Howdy folks Kirk and Jason here, with kirk Gordano plastering.
Today we're not going to show anything, but I will explain something important
twice a week. I get a call or an email, and folks are saying Kirk,
I'm building a house it's out of studs or i have plywood or shear wall on it or i have dense glass
on it what size staple do i need first of all guys seven eighths of the leg has got to be
into the stud so back when i was first starting we didn't use plywood it was back in 75 yeah i'm old
back in 75 we use 7/8 of inch staples with a staple gun because we pulled our wire and the wire
was over studs so 7/8 of the leg has got to be into the studs this is the leg this is the crown
okay now if we're going to go to plywood which is 1980 to 85 on up till today 2020 epidemic time
we're using inch and quarter staples why do we use inch and a quarter staples because we not only got
to get 7/8 of the leg into the stud but we got to account for the plywood half-inch plywood so this
inch and a quarter is necessary i buy boxes inch and a quarter all the time because it's standard
and by well i'll get to that in a minute now if you're using if you're going over on this side
of the house they have dense glass what is dense glass then the glass is a moisture barrier it's
usually for brick stone rock but a lot of times now for stucco if you're going house to house
garage to house they'll they'll ask for dense glass because it also has a fire ratio i won't get
into all the dense glass things but okay so now you have studs then you have plywood then you have
dense glass how much of that leg has to go into the stud the same amount 7/8. so now you have to
switch to these congo these are two inch staples now i say this because i've been on this job three
times now explaining this to the guys and when you guys call me i'm gonna say man just type in
the proper length of the staple length of staples for shear wall length of staples for plywood and
all of it's going to be right here this gun right here is the one i generally use it's a senko gun
they come in 20 different guns to accommodate for this particular gun it'll hold inch and a
quarter crown say like for example if i want to put an inch and a quarter crown i drop them down
here pull this up and it accommodates four inch and a quarter will it accommodate two inch no
i have more guns at home which have a top head right here which give extra compression strength
to drive these two inches in here and you do need two inch or one and 7 8 but they don't make those
they only make two-inch they make 7/8 for studs inch and a half or inch and a quarter for plywood
and these two inches for certain things like say this wall this wall has got dense glass on it so
guys you got to have the proper amount of leg into the stud to accommodate for the square inch of the
weight of the stucco i can go into detail but that's enough said now once more guys this right
here these are 16 gauge wide crown what does a wide crown mean a wide crown means right here
one inch that's the crown because i did a video a couple weeks ago asking for milwaukee or any other
company to make a cordless or a battery operated staple gun now many people called in and said kirk
milwaukee makes the battery operated or cordless staple gun they do but it's for attaching wire to
fence post because it has a narrow crown this the crown is narrow we want one inch crown so you guys
you manufacturers of tools i'm still asking you guys make a battery operated one of this cordless
so we don't have to drag this thing set up the hose set up the compressor compressors are heavy
man got to move the compressor and do all that jazz but anyway that's another story the moral
to this video right here guys is if you need to understand the depth or the leg of the stucco
staple and how far it needs to go in here just again don't call me just type in length of staple
for stucco and it this video will occur it'll magically come up on your screen anyway guys
my name is kirk jason on the camera we thank you for watching this just a talk video to tell you
because i get asked this question twice a week and i've been on this job three times now explaining
the same thing next time i tell these guys man type it in and watch the video dude we thank you
for watching and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one hi folks Jason here and I'm here to
tell you something you probably already know that like most content creators on youtube my dad and i
are members of the amazon affiliates program what does that mean that means that we can show and
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and trowels scoops floats and some of the other things are battery operated tools for breakout
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