Hello there folks kirk and Jason here, with kirk giordano plastering, today i'm going to show you
guys, how to lath pillars, columns whatever you want to call them. This fella called me,
and he says, kirk, can i learn to do, he sent me a picture, he says can i learn to do this
watching your videos I said yeah, so I was talking to him over the phone. I said do yourself a favor
and cut yourself 28 pieces of weep screeds, or J trim, then cut yourself 28 pieces of corner aid,
I explained it. He says can you come down and take a look and give me a cost to do it?
So, I thought yeah I'll come down, I'll show you guys how we do this. first of all, guys if you're
gonna have, he got tired of painting these you got, I mean look at the view, yes this gets hammered,
with a beautiful view but it gets hammered with the weather, so these don't last very long you got
to paint these every five-six years he got tired of doing that he says well man if I
stucco it, how long would that last us? I said, your lifetime my lifetime my kid's lifetime, so what I
told him is let me see the caps you have, now he's got these concrete caps right here, so we gotta use
those as a template so what we did is uh jason and i we put the template on here and we've seen that
we only had a half-inch, so if i have a half-inch, What i did was I went with the J trim half inch
and do we need a drip screed right here which is 7/8 of an inch? No, because, these are going to be
painted, so the stucco does not need to breathe or the water does not need to go in it. That's only if
you're going to have a color coat maintenance-free integrated finish, mouthful there guys, anyway,
What Jay and i did, and we're pretty fast at this stuff, i cut 28 pieces of these, we 45 them. We cut
28 pieces of corners just measured them and here's what we started out, with and here's what you'll do
you'll put your weep screed or J trim or whatever. You want to put on the bottom then you'll come
here and you'll paper it now you've got to use two layers of Grade D paper building paper to be
code-compliant. Then what I used was a "Structa-lath" "Structo-lath," it bends bends real easy around the
corners, generally I'll use a 17 or 18 gauge stucco netting but it would be, too time-consuming and
i wouldn't be able to bend it around the corners. I have to cut each piece and then put corners to
hold it. Then lastly what you're going to do is you put your caps on it and you measure from
right here, this is your template from this point, to this point, then you put your corners on and
we're all stapled off, now all we have to do is come back another day and do the stucco work.
but just to show you to prove a point how, how you could do it, you see i just explained it.
But I'll show you how we did it, now you want to take after you get your screed on the bottom you
want to take two layers of 60-minute paper, you see right there that's 60-minute that's code compliant.
anyhow once you got your measurement where where you want it, you're going to
tack that on, you tack it on then you bend it, bend this corner bend it like that, get
it inside that groove, once you're in the groove, you tack that down.
and we're also going to do the cap i'll show you how we do the cap, the cap is all-important why?
Because the cap is what's gonna waterproof everything. if we don't,
and we always overlap, so we're overlapping the whole thing that way
no water can enter it. Here's how you do a cap guys, real simple, you guys, like a Christmas
present you know you wrap a Christmas present? The the same thing, you're gonna put, put your paper on it,
tack it down, one now just like a Christmas present you would put it
of course, my Christmas presents don't look this good, now what you're going
to do is just put this here, bend it down, and boom.
Now you have a watertight seal for the cap. Because he's putting these concrete caps on it
I'll show you another thing, okay, so now we're watertight here, so you say well how do we get the
wire on? Even though I, we've, Jason, and I've got all the wire on it, I'll show you guys how to do it
now what jay did is he cut them all at a certain length so what we want to do is.
find an area and get started we put it on the bottom
and we and we let our microphone down, and come out of our pocket, Ops.
Let me get that back in there, okay can you still hear me, all right so what's we got
all right guys let me try that again, I bent down and the mic came out of my
front pocket, so you're using your hammer attacker,
i call this a hammer tacker, it's an Arrow Tacker,
to get the wire on and this is important guys, right here it's furred meaning this groove
that goes in here that's what furs it, just like Dobies do for concrete the stucco has
got to go underneath this wire and on top of it.
You want to embed it so this is, this is uh it's not as difficult as it might look, so we come here we bend our corner you got to get
that corner right, what I'll do is I'll look at the dual line and hit it right there once you got that
you keep pulling it and what this is going to do is when i pull it,
on the other side, come on now, i pull it on the other side, it lines up, and then my corner aid
will tie it all together, I'll show you that on one of those that are already done.
now it just happens to be the end of the day we're doing quite a few things and it's about
my favorite, about 100 degrees, I'll show you another thing too guys here's
here's just a cap, because i was doing caps, if you're going to do the cap put
that guy on there, and you got to overlap, so that will pretty much overlap right there
and because i got this excess
i'm just going to cut it right here.
If you don't want to build up which i don't want to build up because I've got to stucco this.
I cut these right here and do it the same way, as that Christmas present type thing.
So, I cut these guys right here, this way i don't get a buildup
and what does that mean? That means, now i pull this down
and yeah i'm gonna hit everything with the big gun too.
You see that just like a Christmas present and you run out of staples which I expected to
because a lot of these, i'm just putting with the Arrow Tacker we call it a hammer tacker.
Boom, I think I've almost used a box of little staples on these guys, come on now, get in there, okay,
so we, this is how you wrap it guys you put this side here you overlap the other side, now
it all ties in together, you see how that's tied in? Everything got to tie in together.
so that when you do your stucco work, it doesn't get hairline cracks.
and that's it I'll show you one more thing. While we're at it since we are doing it.
I'll show you how to put corners on guys, because we're we already did all those and i
thought we'll save a few for you guys, now Jay cut already, 28 pieces, of these so what we do is we go
from this corner right here to this corner here. That's our template, that's our guide so we're
going to put these on here we're going to slide it inside this J channel and just staple it off.
These are our guides for when we do the stucco.
Easy isn't it guys? You too can do this and when we do the stucco we're going to use a lightweight
cement we're going to just apply it, but the city got to come out here and look at this and go hey
you guys look like you know what you're doing, Anyway when we come to do the cement next week
maybe uh we'll show you how we apply that too and the kind of texture we're going to give it. We're
going to give it a sand finish, a sand finish goes with everything guys, if you look at their house,
they have a skip trowel, and I said, gee, you want to match, he said, you think we ought to
match the house? I said not really, these are all separate pillars, do a separate finish and
a sand finish goes with everything so anyway, my name is Kirk, that's how you do pillars guys,
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