hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering actually working with my pal Larry
bellman and his son Patrick well we got here is Larry and I came here a month ago and we were
trying to analyze what the heck caused all this issues with the leaking roof downstairs Larry
pulled some of the sheetrock off and said hey you got an issue with the deck itself and in order to
find out if there is an issue with the deck itself you have to do that dirty exploration stuff so
Larry put some towels in here flooded and flooded the deck and sure enough this deck leaks so and
make a long story short they remove the deck removed all of the membranes and here's where
we're at guys now we're at a stage where if you turn around Jay and point and guys I've done this
about I've done about 50 decks in fact the last job we did was a high-rise with 22 of these exact
same decks the idea is how do you fix it well you got to know what the hell caused the problem if
you're gonna fix it I've done this so many times I know what caused the problem you look around
here now this particular window that's a difficult window because it didn't have a flange but did it
cause all this problem no it didn't over here like say this column here this pillar call him whatever
you want to call it it was compromised and when I was looking at the stucco in general when I was
first here I thought damn these guys did such a beautiful job and I know what I'm looking at
so I'm looking at the whole thing I thought wow these guys are amazing so I got it was a stucco
and sure enough it really wasn't the stuck with that cause of this problem it was the deck itself
so somebody failed when they did the deck what I was looking at is originally this crack here
I thought mmm that crack is made me wonder and then I looked at this crack in the wood itself
so water over time and we're talking maybe five seasons house is only 10 years old we're talking
five six seasons water went in this crack here open the wood as it normally would and started
to penetrate so we get the big crack here because season after season more water goes in there and
it expands the wood and then once you got a slight crack like that which compromises the integrity of
the Vicor membranes that they probably used here then you got this kind of stuff happening so the
deck leaked we we got these areas which were compromised so all of these pillars Larry and
Pat are gonna pull off in fact these caps here are also compromised so we can't keep them Pat here is
doing a great job he's tearing all that apart Larry's gonna show you a window here then I'm
gonna go on the other side and show you what Pat's doing which is really important in this window
here man it's it's a tough window it's not my expertise but I don't see any flanges one of the
toughest to actually waterproof what's going on with it Larry okay said we had to find out where
the leaks were for this deck so what we did we get from the deck and it didn't leak we knew somebody
in a membrane but then we were also worried about these doors leaking and when these doors were
manufactured these are I believe to like the year 2000 I didn't have a flange on here you can see
what happened the wood just leaks I mean what just arrived so I told the owner I would not put these
same type of doors back and because they're gonna have the same problem there's no flange in here
water can get in here you really cannot waterproof this and seal it so now turns out this company has
changed their door to design and now there is a plant which is one piece the flange and the jamb
is one piece we're gonna caulk it neon on and be able to cover it with our membrane so that
should take care we said we didn't know if these are causing a problem or not but we just figure we
had to go the full nine yards we don't want this to leak again and so that's why we are replacing
the doors at least the pans right the last job we did where we were explaining things some fella
took the pans and on the inside this is like a Zee flash and it comes up and goes up it goes
up here horizontal that up that way when the decks are on and the water won't go through on our last
project we had 22 decks like this well somebody pounded that down because it was in the way you
don't want to do that anyway let's take a peek over here Jhelum show you folks if you're going
to do this stuff here's what you got it no pad got the fun job I know you love that job pad we just
told him to hold off because he's drowning us out what he's doing is he's breaking it out with the
we got a bulldog down there it's pneumatic tools just put and hits it now what he's doing is he's
breaking out four to six inches then he's gonna come back with some snips and break this off right
here break that off and pull this whole cap off that's that's my tool of choice there Larry's too
so it must be good can you saw cut that you could but you still have to come back and do this why
are we gently breaking it out because we need two to three inches of existing paper then when I come
back Larry Larry's actually got a fellow who's going to put some saddle flashings here those are
cool and we're gonna come back I'm gonna Vicor all of this everything is going to get bike or instead
of the paper and what is my core it's a grace product it's about I don't know 40 to 50 mil thick
it's the same stuff they're using here one more time on this side Jay please watch where you're
going I'll show you another thing guys this is what you want say now if you're gonna you're gonna
break out you want to have there's the two layers of paper which are in outstanding condition really
good condition and some wire we put our new paper under this in this case we're gonna put a membrane
under it instead of paper and then we tie in with here show you another thing too because this makes
this finish here it's cement inches meaning when wet it water goes to it so it's a porous finish
it's not it's not gonna waterproof the walls the paper is your first line of defense we're actually
going to use a 690 BMI for the scratching Brown because it's a little more water resistant than
most products then we're going to come back with an acrylic waterproof finish we're gonna match
the same texture but it's not going to have the same appearance this is kind of shady because it
is probably a la habra cement Isha's finish and when you apply it with a sponge float it kind
of varies in colors they knew they had an issue because this right here is painted say say like
the stuff up here if you let that that's not going to change colors because paint doesn't change
colors nor they acrylic finish when I come to do my final coat we're gonna put an acrylic finish
I'll probably take it right up to here just to be on the safe side we'll start from here go up here
so when Larry and I are done with this project it will be better than when it was originally built
the idea is to make it last a hundred years so any other issues they may have certainly
not going to stem from this deck because we are going to waterproof this and make it ten times
better than it was originally or twice as good as it was originally anyhow for my with my pal Larry
does this stuff for a living I actually do this some the cement work for a living but between the
two of us we're gonna get it bulletproof so the homeowners never have to worry about this issue
again Larry and I always thank you for watching and as usual guys we'll see on the next one
you