hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, how many of you guys have got
apartment buildings or condos that have water tables on them what's a water table well it's
a water table right here this big piece of wood in this piece of wood actually has a key so the
piece of wood goes like so it goes on to here and see this key right here the paper goes over this
key it's kind of like us a window key you see right here this is a key for the stucco to go
into if you don't have it no worries but we were just doing some windows and I found some wood rot
and I had to call the people and say hey I got some bad news but your wood is a goner man and
they say well what do you recommend I said well because it's we can't cover wood rot it's like
cancer you can't cover it you got to take it off I said there's in two places I recommend we break
it all out so we did the nasty job just now of all this tear out we're putting it back together this
guy here it's a goner anyway the homeowner kept building owner come out and he says well can we
use some kind of flashings I thought no not really it's not necessary you don't need to put say a L
flashing right here whether it's a 45 or a flat one you don't really want to do that what you
want to do is this little itty bitty piece that I saved for example it's what you guys want to do
if you run into this situation you get a tube of some kind of polyurethane caulking it's got to be
a construction sealing this stuff you take three drops to put it on two bricks that won't even come
apart so that's that's the stuff to use for like us I left all the paper loose this is loose over
here everything is loose that way the carpenters can come in now the Carpenters are going to come
in and they're going to install this water table what's the water table this is a water table it's
a belly band that's a belly band Meli ban water table it protects the the brick from the moisture
the rain so what what you do I'm actually not going to do it because I'm not going to install
this but I've had a few folks say gee whiz what do you do when you have that kind of situation do you
flash over it can you cut it and put flashing if you put any kind of flashing over this it looks
really bad guys and if you put a flashing here it looks really bad so go back with a water table if
there was a easier way to do this I wouldn't know it and I wouldn't have went through all this work
myself so you break it all out you break it up about six inches you got to have enough room to
slide this in then you take some polyurethane caulking I'm kind of partial to this stuff even
though it's a drag to work with because it doesn't want to come off your hands that's when you know
it's good stuff you take it and you put a bead of caulking this right here is going to take
ten tubes you put your ten tubes this way and like a race track then you set this in here in
the in the caulking say let me find a spot you set it in here after you move all these clinkers
you set it in wiggle it once twice boom nail it in and actually caulk under here too that's when
I do them I just put a lot of caulking and I make sure it squirts out of here and then back and once
that's on then the new paper is going to go right over this key see this key right here so it'll go
like this and of course will cut back like so and then we stucco it so that's not going to show the
wires going to come down to here and we curve it right here that gets covered with the stucco and
and this comes down on it now it's nice and pretty but guys I've had so many folks ask me about this
and they go well can I just take a dremel or a skill saw and cut it and put another piece on it
well if you did that and you cover wood rot guess what wood rot spreads it's like cancer so you
got to get rid of it there guys another instance different day yes we finished that one house today
we're working on another one very similar now if you see this old wood lath here anytime you see
this old keyed wood laugh it's a cedar keyed wood laughs you know that the house was built between
1890 and early 1920s at the lead latest so this is old stuff these belly bands last a long time this
one lasted 90 years so they're just replacing the cedar than they figured well gee let's put
a new water table on it so the new water table they've got they're flashing over it we counter
flash their flash and then of course we wire it and tie into this existing stucco all right guys
they've got their new water table installed and you can use the silver wood and stuff go all over
the place over the brick is real common they've got some paper over lapping that and I suspect
they got at least 15 tubes of caulking here now note they're using this well I see their empty
box back there this this polyurethane caulking is really good stuff so I'm looking at I thought wow
these guys used at least ten tube that's the way to do it put your paper over it and seal
it incredibly well if you're not sure use a lot of this stuff because this is not something you want
to guess on the papers got an overlap here and kind of curve up and then you seal it together
so they did a real nice job anyway I thought I'd point that out because that is the proper way to
do this guys my name is Kirk Jason on the camera and we thank you for watching and as usual we'll
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