Howdy folks kirk Jason here with another tip of the day, so you want to know how to do
corners, corner aid. You could do it with a nail, you could do them with staples, I've been
doing them with staples for 35 years.
Arch-aid now that is what I want to talk about, but I'm going to show you the rest beforehand. Okay so if we're getting ready to stucco this in
a couple days, so here's what you got to do guys. See this 17 gauge wire here? This is 17 gauge you
could use 18 gauge. But you can't use 20, because 20 gauge is too light and it's for chicken coops. So
we're using a 17 gauge here. The stucco will adhere because of these holes here. it's self-ferred but you
really can't see it. now will it if i use the same 17 gauge wire here can I do it? Yeah but should
I? No, because what you want to use there is some kind of a mesh this is called diamond mesh at say
home depot or if you go to the material yards like west side where you have, Dylan and Eric and uh
my buddy Juvenile delinquent and Juvenile. They call it 3.4 there, so west side
building materials, where they sell it, we buy all our plastic materials they call it diamond
or 3.4 but westside or home depot only calls it Diamond what are the two anyway now we're going
to put this here I'll tell you something else that's, uh I had told somebody and
it was kind of funny the response I said dude
he was hanging all kinds of this stuff and I said man do you know that that stuff
could be hung only or should be hung only one way and he says what do you mean?
And so as this metal here should be hung only one way uh this should be one hung only one way
because if you look at this say like for down here or if you're doing whole walls like this
these are designed that the stucco if you put it on this way it'll fall right off.
Actually, it will adhere but if you put it on this way now the stucco goes
into these little details here into the groove and it holds better
I was telling the guy that he says kirk get a life I don't give a crap about that nobody cares
and I thought hey excuse me all right no problem I was just uh it's a habit of explaining stuff.
Anyway, let me get my drink out the way what we're gonna do is um I'm gonna hang these real quick,
and then I'll show you how we put the corner or the um the straight ones on these are
simple as far as I'm concerned but to some folks they're a nightmare because you got to
know how to do them just like anything else guys you got to know how to do it
so what I'm going to do is I'm using my gun here can you use staples sure you could.
I'm using staples can you use nails you could but you'll be here all day
just for the front here okay I'm going on this side
now again for a ceiling or a soffit a lid whatever you want to call it guys they all
mean the same thing you've got to or you should use this should it be self-furred technically
yes what if it's not just don't put so many staples in it if it's not self burn
okay now we got that corners now a corner itself speaks for itself
you kind of look at it and I'm not I could open this up and I can close it we've done videos
where we had to go two inches thick so I closed this and it made it stick way out and I've done
videos where we had to open it but just for the sake of when you buy these you buy them in a box
kind of like this it says metal wire for building industry they got 10 footers and eight footers I
like to buy the tens okay now when you put this on the idea is to look at it like this guys.
Oops, I've got to shave this bottom this is when you're doing stucco guys it's all about
improvising, and because I have this concrete hump right here which I'm going to do the magic to it.
When we get ready to stucco and stucco that by eye when I say stucco with my eye what does that mean
that means I'm going to look at these and just stucco them
I can't wait for that that's kind of fun all right.
Okay guys don't do this and have to do it twice but I didn't anticipate this
concrete at the bottom, that's no worries. So what we do is we put this on here and
now i cut that piece out now how far should this be it should be
7 8 of an inch thick and so this corner right here should be that's a little high because I started
from the ground all right and get used to this guys, you're always going to have to cut stuff.
Okay so we want to see this right down here on this weep screed it's a weep screed
and what we want to do guys we just want to make a straight line we want
to make a straight line here's what I do. I'll look at this corner I'll follow the corner
of the wood and that right there if you staple all these little wires down with a hammer attacker
staple them all down real well it won't catch now so I'm looking at that I'm thinking that's perfect
now what you can do is you put a few staples in they say every six inches there's one-two
and I'm not bending this if I squeeze it then I'm gonna lose my corner
I'm just letting it go where it is the wall dictates where it should be.
I hold it where it should be because that's my job.
but the wall kind of dictates it there's one
I'll put this aside here put this aside here, and I already know I'm going to have that same issue
with this corner so this will go right here but we got the same issue the concrete slab in the way
and all of these things guys if you see stuff that you know is going to present a problem, handle it,
deal with it just improvise when you get to it.
you start and you say oh crap I need to do this, I need to do that, do it,
big deal, and just like that rule of thumb where I was talking about, that I was telling the one
guy hey man that medal goes a certain way and he said piss off kirk, I don't I'll do it my way.
I thought okay these rules like this, this there's a so-called rule that you should wait,
you should wait 30 days before you paint, now we were doing a Jamba juice about
two or three years ago, I was up in the Tiburon area and we stuccoed the front of it,
anyway, I was having coffee there because we were going to Tiburon, on the way to work and
so I was having coffee and I thought wow they painted that we just finished it, yesterday.
This is where rules come in and can they be made to be broken.
Okay, so i walked over and i talked to the GC, I said, man,
you already painted that, you're supposed to let that set 30 days and man he exploded on me.
He said, Kirk, look man you do your job let me worry about my job.
I got to get this done we got to open. i remember saying wow man sorry I exploded.
I'm just having a cup of coffee as far as I'm concerned you can paint while I'm doing it.
I don't care, i'm just talking man. i'm just telling you should wait 28 days and
there's a lot of reasons for that which i won't go into, but i kind of thought and i understand i
understand you got to open and you got to do what you got to do, but you don't have to yell at me.
Anyway that was what came into mind when i was telling the guy about that mesh he lost his mind,
kirk do it your way i'll do it my way. and i i thought okay we're good,
anyway moving on, what i'm gonna show you is the the arch i mean anybody can do this with some
practice guys this really does take practice and what happens if your arch or these are crooked you
will have to come back on your own time and fix it and have i had to fix it sure i have as long as
i've been doing this stuff i've had to fix a few things that's why i'm pointing this stuff out now
i've even had it where we have done perfect straight corners and then the homeowner said kirk
my corners aren't crooked in fact they're jagged and yours are straight that happened one time
but as a rule people will complain if they're not straight so we want to get them straight
and since this is a new construction i dictate kind of what's going on here so we're gonna go
we're not going total perfection i like to be uh as good as we can be but
you know total perfection is uh most youngsters like that a lot of people europe uk they they
like that old world style stuff where there's an imperfection here and there anyway so we got that
i'm missing one corner here it is hiding okay come on back so we'll put this guy here
oops anytime we got stuff hanging out and you find it just staple it down
and you notice I'm putting it on fast now because I know what I'm looking at
at first, Jay said well yeah i'm busy dan and i are in the back and i have time to
do that video and i said put it on the tripod and he said dad if i leave you for an hour
and you finish that who knows what kind of stupid crap will come out your mouth
i thought wow you know me too well i'll be talking about useless stuff that don't amount to nothing
about being on a beach and all kind of weird stuff but here's the important thing guys all right so
now these corners right here uh you buy them in eight foot length and usually uh you kind of want
to flex them first put it up here eyeball it and kind of bend it where you want it we want to go
three inches over here three inches over here for the so we don't get a perimeter crack so i'm good
i'm like five inches but here's the thing guys which most people don't know and they try this and
i have received a few calls and go damn i'll try to put that on but it's crooked as crap it's like
a dog's hind leg man i just can't do it it just won't go straight here's what you guys should know
the wall seven eighths of an inch thick soffits half inch that's huge it's huge guys that's
why the majority of people put these on wrong. they don't think like that half inch for ceilings
7/8 for wall so if that is noted and being thought of and you you remember that these will not bend
7/ 8 so these will bend half inch for the ceiling, the soffit the lid whatever you want to call it.
so if i'm starting, say like right here now what i'll do is
and here's another important thing, all of these corners right here guys
,they should be tacked down and if you're doing it and you say man
that one there's loose wire tack those loose wires down.
Because the loose wires will catch and if it catches it's really difficult to get a straight
corner. really difficult guys. I'm talking good luck difficult.
That's how difficult it is. Okay now that those are down
this top wire right here it'll catch it when you go to put it here it'll go underneath those so
tack those down all right where was I back to doing what I was doing we want three to six inches
all right now that is about right that's about right there now what I'll do is I'll generally
scoot it all the way up that's that's it right there guys and see i know this is the tricky part
guys I know that this is a half-inch and this is 7/8 but if I try to break this down to make this
7/8 I'll be here all day I have crooked corners it'll never work the owners will catch it or the
homeowner or i'll catch it that's more important I don't want to do stuff myself that i know
is goofy so now i just follow the pattern I'm pushing up what I'm doing is
i look right here and i can see 7 8. that's what's really important I got to get 7/8 there and not
worry about this part so I'm putting it there stapling it, stapling, and that is why these
guns are so important could you imagine trying to fur nail this off you can't, especially with the
ones with the corks you can't do it it can't be done okay again if these weren't tacked on tight
i couldn't do this so I have to tack it on tight boom, boom and we go here tight now.
Okay, now that's a perfect radius. Now I'll hit here, because it's already a radius,
if i hit here, and here at the same time it's going to be crooked. and if you don't tack these
down like look at all those staples yesterday i was working with my son Dan, Dan's been
doing other construction elsewhere for about two years and so he was tacking all this down
and my shirt was all bloody and he said, hey dad you're bleeding everywhere, what's with that?
I said well somebody keeps putting these and I'm rubbing my arms against it
so all of a sudden he was taking it and I said oh I gotta bleed like crazy before you do that?
Anyway, now what I'll do is I'll put a couple staples in here,
that is really important guys, that you remember a half inch for the soffit and not
that solid, we all want to think oh it's got to be 7 /8 it's got to be 7 /8.
No, it doesn't, not the ceilings are half-inch as a rule, unless you're doing commercial properties
banks, hospitals, schools, they go an inch. Anyway that's another story anyhow, guys,
I figured I'd do this a little bit and not do the whole thing because I'll be talking about
a whole bunch of useless stuff that doesn't amount to much, anyway guys my name is kirk,
Jason's on the camera Jason's going to go back finish doing what he was doing ,and I'm going
to finish all these corners we thank you all for watching and as usual see you guys on the next one
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