Plastering and Stucco trowel warped or bent, how to fix.
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- Plastering and Stucco trowel warped or bent, how to fix.
Welcome to stucco college. Don't throw away bent or crooked trowels; repair or fix them.
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Howdy guys and gals, ever wonder why you can't plaster a wall well?
If so, this video is for you; learn how to fix a warped plastering trowel.
Yes, 95 percent can be fixed?
For those that are goners, use them for scraping or cleaning up.
Perhaps your trowel is cockeyed or crooked.
On this job, it made me laugh when my son Dan shouted, "Dad! This material sucks.
It won't spread right," I thought to myself, "I said that same thing over 25 years ago."
Fortunately, I worked with an expert (Fred Smith) who straightened me out back then and explained this technique.
Lastly, notice the trowel I used to repair.
This warped one was one of my crappy trowels, don't use a good trowel to fix a bad one, or you will end up with 2 bad trowels.
Like the old joke, "what do you tell a guy with 2 black eyes?" Nothing, he's already been told twice.
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Thank you all for watching, and wishing all a great day!
Does this work with flexi trowels ?? Thanks
Howdy it works with all trowels, weather sturdy and or rigid concrete trowels or a plasterers flable trowel.🥳
@@StuccoPlastering thanks I have bent the left corner of the Refina super flex 2 I use it for troweling up but like u showed it makes a line in the plaster so have been using my Marshall town laying on trowel . I will try your technique .cheers
@@RAM335D Howdy my friend, I was taught this tip by one of the best plasterers I ever met, my pal, Fred Smith. Ole Fred Smith, was so good he makes me seem like an imposter.🍾
Your a veteran in the plastering game big respect 💪🏼
Hey Hmanonontario, sometimes it is the tools but I have encountered warped, bent or crooked plastering trowel many times before.
Now, if for some reason I can't spread a material, I of course will blame the tools because I'm an experienced craftsman and know how to piss, moan and whine better than the youngsters.
I’m kidding as I can spread all materials.
Thanks for watching and have a good evening,
Kirk Giordano Plastering
Howdy Joe, thanks for the bone. I have many more tips such as these but have limited the stuff we do for just applications in the past.
Jason told me to show this as I just finished fixing a bent trowel for my son Dan, who shouted out,
“Dad, this material sucks, it won’t spread right”
I thought to myself, “I said that same thing about 30 years ago.”
Time sure does fly.
Thanks for watching and have a good evening,
Kirk Giordano Plastering
Howdy apache, I have to do this about every 3 months to a trowel, we sometimes drop them, if they hit the ground at a wrong angle or a rivet pulls it’s time to operate.
Best wishes, and have a great day!
Kirk Giordano Plastering
great tip kirk ive been plastering nearly 20 years never seen that before love the bucket scoop we use bucket trowels in the uk .
Evening Bloggs dude, excellent question , but you already answered it, I pull out my handy dandy margin trowel. The benefits of the 20X5 Swimming pool trowel outweighs the disadvantages of inner corners. keep in mind my pool trowel is not a complete half circle but instead a flat edge with just the edges curved. I used to use a saw with a metal blade to cut this edge but they make them, I order them online. About 60 bucks each.
best wishes.
kirk Giordano plastering
fixed my skimming trowel after it had a fall off of the spot board its my favourite trowel & delighted for the tip cheers my man!
Good morning Therael, atta boy, can't go throwing away some of our bestest trowels because of a fixable warp,
I have salvaged about 30, of course there have been those that were goners no matter how much effort I spent trying to salvage,
Best wishes,
kirk giordano Plastering
Kirk Giordano plastering Inc. Do you guys have a gypsum skimcoat finish plaster for over interior plasterboard in California? Thought it was just taped & jointed for flat smooth finish ? New subscriber (plaster)from Ireland. Love the videos. You guys have A lot of different products & finishes in the states compared to here in Ireland. Skimcoat here has 2/3hour setting time. In which you can throw on a good bit of plaster before it starts setting.
Trowel spines tend to be aluminium or magnesium (or alloys of these). Gentle persuasion with a hammer on the back of the spine has worked well for me...and quicker than your method. But like anything, there are many ways to get the same thing done.
Also, when beyond saving, those old trowel spines make camp fires quite memorable!
Regards from Australia man.
Morning Kamencho dude, I like your style,
Cheers mate,
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Hey dismaldog, this fix is one of those things we just do and don't think about it. When I straightened the trowel for my son Dan, I said “get back in there and finish the wall, and quit messing around.”
My other son Jason, saw and said “hey Dad, why don't you show how you do that to the viewers as someone might find it interesting.
Glad it held interest for you.
Thanks you for watching and have a great day.
Kirk Giordano Plastering
i cant believe i just fixed 2 of my trowels from watching this lol it worked like a charm
Good evening Iden Dude; believe it, my friend, my 40 years in this stucco/plastering trade that I love has taught me many things.
I wish all interested in learning these tips to also understand, as I'm no spring chicken and won't be here to explain forever.🤔🥳
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Awesome tip. I was told, "its a poor craftsman that blames his tools." Im glad to see sometimes it is just the tools fault. Now I can continue blaming my tools. ;)
I was plastering a ceiling for a friend years ago. There were wires hanging down from the light and I asked if they were hot. Nope they are dead ! They "WHAM" sparks flew and took a notch out of my favorite plastering trowel. You know the one; you have it broken in . It took a lot of filing and plastering to get it finally worked out.
Morning Thom, wow, good thing the handle was made of wood
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@@StuccoPlastering Yep it is not the first time. I had a new stainless stel one it happened to also. People are very careless about electric.
another trick I use is to have 6 or 8 tool mounting magnet strips running sideways along the bottom length of the trowel using the alloy or cast piece above as top position and lead casts (which I make from waste render or even sand and scrap lead on top either side of the spine this combined will fix almost any warp in a trowel if left for a day or so .
the lead mould principle also works for warped hawks to .
I had to learn these tricks to improvise as I quite like bon hawks Darby's pool trowels and so on and amazon uk don't really package bon products very well
Good evening Stephen Dude my fellow plasterer for the UK, good tip,
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Easy big guns, or with that kind of writing and you'll take yourself into a job you might regret.
Jason and I will try and keep them coming.
Thanks for the bone and have a great evening
Kirk Giordano
that is a great tip one to keep in the tool bag for the future nice work kirk you should post it on the plasterers forum
Thank you. Every day is a school day. Bless you Sir.
You are very welcome
Fair play Kirk top tip I've used it on a few of my trowels keep up the good work love watching the vids
Hi spunky974, this tip does take practice but the way I see it if it's useless anyway it matters little if you learn on a throwaway trowel. I usually can fix 8 out of 10 trowels.
Some are so beat up you just have to throw them away.
Cheers!
Kirk Giordano plastering
Great trick bud
I hate losing a good trowel
Howdy Tape Slayer my fellow mudder , me too, so I exxtend them as long as psobble.
Live long and plaster
Sharing plastering information, as the world can use more teachers.
I love your passion . I love plastering and #rendering
And love watching your videos bud
I'm going to do how to plasterer a ceiling video soon
Atta Boy tape slayer, the world needs more teachers.
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thanks mate,great advice and not something i have seen before.
Great tip - keep the info flowing please - love your site
Morning bloggs, funny you should suggest this. out of the 450 video's we have on CZcams this and 3 others are on that forum channel.
Best wishes.
kirk giordano plastering
Great tip thanks! Love the videos!
fermoyle24 I have fixed many trowels using this method my buddy Fred Smith taught me. A few were beat up beyond repairs so they they got demoted to scraping and cleaning up trowels.
Thanks for watching and have a fantastic day!
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Brave man running that hand along the edge lol
Hi Jeff, lol, a trowels edge is not as sharp. as a knife🍾
@@StuccoPlastering my burner trowels for concrete can get pretty dang sharp! Anyhow, nice videos you got here.
@@jeffriggins9106 Howdy Jeff, no doubt, similar to a razor's edge.
hey kirk, how did you come about using a pool trowel, what do you do when you have to lay on into the corners change trowels?? I'm thinking of switching and giving the pool one a go
will give this a go thanks man
Hey Mac, just takes practice.
If you can't fix it use it for a clean up trowel!
Cheers!
kirk and family
Just done this and has worked. But it's popped few rivets on the trowel
Hello, my friend, bummer the rivets hold it in place, Hopefully, it keeps its shape even with the rivets popped.🤙
GRACIAS POR EL VIDEO
Evening Lopez, thank you and no worries,
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Kirk dude good video are you taping on the middle metal part of the trowel??? Or on the stainless steel part??? Thanks brotha
Good evening bird Dude, I taping between the trowel blade and the cast metal that is riveted to the trowel blade.
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i like your videos but the camera wasnt picking the lines up on the white plaster
Evening Jason, these days our equipment is much better, sorry.
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Got it...cheers kirk
O.K. brother, hope it works as it took me awhile to understand the concept while the fella who taught me was right in front of me.
Best wishes,
Kirk and family
hi kirk... im a plasterer in the UK.. and we use a 2 coat gypsum product for our finishing.. witch is like a brown mud that dries into like a pink marble looking surface.
i was wondering what product the USA use like the white one in this demo i see a lot of.
the reason i ask is because it is a dream of mine to move to the USA one day...i was hoping i could get by with the trade i have?
i know you lot do alot of tape and joining now on new builds but so do we too but we always need a plasterer lol.
thanks mate.
Morning Military Minded, there are many types of mud here as in the UK, the mud I was using in this video is called diamond its a veneer.
if you can use one mud more than likly you can use them all.
Material knowledge is huge.
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out come the haters good skills! !! lady
Hi Lee Brown,
thank you and have a happy holiday season,
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Glad it said plastering trowel at end of title, what the fuk is CZcams sending me now I thought
Morning Dave, too funny
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It's not cast iron. Would be to heavy on the handle
Howdy Gaz, your right thanks for the tip.
Likewhat the doctor, Leonard Nimoy would say to William Shatner in Star, "dammit Jim, I'm a plasterer, not a metal expert."
Live long and plaster
Jason and I will teach you, “how to render a wall.”
Curry trowels over marshalltown any day.
Hi David Zarracino, we all have our preferences,
Chees,
kirk giordano Plastering
Damm just throw my Marshall away 😞
Morning Warrior dude, it happens, besides there have been a few that can't be repaired this way, such as when the rivets separate.
Best wishes,
Kirk and family
Lol
thanks, It works,