Hello folks Kirk and jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today I would answer the question a lot of
you folks call me to ask me.
the question I've gotten about two to three a month where folks say gee. I had the stucco done and they took it right to the roof right or wrong? Wrong, I'll tell you why because see
what this is it's a weep screed or a drip screed same thing. the same purpose now this roof I take a
typical roof this is a thirty they have 50-year roofs too. a 30-year roof is designed to last thirty
years, stucco, is designed the last couple hundred centuries, it lasts forever unless something goes
wrong with it. If you take the stucco down to the a roof which I, I see a lot of that doesn't mean it's
completely wrong, it's just not up to code and not not too groovy. You don't want to do that, here's
what I recommend to these folks. I say get a weep screed now grab this idea and what we're doing is you see the flashing here we're counter flashing that flashing, find yourself a template a piece of
wood depending on what, what size. like I'm just using a 2x4 and I'm going on the lap here now
down and grab that one side go up under there Dan, I'll grab this one side and you want to go under
the existing paper what happens if you have no existing paper? well you are in trouble you have
to have existing paper. right where you want to be Dan. Okay, I'll put a staple here I'll put a staple
there and then what we do is we take paper we shove say for example, we start at the bottom
and we work our way up and we, we fish it back and forth. Fish-it go until you hit, what you'll hit is
either a stud or not a stud, I'm sorry you'll hit a nail or a furring nail or a staple or something like
that. You fish that one up you put this one you just keep fishing it because you'll hit stuff up
there guys you can't see it but it's under there and once you get that done you tack that down you
cut it and now you're ready for wire.
Dan's going to wire this right after I get done. You cut it off and get rid of this stuff here. Dan, actually said, dad, How about I show these folks how to do that?
And I thought well if you're showing everybody how to do it, what am I going to do? I can't work that
camera, Dan just happens to be at the age where he's got the magic whiskers, what are magic whiskers?
That's, that's when you get these whiskers, whiskers on your face and all of a sudden like
if you ever seen the movie The Matrix, you don't have to plug nothing in, God from heaven above,
just blesses you with all this knowledge all of a sudden those magic whiskers. You know more about
life than your mom and your dad and he actually knows more about stucco than I do, even though
I've been doing this three times as long as he's been alive. but that's beside the subject. What
we're going to do is we're going to push this down then we're going to push it down and they're going
to wire right on top after we finish with this. Here's another tip guys, I don't know what city
state, country you're in but sometimes when I work on Grizzly Peak or skyline those of you guys in
the other countries say what the heck is Grizzly Peak and skyline? right now we're up really high
in Oakland California, point to those mountains Jay. You guys see up there it goes higher much higher
then that. It's a cold dismal day today and when I'm up there working what I'll do is I'll put a
Sikaflex or a polyurethane caulking on this and then I'll attach this why? Because.
The higher you are the higher elevation you don't just get rain that's vertical, you get rain with 100, 105
mile an hour winds, which creates an effect where it's horizontal, so if we had rain that was going
horizontal it can go up here and go up and down I've seen it happen, seen it happen a few times,
and folks have called me for it. So find yourself a template counter your step flashing because you
may want to change that roof and you don't want to break into the stucco. Anyway guys you can see
down here what Jay is already done and he's done the other side there if you're working with your
sons or your daughters watch out for those magic whiskers. I don't think he's talking about Dan.
With those magic whiskers, those magic whiskers are kind of cool though. Anyway, my name is Kirk, Jay on
the camera, Dan here, my other son, we thank you for you guys for watching and as usual we'll see you
guys on the next one. Once again folks we thank you for watching and I really enjoy all your
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