Howdy guys, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano Plastering.
today I want to mention something about failing fascia boards why, because I was out here and I
was talking to the owner and a contractor about why this happened because I've seen
it about 10 times easily and we've corrected it just as many times what we have here they had I
mean it's an old building by the way guys it's a hundred-year-old building and we are about we're
higher than a telephone pole I mean I'm looking down on telephone poles who comes to a building
four stories high and checks fascia boards nobody so this is just a natural occurrence guys it's not
like somebody did something wrong what do you have here is wood this is a wood fascia board
and then they did come up here within the last 20 years and they've seen a crack developing so what
they did is they put a piece of flashing on the top and you can do that and it sometimes works
for a little while but not it's not a permanent fix so when I came here before they just had a
little bit broken out here and they said gee Kirk what do you think should we just leave it alone
repair it I said if it were me and from based on what I know I could it was it wasn't this
exaggerated this is exaggerated because they've been pulling the stucco off it was about like
this I put my whole arm including my wrist behind it I said guys if it were me this is what I would
do because of apartment and people have their living there there could be wood rot in there
and even if there's not wood rot what's happening is you have a shear strength you have when they
did this they didn't have a staple guns they had furry nails now the furry nails are supposed to
be able to go seven eighths of an inch into the stud of the wall and to accommodate the width of
the Skip sheeting so that's to hold the stucco up for years what happened was water did go in
here maybe 40 years ago and it started a crack here and then the water started going in here
and when the drier conditions has occurred which on a hot day 99 degrees it baked this
wall thus the wood expanded and when the wood expanded it pushed the stucco over a little bit
and then you take that for 40 years and what happens is now the only thing holding this up
is gravity so the nails that the stucco netting on to hold this amount of stucco which is five
tons on just this one wall are slowly collapsing like this again nobody's fault it's just gravity
gravity is pulling it down would it last a year who knows would it last five who knows there are
incidences where balconies collapse stucco walls collapse this was well they're gonna happen too
but I told him if it were me and you guys could afford it take the whole thing off because you
might not like what you found they took the whole thing off today and that's not pretty but it's a
lot better than what I thought it was going to be and then we have a lot more wood rot on the other
side it's typical water has been getting in there you guys might say gee how do you take this stuff
off well my brother and I we used to do it and we we would use these Hilty blades you can buy
Hilty blades or you can buy diamond blade product here's when you the reason we would use a Hilty
steel blade or a diamond blade is because I've seen guys use these and I say guys you paid five
bucks for that you think you're saving something you're not saving a nickel in fact you're losing
money spend a hundred bucks on the best blade because they're thin and they create less dust
when you cut the stucco off because nobody wants inhale all this dust and don't use a grinder guys
I've had guys say we're gonna use a grinder don't do that don't do that you make more dust and it's
harder so I tell folks if you're gonna take it off and we used to do it all the time I don't do
it anymore there's no glory in it and I'm tired of inhaling poisons but if you're gonna do it
guys do it in three foot sections meaning cut a couple verticals what we do is we start at the
bottom cut them and then crisscross them and then then the nails hold it in place but then when you
cut the wires it can fall off my brother and I had an instance where we had 4 feet by 4 feet
where he thought we were strong guy well there was one wire cutting holding it Jay cut that and the
whole thing was too heavy for us it fell through our hands ripped our gloves if we didn't have
gloves our skin we'd have probably been at the hospital with stitches it fell out of our hands
hit the straight bar and went through a kitchen window for chili nobody was home so if you're
gonna tear off guys 3 by 3 know what you're doing we're serious respirators kind that they use for
say welding don't don't wear a paper mask anyway guys I thought I'd point that out because I get
a lot of this in this week alone I've looked at to where the fascia boards failed and the
people are saying how come I just had the stucco done about five years ago it's a brand new house
the stuck would cost me $70,000 blah blah blah why I see your fascia boards are failing they
didn't put the paper underneath it so that's a building secret there guys you put your fascia
board on top of a peeling stick and allow for us stucco guys to go up under it or you do it
yourself and when we get there we we go under it and save yourself a lot of this kind of hassle but
then again this is a hundred year old building anyway guys I thought I'd point it out because
these folks ask me why my buddy Larry bellman eight years ago asked me the same questions
and by the way the scaffold guys are the ones who caught this because their pins are six-inch
pins and they couldn't even get through the stucco because it was like this they're saying hey guys
we we tried to pin the staging but we can't get to it meaning the separate the stucco separated
little tips that unless your apartment owner or your own a house that's pretty high up in the air
probably never gonna experience this anyway guys my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we're a thank
you for watching just this explanation about failing fascia boards and as usual live long
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