hi guys kirk and jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering tip of the day guys it's about paper
two-ply papers a lot of water barriers weather barriers I get asked this until often guys people
email me almost every other day and say gee Kirk can I use roofing felt on my walls and
that's what I have in my garage it's I have access can I use it let me at first explain what we use
I'll use a two ply jumbo text so I bid this is for residential as well as commercial we've been
using it for 30 years every contractor I work for in the past 30 have been using it the Union guys
are all using it there are a lot of weather barriers for stucco now this particular one
is breathable so water gets in somehow someway it can escape because it's breathable now I'm
sure I'm pointing out a jumbo text there's hydro text weathertags super text Tyrannosaurus text I
just made that up there's so many of these different variances and a hundred different
brands there's okay about 30 30 different brands but every everybody comes to the same conclusion
two layers guys we need two layers now job we're going to start next week the fella has two layers
of this belt and he said Kirk is that okay I said sure it's okay but it's harder to work with this
stuff here and that comes in 10 15 20 30 60 the heavier or the higher number the thicker it is
and the more water resistant it is but then it's a drag to handle this is for roofs guys you can use
it for walls if you have it and you say gee whiz I don't want to waste and buy this but I recommend
what's really for the walls and all this stuff is breathable okay it has a purpose for it one
guy says well why why have the breathable stuff if I have bench and I said well good point but
that's what they have that's what they sell if you wanted to go with something that is more water or
weather resistance this is air and water moisture resistant this is high-tech time it makes a lot
of products and I use a lot of theirs sometimes we'll put it as a underlayment and then put two
more layers because it's spot glued anyhow it's it's easy and for any of you folks that say well
gee whiz I want a waterproof membrane for the walls not necessary but if you did you could buy
a peel and stick now this peeling stick stuff here it's an eighth of an inch thick it's peel
and you put it on but to get the equivalent of this roll you would need three of these this is
about 180 bucks a roll so this is about twenty bucks a roll 2015 1214 all depends of where you
go guys but this is the stuff I recommend you get this at Westside building shamrock close
building materials you get it anyway probably get it home depot or lowes - it's part of the
tech family I'll leave it at that and I'll tell you one other story guys why this this is not
waterproof so I had years ago when my daughter was about five about 24 now Madeline she says
well dad I want some turtles and she showed me what she wanted and I thought oh that's so cute
so we did it what I did was I took some of this stuff here and I made a little pan in
the bathroom and I put a bunch of dirt and put a couple trees here and tracks and cars and houses
and the turtle phase lasted about four months and she'd love to go in there with those little
bitty turtles and watch them go and it would put water in there cuz we had plants now the turtles
became yesterday's old newspapers after about four months so we found a good home with other
kids who had that same interest what I'm getting at is when I pulled up okay we gave the turtles
away and I pulled this stuff up I had nothing but mildew underneath that and a lot of water because
it's not water proof unless it's for a particular system on the walls the walls have a system to
make it water resistant and waterproof but you don't use this for turtles anyway guys I wanted
to point out that this stuff here is great and I recommend it for a house residential commercial
if you want to go with these it's overkill but you can do it you can do it if you wanted to go
with any of the topics you can do that too as long as there's two layers now that just goes for the
state of California because that's where I'm at I don't know anywhere else around the country or
around the but that's what we have here my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering but I
bring that to you guys attention since I'm asked so often as usual we thank you for watching we'll
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