How to match unique or freestyle stucco textures

Hi guys Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering what we're going to show you today is how to match a finish now if you look up that finish there is very humpty-dumpty wavy this is old world plastering where they did two coats in there I the idea was give something intricate or interesting and I'll show you what before I put this on I'll show you what they don't want you have to flip around here now these fellas you can see this one guy did this patch here and it didn't work then they had another guy come here and they did this one all around the house there's about 20 different textures fortunately this is right where I could show what what I'm referring to these guys what they did is they did the scratch and brown then they took their trowel and they just made some divots these guys went a little deeper with their divots neither one is actually what they have because it just didn't go hard enough they were on the right track I'll show you how we get this guys I've done this Oh 50 100 times now we've got a very heavy scratch we want the brown to be just just as heavy because the brown coat is is where we're going to get our finish I'll show you roughly what we're doing here we're putting on it very heavy now what I generally do is I'll look at this okay that's pretty heavy you can go the other fellas they did this you can do that but it's not going to match what they have okay we're going to do is kind of give s shapes we're gonna we're gonna really pronounce this because it's got to be and what I'll do is I'll look at a wall and I'll see this guy went here and they left a big clinker there and you look at it say well gee whiz that's way too rough that's even rougher than what they have but this got a set and then when we use a green sponge float I'll show you that part too because that's what's going to soften this up a bit I can't match that finish with just a trowel I need to soften it up so I'm gonna spread this out spread this out and when I get to the point where I'm a green sponge float and I'll show you guys okay guys let's show you one more thing while we're killing time this got to set another 20 minutes before I could even do my texture Dan says dad I'll see how you're gonna make that look like that well I'll show you guys how we do it and I'll show you to Dan as far as these corners go Dan also said why'd you even put a corner when their corner is very Humpty very wavy I don't know if you can get a shot of that but that corner is so Humpty and wavy when they did this house they did a scratch coat they let it set 48 hours they came back and they did a brown coat and you can do that where you just put your scratch coat on and take it both ways and allow that to set me I put a corner aid when we laughed this and I smashed it so just to give it some extra strength hold off one minute Dan and here's what I'll generally do now this this corners it's not bullnose it's just jagged so I'll start from the bottom and I'll put a little bit on here go on up up a little bit then I'll take it this way so I'm making it jagged now I'm just going that way put it on make it jagged and also when and that's pretty jagged and I want it like that because that's what I have to do in order to match what they have I'll show in time now here here here there and if I need more on this side what I'll do it let me get over here just put it here and go this way here pull it up that way here what I'm basically doing is jagging it out I have a habit to want to make a pretty corner on this I got to keep reminding myself don't make it pretty make it jagged so that's how we do that we're good we're gonna be again this got to take another 20 minutes and then we're gonna I'll show you how to float it all including leaving this corner here jagged okay guys now what we're doing is we'll give we're keeping the humps now what I like to do is I'm using the triangle of my float if I just use my edge like this it gets too sharp but you can't see what I'm doing I'm using the edge the triangle so and I'm always I'm going upward because we're a real cold day it's damn cold today and we have an inch and a half in some areas because of the humps so it has a tendency to want to drag and fall so we're using again that corner we're going this way we're going that way we're always going upward if it was a hundred degree day I can go any which way and not worry about it coming down but because it's cold and because we're still not a hundred percent dry we just keep going upwards and that allows it to dry out the float is opening it's allowing both coats to dry out and a second ago Dan said dad they don't have the seagull look and I thought that's a good question show go over here for a minute you see this wall okay sixty years ago when they did this there was scaffold right here and scaffold right here one guy was up here that's why the whole top is different one guy was in the middle and he has what we call looks like a seagull the wings the wings of a seagull and then down here is a different guy now even if I was doing this whole wall myself this is tough to get it exactly perfect on all three levels I'm sure you could but getting back to over here on this gable here this doesn't have show over here Dan this gable doesn't have one seagull sort of speak what it what it has is is the finish we're doing so we're matching this wall we're not matching the house wall so again that we just go over and over it and right now because I'm floating it heavy there's is a little lighter so what we're gonna do is after about another half hour this is how long it's gonna take me at least another half hour of bringing this aggregate out and leaving these humps on then I'm gonna hit it one more time with the trowel lightly and that'll push the grains in and then I'll hit it one more time with the float and that'll give me that that finished right there where it's a lot smoother than what I have let's see last tip is if you got a ridge that's sticking out and it's too sharp you can hit the ridge with the float just hit it a little bit and that'll smooth it out because theirs is very smooth and they have plus 20 coats of paint on it last thing before I finish two is on these corners which are very jagged I'm using just a heel the heel or the toe of my float and I'm going upward upward each different way upward if I use the whole body of it what I tend to do is straighten that out I don't want it straight anyhow when we get done Jason I will show you the whole completion and what it looks like all right guys we're complete with that everything matches and again we're matching this particular gable not something else this particular texture for me it's incredibly easy it's just time-consuming you have to know all your cements and and when to hit them and what to do and how to use your tools but anyhow there you have it and that is how to do that it's Friday evening it's Jay's birthday I promised him I'd take him to the bar and give him a couple shots of Irish whiskey so as usual folks we'll see you guys on the next one