howdy folks kirk and jason here with another tip of the day
now what we got here is it's kind of interesting those bricks were here and they had a problem with
uh well not mice but rats and because our the channel is rated G, Idon't want to talk
too much of negative stuff but guys rats are not good i can go into detail about them if they're
entering in your house any which way usually they'll go through a dryer vent with no flap
i've seen it and i've seen a lot of other things which i'm going to talk about while i do this but
what we have here is a soffit it's old wood lath this old wood lath is from 1890 to 1910-1920
and that's it so what i did the other day was because the rats were going in here
they were climbing up the brick and going in here and they made a lot of holes and they
they they just go in here and how did they lose the stucco on here 30 years ago when they bought
the house this was gone and so was a lot of other stuff so the people here just pressure washed this
and they kind of half-ass painted it so what we did is because of uh rats and in their droppings
i took a water hose they have here and they got the strongest water pressure
and two days ago i washed it this way that way this way i washed all the walls washed all the
ground washed everything because i don't want to inhale any rat feces it gives you leptospirosis
no fun guys had it so what we're going to do now now because this was it was kind of beat up they
have fast painted it here and there and they they did a lot of stuff where they had the holes where
those uh critters were coming in we went ahead and laughed at with mesh and we put mesh here
and besides that i put a bonding agent over this because it's been 30 years since it had any stucco
on it and i want our stucco to adhere now here's my issue as i'm not as flexible as i used to be
i know jay and them were watching the fights the other day and they had this guy called the
style bender now the stucco has got to come this way and key in can i put it on this way
yeah but it this would be a better way to put it i start here and i go in the keys so what i'm going
to do is i'm going to start over there and then i'm going to come this way so i'm not as i put it
on of course it's going to drop guys it's going to drop all over the place and i don't want it if i
go this way it's going to drop all over me because of the keys you guys can't see these keys but the
keys are designed so that when you plaster it you better start here and work this way and go to the
stucco anyway jay's going to mix me up some stuff and i'm gonna start over there and come this way
and how much dropouts will i get a lot because we're going against gravity and it's just an
old ceiling it's best guys if you don't want any wood rot decay or critters going in your house
you should always put some cement on the bottom anytime you see the wood lath
exposed put some cement on it if it's a small crack caulk it because you leave yourself
open to bigger problems in the future anyway i'm going to try to see if i could uh plaster this
okay guys i'm going to give this a shot and see if i could bend this way if not i might sit on
the outside and pull it because again i got to pull it this way so here's we're going to get
started this might be for your entertainment who would love for this to drop all over me
everyone all right now, what I'm gonna do is
because I'm going so thick and I'm talking one inch, I'm gonna
start from here, pull it here
it's not working so bad
okay, now again, I don't want to sit in my own mud
and I don't wanna be right over my head
we used to do a lot of ceilings guys and you learned do not work directly under your your
own ceilings because gravity will pull it down on you now oh that mud is just hanging well let me
tell you guys another thing about well since i'm doing this and my mind kind of wanders while i'm
having fun about rats we were people would say how can you get a rat squeeze through that we were in
maui and we were doing a cleanup of a house and there was a lot of rats in this house
my girlfriend at the time the fifth day there we were cleaning up got what is called leptospirosis
and you say what the heck is that well that is inhaling rat feces and what does that do to you
kills you it's uh she passed out i end up taking her to the hospital and the nurse said
i got an unusual question for you and i said what's that she says have you guys been working or
have you been around rats and i said yes we have and she says well i got
some news for you your girlfriend may not make it through the evening and i thought holy crap
anyway guys the idea is if you have a basement you have a wall and critters are getting in stop
that from happening because when the rat feces dries it becomes airborne and if it's airborne
now you inhale it and if you inhale that stuff you think covet is bad that's that's horrible
uh it put her in the hospital and what it did to me it beat me up too so
that being said if you have anything designed flaws in your house and you think rats are
getting in there get rid of it because again they'll poop and when they do poop it'll dry
you won't see it drying you'll walk by it you'll disturb it it will become airborne and man
that stuff is not good for you anyway this isn't too bad i'm going to try something else
and jay says, well, dad, I'll get under there. I'll stucco with because you can't bend like that,
and I thought, you know you're right, but let me try a different way
because I don't really need to see what I'm doing. My trowel is doing the work
much better
and guys, does this have to be super pretty under here? No, it just has to be, so where
if you're a rat with those little dingy yellow teeth,
they can't eat through it, okay one more thing about this house in Maui because this was kind
of interesting we were fixing it up and we were sleeping in a van because the house was condemned
and because I'm so tall I said hey it's two weeks I'm tired of sleeping in the van,
so we went in the house and right where the bedroom was the bathroom was, and there was
a hole I kid you guys not that big like my thumb and at the time my ex-girlfriend now she says um
what about that
i i set rat traps because it had a lot of rats and as soon as we laid down because i didn't
want to lay down i was tired of sleeping in the van was too tall so as soon as we laid down
we heard a pop and i thought oh shit, excuse the language uh i knew it was another rat in
the kitchen and so i went to get rid of it and i came back she said what i said another rat we've
been catching them there's a lot in this house it's condemned they left uh waste in one of the
houses they use it as a dumpster and it rains over there and so because it rained it turned it into a
well cesspool one of the houses and there were rats nests all throughout it every stud
bay had rats and that's two to three feet high anyway getting back to the story i didn't want
to sleep in the van so i said look we got 10 days with 15 people help us cleaning it
let's get our butt in and lay on the floor where i could stretch out and she finally reluctantly
agreed she said okay let's do that and so we're in there and she says well what about that hole
in the bathroom i thought are you kidding me the hole was i couldn't even get my thumb in it
so i took the toilet lid it weighs like 20 pounds of toilet lid over the tank
i put it on and i put a huge book on it after the incident in the kitchen where
we caught a rat, and I was I know I had a routine down if you catch a rat,
then take it with a shovel and throw it outside, so that particular one was making a lot of
noise it was screaming how they do when they get caught, and I was nervous, and I was thinking wow
so get up there guys this is where the big holes are this is where they were gaining entry
come on now so putting stucco on here about an inch and a half thick anyhow so i go in
the kitchen and i get rid of the one rat and because it's making a lot of noise and squealing
and i was thinking man i don't want her to say hey let's go back into the van i took the biggest
kitchen knife i had and i was nervous because it was trapped in the in the trap and i was making
a lot of noise and i thought she's going to say let's get out of here i took a knife and because
i was so nervous i hit it and the damn thing turned around and started chewing on the blade
this kind of this job right here reminds me of that because
of the issues with rats it's no joke guys and when i went to pull up the the rat trap
it was stuck because i was so scared when i stuck the knife in the rat that uh it went deep into the
floor so i grabbed the shovel and i normally scoop it up and i had to hit it hard and i thought damn
you were mighty scared if it went into the floor that deep okay end of story uh there was a a hole
in the bathroom floor that hole was no bigger than my thumb and she said well did you get it
and i said yeah i got it and i chucked it outside so she said what about the one in the bathroom i
take the lid off of the tank put it on it put a brick we laid down five minutes later i hear
what sounds like a brick a red brick somebody tied a rope around it and pulling it
and i heard it i thought no way with not five minutes were laying down and i thought that can't
be happening i had a little flashlight next to me shined it saw two red eyes and what looked like a
cat we grabbed our stuff in a hurry and went back to the van why am i telling you that story guys uh
obviously this is not a rated g video anymore that's a pretty horrible story but i'm telling
you that if you get wraps coming in your house for any which way find out where it's how it's
getting in there and stop it because again they poop you inhale it that is really bad stuff
anyway so i'm going to finish this right here and when i go to put a finish on it and show
you i'll show you the end results because uh you don't want to hear me yammering and
talking about weird just stuff that don't amount to nothing while i'm being bored doing this okay
guys let me show you how we finish this too you guys know what a drip edge is everybody said no we
don't know what a drip edge is i'll show you okay the water is going to hit here the rain water is
going to hit here and then if this is flush with the stucco it'll go all the way back of course it
gets painted and it won't really matter but for me it matters what i want to do is create a drip edge
so i'm taking this taking it off putting my margin trowel at an angle and creating a drip edge
now as i take that off it has a lip right here so when the water comes the rain water comes down
it'll hit this and drip harmlessly and lastly i'm using uh because this is a sticky product
it's a lightweight sticky product that's what we're using guys like kim said that chem set is
fire resistant uh they hit it with a blowtorch a thousand degrees it's soundproof and i thought
it's perfect for this soffit because it's lightweight it's kind of sticky it's made
for walls you could do ceilings too i like it i love that product so i'm using it again and this
tennis racket i'm just if this fills up which it will because that's a sticky material or even any
cementitious product or an acrylic product this will fill up your float and just tap it out guys
you guys probably say well i've never seen kirk that filthy i've been this filthy a lot of times
and so now what i'm doing is since i created that drip edge i'm giving this
a float finish does it need this heavy dash no it doesn't because no one's ever gonna see this
and as i'm doing this i'm getting dropouts here and there but that's okay
oh i can see a drop out right here and that's okay when i'm done with the whole thing
i'm gonna put some accelerators in it and that just means it'll it'll dry in seconds minutes
depending on how much i put on it anyway over there you can see kind of what we got going and by
the time we're done we're going to have the whole thing look like that but rather than continue to
ramble on and bore you guys you can see right here so you see how to do it you see no amount
of rat teeth are going to go through this particular stucco it's hard it's dense
it's it's a perfect stucco for this soffit right here okay guys you see it now it's all cleaned up
we just take a sponge float clean all the stucco off you know the beauty about this stucco too
it doesn't have lye in it l y e lie color codes all cements have lie l y e that's the
stuff that eats your skin why did i lay in it because i already know it's not really
harmful might get my shirt dirty but big deal this is a green friendly stucco it's
completely green it's uh that's one of the benefits of it so no lie in it
nothing to worry about guys and now they have a sound proof insulating ceiling okay guys since i
was laying on my back and i was talking about rats why i that was a true story but i could plaster
kind of blindfolded so while i'm plastered i'm thinking about a whole bunch of goofy stuff
anyway i did these samples just to show you guys that i went two inches thick right here because
you can't see what i was doing i know jay tried to look upward but you can't really look upward
so i put two inches here and i still trialled it went about twice with a wet trowel
and it come out like this you can do that on the inside or the exterior of your house here i
just hit it once with the trowel and over there if you zoom in you can see it's a sand finish
it well actually it's not a sand because there is no sand in this remember it has no silica and
it has no lie in fact i was browsing through the channels and a couple guys come up and they were
talking about how good lime was for the inside of your house and they said what i've been saying
lime is healthy lime is life uh we did a video about six seven years ago maybe two hours long jay
got rid of a lot of my rambling and it's about an hour long talking about how we were plastering the
inside of our house because we want the benefits of inhaling it you can't see it but it's there
you can't see religion but you know it's there you can't see covered but hell proof was it was there
anyway i'll show you what what it is guys uh because this is some good stuff
kim set i think you're gonna find that in the coming years hub depot lowe's and all these
stores like that they're going to start carrying this because it's really easy to apply all you
guys do is add water so it's super easy to apply and it's good for interior exterior you name it
it works and remember there's no lie in here l-y-e lie there's no silica silica is bad to inhale so
it's really eco-friendly so i love the the product personally so i thought i'd show it
to you right here in our backyard because there's no way to get a good shot of what
we were doing anyhow we thank you for watching and as usual guys we'll see you on the next one
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