Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen Kirk here with
Kirk Giordano plaster my son Jason on the camera. Today what we're going to do is, we're going to show you prep work on a house. We are about to color coat, now this fella called me, I come I looked at it
last week, and we're gonna do it today so what we are going to do with this home. By the way, this home was plastered a year ago by another fella, anyway, things didn't work
out sometimes, they don't, were here to apply the color finish I'll tell you what I was telling
this fellow because we are applying a color coat maintenance-free integrated finish, it's a mouthful
all that means is instead of painting which is thin like paper he chose to put on a color coat
so the color coats like a brick, if you wet a brick it'll darken, which means that bricks colors
last forever, so what we are going to apply is 50 times thicker than any paint and it's porous but
it's also maintenance-free which means it'll last forever 100 years, you will never have to paint that wall again. Some of the things I was noticing what I got here just a couple days ago, I looked at
it, and I looked at the front of the house and then we walked all the way around and I thought
hmmm, I thought well gee, I said these guys did a really good job. first of all, they used a reinforced fiber mesh cement plaster, you see all these little fibers well maybe the camera won't see
it, but all these little fibers here there's a whole bunch around everywhere so they used a good
product and it had fiberglass, in it, or they put it in manually, so what I see here, as long
as I've been doing this guy's a long time what I saw here is okay, sure I give you a cost to do
a color code maintenance for your finish, however there are certain things that I must do prior,
I said first of all you've got an underground stream, he says, "Kirk," how'd you know that? I said well this is the East the sun rises in the East right now, it's beautiful it's honest so you
don't in our area in California you don't get cracks, this large it's either they're everywhere,
they're horizontal generally you'll get the cracks going this way one here and one there out an
angle one but to have massive ones that you can stick a credit card into is telling me there's an underground stream. Why? Okay an underground stream it keeps the house wet underneath and with the
rain most houses do lift, and then they when drier conditions occur they settle, and you get this
kind of cracking. That was my first thing I said, I'll know for sure if I look at the other side!
now the only time I see this kind of horizontal cracking guys is if if it's a house in a really
hot area, like say, you go to Arizona or someplace that's always hot, you'll see sometimes
guys will when they're doing the plywood they but the plywood together they put the plywood together
and then when the Sun hits it and it bakes it for 110 degrees for 30 to 40 days straight what happens?
That plywood expands and it pushes the stucco out and you get these kinds of horizontal cracks, I know this area because I'm 20 miles from this area. In my own home we don't get this kind of heat, so I
just figure underground stream, by the way, guys. There are so many underground streams where I live thousands, so I'm aware of this stuff. Anyway we've got some hairline cracking
that is substantial, that just means they're big. See this one here this is a hairline, it's
like the hair on your head, if you use a quality paint, they flood these cracks. gee man I'm gonna use a quality paint it better be
thick like glue like say Sherman sherwin-williams makes a primer and paint you pay a whopping ninety
dollars a gallon guys for that stuff but it floods these certain paints you buy won't flood it it
just means it cuz it's like water you put it on in just like water it doesn't do squat so it
helps if you're gonna paint a house to go with the quality product is okay. Back to what I was going
to explain, so I look at this and I told him well you know what I have to do, as my style is
I would have to put a poly bond of the fiberglass mesh tape on this crack. I put a poly bond on it and what is Poly Bond?
is it's an adhesive cement this material? It's designed for attaching styrofoam so if you put
the poly bond on here you and there are two kinds of poly bonds, I might as well get this straight right now. There's fine sand and heavy sand, now if I put a poly bond on here, and I put fiberglass mesh tape
on here and then I put another coat of poly bond on that what does that do it it makes if you're
looking at a wall that's true and plumb I've not done this is my first time doing it but I
already told the fellow I said they rodded that stucco work, this is a rod, not a Darby, not a T-square it's a rod, you take a ten-foot rod and you go over everything and you make everything true and plumb.
Okay that being said there's a reason for that, but getting back to this crack I'll come back to the
rod in a minute, getting back to this crack there's a way to fix it the right way, and there's about
20 different ways to do it the wrong way. You would put caulking in it and expect
that's it's done and what happens if you just put caulking in there? Well you color coat the house
and the next day you see all the caulking it goes through or bleeds through or worse yet, it rains
and when it rains, like a brick it gets dark a color coat maintenance-free integrated finish well
darken - and you'll see this bright and so every repair, but we're gonna do this crack and when I
get to that stage. I'll show you guys the proper way to do crack if it's a base coat and you're
going to apply our color coat maintenance-free cementitious finish too. There's a big difference between acrylics, we're not going to apply an acrylic stucco. On this job acrylic or synthetic stucco, it the same thing it's stucco with water and sand and other things that make it an acrylic product but we're not doing
acrylic here so I just thought I'd mention that. In case somebody says well why don't you do in the
acrylic, they don't want in the acrylic colors. Okay so again getting back to what I see here, these guys who did this job were pretty good, they didn't have a great eye for detail like some, I mean many of the windows still have red tape on it how long does red tape, last guys?
If it's echo tape that's that stuff lasts about three months in the extreme heat, but I don't
know what tape they used we're gonna re-tape everything and I got Madeleine scraping
all the windows trying to do the best we can with what we have to work with. Okay going in a few directions here because I'm looking at a lot of things and what I see, I say man these guys did a nice job they rodded it, you don't have to rod a job, I prefer the darby, it but in order
for me to tell you how my prep work is on this I mean, I look at it immediately I know how to how
to prep, it properly for whatever finish we're going to apply. Again guys I won't go into more finishes than the cement issues we have. One is you have La Habra cementation finish, you got Western, BMI, stucco finishes, just to name a few. Okay what these guys did here, is they took this float, now they put the base coat on after they scratch it and then they put the base coat on. then what they did was they compacted it. See that this was compacted and they left that compacted, but here, they rodded it, so you can rod all. I often do. But if you take it and you scrape the stucco off while it's still moist, that's I means right after application depending on the heat, it'll get
moist and then or before it dries you scrape it. Why that's to make it true and plumb in every direction.
We used to do that when I was working with big crews and they were gonna put veneer brick on
the outside of banks and we had to have two guys and we rodded it so that the veneer brick would
stick flat. You can do it on houses too. What that did was create most of the plasters are looking at, that's easy. I know what that created,I created a wall with different suction so I had my brother Lou, he's around back and I told him is, what I want you to do is apply bonding agent over the entire home. So we're going to put a bonding agent over the entire home, why I'm, NOT worried about
our new cementitious color finishes adhering. I need to get the suction correct so that the wall suction is what will create ghosting if you don't do that properly. Say on average, I would wet this house the day before, wet and saturate it let it absorb in then come the The next day mist it again and look for my hollow
spots, like what's dry what's still dripping and get the wall uniform, with water however because
of so much the difference between rodding and hard rubber floating, it's created this, you see well here's
In another example, you can see all the the variations. Okay you see all those color variations and that's
just raw cement raw cement should not have color variations. Never ever, ever so, if I were to put any
color on here when it dried those color variations would be enhanced tenfold they just be enhanced
it doesn't matter which cement, La Habras, color coat or another. I use it would be just like this, but enhanced
only in color, and the homeowner would look at the wall and say, "Kirk that sucks," redo it. so I have to know all of these things before I bid a job, so what we're gonna do what my brother
Lou is doing, is putting a bonding agent on again. I'll discuss that later but I want this suction
the same as this suction and we still got to do all the crack we got to do a lot of things here
all that being said I'll walk you around and what what we have to work with and when we do the color coat. I'll just show you one wall guys like say this wall here, I'll show you how we do a color
finish when we get to that stage and you can see right here, this is as far as Lou's got with that
bonding agent. See that you see the blue that's a bonding agent I like that's one coat, then later I'm gonna put another coat over this right here, maybe two or three, the idea is I
have got to get the wall suction the same. suction it was not the same. If the suction isn't right, it's not going to be pretty. it's gonna be ghostly it'll be ghosting and bleeding through and the homeowner will say, man, what kind of crap is that, I don't want to see all those variations. Anyway moving on and my baby, madeleine, Is covering all these windows, it's a hot day so and again we still have these massive cracks are here they're everywhere. it's a lot but it happens, this it's
not a huge deal, we're gonna I'll show you how we do this on just one wall. Okay over here you know finally again could they have taken the tape off or they should have because some tapes leave a nasty residue, we spent an hour cleaning windows already and stuff like that there are only certain things you should and shouldn't do. you know I'm not going to reinvent the wheel and tell the fellow well gee whiz, we do this and don't do that. What we're here to do is to correct it as best we can, things like this, they got carried away with caulking we're gonna fix that too, but it's certain
things like that my job is to look at what they did, and I see a really nice job however some folks
they didn't know the intricacies of a color coat. They did a great job as far as applications,
a little sloppy at the very tops but a lot of guys are sloppy at the tops because they think
nobody's watching. With me I have my whole family here, so we're all working together, we have we work in harmony. I don't have to tell anybody what to do they all know what to do. so I'll tell you
what some of the materials we'll use guys we're using we're going to be using fiberglass mesh tape over some of these horizontal cracks. Because they're pretty substantial you know the difference
between white and yellow fiber mesh tape anybody know anybody care there's no difference it's just
color the same stuff, of course, we need a lot of tape for what we're doing, and well show you why I
choose "weld creat bonding agent" all the time, you guys might have seen and said, "Kirk, how come you always use Larson's Weld Crete" well, Weld Crete has been sold at the plastering material yard since I've been going to that like, 40 years ago, this has the most polymer's. It's okay, it has the most polymers in
here which means it's a really effective bonding agent and so if it's a really good effective
bonding agent, we're not using a for a bonding agent, we're using it to kill the suction, so that, it does both, so and besides the house set for a year it's a good idea, I told him to hose it all off get all the
dust and crap and grime off. That is to say, if you're mowing your grass, the dust goes on the wall. so he did the pressure washing,
now, we're putting the bonding agent. Again adhering wasn't why but I purchased this bonding agent, I purchased it because I want the best bonding agent because it'll seal it. And I need suction correct on these walls
of course, you know your sheathing. what's the most important thing? these two dollar brushes, I love these little dollar brushes, man, they work so well, but that is
the most important thing on the job you got to have some music guys. Play some music and play it
loud and have some fun what's that saying if you love what you do have never work another day in
your life and we kind of like what we do so we're good we're about to get started and on another
note, if you're a painter or you're applying any bonding agent get the fattest nap roller you can
find this inch and a half because this will apply a lot, like it'll do a whole section where something
like this this little nasty 1/8 inch nap it's useless. You put it in once you get it to a two
inch stroke rather than a 15-foot stroke so by the FAT naps guys anyway we're gonna get
started here's a good way to do this, if you're gonna apply a cementitious finish.
Okay you find the crack now there is a zero in on that crack you see that's a substantial crack you
gotta hit every crack on a house no. In fact, we don't all, just hit the ones sometimes above and below a door sometimes, if they're substantial, but as a rule, I don't because that's why we allow
it to cure when you allow something to cure then as the pH level drops, I'll get more in for a
minute, the pH level drops it cures it goes From about a 12 pH, and then it drops down to about a 10 pH. eight or a ten, and that's when you know the stucco is cured enough for, say painting or a color coat doesn't matter if it's an acrylic doesn't matter if it's cement tissues you should
allow that to set anyhow I'm putting this mesh tape on right now, and that's all you have to do for anybody who thinks how much? I've done mesh tape this this wide on ceilings
interior and I've only done one house like that because nobody wants to pay for that kind of stuff. Can you put mesh over the entire house? Sure you can, does anybody say, for example, I don't
know what they paid to have all this done but if we were thinking about increments often say
they paid I'm gonna go overboard just to prove before I say they paid forty thousand dollars to
have the scratch the last scratch brown in color ten, ten, ten, and ten, forty to forty thousand dollars,
we generally go forty, twenty funny, because the last is a lot of work but if you take that example and
you did the last scratch and brown and then after the brown coat. You will you put mesh-like what we're
doing over the whole house that'd be yeah actually another ten and if I told somebody, that hey I'm
gonna charge you to mesh it they'd call the cops on me and have me arrested. Most say, are you kidding me, Kirk, they don't do that here where I'm from I've done it once but that was a special circumstance anyhow here's what you do. I'm using a poly bond because it's cementitious
adhesive, can you use say like la Habra, sure yeah and it's a color coat material now
there's about twenty different color coat material finish bags from La Habra Western
BMI, to Carson, all these are just the tip of the iceberg, of those what you can use you, can use
that stuff but see those don't have the bonding agent so anyway this stuff here I'll show
you a bag in a bit guys because this particular product you can't buy at Home Depot or Lowe's
or any of those hardware stores, it's only found at the plastering material yards, like say West Side or Cal ply, by the way, we did have to go to Cal ply today and when I called them I uh so you guys open for
business during this academic and they said yeah, Kirk, we're open for business, but you have to wear
a mask inside the office or we have to give it to you outside the office similar to what we had to
do today, so I didn't think I was going to use so much Weld Crete, I sent Madeleine over there because we're in Contra Costa and it was closer to us than Westside, I called down there my buddy, Joey says,
yeah I send Madeleine, down and what we'll do is we'll meet her at the door because we can't talk
to yourself this was we gotta wear these too but anyhow back to this, we went through a lot of Weld
Crete bonding agent. I'll tell you a little bit about Cal Poly I have to let this sit for a minute this will
set for a minute and then what I'll do is I'll take it and I'll trim it I'll trim it out kind of
like that because the finish we're gonna apply is it's gonna be a skip trial which hides a lot of
stuff, but as I was saying when I first started this what happens is if this is a big hump then
if you apply Sayyaf and finish you can look at it sometimes in the light and say why is it a little
hump there so the poly bond has got to have the finest sand possible because if it has coarse sand
then it would create a bit of a bow, and yeah you felt you could feather it in by going further
but it's like when is enough. Okay we're gonna show you now we have a bonding agent this is this color here southern moss we're hustling today so we'll show you how to apply the
texture at the end but right now you look at this wall. You say wow that's a blue oh it is mighty
blue, but it's still what we applied is a bonding agent it is not a sealer so these walls still it's
like 95 today that's a hot day so even though we are working with walls that are we killed some
of the suction, we didn't kill enough guys because we've already done a lot of this house and so we
have got to wet it and so what I'm doing is I'm wetting it I'm hydrating it so that the heat
it's about 100 now like 90 to 100 so the heat is coming around the sun is right above me in 10
minutes gonna be on this wall. We're going to be hustling, so I'm gonna take you around we're going
to do something similar to that texture there but not quite like that that is a scripture and they
knocking down some places in some places they didn't knock it down, why they screwed up, anyway
what we got here, I want to show you what is a color coat integrated maintenance-free finish you
can see okay now you see this wall here this wall is drying still because we just applied this Jason
did the texture I spread Jason did the texture so this texture what we do we spread the color
I'll show you this toward the end of the video we spread the color then Jason floated everything
he brought the aggregate out and so now we have the sand right here. Then we textured that now
if you look at this texture right here they want to skip trial this is called a Spanish lace skip
trowel. it's pretty nice we did it we're going to show you another texture over here - and by
the way I had people call me they say hey Kurk, I hired some contractor every time it rains
my house darkens what'd he do wrong he didn't do nothing wrong he did everything right because
this is drying right now a maintenance-free color coat integrated finish. it's like this over here, okay you see that brick when it gets wet it darkens and that brick will retain
it's color for a thousand years. I'll hit it with water just to show how it goes dark,
so if you guys ever buy a house and it darkens when wet or the winter comes that means it's maintenance-free.
you'll never have to paint the body of that house it's 50 times thicker than paint and lasts forever
I mean we're talking hundreds of years if you get tired of just because the sun yellows it a little
bit or bleaches it forgets about it, leave it alone. because that's how they are in the UK they
actually like that age look it's it enhances the beauty or appearance of it over there, Jay and
I finished this wall now if you notice the texture again the texture is we applied floated it
and textured it that's how we do things I don't know if you can take a picture of that or show
it maybe if I grabbed a ladder, you could you want to you want to try because the fellow here said
you know if you can give me this, I'm good and actually what he's showing is a texture that is
it's applied wet and it's child wet and therefore it's not as pretty as this is.
a pretty texture guys yeah yeah we did it it's not bragging, it's just what it is now that once there,
you apply it and while it's still wet you trowel it. You save a lot of material and a lot of time but we're not trying to save time guys we are explaining things as we
go and we're teaching and we're showing how to do things a better way a different way. Yes, some
might say not better but it's our way and it's prettier so we're going to get back to doing
that gable wall there because it's gonna be in the sun in a minute, right now I'll tell you it's about 100
in the sun I was sweating my arse off here, and I will be again when the sun comes up so we're gonna
leave it alone and when we get to the very front of the house, we'll show you how what we're talking
about how we're applying it how we're floating it, and how we texture but not now because we're running, all right guys I'll tell you it's toward the end of the day it's getting late but I'll show you how
we apply this stuff. We're getting good exercise doing this I'm looking at people riding bikes and
walking by here cuz we're right next to a park. Everybody's got a mask on coronavirus anyhow where would you guys start this as a homeowner if you're a homeowner you say well I'm going to do like Kirk or like anybody where would you start, I know where I'm gonna start, the only place I can it makes the most sense if I start from the top work my way down I'm gonna have a joint there and a joint.
Here no discoloration or ghosting, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start right here I'm gonna come up go through the obstacle of Madeleine come up here no joints and then boom come down.
Thereby the way baby, you want to uh move that radio. That's the most important tool on the job,
the job site radio, and what I do is I've been wetting this, and so I wet this garage door. why? so
that the stucco I drop won't adhere to it and I have been misting the wall. I've been doing this for about a half-hour misting. Why? because we're in a hot area, really hot, so
here's what we do now, I'm gonna use my handy dandy trowel, here if you're watching you say that's
not a trial that's a toy, I'm using this tiny trowel here ass I got time to play around, it's getting late
there's what that little bitty guy does, all I need to do this is this Congo trowel and a margin
trowel, that's the only for the very corners all right. Since my daughter, Madeleine, jumped off of here, I'm gonna get started now I'm going to start from the bottom, and work my way up. Oh, man, that's some stiff mud, oh well, I'm gonna make it work. You want your mud a lot
thinner than this, you want it like whipping cream. This is like concrete anyway, so I got to start
at the bottom work my way up so no joints, so what I'll do with this stiff mud here, is start
from the bottom, I'm working my way up alright And by the way, you guys might have noticed,
just thought, wow, that's green. It is Southern Moss Color. Sothern-Moss is a cool color, that goes with everything. So we have to get through this obstacle court. Oh come on now, all right, I know there's a good chance when you're plastering, go up, then trowel down over the existing stucco. Madeleine, please give me some more stucco, just a little bit. There you go beautiful, alright now when I go to
the texture I'll show you something different. Here's a different technique for right, now let's
just get it on here because I'm just going to get this on after I get it on, then floated.
Why? because I told you earlier that what that does is it gives it up a really cool
finish it's called a sand finish first. All right, cut that pull it here while I'm under here. I'll get it right where that elbow is. Remember, I wet this door for a reason. I
wet that door because I don't want to cover it, and this isn't going to damage it. A little bit
of stucco on it is not a big deal as it washes right off. For the amount of time, it's gonna take
me to apply this is nothing's here. This okay and I'll show you how to get
your wrap screens the bottom here with the float, so I'm getting ready to get
up there with Madeleine and she's going to be hawking it to me, you're gonna hand
it to me, coming up in all right yeah we're out of slant this this wall it's curving down so if
you're out of slant you better have a plank under one leg a little bit. all right now you see how this wall here they kinda screwed up this one. This one rodded a
by the previous fellas but that's why we're here, we're here to correct that kind
of stuff, okay a little bit of stretching a little bit of elbow grease, nothing we can't handle and
here's because I'm using a trowel that it's not a complete radius it's not a complete radius just
the ends are arched, then it's straight here so what I'm doing is I put it on and come back over it.
You put it on you come back over it that fills it well, thus make certain that there's no hairline
checking, if you just put it on and leave it, to put it on. Then go back over it a little bit more. Madeline can do this too, and so could Jason as they have been doing the most of it, they put it on, come
back and where I got the scaffold elbow, by the way, guys how many of you know that
if I don't have to know if I don't have anything on the ground here, this elbow will support the whole scaffold, it doesn't have to have the front legs on the ground. In fact, the front legs can be in midair the elbow supports it. Because the last guy this is a piece of metal covered this coat will stick to it because it's already
had a chance to dry. So I'm going to leave it right at that and I'm leaving some excess fat right here or I can do one of these numbers, hold on baby, don't try this, guys if you fall, you'll say crap, I saw Kurt do it. Now to the top, you can put it here, or top pull it down. Thank you, baby, and again, this is the same application is for. If we were going to do, say, an acrylic finish, the same exact way. This is a cementitious finish
meaning, when it gets wet, it darkens, come on sit down, ah so this will darken when wet, but
that's good, It darkens when it's wet, that means like a brick it is maintenance
free. anytime I could sit down I'm sitting down, you guys do something like this make sure you get somebody to mix for you. because again I that is the red light supposed to be on. What about oh, okay yeah, we're good cool beans, all right here
we go, so because I'm already here, anyone hands me that oh, I see it okay no I got
it to hold that for a second, please. all right this is just to keep that garage door clean
because stucco won't adhere to it unless it's on there for all day if it's on for all-day
yeah well, but we're not gonna do that all day. stuff in fact it'd take me about 10 minutes to
hit all of this okay beautiful get up now - ah okay so what I like to do guys is let's put it
on here and drop it a couple times if you drop it a couple of times that mixes it because this
mud is still okay so we're back to it we're going to put it here and then turn it well I guess the top
I've been wetting this wall down for about a half hour, that tells you how hot it is today I wet it
down half hour and I wet it down earlier and it is still hot and that's with it being somewhat
filled that just goes to show you how hot it is guys, it is no joke. Fortunately, I love the heat. Here we go, we do the top. I see all these nails I'm there's a whole bunch of nails what I'm
doing is the blade is so thin I'm going right under them. I'd say another technique to guys who
are always doing brick walls and if you're doing a brick wall or say you're doing cinder block,
oh man I get asked this like five times a week is it Kirk already started now it's sucking up
so fast what do I do you do the same thing, I'm gonna do, right now okay it's sucking up so fast
mist it again, just mist, mist, mist right above you baby. okay I got an I'm going to go right
by you baby, yeah okay yeah yeah yeah because it's a hot hot day. I'll tell you the city you say wow that's a hot area. If it's really hot, you can tell how hot it is by just this much look
at that big clump oh that's stiff hot mud and by the way, when I say hot mud, I don't mean
like hot mud like in all the rest of the videos. We got this it does not have accelerators, there
is no finished material with an accelerator in it. There's every base coat every interior you can put it in a cellar a door in it but there's no such thing as this accelerator for finish coats. One more scoop Madeleine, thank you, sweetie. Okay one more, we're getting the top I
got a lot of fat up here I'm robbing Peter to pay Paul. I'm not sure what that expression means but
you take some of it off here and you put it on where you need it. I got a lot of fat here, okay well, I can't
reach I generally stand on an empty bucket. But if I do that on film, and then you guys do it. You fall and crack your head open you'll say I was watching Kirk do it, so don't do that kind of stuff I do. all right a little bit Here's what I can do, no don't even show
what I'm doing Jay uh-huh I'm just getting it done guys you guys set your scaffold
to make sure the scaffolds are set properly. Now I'll finish what I'm doing, I can use the
tip of this because this is a margin trowel. You got web eh, and this child is 20 inches
long is less stroke I get more done kind of like my brother Lou. you know, I say, man, your putting 200 pounds in a hod sometimes, and you carry that mud up a ladder, I say why don't you put less
Lu, says that means I got to make more trips! So I guess that I guess that, and then actually.
I could float that in, but if you guys are doing. iF you say hey how do I did get yourself one of
these long margin trials it's a margin trowel they got pointer child's margin trowel the
pointers actually have a point and you can get for those Gables, but I can do that with when
I get ready to Hey look at that a pointer trauma, so we get it right in there blam get that
right in there flam okay do I need this again no I'm going to hit this real quick
babe, and then I'm going to get that again okay come on now come on we've been doing this
all day guys love it you know that saying if you love what you do never work another day in your
life my baby oh we got some good mud how about that oh yeah this is good mud guys see the
the difference it's soft so I'll have to put as much muscle in it if I could save that muscle I want
to save it because I don't want to burn out we've been doing this for a long time today already
the last thing I want to do is burn out okay so we're coming down coming down
and you guys you have to look at it just go over it, and I'm turning the char this way on edge and
coming back on edge just do that a few times guy get it on there get rid of all the holidays, you get
rid of all the holidays you're doing good because see a holiday right there we don't want holidays
one second sweetie because, back and I'm a wet in front of me because I'm going over here and
this over here I don't get to keep it wet Got to keep it wet all right. bye AJ yeah okay so one more
sweetie yeah ma okay beautiful look more Betty and then you could switch sides with me because
I'm gonna get over there like okay so there's more the same guys they're gonna take me like
five more minutes to finish this wall know what happens if you wash me for five more minutes I'll
start rambling on about the whole bunch of years some stuff that don't amount to nothing so if you
already got the point you can click off but anyway I'm moving on again back and forth back and forth
you got to cover the holidays the holidays what's that mean and that's actually paint or talk that
means that you've got holes here and there so you got to cover all the holes otherwise we texture
this and you say hey I still see cement underneath not a good thing not a good thing one more sweetie
okay so baby if you want to take that hose in and get your area and what I like to do again is go up
come down and if you're looking if you want to do this quick and when I think quick I don't mean
sloppy but just quick get yourself a big trial you know where Amazon run link to Amazon and every
tool we have Jason meticulously founded on Amazon and posted it and yeah we're members that we get
one percent of all sales ah helps us making these videos but anyway this particular trial is hard
to find because people tell that's a swimming-pool trial kind of sort of guys kind of sorta again I
already crossed that bridge with the arc in this Okay, who is hot? I was doing up some work
around the corner, and there's a bit up there. I hit that vent. I swear I felt like
sticking my head in the oven. I was thinking, wow, that's like 400 degrees; I just made
a sweat pour right out of me. Personally, I can do this all day because it's good exercise. All right, I've almost got this, John well,
I'm coming up here, and I'm gonna float this now. Why do I have to float it? No, maybe
one out of ten people float it on that one, and there's a reason for it. Some of the textures
I like you floated first they floated just buoys bring it out there all right very good I do it oh
yeah baby and if you could throw me up the float. all right and so I'm gonna float this now
floating is uh I like floating myself guys because if it makes it prettier and also if I
missed any area it will catch it as this sponge float too is designed let's say we're guys
what's a sponge float designed for anybody know anybody care it's designed to bring the
sand out okay sweetie now you guys don't have to do this but if I texture over this it's just
just a normal place but if I do this right here. I'm cleaning the trim, Jay what now but a new card in the camera and I'll just continue float
because I'm on a time limit this wall is sucking the moisture it's sucking the moisture right
out of this color finish and what it does that I won't be able to float it and again this
color created color its southern moss I just think of that word reminds me of someplace
in Charleston have I ever been in Charleston no it just sounds like something all right so
we're going to go under these nails these nails will destroy a float coming here boom boom boom
and about to drop down here now okay coming up Don't do this at home, guys ah okay, all
right, I got a little part right here cuz my cha doesn't want to go there because
it's got that radius. I wouldn't trade that radius for anything that radiances. I love it
great for swimming pools, great for interior, and even better for exteriors. I even
made a video of Sean why this is such a the spectacular trowel and that's it shows
the radius in great detail all right, so all I got to do is just to finish this piece,
and I'm gonna go up there and texture I would prefer some soupier mud better mud but is it
essential not really, but I would like it so that's the beauty of this big trial the big
trial you don't have to do a whole lot of useless strokes I don't want a little bitty trial
a little bitty one take forever okay and again we didn't do this base coat base coat was done
about a year ago but it has some issues know that we can't handle there's a rule if something's
wrong we just fixed it how's the roof I'm using a really good material I tell you guys what it is
if it's a horrible matter of course I don't use it but I have had the learning experience of using
crappy materials many years in the past you don't save a nickel guy so like if you're gonna paint
something you better pay for Sherman Williams got a whopping 90 bucks a gallon otherwise you're
gonna be repainting it in like 8 10 years Sherman Williams really should get 15 years out of that
stuff even though it's expensive okay so since we are done with with the skin now on the texture
it can I let this dry and come back and texture it absolutely should I allow it to dry and texture
it I depends that depends guys ah that depends on what finish people want if they said Kirk what I
want is a finish that has a lot of depth and will allow it to dry and you give it more depth okay
guys let me show you something else too I got a little bit of my out in here it's a little bit
better now the camera I want to see I normally will go like this a couple times what I'll do is
I'll put it at an angle to see that's kind of at an angle from this point to this point that way
you can see the trial the trial is the same side it's a 14 inch Hawk it's a bigger Hawk they made
if they made a 30 inch I'd be using a 30 inch hawk it's the biggest child they make if they made one
bigger for this I'd be using it but so I'll put it at an angle that way I can when I take it off
I can get more mud on it if if I'm taking it off this way that works too but I'm dropping it on the
hawk you drop turn twist drop turn twist drop turn twist or you can pull it off the top some guys say
you're not a real plows because you can't pull it off the top and I think guys there's nothing to
pulling it off the top ok now we got that stuff it's on right here now what I'm going to do is
I'm giving it a skip trial so what I like to do it I like to reinforce the corners sometimes I go
straight up that's fine I mean ok for example if I go straight up that's fine I can do that but
sometimes I reinforce the corners and I'll put it like so because corners just they're galvanized
in the metal but they're not always super strong and of course when you are working in the hot Sun
like this or actually on a hot day the Sun not on us but it's still about if you see me sweating
that means it's hot it's oh I'm sweating as fast as I put it on the walls absorbing and you can
see already this lightening color that lightening means the moisture has been sucked out of the
texture in order for this texture to it here you got to knock it down and it all depends on the
day guys if it was a cold day I can leave it to the end of the whole wall then knock everything
down right now I want the texture to it here so if you want the texture to it here what you got
to do is put it on and then trowel over it so that that texture does indeed get here now this
was called staggering not the kind of staggering you get when you're drinkin but this kind of
staggering here this just simply means see I started here here here here that way when I go to
put my next finish on you won't see that line or the pattern so we stagger the mud when I come here
I'm just gonna pull it down put it on pull it down put it on pull it down okay now that we got that
I don't need to stagger anymore because I got a perfect spot it's only a little bit of mud left
on here but since I'm down here I'll use it up a lot of times guys if I have a little bit I'll
just put I'll use it the hawk to skim the blade and because I want this piece of metal this is a
Jay trim right here they put a piece of jtriv for whatever reason I want that Jay trim covered too
because well nobody wants to see a piece of metal right there well okay moving on guys I'm going to
take a lot of mud out of this bucket rather than a tiny bit get out of there okay taking a lot of
mud out of it because I don't want to mess around it's late we got to be getting Oh another worse it
getting it in your eyeball or you're working fast and you sweat and it goes in your eye like it's
in my eye like come on me that fight Oh Cassius Clay then Mohammed Ali now it was fighting Sonny
Liston and he had something in his eye that's what I got right now but i'ma finish this I think
it's just a sweat in my eye or it could be this because technically I'm wearing glasses guys am
i wearing a mask no if I was mixing would I be wearing a mask absolutely because when you mix up
cement guess what it's got this thing called lime there's got another thing called Stella CUH silica
is when you cut the sand you cut through the sand they put it in a loop many of them now silica dust
goes in the lungs and it doesn't come out it just stays there and it just turns the lungs black it
just beats him up guy so when you're mixing we're mouth when you're applicator like me you don't
need a mask but that brings up another subject never ever ever takes knuckle and cut it with a
saw you take a skill saw you put a Hilty blade on it you can cut through stuck or concrete but all
that does if you inhale it that's got silica in it picture tapioca pudding that's what our lungs
look like and you get that that's silica dust in there because you're thinking Mara I'm gonna
grind down the stucco I'm gonna cut concrete what you're going to do is poison yourself guys cuz
that silica dust is no joke gets on your lungs and then turns it black that's for my buddy Marc
Fowler Marc Fowler is the editor of well used to be walls and ceilings and now he is the editor
of what is that SMA and soon this year they're implementing new rules just what we need more
rules but you're gonna have to take tests for contracting and you gonna have to learn all about
silica done he sent me a video he's got Turk I know you like Gilligan's Island on cartoons so
I'm gonna send it to do the video and it shows in the video inhaling a dust you ever watched
those movies where it's a doctor movie and they show in slow motion what the stuff does when it
goes down your throat well this showed that the silica dust sticks to your lungs and then it just
turns them black and they really no he says he says that once wood turned black that's it you
can't clean your lungs me personally I believe the whole human body regenerates itself that's
just a belief of mine from spines you name it I think that okay so again working here almost got
it done I think I'm gonna do guys is just finish this up right here because I only got a little
bit of mud then Matt's gonna bring me a little bit more mud and I'm gonna finish it now this is
hot so if it's hot and if I leave this here and I keep going keep going gonna be a different texture
than that so I knock it down guys you don't have to lock just lift is it I lift what you're doing
is when you come down you lift the bottom up when you go up you lift the top up that is how you
do oh damn near everything this far as stucco a little bit more and I'm gonna get down not going
to show you the bottom because you get the point I do want to cover this Jay trim so I'm going low
and here's what I do now guys just keep on keeping on and if you guys watch what we do and you say I
think I can do that you probably could any sheet rockers watching you can do this guy's because
you already got the skill but here's or something okay if you think how is he making that skip the
wall is pulling it off say for example okay I put little bit on here now I'm gonna let the wall pull
it off I put this here and come down now the wall is pulling it off all I'm doing is lightly rubbing
against against what we have so it's not it's not like some people say hey watch what you do but I
don't understand how you skip it I don't skip it the wall drags it off so the wall kind of drags it
off guys boom like yeah and again I'm looking at what I'm doing because I need to knock it all down
that way when it dries it's I didn't want it like the other how we showed in the video now that's
a nice texture but I don't want to if I was going to texture my own house I don't want it to look
like Taco Bell Taco Bell what they did is they just left the texture with a heavier sand and that
was it they didn't knock it down and while we're on there what is this this is La Habra finish
coat and it's called 20/30 mud what is 20/30 mud that is the middle mud then you have like in
the three bears you have the heavy mud heavy sand and that's called 1620 or you have the superfine
that's 3030 technical stuff probably would never need but anyway you guys seen where it's going
we are still in the runner epidemic every time I look I see everybody around how they Wallace weird
but anyhow guys I'm gonna sit down for a sec and tell you guys once more if you love what you do
you never have to work another day in your life we all love what love what we do so we're making
money and getting strong feeling good god I love it what that country anyway guys we thank you for
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