this loose fiberglass off  

it doesn't matter if it's in here but if it's  on the outer edge right here it'll stick out  

everywhere and I'll end up having to take it off  later anyhow which will increase my time here so  

I know what I'm doing so I'll get it off now then  once we get all that off we're going to I'm just  

going to use regular Portland cement Portland  cement we're going to mix with clean water and  

sand I'm going to fill this up trim it out and  match this finish now the Portland cement won't  

adhere to the styrofoam not for more than a year  and a half anyhow so I'm going to put a little  

bit of bonding agent on this can you do this  absolutely does it matter what color the bonding  

agent is no can you use any of the white bonding  agents that they have at Home Depot and Lowe's and  

all the rest of the hardware stores absolutely I  got a I got an email yesterday a fella said he's  

putting a security door on and he needs to know  how to pull the foam off and I told them yesterday  

an email I said get self a big blade for a sawzall  all the longest they have that is usually for  

metals because I don't think they have them for  concrete of course I could be wrong there's a  

cement tshis finish that holds this on get started  and you're going to destroy a blade or two and  

just cut them off and that way you can reattach  them I know I've taken these off many times and  

reattached them but that's another question for  a fella I thought I'd answered since I'm here  

and he just asked me yesterday anyhow what Jays  going to do is mix me up some hot mud and when  

I say hot mud it's well it's the man who's going  to put some luminite in it what is lumini that's  

an accelerator that will I only want five minutes  I don't want ten or twenty minutes to be here all  

day because I can work this in five minutes and  as soon as Jay mixes that up I'll show you how  

we repair this and match this finish there's not  a finish I can't match either done them all some  

of them take me a little bit longer than others  but I can match every one of them so we'll show  

you how to do that in a minute alright guys now  we're at the stage where that's all prepped I  

was going to I can put a darby here and fill this  side but you wouldn't be able to see it or could  

I put my four foot rod and these come in eight  twelves I've got them all on my truck but anyway  

to for the sake of showing you guys I grabbed a  little piece of metal because I want to show you  

guys what I'm doing you can use a two-by-four sure  wet to 2 by 4 1 by 2 sure wet it even this metal I  

want to stick it in some water wet it why because  I don't want to cement to stick to it now say if  

I put it that way right there I mean I can put it  either way guys it really doesn't matter I put it  

this way I could actually hold it better and what  we were doing is we were going around the house  

filling up all the rest of the holes because this  mud wasn't set yes and you see this mud here Jay  

put luminite in this and sometimes you wait on  it we waited about 15 minutes for it to start  

the actual set time so now it's set and I can do  what I was planning on doing so one hand I'm going  

to hold this guy here and get it to where I want  it the next hand I'm just going to fill this guy  

up with mud start from the bottom work my way up  let's see a lot of mud my dart my other tools will  

work better this is flexing a little bit but Oh  Kirk can handle it so this guy up take a mud out  

of the bucket with one hand holding this with the  other all right pulling it up like so get it yes  

right or close enough because this is a template  and once I get this where I want it I can pull  

this off all right now see you may lower my hands  down a little bit because this piece of j-term is  

flexing on me all right now that I got that just  slide this off and will this adhere should okay  

here we go we're going to slide it up slide it  up at all oh we got a little boo-boo nothing we  

can't handle imma let this set about 15 minutes  so it's almost pretty hard and then I'll show  

you how we float it in the meantime I will put  that piece back in get this guy here okay guys  

we are multitasking as usual we've done all the  rest of them around the house while this one sets  

and you missed it this thing is still flexible  as I wanted to show you guys something that when  

I pull this off it fell off a big patch that had  to redo it gay was still filming I said what the  

heck he is still filming for says it's for our  blooper video oh great anyhow now that this is uh  

it's set pretty good that's been about 15 minutes  yeah we waited 15 minutes for it to set we waited  

for 15 minutes after we applied it luminite man I  don't care how much time you got in a we got over  

30 years still tough to gauge this stuff alright  I think that's about right what we're doing is  

we're taking a green sponge float now and now all  we're doing is floating it we're bringing out the  

sand or bringing out the Agra dude this is sand  or aggregate so what we're doing now is going  

upwards Y upward because if I go downward it all  fall but it tends to follow the float okay so now  

that I got that about where I want it couple more  times go down here when I just said not to but I'm  

doing little circles right there and get this and  last thing I notice is this is pretty rounded off  

or bull nose right here mine's too straight so  I'm going to take it right here on this corner  

and just give it a same finish as these guys gave  it go up a couple times and again guys depending  

on what type of finish you're dealing with that's  what you match that's what we have pull this guy  

off and this around here and rest go a match not  a big deal but you got to know what you're doing  

a lot of little things little tips that will match  this out on the money anyhow guys my name is Kirk  

Jason on the camera as usual we thank you guys  for watching we'll see you guys on the next one

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