Wetting or hydrating and floating stucco second coats, plastering tips.mp4

howdy folks kirk and jay and dan here today i want to discuss something as far as brown coating goes and hydration now today it's about one o'clock now in the afternoon we got here at 7 30 and i started hydrating these walls what does that mean that means i take a garden hose with a nozzle on it don't get one of those fancy nozzles get a plain boring nozzle like this and what you do is you hydrate the wall now this this wall right here i've already browned it and i've already hard rubber floated it i'm going to show you that right there but for sake of hydration this is what you do now that we've this scratch coat has already set about uh three weeks actually because they're waiting on windows and doors do we have to come in today and do this no but we got nothing better to do so we thought let's go brown out what we can while they're waiting on doors and windows hydration again i just floated this and we did this about two hours ago when you float something hard rubber even hydrated hydrated i spent a half hour to an hour hydrating this wall this morning at say eight seven thirty to eight o'clock now it's one o'clock so this has been on for a while now the difference between hard rubber floating or say these are polyurethane floats you can call a hard rubber float or polyurethane rubber float they're the same thing in the uk they use wooden ones and i get asked this question too what's the difference between uh a sponge float like this a sponge float you can bring textures out and they actually bring the aggregate out on a lot of finishes say for example i'm just going to show you this because i get asked this often the subject of this video is actually a hard rubber float but if i were to take a sponge float and go over this wall here and what that does is it brings out the aggregate there it is it brings out the sand and that is for a lot of finishes we do that but we don't want to bring out the sand right here because we're doing a color coat maintenance free integrated finish after this sets but that probably is not going to be for about three months because they're waiting on windows and doors look at this crooked wall i chose this time because i wanted to show you and i derbyed this dan and jay they they applied it and i took a rod a derby and i i made the walls true and plum as i can get it now while it was still moist it was easy if i wait for the walls to turn white which they're about to do i'll have to use three times as much strength so right now i'm going to use skill i'm not going to use a lot of muscle a little bit but not a lot of muscle here's what we're doing you see all these crooked lines and all this now too this depends on the finish you're doing so you take a hard rubber or a polyurethane float now what we do is before it gets too hard we just go in circles lines straight lines and we chew out the wall that just means we get rid of all the lines we make the wall what we call true and plum and what i'm doing too guys is i'm using the whole float i'm not using the toe or the heel but i'm trying to use the whole float when we come to windows all windows have a reveal usually that reveal is about a quarter inch so we'll take the float and make that reveal sharp this is number one thing when with plasters make the window sharp make it a quarter inch make it quarter inch here quarter inch here quarter inch here you don't want an eighth of an inch here half inch here that just looks tacky guys so take your float and do that now what happens if the wall is already really hard because i've been messing around today we're doing a lot of stuff we're doing a lot of different walls here and i think i waited about 15 well about an hour too long so i'm gonna have to use a little bit of muscle in order to do this but when one hand gets tired guys you switch to the other there is no such thing as a one-handed plaster so i'll show you another tip also like say for example you're doing this and you don't want to destroy a trowel guys if i do this with this what happens i pull the rivets out here and it just destroys this this will be garbage it'll be useless uh the same as a trowel especially these 20-inch trowels they're only riveted here here and here if i were to use a straight trowel it wouldn't jack it up as much but anyway you could also do this too if the walls is turning hard take it and eyeball it get some of that get some of the humps out like that you just you get the humps out sideways and now you can float it back in if you see high spots that is how you do it so i wanted to point that out because what we're trying to do on this particular job is we are highlighting or showcasing almost everything that we've done here from the last to the corner edge to the drip throughout a few videos but they're all going on the home page of the video we started so i'm going to take the big ladder there and go all the way up there and continue this and when i'm done this wall will be floated then i'm going to hydrate it again it's uh what we do again we take the water hose and we wet it that's called hydrating it and generally you hydrate a scratch coat two to three times how do you know if you're done hydrating the scratch coat well the water no longer absorbs in it just falls down like a waterfall anyhow when i get done with this we'll show you uh what it looks like okay guys here is the completion of it the sun is off of it but that is where we hard rubber floated it we took our trowel sideways and this wall is true and plumb what does that mean if you take a two by four eight foot rod you put it against it you should you'll see some variations but it's true and plumb meaning it's pretty straight and level every which way anyway guys my name is kirk jason is on the camera dan's running around here somewhere we thank you guys for watching and as usual we'll see you on the next one all right folks as always we want to say thank you for watching if you like what we put out 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