Hi guys Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering today what I want to show you or
tell you explain is the difference between drips screed's they call them drip or weep
screeds and say go at the bottom of a house the bottom of stucco they're usually on the mudsill
here we're gonna play some on the concrete I had a fella who you mailed me off of one of my
youtube and says this guy's a hack he doesn't know what the hell he's doing and he had like
eleven reasons why I read all the reasons that I thought dude none of those are even valuable
but anyway what his reasons were he says number one he's using galvanized drip screens instead
of plastic those are outdated incorrect and inferior that's not true guys a New Mexico I
believe they use the plastic screens but we are in California in the United States any
element explained to you what we're doing here we've got six posts all these posts are four by
fours or technically three and a half by three and a half because they're not true now what we
would do is what I'm doing right now making some templates for all I'm gonna make 24 templates so
I don't have to keep cutting these screens out now you figure three and a half plus say two
inches is five and a half inches and then minus a quarter inch for that eighth of an inch difference
because stucco technically is not one-inch it's technically 7h so we come to the conclusion of
five inches in a quarter so what I'll do is I'm making templates and so I'll measure five inches
in one quarter and I've already got a whole bunch of these cut so I cut it right here
and that gives me the pieces that I need now one of the things I said at the beginning of
this video was that I was going to tell you the difference of why metal better okay this
is a steel you take steel and you dip it into the solution of gout how to galvanize or say you want
a chrome plate them gold plate them when I was a kid I worked in one of those places you take
the metal and you drop it in these big tubs of specific acid and it galvanizes them why do you
want a galvanized steel because it makes it rust proof make some corrosion resistant that's what
we want however every one before I finish that if like corner aids are the same thing they are
galvanized but I have seen some galvanized metals rust and why because you scratch the hell out of
them and they'll rust in that area anyway getting back to my original topic now these metal screeds
are sold more all over the world I would suspect because there's so much better why because yeah
if you scratch the heck out of them they could rust but I've rarely seen that in 30-plus years
the plastic ones and don't get me wrong I'm not knocking plastic ones but I've used plastic on
radiuses arches because they Bend easy but say for example you take a piece of plastic you put
it on here and you staple that guy wrong you pop a staple in there and you can shatter it
and I've shattered about 20 pieces so I I use the metal ones when I can and so does the rest of the
contractors in California so the fellow says we're a hack he's not really on the ball anyway we point
out something else to generally see these Simpsons strong ties he sent some strong ties keeps the
wood these four by four pressure treated off of the concrete we did a job all about two months
ago and not in video it because I said dude you didn't put such strong ties in he says why do
I need them I said well the way you got it now I have to put a bead of polyurethane caulking here
and just squeeze bees on here and he says what's wrong with that I said well the concrete is porous
so water's going to go through the porous concrete eventually go underneath my work and rot out yours
it says well how long will that take I don't know 30 years he says I won't be around I thought good
point but you're missing the whole point you got this some some strong ties guys by the way
you notice the way this structure is tom-tom from Ironwood construction he is an engineer
one of those guys who make sure everything is over built so anyhow he makes our job easy so
getting back to what I'm doing is I'm cutting after I got a piece cuts a five and a quarter
now what I'll do is I'll put a 45 on it and cut cut down cutting down guys lamb here I'll
put my 45 why am I putting a 45 because these got our line and do I need caulking no because
I'm on concrete so I put this guy there or and these ends gotta meet right here the ends meet
and obviously my staple gun is not going to go through this guy's we're gonna do this we're
glad I'm gonna turn my head because I've had a staple hit and bounced up and almost pull my eye
out so there's that side and I'm only going to do one more side then we're gonna get busy and start
taking care of the paper if you could see right here okay now that's how it's going to be we are
gonna do all six of these pillars like this then we're going to membrane this and laughing but I
want to point that out to this arrogant fella who says to me gee whiz Kirk you're a hack because you
don't use plastic that's why I don't use plastic anyhow guys my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano
plastering. Jason and I thank you for watching, and as usual, see you guys at the next one
you