Howdy folks, Kirk and Jason here with kirk giordano plastering; today, we want to show you
guys how to waterproof an electrical panel when the stucco has been removed now; this particular
house, they had a crew come, and they removed all the stucco, the old panel was still attached, so
they left the stucco on, and so the contractor and the owner asked me, well how can we waterproof I?
I said can you pull the box off they said no, he can't pull the box off, so i was talking with
the electrician, but i already know this too; he says this neck is very fragile, if you move this
just a little bit this neck can snap so i had him turn the electricity off and jay and i
put this strap here this strap is to hold this because we don't have any room if we pull this
back this break so if we only have a half-inch and the stucco is one inch,
and the nails go through the wall two inches we can't remove it without snapping this neck.
Now if we go inside, which we will soon, we'll show you the wire harness, and that's this thing
complicated it's got all these wires in here so what we can do what you guys can do is you can put
you can pull it away cut all the nails back and if you're going to cut the nails.
It's already attached to the box. Use a sawzall to cut the nails with the finest
teeth. Why? Because if you disturb this stucco, it could fall then you have to re-stucco it,
and there's no room to re-stucco it now what i was going to do was shimmy some two-ply paper
under there this is 60 minute two layers and that's code but what jay did is uh he went to
home depot, and he bought some 17 gauge metal. So i just got here a little while ago,
and i thought, wow, this is the cut this all out pre-cut everything, and i thought
that is some heavy-duty metal; you could have got tin, but Jay likes to do everything
as best as possible so what we did was we cut all the nails that are holding this,
and he removed the lag bolts because four lag bolts are holding this into the stud
so we're going to waterproof this and i'm going to use jay's
template let's see if we can get it in now this is where the wire harness is the wire
harness we don't want to disturb that, and again I said man did you turn the electricity off because
i don't want to get shocked? i know a lot about stucco but
electricity, that's not me, I just know how to turn a light on, to make it
work, so i'm gonna go ahead and see how well this guy fits in here, and the idea is i want some,
some excess out here to tie it all in let's see here so the idea is we fish this piece of metal in
and i have to know where that wire harness is but i can see it right here i can see the wire
harness here you guys can't, but we'll show it to you on the inside holy cow that's perfect
That's you, Jay; that's good cutting,
very good cutting, so i'm going to go ahead because this is so heavy
i can't use a hammer attacker 10 i could use my hammer attacker this stuff, oh you little tramp.
okay, let's try that again
Okay, that's permanent i might as well get one on this side i want it to be straighter
Come on, now get in there, all right ah, now we got that in there
they also cut this out i like how he did it here. He made it round that way because it
catches everything if its square corners. In fact, this might catch everything. Again this is a real
heavy gauge metal. Is this heavy-gauge really necessary? No paper will work with two layers,
and most of these do have two layers and jay was here a half hour before me; what he did
was he cut out all of the nails, so what we want to do is wow, that's just too cool perfect Jay
so he, what he did was he pre-cut these. The idea is we put this one here. This one goes over
just like real flashing, just like window flashing, so let me pop a nail in this guy
here, and the closer you get to the stud, the stronger it is; it'll bounce here's the field
a stud you could hear it's tight i'm putting it in the field, so it's bouncy or spongy
cool beans, all right one last nail then i want to show you guys something.
oh, you little tramp, missed the stud, oops
how many electrical boxes or panels have we fixed about 30 in 30 something years okay now
we got all this done now we got an arrangement of tools the the guy said well how are you gonna uh
seal that personally i'm gonna use a construction adhesive sealant this is Sika- Flex, how strong
is Sika-Flex? I put a brick wall together, like 28 years ago my buddy, had a brick wall, a car hit and
he said, kirk, can you grout all this? I said man, I'll be there forever I'll us Sika-Flex, that brick
wall had his kids walked on it for like 15 years, the house resold now more kids are walking on it.
This is strong stuff it's sold at the material yards. Now here's what i'm gonna do, now
i want to use an abundance of this, so what we want to do is we want to put as much of this stuff on
as possible i mean i'm going to probably use three tubes here, why because we want to seal it
and the fella said, well can't you use an expanding foam? No. not for this because the expanding foam
won't, it has no adhesive abilities it just expands so we want something that waterproofs
it what it got to waterproof really really well, and it's got to attach really well,
so this adhesive caulking works fine, now i use so much of this stuff; we use it when we last
like say this when a pipe is sticking out or say this we go around it we fuse the paper we fuse the
paper to the plastic, and it seals it when we're doing stucco work uh this tube is almost empty,
and i want to use another tube, and you know the funny thing is i'm talking about this caulking,
and someone said kirk, you got like a thousand videos in 15 years do these guys pay you for that,
and i thought what you mean they said do they pay you? I said you mean like being subsidized or
or sponsored, I sad no, these guys wouldn't give us the time of day. if i weren't in there, but
as a rule guys we show you the products that work if they work well we mention them, we
show them, the products that suck we don't get into describing those because that's a form of gossip
it's a bad habit guys don't do it. So we just don't use those nor do we show them, so that way
we stay on the positive side because we are kind of positive anyway, I'm going to put another tube
of caulking here and i'm going to have Jeremy the electrician, come over here and reattach
this to the wall and this caulking is going to squeeze out and guys there are about 20 different
ways to do this, this way is a little overkill but that's who we are, we're the overkill guys.
and so once he attaches this on here this excess here coming out of four to six inches well we only
need two inches because then we're going to put paper here it's going to go right up to here and
it's going to get either sica flex back on or i can put a peeling stick a peeling stick will go to
here to here and stick it and that's water tight then of course this piece of paper comes right
back down over this right here it's just like a roofing membrane guys again we've done this
hundreds of times it seems but anyway I want to show you the wire harness and show
you what we have to work with all right guys we thought we'd show you the inside
Now what they're going to do is they're going to reattach this now
he's going to come here in a few minutes we're not going to show that far
we don't want to bore everybody, your probably thinking too late.
But anyway, he's going to reattach it to the studs here and to the stud here with lag bolts
that are going to pull it; it sucks it in, and here's what we tried to avoid.
Jeremy said hey, kirk, you want me to turn the electricity off?
I thought, yeah, I had my coffee today i don't need this kind of waking up.
You can see the metal here; we've got to stay away from the wire harness because
it's important to stay away from that anyway; if you have your stucco still attached,
there are so many different ways. This is just one way. It's probably the best, but
there are many different ways to do it. I've seen guys put a bead of cheap caulking on it
i thought that's it; that's all you're gonna do? But anyway, this is how we do it, all right guys,
uh jay wanted to show this uh ending of what it looks like now the steel was here.
We put the Straight-Flash on top of the steel and on top of the paper it's down here it's on here
then we took the paper we put up
a j trim right here caulked it with Sika-Flex put that on it's just overkill it is but sometimes we
get anal and do things way above board when we get ready to stucco this a bonding agent goes on here.
We just cover this up with stucco now; it's waterproof for a thousand years.
Anyway, my name is kirk Jason's on the camera. We thank you, folks, for watching, and as usual,
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