Howdy folks, kirk and Jason here; with another tip of the day, guys, i'm going to show you how to
pass your last inspection. Lath, L-a-t-h, what are we doing here today. I looked at this yesterday;
the owner was here, and as soon as i pulled up, i happened to notice a new electrical panel here,
so he was showing me this, and he says, " Well, what do you think? i said, well, i could see
you had an electrical panel here, and he says, how you know that? i said, of course, I cheated.
Man, when i walked up, I saw the new electrical panel, and i knew the house is 100 years old
by looking at it or the apartment so you used to have a meter here it leaked, so you had to
replace this, and he said well how you know it didn't come from the top? I said, well, I looked
already, and i saw a parapet up there; you can see a parapet. Parapets are notorious for leaking.
After 80 years, the first 50, they're okay. But then the caps kind of melt with the hot sun,
so he's got a flashing cap on there now. So I said, i know that's been compromised, but
if it leaked at the top, it would funnel down, water funnels down,
so all of this would be bad, all of that would be bad up to say that window, so i knew that.
Anyway, so he replaced he moved the electrical or had pg d come and redo this what i'm gonna show
you guys is he asked me, well how are you gonna get a weep screed down here uh stuck on screen
i said we're not we're not going to try to get a stucco screen down here because right here is
a half inch and if i put a weep screen it's going to look ridiculous the whole building doesn't have
a weep screen a weep or a drip screen for stucco serves three things it gives us something to stop
at it provides movement for the stucco and it drains for maintenance free color coat finishes
this is not a maintenance free color code finish it's a painted finish so what we're going to do is
how you guys could pass your lath inspection you don't need a weep screen here because back when i
was first in the trade, there were no weep screens there were no sheer wall this plywood serves as a
sheer wall so this plywood right here we didn't have plywood back in the days when i started.
Laughing and yeah, that's like over 40 years ago, say in 1975, they said okay, you need to put a
drip screen, but again they weren't using those when i was plastering, so all the houses you see
if you see stucco going down to the foundation that means it was built before 1975 or 1980.
If you see plywood, that wasn't code until 1980, I think.
You know you can google that stuff but what we're going to do is we're going to take our
new paper put our new paper here and when you get concrete like this guys here's what you do
the idea is to cover this paper with or cover this wood with paper so we're going to come bring
our paper right to here and then we're going to staple the wire on here and this stucco or this
concrete is going to show so what we what we did is we took a wire brush and we cleaned this out
and this blue stuff here that's that's just a bonding agent you'll see it when we get to that
stage why the bonding agent is necessary for the sucker to it here now we're going to cover all
we're going to protect the mud seal mud mud sill so we're going to protect the mud still take the
paper up and when we get to this area here i was doing this and then i said why are you doing that
and i said well we're not i can see i just want to i don't want to try to move the stucco but i want
to raise it up like an eighth of an inch that's all because we we don't want to beat that up and
the reason for that is the paper is kind of deteriorated but i expected that what we're
going to do is say for example now see this paper here you probably won't be able to see it but
what we do is we slide pieces after i get my paper here we're going to cut we got to go
underneath this paper and how far does this go under you can see it goes way under there but
what it's going to do is it's going to hit a nail a staple or back then they they nailed this off
they didn't even have staple guns so they nailed it off and so we will be taking our new paper
and shoving it under this existing paper and when we hit a nail we come we just deal with it but
you see that's all under the existing paper you can't waterproof this unless you find good paper
and do we always find good paper absolutely not sometimes there's no paper sometimes there's no
wire sometimes there's no wood in fact jay's standing on a garage this is a big garage
about eight years ago i was pushing on the garage and jay said that what you doing i said well i'm
trying to see if i see this because it was open i said we see there's no paper wire or wood left
the only thing holding this garage up is the stucco so i was curious if it would wobble it
it didn't budge an inch anyway i'm going to get busy guys i'll show you some other little things
once we get there uh what you can't see because we're on the roof is i'm gonna take the paper all
the way here and where we got this hole here we shove paper the exact same way i did under here
in here and then we with caulking and there's you guys usually see me using two caulkings
if one is this nasty stuff here sica flex it's the best caulking because it's an adhesive
sealant now this stuff is for cracks and you see me using this a lot too so we're going to go
ahead and get started paper this up and when we get to the area say like where the steel straps
are when i got the paper on i take a chalk and i mark it why because when i use this gun here
if i don't know this strap is here or that strap i'll hit it and that staple will bounce off and
hit me in the face and yeah i was lost in the eye once i'm wearing glasses not because i'm going to
staple because it's windy right now and all this stucco go in your eyeballs if you're not wearing
glasses do i wear safety glasses i should but i don't anyway i'm going to go ahead and paper
this and we get to this stage i'll show you what's really important i'll show you the stage we're at
is what you can do if you want to pass a lath inspection by the city
either mark the wall mark the paper mark the bottoms but you got to get a staple or a nail
into the studs so here's the studs and i'll just show you this real quick because eventually
what i did is i went ahead and i fished my paper in but what happens if you hit a nail and the
owner was here he says well what about the nails i said that's a good question i think i'll show
that so now this is under the paper now it's over lapping here and that's being held by the
wall itself but just in case all right here's a nail so what we do is we're on we're under the
paper where that nail is you go this way and then you take it on this side and you go that way and
now you're as far into the paper as you possibly can get you can't get any further under the paper
and that's because i lifted it to it so we we make a v where that nail is the nail's about right here
so we're good now and what i do guys, is if you got steel straps these simpson ties often the
city will say, hey man, put some simpson ties here and there, I take my chalk and i mark this
take your chalk and you mark these you could actually put it sideways pull the paper off
and you can see this why because in a minute i'm going to push this down and then i'm going to
staple the new wire into this existing wire and i'll tell you if you hit a strong tie
the staples could hit this and bounce off again. i said i almost lost an eye one time
i was stapling, and i was stapling fast just bam, and normally I'll go through eight to
ten thousand staples a day. If i'm doing whole houses,
that's a lot of staples i hit a simpson strong tie in that staple like three times, but one time it,
it hit so hard and it stuck my face and then fell I thought, wow, that kind of hurt,
and i just kept going kept going didn't lose a beat, but later on i had a hole right here, and
i thought dang,and i wasn't even wearing glasses so when i use a gun i'm always wearing glasses
uh well not really but you guys should if you don't do what i do, do what i'm saying always
wear the glass i'm wearing the glasses because a lot of crap blowing around anyway what happens if
this wall leaks well they're coming back hey kirk you know that patch you did is leaking
so we got to make sure it's watertight that's the most important what happens if it's ugly as sin
nothing it's just an ugly patch job, but we're going to match this on the money i told them
now why do we tie a new wire to existing wire? Because if i don't tie the new wire to this wire,
a perimeter crack will appear; how long in one month the perimeter crack will appear or
in two weeks, and if i there was no wire here, and i just put my new wire here,
it'll be a crack so large you could take four credit cards and stick them in there and what
happens is the water goes in there eventually after five to ten seasons it can deteriorate
the paper. When water hits wood, it expands it explodes it, so we don't want that either.
anyway, we're going to put this back together now this paper here was essential i had to get
way deep in there i'm going to take some of this, This polyurethane now and put a couple tubes here,
and on the other side, we'll get to the wire that's the last part I'll show you guys
how to do that and why it's important too the last thing I'll explain since we're on this topic is
staples or nails every six inches on the stud to account for the square inch per
uh ratio anyway uh when you do this, some guys they staple so flat that we we don't have the
luxury of when we do the cement work of having it mushroom in back of it or be self-furred so don't
get your wire super flat the idea is the stucco's got to go behind this, and again i say that in
this video in the description I'll put a link of a job we did a guy laughed at, and he just let's
face it no pretty way to say it he did a horrible job because know the water was so flat we took
like hours me Lou and jay pulling it all out like this because it had no fur so every six inches and
another thing too well; last thing, guys, i just put some earplugs in i just found some
toilet paper rolled it up, and stuck it in my ear because a truck I've got
is the new truck; it's not my old one where i had twice as much space
my ears ring because for 40 years I've been using a staple gun and listen
That gets loud so wear something in your ears it's going to use a staple gun last
thing i'll show you is because i got a different truck than my monster truck we forgot corners
my other truck used to hold five times as much uh thing, so Jay bent this right here and i just use
this guy's guard rail he's got a door he's going to put in for a template that means this got a
line up that means this got a line up that means the bottoms got to line up and back when they did
this job a hundred years ago they didn't even have corner aid that wasn't even invented until about
60 years ago so this is our guide to make a corner anyway the next time you see us
we'll probably be doing the stucco work on this i'm sure it'll it'll
pass inspection we've had in the last 40 years two jobs fail why because the wire was put on
vertically you can't do that guy it's got to go horizontally if you want it to pass
and we had a job like 30 years ago we had the nails in it, and we bent them downward.
You can't do that either if you're going to put a nail in it and to hold like the concrete down here
we were trying to hold it's actually I'll point this out we were trying to hold the
wire to the concrete, so we put a big 16 penny nail in and bent it down so that when
we plaster it, the wire wasn't passed your guilds. Would just use something like what i did, a magnet
like this for a half-inch nail or a half-inch concrete nail to hold that in there and put some
of the bottoms fasten it down anyway guys i think that's about all the stuff you need to know about
lathing, but in the link also I'll put the fastest lathing technique for a wall. How do
i know because we created it for that reason. We got a lot of obstacles in the way so it
may not be the best to show you how but we got a big wall it's less than two minutes.
it'll show you everything you need to know anyway; my name is kirk, Jason on the camera;
we thank you guys for watching, and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one.
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