Hello folks, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering today I want to show you
guys is some windows and stud walls we got a lot of stuff going on here yeah yesterday I stopped by
and I was talking with the folks who did this and they said well gee Kirk we just had the windows
done and they're leaking leaking into the second unit and I was telling them well you get these
types of windows right here in their plant on meaning they took the old windows out and instead
of breaking the stucco out they just plant them on just put them on there and they are prone to
leaking I have done many many repairs and it's always as well a lot of times if these windows
here that leak now if you kind of look up see can you zoom in up there now those windows when you do
it like that which means break all the stucco out three to six inches around sometimes even
more than that and you attach the windows to the frame and then you put your membranes around it
those are the best way to do it now the fellas who did that work there they said well gee it's studs
where do we stop and I said well you stop where you have good paper you might chase this wall all
the way down all the way to the top unless you get good paper you can't really stop they said
well what if we don't get any good paper us well then you'll have to resort to tying it in as best
you can and using some kind of a waterproof paint and it's funny I was just at a seminar yesterday
where Jerry Pozzo was a speaker at Scotty's in Oakland it was a restaurant where all the bigwigs
all the litigators and everybody met and it's one of the fellows sitting next to me just happen to
be a representative for Kelly Moore paints and we were talking about it and I said you know I'm
doing a job tomorrow where they have a tie-in and I said well how thick is your paint and he says
10 mil if you put it on your your first coat and then your second coat should be a 10 and I thought
that's pretty damn thick and I said seven years right he goes no now we're up to ten and I thought
well I don't get into that kind of stuff as far as how long a paint should be on and how many
years you have to experience waterproofing with that particular paint what I said I'll tell you
what man I'm gonna do the job tomorrow and the guy's name was Michael Lopez nice fella and I
said if they have any questions they can call you on regards to painting let me give you Michael
Lopez's number because I just met that fella last night seminar again for stucco stuff his telephone
number is five two five three one six two five ten area code Kelly Moore he's a representative for
the paints and again I tell folks G or may take it all the way down to where you've got great
paper or take the whole wall off nine times out of ten people say Kirk I'm not gonna do that we're
just gonna go as far as as we can a lot of people don't have the money to tear a whole wall of and
I don't blame them anyway I was here yesterday and I said Ben great job guys they did the lath
and I said perfect we'll caulk some of the sides there and waterproof it even a little bit better
I said well here's another question they said gee I can get up there I said there's three different
ways we can get there we can set staging which means we'd have to move it twice and you got a
planter box in the way here all kinds of stuff or we can do what they did they put ladders here and
use ladder jacks that's kind of a drag too or we can go with a frames these a frames meaning say
you got a two-foot a frame this is on this test if you're ever gonna become a stucco contractor
this was on the test for me and Jay who's holding the camera he got his license five four or five
years ago say an a-frame this is a two-footer a two-footer one of the questions are if it if it's
two feet tall how far does it open the answer is half the height so this is two foot so it opens
one foot a four foot or a frame where you can place it you open it up and one leg goes into
the wall if it's four feet high it opens what 2 feet wide and on and on a six footer well oh
well the height is six foot it opens three foot so we have these eight frames over here now these
are pretty tall I've had them for quite a while they go against the wall and as long as the arm
is against that wall you could open it and set it in an odd angle and we're gonna use that the idea
is we're gonna set these up put extensions on them are they dangerous hell yeah 30 years ago 35 years
ago I had it collapse we were working at Kaiser hospital or Union shop and after all the staging
was falling I thought man saves the nights in we were falling and I felt one hand landed here and
the other hand landed on something and then a plank came and went chop my hand and I remember
looking at my hand here and it looked like an S and the first thing I thought is man we can't work
out tonight that was 35 years ago so no matter how we set this guy's it is dangerous we're gonna Jay
is gonna set this and when he's done setting it will show you how we're gonna put all this back
together all right guys now that we are set up with the a-frames Jay told me dad that's wrong it
it doesn't open exactly half the distance of the height he says it opens about 3/4 of the height
and we measured it and so he's right it was 30 years ago when I took my test he just took his
about four or five years ago my bad what what is important is these eight frames are pretty
stable I'm pretty I'm secure going over here of course I'm putting three plank here all I need
is two but I've had this collapse on me 30 years ago like I said earlier we were clowning around
up there though we're not gonna be clowning around this time it takes too long for me to
heal these days okay guys on a stud wall what's real important our tie ends right here now this
fella he really I mean now that I'm up here and I can see exactly what he did needed a little
bit of help but not much he tied in this bike or better than I can believe I mean it looks like
he got it way in there it's that's a tough thing to do it's it looks like it's way back here on a
stud and way back here there's another thing that I recommend on a stud house caulk the crap out of
your joints here because all those this will hurt Mikey and what's the key well the stucco
keys in here and it won't crack I may get a hairline crack here but it's better to get a
hairline crack than to actually have a leak and stud walls are almost impossible in fact I told
the folks here I can do as well if not better than anybody but I can't guarantee this kind of
stuff tear the whole wall off we can guarantee it lastly to jalis I was telling Jay about that
seminar I went to and he said Lord why don't ya tell the folks about that we went to a seminar
last night my wife and I it was that Jack London Square Scottie's and that seminar you think you
you pay to go to the seminar and you can have dinner wine dessert and all the rest of that
stuff but there's a lot of informative stuff I do instructional videos however over there they give
a lot of instructions too with videos as well as the at the the tech reps you've got a lot of the
technical reps for a lot of companies like BMI you got Jerry Pozzo there you've got the lath
and plaster Institute president frank newness was there and is the Big Cheese or the head honcho in
fact his title was the executive director for the lath and plaster Institute however they're open
to the public and you guys want to go to any of these seminars to learn a lot of stuff that I to
show you here - it's called Wacha and that's short for walls and ceiling Alliance they've merged with
a lot of companies like the lath and plaster Institute out of caulking anyway it's a great
place to go in the description like I'll I'll show you how to do all this stuff in my description
if you really want to get involved in going to those just read the description I have the phone
numbers to those to contact so you can go to those seminars yourself alright guys I'm just finishing
up the caulking here and there's an a polyurethane caulking there's a lot of polyurethane caulking is
on the market I just happen to like this one anyhow I'm going to go ahead and end
this because all we're doing is laughing this right now today my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk
Giordano plastering we thank you for watching as usual I'll see you guys on the next one
you