Howdy folks, kirk, and Jason are here with kirk Giordano plastering.
My son dan, he's been gone for a couple years going around and saying what up, Dan.
Anyway, he's been up in Sonora working construction up there.
We're in Alameda anyway. What we're doing here is we're uh installing some FlexWrap on these,
and the contractor said, is that better than the two-ply paper? I said it depends. When
I was first starting in the union way back 35 years ago, there was no plywood. We had to paper
everything without the luxury of plywood, and i would do things like this and wrap it with paper.
I could wrap this with paper, but now they have these new products out, and this is
not really new. It's probably 15 years old. In fact, I've used it many times in the past.
Let me show you guys how to use it. It's kind of pricey, but
you save on some time, and one of the benefits of this is that you could staple it through the top.
You actually could staple through the top of the two-ply paper,
but when you pierce the paper with staples or nails, that's good for a vertical plane, but on a
plane that's flat like this, you kind of want to uas a peel and stick.
Usually, this Dupont stuff is butyl-based I got a story about butyl-based stuff.
Anyway, it's got two layers, and depending on the thickness, I've got some six-inch stuff here.
This is nine, so i'm gonna put two layers, and just for the sake of
being in a hurry, i'm gonna pull both of these off at once because it's a cold day today it's windy.
If it was hot, i wouldn't do two, so what you do is you kind of put this on here, and it's kind
of like an accordion, you put it on, and what you do is you want to uh do it like an accordion you
come down here, and it sticks, and then you see here it fans out its kind of like an accordion.
You do pay for that fanning-out stuff. This butyl-base means, like what they
have for car windshields, that's kind of gluey stuff for car windshields.
There that's how we do this, and we put another piece over this and go on the other side,
similar to what we kind of did in here. Can you show this in here, Jay? just or
better yet. Okay, let's go
on the outside where it's less congested. Now here i left the paper on because you
got two layers of paper here, and depending on what you're doing.
You pull the layer off, and then you stick it onto the existing paper, and you fan it out
now with using this, i could, i could staple through the top because i got to put corners
on here so you come down again come down and then use your wrist right in these
corners and boom that's waterproof forever. You come down, and you take your hand and kind
of use your whole wrist, boom, that's waterproof forever, and now you just take this that's done.
It's kind of like, over here too. I'll just show you here this is this wall done.
It's all sealed off and everything, and see how that's crooked right there.
What happens if you put it on crooked? Nothing happens. If you put it on Crooked,
it's just crooked. It's still waterproof. It doesn't matter.
I want to say one last thing about this butyl-based stuff we were in i was in a
DUI. I had a DUI like 30 years ago, i was in a class, and the lady was talking about
the butyl-based windshields on the car, and we're thinking, man, where's this going?
And she says that it was drinking while driving class 30 years ago. I remember
this because it was so crude; those who have a weak stomach don't listen to this last part.
because it got nothing to do with what we're doing i'm just
talking about useless stuff that doesn't amount to nothing, she says in this
Class, she says, well, there was one person in here, and his nose was jacked up, and she said
he was driving while drunk and a car hit him, and he hit another car,
and his face went through the windshield. And it was a butyl-based windshield,
and his nose went through it, then when he went back, it took his nose off.
Now we're in the classroom, i'm listening to this, i'm thinking, wow.
So I remember butyl-bassed because it was a butyl-base. This is butyl-based, and car
windshields are butyl-based, meaning not they won't shatter like a piece of glass 30 years ago.
You touch those, and they just shatter. Anyway, i thought I'd bring that up because
talking about butyl-based, every time i think about it,
reminds me of that time i was in that class. Anyway, guys, we thank you for watching.
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