Hello folks, kirk here with kirk giordano plastering, today I'm going to show you guys
today is the contractor who called me in to repair this he says Kirk I used good pneumatic tools i
salvaged what I can but the paper is very very brittle and man guys that's so common this is a
90 year old house the whole rear has been replaced because of the brittleness and water leaking so I
told him I said well we're only as good as what we're left with it's depending on if it's a nine
year old house how well they took care of it in the first 90 years if you paint it a lot you will
keep the membrane lasting a lot longer anyhow the membrane here we're going to chata we're going to
break out a little bit more we're going to slide some paper under here what I really wanted to show
you is we're just here to fix this and I told him we'll put it back together the best we can and all
we can do on these sides here he's broken it out I told him I'll try again I got a if you use a
hammer what you do is you push the stucco into the deteriorated paper that's more damage than
good if you use a really really good pneumatic tool you can salvage what you can sometimes you
can't salvage anything not seen houses with no paper and no wires the only thing holding it up
is the stucco itself so what I really wanted to show is this I the homeowner came out and I was
just looking out here I can see there's no paper this is pulled away from the wall a half-inch so
I would say gee sure my house I see this buckle right here this buckle separates 1/4 inch to 1/2
inch now there's no paper here so this was a problem area water went down here swelled the
wood when the wood swelled it pushed it away from this stuff it swells and it shrinks back
now that creates a path for the water to go in so the water has been going in here I said what we
could do is we could we can break it and we can do a little exploration right here and if we if
we can get some paper that's just great because personally I don't want to take down a lot but
I said worst-case scenario is I can see a little paper over here but I can't see any here and then
this large buckling indicates that water's been getting in we've got two more things that are
making this happen too and that's the stucco's down to the foundation with no drip screed which
locks it in and then the concrete locks it in so it's locked in two different places and waters
getting in there that's what's creating this particular buckle thousand different reasons
from buckles that's that's just one of them anyhow we're going to get started I want to
try to open up a wee bit more up here and I want to do a little exploration here if that proves
my theory that there's no paper we're going to remove it from here to here come straight down
rhe paper and give it some relief and put it all back together you'll see it as we're doing
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all right guys last thing you do when you repair this window is you call your seams now I'm going
to do on this particular high-end is not only am I going to caulk my seams here if you use
your finger I don't I don't everybody's use your finger use a brush or something otherwise you're
going to poke yourself with one of these wires I've done it a whole bunch of times but anyway
um what you're probably not seeing is you've got a very fat coat of elastomeric paint on
here it's rubber so I'm taking my knife and cut that rubber off because it's going to interfere
with my tie in when I come back do the stucco work also we got underneath the existing paper
we just you shimmy back and forth just had the camera on fast motion on it looked like a cartoon
character I'm sure but we're trying to shimmy it in here we shimmy it as far back on all of
this as we can until we hit a nail and you can't go back any further what I'll generally do after
I put my staples and now my staples here's our studs studs studs but we have to staple around
here to get this wire flat so it doesn't protrude past this existing wall so I just generally take
my hammer down and tap anything because like in the plaster this I have anything past this plane
it's gonna stick out some call we're out of here last thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna seal these
guys right here - with plaster and when you have a wall where there's very little workable paper
locks and I've had about a thousand of them okay maybe about 400 where there's no paper left this
is about the best you can do you just caulk everything I kind of beat up my key we have
a key right here for stucco meaning it's all the stucco doesn't crack but I compromised my teeth
but I'm more interested in waterproofing what have here so we're going to caulk all of this
around here the sides here I'm not going to caulk the bottom of this we don't ever want
to do that caulk the sides here we're done anyway my name is Kirk I'm with kirk giordano plastering
my son and I both took care of this we're going to come back later and do the scratch and brown
coat I want to thank you folks for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one.