Hellow folks, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering ,today what I'm going to show you folks
is how to cover a window properly I had a fella let's see name is Ryan lives in Ontario Canada
he said Kirk is there any tricks technique to cover in those windows and I thought not really
but there are want you to think about it I'll show you some of the some of the things like I'm
getting ready to cover this slider now just now I was I was taking the tape because the slider been
here for a while I was taking the tape I was going on the frames like this and while I was doing that
because you see all that dirt there because our plastic won't adhere if there's dust or dirt or
on there so that's trick number one the main thing on cover in a window is this is no joke
having a brand new blade in your knife we've got a lot of trades here don't mind that noise a brand
new blade and that will cut the plastic why we're over here I'll point out something also and that
is this tape this this yellow tape and this blue tape blue tape is great but it's for interior duct
tape is good stuff but it leaves a residue now the white tape is what I was just cleaning it
with but I prefer the red vinyl tape and a [ __ ] technique comes on red vinyl tape it'll it'll
tear real easy you put your fingers right next to each other see that just right next to each
other it usually tears in a straight line too so that's the tip on this stuff if you try to tear
it over here you can pull it forever and you don't need a knife you just grab it right there and boom
you've got it torn so this red tape technically we always I use the red tape because they say
you with the red you have the ability to leave it on for 30 days in the hot Sun if it's about
65 degrees you can leave it on for 30 days if it's about 85 to 90 in the hot Sun in 30 days
you will have a residue and you will be scraping it off with any of those goop off products so it
will leave a residue anyway getting back to what I was going to do here I'm going to use some bisque
reen this called plastic sheeting this screen and call it whatever you want I normally the mills are
you got one mill up to 80 mil the blue tarps are about like 80 or so this is six mill I like six
mill because it's a little bit more rigid and you it's if you like today the one mill two three four
five that's okay for covering a bunch of tools if so you don't get crap on them but this stuff here
it's a little bit more flexible and it's usually rolls of say this one here is ten by like forty
I believe but here's what I generally do okay for the sake of covering this now I'll just I'll mark
it out I'll go about right here and come over to here and go to here now what I want to try
to do is get a straight cut to hopefully someone the last person used it cut this that edge pretty
straight I'll use something like right here to cut it cuz I'm going to cut it again anyhow it's
better to better to cut this stuff a little longer than a little short otherwise you're using a whole
bunch of tape so now that I got these edges okay and make sure I could open this stuff up
this is a job within itself right here it's it's they packaged this stuff so tight it's kind of a
process just to get it out now because we got ten foot and this is your typical six foot window what
I'll generally do is say I'm going to put a little bit of spot tape just to hold it in one spot okay
so I'll get it and here's another tip to guys this this red tape will bond instantly to the
plastic it'll weld itself to it you couldn't pull it off if you if you got it on by accident it's
tough to pull it off so what I usually like to do and I tell my kids and my daughter is great
at this stuff is is get at least a quarter inch on the plastic and get more on the frame because the
frame want this I'm just going to leave it on for day but if I want to do it on for thirty days you
really have to be on the ball and put it on right so now that I got the top piece so what I'm going
to do is now I'm going to set this on here and go a entire piece and you can tuck it under the
flashing get it on that flash now we got our top piece gun okay once that top piece is done and
we go to the right side what I'll what I'll do is because I'm going to be doing some stuff over here
today I want the bottom right here covered too so what I'll do is I'll pull this and as I said
earlier if it's a straight cut then I can just put my tape here if it's not well we improvised so
meaning and granted we happen to have a windy day here today too so that's that's kind of a drag but
I'll tuck this in just a little bit come on here and then just pull it back a little bit it doesn't
have to be pretty because it's only good for a day all right there we go and it's best if you could
just use one piece you got a whole bunch of little little bitty pieces every six inches every eight
inches what happens is you pull it off and if when you're doing stucco you'll have little edges
to clean up so that's that now we go back over to here where the wind is blowing and let's see
I'll get this under here. We can do it in a lot of ways. Okay, as soon as it hits,
this plastic could just boom it hears it straight on the money it welds itself to it,
so I'll put another one down here. Yeah, like that, then I'm going to run one solid piece,
so when you do these solid pieces like this, it always works better it's again
we're kind of high in the LA the bit windy, but nothing we can't handle
there you go, and the last thing I'm going to do too is actually I'm gonna take this board,
push it all the way up to the wall, then put this on it so when I do this stuff,
it's not dropping below a lot of times when we do this if I'm not there if say we're going to
be on for 30 days we'll put some tape going here to here that way it really holds it tight anyhow
it's pretty simple, but there are a lot of little techniques and tricks to doing this
anyhow guys my name is Kirk I am with Kirk giordano plastering thank you for watching
how to cover a window or a door, and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one