Howdy folks, Kirk, Jay, Lou, Carls, and Dad here with Kirk Giordano plastering,
What I'm going to explain today is we're going to color-coat this entire house.
We're going to make this look like this a fine sand finish, elegant for buildings
and finer homes and all the rest of that. Yes, that'll be in the description of this video;
what is this video this video? Is gonna be titled why weep screeds are used and what's the
purpose when people take the stucco to the ground? They'll take the stucco all the way to the ground;
let's see, I'll explain that, and about that's how long I've been in the trade, guys.
When I first got into trades, there was no sheer wall, there was no plywood or OSB.
It was just studs,
then they said, gee, from now on, you got to do the the roofs as well as the walls with plywood.
But also they said in about the 1980s, don't quote me on the exact year, or
When we were doing our lath, when I first started plastering forever ago.
We would take the paper, and the paper would drop down two inches technically,
two inches past the mudsill, the mud sill, you got your foundation, then you got a
piece of wood on that, it's usually a piece of pressure treated or redwood or whatever.
And the paper that we started off before the stucco would go below that, and then we would
attach wire; well, we put the wire on and just let it dangle, and the natural cement would push or
natural stucco would bind into the concrete, and it would just absorb by suction a Mechanical-Bond.
So what this fella did here is remarkable, I mean because it
uh, he said he watched our videos and learned how to do it, and I thought wow, that's working
for you, so what he did was he took a saw, and he cut the stucco because it was all the way down.
He cut the stucco all the way around the whole house and the garage,
and then he did about 100 bucket fulls, and he he did this himself,
and I thought, wow, you're a better man than me because stucco is a two-man job.
One guy to apply, one gotta mix; there's a reason for that.
Anyway, that's another topic; what I want to point out is when I was in the trade,
we'd take the stucco down to here. What are the two reasons why people want a weep screed in?
Number one is, they say, well, bugs can get under it and go in back; that's a myth guys.
It can't happen a mechanical bond with stucco on here is, it creates a bond so powerful, not even
a parasite can get up there, let alone a termite. But what is a reality? It's a fact, guys. If the
stucco goes to the ground and your mud is right there, or your dirt was right there, let alone
above it, and you embed that, what happens is the moisture from the rain, it goes on, and it
absorbs into the stucco, and it could rot that paper out a lot of times, after a hundred years.
Well, between 60 to 80 it'll, it will beat that paper up,
so what folks want is a weep screed; now he did this himself; he cut the stucco and put it in,
so I'm going to show you this when the stucco goes here, that's what I consider.
it's locked in; it's single-locked in. There's a lot of terminologies for it,
but a single locked-in, I'm going to take your next
door to show you double locked in, this is not a big deal when the stucco goes to here,
and it's just in the foundation; it's not a big deal until water starts seeping up,
and I've seen some contractors they'll take the paper right to the wood, that's a big, no, no.
The paper's got to be below that mud sill, that's why these are handy;
these go an inch to two inches below the mud sill, and yeah we, we started doing this about 1980,
and I started in around 75, so we didn't we just started putting these on what 40 years ago?
Anyhow they serve a purpose, I'm going to take you across over here, and you'll see,
um, what I'm referring to; here's another thing guys, I noticed people are just spoiling
the crap out of us, buying us coffee. I thought, hey, the coffees working,
and I thought I don't eat this stuff. Sike, unless I'm by myself or with a friend.
Anyway, I'm going to take you over here and show you something else;
we're just next door; this house is about 130 years old now; you see this crack?
And we had granted uh five weeks of rain, the most rain we've had in 30 or 40 years in one
single month, so this is what I call double locked in, the stucco goes to the foundation,
and now they've butted cement or concrete, next to it without a piece of wood in here,
you put a piece of wood in here whether or not it's polyurethane, whatever kind of wood that's
that makes an expansion, and so you look at that and somebody might say wow that's beat up?
That's not beat up, guys; now you look at this, this is a brick chimney,
it's a brick fireplace, and you look at it, and you say, oh man, that's structural.
Guys, on a scale of one to ten, ten being as good as they come, I'd rate this a nine;
this building has Integrity up the Yin Yang. It's got Integrity, guys; you judge this by
five weeks of solid rain; what was it, 52 inches? Something crazy, now you're butted
up to the concrete so when the ground lifts and it will look at this, this ground it's lifting.
This wasn't here, they said a month ago, but with all these days of rain, it lifts,
so what happened it lifts. Where you can barely see it, and then when it settles,
you get a crack; how do I know that's a new crack? There's no dust, dirt, grime, or moss in it yet.
simple caulking guys, don't I'm doing cement work here, and I can cement this in about 30 seconds,
but it'll take me two minutes to use Caulking, and that caulking now flexes as the building flexes,
so I wanted to mention what stucco is and why it's taken down to the ground and why if you
have a house older than 40 years, no doubt your stucco is to the ground, eighty percent of all
the homes in the world are taken to the ground, is it such a big deal? No, unless you see the stucco
buried with dirt, and I've seen that a lot, uh in fact, I was walking and the other day,
and it was it was the dirt was up to here, and I thought those guys are just creating a problem.
They have no idea how much it's going to cost them in the future.
But anyhow, the point is, guys, if the stuff goes to the ground, it's not an issue unless it's full
of water, and water travels up and rots out that mud sill, here this is beautiful, man, this um,
in fact, I'm gonna fix this before I leave today. Just with caulking, it's so simple anyway; my name
is Kirk, and Jason on the camera; I thought I'd explain that because too many myths going on;
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