howdy folks Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering today I want to talk about a topic
somewhat boring to most folks but for us it's really important and that's tape to covering for
covering windows and doors and things like that now let me let me point out something guys I am
forced often to buy what's at the material yards as far as tape quality and we're gonna take this
tape right here I'm gonna explain about it its echo tape wwq tape calm and no I'm not working
for this company but I buy a lot of materials in bulk say gloves i buy i buy ten twelve packs at a
time i buy a hundred rolls of paper out of time i buy this buy four boxes out of time and often
I run out of materials just because it can't keep up with everything in this trade we're in
many trades when I run out of materials such as tape the quality tape that I prefer I'm forced
to buy what the material yard sell and why we're on material yards the only material yard that I'm
aware of if stucco supply owned by Danny Smith Dan Smith I used to work for 30 years ago him and his
brother Fred Smith anyway if you go to they're plastering yards in Livermore or San Jose they
do sell this tape right here let me show you something to guys all right now I'll show you
three brands of tape let's see I got one on the roof here anyhow okay I'll show you something
this for plastering contractors this is this is boring but very very important because I've lost
a ton of money in the last two weeks over tape failing coming off the same day you got this
tape here this is what sold at the material art notice there's no engravement on the inside why
because it's a crappy tape but it's a good deal if you think that's a good deal these two tapes right
here these are both from Canada they're decent tapes and then I have another roll a tape from
another country that is not even worth it if they give it to you but this channel is more positive
stuff so I don't want to get into negativity of saying which products suck and which ones
are quality I'd rather say which ones are quality then which ones suck now you take echo tape okay
let's let's just show you something these are individually wrapped why because the air gets
on them and it wastes them now note this right here it's about 15 bucks who roll guys this is
about eight to ten sometimes fourteen or fifteen in some material yard note the size okay you get
a lot more for your money right here I've been to Miami to a yard and had a discussion with the
fellows who buy the inventory and he says Kirk I can sell this a case of this for 200 bucks the
sell a case of what you're referring to it's 340 and besides you're the only one who will buy it I
buy it and many of the other quality contractors plastering contractors will buy it because you
tape a window once and you're done this tape here whether or not it's the red or it's the silver or
gray light gray this stuff last 60 days 60 days you put it on a window at last 60 days it won't
come off it won't leave a residue you can put it on in the cold you could put it on in the Sun and
all the rest of these products I just showed you put it on the first day and it comes off that cost
me a fortune in labor especially when we do so many windows and we cover so many now you take
a window or a lot of people say Kirk how come you guys don't put J channels around the doors because
these already have an expansion joint see this little gap right here that's an expansion joint
guys so many people from so many states calls it Kirk how come you don't put J trim around your
windows we don't have two guys in California it's not necessary unless it's a commercial project so
to tape a window we want it to stick even to this one eighth of an inch flange this echo tape does
it and for them for the money it's the best deal out there and what do I go into a video on tape
because again we've gotten beat up in the last two weeks because I ran the stuff we were doing
a four-story wall it had only 15 windows the tape wouldn't stick and we had to keep coming
back coming back coming back I lost on that day at least 300 in labor where I could have bought
a whole box of this stuff and I can go on and mention a lot of stuff like that but I'll just try
to keep it positive pehle a Windows for example they recommend this tape right here and of course
guys if you're covering windows or doors what we do generally I'll I'll have someone go around and
use a wet wash rag and just wipe around the whole frame and then we apply it because nothing adheres
to dust not tape not caulking not bonding agents nothing adheres to dust anyway I could go on but
we're gonna just walk around real quick I'm going to show you an example of something that we just
did it's Monday today we're getting ready to get started no needs showing plastering because we
have a whole bunch of videos on that but I'll give you an example of we just were here Friday
watch your step man this is a death trap around here okay not this particular window it came off
that's we just did this saw Friday it's Monday and looking at it and and as you peel it off it
shreds it's like what is with that so you kind of get what you pay for and you say well gee why'd
you use it in the first place because I have no choice I have to buy with the material yards sell
an old Kirk can't keep inventory forever I use my materials fast and here's what I got on many many
of these windows so Friday as we were working about six seven o'clock I had to come back and
check every single window and what we did they just peeled right off and this is one day guys
of the so called cheaper brands it's just not worth the money guys so if they're gonna buy it I
recommend I recommend strongly that you you order it on Echo's they don't have they're not selling
it on Amazon yet hopefully they will because even in our description we do have an Amazon link where
it shows you all the tools we buy you name it we show it at the best possible price just I
mean it makes a couple bucks for us helps with Jase rent too but more or less we show you all
the stuff that's on Amazon you just click it's at the best possible price hopefully these guys will
start selling that tape on Amazon too and we'll include that on our link to that anyway guys my
name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on
the next one by the way folks my dad and I are now members of Amazon affiliates so if you're looking
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