Hi guys, Kirk and Jay are here with Kirk Giordano plastering. I've got another tip
of the day for lathing or repairing the lath on a newly installed window.
The fella sent me a picture last night. I gave him a price, I said, I'll come to fix that for you,
and he says we're ready to go. The fellow was concerned about this joint, know he
had a door over. He says we're gonna put a Z flashing over it, and that's one way to do it,
guys. If you put a Z flashing here to come over, but then you're gonna see a piece of
metal here that would look if it was my house lets you know guys we can't do that'll look too
tacky so what I did is what we're gonna do is we're gonna break this out right here I already
started with a breakout here and the guy's gonna break out we're a mass for the sake of showing
you something I'll take my mask off but anyhow I found stucco where it takes me 10 minutes to
break one piece here. Fortunately, this isn't. It breaks out real easy, guys, what you want to do.
you want to break it out so that you can see what the heck you're doing and then what we're gonna
do here is this fellow got this paper here we're gonna just lift it up there's a lot of ways to
go but the paper here it's about six months old so it's kind of beat-up what we're gonna do is
install new paper directly over it we're gonna take our new paper after we break this out and
pull this back our new paper is gonna go up under here to the flange and because the paper is so old
we're gonna put a straight flash ah there's this flash in here straight flash we're gonna put it
right to the fill here and cover our new paper - so we're gonna go under it then a piece of flash
gonna go over it because it's setting a lot of a long time they said a few months and looks to
me like a few years but we don't want to take any chances I'll tell you another tip - he says well
gee what we're gonna do with that dog door I said well do you need it we have a dog door already and
one of their doors and personally I I don't like to assume anything anymore I was just going to go
ahead and break out the stucco right - here we'll break it out here and take in here there's no need
going around here like this and then coming down here so we just break it out right here I had had
one time where we we did a dog door about 25 years ago and they said hey that that dog door was it
for use so I don't want to make that same mistake twice I called the owner said you sure you want me
to cover that anyhow we're gonna cover that so when we get to that stage we'll show you how we
laughs it it's gonna be a few minutes probably about 15 minutes to break this out and again
guys I've had stuck a where it takes us for this little piece two hours to break out that's some
hard stuff fortunately this is pretty soft anyway when we get to that stage we'll show you what
we're talking about okay guys that a glorious job of breakout is done I was able to get some clean
paper here and I cut this piece here because I want to take my new paper far under this as
possible and I'm looking at this we got some clean paper all the way around the sides here so idea is
to go up underneath here and on top of this what I'll generally do guys is I take my knife and I'll
put it on top of the paper here guys so I get some straight cuts and just use that as a guide
rip off a couple pieces here use this as a guide that way if you hold it out here and just cut it
there Wiggly pieces straighter the better far is breaking out stuck I think I've broken out the
equivalent of four second-story homes in my day keep saying I'm gonna stop doing it but I keep
doing it anyhow guys now this is what we're gonna want to do I want to go over this existing paper
as far down as I can you could put little strips here to reinforce this or you can just do like
what I'm gonna do now I'm gonna get this paper and I'm gonna shimmy it up I'm as high as I can
go right there now my next piece is going to do the exact same thing and I'm gonna overlap this
one about a foot and a half foot is more than necessary but we doesn't hurt to be safe guys
you go a little bit more than necessary always good okay now it's touching the sill earlier I
was talking about this goes down like so you can put a piece of window flash here if you put a
whole piece of window flash right here inspector may not know that you went under here and I've
had that happen I've had almost everything you could imagine happen so I'm just doing it there
and because this little joint right here is iffy this paper is old as the hills guys here's what
I'm gonna do I'm gonna just put a piece of this straight flash and all I want to do is cover this
flange and I want to just go right over where I'm not certain of I'm gonna cut it right here
but take it all the way down show you guys right here to how to get this paper you kind of look at
it and just feel and all you want to do is because this paper is in pretty good condition down here
just cut that and that's so-called access door we cut around it Jay says daddy guys flash it over an
access door well when a contractor tells you one thing you do that the homeowner comes home and
sees something that they didn't want done that's how those things could happen actually when I was
old about 25 years ago my partner and I we were a moon light we were Union contractors were union
plasters and the fella said hey guys I'd like to make 15 bucks an hour without cool that's like
being rich we'll take that job we were working after work and we were applying the tape and mud
in some bathrooms the guy was pretty cheap guy he didn't want to pay for 100 watt bulbs he had
25 watt bulbs I remember plaster in the bathroom and I was asking my buddy hey how's that working
for you he says it's working fine I thought man this mud is terrible 25 watt bulbs the next day it
turned out I applied floor adhesive to an entire bathroom insides the walls ceilings everything
we were doing one a night we still laugh about that so sometimes weird things happen guys anyway
that's how I learned a lot of stuff by doing something and not being told how to do it prior
when you're in your 20s and 30s of course when you get my age now anything any licensed fella
does if it's not done right you're redoing it all right guys so now that this is I'm gonna take this
the entire way here all the way just like that could I put a little bit more paper in here sure
and I probably will this piece of paper right here it's a 30-pound felt then they've gone over this
one here's what I'll do guys I'll take some more two layers of paper and go over what they already
have here because this is this paper is it's beat-up they said three months but looks like
three years to me so we're just go over it then my existing wire which is they get a nice job with
the existing wire the existing wire is going to go down new wire is going to crisscross this if you
just touch the wires you will get a hairline crack here so we're gonna take our new wire to here and
crisscross it and overlap it like that fellow so we don't get a hairline crack I'm gonna take this
all the way to the top of the eave do the same thing there when I got that I'll show you how I
like to do the wire and one last thing guys is we always caulk around the perimeters of a window we
don't have to caulk the bottom because we're doing this system right here but the sides we always
caulk and if you can have a Z flashing for the top guys that's always better but we don't always have
that luxury here we don't have that luxury okay guys get inside checked I'll show you once we got
all this done you can use the big stapler you can use a hammer tacker I saw this blood here and I
thought ah where am i bleeding that's usually I'll be wearing gloves with my tips cut out but for
Chile it's not mine anyhow guys I shared a couple other tips I got a lot of rippers here these
are rippers off my truck that I had for a lot of other jobs notice the way this wires bent it's in
a circular motion the wire goes on this way it's salford and can we put the wire up and down like
this no you can't you'll never pass an inspection it's gotta be say here's another one that's notice
the curve on it guys it goes around so it doesn't go this way to hug the wall it goes this way
that's self third then we cut this out right here I'll show you an example say would take this wire
right here now I'm just working off this ladder here because I can now here's another thing we
can do guys we put this wire we're gonna cover the wire on this side now say for example put it here
Then we're going to cut this piece out, and again this is curved out here. We
take this right here, Jesus, delete that no wearing gloves,
man. There's a lot of spiders here anyway. Delete that part out anyway
okay guys, sure, taking it down right here; no, let's see you get up here,
J those bugs of spiders are ferocious-looking
okay ah gotten expect okay guys we're gonna take the wire again now this wire if I put it
this way and hug the wall I'm gonna lose my fur I don't want to lose my fur because you lose the
fur and what asper self furry meaning there what the stucco won't embed under it it can
crack so now that we got this done here that's what I'll generally do I'll use my hammer tack
or to put it up then I'll just come around and trim it out okay say one last thing guys and
then I'll show you how the easy way of stapling it off and it what we took off earlier it had
furry nails your folks might have notice there's furry nails all over this well you can do that
and a lot of people say gee welcome you don't use furry nails well the wire salford but you
folks at home if you say man I'm gonna do that and you don't want to spend a 500 bucks for a
setup meaning 400 for a gun 300 for a compressor hunter for hoses you can use three nails or you
can just use regular nails the wire is self bird so we take this guy like so and last thing I'm
gonna do guys is take my big gun staple it all off and I'll show you the key thing to with the
caulking on this side absolutely necessary okay guys we're at the end of this little tutorial
now here's what I'm using the big gun and you folks again you can use furry nails but really
it's time-consuming what I'll do is just staple it off around here pop some staples
At least we hear the last thing, and you can't pass an inspection,
guy. If you don't have this done, I'll normally use a quality caulking,
and I will start from the top and just put a fat bead of caulking here. Guys,
the idea is we want to fuse this paper to this frame so that water ever gets in there it's fused
in there. I kind of parsed out of this particular caulking because it works really well, guys. It
fuses. It will not separate water won't get in there, and that's the way to do it anyway guys
my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk giordano plastering we thank you, folks, for watching I hope you learn
something on a newly installed window and as usual Jason and I will see you guys on the next one.