howdy folks, kirk and Jason here with kirk giordano plastering,
today we want to show you guys some window work and how and where to stop at.
Like this fella here he had a really really hard time really hard time finding window installers
that wouldn't butcher the place, i should name this video, "window butchers" because jay and i
for the last this year seems to be so many windows that are put in improperly by professionals i want
to go over that later on but we are in beautiful freezing frigid san francisco remember what Mark
Twain said, the coldest day or, "The coldest day i ever spent was a summer in san Francisco,"
it's true or maybe it was mayor Alliotto, who said it, but whatever whoever said it, it's cold
anyway what we're gonna do is, the fellow here wasn't sure where to stop and he had the window
fella out here like, three times uh trying to get this right and every time, i would come and say
no that's not right, you got to put your flashing on the outside, it can't go on the inside of the
frame it's got to go on the outside so you have to have your window flashing guys and this is
for anybody homeowners install you put your window flashing one on the bottom under the sill on top
of the sill, then two going up the sides. Then you install your window. They can't
go on the inside unless you're using Straight Flash. That's okay, but that's another story.
Anyway, he got beat up so so many times, and the window guys had to come, and you could look at
this. If i'm a window guy, i don't want to come two-three times and install a window anyway,
i will go over that more in detail jay is going to come up here, and i'm going to show you guys where
to start and where to stop in explorations because if i put this together back together as is we may
have some moisture intrusion and he's already been through this it's 30 years now so we're
going to fix it once and for all right now okay guys we'll show you a close-up of what we're
going to do because you might have this issue a lot of people do and what we're doing is no fun
but it's got to be done okay again I'll repeat the guys who used a hammer here destroyed everything
and had to come back and redo everything, and that's a lot of nails they put in here like 40.
So what they did the second time around is they put this uh paper flashing and that's you can
use uh paper flashing it's got fibers in it you put your first piece then the two sides
then you install your window they didn't do that they put it inside the window frame so there was
nothing coming out you cannot do that and jay and i have had at least this year alone in the last
six months about eight different contractors do it and we had to go there we said guys
you need you need to flash these windows properly otherwise it'll leak it's like a jar if you don't
have a seal it's going to leak so we had to decline a lot of stuff word to window installers
if you're watching this video and you know how to do a window well where you put your
paper on the bottom you're still and then you go up and you break out with these guys here
where it uses skill rather than muscle leave your phone number and who you are your company name
in the description or the comments and i'll place it in the description for other folks
who are located in other cities than us because it is extremely difficult these days it seems to
get a good window installer again you just leave your paper and wire and you break it out with
pneumatic tools or rotor hammers so anyway let me get back to what we're doing here it's uh
it might seem complicated to everybody else but for us it's it's really simple jason on
the phone got the hardest or on the camera got the hardest job because he's going to break out
i hate breaking out anyway here's let me show you here and then i'm going to show you
see this flashing right here i might as well get this over with this flashing right
here it's called roof to wall flashing and this flashing goes out here four inches then it goes
up four inches now in order to waterproof this i look right here and the paper is disintegrated
a lot of times the paper will be disintegrated i've seen buildings that have
no paper no wood the only thing holding that stucco up in these garages is just the stucco,
so with your papers deteriorated on a roof that's a big deal because water
is going to go inside your living room. If the paper has deteriorated and the
wood on the garage big deal, i mean unless that garage is connected to your house, but Jay and i
were pushing on one, the homeowner said, what are you guys doing? i said i'm seeing how strong this
is because it's just stucco. There's no wood left paper does deteriorate, guys everything
deteriorates we deteriorate, called old age. Anyhow so what we're gonna do today is
uh after we're done with this talk we're going to chip all of this out right there and go straight
up hopefully that'll that'll eliminate this right here where the paper is disintegrated and
just it's old so for me if i was to try to fish paper in here i'd be taking advantage of somebody
or doing an injustice my job is to do it right and by the way guys while we're on it see this
right here if you have a window next to a window cut this right here cut this right here and just
take this piece off because to waterproof this to here it's too much work just remove it and fix it
i'll show you one more thing guys i know this is uh getting into detail but i'll show you what the
guys did okay they had this craft paper now they had the craft paper on the inside well the flange
these have a flange on them they're one inch flange two inch flange you're supposed to put that
flashing and preferably it should be six inches if you got it like about this six inch flange
so you put the flange or the peeling stick under right here then the window goes on top of it
so these guys who put it on the sides inside they had to come back they had to remove these windows
that's that's a monster job it took two guys 16 hours to take these windows out
and flash it properly that's why i say if you guys are good window companies put your
name and description in in the in the comments so people can call you guys because it's hard to find
good or it seems to be difficult these days to find good window flashers they're window butchers
anyway so what we can do two things generally if now the the homeowner he says man i'm not taking
any chances kurt i'm gonna put this peel and stick over everything i said good job
good job so what we would do if this peeling stick wasn't here what we're gonna do now is we're gonna
go underneath this flashing here and on top of this paper and once we're on top of this paper
that's the proper way to do it the the new paper goes on here under here and then this goes down
we'll show you that when we get to that stage but first we got to break this out we're going
to break it out to here here we might even have to go all the way down to the bottom hope not but
we'll cross that bridge when we get to it anyhow we'll see in a minute
okay guys we are at a stage where all that nasty stuff is pulled off i hate doing that
stuff so jay did it anyway the homeowner he was just leaving he says kirk can i count on you to
do a good job i thought man that's funny you could depend on us to do a good job at this stage here
this allows me to see what the heck is going on so i'm looking at it and that shows me that
this wood is in excellent condition otherwise you would see these nails
rusting rust black would be coming down everywhere where there's a stud
there are no rust marks there so he was right he said i think the windows are leaking so he's
been dealing with it for many years he changed the windows that fixed the problem so what we're going
to do is put this back together i'm even going to show you that because i got to do it anyway now
keep in mind here too i was expecting to have to re-flash this flashing but this flashing is in
excellent condition many guys will put a peeling stick here you can't do that guys
this flashing is probably 80 90 years old and it's still in perfect condition because it's
flashing it's 17 gauge you can use 10 on top of this but we don't need to do that because
we're good now this stucco here is inch and a half why because somebody the original stucco was
pressure washed primered or a bonding agent and another coat was put on it there are
two coats here i'll show you something there's a number of coats here
you see that that's they got another half-inch of stucco some places it's an eighth of an inch
someplace it's like where i see right there it's about an inch and a half so if i put a weep screed
right here you know what it'll do take a guess absolutely nothing because you already we already
have this metal and when these guys come they will take their new torch down, and they'll torch it
to this metal right here so we don't need a weep screed it'd be a waste of time and useless anyhow
so what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and re-paper it because the paper that's there has
seen better days so what we do is we go under both of these the original flashing and this Dupont
and we just simply cut it out and what we want to do is cut it outright at the bottom that way,
we're overlapping they're flashing by four inches we overlap by four inches water won't go back up
And you see, guys, that's how you do it. Uh, i'm going to show you a little bit more because i can,
and i got to do it anyhow so we're going to take this new paper and go under the existing lamb
okay, i just cut some pieces out to prove a point, guys and guys, if you're gonna do this,
uh ladies guys whoever is doing it, homeowners, uh two layers of grade D, that's code
so two layers of grade D
ah, out of staples Ill pull that guy out and put one row in there the other row
Okay, now we get back to what we were doing.
Again we want uh we want to cut it right at the bottom where when the the roofers get here
they can just simply remove this torch down and put the next torch down and it'll stick to this
metal by fire that's called a torch down okay this guy here i don't need it but i'm just gonna
get it out the way that's what i'm gonna do with it okay two more layers
one two guys you gotta have two i'll even show you what we're using right there all right so
we are going to finish paper in this and what i want to do is because we have
uh an inspection we want to make sure that the fellas know what we're doing and guys do you
need an inspection if you change your windows yes and no if you change the headers yes do they need
an inspection on this no they put in the same windows so you don't need a permit for this
but some folks don't know that that's why i'm pointing it out
here cut it here cut this little flange out tuck this guy underneath the same applies here cut this
little flange out tuck it underneath and tack it down now what i'm going to do guys is not
bore the heck out of you and show you the whole thing we're going to take it and when we get up
here this is more of a a simple simple thing right here guys i'm going to take my new paper and we're
going to lift this existing paper it's in great condition and we're going to go under here as far
as we can eventually it will hit a nail a staple something but we go as far up under there as we
can so i'm going to go ahead and paper this and i'll show you how we wire it too all right guys
we went ahead and put the wire on and the wire we're using is stucco netting it's 17 or 18 gauge
wire works also and you don't need fairy nails you can use your gun and put staples in it that's
why it's self furred wire because you don't need to fur it with nails anyhow again any of you uh
window installers place your information in the comments and i'll take some of the better ones and
put it in the description to throw you guys a bone if you could if you if you are guys who don't saw
cut windows and just leave them that way the folks who are interested in your services can call you
you might say well who are you to ask that well jay and i have been doing these videos
for about well well over 10 years we have close to 50 million views a lot of zeros,
I personally responded and answered over 40, 000 comments a lot of you might say well you
don't have a life, maybe so, but anyway when we go to plaster this probably in a couple days we'll
show you the plaster and how to do it too because we're going to be using a Kemset, Kemset doesn't
have lye in it or silica and that's the stuff that burns your hands that's why we always wear gloves
you always see my pants you'll see knee holes in the knees, because the lie in stucco burns
all the clothes it's kind of like a battery you ever have a battery explode on your face?
it's the same thing the next day you got holes in your clothes, but the plaster we're gonna use
here is live free and you guys, I've i mentioned it because it's a great product and that......
Give me a minute........
Okay, i mention it because it is a great product and the typical cement that we put on guys
all the plasters inside all the stuccos outside have lie and how does that affect you guys it
doesn't it affects us we breathe it we end up with uh bad stuff in our lungs uh the little
girl and playing around with plaster of paris and britain i'd have eight fingers amputated putting
it in plaster of paris it's the lie that's in a lot of the chemicals we use or the stuccos
are no joke so if you're watching up to this point man you're a subscriber then look in the
description we're going to put that video of how to plaster this in that and i'll be using that
kim set we thank you for watching this one guys and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one
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