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drywall and sheetrock joint compound

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drywall and sheetrock joint compound
I’ll tell you, folks, what goes on in my mind sometimes when I’m showing while explaining stuff.
Now granted, I’m plastering, but I can visualize myself sitting in a chair watching myself, my subconscious, taunting and laughing, saying things like, “man,” you keep on rambling about stuff that doesn’t amount to nothing. Someday you will pay the price for your arrogance.
The mud will set so hard, you won’t be able to apply it, dumb ass.
But on a conscious level, I’m working and find talking back to my subconscious, saying goofy shit like, piss-off, try setting on me.
I’m a lion tamer, but instead of a whip and chair, I use a hawk and trowel to conquer any and all mud.
There’s no mud, no matter the set time, that can touch me!
So what if I have to use muscle, no worries, I have it in storage, just begging and waiting to be called on. Try setting, make my day!
Am I the only one who thinks of goofy shit like this whole working?

Okay, back on topic, just what is drywall or sheetrock compounds? How do you apply drywall joint compounds?

Below is a bit more info on Gypsum Joint or drywall Compounds. Is there a difference between drywall and sheetrock joint compounds?
No, drywall and sheetrock are the same things.
The joint compounds are all similarly made.

FYI, most folks don’t realize, or no doubt care, that joint compounds are just taping mud with accelerators added. That’s all it is.
You can patch in a large hole for small holes with it. How they can create these compounds to set in whatever time the bags say is truly a mystery to me and can stay this way as, after all, Ole Kirk is an applicator, not an engineer.

The mud I’m using in this video is a Gypsum Joint Compound.
So yes, it can be sanded if you are not an expert.
Personally, I have never had to sand either product, but I have lots of time in and love this craft.

The choice of USG Easy Sand & Westpac joint compound is very similar in nature or manufacturing, so close in fact, I can’t tell the difference, as I said above. I’m an applicator, not an engineer.
Home Depot or Lowes or any of your nearby hardware stores will have either Westpac’s Fast Set or USG’s, Easy Sand Joint Compound.

You buy the bags depending on your skill level.
From, 20-minute compounds, means when mixed, you have 20 minutes to apply before it sets.
   The 40-minute compound, 40 minutes to apply, and so on, from 5-minutes to 20, 40, 60, 90, to an hour and a half.
All you do is add water.
FYI, if your buckets and drill paddles are dirty or full of residues due to not cleaning well last time you used them, this will set the mud much faster; always wash your tools. 

Click on this video and skip forward to 3 minutes for pictures and details.  -https://youtu.be/k7tE652qOH8

      USG’s, Easy Sand Joint Compound, Or Westpac’s Fast Set Joint Compound is both o.k. to use. In fact, I can’t tell the difference.
Undoubtedly one is sold at your neighborhood hardware store.
In this video, joint Compounds, Westpac Fast Set, or USG Easy Sand: -https://youtu.be/k7tE652qOH8at/ 2:26 I show the two types of gypsums, Westpac and easy sand. 
There are many more manufacturers, but you get the point.

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Smooth out a heavy stucco texture or finish

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Smooth out a heavy stucco texture or finish

You betcha, I have been doing just this for over 35 years without a failure, but common sense rules must be followed.

I’ll explain in greater detail what’s involved when applying a new stucco finish over an existing heavy finish or texture.
In stucco language, it’s considered applying a new maintenance-free integrated color finish.; since that’s too much of a mouthful and confusing, let’s just call it a new stucco finish over your existing heavy finish.

First, whoever does it beside us, must pressure wash the entire home with a gas-powered pressure washer.
Here is what to expect, one to five percent of the paint to come off, but it could be more, so any loose paint is now scraped off.
Typical, also you may have a well-maintained home where nothing but the dust and dirt comes off; as it should be, that’s even better.

Once this is complete and the walls are cleaned, a bonding agent Like Larson’s “weld creat” or similar would have to be rolled and brushed on the entire home; for the correct suction, essential.

Lastly, ours or any crew you hire would apply whatever stucco finish you choose to the complete home.

I also recommend no matter which one hires to apply a new stucco finish to your home, they provide a sample 4 feet by 4 feet on your existing finish to show you exactly what to expect, so one looks forwards to the finished stucco.
Instead of worrying and hoping it all works out.
This sample should relieve anxieties forks may have.

As I pointed out in the video,
The advantages or benefits of spreading a stucco finish coat color. Depending on how heavy a finish or texture one has to cover or work with, they are fifty times to seventy times thicker than paint.
This is why stucco medium or heavy sand finishes cover or hide imperfections in existing stucco finishes and why painting enhances these flaws

I’ve had many comments like this: I hired a company to apply a new stucco finish, and now that he has finished, you can see these lines right through the color giving the house a zebra effect.
Or the house has too many different colors on the walls.
That’s what we call ghosting.

Or worse yet, the new stucco finish is separating or coming off.
This is because of two shortcuts that are far from shortcuts.
Number one, they skipped the pressure washing and just hosed the walls off with your garden hose.
Or number two, which is more common, they read the can, and it said you can just pour the liquid bonding agent into the 800 pounds of newly mixed stucco. You can’t.
This will delete the bonding agent to uselessness.
The bonding agent must be applied to clean walls.
That person might have been confused by the bonding against; Sika does indeed say you can add the bonding agent to the mix. However, they are referring to adding their liquid bonding agent to “tile grout” instead of water for the tile to adhere better.
This has nothing at all to do with stucco applications.
It’s wishful thinking by the ignorant or the willfully blind person that feels he can reinvent the wheel.
Stucco with proper presswork and your new stucco finishes last forever.

Folks, With the majority of our videos, the title is the tip of the iceberg; the content of the videos hopefully explains what one wants to understand the meaning of.

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Lime Veneer Plasters for finishing sheetrock

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Lime Veneer Plasters for finishing sheetrock, easy to understand Lime plastering over sheetrock

Finishing sheetrocked walls with lime finishing are much faster and stronger than taping mud.

Howdy, our loyal subscribers, if you’ve ever pondered the question, “can you just apply one coat of either lime base or lime finish to a wall?“ you’ve come to the right place. Click below to see how. https://youtu.be/UXVrDwdh3Ro/
Cheers.

I have demonstrated how to apply a single coat of lime plaster in past videos a few times already. TIP, if you can apply taping mud, you can apply Lime plaster.

Folks, if you can’t find these lime basecoats and finish coats, you can always google “plastering yards near me,” as I have often heard that at HD, they say online they sell it, but when folks arrive, they don’t.
All the plastering yards sell these lime basecoats and finish coats, such as Westside building materials, Cal-Ply, ABC stucco supply, plus many more stucco supply yards.

As so many email me to say! Hey! I can’t find the “Diamond Lime Plaster,”
Diamond is simply a name like “Imperial” both of these lime plasters are made by USG.
If you can’t find Diamond, so what. Buy another lime plaster.
USG’s calls their Lime plaster “Diamond,” one has to admit it’s a clever name for lime plaster,
Why? Diamonds are minerals composed of pure carbon. It is the hardest naturally occurring substance known. Damned clever lime naming if you asked me?
Google, “Lime Plaster sold in my area,”
FYI, it can be named “XYZ or Blaw, Blaw, Blaw, Lime Plaster,” as long as it’s a “Lime Plaster,” you’re good.

This application of lime plaster video aims to inform those who wish to know that it’s usually or properly applied in two applications.
Whether it’s in schools and or hospitals and many homes is to prove a point.
First, the lime basecoat is applied, which has sand in it for strength, then when this basecoat is set, usually about an hour.
A lime finish coat with no sand, just crushed limestone, can be troweled on and as smooth as glass if one wishes.
However, and more importantly, now that the finished lime plaster has a foundation of the lime plaster base coat, it’s less unlikely to separate from the sheetrock or wallboard and/or spider check or crack.
Plus, and equally important with both coats, it will be as strong as the strict hospital and school codes intended.

One can apply veneer plaster over any type of skin on the sheetrock or drywall. But, first, you need a bonding agent rolled over the board or painted onto that board. Quikrete sells for about ten bucks at HD. I use Larsons, “plaster weld.” sold at most plastering yards.

Lime re-finishing over new or existing sheetrock!
https://youtu.be/8yqzBa9MU7Y/Truth of Veneer Lime Plaster, not what you think.
https://youtu.be/KldxODNprP0/ refinishing sheetrock with lime plastering kitchen walls.
https://youtu.be/LzTvF9xO2cU/ Lime Veneer Plasters to finish sheetrock.
https://youtu.be/yLgFJTTXgzQ/ rendering plastering interior Lime for finishing sheetrock.

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Is it possible to apply only one coat of interior lime finish? Yes.

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Is it possible to apply only one coat of interior lime finish? Yes,

As so many email me to say! Hey! I can’t find the “Diamond Lime Plaster,”
Diamond is simply a name like “Imperial” both of these lime plasters are made by USG.
If you can’t find Diamond, so what. Buy another lime plaster.
USG’s calls their Lime plaster “Diamond,” one has to admit it’s a clever name for lime plaster,
Why? Diamonds are minerals composed of pure carbon. It is the hardest naturally occurring substance known. Damned clever lime naming if you asked me?
Google, “Lime Plaster sold in my area,”
FYI, it can be named “XYZ or Blaw, Blaw, Blaw, Lime Plaster,” as long as it’s a “Lime Plaster,” you’re good.

This video answered a question often asked on this channel: Can I apply a finished coat?
The fact is, naturally if one applies a basecoat with either structo-lite or any of the base coat lime plasters, it will no doubt be stronger.
In this video, the homeowner left the strong wood cedar lath on the attached sheetrock so that any more strength would have been overkill. Besides, I had an ulterior reason for just a finish coat in some areas. The sheetrock was bulging past the existing walls, so to add basecoat plus a finish would have created a hump and have been an apprentice move for me.

However, you should know how, why, and when not to apply a base coat.

Are these secrets? Not quite; most journeymen plasterers know this fact or should.

The issues usually occur with DIYers or apprentices and even, yes, some veteran plasterers who don’t understand these so-called rules.
Allow me to explain how to avoid blistering and separations from the sheetrock.

If you’re NOT going to apply a base coat and want to trowel on a single finish coat.
Apply the finish coat with as few troweling strokes as possible.

Okay, you’re troweled on the finish coat is applied, one-sixteenth of an inch like the bag says? LOL, here’s a reality check. I have often applied finish coats up to an inch thick, but you should understand when it’s advantageous to do so. Unfortunately, that’s not what this video is about.

Okay, you have your finish on; remember, the thickness means nothing to the next stage.
You wait until your finished coat is almost set.
It will slowly start to darken.

“Again, and this is the key! Use a few strokes to finish it off to your liking and keep your trowel wet.”

Why only a few strokes with a trowel?
Because excessive troweling can pull or detach your new troweled-on finish coat from the sheetrock, especially if your trowel is not continuously wet.
A dry trowel would be like a suction cup and pull or lift your new finish coat from the sheetrock.
I’m not advocating for you folks to start skipping the base coat, as the base coat adds strength as it has sand in it.
I’m mealy answering an age-old and often asked question, Why can’t I apply a single lime finish coat?
So you might ask, what’s the use of a base coat?
If applied first and allowed to set securely to the, let’s say, sheetrock when a finish coat is applied over it, this creates what’s known as a professional plastering mechanical bond that holds your finish coat much tighter than just laying it on sheetrock. And adds strength.

You also should know to wet, soak or mist that basecoat so that the suction is under control.
If you don’t, whichever finish plaster you apply will instantly have the moister sucked from it by that thirsty basecoat.

Now you Know.

There are exceptions where a base coat is unnecessary and or foolish.
As in this video; https://youtu.be/eYazlJ6B8Kw one coat lime plaster.
We were going over exterior stucco that was now used as an interior enclosure.
Why would stucco walls need additional strength?

Why apply Lime anyway? To begin with, earthen plasters can actually improve your health. They are entirely non-toxic, contain no VOCs (volatile organic compounds), and clay and lime even resist mold growth. In addition, an often overlooked and subtle benefit of clay is that when it comes into contact with water, it emits a negative charge.

What the heck is lime? It is made by heating limestone (calcium carbonate) into quicklime (calcium oxide).

It is then re-hydrated to form slaked lime (calcium hydroxide), and the resulting putty is the base for lime plaster.
Once the plaster has been applied, it goes through a chemical process when it comes into contact with carbon dioxide in the air and gradually turns back into calcium carbonate (limestone).

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This plaster won’t burn off your skin or disintegrate your clothes!

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This plaster won’t burn off your skin or disintegrate your clothes! Kemset plaster is Lye free

The phone for sales of Kemset products is 562-285-2790.

Lots of people ask, Kirk, why do you wear long-sleeve shirts? The lye in stucco will tell that story.
The lye eats through my thick leather boots every six months if I’m lucky. Why do most of the jeans I wear have holes in the knee? Surely no one thinks I care about fashion. Lye.

If I told the story of how fast I go through clothes or used to anyway, the lye that gets on my clothes burns through my clothes.
One of the comments I get often is, wow, he worked all day and is still clean.

The truth is any stucco that gets on my clothes soaks through and buns my skin then enters my bloodstream, where it goes for a joyride throughout my body.
It’s the same with all masons worldwide; whether you apply stucco, plastering, or doing concrete work, welcome to our reality.

Does this bother me, no sir, I have learned to respect and avoid coming into contact with my friend Mr. Stucco; in fact, we have mutual respect for one another.
Sort of like the lion tamer, except I, have no whip or chair but instead a hawk and trowel.👍

FYI, two months ago, my brother Lou, big strong, and clumsy, Yea, I can say this, he can barely use a phone, let alone a computer, Lou don’t have to know how to open a computer.

My brother, Lou, can mix ten tons of stucco every day and carry 200 pounds of stucco up a ladder in a hod all day and every day. That’s what I’m talking about.🤔

“What that old saying? ” Like a bull in a china shop,” That’s my brother, Lou.
He lost his footing, fell hard into the new stucco I was applying. His arm today is still inflamed, inraged, red, and raw. Guess why? Lye in all stucco and cement is no joke.

I don’t know how many folks realize the importance of whats Kemset lye-free plaster means.
Thus this heart-wrenching story I read.
A 16-year-old girl lost eight of her fingers when they were burned off after becoming set in plaster of Paris.

Or how about when I was young and tried to be cool.
I didn’t wear gloves for an entire week because the guys teased me for being a wuss.
I had to take a week off as all my finger joints would bleed because the lye ate all the skin off my finger joints and palm.
I had to put vaseline on my hands and slip sandwich bags over my hands tied with rubber bands while I slept until they healed.
Can it get worse, you betcha? My sexy first wife would say, ew, baby, don’t touch me. Your hands are like sandpaper.
So I wore gloves from then on. Lye Burns is no joke.

This interior exterior plaster won’t burn off your skin like 99% of all exterior plasters! Kemet plaster is lye-free instead. It has Glass beads instead.

FYI, this video was at the end of a long day at our third job. So Yea, I was really beaten up. In fact, I asked Jason to drive us home, which is rare.
I was tired; it’s obvious in the video, well, I lived to plaster another day.
We were showing the kemset plaster on something so easy that it was easy even in my tired and beat-up condition.

Want to view two other videos with this same lime plaster click below
https://youtu.be/LQXJPqlSXbk/ ceiling rat sh!t happens
https://youtu.be/k-ZuqT5eFi8/ exterior pillars on a beautiful day.

Trick question, is lye in stucco and plaster bad to inhale? Yes, indeed it is not good, drink wine instead.

My opinion is, I believe this Kem Set to be a revolutionary plaster product.
I believe folks with sensitive immune systems, if they knew of this choice, would, “No Doubt,” demand this plaster.

Being eco-friendly or, as some say, green as in no toxins in the material, few folks realize the relevance of this statement. I say good for you, as there are too many things in life to ponder about already.

Kem set uses Glass beads. So what’s glass made up of? Sand.
They heat the sand or silica in kiln furnaces to a certain degree to get these glass beads.
I’m no scientist or engineer, but take their word for it, plus it sounds logical.

When I read the ingredients on the bag saw no lye or silica, which means this stucco, KemSet’s Eco plaster50, won’t turn redwood black within 2 seconds of landing on it, nor will it do the same for anodized windows.
It also means if I get it on my skin, I don’t have to worry about burning my skin or the lye entering my bloodstream transdermally.

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