Hello folks, Kirk here with kirk giordano plastering, with my two sons Jason and Daniel what we're going
to do today is we're gonna do some exploration they want to prepare this would rock here so
when I came out yesterday looked at it I told him that the house is 60 to 70 years old and
more than likely the parapets leaked on it if you look over here can you get to that flashing
way up there and the flashing on the other side over there now those are parapets where houses 60
70 years old water usually goes through them and I always recommend folks that you place flashing
upon tops especially with parapet housing so my opinion is the water came down in it got inside
here and we're talking 60 70 years in this area right here water got in because I can see fresh
coffee on it and when the water gets in there it has a tendency to expand the wood over 50 60
70 years that would just swells and it creates a large crack so the large package right here
and the water goes in it and obviously it runs down and this would rot this damage here is the
result of it so what I plan on doing is I wanted to break out to here and right here as well put
the same price break it out to the sill we'll take it all the way up to the seal and around
and remove this whole portion this way they can accurately assess what's going on here because in
my 30 years I've removed the equivalent of maybe ten houses of stucco this size and you never know
where it's coming in but you get a great idea through time has to where you guess it might be
so we're going to take it again to the sill here straight down here all the way right
here that way better safe than sorry and what we possibly will or best case scenarios would
be it's just a little bit right here up to here but it may continue down here because wood rot
travels down it does tend to funnel as it goes toward the bottom up here we're going to break
some silk to fill and we might find that the paper underneath here is deteriorating because 70 years
that's just right here southwest so it cross that bridge when we get to it so we're going to
go ahead and remove it best-case scenario is all of this wood is in great condition all of this is
in great condition that would be real nice well just that's why it's called exploration because
we're going to move it right now to see what the heck we got going on and i'll be able to deal with
it intelligently once we see we're going to go ahead and take this off and then we'll show you
okay folks we are complete with the area that we wanted to tear off show you what we found with
this exploration the outer corners look pretty pretty good and all of this looks really nice
could be a lot worse ordered on the inner corner such as this one as I suspected when I did the
introduction that it could be coming from the top this one it appears to be coming through
the top then we got a lot of holes right here I'm sticking my whole hand the whole that the
carpenter left 70 years ago when they built the house they didn't touch the wood and then when
the fellows came to do the paper they hit it with your staples in their sales and punctured
so we got holes right here the result is did you get a close-up here Jay okay guys what we
have here now is broke out yesterday what I was showing you was the carpenter that did this d
minor his corners really nice right here the otter once on the inner ones did such a great
job you can stick your hand in here like so then what happens is on this side you can stick your
hand in it and they show you on this other side too on this side you can stick your hand where
we followed you're not supposed to be able to do this right here so carpenter did a great job
on all his outer ones but just such a great job on here and then the fellows who did the paper
back then 70 years ago they didn't have the grace membrane how to put grace over this but anyway he
emailed through here which created leaks but also the leaks are coming from prior to when
they have the awning here and then the gutters as well as the flashing up here on the roof so
that's the result we have to explore that a bit more but this is just like I thought it would
be yesterday we knew water's coming in through the inner corners and it came in through this
guy here and generally it will expand this way so what we're seeing here is the corner
the inner corner leaf and so it will funnel down similar to this I outlined it yesterday and lo and
behold it is exactly what I thought it would be unfortunately for the homeowners here it's
not the deck they were scared about it not it will blame them it's not the deck it was this
inner quarterly and of course it will mushroom or funnel down this way here so anyway that's
where we're at I'm starting to rain almost july it's starting to rain anyhow we're going to go
ahead and cover this area up and hopefully call it a day we'll see you soon okay guys
just a third day because this took us half a day to do then we were done with our job so I had to
communicate with the homeowners what I thought was the issues here and how to proceed because
I had to tell them when I opinion is it we're out what I would do and then they tell me how
to proceed if they want to proceed yesterday we came here and got rained out we were here about
two hours we uncovered all of this you can see that pretty bad needs to be addressed though and
when I say we I mean my son is doing all this Jason holding the camera he's tearing all this
stuff out over here we've got rotten wood also just pull it out with your hand and the problem
is up here you're the very top trees right in the way of course very top there before they put that
flashing the problem was already there now what we're probably going to end up doing is this whole
this whole face right here should come off as well as where the downspout is over here originally
we're going to keep this paper on it because weird weather has everybody does this year first of July
we're still having rain so I'm going to leave this paper here just to make sure the summer
actually comes and more than like they take all of this off because inner corners real bad and will
cross this bridge when we get there to this one right here with the inner courting corner prior
to this awning being placed on there and prior to that gutter he's got an issue there is still table
we can't find any paper so we're probably going to call it quits about right here come straight
down we don't really want to start messing with the stairs unless we have to but the wall and the
paper cut a dictator going for himself we'll see you guys soon and show you what's next
okay folks here is the conclusion of what we had demoed I mean zero in towards it it doesn't look
too bad we really had to go back two feet to find good paper under over here all of
the siding was pretty rotten the mud sale is completely destroyed you can do it closed up
right there that needs to be basically the house inside needs to have some supports and put a new
mud still on the very top this tree is right in the way so do the best I can as far as did show
you as I pointed out earlier these inner corners were real culprits they work weren't lath properly
and they weren't done properly with the woodwork that's the result anyway they did get 70 years out
of it so it could have been a lot worse right now the homeowners are contacting some general
contractors to put this all back together as I am too busy but I wanted to do a conclusion
on this so we'll see you on the next one and hopefully yours is in better condition if you're
going to tear this apart thanks for watching this is Kirk with Kirk giordano plastering.