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Hello everyone, In this video I am explaining how to patch some areas in a dining room.
Many plaster finishes are time consuming or difficult unless you know the formula, so now you know.
There are many plasters, including Structo-lite to wallboard compounds, cements and even taping muds that can be used.
In fact on this room one fella did use taping mud it took him many trips and his small patch came out o.k. but we still redid it for a much closer finish.
I prefer a 20 minute mud as I’m fast and don’t like to make more than one trip.
Plus the 20 minute mud keeps me Hustling!
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Amazing video. The mystery this kind of artistry has finally been explained. You sir are truly a craftsman and part of a dying breed. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Morning greekmd thank you for the kind words, funny thing about textures, once you have many years in, the more complicated they may look the easier they actually are.
Thanks for the comment and best wishes with your day!
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in some of your videos you use a conditioner that is in a spray bottle. I live in Olympia WA. and I have called around asking for a lath conditioner. all i can find is plaster weld. What do you use for a lath conditioner that will work in a spray bottle?
thank you.
Matthew.
Evening Matthew Mullinnix, actually Jason sometimes uses the spray bottle to spray on the plaster weld which we use to bond interior plaster when patching or the weld create to spay on the exterior walls which we need for extra bonding, both of these bonding products are made by Larson's.
By the way Lowe's and home depot also carry simalar bonding products by different name.
These spray bottles I buy from westside building materials.
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kirk and family
Great video as always. Your comment at the end, about how the old texture is smoother than the new due to about 15 coats of paint. Is it typical for the new plaster and texture, even once primed and painted, to look slightly rougher in a 90-100 year old house due to the layers of paint?
Hi Steve Franks, Yes and No.
A skilled applicator will say after his repair, prime and paint and it should match as close as possible, as this skilled person will match the original, but just a bit rougher so that when you apply a prime and paint it should technically match.
A handy man, or a fella who habit is of low self esteem combined with inexperience will make excuses such as "well the rest of the house has 10 or more coats of paint in the last 100 years so I can't match it any better.)
And yes, I have failed a few times myself and this is how we learn to look closely at what we were trying to achieve.
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A true master of his craft.
Howdy Joe, thank you,
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Do you use unlikely at all and what are your thoughts on it ?
Evening Westside what is Unlikely, besides improbable, doubtful, dubious?
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I meant UNI-KAL. I hate autocorrect
Morning westside98, uni-cal veneer is not sold at my material yard nor are many other veneer base coats and finishes,
They do however sell Diamond and Imperial veneers, so these are the products I use,
I feel all are similar,
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if you could I would like to see a pebble dash video. thanks
Evening Mr. Big Time, no worries, go to the link below and fast forward towards the end as I first show the scratch and brown coat.
Here's a tip read the words too, as I explain that perlite is soooo much easier than actual rock pebbles to be used as perlite wont sink to the bottom of the bucket..
http://youtu.be/gLPrQ4EsGS4
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Now kirk, because of your videos I got my first hawk and pool trowel,Im no longer spilling heaps of 20 mud everywhere. "just small goobers from time to time" Ive learned much from these videos …. BUT , even though Im VERY appreciative of the knowledge, I must ask : Why do you share with the world? …..seems like you would want to keep it all to yourself/your crew for job security and greed. My old boss would make us wait to do somethings if other tradesmen where around …. like arch formulas,blind nails and shark joints because "You just don't want everyone knowing how, its bad for business"….I'm guessing you disagree with him? Once again, No disrespect!! just wondering why you give away for free what you worked hard to earn.
Evening terry Broome,
excellent question,
My brother Looooou, said the same thing my reply was "dude, you still can't plaster after 30 years, so most will try and then call us anyway,"
for those that succeed, I wish them well.
I have a honest nature and enjoy helping others not being a grinch type of dude, this type of attitude will make a fella old and crusty in the head.
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Techniques is plural, not possessive. Ditch the apostrophe.
Hi Susan, you may be able tell that I never finished school I bet, in fact if it weren't for spell check, no one would be able to understand what I'm trying to say, thank goodness for the intelligent poets, that even the rest of us ignorant folks out.
thanks for the tip, doubtful I'll retain the info but It's the thought that counts.
Have a great evening and remember men love intelligent women.
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Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
Hello WCSD, no worries,
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The texture looks terrible. Why get a plasterer to patch and match when they could get him to make its all smooth and tidy.
HI Nathan, good question, I would answer some folks like this texture, as in this room.
I said I could do just that if they wished,
They didn't .
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@Sajid Rafique Hello again Sajid, thank you, best wishes,
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Can you match new and old acoustic or popcorn ceiling textures, if so do you have or can you make a video on it?
Howdy Ruiz, these popcorn ceiling use a different aggregate than we do for stucco.
we use sand they use perlite, sorry, no can do.
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dude you need to get your own tv show, i cant stop watching you plaster, no joke!
Morning William Blair, dude, I like your style,
cheers and thanks for the bone.
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I agree.
This is just what I needed to see. I am repairing the front wall of our church's sanctuary where everyone looks. The building is over 90 years old and the particular wall has been worked on many times. I found that the flashing had been the problem all along (roofers laid the shingles over the headwall flashing). Now that it has been corrected I'm fixing the cracks. The previous workers used everything from metal mesh to drywall tape to bridge the gaps, but with the roof always leaking, there was no end. I called it the 'forever wall' because someone always seemed to be working on it. Your videos are a great help. Much appreciated.
Hi JonMichael001, no worries, glad to be of help,
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Kirk are you from the Valley?
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For some reason I thought you were in the San Fernando Valley more like West Hills.
Howdy Wanda, I do like the sound of these valleys as they sound like they're tucked into some warm areas, man, It's cold in the Bay area at this time, I find it cold when it goes down to 50 degrees as I love about 85 to 90 degree weather myself,
got to feel the sun doing its magic on my face when possible.
cheers me friend,
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Than we can agree Cali has the best weather in the entire US & I wouldn't trade up Cali for 1000 NY lol! Today living in the sunshine state FL and already use to the humidity here and all the green, (those southern trees) with the moss ……lol!
I do get home sick from time to time-but like anything it passes. Anywho, really love your work and I really appreciate your teachings. You're the MASTER KING of plastering.
Evening Wanda, thank you
Florida is the place I'd like to be as it's much warmer, we worked in the rain today at a temperature of about 50 degrees sort of chilly for me.
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well, except for the earthquakes, but then again, earthquakes are great for this type of business.
Great videos. wish i would have seen this method before i started my garage conversion project. ive done four walls and a ceiling, 24 ft by 12 ft by 10 feet high all with a knockdown finish applied purely by hand. A sprayer would have been better but now ive got a hand applied finish that i can be proud of.
Good Evening Dad Dude, a hand applied finish beats machine applied finish any day as it natural.
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Good work! patching a little section is the most difficult task, but keeps the history of an old house,
Howdy Rory Dude, no worries, happy to share the knowledge
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Great job.
Good Morning Paco dude, thank you
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I would like to see more about the product than instead of just watching you put it on.
Evening Roger, sorry.
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Captain Kirk out, Live long and plaster
Reading the title would have saved you some time then.
atta boy Troy give em hell,
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Texture looks like a crack head did it.
Hey, Kirk watch your videos all the time. I am learning a lot from you. I am a retired patchman. The plasterers that taught me used to set the strucctolite with ground gypsum. That gives a lot of open time about 4 hrs. we added the ground gypsum on the mortar board as we goso you could go 4 hours. and yet have the plaster set right away. Why is that not a good method?
Howdy John, that's an excellent method.
Another Ancient Chinese Secret would be to set Structo-lite in ten minutes would be to add just a handful of cement plaster, instant set time if you add the right amount.
Actually, my boys from the UK, told me this secret long ago as UK plasters are the best in the world.
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Hello Kirk, Love your work and you've inspired me to plaster my interior den walls. With that being said, I just completed skimmed my old texture with all purpose joint compound (green lid) and wanted to know what my next step would be? Would I just apply some plaster bond to the skimmed walls and then add Diamond Veneer? Please let me know as I have received so many different opinions on this and so I thought I'd ask the master. 🙂 Thank you and keep up the great work!
Howdy A dude, thank you for the master statement, made me laugh.
I have not used that gypsum before as most gypsums that are in buckets are premixed, they are not as good or reliable as the bags that people mix themselves.
Since you already applied the gypsum, you must use a bonding agent to apply a veneer at this point.
Again another rule starts with a veneer plaster and finish with a veneer plaster or start with a base of veneer plaster and finish with a gypsum compound.
It's not a good idea to start with gypsum compound and finish with a veneer plaster but can be done as long as you apply a bonding agent first, Id recommends quikrete bonding agent, sold at all home depots or lowes.
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Kirk Giordano plastering Inc. Thank you for the input! I will pick up that binding agent and give it a shot. Keep up the good work and keep that white shirt clean! All the best!
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Happy New Year Ryan, I like your style.
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Hi Kirk, Thanks for all you teach us sir. This is so Very good. Learned a lot on this one. I have to match this pattern at that same 100 year old customers house only over tuck pointed brick exterior walls. Rapid Set Mortar is where I started with the tuck pointing, I have Diamond Veneer basecoat next, however in my practicing of the DV Finish coat…..man that stuff hard for me to work with unless I am missing something. It’s like I need a set control agent, but Home Depot only sells those packets for Rapid Set products. I do not want to use gypsum based on the exterior walls as the previous fix was dissolved right off the wall by a small roof leak. I’m trying to make it like it was when it started instead of using these chalk products that dissolve with water. I read on the finish coat diamond veneer that there is a set control that I can use so I can work with it for a longer period time. Can the diamond veneer finish coat be used for this kind of pattern example as easily you you are showing here?
Happy New Year Mike, Try using the 60 or 90-minute Joint Compounds. 60 minutes compounds means, you have 60-minutes to apply it before it gets hard and so on.
USG Easy Sand Joint Compound Or Westpac’s Fast Set Joint Compound, they are both okay to use. In fact, I can't tell the difference, surely one is sold at your neighborhood hardware store. Bringing peace, love, and harmony back to the world of plastering.
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Ya gotta read the whole question. I know how to use tape mud in all of its forms. It’s very easy and requires very low skill. Lime based is not as you know. The exterior inside walls must look like knock down dash, but be cement like the rest of the house built in STL 100 years ago.
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Do you know how far apart the studs are the stripping is attached to or how to find them ?
Hey Kirk I love the vids, can you answer me 1 question? I have a 100 year old house in Minnesota, all the interior walls are cement plaster, nice. I have some patches to do, but don’t know if I should use gypsum plaster for the repairs, or cement? Thanks a lot
Are you related to the late great Bob Ross?