Hi guys, Kirk and Jay here with
Kirk Giordano plastering. Today, I'm going to show you how fast we can do a wall,
both coats scratching brows. Generally, I'll start on my corners to fill that up. I won't start here
because then everything falls between it falls on the ground. I'll stretch the bottom work my
way up. When I get to the top there, I want that top to set fast, so I'll hit the top first
and then the edge. I'll cheat out the middle; I'll show you how we do it. Of course, Jade
got a good mix going here, so it makes it a lot easier fella like me to do my job get the bottom
stuff. It's always a drag bending down, guys. well, get that corner going Hey J, well grab me that scratch it
to please alright that's done then generally what I'll do Guys, I'll hit my
top. Why am I gonna hit my top right now because those are the words if you're doing
the same day materials same day material, you better hit your top that's because you want
to give those time enough to set, by the way, guys weird lastest, but we do a lot of work for
contractors homeowners you guys laugh your own stuff that's okay we don't mind we'll come
in and just do the stucco work heck we don't mind that at all so again what I'm doing is
I'm getting my tops first because those tops first that are a huge thing if you do the
whole wall and then you hit the top laughs what happened is everything will be set here
then when you go to the top it's going to keep falling with you extend your time on a job okay
just take this down to where I could reach it. up mic coming out okay Alright, I'm gonna get back on these tops.
Guys press hard to make those because this material has got the ability to set fast,
sometimes in 15 minutes, but I like things materials because they set time we didn't
set fast it wouldn't be working with it okay. [ __ ] little trick I do to guys, not that Okay, I got my border out of the way. What
I'll do is grab my handy-dandy cheater. These are called cheaters go Devils and
Liberace's. They called all kinds of things when I worked in Union they actually didn't
allow them. Hey, it makes the men look too hard. It's hard work anyway. Come in here
now. I like using this go-devil because, well, the hawk and Charlie get kind of cockeyed
this you're using balanced a lot easier for me. I've been places where I've seen guys. This is the
only tool they'll do the tops of the corner and use this as a Darby and a Hawking trowel and
he falls on the ground. Just pick it right up immediately. If it falls on the ground and stays
there more than ten minutes, leave it there, goes hey guys, you don't have to be big or strong
to do this. I had a fella email me and says, man, I just weigh about 100 hundred pounds,
do you think I'd be able to do that, and the answer is yes, guys, I've seen guys
half my weight; Out plaster me all day long. see, you guys barely 100 pounds that can do
this for 10 hours and not even break a sweat, so they've got nothing to do with size or any of
that stuff guys consistency one step at a time and any drops on the ground, a few folks can see
this just pick it up immediately again if it this particular material if it drops on the ground
and it stays there for say 10 minutes leave it alone Portland cement, and you can drop it on the
ground pick a right up and reuse it, but not just now I'm gonna get my corner over here without
this ladder in my way okay sharp in the bottom just like I was saying earlier work my way up to
give us something to hold on to itself just like that take this nothing to it if you know how to do
it just like everything else plumbing electricity just take practice and of course if I don't have
it by now guys after more than 30 years I'm in the wrong trade now I don't need to do this, but
I'm showing you folks if you wanna you can run it instead just come up because we're putting another
finish another coat directly over this coat take this rod to go right up top and say guys that that was just a scratch coat
here's what I'd do I'd take a scratcher when I'm waiting on more mud right now, and I'd
scratch it if I was using Portland cement, and all we do is here back
and forth you get the idea and These scratch marks when you allow it to dry give
it something to hold on to. What it does is the stucco keys in there, but we're doing a same-day
system, so if you are just scratching the wall guys with Portland cement, that's what you're
going to want to do. Just scratch it like this okay guy doing my second coat, we let that set
about 15 minutes. What are you doing the same, guys? If that's that 15 minutes guess what the
whole mix is starting to set, so now we gotta hustle a little bit, and that's what we want these
same-day materials they do set fast, of course, it's about 90 degrees in the shade which depending
on how hot it is guys that's how much retardants we put in here your material and here's what I
was talking about earlier if I don't hit my tops first I'm putting another coat it would just fall
right down it would just keep falling because it wouldn't take that much weight up there when I get
to this corner I happen to use a square trowel. I use a lot of Charles guys I'm partial to this
swimming pool trial it's got flat edges here but it doesn't have corners okay so back to what I
was doing and I'll bring it down about here so I don't have to work too hard with that stick
or a rod Darby a lot of noise on this job guys we have street work being done you know we just
knock through the snuff through the borders to get in here so this apartment complex what
I'm also doing guys is I'm opening this wall that means I'm taking my trial on edge that'll
that'll dry it out a lot faster okay we hit my corner here and then I'm gonna cheat the rest
or I'm gonna use the go-devil on the rest so take my corner here give it that second 3/8 got
to have that 3/8 guys each code 3/8 if it's an eighth either direction it's not a big deal to
doing commercial jobs 8th in either direction is a big deal but this here skip child finish
doesn't really matter that much skip Charles guys are very very forgiving okay now that
I got my trial work done I'm gonna take this go-devil again what I'll do here is make myself
a little pile all right I'll take it up take it. J squalling me, he did all the lower
stuff. That's good. I don't like to bend down. If I don't have to, I just pile
this up right here because I want the mud. I don't want it going over the edge, but I
can put it on even if it's over the edge. We do this every day, guys. So if
you try to do it in a sit-down, how do those guys make it look so easy? Because
we do it every day, we make it look easy. now Jay just looked at this wall and did a mix
and determined that's how much stucco he'd need to mix and I'll tell you what guys we have two
small patches on this job and that's for the two small patches that just shows you how much
time in he's got on here now the last thing I need to do is make this wall true and plumb now
that I got the mud and it's kind of soft still which is good I'm using steel now oh man I don't
want to use muscle I'll leave the muscle for the young guys to do this right here just take skill
right on top I can settle out of there or just turning this stick this way here take it back here
we're going around so on pull that top down come back just like so get your top get your side if
you need any mud mud guy here's what I can do I mean I can take mud off of here and put this mud
anywhere I can put it back where I took it from go up and I'm using enough serrated Darby guys why
am I using a serrated Darby instead of a smooth one because I want this to set when you use a
serrated darby it opens the stucco these little grooves like a kitchen knife kitchen knives are
usually serrated no or tomato nice anyway now this right here because I'm using the serrated Darby
I'm gonna have about all I would say ten minutes before this gets hot as a rock and then when it
gets real hard go ahead and finish it off and the finish is just a skip trial finish it's matching
an apartment complex texture which was done Oh about 40 years ago piece of cake so when I get
to that stage guy I'll show you the final product this has got to set at least 15 minutes in order
for me to hard rubber float it texture it okay guys we just let this at about 15 minutes sort
of hot out here and what we do is remember your drip screen but I got to get all the mud out from
underneath that drip screed use your finger use a trowel cut it back this drip screen here is seven
eighths of an inch at the bottom so this stucco's got to be 7/8 this corner lines up with this side
of the wall everything has got to line up okay now I'm gonna hard rubber float it and it's still bit
soft if it was hard oh man you would see the sweat pouring down my face right now we don't want
that I want to work smart I don't want to work hard guys I've done enough hard work in my life so
this is just right right now if I wait another 15 minutes it'll be setting and then I'll be having
to push I don't want to push too hard guys again that I rather use skill than muscle any day we
use enough muscle just getting this stuff on as soon as I get this whole wall floated out I'm
gonna texture it and I'll show it to you guys okay guys we're doing the easy stuff now
just the texture and yes you can texture over boiling some and you can texture over either
wall you can texture over almost every kind of exterior cement there is and I'm matching a
particular finish well the I know what I'm doing it's kind of knocked down as soon
as you put it on, you knock it down I'm texturing this exterior wall. My buddy,
Gary, is in here texture and with taping mud. The type of finish we have on here is painted, and it's with the finest color coat they have.
It used to be. I think it was a twenty-thirty when they originally started but may I'm
using a smooth using a Santa Barbara smooth mission finish just to texture with because
we've got to give it a flat painted look. You see all this stuff of dropping guys. I don't
normally drop that much, but I put on top of this Hawk a whole lot of color coat. I didn't need
to put that much on here after well. I rather drop some but have enough on here to finish
this. We're going to hose this up anyhow. a little bit more cool beans well we were on the inside of a
wall tape him out everywhere, and the texture on the outside
is like tape and mutters flat, so we might want to make ours as flat
as possible also, but cement this okay, guys putting my finishing touches up all we got to
do is clean the floor now I got my buddy Gary here I'm watching him do sheetrock on the ceiling
I'm China I've been glancing over my shoulder trying to learn how to copy his techniques
anyway there's my buddy Gary from Sacramento license GC what's your number out there if you
wanted to know my number is 5 or 0 here we go Kirk here, and I think it's the best
plastic. I have a reward for whoa, man I got to put you in all my video this
talk like that anyway Jason I thank you, folks, for watching, and as usual,
we'll see you guys on the next one.
This guy talks like a cool dude who steals the protagonist's girl in an 80s skiing movie
I like work. I could watch others working for hours.
Guys
His voice sounds like Brian Regan's sarcastic voice. Good video though, just can't get past that similarity.
He sounds exactly like Will Forte
ELI5 but why ?? Why not only use gyproc ?
Stucco, alright alright alright.
Isn't this stucco not plaster?