howdy folks, kirk and Jason here with kirk giordano plastering,
today we'll show you common lathing mistakes and how to fix them.
How to do it, right guys? There's a particular reason this time if you guys lath your own work,
you can save a ton of money; how much can you save as a stucco contractor for the whole house?
We bid it usually forty percent for the lath. That is the moisture barrier and we
bid it twenty percent for the scratch coat, twenty 20 for the
second coat or brown coat, and a final 20 for a color coat maintenance-free finish.
Now the lath that's a lot of work, but it's one thing on our channel
you can learn how to lath, and we're going to get into the worst-case scenario after this.
I say that because yesterday we just went to the worst-case scenario, and the fellow said, hey,
what do you think i thought you i'm gonna be kind and give you a dishonest answer.
It's okay if this is your first time, he said this is my first time.
i said how long did you spend learning? He says an hour,
i said next time, spend at least three hours, dude.
But anyway, i'm going to show you some little simple techniques because, after this,
we're going to show you some real uh boo-boos. Don't do what the other guy did yesterday.
Anyhow here's what you do guys; if you're going to lath and try to save yourself a lot of money,
that's 40 of the house, now, most of you guys are going to say, man,
i'm not going to be stucco or lath at my own house.
But you can, throughout our videos we have if you put how to laugh on our channel
20 different videos will come up with or maybe 50 of lath technique, so I'll just
show you some simple things once more since we had that odd, bizarre thing yesterday okay
you take a weep screed, a weep or drip screed same thing.
Now the weep or drip is to protect the mudsill. The mudsill is here.
What happens when water gets on the mud sill? It expands, wood rots, and steel rusts,
so the bottom of the screen has got to be down below at least one inch.
What happens if it's like this and you can't see the mud seal,
but we know it's there? The water comes with a sprinkler. The sprinkler will get it wet,
swell, push the stucco crack at the bottom, rot, and the termites come,
and hey, let's go party and eat that wood. so always put this weep screed at least
one inch below the mud seal because, with the wind and rain, it'll go under there, so here's what
you do, guys i'm we already did this to not get too carried away and bore you guys too much, but
you take a screed you put it on, and this screed is going to go over this
screen there's a little lip here, and this one is going to go over here now say for
example i'm going to go ahead and pop a nail in here because my screw gun can't get in here,
because my screw gun or my lathing gun can't get in there.
You got this in the way the head's too big I'll just do it like that now the moisture barrier
guys, the moisture barrier is two layers of paper just look at at this stuff here jumbo tex 60
minutes two layers, now say for example, if i grab this paper here on a vertical, what's the overlap?
Six inches, but we usually go about a foot just to make sure on a horizontal overlap. What is it?
Three inches, guys, so three inches, so what I'll do since I've got this already
done is i'm going to go afoot. I want to go at least a foot over what we've already got
this way. We're sure that when it rains, i mean, it'd have to rain for a good month to
saturate all three coats of stucco to go through. Now, what i do, as a rule, guys.
I mark my studs. Now
you could use a crayon, chalk, or whatever, but in the next video, you'll think, is that a comedy?
It is not. It's the real McCoy where somebody did something. They gave it the best shot. I told him,
dude, at least you gave it your best shot; that's good but doesn't do that anymore unless
you're going to spend some more time learning all right now because I've already got this piece on,
and this piece is way over man we'd rather go way over than not enough and notice.
I mark the stud because what you're going to see next in the upcoming clip is, well,
it's a kind way ludicrous it's silly, but again fella gave it his best shot. He said, hey kirk,
what do you think this could be a video? i said dude, you don't want me to answer that do you?
But we did it, and i said okay, sure, I'll use it to show folks what not to do.
But it's a good show and tell what not to do and what to do and what i do,
guys is we just mark it with chalk and try to go down as straight as you can. Suppose you're
going all weird like this. In that case, your staples are going to go weird, so okay, now that
is the moisture barrier that's the weeps grade the moisture barrier it's two layers of paper
we're going to show you next uh how we attach the lath, and that is what this guy did
uh you'll have to see it to believe it anyway uh i'm gonna take a second here and get a piece
started to show you, so i don't spend too much of your time all right guys I'll show you the wire
the stucco netting is the most important thing so again the video coming up right after this
is kind of humorous. Still, just to prove a point, i'm going to get this stapled on one side,
and i'm just gonna pull it. Usually, a couple of guys pull it, but i don't need a couple.
i'm just gonna
Come on now, get in there. Okay, to prove a point now.
Coming up soon, you're going to say, man, kirk wasn't kidding when he's talking about
laughing mistakes, but here's how you follow the studs, and so if a stud is
here. So this wire is furred out, the proper way, you could see where the indentations are
these red pieces everywhere where it's red you can put a staple, and that gives the
correct fur so for example now i'm just going to put a few in i'm just going to use this row
now granted i'm following these here's what is kind of critical you follow the uh joint up here's
where it's entwined I'll follow the in twine up, or I'll even sometimes follow this but either way.
As you follow the
Where it's twined up, or you just use your eyeball, i just generally eyeball it up,
and if an area like this isn't following the nail pattern, here's your stud is every 16 inches.
Here's the stud so 16 16 16. and you know i could look at the wire down here, but i don't need to.
You just follow that now what is done right guys I'll show you something
and here's where the fellow yesterday had the most
well we lost three uh about three hours, uh correcting very odd stuff
so uh one of the oddest things was not that he over stapled but his tops were really bad.
Butt that's another situation we won't go into that, okay now this wire is self-furred i think if
you take it j please at an angle, you can see that right here the red is furred right here the red is
fur now if you look at this red all the way down red all the way down red and what does that do?
98% of this wire now is away from the wall. So only two to four percent is pushing it away;
this way, the stucco gets behind it, and that's what the fellow did wrong, and I'll
tell you what, we do a lot of work for GCs. Many of them either put the wire on backward,
or they over staple it, and if this wire is flipped around and it's flat,
though, the walls tend to crack, so this is the simplest way to do it, guys.
Unroll it properly, and you'll get a kick out of what we did yesterday because he didn't put
enough time in. He said he watched it for an hour, and he did an addition type shed, but i
told him next time, man watch it for a couple more hours. Don't over staple it, so anyhow.
My name is kirk Jason on the camera. We thank you for watching and remember you could save 40
if you do the lath, if you're not sure again I'll repeat it, go to our channel type in how to lath.
There are about 20 different videos on every detail, like the weep screeds,
like how to do corners i usually tell people to let me do the corners.
You guys just do the paper and wire because the corners take a little time anyway.
We thank you for watching, and as usual, we'll see you guys at the next one.
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