Kirk. I’d like to say thank you. My grandpa did plaster a long time ago he’s a old timer and did it his whole life. He’s 93 now and he watched your video with me and he smiled. If you knew him you’d know a smile is 1000 words from him. Thank you for making him smile

I’m a meteorologist, and I learned enough from Kirk’s videos to successfully patch two large holes in my home created by plunbers fixing a leak. Not the best, but good enough to hide the holes.Kirk is a true craftsman.

I’ve done a lot of mudding and taping drywall but never plastered. You are definitely the guy to learn from. Great channel Kirk.

Glad to hear that “LOU” is on the mend and coming back, we missed him.

So fun to watch king kirk work..... So knowledgeable, and generous with his experience and knowledge!...

I love learning from your techniques. Your videos also let me understand what I am looking at when i hire a contractor.

Product applied is part of the equation of making it look easy,but the biggest part of it IMHO is the experience of the person applying it. Another great video Kirk.

Ol’ Kirk Float Like a Butterfly, Plaster Like a Bee !

If you weren't doing plastering, you'd be a radio DJ haha.

Kirk's still and always the Michelangelo of texture matchin'.

Hi Kirk I am in the UK and watch your posts. Always brilliant and love how you involve your family, top man, Mick

You know Kirk, I learned a lot about Structolite this 2nd time around. Keep them videos coming and thanks you.

Hey Kirk! I spent a few years doing window replacements, I always got a chill down the spine when I would go to measure a job and it would be lath and plaster walls. Step 1: lock down the walls surrounding the window! Never had to patch any lath and plaster! Keep up the great work brother!

Kirk you have no idea how much I enjoyed your teachings God bless you

I am an apprentice from the prairies, coming to the west coast completely different with a rain screen system and the double! But they sure love my prairie boy drive! Love your videos educating me so I can back my 10 years up!

Dam, this guy needs his own sitcom.

Always a gem or two in every video, even if you've watched dozens on the same technique, Thanks Kirk !!

Thanks for the tips! I'm doing my first patch up job & your videos are the best I watched everyone's videos but U Da Man Kirk!! Thanks Brotha & hope alls well!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Kirk, you are THE BOSS!! Thanks for sharing with all! 😉👍👏👏

Kirk and Jay great job as always, great to hear brother Lou is ready to come back to work.

You're a legend man. You've saved me from making a lot of mistakes over the years!

Love these videos. I'm learning so much. Thanks Kirk!!!

Hi Kirk . I’m a stone mason from the north of England . Don’t do a lot of plastering but your videos are very informative and great to watch with a cup of tea . Like how you go into detail but still entertain . Keep up the good work with your family 👍

I came for the spinning truck, since you timed stamped the trick, I watched the whole video in appreciation for how much info you deliver

Good to see Jay and you are still at it!

Nothing like starting the day with a brand new hawk. Good work 👍

#1 Kirk plastering master!!! repair looked fun see you on the next one 🤘🏽

I really like your videos. Thanks for sharing your expertise! Good stuff!

Nice to watch a craftsman at work. GS Scotland

Good call on the structolite Kirk.

Kirk, your a cool dude. Thanks

Nice work Kirk Your plastering and kids are great!!!

Kirk, do you keep up to date with what's happening in the UK? There's a whole new bunch of tools about now you may find interesting, speed skims and flexi trowels. Good to see a proper plasterer in a world of sheet rockers.

Excellent work and quite the cool trick with the hawk!

Hello Kirk, you get a lot of %^*+ from people but I think it’s because they can’t handle how happy go lucky you are which is very rare these days. Perhaps they’re jealous that they can’t enjoy life as much as you do. But either way, thanks for being who you are and also for what you do, we need more guys like you. Happy New Year to you.

You make it look too easy, thanks for sharing.

Thank u Kirk! For your informative and cute videos From Switzerland and wish u best

You're the best Kirk

A true professional. Keep it coming

Kirk you the man I've just hit the bell🔔

Structo-Lite, that is the material I want to use, I'm going to add the plaster pigments to that! I want some sand in there too, that's the texture I'm looking for. At least for a base coat! I can always add a finish coat later. Great vid, Thanks!

Excellent job I’m just really surprised you wouldn’t have dropped that light fixture out of your way.🏆🏆🏆🏆

Kirk, I'm in the trade as well. We tackle crack repairs (with sand texture plaster) with Easy Sand joint compound. Once the crack is feathered, we prime it using a sand additive so it blends with the existing texture.

Hey Kirk Dude. Philly Auction house here in Philly. Moving slow. Embarrassingly slow. Missed your stuff . Thankx Big Guy

Good job ,kirk

This guy is amazing 🤩

So, I saw one of your exterior wall stucco jobs 10 years ago. This morning some interior plastering job popped up into my feed. So that video transported me back 45 years at the ripe old age of 12 years old my dad's second shift coworker Joe DiBernardo said what you keep doing. The rudimentary answer was nothing other than delivering newspapers. Have him to my house Saturday morning $15 a day. Joe was a GC but we laid tile, mud, thinset, adhesive..... He also let me out to his friends to do plaster work his brother-in-law to finish floors the plumber to break cast iron boilers in the basement..... For 5 years I rode shotgun in the van, bicycle 12 miles to his house. It was like a second father to me, I cried hearing about when he died, I still get emotional. I had to pay for college upon graduating high school and I needed more than the $30 a day I was earning. I started my own tile business paid for college and went on to a career in engineering and making things. {My specialty is efficiency - making things less costly. That does not mean "cheaper" - which has a value perception component. A touch of History you will realize that not too far in the distant past it was an industrial engineer from Charleston South Carolina (made famous by the cheaper by the dozen) who quantified efficiency in many of our skilled trades. For that the Egyptians and the Romans they all understood it, modern construction techniques are what they are old world construction techniques are what they are end of story. Since my girls were old enough to pick up a brick or a tool they worked by my side around the house. They went to college I bought them a toolbox, filled it with tools. They do things to this day that most people would not attempt. I sent that particular video to my wife, who still after decades of marriage does not understand how to work with me. When you used the word "holidays", it brought a warm glow to my heart. I've explained that word and several others numerous times to her. Another key one was cleanliness of your tools (dad and Joe were lithographers) it took maybe one time for Joe to instill cleanliness means success. Testament to that is my dad's cousins who were plasters just north of New York City, left the small mixing tub back in the late 40s at their house after doing some work. I still have and use that tub. My 1/3 of a yard steel mud tub looks like the day I purchased it 40 years ago. If I left a spec of dirt on tubs & tools I was in trouble with Joe. Obviously you can see that your video made me a bit sentimental, and appreciative for my dad (82nd & 101st) "Volunteering" me to learn a skilled trade on top of Education, Athletics, newspaper route, fishing, play...... Biography of Vince Lombardi titled "When pride still mattered", we just finished a custom home and unfortunately the general contractor who'd been in business for 40 years doing all high-end Construction just didn't understand this concept. I'd love to see you fly over to England, France, Germany and Italy and do a cultural exchange in technique. Those would be absolutely incredible videos just from the diversity of construction over the centuries. If that's not practical you can always go to Mexico or Central and South America as surrogates.

Good work👍🏻

Good to see you Mr.Kirk...how are you and family

From my 34 yr union experience when plastering wooden lath structolite goes first then basecoat and last a lime plaster coat troweled smooth

I did this before but I had to put a smooth coat on top and used a slicker . Going to try the wet trowel

Love u matey u the best Kirk n jay all the way pkplastering Durham England respect

Good afternoon Kirk Thank you for all your vídeos it really teach us a lot, I have a question when you doing in stucco in a big wall by yourself, is ok to start the next day where you stop the day before or is there something you have to do before you overlap? GOD bless you and once again thank you

Kirk is the linus of plaster.

You should write a book to compile and share all your knowledge.

Hey Kirk, love your videos they're incredibly helpful. Are you just putting on one coat here? Do you decide how many coats or how thick to lay one on depending on the thickness of the surface you're patching? Is there any scoring or "scratching" involved in between takes to get a second coat to adhere better?

Woo hoo go kirk!

Kirk I live next to bon tools here in Pittsburgh Is that a 20”x 5” pool trowel ? Ty Great stuff as Always !!! Keep em coming

Hi Kirk, Thanks for the great videos. I am plastering my new construction house using a single coat of ExKalibur over plasterboard. We are doing most surfaces one bag at a time, but the ceiling of the largest room will take 4 bags. We don't really have the manpower to put out four bags at once, so I'm wondering how it will look if I do two bags, finish them, then start on the last two while the first two are browning out. Will I have any issues with the two applications not bonding to each other and flaking off? Any tips for doing this?

Horsehair plaster walls from 1900's, what product do you recommend to patch holes and to fill gaps on the sides of electrical outlet boxes. Thanks for your time .

do you have a video on fixing a heat crack. I have electric heat and most of my ceilings have a crack in them?

Hey Kirk as always great video, I’m just starting out on my own and was wondering what you’d charge for something like this repair, now I know every area is different but if you could give me a ballpark that would be helpful thanks

Thank you

umm yea.. Yea rounded edges are pool trowels. Pool are round right? houses are square right? very interesting Kirk. and thanks for sharing your knowledge bro.

Hi Kirk, great vid, Just on question, how long do you let it dry before you can paint that stucco lite

I didn’t know Matthew McConaughey knew how to plaster a ceiling? Nice!

Hi Kirk, watched all your videos and they got me thinking to do a project on my own. I really hope you can give me an advise. I have a lanai with painted plywood on the walls and 3/4'" flat trim covering the seams. I wanted to know if it would be Okay to remove the trim tape it with mesh and skim it with sructo-lite, maybe 2 coats with or without texture. Please let me know what you think. Thanks in advance.

I have used structolite before it's great stuff. Can you tell me if it's similar to Pearlite? Also wanted to thank you taking the time making these great videos!

when I use structolite I work alone. I mix it up and sprinkle the accelerator on the mortar board. It never sets too fast for me that way.

Can you add silica sand to Drywall quickset compounds and use a sponge float to pull out the sand the same way?

What is that long handled scoop you pick up the plaster with and where do you get them....... followed the link for all your tools but it’s not in there??

Bonjour Master Kirk :))

Question. Can i do 3/4 of stucco on cinder block on the same day? Can i do Once a time,or do i have to do a first coat and then the second code or what is the process? Thanks😊

Hey Kirk. Getting ready to do stucco before I get the ledger and deck up. Watched your videos and got vycor pro. Man is that stuff sticky. You made it look easy. How do you keep it from sticking to your fingers? Anyway, thanks for your help and keep well.

Kirk, I live in a 94 year old house. A section 2.5 x 3 feet of plaster fell from the ceiling (lath plaster with animal hair). I've had it repaired but now find every morning heavy condensation on the windows. Never happened before; not happening in any other room. Is there something in the plastering process that would have caused this? They had the windows open during the work. They used metal grid and applied rough then polished plaster to the entire ceiling. What could be causing this condensation? Any thoughts? Thank you.

Nice vid buddy but there is no way to spin my new pointsman hawk its an angled hawk handle so no ore spinning for me LOL

Hey Kirk! Love the videos. I just purchased a 130 y.o. home in New Orleans with horsehair plaster walls. I’m guessing this is a sand finish? It’s definitely not smooth. Should I worry about a lime finish product to patch any holes?

Kirk, what belt are you using for your back?? I'm starting to feel mine getting sore big time after tiling 8 hrs/day and at 49 need to invest in a belt. Thanks man 👍

Hi Kirk: Could I ask you is it possible, (I know its not recommended) to skim a ceiling with peeling old paint without stripping it? Do I need a bonding agent? I have regular joint compound and some plaster of paris on hand. Thanks so much!!

Question. Did you finish with the sponge trowel or steel trowel.

Quick question! Do you guys use the same trowels for interior that you use for exterior? Or do you have a set for interior and a set for exterior?

Hey Kirk one thin i have been meaning to ask is, Do your plastering products have a shelf life?

hey Kirk someone said you use that size trawl for the looks you get

What’s this white glue stuff they sell for around the edges ? I seen a dude using something that looked like elmers glue .

I have a plaster ceiling also ,fixing a water damaged ceiling now. My question is after I put on the standard vinyl spackle I get small bubbles about a inch in a few places . It seems the spackle is not gripping the ceiling and is sagging. ???

Great but not the best I have been plastering for 20 years and would like to meet you one day good work

I was wondering can you do a textured finish with structolite. Ove the brown coat.

So the struc to lite was a one coat system in this video from what I understand. Can it also be used as a skim coat?

rewatched!

Skills!

I guess there wasn’t enough room for a scratch and brown, rather than do it that way you just brought the patch flush to the finish? Was that a 3/8 inch rib lath you were using? Also, did you add sand to the structolite while going over the expanded metal lath on top of wood lath?

Muhammed Ali also got knocked out. No one is the best. Always someone better

What I don't understand about bonding agents is once it dries how then can it adhere to the plaster?

Nice....

You don't mention that the plaster weld stops the the wood lath from sucking all the moisture out of the plaster too fast

Emperor Kirk!

Hey Ali, 2 questions: 1.) Did you add sand to Structolite? 2.) You did Not put a Veeneer coat after the Stuctolite, correct? Just paint over it O.K.

Hey Kirk, Ima young contractor I got a Dense Glass board job to apply foam coat, mesh and finish. About how much do you charge per sq ft or yard in the Bay? Im down south here at LA.

Hi Kirk, why is your trowel round edged?

Looks easy because he’s a true tradesmen!