I was shocked and a little bit
surprised when I opened up this wall have you ever wanted to know how they do
those million dollar wall caps this is it in this video we're going to teach you step
by step how to do a wall cap that will blow your mind there used to be a wall here and
now there's a wall cap it's a live edge wood slab that we took from concept to complete this
is from a tree and now this is what you see guys i hope you like this tutorial we're going to give
you everything for free stay tuned enjoy the video i wanted to open up the view in this oceanfront
condo vacation rental so i decided to remove half this wall and i had a surprise i
needed to move some pipes and wires and i wanted to create a support on the end
of this wall cap that would also support the upstairs loft but to my surprise i had to
move nine wires and two pipes so let's get to work my dad always reminded me that if you were ever
in a remodeling project and you were surprised you were in the wrong business you never know what's
behind those walls and we got that stuff moved all right i got a piece of Koa wood and I'm going to
use this as our wall cap first I'm going to get a square line a perpendicular line so that i can use
this as my reference point of how to lay this on the actual wall cap and cut it around my support
beam i needed to go around the support beam because it was actually holding up the loft so i
just used my drill to drill four holes and then my jigsaw to cut out around that beam now i had to
slide this Koa wood around the beam so i'm going to cut an access point and i don't want to do this
square I'm going to do kind of an organic shape so i cut that at an angle so it would kind of trick
the eye that there would be no seams there i also get a little tricky when i putty that to do a
blonde putty and a dark putty so i really hid that seam that was key in creating a professional
project i routed out the underside of the slab so that would overlap my wall to create a really
clean look all right i've created a dam in that crack right there because i'm going to use some
art coat and i'm going to fill it up right now and this pony wall is going to get covered
with a really cool slab and all i've done here is just started filling some black in the
edges i decided to use my blue green metallic and my diamond dust to fill in this crack and then
everything else on top i just filled with black all right black metallic all right here we go have
you ever tried to film yourself while working on a remodeling project hey give me a like give me a
thumbs up if I'm doing okay because i'm a one-man band at this point trying to do all things
all right we're all mixed up let's pour it in i really like the teal green color that i used
as well as that diamond dust it matched my countertops and accented them to really tie this
entire project together it made it look like it was done on purpose because it was be sure to
overfill your project and you know these these countertops have a little bit of green in them
so i think that'll look neat we'll let that dry all right we got it strapped up i got my
seams gluing up there i got the piece level and you can see that I've boxed this
thing out so i could do my concrete tree let's keep going this thing is fun
i really like the color of this wood here we go our project is glued down it's
level our nylon strap has done a great job bringing that seam together and I'm adding
normal chicken wire to create a concrete tree this process is simple and it's absolutely a
blast I'm just grabbing the concrete that i dyed and I'm simply gonna put it on the wall and you
just slide that up it grabs that chicken wire really good and I'm gonna make a tree right here and you're just simply shaping it by hand and man
this is going to come out really cool oh my gosh by adding a polymer a concrete bonding adhesive
add this to your mix prior to putting it on the wall and it will bond like you wouldn't believe
here I'm adding some color tones I'm just using a stain pen before i do my Ultimate Top Coat over
this concrete tree to give it some highlights I'm also going to come back with my multi-tool
and remove my drips you can use a paint stick to remove epoxy drips while it's still wet
or after it dries just use a multi-tool and come back in finish sand as a woodworker you know
that moisture is always in wood therefore we need to use finishes that are moisture tolerant that's
exactly what stone coat epoxy is it's designed for the woodworker because it doesn't blush when you
trap any sort of moisture within that coating so be sure to use stone coat on all your river table
and woodworking projects your wall caps and more i love woodworking with Stone Coat Epoxy I've
done a couple of seal coats with the same epoxy at one ounce per square foot now that I've sanded
and wiped the dust it's time for my flood coat the reason i do seal coats is because i don't want
air coming up through and causing bubbles in a thick flood coat I'm going to do my flood coat at
three ounces per square foot I'm going to trowel that and then I'm going to chop that I'm going to
move that around on the surface so that i mix it one final time stone coat epoxy is self leveling
to the extreme and you have a long open working time so you don't need to be in a hurry watch
how fast and how easy this is to level like a pro one all I'm doing here is just coating
the surface i love watching everything level out I'm really enjoying myself
and enjoying this woodworking project this wall cap is a showpiece this is what you see
when you walk into the great room of this condo this vacation rental and this is where you're
gonna hang out and watch people cook and watch the waves and enjoy everybody in the living room this
is the the piece that everybody's gonna hang out at now i forgot my chop brush so I'm just using
a gloved hand to go ahead and chop that surface but we recommend that chop brush because it really
moves and agitates those chemicals one final time also remember this is zero VOC's there's no
noxious smell I'm not blowing out this room with a horrible plastic smell this is zero solvents
it's easy to use it's DIY friendly I'm just using a torch you can use a heat gun as well to
pop any bubbles that i entrained in the epoxy while mixing remember you don't want your products
to set up quickly and start to gel when you're still working on the project so be sure to
use stone coat because it has that open time that allows you to get the job done right
now I've sanded again and it's time for the ultimate top coat this is the most durable top
coat on the planet I'm going to show you how to apply this over a woodworking project right now
we have a video that's going to go over every single step of that my brother and i got this
top coat applied flat horizontally as well as vertically on our concrete tree it gave it that
beautiful sheen that beautiful shine that looked natural and it really gave it that ultimate
durability go check that video out guys until next time from Stone Coat Countertops YOU
GOT THIS! I'll see you on the next video
