Hi guys, Kurt and Jay are here with Kurt Giordano plastering, and today I want to explain something;
we did a video, and I showed dead weight. And I had a few questions for folks,
so I thought I'd explain them in the video; what do we have here? Guys, we got concrete a foot
thick okay? The dead weight I've been explaining to folks that stucco concrete they have a dead
weight meaning it gets your roofs on getting your sheetrock on to have your dead weight.
Have you ever gone buy a job and seen all the tiles on a roof?
However, it's just pulled back three feet to allow people to do their stucco; that's the dead weight.
Here's a perfect example, guys; you see this vertical crack here;
it's vertical and horizontal; it's about an eighth of an inch every where the leg is is
where that happens. You look at the staging here now. I don't know a ton; I'm not an engineer.
You get guys like me who have six-seven guys up on the scaffold with thousands of pounds
of cement that dead weight causes this sort of hairline cracking in concrete and stucco.
What I'm trying to do, is prove a point. I tell folks to get your sheetrock on, getting your roof
on, getting all your structural beams to connect your decks for the dead weight; now this all crack
right here; they were not here when I came to bid the job, and what do I notice stuff like
this because it's part of my trade or you could say I don't have a life, but I noticed this.
I looked at the concrete before to see its structural movement of it. What else can cause
this kind of cracking in concrete and stucco? Three to four months of solid rain. Another
example is can you see this pretty good, Jay'? See every leg where the scalpel is. We have vertical
and horizontal cracking; it wasn't here before the staging, but I'm trying. That's the dead
weight. I'm referring to stucco or concrete; the last example I'll give is a fellow friend
of mine. About two years ago, I had two creeks diverted in the back of his house. He said Kirk,
you about cracking come look at it the stucco crack Foundation cracked his tile on the floor
crack his tile on his counter cracked and I said well the creek is diverted all those
waters it's lifting the house equivalent to three-four months of rain anyhow guys deadweight
that's just pointing out the deadweight how important it is for guys like me who do stucco.
I always recommend folks get everything up there, get that sheetrock to get the
roofs to get everything that you're going to do because the dead weight does affect this; this
is a perfect example, and the fellows who say, Kirk, how do you know because I already looked
at this before doing this two months ago anyway. I wanted to prove a point. This is a perfect
example of what does all that means we're done with our color coat, our finished work here,
and what the point I'm trying to get across, guys, is I spent 35 years in this trade,
and cracks are not always what they appear so for me to put my life's work into one trade
it's not a very glamorous trade. Still, it's illegal living keeping me out of prison anyway.
if you do everything first prior, and granted, it's raining right now on us. Still,
we've had five days of rain, and they've removed the scalpel. You can see what I'm referring to
getting all that stuff done so that when we're finished with our finish coat, there are no
hairline cracks. What you do afterward depends on you, but I advise don't pound on the walls
anyway. Guys, my name is Kirk. Jason on the camera.
We thank you for watching, and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one. Once again, folks,
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