Hi, everybody, Jason here with kirk giordano plastering,
I've got my brother, Danny, sitting here filming us.
What I want to show you today is just a couple quick tips on everybody's favorite thing,
stucco breakout.
It sucks, it's dirty, it's gross, and nobody likes to do it, but we have to, and there are many
reasons for it. You can see here I've already started. This is what we were originally left
with after the window installers came, and they did a nice job putting this new window in.
But we cannot waterproof or tie in new paper or new wire into something like this,
so you have to break out two to three inches. Typically now, this is a stud house. If i go
any further than I've gone already, then i'm going to be in the field,
trying to break out stucco in between studs, and you can't do that,
so you can see what I've been left with here i'm going to take a hammer and a pry bar and pry
up this wire, get rid of all the rocks, and then, we're going to jam our new paper under there.
They left this little two inches three-inch spot of stucco at the top.
Now we're gonna take that off because we can't get new paper under it, and plus, when i put new
stucco, i don't want to try, and texture into this little two-inch think it'll just be a lot
better cleaner finish and more watertight if i remove that so i'm going to remove that now.
These are the easy sides because we're on wood, and that's on a header. If we come to this site,
we have a little bit more of a challenge. But thankfully, it's pretty easy; too,
two inches inside of here, we have another stud. You can see these furring nails that I've exposed
are on the stud, so what i have to do all the way up this line is remove this four inches of stucco
and then break it cut it, and leave a few inches of wire and we'll do the same thing we'll overlap
our paper and wire, and that'll be waterproof. So what i wanted to show folks is that there is
a trick when using these rotary hammers. There is a lot of way to ways to do
stucco breakout. This is how we do it. You don't want to just go four inches in
and try to break out big huge pieces when you are breaking out. You can see i followed a line here
when i'm doing breakout. Sorry for the noise.
i'm only moving an eighth of an inch a quarter inch in I wouldn't jump from here to here.
A whole inch i go here a little bit, and that will cause to just kind of disintegrate the vibration
will just make your job easy. i know this is loud; sorry for the microphones, but that's what we're
going to do, and you can see how lovely this is. There's no wood behind it, so if i tried
to break out here, it's just going to wobble, and it's not going to be very effective,
so we're going to carry this line-up, we're going to take that off.
Lastly, at the bottom, it looks like there's no paper here, but I've gone inside, and actually,
the paper is in really good condition. It's just a few inches lower, so once again,
to do that breakout, i don't just start here and break out a huge piece I start a quarter inch.
That makes everything easier.
Now i'm following the stud. We have a stud here that matches the stud underneath;
this way, when my tool is vibrating, it has come back.
I don't know if the camera will show that, but we have a great paper here, so what i'm going to do
is break out this whole line across, remove that top get everything nice and pretty,
and then when we're done with the laugh maybe I'll show you guys how it all looks
all right folks i told you I'd show you the end uh this is what it looks like when we're done of
course we're using a Sika-flex 1a a polyurethane caulking to fuse our new paper to the window.
Sometimes we caulk the nail holes. You don't need to do that. The paper is a self-healing membrane,
but we do it anyway because we're here, and I have an open tube.
But, again, the important things were we broke out enough to get
our paper far over the stud line here. I'm way more than two or three
inches i got that paper really far. The same thing with down here; we're
way over the existing paper all the way around. We removed this silly little two-inch piece,
and then we're able to get our paper up, and under that uh wood trim piece, so everything here is
watertight it's bomb proof and uh we're gonna get out of here and come back another time and do the
cement work, and maybe we'll show you that too. Anyway, thank you guys for watching. We really
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