Hello, guys Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today I want to share with you some tips
About wire, how much do you cross over the wire? I've done a lot of videos as far as how to apply.
but, I haven't addressed the question and I've had a couple people call me and say,
Kirk, you never say how much the wire has got to criss-cross itself or overlap?
Okay on a horizontal like this I just attach this wire with a hammer tacker or just to prove a
a point, on a horizontal you want three inches, Or you could say three squares are three
inches basically, allow almost six for say, if you're going on a vertical overlap.
In a minute, I'm going to finish taking this wall up we're going to paper it and
the contractor going to put his fascia board up there. But say you were taking the wire and you stopped
it at this point here then you started from that side here, and want to go to this stud?
No, because they'll just be touching what you would do is go to the next stud that way, similarly
to sheetrock, you want to always be on a stud. That way you avoid the cracking, what I'm about
to do now is all our studs are marked, with this we use a yellow crayon, every six inches place a staple
And what you do is you follow the line or the pattern of the wire. We are using a 17 gauge wire. It's also deep-furred. I like a deeper wire because we do a lot of
same-day double coat systems so with deep furred sticks out a little bit more wire on it guys.
Why are we going over Dens-glass? This way the Dens- glass sheathing is usually necessary if the house
is with within three feet of a property in some cities so they got Dens-glass over plywood here, provides fire protection for the other property.
So what we do is we just handle Dens-Glass just like its plywood. Thus, we put two layers
of paper we staple off into the studs easy peasy lemon squeezy, just like if it's plywood guys.
I would if they have a gypsum-based product in this sheathing right here this is Dens-Glass it's
an acrylic waterproof sheeting on the exterior as well as on the inside to resist molds, and
all kinds of toxic stuff, plus it gives you an extra fire ratio anyway, we're going to go to the gable
here and show you something else, but I wanted to point out to this while we're here, as this
doesn't amount to anything as far as this video' You see these bars on this window see this gate
right here see the gate to come in see the gate to go out the whole neighborhood is gated like
that most of the houses here have armed gates on the front doors they're decorative but their gates.
Almost every house has this reason. I point that out is because I grew up in this
neighborhood. Me and Lou did, of course people they called me to say, Kirk, "what part of France did you
grow up?" I would say what makes you think I grew up in France? they go with a name like Kirk
Pierre Giordano you had to grow up in France. That's funny, my mother was raised in France,
whae at 20 she came here, she spoke four languages, except for English, thus, we ended up in this neighborhood.
I'm a block away from where we were raised, we've lived here, our first seventeen years kind of
fun, but at the same time a scary neighborhood. I thought I'd point that out and throw that.
out because the fella who I'm doing this for he says I hope you don't mind the neighborhood,
and I got here I thought dude, I grew up in this neighborhood it's somewhat
vicious but we had fun just the same anyway. I'm going to go to this gable and I'm going
to show you what I was going back on as far as how much to overlap this wire alright guys I'll
give you another example of how much to overlap somebody cut the wire a little too short here.
Alright so what I do, is I took another piece of wire the same length as the as this we put
it here go all the way to the corner then we take it past the stud we don't just put a 3-inch piece
here why because it could have a tendency to a hairline crack the scratch for the brown coat.
I'm going to go up here and I'll show you last details for the folks who ask,
"Kirk" hey we're doing this gable, and man, how do you overlap the gable wall.
Okay for example now I put a notice I got my three-inch
three holes for you do-it-yourself folks. Three holes or three inches minimum so we're
overlapped here I haven't stapled anything in yet when I got here I said dude where's your fascia
board and use your L flash, he said what's that I think man, go to Home Depot get yourself, someone
by fours what you're going to hang on the gutter on all the way around here, there's no one by four
so I said you need on the sides especially you need the one by fours the one by four is
going on the paper and then you need to put an L flashing in here so the homeowner is actually
Going to get that for this other side where you don't need a gutter. It'll just drain off.
But what I'm doing is he's still going to put a 1 by 4 here so I'm cutting my wire here now
I can do two things guys as far as overlap I can take this wire I just cut and put it right here
but you see how I'm only 2 inches right here, so what I do is I'm going to take this and just discard
it and take this whole piece and put it right here and I'm allowing for that that 1 by 4 that
he still needs to place on there is it better to use a whole bunch of wire like this rather than
try to skimp and save a bunch of useless wire, so use excess wire, then try to skimp and save because you're
not going to save anything if you're scratch and you're brown coat hairline crack.
While we're on the subject of wire you know what I'm gonna do is cut this out this bend then,
I'm a crisscrossing it same the same way, as its hiding like a sock and a dryer,
So this one here because it's loose I stuff under here because we want our
metal to go far under there here the same thing just like what we did here's a stud,
guy's a stud should be every 16 inches. We put that down put this down and account
for his one by four which he's going to pick up right now we take this off get rid of it come
on now get rid of it blam and we take this wire and remember guys we always go with the arc goes
on the wall usually because we want the fur we want it to be furred out so here we're going to
overlap it again so I'm going to excess overlap it better to have excess too much overlap than
not enough and the same thing applies I'm going to take my snips and cut this out now earlier
when I was talking about this neighborhood. Lou didn't have such a problem as I did because
Lou is well well over 200 pounds, when growing up before I was 18 I was about 110 soaking wet.
Man, I had some issues but that's water under the bridge what doesn't kill you makes you stronger,
anyhow guys know the last thing we're going to do is you're going to take your gun and you've
got to have some eye protection I've had staples hit steel straps, pop off and hit me in the face,
imagine not wearing glasses you can lose an eyeball, so now what we do is we follow the
studs so every six inches guys just to prove a point, I'll just take it down then we come up
every six inches and yeah, you can put a staple in the field to do that because these wires can't
be further than our scratch in a brown coat. Otherwise, they'll stick out, so occasionally
you put a staple in the field to get your corners. I always like to double wrap my corners with paper
and cut the corners, I don't wrap my corners, I never have because if you do that the corners
won't attach properly and then you end up using a hammer and pounding it and you rip the paper.
I have torn about 15 houses apart, I know this for a fact guy, so I don't do it.
A corner aid will tie that in because the corner aid will go on here and that gives
you your overlap so here again, we just follow the stud staple all of a sudden, and when he gets here
with his right here where the stud is we follow that stud, but I'm already on this stud this is
excess so I can go in two feet this way we don't get hairline cracks guys any way I have to tell
you, I haven't addressed that overlapping issue how much there it is that is the overlapping that
we generally do and also guys fur nails pretty outdated the only time they use those are if
you don't want to spend 300 for a gun 300 for a noisy compressor and for all the hoses so we use
wire that fastens all these loose wires been doing this for over 40 years now anyway guys,
I hope that explained how to overlap in it it's good to be in the old neighborhood you can see
all the fences still on the ground right here that are torn apart oh how many of you folks
don't appreciate a neighborhood where you can go out when it gets dark and play around you grew
up here you should keep used to it you think man I like this neighborhood here I can go
outside it's dark and not get mugged anyway. My name is Kirk I am with Kirk Giordano
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