Hello folks, Kirk and Jason here with another little tip of the day, this is air
conditioning unit that used to be here, the owner took it out and we're here to put it back together, it's
funny we just left a job and I broke it out using a hammer-like this my son Dan, I told him to go get
me the tools to break this out and he brings me the hammer, I said, "boy" I can't break this out,
he says, how come? I said well the last job we did was solid backing, redwood backing this right
here has a gypsum board backing as insulation, you have this insulation board here over studs
then you have the stucco here which makes a really good insulation on the house but if I were to use
muscle instead of skill, I would just destroy this gypsum. I would push the stucco into this sheetrock.
and the sheetrocks are okay for insulation, but it's very soft so what I'm going to do, is I'm going to
put this mask on because I don't want to inhale any more of this dust, I already broke out the
perimeter here what we want to do is break out I'll show you guys how I break it out and if you
start from here an inch away from the actual crack, then you're it's not going to break out
well but if you start a half-inch right here and you just keep going half-inch at a time, it
breaks out really well throw this mask on and you how the Bulldog is going to make a lot of
noise, but just for the sake of showing you folks because I have had a fella call me and say how do you do it?
I'll show you you get this guy off, basically what we want to do is stay about a-half
okay guys now the object of this is not to destroy the paper, if we destroy our paper then it's going
to leak and what we're going to do is we're going to take our new two layers of paper and lift this
up and go underneath here we get to that stage we'll show you how to do that. here's another
tip guys obviously it's going to be some nails just grab these guys right here furry nails and
by the way, they don't use this backing anymore not since 1950 or sixty if you if it raises your
curiosity, but it's not really important anyway after I pull back all of this you just take
a hammer pull it back our new paper our new paper goes on this on this with a bead of caulking here
and underneath this when I get to that stage. I'll show you that next, okay guys, we're at
the stage now we're two-ply paper what I do is I put my knife against this hear it use it as a guide
gives me a straighter line down then we climb back up this ladder and we're going to put this paper
over this, you want to overlap the vertical sides as best as possible sometimes, I'll put caulking
prior sometimes I'll have the caulking on here but if you do that you're using the same caulking I am
which is a polyurethane, man it gets all over you a real drag to get that stuff off I almost need
gasoline a lot of times, I will use that but anyway I'll worry it afterward, now what we
want to do is this paper got to tuck under here and it's often easier just to cut it right here
pull it off there and what we're going to do is lift this we're going to lift this paper up okay,
see our new paper got to go under this new this existing paper and over this so what I'll tend
to do is put it here best I can and fish this underneath that best I can also a little bit
at of time guys, a little bit at a time, push it up as high as you can you might say
well, you got a huge eve, what's it matter? Sometimes you get the wind with drivings storms
and it does matter it can go up under there next we we tuck it there and then we tack this back
down, the last thing we'll do is put this wire right back, I'll just use the side of my hammer tacker
once we got this I'm going to cut a little piece of wire and tie it in. The most important thing
with the wire is it's all gotta overlap if it doesn't overlap then it will perimeter crack
meaning once the stucco is on here, it's more likely to Perimeter crack okay guys next thing
I'm going to do is bring this wire up here and what we want to do is we want to take this wire
and crisscross it with the existing wire, just like that otherwise, you get a perimeter crack
you're more than likely to get a perimeter crack even if you do this you can still get a perimeter
crack and we're actually with this particular wire there is a right way and a wrong way to
hang wire believe it or not. We are putting this with the self-furred side meaning,
it's dimpled so that when we put our stucco it embeds in this, what I'm going to do next is just
cut this out here cut it out here put more staples and there's a stud here and a stud here I'm going
to put some nails into the stud every six inches we're going to caulk these vertical sides right
here in case if we get wind-driven rain and be done with it, anyhow pretty simple but the
the thing I wanted to impress most upon you folks is when you have that sheetrock, it's better to use electric
or air tools to break it out otherwise you do more damage than good, anyhow guys my name is
Kirk, I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering as usual we'll see you guys at the next one.