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Teaching the strongest interior cement plastering system known to man
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Teaching the strongest interior cement plastering system known to man, the do’s and don’t with whys and hows for all about interior Plastering
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hi Kirk !like your Videos.greetings from Germany☺
Really informative
Howdy Anthony, thank you my friend
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well Señor Kirk sure is not bank robber by trade, though he sure knows how to convey casing a job
Howdy Ribero, that's because, like Nickelback, I couldn't make it as a poor man stealing.
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I don't know how a russian like me got here, but im addicted to watching these videos.
Good Evening Disco Dude, more than likely you might become a plasterer, not a bad living, keeps me in shape and out of jail.
What a country.
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I heard you say Structo-Base here. One plasterer near me says he doesn't use Diamond or Imperial anymore, he says he only uses Structo-Gauge gauging plaster. How is this stuff? Awesome?
Also weirdly here in the Northeast many houses I've seen here have what looks like a normal finish plaster, but some kind of gray stuff that looks/feels like Portland cement as their basecoat.
Greetings Bates Dude, USG's Structo-Lite makes a very universal base coat, it's too gluey like to use as a finished product for me.
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Thank you very much for sharing your insight in these magnificent videos.
Greeting Clair, you, my girl have a wonderful way with words, thank you.
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Evening jose dude, Louuuu? indeed he is.
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Hi, Kirk, can you talk more about working in cold temperatures and winter? I've got an old house that is basically unheated. I can warm it up while I'm there with a gas stove. Then the temperature falls when I leave. What kind of products can I use in winter? I've got a plaster ceiling to repair, some drywall, and would like to do some cement detailing around a fireplace.
Evening WV dude, you can always insulate your home.
FYI, a gas stove will warm your home but also suck the oxygen out of the air, you will feel tired when using it unless your very young and healthy.
I would suggest using the fireplace and add more clothes it's called layering two tee shirts instead of one.
May you all have a Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.
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Thanks for your videos. Very useful and informative.
You take the time to explain the little stuff based on your experience.
My daughter tells me often.
"Dad what should take 5 seconds to answer takes you 5 minutes."
Well thats because i care.
Its cool you got your boys involved learning a skillset that is dying out
Good Evening John, thank you, my friend, I do tend to often describe in detail what we're doing and why.
I never know when my great grandmamma might be watching, I have to make sure she understands also.
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@Kirk Giordano plastering Inc. love it.
Thanks for taking the time to make the videos.
Hi Kirk, great videos, thank you so much. I have an issue…..living in rented apartment, and it happens already twice having my landlord fixing interior walls in the middle of the winter…Chicago… tiered of it, I want to do it myself this time, and it doesn't need to be perfect. It's an old building with plaster walls…. can I fixed my wall with cement stucco or I should use set lite 20? Now, it is pretty obvious to me that they were using some kind of cheep joining compound to patch my wall, and after an month or so, I've got blisters back on and all that comes with it………I really need your advice
Good Evening Ivaylo, if it were me, I´d use the 20-minute compound also, fast and effective for holes.
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Hi Kirk, can you apply this type of stucco onto a interior drywall surface? I'm trying to have a cement wall on one side of the bedroom, but I'm wondering if it's better to take down the drywall and add a wire sheet with paper underneath onto the wall studs instead. New to all of this so any info would be helpful!
Morning Jairo, you can apply over drywall, but only a finish coat.
For example, apply a bonding agent over the drywall or sheetrock then apply an n exterior cementitious finish coat such as La Habra color finishes,
Note, if you do this the wall will scratch your skin if rubbed against too hard as it's cementitious.
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@Kirk Giordano plastering Inc. I have a similar issue…Most of the house has the drywall with holes in it for the keying as you call it, and they have plastered it mostly. Some rooms are just drywall. The main living area is plaster. I had to remove a number of areas to repair the wood termites ate…So what is a good appraoch? Find that hole/perforated drywall, or use something else on the studs, and then 3:1 Eizen, then Imperial, then Diamond, or? I have done years of clay sculpting, and rock, and good with my hand to eye feel in such material, but really no experience in this. I cannot find anyone that knows how, and I am pretty sure I can't afford you to fly out:-) So I am dedicating a wall to get the feel and then work to perfect. I have watched about 50 of your videos and I feel like you got me all pumped up to do it…SO! I at the supply places, I need to ask for cement board, then get the Rapid set, or Eizen, then USG materials…. I will be doing this almost alone, so I'm mixing then applying. I know, its not what you recommend, not much of a choice. BTW, Nice job on your upstairs lime wall and flooring. Open to some advice and tips I might have missed in the 50 videos…lol Cheers!
You know what that means when you can spin your hawk on your trowel like that?
You obviously have to much time on your hands. Get to work or pack up your lunch pale…ha ha
Howdy Lou, no doubt, I do sometimes have time to eat or play.
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The 2nd time I watched this video I pickup on your friend Tim being a criminal. You should have seen the expression on his face. That was funny. What is the mix you are using, material?
Evening Jose, with most of our work, we use 1 part cement plaster to three parts sand.
For example, each 100-pound bag of stucco we use 300 pounds of sand.
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Hi KIrk. Been watching your videos for a while , great stuff I'm a cement mason in NY City, we also do a lot of plastering in city building , we use stuctolite and we put portland cement in it for an accelerator and sometimes will also put sand in as well. you are a true tradesman I've been a bricklayer mason and plasterer for 30 years . learned things from you . thanks for passing on your knowledge , be well my friend , Chris Bello
Morning Bull dude, thank you my friend.
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board it you crazy bastard, i could do the wehole job in 1 day, your shit ahhhhhhh
Did u watch the video? Plasterboard wudnt be strong enough for what the guy wanted
@Dazza skillz if extra strength is required double board it and d and d the boards as well as srews, i have been doing it for pushing 40 years , so i think i know what im talking about,
Morning Anthony, no doubt by this comment you are cursed with the thought of a monkey, hence you're first and last rude remark last to my channel, I'm busy teaching and working and have no time for counseling
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You would be done in less than a day because the customer would have pulled you off the job when you started to drywall it.
can tile adhesive be used for plastering….it look more tough than plaster
Morning Evendimata, no, sorry tile adhesives are made for attaching tile.
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Would mortar cement be good as a stucco base coat? It already has lime in with the portland.
Morning Moss, many ways to skin a cat.
I am showing the strongest cement plastering basecoat in this video, Cement mortar is also called Stucco, and cement plastering, as long as it has no rocks as aggregates, you should be fine.
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There is a revival of the use of lime renders in the UK, which takes the opposite approach of using soft and flexible render to cope with movement. As a tree resists the wind by bending, so lime render resists cracks by being flexible. But not all lime mortars are equally flexible, see the video below to see how hard render has failed on historic builds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yyunMtJsxE
Evening John, I have seen this video before and agree with it 100 percent.
In fact, I did a few videos on real lime plastering years ago also.
There is no debate that the real lime plasters used for thousands of years in the UK are far superior in the long run to Portland cement plaster.
The USA is sort of 400 years old since all the immigrants settled here.
Here in the past, they used the natural resources to build homes, trees, which is common here.
Portland cement plaster also came from and was developed in the UK about 150 years ago.
This portland was shipped here until quarries were located to use our own natural resources.
Lime is hard to find here, much is now an additive's called plasticizers, which isn't real lime at all.
This is out of old Kirk's hands
I use what is available here. Portland cement plaster.
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would this be a good place to use a cheater?
Evening John, yes, indeed it would be.
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I assume your using stro-lite.You did not say what its made of.
Evening Brooklyn, no, we used Eisenwall cement plaster, the strongest cement plaster I'm aware of for the basecoat.
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I'm building an interior mantel using 2 x 4's and I'm going to sheet it with cement board. What's the best cement or mortar to veneer on the cement board to make it look like a solid concrete mantel?
Evening Wayne, I would skim with plaster and trowel it a lot until smooth. Or basecoat it and come back with a smooth finish color coat of Silver.
Me I would use, "Silpro," it is not designed for walls but for floors
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Great’ Thanks Kirk !
I love your videos. Thanks for posting them.
Happy holidays, dog dude, thank you.
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Plaster better than drywall but no one know how or too expensive
It absorb more noise
Happy holidays king Tin Dude, and then some.
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Are all the videos missing the sound?
Thank you my mother in law had a similar problem it was amazing the difference I couldn't believe the difference in just a weekend . some experience was needed .I was in aw when she put an egg shell paint on it
Happy holidays bobby, glad to hear a happy ending.
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Are all your videos without sound?
Happy New Year Travis, no, all have sound, your computer must be acting up.
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Kirk
Have you ever used a mud flap for a mud board?
I use them.
Here in Texas it’s blistering hot and white mortar dryers faster than any mud.
You hardly ever have to shake up the mud unlike on a plywood mud board.
Just put a mud flap from a truck on top of your plywood.
Happy New Year Mike, I used many things such as garbage cans or whatever is stable, when I forget my mud boards.
They do sell acrylic mud boards.
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Would it work to do a stucco base coat onto plasterweld over gypboard, and then go straight to Veneer finish coat?
Child labor laws don’t apply when it’s your kids…lol
Tim wanted to be a smooth criminal.
Howdy Alonso, LOL
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I have a question. In a situation like this, would you ever recommend a wall to have movement joints built in? I know with tile you need to incorporate movement joints at each wall corner, it can't be grouted or have the tiles butted against each other. With sheetrock, too, I think ideally in commercial settings it's supposed to be every 40 feet or so, you have a movement joint? I've seen in some subway stations, metal panel walls with big movement joints per each 4×8 or 4×12 or so sheet (in Taiwan where there are earthquakes…) Could you maybe tell us more about movement joints in plastering and stucco scenarios?
Thank you for this Video I wish you can train me to do that seems like someone is always aking me for help…
My wife's going to kill me and my kids are wondering where I went. I never get tired at watching do the impossible and make it look easy peasy.
What is the best job for newbies? I had some plaster that was basically dust behind paint. I knocked it all out and redid it with plaster of paris. three coats. Not smooth so it blended well with that 100yo wall. Painted great and you can't see it. I was hooked immediately.
Also are you from Alameda, or another part of the country.
Keep 'em coming and stay healthy.
great commentary 🙂
Have you ever tried "stand up comedy"? Your funny w/ the criminal story.
Must take a long time to cover all interior walls of an average 3 bedroom 2 bathroom home. With this method. Do you enjoy working with plaster aesthetically? Because Sheetrock is much neater and faster.
Is it possible to put some insulation behind the cedar slats?
Hi Kirk. Long time viewer, first time caller. I have a 1925 craftsman style house in Galveston, TX. The exterior is cement plaster over structural clay brick with a dash finish. The interior is also cement plaster with a sand finish over either structural clay brick or cedar lath. There is horse hair mixed into the interior plaster. My question is for repairs (cracks, holes, etc.), do I used the same techniques I would on the exterior? Or should I used gypsum based plaster?
Kirk, Love your videos! Question, I'm an old time mason and have plastered various things through the years, but now I have an old building with original lime plaster walls, some walls are almost 100' by 12'. I'm the lone mason/plasterer. Is it even possible for me to so this without showing stop/starts? I'm sure in the old days and even now they have many guys running a trowel and darby. Would it be ok just to use concrete plaster on the cleaned walls?
Good learning videos
Hi Kirk, If you have a house that is likely to move, why not go with a flexible wall. Pull the lath off and put up sheetrock, that won't affect the look of the trim. You'll have one or two seams that are more flexible than plaster and will never pop off. If there is settling any cracks are likely to be under the tape along the seams.
Your videos are so through and informative. I am an absolute novice and rehabbing a 10,000 sq foot building that’s full of wire lathe. An old 1800’s schoolhouse with walls that are thick plaster except where the chalkboards were removed. A 20×5 rectangular amount of wire lathe is exposed now with
a 1 1/4 inch gap in the middle of the wall. Any videos or opinions on wire lathe repair?
@Kirk Giordano plastering Inc. wow, thank you so much for the quick reply! A 3rd generation retiring plasterer sold me so many great tools; excited to start using them. The walls that are still up have the rough coat on it. My end plan is to smooth veneer it. I fell into this schoolhouse, when it was offered, I immediately said yes. It’s awesome but so much manual labor! I love it tho, and love you YouTuber’s for guiding me along this incredible journey of mine! Peace and gods blessing to the west coast with the fires.
I LOVE MUD !!
Evening Jon Dude, man, that makes two of us, thank you,
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Wouldn't sheetrock be easier and cheaper?