how do you guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering today what I want to point
out is improper scupper placement now generally when you put a scupper on a house you put your
downspout coming out you put your scupper on the wall itself you flash it on the wall then
you counter flash that you pay for your clock around it that's those are today's codes they
had a scupper here and it wasn't done right it was mounted on the outside and caulked well if
it leaks it leaks on the inside of the wall now you could see there was a lot of damage here this
whole corner come off the water got in there and crept upward you could pull the floor buyers out
the two by fours you pulled him out by hand the scuff this stucco was removed carpenters came in
and they spent a day and replaced this whole wall we actually did the stucco work I'm gonna show you
two spots where we have a similar situation where it's on the top it's in the back of the house okay
guys this is what they had over there they had their there scupper pipe correct it comes out and
it empties into here on the other side but they put the metal on top of the stucco now if it's
leaking what happens is the water goes in back of this metal and it goes all over the wood that's
what they had here so on the other side well give you this as an example and I'm actually going to
fix this one too here is a simple one all we do is we break out to the parapet here and put this
flashing against the wood we're not going to show you on this video because it's already getting too
long hard to take three to six hours worth of working and convert it into under a five minute
video but this is not proper guys the flashing if you're gonna do a scupper break out the stucco
it's kind of like a ledger board break out the stucco put the board on the stucco Zee flash it
this the same situation break out the stucco put the flashing on the wood then put it together as
you in the front of the house because this leaks so bad it drenched of a closet now the closet had
been replaced last year meaning they did all the plaster work and everything in the homeowner said
well gee Kirk is it possible that parapet cap is bad and water just went through the character the
parapet and that's it absolutely that's possible that's very possible what happens with with a pair
of big cap you have this house is 90 years old 100 possibly you have paper going over the top that
paper bakes it deteriorates so there's nothing left after 100 years unless you paint it every
eight years that could last hundreds of years but they didn't do that here anyhow we'll go in the
front because we did some exploration I'll explain how you folks how we do proper exploration because
you could spin your wheels and start from the wrong places or you can start not so much a trade
secret but a common sense area okay guys we're up we're out the opposite end of this balcony
now they wanted to check and make certain that this side wasn't also bad too because the other
sides again you can take the four buys and yank him out with the hand there was no shear laughs
it was gone anyhow what I proposed is we start at the top we break it here and we work our way down
now we broke it out here and looked great we took it a little bit further just to make certain all
of this was great we pulled all the stucco off the cap and it turns out the paper just went to the
top it didn't go around so this one was beat-up but it had been worked on 10 20 30 years ago so
whoever worked on it didn't do it right the first time and then we took it down this opposite side
which you don't need to see it's about four or six inches and they had somebody replace an area here
that also wasn't done right they had deteriorated paper and they just put paper on top of that
that's not how you do it anyway we're gonna put this back together and we're still going to show
you a scupper in the rear of the home because it was done exactly the same way to show you folks
if you see this watch out for it and we'll show you another job of where the stucco is removed
and you can see the kind of damage that unless the scuppers done properly you're gonna have some
problems I'm go ahead and put this back together right now and we'll get back to you shortly all
right guys we're putting a conclusion on this you know what I what I did with the homeowners here I
recommended they've have a deck here and I said I recommend you put a new deck go all the way to the
parapet I'll also recommended caps flashing caps that go on here they said gee what about bricks or
something decorative absolutely that'll work but anyway I've just losing focus here on what the
original point was and that is the damage that can be caused with scuppers that are placed on top of
the stucco instead of broken out and placed on the wood itself and then properly maintained around it
I can put this back together easily because that is what I do for a living anyway guys my name is
Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering Jason and I thank you for watching and if you like what you do
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