hey everybody Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, now I know we've been gone for a
while and we haven't had any new content for you guys to watch and that's been my fault it's been
a very wet and cold winter here in the Bay Area and so I took some time off with me gone there was
nobody to hold the camera or make the videos for my dad if someone else did thankfully today I have
Madeline holding the camera so now that I'm back I wanted to hit the ground running and get you
guys some new content to watch today we're doing a kind of a cool repair job we are fixing the stucco
around this newly installed deck and why isn't a newly installed deck because this house about 50
years old when they installed a deck the first time it leaked they didn't do it right luckily
today we're here to correct all those things do it right so that this deck can last a long time
hopefully 50 80 100 years who knows a couple things that I want to go over with it and tell
you guys we're at the bottom since that's what you do when you're waterproofing something you
start at the bottom so first off you'll notice this straight line here on this piece these folks
saw cut it now that's not a big problem if you do a couple of things right first off you always have
to break it out you can't stucco to something with no wire and you can't stucco to a straight edge
that will almost always lead to a perimeter crack plus if you notice here they don't have any papers
so what we have to do is do a little exploration break out a couple inches see if we can get good
paper see if there's any areas where the leaks were coming in although we're pretty confident
it was in the old deck and so that's what we have to do first now when you're doing that sort of
breakout you want to make sure you use something like this a roto hammer a Bosch this one's a Bosch
every company makes one I could sit there with a big hammer you know this is a lathers hammer not
a sledge but I could get a sledge try to break that out now if I do that if the paper is good
I'm going to destroy it with the hammer so you always want to use the proper tools to do that
next if that works and we don't have to sometimes on jobs it's better to just take this whole piece
off because you can waterproof it more perfectly I'm not sure what's going to happen on this one
but as we explore we'll figure that out next we're going to install our paper and we've got these
blocks here now when I got to this job last week the fella didn't have these blocks installed and
the problem with that is not only is that knock code but over time your joists here can warp and
twist and Bend and now they have their strong ties and everything but well most importantly it's code
you got to have that so we're gonna paper up to that caulk it and we'll show you guys that when
we're doing it eventually we'll go on top and we'll show you a couple of things up there but
first we're gonna take care of this bottom stuff and we'll show you that - all right folks I just
finished my exploration and didn't bother to put the mic on in everything because I'm gonna have
to keep breaking out because what I discovered was that the papers all rotten the staples are
all rusted unfortunately I have to take this whole piece off in order to be confident that I
can waterproof this front area as it's necessary there's no point in doing all this if I'm not a
hundred percent sure that I can waterproof it hey guys do you think I would let Jason and Madeline
have all the fun and be sitting at the local pub having a drink no way I love this stuff let me
show you something guys when you after you put the paper on there now you're not gonna get anything
under blocks it's wishful thinking they could have put a membrane first then you go under caulk
this right here before we put the wire on use uh here's a polyurethane caulking or similar these
are polyurethane Caulkins they're nasty don't get them on you guys this stuff is great but it's not
for this it's 40 years stuff it's not for this guy and while I was messing around here's why we have
the issue okay the guys who did the stucco they put paper back wire here and then they put paper
back wire over that guys there's no such thing as having the paper back wire over paper back wire
with wire on here I just removed the wire and expecting it not to leak it doesn't work that
way what you do is you yank off that wire which I already did and you leave just the paper you put
the new paper and yank that wire off now it won't leave anyhow I'm putting this back together but I
thought I'd show what the originally was J can show you the rest guys I'm having fun alright
folks were on the top now this is more the fun part and this is why this deck originally leaked
before when they built it the original time they didn't have the proper flashings up here now what
we're going to do is we've got this large L flashing with a drip edge now this part we
put against the wall on these blocks and joists and an important thing to think about is we have
this thing called gravity so we have to put a bead of caulking along this entire thing to seal this
against the wall and prevent any water getting in now in these spaces here between the joists
it's incredibly unlikely that the water will fall down go up and hit under these joists or under
under the flashing on these blocks but here on the joists when the water goes through the deck they
floorboards it can hit these and follow inwards into the wall so we have to prevent that and if
we don't prevent that then we're no better than the people who did it originally so that's what
we're doing here now we're doing this first because I have to again break this out and if
I break this out before doing this it's gonna get all dusty and that caulking is not going
to adhere to the wood so we're gonna install this then I'm gonna break it out and we're gonna laugh
it up and we'll show you what it looks like when it's all done okay guys let me show you we did
the lath here you have the fun of breaking it all out I get the fun of plastering it a little
bit anyhow today's gonna do the upstairs Mellon my daughter she's gonna hock me some mud that's
a full bucket man that's a heavy guy there okay guys just because I can't I'm gonna go ahead and
throw two coats on this yes Jay got me mud with luminite it'll what the heck is Newman I it's an
accelerator that way I can do both coats while I'm here they do make a lot of products guys that you
don't have to put luminite in say like you go to Home Depot thank God rapidset stucco that all you
do is add water oh it's kind of sticky that stuff but that's for you homeowners this stuff what I'm
using here with with say luminite it's a little bit more tricky to mix we buy our sand and submit
at the yard and then we just add what we think we need now me I'm gonna put a second coat right now
boom that's a little loose what can okert make it work you betcha even though I haven't been
doing it as much either since Jays been gone and my brother Lou is out with a bad foot I took a
little break - but you never this like riding a bike guys he never forgets how to do this stuff
now me I'm a I got to come out an inch go you gotta come out an inch why an inch because we
got a half bury these guys and these stucco stops come out 7/8 of an inch so I'm gonna go ahead and
put my second coat right here and you guys you better way to do this guys is to put your first
coat on go all the way to the end come right back and double it up because then it's really ready
right now I'm just showing off this is kind of kind of soupy mud but I still could make it work
all right let me have the rest all we're gonna do guys is we're gonna show this Jay is actually
gonna go up top and finish that that stuff and I'm gonna run to the house because I forgot my color
coat fortunately not too far away oh right guys want to show you something for those of you I mean
I got a big trowel big trial you keep it wet guys you get it you push it up hold it use your fingers
push it in and that makes it stick of course we're going to inch stick one coat so it's a
it does take practice some of you guys if you want to easier you say well gee whiz I don't have that
kind of hand-eye wrist coordination you would use a Darby now this guy here just is jacked up but
slobbers all over it so to tear it down you don't want the sides full of crap guy okay now it's wet
so here's an easy way for you folks who are just learning you take the Darby the same thing you
push it up hit it use your fingers and come down watch this guy this gives you a clean top fingers
just pull it down and this is kind of wet boy again the same principle applies if you need
more time for leave it alone and let it get a little stiffer and that's all we're doing guys
we're just pushing it up and making it true plumb and level I love doing this and did you believe
they even pay me to do this what a country anyway guys when we finish with the texture
I'll just show you that too all right folks I just wanted to show you the final result you
can see that we matched the texture on the wall but if I don't know if the camera will show it
but around this door they must have replaced this I don't know 20 30 years ago and somebody tried
to match the texture that they had you can see it all the way up maybe you can't but it's not
quite right but what we did is quite right now again I don't know if the camera will show this
but can it show the texture on this side of the door versus this side of the door that we did
not sure if that will show for you folks but can you tell who did it it's a trick question me Dad
did one side I did the other but our textures are pretty identical everybody's got a fingerprint so
to speak every texture is kind of different but he taught me so ours are pretty similar anyway
the last thing I'll say is kind of funny I've just put this board on and I went to put this
other one there's one more piece that goes there and you know what the carpenters built this thing
and that board goes all the way to the wall so I can't even put that in they have to come back
rip it in half and then they can put it in but uh that's on them they should have accounted for the
stucco all right guys we show you how to do it we have like 800 videos to show you guys how to
do it so save the dough keep it in your pocket go on vacation with it anyway from the three of
us the Giordano's we're thank you for watching and as usual see you on the next one by the way
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