Howdy Folks Kirk Jay and family here, with Kirk Giordano Plastering,
Notice that waterfall? That's to prove a point, I'll get back to that in a minute.
What I want to talk about today is, door trim. You know we do
a little bit of carpentry we're lath and plasterers by trade, but I'm going to show you guys how to
hang door trim this is called a stucco stop, Now this stucco stop has a key right here,
I'm going to show you why it's important to hang these just right guys, or you're
going to end up with that right there. Now I work a lot, all over the place and
I do a lot of work for this one guy, and he's always putting these on wrong, his guy is.
Okay, now this is all papered, it's all papered but if I were to prove a point, say for example,
this didn't have paper and it's just like this, now your folks who put your door trim on,
like say, you got your right your left and then your, your top.
Never ever, ever put it on like so, meaning you're just gonna put it on the wood itself, because what
happens if you put it say on the wood itself? I've had the number of guys do this and when
I come out I say, guys I'm, you got to relath that, that means take the trim off,
put paper down, and whether or not you use these two ply, two layers of grade D paper
or you use what I recommend, this forta-flash, this has been used for a hundred years, guys. Why,
because it works, it's got thread in it, it lasts a good 120 years.
On the way of membranes. Now, I'm just going to point
this out guys because a lot of people say well gee whiz, we got some straight flash,
Moist-Stop, Tin, Dupont, all of these now. Those are fiiiine, you guys could use those,
but they're not necessary unless you have a window that say inset, then use those.
But if you have this, let me show you something guys, if you put this wood on top of wood, and you
think well gee whiz, I'm going to caulk this and then our paper is going to fish into this,
and we're going to caulk that, that's what you're going to have right there.
Because you need a gasket, I'm going to tighten that, nothing, nothing is worse than a leaky
hose. I pulled the gasket out of this for a reason, this is a gasket, the paper is a gasket.
I'm trying to prove a point here guys, now let's say for example, I'm gonna put this back down, now
we just stuck this paper on, and again we do like construction too, like, say we had to put all the
wood around here and plumb this up, but just for the sake of what I'm trying to show you folks,
and is this important? Heck yes, you take this straight flash,
I already put it here you see this is the same scenario, same thing,
we got the plywood here which we just inserted because they didn't have any, and I said guys,
now we need plywood, so we inserted this plywood, what Carl did, Carls the the main carpenter here.
So we got this on, and I just stuck this in, how far did this paper go?
It went to here, while we're on it, we're tucked under here.
Here's where I get run out of town, like in the old days, if I if, I tell
these people you know what I would do is tear that all the way up, this guy would
pull a shotgun and throw me off his property. So what we do is we go up under best we can so
they don't have to pull the whole thing off and then I tell folks well gee whiz,
you have to use a good quality primer and paint the, primer should be an elastomeric. What's that?
That's forever it's a rubber membrane, it lasts for about 25 years.
Okay, so I don't lose my train of thought. I'm gonna put some uh paper here. And I had
already a piece of paper cut now do I need another piece of paper here not really but
I'm trying to prove a point guys and the point is on a vertical overlap you want three to six
inches if it's horizontal lap, like say uh the paper here is over this three inches is fine,
but to be code, they want you to have six inches, so what I'm gonna do guys is I kind of know where, uh
where this wood is going to go, so what we do is we put this here,
and I'm just gonna put a couple staples to prove a point, now, now we got our six
inches guys, now this is code, you want to be code, but more importantly then code is what?
Guys, more important than code is function, functionality, you got to have
watertight surfaces say for example we match the stucco and the owner says, Man, that's sho-enough
is pretty guys, pretty is pretty. But if it leaks, it ain't pretty,
So now what we're going to do is, Carl and I are going to pop this on with our,
yeah, we got all kind of tools and Carl I'll tell you what I'll hold it for you,
because you're better with these than me, you tell me right where we want it and now guys,
I'm thinking we're going about I want to go to the the trim down here,
and so that's about right and Carl's going to tap that on, and I'm going to
explain why this is important in a minute, up, about right to there
There we go, we got to put the guns on first.
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guns on? Now it is, Okay, all right
Carl's our resident Carpenter; he's been doing carpentry for years.
The Best of the Best, so he can do all that carpentry because
I can do stucco all day long, but my boys, know I suck at mitering. It's no sin, About right there? Yup, right there,
Okay, now I'm going to show you why we do this, guys in a minute, once we get this on
And this is for one of my construction companies I do a lot of work for.
I'm always having to tell um, have your guy come out here and fix these, so this time I'm sending
this video and saying all the guys you hire, have them watch this, so that they can do it right,
so when we come out it's just ready for us. Now that guy is, yeah I've got a no that's
good, that's good; go ahead and put it kinda of sorta where we want it, yeah, well the
Okay, get it where you want it. Okay, I can tap it out a bit.
to tap out, I can pull it down a little bit.
That's good beautiful, beautiful, don't get my finger
out of nails so what we do now guys is you see this um key this is a key right here. And
what we do is if we're doing the two-ply paper, we put it in here and we use a,
a Sikaflex or 1A polyurethane caulking, now here's where it gets uh easy, guys, now say, for example
let me just staple this off to prove a point.
Okay,
Thank you, Carl,
now,
Thank you, Carl, Okay, here's what is
equally important guys, now I'm using this, uh it's a 1A caulking sikaflex it's a polyurethane,
it's good stuff guys just don't get it on your hands, then it becomes nasty stuff.
Now right here what we do is we fuse the paper to the wood so what I pulled this back the
wire intentionally, sometimes I'll take the, the paper and go into this groove uh the uh the key,
or sometimes I'll just do it like this, so now I fuse this paper to the wood
and this particular caulking is quality stuff. I mean you don't want to get it on you, but
it's a, it's polyurethane what does that mean? That means it's an adhesive uh sealant,
and man it seals, I normally will put it on, I won't use my finger, but I'll use it right now
since I got the wire pulled back, now if that wire was all the way out it'd be my
finger would be bleeding, every which way, and so you just kind of go like so, and now that paper
is fused to the wood, that is a permanent seal. So when it rains guys, when it rains, the water
cannot go inside here, which a lot of people of having in the last year maybe eight, nine jobs
I said I can't do it guys. I'm not going to try to uh waterproof it and have the rain go
in here or go inside this uh miter edge, so you got to have your papers right guys, and what I'm
going to do here is just cut this right here and sometimes if you get a door frame and it has a z
flashing put the Z Flash in here, come over and that protects the top and the same thing here,
we're going to just shove me some wire in here, and seal it right here, it's just like you do
a window guys you see right here caulking. Caulking and it's already has this membrane
all the way up underneath but what that does, the caulking seals it all together now you guys might
say hey Kirk, that's all fine and dandy, but, Do you realize you have your glasses on wrong?
That's a little joke I came home the other day and my two-year-old grandson was at my
desk and he had the glasses on like this and he was doing me a huge favor, he was
writing all over all my important contracts. I came home and I thought man, you've been busy,
so he takes my glasses, he thinks this is the way to put it on. and he scribbled all over all my
important papers and I came home and he looked at me like to say dude, I did you a big favor.
You don't have to sit at this desk any longer so I thought that was just the cutest thing,
anyway my name is Kirk, Carl, Jay and Dan's hiding around here somewhere. anyway,
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