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Removing the Concrete Wall Forms and Planning the Plaster Finish

It has been nearly 12 hours since the concrete was poured on the Punta Gorda, Florida, storm-ready house. The crew from Solid Wall Systems is on site to strip the forms, scrape them, and reoil them with a biodegradable form oil before taking them to the next job. Bob watches as a window buck is stripped away leaving a perfectly clean and square concrete opening in place. Hammers ring as the crew knocks off the wall clips that are specially designed to break away once the walls are set. Bob looks up to see the Simpson Strong Ties that were wet set after the pour protruding from the tops of the walls, waiting to tie down the roof trusses. Bob looks at the finish with Mark Newton of Solid Wall Systems and Jesse Gonzalez of Mercedes Homes. Newton explains that they will apply a skim coat over areas that show voids or imperfections. Gonzalez and the Mercedes crew will finish the walls after they have set for two weeks or so. They will power wash the exterior to remove any residual oil from the forms. Then they will apply a three-coat plaster job using a scratch coat, brown coat, and finish coat to create the look of traditional Florida plaster.

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Removing the Concrete Wall Forms and Planning the Plaster Finish

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" All right it's day two now before continued until after 8 o'clock last night and you know overnight is all it takes we're now in the process of stripping away the -- worked -- and we can see what's happening right over. Hi guys who are part Jesse. It's only been approximately twelve hours since we poured it -- are still around. Yeah but it's -- these. Com. The us. The location here is. The master bedroom. Break right. Made. Now the vertical clips that we see at the top of the wall. Come. This in the for the world. What's this basic. They basically -- He's going to take to strip."

" Well I don't really came out real clean -- incident OK now we've gotten -- three sections of the wall that are exposed here let's let's look at this section over here. And talk a little bit about the condition -- It's so wet to the touch and there are just little tiny areas where you got you know little imperfections like that what would you have to do next what we'll -- Reporters Pimco -- until all mortgage. But does this -- the wall Taiwan but the skim coat just in little areas where ties were and right -- this right here what do you do anything else. No the Hollywood I think we do is we'll elastomeric. Water. Intrusion. Subsidies to the outside will -- on the inside is night grade privilege for the wall ties were perhaps we'll have no water -- OK and then from the point of view of finishes. Come on up here and look at this I mean. We're not gonna just trowel. Just plaster right around there when. No sir what we do here is investment what have -- three step process here actually what we do is we come in and we pressure wash your son or residue off from the more important and then we're done and hardly any Jesse I mean yes we -- all -- leader for safety."

" Austin -- bonding yeah and done what we do here is we kind of pressure wash and then we -- bond in front of our scratch coat. Accurate blown -- it's a bonding agent K a catalyst and we put in our first coat which are stretched out behind. And then we come back over that once it greens up a little bit we put a second that would just -- brown coat. And then once that hardens up then we come back with -- final vote."

" OK and so it's it's basically gonna have the look of traditional Florida plaster -- right and what about the forms there mark. I mean the when use them on the next job tomorrow -- whatever do they have to be scraped or sanded or."

" We haven't really come off is they won't break it. And re oil it before it goes into the basket window -- all the pieces will be re oiled and it'll only come off they get all legal right before they don't want and have. Very little sticking of the product."

" It is not. Petroleum or diesel or anything well that somebody said it was a biodegradable yes it is OK so anything that's spills over stuff is not harmful. -- at our site for that's great. All right let's talk a little bit about the timing involved here. Before you go to this finish stage. All right -- before we wrap things up here I want to say either the homeowner."

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