how do you guys gurken Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today we're going to show
you guys today is something somewhat unusual we are actually looking into a mirror I thought it
was kind of cute anyhow we're we're in Pacifica and it's been raining all night it just kind of
slowed down with the rain anyhow these folks emailed me this issue they're having with the
skylight and I was telling him I was asking a bunch of questions I thought guys I'm on
the other side of the bay let me ask you some questions and make my life easier so that way
I don't have to drive all the way over there and make a couple trips first thing I said is how long
have you had the house and they said they had the house about six years I said how long has
the leaking been occurring they said about a year and a half - usually if it's been current
for say ten years you could have a lot of wood rot in fact they still could I don't know and if
usually if it's on the basement level or say the shower area I asked folks gee do you guys have a
lot of ants all over the place and if they say we got a lot of ants that's usually a real bad sign
that means that the wood has been saturated for years and ants aren't attracted to wet would say
they are attracted to bugs like termite and they eat the dead bugs so anyway they said they don't
have any any ants and plus the roof up on a third storey I believe it does get a lot of rains out
here well one thing I noticed now I've been here an hour Jason and I cover in this stuff one thing
I noticed that was kind of unusual as I looking at this window and you got to use your hand to push
it up and use your hand to lower it and I thought man I I raised it up about that high not that you
know the average skylight opens about eight inches and it has usually two bars that go up here and so
I thought I'm looking at the window and I thought what's up with this window and I've come to the
conclusion that these windows actually should go vertical on a house so they're not made for this
so then my next question is because I'm a bit of a flashings expert myself because all the stucco we
do I put the ladder here and I looked outside and as my boy Spock would say fascinating what they
have here is on the outside they have there roof to wall step flashing and then they counted that
flashing then they counter the counter flashing then they also put membranes everywhere and what
happened is some of the membranes failed which would allow the water in here but whoever did
this man my hats off to him I thought how clever but it's probably a 10 12 years fix all the time
anyhow getting back to what we're gonna do here is I'm gonna drop this window down just a little bit
no I've seen this many many times buckling like this just see how loose that sucker is now what
I'm hoping is it's just over the wood and how do I know that because 25 years ago I did the same
thing and plus I've seen about five jobs in the last 20 years where usually it's guys with beam
ceilings I have a bunch of beams and the stucco is coming off all of the beams and also I know what
they did they didn't put wall board or sheetrock plaster board whatever you want to call it we call
it just sheetrock in it basically you put the sheetrock over the wood and then you put your
plaster because plaster will not adhere or tape in mud to wood for very long especially if the heat
is hitting it here I guess they have five years so the heat is hitting this beam right here and
it expands the beam and then it pops a stucco off so that's that's a best-case scenario that's what
we're hoping for and when I told him go ahead and remove that piece that's loose and call
me back and tell me what you have under there they said what if there's a bunch of ants and
I thought man I knew I shouldn't have said that anyhow we're here we're gonna go ahead and take
this off and what I'm gonna do here guys is let's see take a trowel and just score this I'm gonna
take my razor score this right here and look at it best-case scenario it's just a piece of wood
here it's a simple fix worst case is if a whole bunch of ants come out or there's a lot of wood
rot then we'll have to come back because I have to find a carpenter to fix all the rot anyhow
this is what I've told them to do and grab it especially if it's loose score it you can score
it like so and pull it off and see what the heck we got here no I don't want to make a big mess
and I don't want to inhale all this well that's that's not a bad sign guys in fact that's what
I was hoping for okay I've seen that before where folks have done this in about 20 or 25 years ago
I did something similar so what they did is they put plaster directly over the wood now that wood
looks in great condition it's poured rain down all night and it's kind of drizzling a little bit now
so what we're gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and take it up to here here and possibly remove this
side too that one looks iffy so anyway when we get to that stage we'll show you the next thing
because I'm gonna go ahead and score this take it off there and hopefully they did a nice job
and did it well when they corrected the exterior so we'll go ahead and remove this and I'm gonna
tell the folks here gee whiz we can put a little sheetrock over that that way it won't happen again
but gotta have that we corrected anyhow so we're gonna go ahead and remove all this and we'll show
you when we get to the next stage okay guys we are at a stage where Jason actually pulled all
this stuff out and cut me some pieces of sheetrock here we already put one piece in here this stuff
here nasty smelling stuff wood preservative say if you got termite wood rot wood fungus I seen they
had just a hair here this side didn't have any but this is the side that was in question so it
had just a touch of moisture here so I put some of this greens clear stuff on here that copper green
it's there and this side looks good but I hid it anyway and of course says you do exploration you
always to come across and stuff that she didn't encounter one of the things I didn't encounter is
that we cut a piece of sheet rock for this but now we notice that the latch which opens and closes it
won't open or close if we put the sheetrock there perhaps that's why that fella didn't do that and
I thought oh man that means these won't turn but fortunately what Jay went ahead and cut this and
yeah he cuts these out better than I do so what I'm gonna do is slide this guy in here just like
so and as you can see that's it now this window will open and close even with that in there so
we're fine right there as far as this guy goes what I'm gonna do here is the next thing we're
going to do is plaster weld this stuff here we're gonna put some of this pink plaster weld here and
that will adhere the mud that I'm gonna put no I'm gonna use tape and mud David mud takes way
too long for me we have a five minute mud they have five ten they actually have five 20 40 60
90 so we're gonna mix up a quick mud and after we get this plaster weld on here I'm gonna put it on
here too so this will look pink the next time we come then I'm going to put fiber mesh tape over
this which is right here a lot to do for this little stuff right on top of here and I can't
guarantee this guy but I can't put sheetrock over it either so we do the best we can with what we
got it's always improvising when you come to this kind of stuff anyhow when we get to the stage of
mud next we'll show you how we put that on - all right guys we are at a stage now where everything
has a bonding agent Jay makes me up some hot mud we went with 20 minutes stuff because we're pretty
high up by the time he gets here if we use five it could be set so now what I'm gonna do is the fun
part just gonna plaster this up and this part doesn't usually take too long and because you
see the finish they have is a heavy texture so it makes my job pretty easy guys every texture
I don't even have to be neat about it the hard the hard textures are smooth finish because if
it's smooth then I may have went with a different type of material but that's the kind of finish to
have right there so by the time I'm done spreading all of this you'll be able to see the texture I'm
gonna hit it like that and here again we're where I don't have the luxury of putting sheetrock we do
the best we can because as we do things and I've learned that the hard way do an exterior windows
these windows have got to open so this I can't go no no deeper than that right there anyhow you
see how we do the finish coat nothing to this part this is the easy part for us just take it
and we're just knocking that mesh down here I try not to drop any mud because if I drop it then I'm
gonna track it everywhere I don't want to do that makes Jays job in my own much harder so anyway you
see where we're going with this and what I'm gonna do is just finish this little piece right here for
you folks do my two coats I'm actually putting some underneath here too because this is such an
easy texture to tie into and right here where I buttered the sheetrock just put a little bit of
bonding agent and I'm just gonna put my texture right there feather it right in there easy peasy
okay so I'm gonna set the ladder up and get this high stuff and just like that we do it now because
this mud is 20 minutes by the time I'm done it going here I will probably have just enough time
to put my second coat which I'll match this finish here we're out of here okay guys well what I'm
doing now is I'm just putting the texture on and good big Jay mix me up some twenty-minute mine I
told him five but this is already setting up he says man we've got a long ways to come up these
stairs death so we're already hard this is taking me about five minutes to do after you get this you
can see how hard this is this is why I choose to use plasters than tape and mud tape and mud took
a long time to set and I don't usually have that kind of time so now I take a little cheap brush
these are like $1 $2 brushes it beats the more expensive big brushes because now what I'm doing
is I'm because this is set right here I'm just cutting in all my corners making them a little
bit prettier making them smoother I'll take this side right here take the wet brush and just pretty
it up anywhere where I have a holiday I fill it say like these corners we brush them a lot of
water this I brush this a lot of water smooth it out a little bit come in here and of course
I made sure that this latch works properly here and that this one doesn't hit last thing I do is
I just hit all my corners just like that it makes them a little strong and it it gives them a better
appearance so that they don't look pretty nasty anyhow guys my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano
plastering we thank you folks for watching and as usual see you guys on the next one.